The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-09 00:00:00

of their opinions and sentiments. We must also bear
in mind that the Canadians, like the people of the
United States, have British blood in their veins, and
will not therefore be bullied into an obedience to any
form of Government
.of which they do not themselves
approve.

We are honestly opposed to the separation of the
Canadas from the mother country, and therefore it is
that we condemn whatever has the appearance of a
menace, if addressed to the Canadians. It is too late
to talk about " firmness," assuming a " lofty tone,"
carrying matters " with a high hand," and all the other
jargon employed by the Tory journals. It has come to this :
We must either reform the abuses in the Government of
the Canadas, agreeably with the recommendations of
the Houses of Assembly, or we must give them up
altogether, despite of ourselves. A petition signed by
every inhabitant in either of the Provinces must have
more weight with us than fifty Acts smuggled through
the Imperial Parliament at the beck of a Minister of
the Crown, if we would retain the Canadas as de-
pendencies on the Crown of England. It is with this
view, and in this spirit, that we have always sought to
impress upon the Government the absolute necessity
of reforming the Legislative and Executive Councils.
If this be not done in time, the Canadas will follow
the example shown them by the United States.

We copy the following paragraph from the Morn

ing Advertiser of this day. Our Contemporary, 1
will be seen, talks of a split having taken place be

,ween Lord LYNDHURST and Sir ROBERT PEEL

How this may be we know not, but, considering the
relative position of the two parties, we think it very
likely to have happened. What more natural than
that a whole-hogger and a half-hogger should fall to
logger-heads ? The Baron is all for' no surrender ;"
the Baronet for a plausible compromise. The Baron
has turned his back for ever on the woolsack ; the
Baronet has still a discreet eye to the Treasury Bench.
The Baron has nothing to lose ; the Baronet much to
gain. The Baron is a Tory and "something more ;"
the Baronet is a Whig and "something less." The
Baron will swear roundly that black is white ; the Ba-

ronet will only say that, to the best of his belief, it is a

dark brown. The Baron is reckless ; the Barone
discreet. What wonder, then, that where such dif-

ferences exist between two such amiable statesmen,.
an open rupture should be the consequence ? Lord
LYNDHURST, we have reason to believe, has been
long angling for Sir ROBERT PEEL ; but finding that
the wary fish will not take the bait, he has gone off
in a huff, swearing that the prey is not worth catching.
However, be this as it may, it is but just and proper
that we congratulate the Reformers on this rumoured
split between the two leaders of the moderate and im-
moderate Tories. When the political Peachurn and
Lockit quarrel, the consistent and straight-forward
class of the political community may expect valuable
revelations :

" We cannot help feeling that our contemporaries of the
daily press attach an undue consequence to the political
and personal movements of Lord Lyndhurst. The acci-
dental importance which the events of the last Session
served to give the Learned Lord, were mainly attributable
to the miserable deficiencies of the great body of the Peer-
age. Perhaps in no other assembly of equal numbers,
could the limited abilities and superficial acquirements of a
character something more than equivocal, have raised their
possessor from the congenial obscurity of so many other
extinguished luminaries of the law. Since, however, the
yes dune et regni novitas require that the proceedings of
this very slippery personage should be watched with an at-
tention which more worthy objects claim in vain, we have
taken some pains to ascertain the correctness of certain
statements which have been lately canvassed with consi-
derable acrimony. The daily advocates of the Tories have
for some time been instructed to proclaim, usqzte ad nau-
seam, the unbroken harmony of purpose which distin-
guishes the leaders of their party, and which forms so
advantageous a contrast with the discord which they as-
serted to prevail in the ranks of their adversaries. The
falsehood of the latter part of this assertion, of which we had
direct personal knowledge, naturally led us to doubt the
correctness of the rest of the statement ; and the result of
our inquiries has convinced us that the boasted unanimity of
the Conservatives is as purely imaginary as the dissensions
which they so obligingly manufacture for their antagonists.
A short recapitulation will at once serve to show the chosen
depositaries of Conservative confidence, that we have oc-
casional access to sources of intelligence in their own camp,
not always open even to them ; and that we shall require
something more than the brazen effrontery of what they
call an official contradiction to satisfy us that we have been
misinformed. We begin, then, by re-asserting, that there
has been a serious misunderstanding between Sir Robert
Peel and Lord Lyndhurst—that the difference is of some
duration—that it took its origin in Paris—that it still exists
—and that, according to present appearances, there is
little probability of a reconciliation. We believe we state
the exact fact when we say, that the cautious and temporis-
ing policy of the Commoner was the reason assigned
by the Lord for an abrupt and unceremonious termination
of an interview held in the French capital, not accidental,
as was at the time stated by the Tory press, but the
consequence of a fixed previous arrangement. W e believe,
moreover, that to overtures for reconciliation an unfavour-
able answer has been returned, and that so far is it from
the intention of the Learned Lord to join the great Tory
re-union at Drayton, that his return from the continent is
indefinitely postponed, and he has dismissed a considerable
proportion of his English establishment, and has ordered
his house in town to be let. We shall be told perhaps
that some of these circumstances are of no importance,
and others incorrectly stated. To this we reply, that the
Tories attach importance to every thing connected with
their immaculate champion, and for the substantial accu-
racy of our facts we rely implicitly on our sources of in-
formation. To conclude, we have every reason to believe
that Lord Lyndhurst, though anxiously desired, will not, for
reasons which we need not state, make his appearance in
this country during the next Session of Parliament. Lord
Brougham will have, reluctantly, to walk over the course."

The Tory journals have carefully availed themselves
of all opportunities of deprecating the ruinous system
of loan-contracting to which MENDIZABEL has had
recourse since his acceptance of the Portefeuille of
Spanish finances. They have taxed their arithmetical
knowledge to discover how many times he has ruined
the kingdom ; and the product of the interesting in-
quiry has been rung in the ears of the monied interest
six days in the week for months together. As for
Don CARLos' loan system, there was not one word
about it. He had money in abundance, without sad-
dling his people with debts. Like Elijah fed by the
ravens, Providence supplied him with all that he
wanted except muskets, and these his followers took
the liberty of borrowing from the Christinos. Such was
the impression which the Post and Herald sought to
make upon the public mind. We shall leave its cor-
rectness to be infered from an extract which we shall
here make, from a letter addressed by Baron de
HABER to our Contemporary, the Chronicle, the pur-
port of which letter is to show that the Baron was .not
epsetaroefd Mr. HAWKlNs—the par-
in The Sun of yesterday.
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After alluding to the destitute condition of Don
CARLOS when he arrived in this country, and the as-
sistance rendered to him by the Baron himself, the
Noble writer continues thus :
" I regret to be obliged to allude to these proofs of the
attachment and zeal which I have ever entertained for the
august family of his Catholic Majesty. Farther, having
advanced a large sum against a contract of a public loan, I
had, in justice to myself and to the public, a duty to per-
form, viz., to see that those interested in the above-men-
tioned loan should always be protected.
" 1 frankly, at the time, represented to the Minister of his
Catholic Majesty, the fears I entertained of the non-success
of the projected loan ; unfortunately my fears were too soon
verified, and the excellent King now suffers most cruelly
through the delusive promises made by those who had pro-
jected this financial operation. His Majesty, since the
month of March last, out of a nominal loan of seventeen
millions and a half pounds sterling, has not received more
than 50,0001. ; which is, upon the total sum, not more than
one-third per cent., or Gs. Bd. in every 1001. Had it not
been for this fatal circumstance his Majesty and followers
would, long ago, have been relieved from their many severe
privations and hardships. lam prevented at present pub-
lishing the details and delusions practised upon that vir-
tuous and courageous Monarch, and on that venerable and
excellent prelate the Bishop of Leon."
What will the Tories say to this system of borrow-