The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-22 00:00:00

additional evil is likely to ensue from the retirement of a
Governor who with such powers, legal and military, as were
placed in his Lordship's hands, had been unable to prevent
the growth or the continuance of such a state of affairs ?
We are very decidedly of opinion that Sir John Coibsrne,
with the same legal powers, and the same military force
that were confided to Lord Durham, and aided by the
advice and co-operation of such British Canadian states-
men and lawyers as he would have known exceedingly well
how to find, instead of Messrs. Buller, Turton, Duncombe,
Ellice, and Gibbon Wakefield, would have succeeded
much better in restoring peace, security, and prospe-
rity to the Canadas, than Lord Durham seems, if there
be any truth in the assertions of the Ministerial press,
to have done. There is indeed, in relation to the in-
terests and safety of the Canadas, only one method
of accounting for the sudden paroxysm of grief into
which Lord Durham's resignation of the Government of
those colonies has thrown the Ministerial party. They had
discovered before the news of his Lordship's abdication
had reached them, that all was lost unless the French
habitans of Lower Canada, a vast numerical majority of
the whole population, could be denationalised. The symp-
toms exhibited under his Lordship's treatment of the dis-
eases of Canada, had become such that, in the opinion of
the Ministerial party in England, to denationalise the peo-
ple afforded the only remaining hope of cure. It
is possible, no doubt, that the process of denationalising a
people may be Lord Durham's peculiar forte, and that the
Ministerial people in England know it to be so. This is a
process which, whether correctly or not we do not say, is very
generally supposed to be studied with peculiar diligence and
tolerable success at St. Petersburgh, where Lord
Durham has been recently a student ; and if badges
of distinction from this college be honest attestations of the
merit of its pupils, neither a dilatory nor a dull one. It
is tso cause of surprise, when we look at the subject in this
point of view, that those who have just made up their
minds to denationalise the French inhabitants of Coracle,
coute que coute, should deplore the loss of an agent likely
to prove so skilful and vigorous in the work as one whom
they may suppose to have taken his degree, and earned his
decorations as a master of the art of denationalization at
the college of St. retersburgh. There is yet another
method of reconciling the Ministerial description of the
condition of Canada under Lord Durham's exercise of his
unstinted powers, with the Ministerial expressions of
grief and dismay on account of the Noble Lord's abdi-
cation of his authority ; and it is a method which has
relation not to the state and prospects of Canada, but
to the state and prospects of parties in Great Britain.
His Lordship is not only quitting Canada, which would be
a small ev.l, but he is coming to England, which is felt in
all Ministerial circles to be a very great one. He is corn-
ing to England fretted by disappointment, goaded by the
sense of injury and insult, panting for the opportunity of
self-vindication, and panting not the less eagerly that in
his case an easy revenge upon others may supply
the place of a difficult or impossible self-defence. It
is plain from the tone of the Ministerial journals be-
fore it was known that Lord Durham was coming
home, and the change that has suddenly come over their
spirit since the arrival of that intelligence, that Ministers
who had screwed up their courage to the point of defy-
ing the Noble Lord when at a distance, are terrified into
the more prudent policy of crouching before him now
that they have heard of his instant approach. And to
crouch to the very dust is their inevitable lot, if they would
shun the destruction with which he is armed whom
tney created a despot to immolate as a victim. Woof-
ever may be the weakness of Lord Durham's case in its
relation to the people of Great Britain or of Canada, it is
a case of irresistible power as against the Ministers who
appointed to desert. who would have retained to dishonour
him. They can only save themselves from the effect of
Lord Durham's recrimination by taking his defence out of
his own hands into theirs. And how will they defend the
man whom they assisted, rather than hazard their places,
to wound and stain by a Parliamentary indemnity, which
they first pronounced to he needless, and then presented to
their Sovereign for her Royal assent. We should not blame
Lord Durham if .he were to insist, as the condition of his
forbearance, that every member of the Cabinet should get
up in the House of Parliament to which he belongs and
make a speech of an hour to prove that the Bill
of Indemnity, so far as they were concerned in it, was a
Bill of perfidy and shame. Even to this wo believe every
one of them would submit.—Merning Post.

One of the most extraordinary races against time
that has, perhaps, ever been recorded, took place on Friday
la tat Debtling, near Maidstone. Mr. Thomas Hopper,
farmer, of Biddenden, who is forty-two years of age, whose
fame as a jumper is great in this district, having cleared, it is
said, every turnpike gate between Meidstone and Tenterden,
undertook, for a wager of 10/ to run half a mile in two
minutes. The ground selected was half a mile of the descent
of Debtling-hill, a fearful steep, averaging a fall of at least
two feet in ten yards. The road was carefully swept and
cleared by Mr. Crawte and another friend. At starting, for
about a quarter of a mile, the strides of Mr. Hopper averaged
three yards each, and in some of the steepest places were
even longer. When within about fi(teen yards of the winning
post he became nearly blind, swerved from the line, and
fears were entertained that he would dash himself against a
chalk cliff A fortunate rut in the road turned his foot into the
right direction, and he reached the winning post eight seconds
under the two minutes. He was conveyed to bed almost in
a delirious state from the ter ific exertions he had made, but
recovered in a short time afterwards. It may not be uene-
rally known that a mile in five minutes, and one hundred
yards in ten seconds, is first rate running. The average
speed of Mr. Hopper in this race was more than 23 feet and a
half each second, for the distance of half a mile. In person
he is nearly six feet high, of a spare fame, but great strength.
SIIIPWRECKS.-011 Thursday, a smack, called
the Elizabeth, of Shields, bound to Newcastle, with lime, un-
eztunately got upon the rocks, called the Sow, near Blyth.
Five men, much to their credit, went off in a small coble from
Blyth in the evening, during a heavy gale of wind, and suc-
ceeded, at the risk of their own lives, in saving the crew,
who certainly must have perished without their assistance :
the vessel went to pieces in the course of the night. On
the same day the schooner Isabella, of Arbroath, bound with
lime from Sunderland to Arbroath, encountered a tre-
mendous gale in the Frith of Firth, and lost part of her
'ails. About day-light next morning she was observed to
he on fire, and, for the safety of the crew, attempting to
make Eyemouth and Berwick. but failed. At two o'clock
in the afternoon she endeavoured to get to Holy Island,
and grounded on the south side of the bar. At this juncture
the life boat was launched and manned, and they succeeded
in saving the crew, consisting of four men, thoueh at the
imminent risk of their own lives, the boat having filled with
water, and they having to be taken in tow by a coble.
MR. WILSIIERE AT YARMOUTH.—VIr. Wil-
shere, whom we may justly call our Honourable Representa-
tive, arrived in Yarmouth last night on a visit to Mr. S. Pal-
mer. The Honourable Member (we cannot help reminding
our opponents that he is still our Member, and that Mr. Ba-
ring is not)—the Honourable Member is suffering from a se-
vere attack of rheumatism in his right arm and shoulder, but is
with this exception in good health. He is at this time fulfil-
ling his promise of calling upon his supporters to thank them
for their votes. The reception he meets with is most flat-
tering—indeed we may say enthusiastic. He lives in the
hearts of the electors, as if he was an old and long-cherished
friend. Mr. Samuel Palmer, with that hospitality for which
he is so distinguished, will give three grand dinners at his
residence on the Quay to Mr. Wilshere and his principal
friends and supporters. Amongst those who have accepted
invitations to meet the Hon. Member and the Manor, are Admi-
ral Sir George Parker, K. C. 8., Simon Cobb, Esq., Samuel
Jay, Esq., W. D. Palmer, Esq., John Carr, Eq., George
Steward, Esq., J. Bayly, Esq., J. Clowes, Esq., &c. &c.
With respect to our prospects as to the future representation of
this borough, Mr. Baring declines giving any positive answer
to the qusstion of what advantage he intends to take of the late
decision. The highly honourable course pursued by Mr.
Wilshere deserved a bitter return than this. Common cour-
tesy, delicacy, decency, should have urged Mr. Baring to set
his opponent's mind at rest upon this point. A public meet-
ing of the electors will be called in a few days, to &tot-mine
the best mode of proceeding in the present emergency. What
resolutions they may come to we of course cannot pretend to
say, but we are given to understand that, should it be thought
prudent to leave Mr. Wilshere out of the question for a time,
it is not unlikely their choice will fall on our highly respected
townsman, Robert Palmer Kemp, Esq.—Norwich Mercury.
ANCIENT RELIC.—About a year ago we noticed
the removal of the old house in Queen-street believed to have
been the residence of Mary of Lorraine. Various specimens
of curiously carved work in the shape of oak pannsls were then
taken down; and last week, in making
a asbr,toita
between
repairsete the
above build_
uv poe h
oef
house adjoining, apparently forming p
ing, a massive oak door was discovered
found,
which bearl' allels
the
which two black letter M. S. S. were
appearance, in the absence of dates, of belonging to the period
when these residences were originally occupied.
The curious
in these matters, may see them at our office for a few days._
Scotsman.
WILD GEESE.—A few days ago, a large flock Of
wild geese were observed upon
the river Derwent, near
Mat-
lock, where they had hadtheir residence for some time.
Many people are apt to say, that the appearance of theee
feathered rovers
indicate a severe_ E
... win_ 1
ter.—.)oncestheirigGhalyzetrtee:
On Wednesday
night, Mrs. astwick,
a
spectable widow lady, of Dorset-place, Dars!et-squsre' Re-
geniss_park, committed suicide vt whilst in a state of mentalaber
ration, by preci
pttvtii .g herself from one of the attic windows
of her house, which is six stories high, into her garden, and
expired in a few moments.
Many conjectures are offered as to who may be
elected as Mayor for this borough for the ensuing year, but it
does not appear to be positively known who will be the suc-
cessful aspirant to civic honours. We believe that some of
the wards will this year be contested against the Radicals.—
Norwich Gazette.
ZEAL.-41 1815, after the hundred day.;, M. de
Talleyrand having n appointed Minister of Foreignc Affairs,
was waited upon by the °dicers of his Aclui,ts
•• There is one thing, gentlemen," said (Iv Primwhich I
recommend to you before and above all, and not to be
too zealous, for I detest zeal,"