The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge li:sited the Duchess
of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House, and also the
Princess Sophia, at Kensington Palace.
Viscount Melbourne, accompanied by his private secretary,
the Hon. William Cowper, arrived in town at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. The noble
Viscount, after his arrival, visited Lord Glenelg at the
Colonial-office.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has arrived at South-
hill-park, Berks, the seat of the Earl of Limerick, on his
way to town, from Weston House, Chipping Norton. The
Right Hon. Gentleman, and Lady Theodosia Spring Rice,
have removed from Mansfield-street to Downing-street.
The Grecian Minister transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office.
Viscount Palmerston has arrived at his seat, Broadlands,
Hants, from Brocket-hall.
The Earl and Countess of Lindsey, and the Rev. P. W.
Pegus, arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave street, yesterday,
from Uffington, Lincolnshire.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are expected
n town to-morrow.
The Earl Spencer has arrived at Wiseton Hall, in
Yorkshire, to inspect his farms and grazing lands. His Lord-
ship will stay ten days longer, and then proceed on a tour
of visits.

EDUCATION.—The close of the Christmas vaca-
tion generally brings with it no little anxiety among many
families, respecting the all-important affair of education.
This feeling is also attended with considerable uncertainty, in
fixing on an establishment in which the system pursued is such
as will ensure their children a sound education, combined with
that attention to their domestic comfort and general welfare,
which is now so properly required for the " rising genera-
tion." Theimportance of a good education it is impossible
to overrate, as on that the whole of our future life depends.
The present season ever brings such reflections to our mind,
and the more we dwell on them, the more we think it impera-
tive on us to point out the means by which so great—so ines-
timable an advantage may be secured. Though much must
always depend on a boy's own exertions, yet still more must
be attributed to the abilities and proficiency of the teachers he
is placed under, and the general system of instruction by them
adopted. In these respects we have rarely ever seen a scho-
lastic establishment more calculated to effect all that can be
desired, than that of Mr. T. M. Burt. With due regard to
general proficiency, attention is also paid to the future desti-
nation of the youth ; and those intended for the medical pro-
fession or for the sea, go through the course of instruction
most suitable to each. A regular naval instructor is engaged
for teaching navigation, and the most efficient masters for
every branch of liberal accomplishments. The department of
the classics is directed by Mr. E. C. Brown, B. A. of Ox-
ford. The system of education being such as to cultivate
each power of the pupil's mind, there is no situation in life,
whether connected with commercial pursuits, the church, law,
medicine, or the navy, which he is not put into a position to
fill with credit and success. The domestic arrangements of
the school are under the immediate care of Mrs. Burt and
her sister, and we can bear testimony to the uniform kindness
and attention with which the pupils rre treated.

LONDON :
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1838.

Our Dublin Correspondent, of Monday evening,
writes as follows :—" I have just learned that THOMAS
MARTIN, Esq., M.P., and Captain OTLAIIERTy,
have been dismissed from the Commission of the
Peace, for their connection with the outrage at
Outerard."

In our columns of this day will be found a mass of
very important and interesting intelligence from the
Canadas. The success of the Royalists has exceeded
our expectations. Several leaders of the insurgents
have been made prisoners, and of the rest it is sup-
posed that the majority have fled across the frontier,
and sought concealment in the United States. Among
those who have been taken are Dr. WOLFORD
NELSON, M. BOUCHETTE, late Editor of the Quebec
Liberal, and MM. DESRIEVIER.S, and MOORES-
SAULT—aII men of violent principles, and great influ-
ence among the Republican party. M. PAPLNEAU
and Mr. W. L. :',IACKENZIR, late Editor of the Vin-
dicator, have escaped ; but it is said that M. PAPI-
NEAU'S private papers and correspondence have fallen
into the hands of the Government, by means of which
the ramifications of the revolt have all been discovered.
But though these are favourable indications of a speedy
termination of the civil war, we cannot console our-
selves with a hope that the struggle is so near a close
as the Canadian Journals would incline us to believe.
In the United States the rebels have met with sym-
pathy, in despite of the Proclamations of the Execu-
tive ; and even the New York Press is divided on the
question of the propriety of any interference on the
part of the citizens of the Federal Union. The
Courrier and Enquirer condemn the rising in the
Canadas ; whereas the Daily Express boldly main-
tains that the insurrection is just, and that all good
citizens are in duty bound to succour the insurgents.
The Nero Yorlc Morning Herald is more moderate ;
hut it will he seen, from the following extract front
that Journal of the 19th ult., that the Americans en-
tertain apprehensions as to the conduct of our Govern-
ment in the hour of victory. We deeply lament. that
England should have ever so acted, as to justify fears '1
so disgraceful to the national character :

" All the information we obtain impress us with the convic-
tion that the affair is settled for the present in both Provinces;
and that a new organization must take place before the Pa-
triots can make even a stand. The outbreak was so miser-
ably arranged, or so promptly met ; so devoid of concert, or
opposed with such military skill ; so completely the effect of
accident, cr expected and calculated upon—that its suppres-
sion has strengthened the bands of Government, and brought
'error and dismay into the minds of the rural population. It
was confined within a circle of about twenty-five miles, which
is now held by the Royal troops and the volunteers, who, as
usual, are sanguinary and vindictive in the extreme. This is
in human nature; the soldier acts in conformity to orders, and
as a matter of business ; the volunteer from personal feelings,
,mbittered by years of political strife, mutual revilings, and
the breaking up of his business pursuits.
" The fearful work of retribution is now commencing, and
the blood of Lieutenant Wier and Mr. Chartrand—the one a
British officer massacred by the insurgents while a prisoner of
war, and the latter murdered in cold blood while engaged in
his lawful avocations—is about to be atoned for. A gentle-
man, who was at Burlington en the Ilth (this day se'nnight),
and who had just come from Montreal, states that he saw the
prisoners. There were 20 marched under guard from the
New Gaol, which is a mile or two out of the city—that soon
after nine of them were marched back, and he was informed
that the other eleven were sentenced to be shot. The day of
execution was the 11th.

" The following will serve to show the spirit of the English
population—but cannot be taken as true to the letter. That
the exasperatien against the insurgents is intense, must, of
course, he the fact • but the wholesale slaughter indicated is
at variance with the genius of the British Constitution under
any contingencies, cr in any climate.
Martial law is proclaimed, and the Tories are arresting
the Patriots by hundreds in all parts of the district. They are
also disarming every Frenchman in the provinces. The
leaders have all absconded who were not arrested. General
Brown was here last night, and took sage this morning south.
" A gentleman direct from Canada, who may be relied on,
says that the greatest concern of the French at present is (so
far as he can judge) to secure personal safety. The Govern-
ment is waging a most unmerciful warfare against them. He
thinks. from all he could learn, that many prisoners have al-
ready been executed, but not publicly--and as there are none
but Tory presses, and as communication by mail is for the
most part intercepted, they can carry on a blood) massacre
in Montreal, while the people in the State remain ignorant of
its nature and extent."

Most sincerely do we hope that the British authori-
ties in the Lower Province will adopt such measures
as will effectually check the perpetration of all reta-
liatory outrages, and that every lenity will be shown
to those who have been led to take up arms against
the Mother Country. We have reason to believe
that this hope will not be disappointed. The Cana-
dian Royalist Press, hitherto so violent in its denun-
ciation of the rebels, has assumed a moderation of
tone which can only be traced to the influence of the
Governor-in-Chief. From the Montreal Herald of
the 11th ult. we quote the following leading article,
which, considering the politics of that journat, and
the excited state of the Lower Province, is remarkably
temperate in its language and spirit :—.

" Every precaution has been taken, the mildest measures
possible have been adhered to, from first to last, with a per-
tinacity which has stripped the rebels of the colour of a pre-
tence for their rebellion. In the eyes of the well-informed
among our neighbours of the States, in those of our sister co-
lonists, and of the Government and Parliament and people at
home, the whole course of the local Government admits of,
we had almost said, more than the fullest justification on the
score of moderation and forbearance.

" We look forward to no wholesale process of hanging,
drawing, and quartering' of the deluded victims of the rebel
leaders. Late events have brought with them no especial
ne•.v light' to our eyes, as to the character of the habitat's
in general. We never made the egregious mistake of fancy-
ing, that because they were so completely and hoplessly the
ignorant dupes of their leaders, therefore they could never be
duped by them into actual rebellion. We do not now run
into the opposite mistake of fancying, that because some of
them have been made into rebels, therefore they are not dupes.
We hope to see, and the moderation of the Government thus
far assures us that we shall ace, the utmost possible degree of
lenity displayed, so far as they may be concerned. For the
leaders, they deserve no mercy. Sound policy forbids at once
unnecessary vengeance, and foolish lenity.
" But the province must be made a British colony I"
yes—but not by the disfranchisement and degradation of
every man with French blood in his veins. Proscription is
not British, but the antipodes of all that is British. Can it
ever create the British character in those who are its sub-
jects ? Can it ever annihilate a whole people to make room
for another? A few hot heads may talk of proscription at
a moment of high political excitement. No man with a grain
of sense could ever think of it at any other. Education roust
be made to raise the habitant from his present level. British
law, and influence, and enterprise, must have free scope to
act, for the improvement of the country and of all ranks and
origins among its people. These may be called " conci-
liatory" and " tardy" measures. They are the only ones
,Thich in the long run will not be found to be " half-
measures."

That portion of the United States Press, which
supports the Canadian insurgents, charges the British
authorities with having already been guilty of the
most horrible atrocities—a charge which the Royalists
loudly prefer against the Revolutionists. To give our
readers some idea of the spirit of acrimony which

pervades the public journalists upon this question.
We quote the following extract from an article in the
New York Daily Express of tl-ie 18th ult., in answer
to some observations reconner,ding a strict neutrality,
and defending the conduct of our Government, which
appeared in the leading columns of the Courrier and
Inquirer of the day previou! 3

Of the Courrier's wish, that all Americanswho" embark" in
this " Quizotic" " movement" may be soudly whipped—we
can only say it is a Tory sent iment that can have no re-
sponse in an American heart. It is a sentiment treach-
erous and false to human lib.-2rty—falso to our country—
false to the principles of self-government—false to the
memory of the Gallant Montgontery, and the brave Ameri-
cans, who preached liberty and died in proffering it, under
the walls of Quebec. The " mild" and parental Govern-
ment of England over its Colonies ! Oh, read it in the
bloody butcheries of the Indies, I Read it on the heights of
Bunker Hill, when Charlesvown was in flames I Read
it in the prison ships and gaols of our own New York !
Read it at St. Denis—written with the fire and the faggot
there I Read it at St. Charles, on men roasted alive !
[After the battle of St. Charles, there was no mercy shown
towards the Canadians : a very large number of them were
summoned in a building at St. Charles, and set on fire; they
were then wilfully roasted a'iivo by the British soldiers. The
Montreal Herald does not tell us of this fact : but on the con-
trary, has suppressed tlse truth at least, if the soldiers who
were there are to be believed ; many of them, three days
after the engagement, told me the above. They also said
they did not bury a man of the Canadians, swearing they were
tired enough killing them, without taking the trouble to bury
them—the pigs eat many of the bodies.—Montreal Corre-
spondence of the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Or hear it from the
Montreal Gazette, which rec ommands " moral, POLITICAL, and
JUDICIAL PROSCRIPTION—or from the Courrier,
which says : " Special commission ought to be immediately
issued for the trial of the present batch of imprisoned traitors.
It would be ridiculous to FATTEN FELLOWS ALL
WINTER FOR THE GALLOWS!"

The following appeal to the cupidity of the A meri-
cans, which we copy from the same Journal, is likely
to make a livelier impression upon the States than any
recital of British atrocities, no matter where or when
committed. We cannot close our eyes to the effect such
language may hare ia rendering the proclamations of
the PRESIDENT a dead letter by its effect upon the
optics of certaim members of the Executive :

As Americans we cannot shut our eyes to what we are to
gain by the Independence of the Canadas, even while we urge
upon the Government its duty of strict neutrality.
Ist. An eternal fence from European attack in the rear and
flank of Maine,:New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.
2d. A settlement, without trouble, of the North Eastern
Boundary Question.
3d. The free navigation. of the St. Lawrence, (almost as
important to the Northern. States, as the Mississippi is to the
Southern and Western,) and then the free navigation of the
St. John's, is oF the highest importance to Maine.
4th. The fisheries,—free and equal privileges in them,—a
strengthening of our marine, and the crippling of the British
marine.

sth. The end of the British monopoly of the Fur Trade,
and the settlement of many disputes we must, sooner or
later, have about this trade in the Missouri Territory—on the
Columbia river,—for with the loss of the Canadas, British
empire is lost in America.
6th. The addition of thousands of miles of a new interior
to the city of New York—the union by canal of New York
harbour with the St. Lawrence River,—our own city, our
own wharves, our own ships, our own merchants, our own
labourers, made the channels and the.agents of all the trade
of the immense British possessions in the interior of North
America.

These, it strikes us, are great questions, which no American
can close his eyes to. _ . .

We look forward with some anxiety to the course
which Parliament will pursue with respect to the
redress of grievances in the Lower Provinces. All
will depend upon the degree of wisdom displayed by
the Imperial Legislature. If Ministers allow- them-
selves to be blinded by passion ; and carried away
by a furious loyalty, with a view to render them-
selves more popular with the Tory faction, the
preservation of the disaffected Colonies will cost
England more blood and treasure than they ever
can be worth to the people of this country. Our
Government must reform and conciliate ; terrorism
will not do ; it will only drive the Canadians to despe-
ration. The Whigs have admitted that the Canadi-
ans are aggrieved ; and making all possible allowance
for the ascendency of a few demagogues over a simple-
minded, ignorant people, their grievances must have
been generally felt, or they never would have been de-
luded into the crime of taking up arms against the
Mother Country.

The Government of Portugal have laudably com-
menced an undertaking for that country which neither
Whig nor Tory Ministers have ventured on for Eng-
land—the establishment of a rural police. The fear
of a popular outcry like that against the New Poet
Law has, no doubt, had its effect on Lord JOHN
RUSSELL ; and Sir ROBERT PEEL, notwithstanding
thie:scomplete success of his measure for the police of
the metropolis, was too heavily pressed during his
short Administration to attempt any plan, however
beneficial, that might increase the popular odium
against him. The Peninsula has for ages been noto-
rious for the insufficiency of its police, and the depre-
dations and murders committed by banditti. These
crimes are so frequent in Spain, and so little heeded
by the Government, that they are regarded as ordinary
occurrences, and reports of one half of the cases ne-
ver reach the metropolis. Portugal, though not so
bad in that respect, is still in a deplorable state.
Even in peaceable times murders have been committed
in the neighbourhood of Santarem, nay, at places on
the Tagus, but a few miles from the capital ; and the
criminals, to secure impunity, had only to secrete
themselves for a time,lor retire to another district.
During a civil war the evil necessarily increases to
a frightful extent. It appears, from a return laid
before the Cortes by the Home Minister, that in
the course of the last six mouths not fewer
than 830 murders, or attempts to murder, and
1,900 robberies, have been committed; and he
calculated that in the year there had been in the whole
of Portugal 3,550 assassinations, and 7,900 robberies.
It remained for the Radical, the reckless, the revolu-
tionary Government of BANDEIRA to meet the evil, and
devise some plan for abating such enormities ; and
they have gone about the work with a deter-
mination which entitles them to the praise and gratitude
of every friend of humanity. That they will succeed we
have little doubt. No money is paid so willingly
as that paid for the maintenance of a good police, and
all men of property in Portugal, all who have any-
thing to lose, will find it for their interest to support
the Government in a measure so necessary for the
peace and security of the country. Wonders thicken
in these times with the most amazing rapidity. The
Tory SIBTIIORP now vies with the Radical HUME
in enforcing public economy—the lawless de-
magogue O'CONNELL, to preserve good order,
risks the enmity of his best friends in
Dublin—and the revolutionary Government of Portu-
gal, in league with " thriving slave-drivers,"
c'en-
riched peculators," and ccpardoned traitors," devotes
itself to the arts of peace, to the improvement of the
institutions, and the repose and security of the
kingdom.

At a meeting of the Brighton Conservative-Asso-
ciation, held on Monday evening last, the virtues of
the Tories and the vices of the Whigs were expatiated
on, with the usual eloquence and animation. All that
the former said and did within Parliament or without
it, was of course right ; while all the sayings and do-
ings of the latter, were equally, as a matter of course,
wrong. In fact, the Whigs—for this was the tendency
of the remarks made at the Brighton gathering—
would never do right, till they quietly handed over
the reins of office to the Tories. This was what
the country expected from them ; and by so actin,
only, could Ministers prove to the satisfaction of all
wise and good citizens, that they were true patriots.
Mr. MAcKINNON, after one or two gentle allusions
of this nature, in the course of which he strenuously
insisted on the political consistency of Sir ROBERT
PEEL, and as strenuously on the multifarious