The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-08 00:00:00

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LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1838.

We cordially and sincerely congratulate the country on 1
the result of the division. The Tories mustered all their
strength, and used all their artifices ; they went to the
contest elated with the results of the Marylebone Election,
and the division on Mr. O'CoNNELL's case ; they calcu
hoed that the splendour of those victories would dazzle
the weak and wavering, making them mistake friends
for foes ; and they provoked a division secure of
a triumph. Grievously have they been disappointed,
and gloriously have they been defeated. We have
not space to-day to analyze the debate, the whole of
which is worthy of perusal. Sir GEORGE GREY'S speech,
which is admitted by the _Herald to have been "exceed-
ingly clever," and of " great eloquence and ingenuity,"was,
from its full knowledge of facts, excellent reasoning, and
'pointed ridicule, quite a crusher for the poor Tories. Even
the gigantic efforts of Sir RoaEwr PEEL, who is said
by his friends and admirers to have surpassed all his former
exertions, failed in reassuring his desponding supporters ;
and, after the division was declared, they slunk away
dispirited and discomfited, mourning over their misfortune.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL contributed much to their disaster,
by the last blow of the evening. The public will have
even more cause than ever to rejoice in the success of the
Ministers, should the apprehensions which we believe they
have experienced not soon be forgotten, and should those
apprehensions make them look only for support where it can
be permanently found—in the affections of the people. On
the question of Canada we hold them to have been com-
pletely in the right ; for never before in the history of the
world were the authors and instigators of an insurrection
more completely in the wrong. Never before had any
Government so good a case against those who took up arms
against their authority. The result of the insurrection has
corresponded to the merits of the respective parties ; and
it is the return of the bulk of the Canadians to the willing
obedience to the Government, when three years ago general
insurrection was threatened and dreaded, and when
all men expected a separation of the Colonies from the
mother-country, which constitutes the true test of Lord
GLENELG'S Administration. He placed confidence in the
people—he, consistently with the Whig maxim, trusted
them, and was not deceived. The Tories could not,
and would not, have done this. Lord AMHERST was to
go out to Canada, as Sir ROBERT PEEL last night stated, to
prepare to grant only what it was well known the Cana-
dians would not accept, and not accepting it he was to
coerce them into obedience. We have, therefore,
no hesitation in saying that we are indebted to the dis-
missal of the Tory Government in 1835, and to Lord
GLENELG'S policy subsequently adopted, for preventing a
wide-spread insurrection throughout our American Pro-
vinces, and their separation from the mother-country.

A very numerous assemblage of the friends of civil and
religious liberty was held yesterday at the City of London
Tavern, for the purpose of receiving a deputation from the
Scottish Dissenters. The object of the deputation is to
enlist the sympathies of the English Dissenters—those of
the metropolis in the first place—in the cause in which the
Dissenters of Scotland are now, to a man, engaged—
lamely, the defence of their rights against the encroach-
ment meditated by the advocates for endowinginew Chttrches
in connection with the Establishment. We have already
endeavoured to impress upon the English Dissenters that
this is their cause as much as that of their brethren on the
other side of the Tweed ; and that no one who opposes
the abomination of Church-rates on conscientious grounds
can, with any regard to consistency, remain quiescent when
a grant of the public money (for such in reality it is) is
about to be made to the Established Church of Scotland.
In both cases the principle is precisely the same ; and the
country may rest assured that if it be admitted in the
case of the Scottish Church, it will very soon be
found equally applicable to another Establishment.
This is the natural order of things. We, there-
fore, say to the friends of religious liberty, in what-
ever part of the kingdom they reside, " Resist
this beginning of evil ;" make common cause with those
who are fighting the battle in Scotland, from a regard to
your own interests, if you choose to forget the claims
which the Scottish Dissenters have on your gratitude, for
the valuable and unsolicited assistance which they afforded
you in your opposition to Church-rates."
We arc happy to perceive that the proceedings of yes-
terday's meeting were in perfect accordance with these
sentiments, and we trust, now that the ice bas been
broken, that meetings will be held in all parts of England
to petition against this unrighteous grant.

Our Contemporary, the Post, inserted in its Monday's
publication, an anonymous letter very unceremoniously
accusing The Sun of falsehood in our statement of Satur_
day, that on Lord MAIDSTONE'S motion against Mr.
O'CONNELL the usual Treasury circulars were not sent.
The nameless correspondent of the Post actually gives the
copy of the circular which he said he himself saw,
and was then in his possession. As this was a
very serious accusation, we felt it to be our duty to make
further enquiries, lest by any possibility we might have
been led into error, and the result of those enquiries (from
the highest sources) is, that we were perfectly correct,
and that the pretended copy of- the circular in the Post is
an impudent forgery and fabrication. Now, as sonic
of the gentlemen connected with the Post are re-
spectable men, and though strong partizans, not capable
of lending themselves to a base and atrocious fabri-
cation to injure a Contemporary, we call upon them
to compel their correspondent to enable them to adopt
this charge and prove it, or, failing to do so, to
retract it, and insert our denial of it. Other Journals may
do as they please, hut The Sun shall never coin lies, desert
principles, or justify trickery or treachery, to aid any Go-
vernment or any Opposition whatever. Can our Contem-
porary declare that he is as unconnected with party
as we are ? If so, let him show it in the same way.

The Times this morning is amazingly angry with the
Duke of WELLINGTON, and throws out several unseemly
insinuations against Lim, because apparently the Duke has
not been subservient enough to the hungry younkers of the
Tory party. He has not, like Sir H. PEEL, followed
their lead, and endeavour to destroy the Administration.
He does not see how another is to be formed and main-
tained. It would only add one to the many instances
already on record of factious violence severing friendships,
if the great blow which the Tories last night aimed at the
Ministry were really to break their own party into growling,
angry, and incoherent atoms.

By the Packet-ship South America, which arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, we have received New York Papers
to the 17th ult. They bring advices from the Canadas,
but none of any interest. Tranquillity appeared fully re-
stored in both provinces. The Constitutional Society of
Quebec held a public meeting on the 7th ult., when it
was unanimously resolved to petition the QUEEN and Im-
perial Legislature for a re-union of the Upper and Lower
Provinces. Lady HEAD and family had arrived in New
York on their way to England, but Sir FRANCIS re-
mained at Toronto to receive his successor, Colonel Sir
GEORGE ARTHUR, into whose hands he was desirous of
personally resigning the Government. We are happy to
learn by this arrival, that upwards of two hundred more
of the deluded persons with whom the prisons of Quebec
and Montreal were crowded, have been set at liberty.
Such an announcement is an indication both of the
Government being determined to do all in its
power to mitigate the horrors of an unsuccessful insurrec-
tion, and of the present tranquillity of the Province. Sir
JOHN COLBORNE, we believe, is well convinced that there is
no reason whatever to fear any further disturbance.