The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-31 00:00:00

ceived yesterday an authorised official contradiction through
the columns of the _Morning Chronicle. It seems fair to I
infer that the very wise and ably and high-minded i.orsoas
who mustbe our Contemporary's authorities on this occa-
sion, attach great importance to the contradiction above
mentioned, not only from the circumstance of our Con-
temporary having given the position of leader of leaders to
the three laconic lines of authority, beginning " We are
authorised to contradict," and ending " there was no
foundation whatever for this report ;' but from the afore-
said very discreet and exalted persons venturing now to
encounter the ridicule and the incredulity with which a
contradiction so tardy is sure to be received by a nation of
loyal men, every one of whom has been anxiously watching
for it for at least 12 days. This official announcement will be
so unfortunate, we fear, as to establish in the opinion of the
greater part of the world the very fact it is intended to im-
pugn. Had there been no Royal letter to Lord Durham,
people will naturally say, the report of the Canada Papers
would have at once been contradicted by the Ministerial
Journals, instead of serving them as it has done during a
fortnight for a foundation to their hope that his Lordship
might be induced to stay away. Had there been no such
Royal letter, people will again say, and with equal reason,
Ministers, having missed the proper moment of contradic-
tion, would have permitted the false report to work its own
way, according to the nature of such things, to neglect
and oblivion, instead of making it the subject of a deeply-
pondered official denial of twelve days' gestation, and
which has manifestly been kept ready to be smothered or
produced as might best suit the tenour of subsequent a'-
vices from Canada. It would be equally unconstitutional
and indecent that the personal intervention of the Sove-
reign should become an instrument of daily use in
the hands of such an Administration as the present,
or of any other Administration, to arrest the conse-
quences of their daily perfidies, poltrconeries, or follies,
even in those cases in which the Royal interposition could
not fail of immediate success. But the indignity cast upon
the Crown would be more foul and odious, and the viola-
tion of constitutional principle in the same degree more vio-
ent and monstrous in the case of a weak and wicked

Minister exercising the ascendancy of li!s position over a
youthful and a female Sovereign, to induce her to inter-
pose her personal authority or influence to avert the con-
sequences of his misconduct, in a case where the success of
so high an intervention might be doubtful or improbable,
and where the Sovereign might then only discover how far
she had been betrayed to stoop, by learning the painful fact
that she had stooped in vain. It is by supposing Lord Mel-
bourne to be in the predicament just described, and by that
supposition only, that we can account at once for the delay
which has taken place in contradicting the statement re-
specting the Royal autograph to Lord Durham, and
for the peculiar emphasis with which the unseason-
able, and, therefore, incredible contradiction is now offered.
While any hope was indulged that Lord Durham, notwith-
standing the perfidious desertion he had experienced on the
part of Ministers, and the further perfidies he must natu-
rally expect from the same quarter, would consent to retain
his post on the personal interposition of the Sovereign,
Lord Melbourne was not so fully awake, as he has since
become, to the debasement of the Royal authority, of
which he knew himself the author ; and what is probably of
much greater importance in the estimation of the Noble
Premier and his colleagues, so strong a publicity had not
arisen that an indignant sense of the degradation of the
Crown, and the misapplication and abuse of the per-
sonal influence of the Sovereign, might be awakened in
the mind of their Royal Mistress, whom they knew
to be gracious, condescending, and confiding ; but in
whom, nevertheless, as a scion of *the House of Bruns-
wick, they may justly dread to see roused the spirit
of her sires. In a word, Ministers have no higher ambi-
tion than to be successful jugglers, and would use, as their
cups and balls, the Queen, the noblest institutions of the
country, our colonies, together with the Governors, the
British Press,-and the British people. But even in the
worthless character of jugglers, their temerity is more con-
spicuous than their skill, and the wearied and disgusted
spectators, and victims of their tricks, will, ere long, hoot
them from the stage on which they have already exhibited
too long. The character of the present Administration
seems to be as well understood in 'Canada as it is in Eng-
land. In proof of this we refer to one very remarkable
article among our selections, from the American papers re-
ceived yesterday. This article from the Toronto Patriot,
embodying another of a character equally remarkable,
suggests very sufficient grounds for Lord; Melbourne's
recent anxiety to keep the late Governor-General of Canada
out of England by any means, constitutional or unconstitu-
tional ; at the expense of the dignity of the Crown, or at
any other cost or sacrifice whatever ; as well as for his
Lordship's present anxiety, now that his original object has
become hopeless, to disguise the undue and improper means
to which he seems to have resorted for the attainment of
the latter. We shall here merely refer our readers to the
article in question, adding only the remark that, apparently
upon high authority, or such as Lord Melbourne has thought
fit to make high authority in Canada, his Lordship is dis-
tinctly accused of an offence, the imputation of which no
gentleman can endure and remain qualified for the society
of gentlemen.—Morning Post.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR

THE WEEK.

(From tho Gardeners' Gazette.)

Everything renders this an excellent season for planting
fruit trees. The ground is in excellent order, and the rains
which may be expected, and sooner or later must come, will
settle them well.

Go over all budded Roses ; head in the stocks whew they
have grown.
Earth up Celery, blaneh Endive, make Asparagus beds,
plant out Rhubarb and Seakale.
Look to all stove and green-house plants that are free of
growth : examine if they want shitting to larger pots or pans.
Remove Roses of the garden kind : they will scarcely suffer
from removing.
Hoe late Turnips, and cleanse all crops from weeds.
Dig up Carrots and Parsnips for storing ; if you desire to
retain them in the ground, put litter over them to protect them
from the frost.
Continually examine Auriculas and Carnations in their
winter quarters : take off dead leaves, free them from slugs,
look well to the drainage, that the water run freely through.
It is time your tulips were ready for planting, and your beds
ready to receive them.

MONMOUTH, THURSDAY EVENING.—On Fri-
day night last a most daring attaa was made on Troy-house,
one of the mansions of the Duke of Beaufort, and now inha-
bited by Mr. 0. A. Wyatt, agent to his Grace, under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—About 20 minutes after 11 o'clock,
the servants being still up, a person knocked at the kitehin-
door, which was opened by the cook • it was a man, who de-
manded some beer. The cook refused to give it, and shut
the door. About five minutes afterwards another knock was
heard at the scullery-door, which was opened by the cook,
when a like request was made and refused. This being com-
municated to the groom, named Prosser, he felt it his duty to
see the man off the premises, and in doing so proceeded to
the back of the shrubbery. He there saw three other men
with the party who had asked for the beer. The cook followed
with a lantern, and Prosser then turned into the road with the
man. At this moment she was seized by a man, and on
screaming Prosser returned, and the man ran away. Previous
to this the man whom Prosser had escorted said, " Then you
won't give me any beer ?" to which he (Prosser) replied,
" I will not." " Then," rejoined the man, " I will mark
you." When Prosser returned to the spot where be had left
the other man, he was knocked down by some one, with
whom he had a desperate struggle; they both rolled over
several times in the fray, and at length the assailant, who
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Prosser, providentially, wears a thick belt, which warded
off several of the blows, but he has received three severe
wounds. On finding himself wounded he loosed his hold, and
the man made the best of his way off. The groom having
been taken into the house, a surgeon (Mr. Broser) was sent
for, who shortly arrived and dressed the wounds. That gen-
tleman states, that had it not been for the belt Prosser wore,
the wounds must have proved mortal. Great exertions have
been made to discover the parties connected with this atro-
cious outrage, and two men, named Reynolds and Evans, on
Tuesday, were held to bail by Mr. Oakley, the Magistrate, on
the charge of being concerned. Prosser is recovering. Mr.
Wyatt and his family were at the time in the mansion.
TRESPASSING ON RAILWAYS.--A very lengthened
investigation (adjourned from last week) took place at Union
Hall yesterday, relative to an alleged trespass upon the pre-
mises of the London and Southampton Railway Company.
The facts are briefly these gentleman named Parsons,
expecting the arrival of his wife by one of the trains, was in
readiness to receive her at the railway terminus, near Vaux-
hall. In attempting to pass through a particular gate he was
stopped by a policeman connected with the establishment, who
informed him that there was no ingress, the place in question
being reserved exclusively for passengers arriving by the trains.
Mr. Parsons went away, and shortly afterwards returned, say-
ing that he had received permission to pass from one of the
clerks, when the policeman again attempted to prevent him,
and a scuffle ensued. Ultimately Mr. Parsons was taken to
the station-house, and admitted to bail upon the charge now
brought forward. The policeman swore that defendant Irid
acted with great violence, while the defendant maintained that
he hid been ill-used by the policeman. The defendant still
p rsisted in asserting that he had obtained leave to pass frt.m
one of the clerks, whom he named, but that gentleman posi-
tively swore that he had given him no such license, and, in
fact, that he had told him that none but a written order would
be of any use. Mr. Reed, the Company's secretary, stated that
the convenience of passengers and the safety of the
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penalty, and Mr. Parsons was discharged.