The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1838

he has returned from Canada quite an altered man. Long
before the rebellion in Lower Uanada he had deeply sym-
pathised with the majority of the people as represented by
the House of Assembly, and imagined that the contest in
that province resembled the 3ispute between England and
her old colonies in America, though he was a good deal stag-
gered with the facility with which the rebellion was crushed.
But personal inquiry on the spot, with the best opportunities
for getting at the truth, has induced him to abandon his old
opinions and sympathies. He now acknowledges that he
was blinded and misted by a course of misrepresentation—a
regular system of delusion, which, while it occasions the
most erroneous views here as to the nature of the dispute
in Lower Canada, has a still more mischievous effect
in deceiving the French Canadians as to the state
of feeling in this country ith respect to their posi-
tion and objects. Many well-meaning persons in this
country were led; by a suppoled analogy between the
cases of Lower Canada and our old colonies, to sympathise
with the French C,nalians. We said from the beginning
that the analogy did not hold. And many of those who at
one time were dispose:l to think the French Canadians in
the right, and to question the soundness of the views we
have advocated throughout, have come round to our opi-
nions. With respect to those who, like Mr. Gibbon Wake-
field, have had the advantage of visiting Canada, they are
one and all opposed to the el.dais of the French Canadians ;
for, as we observed on Saturday, with the exception of some
three or four individuals, whose advocacy of the French
carries with it the authm-ity that the advocacy by an advo-
cate of a client ought to carry, there is not a man in this
country of British blood who has ever been in Lower Ca-
nada who is not most decidedly opposed to the claims of
the French, and satisfied that no effective improvement can
take place till the province is made thoroughly British.
Mr. Gibbon Wakefield seems to think that the system if
delusion cannot be maintained much longer. as such will be
the effect of the truth beieg known here (which it will pro-
bably be ere long), that many will only have " to wander
at the depth of their previous ignorance."—Morning
Chronicle.

The Ministerial journals have eagerly seized upon the
circumstance of a conditional rule for a criminal information
having been granted by the Court of Queen's Bunch
against some Magistrates of Berkshire, to vilify the whole
body of the rural M-(ditracy, and to depreciate the admi-
nistration of "unpaid" justice throughout the kingdom.
The facts of the cwqi, as far as they have yet transpired,
are before our readers in our law report. But as the rule
nisi was obtained mcrdv on a statement e.r parte, it would
only have been decent is ;veil as just in our Ministerial
Contemporaries to have abstained from pronouncing their
solemn decision upon the case until the accused pa s had
been heard in their ozva defence. Liberal "justice"
disdains, however, to ho bound by the vulgar and
antiquated obligation of hearing both sides preparatory
to pronouncing its judgment and its sentence. Ac-
cordingly, the Lib( rat Press has already pro
pounced the condom- tiikn of the four Berkshire
Magistrates, and not ons,' pronounced their condemnation,
but that of all the rural ALgistrates of England. If a
criminal informatioo is .--otnetimes granted against an
" unpaid" country •Magis:rite,-has a similar process never
issued against a metrpoli!a-t stipendiary Magistrate? We
think we recollect i(istaoccs both of criminal informations
and dismissals from cake in the history of the stipendiary
administration of justi:te in the metroiolis. But we never
visited on all or the mjc,rity of the stipendiary Magistrates
the acts of a few unjust, iganrant, or wrong-headed indi-
viduals among them. Leon if the rule against the Berk-
shire Magistrates were tnade absolute, the case would still
have to be tried by a Jmo y, and ought not to be prejudiced.
As it stands, however, at present, not a word has yet been
heard from the accused parties whom liberal " justice" has
precipitately condemned.—Morning Herald.
Some persons whose attention to political affairs is only
occasional, are innocent enough to ask what can the pokey
of the present Ministers be ? To what can they look for•
ward as the result of the 100-sening system which prevails
in all directions, and with respect to almost every public
institution of the country ? The true answer to these ques-
tions we believe to th It, in the more elevated and states,
manlike sense of the wor-:l, our present Ministers have no
policy. They do not look forward. They have neither
the capacity nor the c)tirag,e for laying down plans of which
the completion and the effect. are to be found iu future years.
They do not even take the sli4itest care to provide against
the occurrence sometime hence of events of such a character,
as were they about to occur now, even these Ministers must
oppose. To do the best they can with events as they
arise—to work their way on from month to month, and
from day to day, with as little labour and as little anxiety
to themselves as possible—that is the business of the pre-
sent Ministers. It does not deserve to be called policy.
They are not earnest to do, but glad to be allowed not to .
do. They wish that people would be quiet, and let them
take their salaries, their amusement, and their rest. As to
the institutions of the country, all they appear to wish for
is, that they who are knocking them down would make as
little noise as possible in the operation. They do not like
to be disturbed. The dwelling of Great Britain's Prime
Minister is no longer the abode of anxious thought and ar-
duous endeavour, but resembles rather the dreamily ima-
gined haunt of the poet of Indolence

" A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was
Of dreams that wave before the half shut eye ;
And of gay castles in the clouds that pass,
For ever flushing round a summer sky :
There eke the sift delights that witchingly
Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast -
And the calm pleasures always hovered nigh;
But whate'er smacked of 'noyance or unrest,
Was far, far off expelled from this delicious nest."
We do believe that if any familiar friend were to ask
of Lord Melbourne what he supposed could be the political
state of Great Britain and Ireland fifty years hence, re-
sulting from the laissez faire mode of no-government which
at present subsists, his Lordship would laugh outright at
such an over-anxious inquirer, and tell him that fifty years
hence might take care of itself—it was no affair of his !
He has no higher view than that of making the world as
easy to himself and friends as may be during the days that
he has to deal with it. Tine glory and the permanency of
this nation seem to form no part of the concern of the
present Government. Ministers appear to have no object
beyond their own advantage and their own ease.— Morning
Post.