The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-16 00:00:00

the 27th and 28th ult., upon the address to the Gover-
nor-General, and the amendments moved to that address.
We have before us an analysis of the division on the
first amendment, which was the strongest vote on
both &des. The total number that voted was 63, of
whom 46 were for Government, and 17 against.
Of the 46 for Government there were 22 French Cana-
dians from Lower Canada. 6 British from Lower Ca-
nada, and 18 British fiorn Upper Cinade. The minority
against the address consisted of 11 British from Upper
Canada, 5 British from Lower Canada, and one French
Canadian (the Republican, Papiueau). Government,
therefore, had a majority of all classes; a majority of the
Briii,h, all the French except• one, who might well be
spaced, a majority from Upper Canada, and a majority
from Lower Canada, the aggregate majority being over-
whelming. It must be considered too that in this divi-
sion the factious minority had used all its arts to divide
the Legislature and win apparent support. They did
not venture to propose an amendment censuring the
Governor-General, or showing ever so slight a
s3mpathy with the rioters. Yet their affected me.
duration was unavailing, and they were entirely
tseaten, as we have shown, by a majority of all
classes. It is seldom easy, and it is wholly unnecessary,
to describe a political quarrel in a few words. The
Rebellion Losses Bill is the merest pretence. Our
readers are doubtless aware that it is not a Bill for in-
demnifying rebels, but a Bill for indemnifying, to a very
limited extent, any persons that may have suffered by
the destruction of their property in the rebellion ; and
the only grievance is that the Bill does not, because it
cannot, expressly exclude everybody who took part in
the rebellion. We believe the sore
point of the affair is,
that after the rebellion, the ReYalists,
autos dale, wantonly burned the premises of disaffected
persons, who will now prefer a clairn for that gratuitous
damage. This, however, is nothing but the spark which
has been used to fire the magazine. The most
Magazine is exclusion
from office, and from the distribution of land
explosive element in that
grants a trial to which the pot-loyalty of
M'Nab and his associates is manifestly unequal.
Canada, too, in common with other colonies —in
common with England and with all Europe is suf-
fering great commercial depression. It is no longer
allowedeo tax the industry of the mother- country through
freethe operationtr
sde
en etfh
ithis protective
side, i t i
s duties;reuff
bed with prohibitive and, while exposed to
duties by the neighbouring union. There has been a
depreciation in all Canadian property, somewhat similar
to what we experience in railway shares and other specu-
lative investments. Annexation is an idea of growing
familiarity. At Montreal A " British League" has been
formed, which, under the pretence of an extravagant
loyalty, composes a political capital out of all the Tory
grievances, commercial depression, free trade, the domi-
nation of an alien race, and every other imaginable ill.
It shows stronger sympathies with the republican states-
man than with the loyal Frenchman, and is evidently
disposed to leave Victoria for General Taylor, if the lat-
ter will give a better price for Canadian produce. But
enough for the day is the evil thereof. While it is per-
mitted, we will leave the question of annexation. It ex-
isted before the present quarrel, and is wholly independ-
ent of it. When it comes in earnest, we trust this coun-
try will be prepared to decide it with humanity, firmness,
and discretion.
ADVERTISER —Mr. Roebuck's warmth and spirit
relieve the debates of much of their ordinary dulness.
His home truths on the Bill for improving Ireland set
most of the Members for that country on fire—one re-
torts that he is bilious, and another that he is a grimac-
ing mountebank, with the spite of a baboon. Each man
abuses him according to the good taste and breeding of
each, but not one is able to deny the charges which he
brings forth against at least seven- e gh.ths of those who
through the speech of the Hon.
have again carefully read
Member for Sheffield, and we have compared it with the
possess. actually or nominally, land in Ireland. We
answer returned by the Earl of Clarendonh to a deputa-
tion of Irish proprietors, who wajteerd on
_.Lienittnen,aSnetp, tienmebber_
5, 1848, to request his aid, as L d
from England. His
same things, which
Ltaotnrdinsghis by Mr. Roe-
are found so unpalatable when repeated
down,
fur, to sneer them
Roe-
buck. There was then no atthemep
been too bold a pro-
fur as to denial, that would
Lordship
another
then
saidg ra n t
the of money
very
n landlords and orators on
to all. The silence of Irish which were familiar
that occasion was an acknowledgement flaaevdcgtsement that those facts
cweee:deintogoisntuthbebofrancetoofberes
cheaken, and we do not see that
the lapse of a few months has altered their nature. It
is either true or false that the large sums sent over by
Government, and the contributions of charitable persons,
both for the relief of the poor, by improving estates,
employing the people, and purchasing food for their im•
mediate wants, were diverted into the pockets of the
landlords. Mr. Roebuck says that it is true, and the
Lord-Lieutenant had said so before him, but in some-
what more explicit terms. His Lordship told Mr. Baez-
ley of Tipperary, and the rest of the deputation. that
" the landlords had applied for and obtained im-
mense sums of money for the alleged purpose of im-
proving their lands and affording employment, neither of
which they had done; thus the intention of the Legisla-
ture was not carried into efftst, nor the condition of the
agricultural population in any degree improved." Lord
Clarendon went farther than the Member for Sheffield
in his condemnation of landlordism, which he said bad
obtained money under the Land Improvement Act, and
then set their wretched tenantry to work in discharge of
arrears of rent, without giving them a farthing of what
was intended for them. Mr. Roebuck says much the
same, but not in direct terms; yet Sir W. Barron ee-
clares that it is monstrous to hear him making such as-
sertions without proof. Yet, how happens it that
what was tacitly allowed to be truth, when coming
from the highest officer in Ireland, in his public ca-
pacity, is now discovered to require proof ? When Lord
Clarendon expressed his indignation to the Irish deputa-
tion, the facts had been made notorious to all parts of
the empire, by the usual vehicles of public intelligence,
and it might then be thought prudent to maintain
silence about them ; but Englishmen do not imagine
that truth or falsehood is a question of time, and that
a few months or years will convert one into the other.
The Hon. Baronet asks if it is not notorious that the
landlords of Ireland have this year raised 16,0001. under
the poor-law ; and suppose they have, where is the
merit ? The little town of Dunmow expends 16,6001.
every year in the actual relief of the poor, and that, too,
without any of the compulsion or the grumbling
opposition which accompanied that exceedingly
small instalment of the debt of the Irish landlords
to the people. During the ensuing autumn, winter, and
I spring, the population of Ireland will be dependent
chiefly upon English grants and contributions for pre-
servation from hunger; and we are very far from de-
siring that any assistance should be withheld; but those
from whose earnings the means of relief will be with-
drawn have an indefeasable right to require that the
Government shall hold the land of Ireland in pledge for
every farthing that has been, or may be advanced for
this purpose. We urge this security to be taken, be-
canse all experience demonstrates that landlordism,
which alone has brought the people to the destitute
mendicant's condition, is not to be trusted,
and because
while the land continues to be neglected, through pride,
laziness, poverty, or any other cause, the industrious
classes of Great Britain will be under the necessity of
maintaining the poor of Ireland as well as their own.

ARMY AND ORDNANCE.
The following Parliamentary document was delivered
yesterday:—
" Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire
into the expenditure on account of the Army and Ord-
nance, and to report their observations thereupon to the
1101130 of Commons.

"Your Committee have to report to the House, that
the investigation into the expenditure on account of the
Ordnance Estimates has occupied their attention to the
present time, and is yet so far unfinished, that they can
hold out no expectation to the House, that they shall be
enabled to do more than to report upon the expenditure
on account of Ordnance Estimates during the present
session."

HER MaiEsTs's THEATRE.—The Queen and kis
Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the perform-
ances at her Majesty's Theatre yesterday evening with
their presence. The royal suite in attendance upon her
Majesty and his Royal Highness included the Countess
of Desert, Hon. Miss Murray. Hon. Flora Macdonald,
Earl of Morton, General Wemyss, and Lieut-Col. the
Honourable Alexander Gordon. Her Majesty the
Queen Adelaide's box was occupied by his Serene High-
ness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, his Serene
Highness Prince William of Hesse Philipstatil, the Mar-
chioness of Worcester, Captain and Lady Rose Lovell,
Captain Bedford, and Captain Taylor. His Royal
Highness Prince Leopold of Naples (Count of Syracuse),
attended by the Chevalier Colonna, also visited the
theatre. Amongst the audience were his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke
and Duchess of Cleveland, and Lady Augusta Poulett,
the Duchess of Leeds, and Miss Lane Fox, his Excel-
lency the Russian Minister, Baroness Brunnow, and
Mdlle. Olga de Lichnerthis Excellency the Swedish
Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excel-
lency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Col-
loredo, his Excellency the Neapolitan Ambassador,
his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Countess
It wentlow and the Countess Hilda de Revent-
low, Count Wiedenbruck, Baron Koller, M. de
Berg, Count Nicolowsky, Bat on and Baroness de Mon-
therot, Marquis of Huntly, Earl of Liverpool, Earl of
Falmouth, Earl of Belfast, Countess of Lichfield and
Lady Harriet Anson, Viscount Enfield, Viscount Somer.
ton, Viscountess Mahon, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lady
Annz: Charteris, Lord Sandys, Lord Elphinstone, Lord
and Lady Charles Wellesley, Lady Fitzroy Somerset
and Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Lord W. Lennox, Lord H.
Gordon Lennox, Lord A. Gordon Lennox, Lord G.
Lennox, Captain and Lady Charlotte Berkeley, Lady
Vincent, Lord James Stuart, Count Kondriaffsky, Hon.
Mr. Wellesley, the lion. F. By/3g, the Hon. Mrs. Sin-
clair, Gen. the Hon. H. Cavendish, Ste. &C.
The visitors to the metropolis will be glad to hear
that the City Land Committee are about to issue orders
that the Guildhall shall be shown to the public without
payment of fees to the servants of the establishment, who
are to receive compensation in lieu thereof. We under-
stand that an effort will shortly be made to induce the
authorities in other places, to which the public ought to
have free admission, to exercise similar liberality.