The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-01 00:00:00

BRIGHTON-SUNDAY.

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It is confidently reported that moorings arc to be placed for
a Royal yacht opposite the town sometime during the spring,
and that the Queen intends to make Brighton a summer resi-
dence.
Lord and Lady John Russell and family are still sojourning
at the Bristol Hotel.
Baron and Baroness Rothschild hare, left t'tc Albion Hotel

for town.
Major-General Sir F. Trench, M.P.; has also taken his de-
parture for the metropolis.
Lady 'Fwysdcn has engaged a house on the Marine Parade.
It is stated in a local print that the Duke of St. Alban's
and Miss Burdett Coutts-are expected shortly in Brighton.
The Duke of Richmond is entertaining a distinguished
party at Goodwood, including Lord and Lady Arthur Lennox,
Lord William Lennox, Lady Sophia Lennox, and Lady Tcm-
plemore and family.

Earl and Countess de Grey arz d;spens;ng their
hospitality at Newby, Mil', Ilorotighbridge, Vorkshiro.
Elveston Hall, the splendid seat of the Earl and
Countcsi of Harrington, near Derby, will be the scene of
/Treat fetthiti- ty.xi %%eel:, when the Duke of Wellington,
Duke of Rutland, Maroui: of Granby, Lord Charles Man-
en, aid Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., will be among their

guests. ,
The Duke of Northumberland his joined li's
Duchess at Alnwiek Castle, Northuniberland, where their
Graces are entertaining a family. circle. •
The Duke and Duchess-Of Somerset have arrived
at their seat, Stover House,. Newton Abbot, Devon, where
Grves will sojo ern until the latter end of this month, when
they will return to town fur the season.
hhe Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are
'till at Yo tnt Stewart, Neittownard.,, in the county of Down;
and, at the expiration of the holidays, they intend to return to
\Vynyard Hall, Durham.. The Noble Lord . will, probably,
nturn to town about,the time Parliament re-nssembles, but the
Nlarshioness and family are not expected before April.'
The Earl of Sheffield; at Sheffield Place, in Sussex,
sees company during the holidays.
The Earl of Mexborough, at Mithley Park, in
Yorksbi,e, is keeping up the ancient hospitality. .
The Earl of Roschery is keeping open house at
Dalmeney Park Linlithgoa.shire
Lord and Lady Milton arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel 01. Saturday evening, from Brighton. The noble lord
will entertain a sporting party at his hunting lodge, at Melton,
during the present month.
Lor.l Brougham has arrived at Beau Desert, the seat
athe Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesea, where his lord-
hip intends staying 10 days.
Sir \Vatkin Williams Wynn, Bart., is dispensing
his.' usual bounty to the poor at Wynastay.
Lord Skelinersdale and the Hon. Bootle Wilbra-
ham are entertaining a party of fashionables at Latham House,
Ormskirk, in Lancashire.
Lord Dundw., at Aske Hall and 'Upleatliam, is
keeping open house, and liberally contributing tothe cloth;ng
of the poor.
Lord and Lady .Hatherton and family are passing
the winter at Rome, but to return to England in March.
Earl Fitzwilltam, with his usual consideration,
caused. upwar ls of 500 5:01ICS of beef to be dist.ibuted among
the poor of his neighbourhood in Christmas week.
The Earl- of Devon is entertaining a family party at
Powderhain Castle, his magnifie •nt scat in DeVonshire.
A Russian fl.iet, consi.,tina of ten vessels, sailed on
the 24th of November from .Sebastopol, to cruise on the
eastern coast of the Week S a.
TILE PQST OFFICE.-From Mr. Hill's pamphlet
on Post-office Ref.rni, it appears that the number of le•tars
chargeable with postag.. t ;2t p.ss through all the Post-offices
of Vic United Kingdom in a year, is ; b tut 89,01b0,000; ditto
franked, 7,400,000 ; number of tiewsptpers, 30,000,000 ; total,
127,000,000. The annual expenses of all kinds, 606,562/.
At Copt Hall, in Essex, the anciiit family seat of
Henry John Conyeri, Eq., much hospitality prevails. Lord
Adolphus. Fitzelarence and his intimate filend Mr. George
Wombwell are amongst the guests.
The Prince and Princess of Capon and family are
expected shortly to arrive in this country from the south.of
France, where they are now so.o.uning.
The Earl Ducie is displaying his usual philan-
thropy at his princely palace at Morcton-in the Kash, Gloue
cestershire.
The Archbishop of York has male a donation of
four tons of coals to the debtors in York Castle, and his Grace
last week caused his usual eolati in of beef, bread, and pota-
toes to he distributed a r.orgst the poor of Bishopthorpe, and
of coals to Inc poor in York.
Thc children of the Agricultural and Sunday Schools
of Little Gaddesden, amounting to about 150 in number, dine
to-day ( New Year's-day) at Ashridge, the seat of the' Right
Hon. the Countess of B.!dgewater. They are always re-
eat d with plenty. of roast-beef and plum-pudding, and a
plant m skfficit of the strongest ale.
Eight hundred o' the Grenadier Guards, and the
same number of the Coldstreams, received orders yesterday
morning at eight o'clock, to hold 'themselves in readiness
to embark for Canada, it is supposed ia the course of the 'week.
. Lord Dinorben is entertaining a fashionable party
at Kimmel' Park, near St. Asaph's.•
Viscount Ebrington, who has been on a Visit at
Ede Stoke Park, the scat of Sir John Cam. Hobliouse, at De-
vises, his Lr iced at Hardington Patk, near Frome.
The flonotirahie Charles S anley, the youngest son
of the Earl of Darby, and his lady, arrive! at the fatuily man-
sion in Gr, sveuor square on Saturday last, from a tour.
The gaieties eminence. this dry at Coombe Abbey,
.he hospitable seat of the Craven family.. -The E:al. and
Countess of Verulam, Lord and Lady Emily Cri;nteon, and
Mrs. Grimston, leave Gorhatiantiry this morn ng foe that place.
The Speaker of the How e of Culiiir.cuS and Mrs.
Abereromby have arrived at Stubbing Cisurt, near Derby, for
-he recess, bat will retura to Carlteu House-terrace o n the
13th instant. • •

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
We insert insert in another column a letter from a respected
correspondent on the subject of the recent occurrences in
Lower Canada, and, knowing as we do his intimate ac-
quaintance with the state and the affairs of that country
some ten years ago, we give his letter as the opinion and the,
evidence of a men whose experience and whose station en-
title his sentiments to much attextion. His statement as
to the advantages possessed and the comforts enjoyed by
the Canadian " habilerns" we know to he accurate, and it Is
corroborated by the reports of every traveller who has
-visited the country, unless by a few itinerant agitators,
whose object it was to excite discontent among people
having no real grievance to complain of, which we, alike
with our correspondent, maintain to have been the case
with the French popuLtion of Lower Canada. We must,
bowevzr, admit that the attempts of the discontented
leaders of agitation have been more successful than we
anticipated in exciting the people of certain districts
into actual rebellion ; but we do not yet believe
that the revolt is, or is to, become general -through-
out the province, or that there is any doubt IVI
to the result of the contest se wantonly commenced by
the Papineau party, OR the shores of the river Richelieu.
We hear, in conl-4non with our Contemporaries, of arma-
ments to he prepared, and of forces to be despatched to
the St, .Lawrence, on the opening of the navigation in the
Spring ; and we take it for granted that the rebellion, even
if it should subsist through the Canadian winter, will spee-
dily be suppressed when those forces can be brought to ope-
rate on the dense population, clustered along the shores of
navigable rivers, which is the case with nearly all the " ha-
bituns" of Lower Canada ; but what we look to with even
mere anxiety than to the preparation of armaments, and
what we consider of more importance towards the final pa-
cification of the Canadas than the despatch of forces, is a
frank and distinct declaration and determination on tho part
of the British Government and Parliament, of the plans
and principles to be adopted, after the suppression of
the rebellion shall have been accomplished. If Lower
Canada is to be re-conquered, and held by means
of a superior force of British soldiers, then we
really should not consider the subject worthy of the ex-
pense ; but looking at Lower and Upper Canada collec-
tively as an immense and valuable territory, of which the
river St. Lawrence is the great outlet, and :as forming
between them but one country which ought never to have
been divided, it is our opinion, that if they could again be
re-united, and the representation of a new legislative body
fairly apportioned among them, with a view to extent of
territory, and the progressive increase of population, the
people of English and Irish and Scotch and American
descent might soon be left to maintain their own influence and
institutions against the French party which has now the
ascendancy in the representation of Lower Canada, and which
tries to preserve that ascendancy by preventing settlers of
British origin from locating themselves in the country.
That ascendancy, however, even in Lower Canada,
is not
.quite so great as might be inferred from a
letter given in the Times of Saturday, which we have
transferred to our columns this day, under the signature
of " An Anglo-Canadian," who gives a statement of the
population of the different counties, showing that of the
countries returning Papineau members to the House of
Assemble to be 483,639, while that of the counties re-
terning Constitutional Members is only 28,278, or showing
more than seventeen to one in favour of Papineau, whereas
in reality the territorial division of those counties is a se-
rious grievance to the settlers of British origin, it being
ao arranged to swamp their votes nearly altogether, and to
jconceal their number, as compared with the French ma-
ority. These counties, speaking generally, are la
between parallel lines fronting on the Great Riveid outr,
r, and
running back far beyond the actual settlements. The
narrow front extending along the shore of the river
is densely peopled by French " habitans' ad the
towns, churches, and villages are all built along then water-
side. The new settlers in the back concessions, or in the
townships behind the seigneuries, are thinly scattered, and
are less in number than the French population in the front,
as it is called, and, being outvoted in each county sepa-
rately, their votes are swamped at elections,
or taken as
they are by " An Anglo-Canadian," to increase the assumed
numbers of their opponents, whereas a different distribution
of the counties might, in some cases, give a different result;
and in any new arrangement, such as a legislative union of
the two provinces, this object ought not to be overlooked.
For the present, however, we reserve these and other de-
tails which may hereafter be interesting. 'We look with
some anxiety to the arrival of the next advices from Canada,
and with quite as much to the plans which are to be de-
veloped on the re-assembling of Parliament.---Morning
Chronicle.
ON THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE
CANADIAN INSURGENTS.
The following letter, which appeared in the Times of Sa-
turday, is evidently from some person interested in forwardiag
the objects of the Papineau party. The aim of the writer is
to magnify the resources of the insurgents, and to mislead the
public with regard to the numbers of the French and British
in Lower Canada. From the location of the French in a belt
of villages along the St. Lawrence, and from the counties
stretching deeply backwards from the river frontage, forming
ns it were long strips, the British population in every county
is greatly out-numbered by the French, and remote from the
places of election, ece. A cursory perusal of the letter of an
" Anglo-Canadian" would lead an English reader to suppose
that the British are to the French in Lower Canada as 1 to
17, whereas they are really as about one to three. " In short,
if they are unanimous and resolute," says this Papineau advo
sate, " they must succeed in establishing their supremacy in
every part of Lower Canada, with the exception of the city
of Quebec." Unanimous they cannot be ; but if the Govern-
ment fail to do its duty to the British in Lower Canada, they
may be everywhere overpowered by the superior strength of
the French ; in which case the struggle would ultimately be
between the Upper Canadians and the French Canadians.
" TO TOE EDITOR OF TILE TIMES.
" Sir-As every fact calculated to throw light on the state
and prospects of the insurgent party in Canada will naturally
be acceptable to the public mind at present, you will perhaps
feel disposed to circulate the present communication by inser-
ting it in your columns. The object of it is to acquaint the
public with the population of the different counties and cities
in Lower Canada, and with the prevailing sentiment in each,
as ascertained by the known sentiments of their respective Re-
presentatives. The following table, which was generally
allowed to be correct, when published in Montreal in De-
cember, 1834, will show these facts in a very plain and
striking form :--
Members. Population.
Name of Count•, City, or -----_------ --------•
Borough. ' Papi- Constitu- Papi- Consitu-
neau. tional, neau. tional.
________-. _____-- __________, _______
Seance ........................ , 2
... 11,900
Beauharnois
... 16,857
Bellecha.sc ...... 2
... 13,529
Berthier
... 20,225
' Bonaventure ............. 2
... 8,309
Chamhly
......... 2 Champlain 15,483
Dorchester .-
, •••
... ............... , 2
... 6,991
.............. 2
11,946
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Drummond ................. 1
... 3,566
Gaspe
...
K 2 s,o3oamouraska ............
Lacadie
Lachesnoye ......... 2
... 9,461
Laprarie -
L'As!omption
... ......
2 ... 1,497
"•
.'lslet
2 ... 13,518
Lotbiniers
2 M .
.. 6,948
.M
egantie ... . 1 2,2B3ontmorenci ............... 1
... 3,743
Missiseinoi ..... ... ......... , ...
... 8,801
2
Montreal, County
...
Nieolet 16,476
2 12,804 ...
Orleans .....................
4,349 ••• Ottawa ... .................. 2
4,
•• 786
Pontt Neuf .................. 2
'
Quebec ..................... •" 12,350
...
Riche1ieu..........,
2 7,916
15,086
... Rimonski .. ... ............ , ~. 10,061
Rouville ... 2
18,115
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Saguenay ..................... 2
8,38.5 •••
Shefford ..................... ... 2
••• 5,07
Sherbrook
... ... 2
7,104
Stanstead ............ 2
... -
10,306
St. Hyacinthe
... '2 .. . 15,366
St. Maufee ............... 2
.. 13,7%
TTerrebonne
... 16,623
wo Mountains
20,905
•••
Vandreuil
13,111
...
Yercheres
Yamaska .................... , 2
9,496
...
Montreal, City ... ' 4
27,297
...
Quebec, City ............ 1 4
••• 28,2.57
Three Rivers ... ..........•
• . . 1,063 I--
............2
...". 3,113
110 •
Soul 'l
...............1.................. ..................
9 483,639 i 2;4,278
.deraar.......___.......,...._.
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ThA .51..-.. _ . -

ti The elections, of which the above table illustrates the re-
sult, hinged entirely on the elective principle—that is to say,
the candidate known to be favourable to the application of that
principle to the formation of the Legislative Council was sure
to be elected ; while the candidate known to be opposed to it,
Or not warmly attached to it, was equally sure to be rejected.
" In many of the chief counties the elections were decided
by a mere show of hands, thereby proving the most perfect
Unanimity of sentiment ; and if tlie party is equally unanimous
now as to the expediency of overthrowing the British su-
reraacy, there cannot be a doubt about the immediate result.
That Britain could reduce them again to subjection as soon as
the re-opening of the navigation will admit of her introducing
into the country a force sufficient for the purpose is quite
pertain, but that it would be worth her while to incur the
'ouble and expense of doing so is very problematical ; for she
mould have to maintain her supremacy, either by conceding
to the Papineauists every demand they have made and may yet
make, or by keeping up such a military force in the province
as would be sufficient to maintain order by the law of the
bayonet I
" The British party look confidently to their fellow-coun-
trymen in the upper province for efficient aid; but it
strikes me that the insurgents will receive quite as much
assistance from that quarter as their opponents ; and the
support to be derived from the States in the shape of vo-

lunteets will, I think, be almost entirely in favour of th* in=
Mttrgt?nts.

" That the insurgents helr9 theNughly cafatdateci their to-
sources I know, for I hash seen stateeneett Om-ivies; ow long
they could maintain a yolunteei army by the sale of their plate,
jewels, and other tiertetil c ectimodities o f exchangeable values!
by plundering jewellers' shops, private houses, and mich like ;
by mortgaging their estates to the Americans; and lastly, by
pledging the faith of the trahijo Nation Canadienne to pay
liberally for supplies by grants of land as soon as their inde-
pendence was established.
" T.!: short, if they are unenimmtit atad resolute; the Must
succeed in establishing, their suptemiacy in every pill of Lower
Canada, with the exception of the city of quebec, which might
be defended for years against ally force that could be brought
against it, excepting famine knd treachery.
" AN ANGLQ-CAIsIADIAN."
We Are not among those sehts attach any great import-
muse to the squabbles of eertain persons calling_tbenitelves
the' Trades' Political Union" of the eitY of Dublin with
Mr. Deniel O'Connell. These esetiti'y have kicked against
the Agitator, because, tali nerve his own purposes, h T 1 fell
foul c,f them, palling them " ass issins," impttling to them
'" that they hatl dyed their hands In the blood of their
;31intryenen ;" that they mete the " amens of driving trade
out of the country ;' that "they would not suffer any man
of capital to remain in the country ;" and, in short, that
" their combination must be trushed." It ought to be re-
collected Lhat them Trades' Union gentry have been for
years the reedy tools of O'Connell in all his dirtiest and
most flagitious machinations against the public peace and
the authority of the laws in Ireland—that their Union
was framed, or at least countenanced by him—that their
members always constituted what Mr.-Eneas Macdonnell
justly terms the " scum of popular effervescence"—" terrified
terrorists---dreading,like any other slavegang, the lash oft heir
driver, who has whisked them about from one extreme
and absurdity to another, without any regard to their
truth, consistency, or decency." Why, then, if Mr.
Daniel O'Connell, having used and abused this reputable
body from his own ends, now turns upon and reprobates
them as the vilest animals in the whole creation, who will
pity them? Do they not meet their deserts? It appears
from the letter of our Irish reporter, published in the
Times last Saturday, that the indignant Trades Unionists
met together, to pass resolutions, of which the object seems
to have been to complain of the scurvy treatment in-
flicted on them by their late lord and master; and com-
plain they do, but after the fashion of spaniels, whining do-
lorously under the whip of a tyrant, not daring to bite,
or barely to snarl in return. From the speeches
and proceedings on the above occasion, the grievance
felt by these mutineers is manifestly nothing more
than a shop or partnership disagreement, not ven-
turing to proclaim the truth—namely, that it was
the Agitator himself who was the real " assassin"
' —who had instigated his minions to " dye their
hands in blood"--who had broke up the peace of
society, and " driven men of capital out of Ireland." While
he deterred others from fixing there, these subaltern incen-
diaries take abundant pains to assert, instead of disavowing
their continued and entire concurrence with their principal
in all political matters, they boast that " eight-tenths of the
members then assembled were men who had graced (! !)
Mr. O'Connell's processions, and who had fallen out with
their employers and neglected their families for the purpose
of supporting him." The people, added the chairman of
the meeting, " had placed implicit confidence in Mr.
O'Connell, but how do we know but that our rights
and privileges are going to be bartered like the
children of Manchester r Yes, his conduct through-
out has been that of Satan—seducing to betray.
This vapid outbreak of a kennel of over kicked curs
may provoke the fury of the Agitator for a while, but
there is such a total absence of all true principle, self-
respect, and jealousy of character on either side, that
unless, indeed, O'Connell finds it more profitable to discard
and finally quarrel with the murmuring reptiles, than still
to retain them in his service, and make them the instru-
ments of further mischief and disturbance, there is little
doubt that the sore will soon be poulticed up again, and
some new procession got up by the Agitator, where his
triumph will be once more" graced by the presence" of the
" terrified terrorists," or possibly his heroic person borne
aloft upon their shoulders. It is the same with these cases
of domestic strife in Ireland and in our own country. The
different sections of seditious Popery there may abuse and
vilify each other to the end of tine ; but as against the
Protestant church, state, and community, their combination
deist
isnouustidde
ma nd
oe
rany indissolublehere
in
En
gl
an ever.d mayS o
ringthe champions
changesesons o f
n Whig selfishness and Whig falsehood ; but when it
omes to a vote for or against the monarchy, we shall mud
item, like vain-glorious termagants as they are, swimming.
mely in the wake of Ministers, and doing the work of re-
ular Downing-street drudges.—Tines.
On the conduct of the Melbourne Ministers, in provok-
ng a rebellion in Canada, and not having provided the ne-
essary means to meet it, we have spoken very plainly.
hatever journal, or whatever politician—Whige*Tory, or '
adical—may, under the influence of servillity, corruption,
r an excess of good nature, endeavour to excuse or pal-
iate their misdoings, we can express but the one opinion
f their enormous delinquency. At a former time, before
heartless cosmopolite " philosophy" had broken down
v
that nationality of feeling which is the life and source of
the patriotic virtues, all England ;would have .resounded
with the voice of public indignation, calling for the dis-
missal of men who had so betrayed the interests of the
Crown and the empire. But at present no delinquency of
Ministers, either as to our foreign or colonial policy, seems
capable of exciting much public attention. If this state
of national apathy should continue for a few years longer,
England is likely to have no colonies to preserve, for a
successful rebellion in Canada would be a signal to the other
dependencies of the British Crown to declare themselves in-
dependent. The radical doctrine, as avowed in Parliament, is
that a colony in revolt ought not to be resisted, and, in
fact, that any portion of the empire which chooses to
prefer separation to union, and rebellion to allegiance,
should be allowed to do so without being questioned,
and certainly without being coerced by the supreme
authority. This radical doctrine being logically " carried
out" in practice would soon leave the British empire a
wreck upon the waters, to the great delight of the ambi-
tious and treacherous despot of Russia, the no less over-
reaching and insidious Citizen King of the French, and
the President of the American democracy ; all of whom
would be no less gratified in contemplating the ruins of the
greatest maritime monarchy the world ever saw than the
Roman chief was in viewing the ruins of Carthage. Not-
wi,hstanding the decided and explicit manner in which we
have expressed ourselves upon the conduct of ministers
in regard to Canada, an evening ministerial journal of
Saturday has chosen to charge us with inconsistency,
because of a statement in the City 'article of the
Illorning Herald, at variance with the opinions put
forth in the leading articles of the paper. In answer to
this accusation, we have only to state what, no doubt,
the C'ouri,r very well knows, that the opinions of the Morn-
ing Herald upon any question of public policy are not to
be collected from the communications of the writer of the
" city article," or from those of any other. correspondent,
but from the leading articles only, unless the piper should
expressly adopt the opinions or statements of a correspon-
dent, and thus make them part of its editorial observa-
tions. The freedom which the Horning Herald allows to
correspondents has not been imitated by journals pro-
fessedly " liberal," which exact the utmost servility of sen-
timent in all writers who are regularly connected with their
establishments. So little is the Courier capable of under-
standing this sort of " iiberty of the press," that it actually
makes the use of such a privilege by our city correspon-
dent a matter of accusation against us ! We admit that a
journal which, like the Courier, has tried every point of the
political compass—which has been high Tory, semi-liberal,
Whig, and Whig Radical—must be a good judge of what
sort of political opinions are the most profitable ; but in any
other respect no rational being who knows the history of such
a journal will think itof the slightest importance what opinion
it holds. Supposing even that Ministers, as the writer of our
City article has said, " have at last resolved to take the
strongest measures to suppress the existing rebellion in our
Canadian possessions," what excuse—what palliation would
that tardy determination to uphold the power of the British
Crown afford for their previous vacillation or criminal
negligence ? In the shuffling, evasive, and miserable speech
which Lord John Russell made on the night when he ven-
tured to admit, to the very complaisant and obsequious
House of Commons which the country has at present, that
Canada was suspected of being in open rebellion, five days
subsequently to the fact having been proclaimed in the
Morning Herald, his Lordship was obliged to confess that
accounts had been received at various times from Lord
Gosford, stating what made it evident that the malcontents
were preparing to have recourse to arms. Knowing this,
did our Government take the obvious and necessary steps
to meet, and crush the rebellion on its breaking out?
Nothing of the sort. During the whole season, when
troops might have been sent up the St. Lawrence,
they " stood at ease," or slept, like Lord Glenelg, in
profound tranquillity, until the thunders of the Canadian
" Lexington" disturbed their repose. If such Ministers
are not impeached for conniving at rebellion, provided
the Canadian papers speak the truth, Ministerial respon-
sibility is a farce. What was the crime of Byng or
Whitelock in affect compared with such pusillanimous or
negligent betrayal of the interests of the crown ? As to
talking of strong measures now, when the season for rein-
forcing the troops has gone by, and four or five months
must elapse before the miserable amount of military force in
Canada can be strengthened, is absurd. Besides, did not
the evening organ of the Ministry, the very night after
Lord John Russell's speech, throw out pretty palpable
hints that Ministers may possibly think it advisable to allow
the Canadian rebels to achieve their independence of Great
Britain, rather than take strong measures to put them down?
We quoted that article as explanatory of the obscure and

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mYstik pal: ti ofVrd 4obn I s APeeeti;and *e will
keep it he radical supporters of the government
May talk or act treason as they like; we look nbt td theii;
but to the respusible Mittistefs if lne Urown, and, at their
hands, oh behalt oi the British public, we demand that the
British Empire shall not be diemembered. If dismember-
ment once begins, it will go on until Great B. itain shall be
utterly dtspoiled of her soUrces of grandettr and power..---
A inti•niirg Herald.
At the tnotttlit at which we write, the old year, as it
&Ai be termed in a fe•,v hours, is tolling its last knell, end
the new one about to cOrttnicnte its career. Reflecting
upon the pact; iVe have no political recollections to regret—
tVo have pursued the slme even, honest tenor of way which
has characterised this journal during the last eleven years
—no party influence has biased us beyond the bias which
is common to human nature, and is rather an honour than
a disgrace, in the considoratinn of public matters—no si-
uister iollttence of any kind has swayed our opinions either
reApecting public men or public events. We have still
occasion to rejoice not only in the confidence of our
readers, but in an immense enlargement of their numbers.
We thank them with the utmost cordiality for their sup-
port. They have dealt nobly by es, and we have done our
best to merit their confidence, not by political consistency
only, but by furnishing them with the best and earliest in-
telligence of all important events. To recur to all the
events of the past year would be a matter of folly and mys-
tification—we content ourselves with quoting only one por-
tion of our labours, which must still be fresh in the recol-
lection of our readers. It is from the Morning Advertiser
of Sept. 28 :
" Three riace (said the Journal of that day) the expresses
of tile Times, with reports of the celebrated political dinners
at Glasgow and Edinburgh, were deservedly considered to be
the most successful efforts that had been made on the part of
the London Press to furnish early intelligence to the public.
The distance from each of those pines is four hundred miles,
and this was accomplished by the Times in thirty-two hours.
These feats were, however, surpassed by the Morning Ad-
vertiser two years since, in conveying to London the reports
of the Devonshire election, at which Lord J. Russell was de-
feated ; and of the West Yorkshire election, at which Lord Mor-
peth vanquished the Tories and Mr. Wortley. These elections
took place, the first at Exeter, which is distant from London
172 miles, the latter at Wakefield, 186 milesnorth of the me-
tropolis. Reports, however, extending to some columns, of
the nominations for these counties, and the final state of the
polls wore transmitted to London, and printed in this Journal
on the mornings after they occurred, each of the distances
having been accomplished in about thirteen hours. Again,
these efforts were exceeded last winter by The Sun,
in transmitting from Glasgow a report of the Peel
dinner there, which was accomplished in the unprecedented
period of twenty-seven hours ; this, too, under the disadvan-
tage of being compelled to travel over roads which were covered
to the depth of many inches with a thawing snow. During
the progress of the late elections, however, we were enabled
to afford to the readers of the Morning Advertiser many in-
stances of rapidity in conveying intelligence which could well
vie with the most successful of those we have enumerated, and
many which have never been equalled, and which are likely to
remain unsurpassed ; for instance, the nomination of candidates
for the representation of West Yorkshire, and the state of the
poll there, which took place at Wakefield, 186 miles distant
from London, were each published in the Advertiser of
the morning after they occurred. The nominations and the
states of the polls at the following places were also pub-
lished in this journal on the mornings after they occurred_
many of the polls in the out districts of the counties not
having been ascertained till seven and eight o'clock in the
evenings on which they were taken :—Liverpool, 203 miles
from Loudon ; Preston, 217 miles ; the North Lancashire
nomination, at Lancaster, 240 miles distant; the South Lan-
cashire nomination, and the state of the poll on the two days
of election, at Newton, 193 miles distant ; the Cheshire elec-
tion, 189 miles distant from London ; the Flintshire election,
at Mold, 202 miles distant ; the Manchester nomination and
polling, 186 miles distant ; the Salford election and polling,
187 miles distant ; the Leeds nomination and polling, 193
miles distant ; the Blackburn election, 208 miles distant ; the
Halifax election, 197 miles ; the Bradford election, 19f;
miles; the Wigan nomination and polling, 200 miles distant ;
the Bolton election, 197 miles; the Bury election, 193 miles
distant : the Warrington election, 188 mile: distantmiles ;;
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Macclesfield election, 167 miles ; the Oldham nomination and
polling, 191 miles ; the Stockport election, 176
Ashton election, 187 miles ; the Chester election,lB9 miles ;
the Rochdale election, 198 miles distant; the Huddersfield
election, 187 miles distant; the North Warwickshire, at
Coleshill, 103 miles distant ; the North Staffordshire, at
Stafford, 142 miles distant ; and besides these, the Birmir,g..
barn, Wolverhampton, Litchfield, Worcestershire, Walsall,
Bristol, Bath, and Stroud elections, with a multitude of others
at places the distances from which to London vary from
one hundred to two hundred miles, all of which were
published in the Morning Advertiser on the day after
they occurred, and any of which instances, if unre-
lieved by such a number of others, would have excited
astonishment and praise. We have only in conclusion to refer
to our exertions in forwarding from Carlisle to London the
report of the nomination and the polling on each of the two
days at the East Cumberland election—decidedly the most im-
portant that occurred in the empire, as involving the fate of
Sir James Graham, and the opinion of the people in reference
to the instances of political baseness which his conduct so
thoroughly evidenced—Carlisle is 806 miles distant from Lon-
don. The distance was accomplished by us on three several
days, in an average period of 15 hours ! This needs not a
word of comment; every individual aware of the. fact, must do
justice to an effort accomplished by such an expenditure of money
and exertion of energy and skill."
We 'make no boast of these exertions ; they were as pro-
table to us as they were useful and grateful to our readers,
and they may rely that in what has hitherto pleased them,
we shall not fail in future. In the meantime it is our duty
to wish all our readers the beet wishes of the season, and
in addition that they may live low, to peruse our columns,
and to be satisfied with our endeavours to furnish them
with the earliest and most accurate intelligence of all do-
mestic events.—Morning Advertiser.