The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-20 00:00:00

Councillors of English extraction. Tie proportions
of Members who hold offices to those who do not, is
eight to thirty-two."
The author at considerable length endeavours to
justify the Government in appropriating money to pay
the judges and civil officers without the consent of
1 the Lower Assembly. But in our opinion it amounts
only to this, that the mother country can find no re-
medy without violating the Constitution of 1791.
Several of the mis-statements of Mr. ROEBUCK in his
" Portfolio" are pointed out, but at present we have
not space for them.
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In another part of The San will be found a third
Letter from Mr. HUNIE on the subject of the Cana-
dian grie:•ances, to which we invite the attention of
our readers. It is more explicit than any that
preceded it ; but the Honourable Member for
Kilkenny has not yet succeeded in making
out a strong case in favour of the House of
Assembly's six months' supply system. Wherefore
does he not show how it happened that tlie House of
Assembly of Upper Canada voted a permanent Civil
List, and that such a demand was spurned as an insult
by the Representatives of the Lower Province ? The
case of Upper Canada proves that such a vote is not
tantamount to Parliamentary self-destruction.

The London Committee of Trade Societies, acting
oa behalf of the Glasgow- Cotton Spinners, have pub-
lished an address to their fellow workmen, in which
they express their regret at the conviction of the five
men tried at Edinburgh, denounce the atrocious act:
of assassination and violence imputed to some of them,
and declare that they look upon such proceedings with
the greatest indignation and abhorrence, and repudiate
them in the name of their respective Societies. We
can readily believe that not oee in a thousand
of these men would sanction such violence for
the protection of their rights, anal that with very
few exceptions they look with horror at the out-
rages committed at Glasgow, aiel consequently are
anxious to separate themselves hole. aien guilty of such
enormous crimes ; but though the •aembers generally
:ire innocent, there is a strong pr -umption that cer-
tain persons connected with these :; ,eicties have been
paid out of time funds for eommitt' acts of violence,
and there is no doubt that those persons who were
the victims snared, because they transgressed the
rules. As the plans were laid in secret, the evi-
dence against them could only come from accomplices,
and such evidence must always he received with limi-
tations ; but still the question resolves itself to this, whe-
ther we are to believe that a few unprincipled men—
say the Secret Committee—would act on the princi-
ple, that it is just'Eable to do evil that rood may come ;
or that numhers of accomplices would, in a Court of
Justiee, and under a solemn oath, accuse innocent men
af the most atrocious crimes. Neither the Judges nor
Jury at Edinburgh would take such evidence as proof that
M‘LEAN was guilty of murder, and even the Jury, with
the corroborative evidence from the Committee-books,
hesitated before they pronounced the criminals guilty
of the minor charges. They consulted together for
five -hours ; and, according to this address, returned
the verdict at last by a majority of only one. An
English jury so (Lvided would, in all probability, have
aiven tx verdict of acquittal. But, while these facts
sneak in favour of the convicts, it cannot be denied,
from what has taken place both at Glasgow and Dub-
that certain parties connected with these Societies
have grossly betrayed the confidence placed in them
be the great body of the Operatives—that great atro-
cities have been co:nraitted—and that the voice of pule-
lie indignation against crimes, hitherto unknown in this
country, will compel the Legislature to institute the
most rigorous inquiry into the rules and construc-
tions of Trades' Unions. It is proper that such
an inquiry should take place, in older that the inno-
cent may not suffer with the szuitty, and that those who
would still further restrict the Elecctive rianchise, may
not use these deeds of darkness as a plea against the
Extension of the Suffrage. Such an argument has
already been put forth, and will be persevered in, till
the great body of the Working Classes can be proved
innocent of the charges made against some of these
Unions.

The French Mails of Thursday have not been ie
ccived this morning.
FUNDS —PArtis, JAN. 17.
rive per Cen,s.. 109 f. 3jc. 40c. 500.
Four and a Half ocr Cents. 105 f. 20c.
Four per Cents., 101 f. 00c.
l'h,ce per Cents.. 7Pf. sne, 55a, eOc.
Pank Actions, 2,6:10f. 2,'a7f. 5Vc. 2,825 f.
Ratite ce Naples' 98f. Ste. 55e.
Roman Five p2rCents., 10.14,04.
Spanish Actives, 9,!,,i5,,i5j1.
Spanish Passives, 43r.
kteiwinn Loan, Five !,or Cents, !na.
Belgian Bank, 1,503 f. 1,51,f.
Porturicae Loan, Three per Cents. IS.
klzytian Loan, 3S5f.
LXCHANOa oN LONDON.
One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 473Zc
I.sree months, paper, :251 •251.
x 34
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 109 f. sic.
Three per Cents., 7af. Cse.
]lank Actions,
Romans, 10134.
Belgian Bank, 1,50" f.
Spanish Actives, d,,54,
Spanish Passives, 434.
1-laytiAn Loan, 3S5f.