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VIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1838.

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SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 22, 1838.

In our columns of this day will be found highly
important news from India, to which we direct the
earnest attention of the British public. It embodies
the GOVERNOR•GENERAL'S reasons for sending a
military force to Persia, and threatens war against
DOST MOHAMED KHAN, Chief of Cabool. We
would merely observe, that this document was made
public before the raising of the siege of Herat, and
therefore it is possible that this circumstance may mate-
rially influence the future conduct of the Governor-
General. We trust, however, that such will not be
the- case. A war with Persia has become in some
Sort inevitable ; and if conducted with spirit, would
check the designs of Russia, and firmly establish our
power on the Indus.

By the arrival of the Liverpool steamer at Liverpool
yesterday, in fourteen days, from New York, we have
received American Papers of the 6th inst., bri►►ging
the PRESIDENT'S Message, which will be found at
length in another part of The Sun. This document
is couched in terms the most laudatory of the civil

and accompanied by a forcible seizure of the
property of our cijzens, and an application there- 1
of to the prosecution of military operations against
the authorities and people of Canada." Here
there is no denial of the part taken by the citizens
of the States to revolutionize the Canadas. The PRE-
SIDENT admits that he received official intelligence of
their acting not only individually, but in masses, to ef-
fect that treasonable object ; and that in the prosecu-
tion of their designs, they seized the stores of the
States, and employed them against the peaceable sub-
jects of her MAJESTY. But does he denounce
punishment against the parties so offending ? floes
he call upon Congress to adopt the necessary measures
for effectually checking the recurrence of such out-
rages ? Does he lament that when he received an
official account of the murderous proceedings of his
fellow-citizens against the rights of an independent
people, his hands were not strong enough to sup-
press such disgraceful outrages ? Does he blame
the frontier authorities ? No, no ; he does none of
these things ; but, on the contrary, he winds up what
may be regarded as a sort of abstract essay about non-
intervention, with an apology for the criminals. Only
imagine the PRESIDENT concluding a reference to
an unprovoked invasion by the people of the
United States, of the Provinces of Upper and Lower
Canada—an invasion which has already cost
Great Britain a large outlay of blood and treasure, and
which was conducted with all the wanton atrocity of
savage warfare, by the following observation's
That the people of the United States should feel
an interest in the spread of political institutions as
free as they regard their own to be is natural ; nor can
a sincere solicitude for the success of all those who are
at any time in good faith struggling for their acquisi-
tion be imputed to our citizens as a crime. With the
entire freedom of opinion, and an undisguised expres-
sion thereof on their part, the Government has neither
the right, nor, I trust, the disposition to interfere.
But whether the interest or the honour of the
United States requires that they should be made a
party to any such struggle, and, by inevitable conse-
quence, to the war which is waged, in its support, is
a question which, by our Constitution, is wisely left
to Congress alone to decide. It is by the laws al-
ready made criminal in our citizens to embarrass or an-
ticipate that decision by unauthorised military opera-
tions on their part. Offences of this character, in ad-
dition to their criminality as violations of the laws of
our country, have a direct tendency to draw down
upon our own citizens at large the multiplied evils of a
foreign war, and expose to injurious imputations the
good faith and honour of the country. As such they
deserve to be put down with promptitude and decision.
I cannot be mistaken, lam confident, in counting on
the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-
citizens in this sentiment." Here is plenty of encou-
ragement for the Sympathisers. We trust, however,
that Congress will see the necessity of rendering unne-
cessary those measures which it would become our duty
to adopt in the event of the Canadians being longer
exposed to the system of neutrality guaranteed by the
personal good faith of President VAN BUREN.
The financial affairs of the Union are represented
as in a very flourishing condition, notwithstanding the
mercantile embarrassments of the last year. The PRE-
SIDENT takes occasion to have a fling at the Banks as the
main cause of the recent financial difficulties—a subject
upon which enough will be said before the dissolution
of Congress. For the other subjects touched upon in
the Message we refer our readers to the document
itself ; premising that they will find very little in it,
the purport of which is not known to all who pay any
regard to trans-Atlantic politics.

The statements made by Mr. O'CONNOR and
others at the meetings of the Chartists in London this
week well merit attention. From reports published in
country papers, a general belief prevailed here that not
only Mr. STEPHENS, but Mr. O'CONNOR advocated
physical force for the attainment of their objects ; that
the torch-light meetings in the north were got up ex-
pressly for that purpose, and that the destruction of the
cotton-mill at Ashton-under-Line was the consequence
of their violent harangues, and the commencement of
their system which was to end in a civil war. We be-
lieve it is now generally admitted that there is not the
slightest grounds for the last charge, and the other two
have been denied in as strong and express terms as
words can convey. " What has always been
my language to the northerns ?" said Mr. O'CoN-
Ncla. on Thursday ; " Why, that moral force
accomplished what others said they sought to
effect by physical force, and that the man who re-
coinmends the people to rush on with physical violence
will be the first to desert them." We certainly, how-
ever, had heen led to regard Mr. STEPHENS as a fire-
brand and a mad visionary ; and, looking at the
expressions attributed to him in most of the York-
shire Papers, we considered Mr, O'CONNELL
perfectly justified in denouncing him as the most
dangerous enemy of all Reform. Mr. O'CONNELL
trusted to the reports as we did, and many of these re-
ports Mr. O'CoNNott now denounces as wicked
fabrications got up by pretended friends or open ene-
mies. " That gentleman," said he, " has been repre-
sented as stating that 100,000 men were ready to
march to battle in the cause of the people. He never
said any such thing, or anything approaching to it.
A more wicked fabrication or a more abominable lie
never was perpetrated against any person." No language
can be more precise than this, and when we couple it with
the uniform declaration made by the leading Chartists this
week that they utterly repudiate violence, and challenge
any human being to prove the contrary, we have some
reason for supposing that they have been cruelly
maligned, and that they are not the madmen the
northern Papers represent them. In all the speeches
made in London they declare distinctly that they trust
to moral force alone, and regard a revolution by the
bayonet as the most dangerous of all experiments.
This is the O'CONNELL doctrine and the O'CONNELL
practice—it is sound sense, and has already had prac-
tical results, and will be ten times more formidable to
an anti-reforming 'Ministry than all the violent schemes
attributed to O'CONNOR, STEPHENS, OASTLER,
and Co. We observe that no defence is put forward
for the latter gentleman, and we are not surprised at it.
What communion can Radical Reformers have with
an ultra-Tory ? The object of the one party is to
redress grievances, of the other to perpetuate them; and
the sooner the Chartists renounce all connection with
such associates the better for their cause. From the
silence of Mr. O'CONNOR, we must give Mr. OAST-
LER the credit of having affixed a stigma to the Asso-
ciation, which it will require a long period of prudent
and moderate conduct to efface.

and social institutions, of ;the increasing prosperity, of
the vast intelligence, and of the almost super-human
deserts of the citizens of the United States. The
PRESIDENT, with much of the ardour of a school-

boy in the composition of a Christmas theme, assures
Congress that " though the anticipations:of an abun-
dant harvest everywhere have not been realised, yet,
on the whole, the labours of the husbandman are re-
warded with a bountiful return ; industry prospers in
its various channels of business and enterprise ; ge-
neral health prevails again through our vast diversity
of climate ; nothing threatens from abroad the conti-
nuance of external peace ; nor has anything at home
impaired the strength of those fraternal and domestic
ties which constitute the only guarantee to the success
and permanency of our 'happy Union, and which,
formed in the hour of peril, have hitherto been ho-
nourably sustained through every vicissitude in our
national affairs." And, that his grave auditory might
be at no loss to account for the prevalence of so many
blessings, he added, in the same hyperbolical strain
In no country has education been so widely diffused.
Domestic peace has nowhere so largely reigned. The
close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance
prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast. All
forms of religion have united, for the first time,
to• diffuse charity and piety, because, for the first
time in the history of nations, all have been
totally untrammelled and absolutely free." Pass-
ing over the self-congratulatory paragraphs of
the Message which may, for aught we know to the
contrary, be highly relished by the well-educated popu-
lation of the States, and so far answer Mr. VAN
BUREN'S purpose, we tome to that portion of it
in which the subjects of her Britannic MAJESTY
take the deepest interest—the settlement of the boun-
dary question,. and the late rebellion in the Canadas.
Towards the adjustment of the boundary question
nothing decisive has yet been accomplished. It re-
mains precisely where it was at the opening of the last
Session of Congress. All that is yet determined is to
propose to the British Government the appointment of
a joint Commission of Survey and Exploration—a
proposal which the PRESIDENT doubts not will be
responded to by her MAJESTY'S Ministers. With
respect to the rebellion in Canada the PRESIDENT is
more diffuse ; but notwithstanding his admission of
the rebellion being fermented by the United States'
citizens, and his declaration that such an act was
morally and legally of a most criminal nature, we are
more than ever suspicious of the sincerity of his pro-
fessed horror of the wickedness of the attempt made
to dismember the British Empire. President
VAN BUREN is by no means celebrated for
the straightforwardness of his conduct, or the
' simple integrity of his
,professions. He is
what is called a " slippery politician ; with so
much of the Jesuit about him, as to entertain the
conviction that the end proposed justifies the means.
Keeping these points in his public character in view,
we shall give in this place the first paragraph of the
Message, which has reference to the late fatal out-
break in the Canadas. The PRESIDENT Says--.“
had hoped that the respect for the laws and regard for
the peace and honour of their own country, which
have ever characterised the citizens of the United
States, would have prevented any portion of them
from using any means to promote insurrection in the
territory of a Power with which we are at peace, and
with which the United States are desirous of main-
taining the most friendly relations. I regret deeply,
however, to be obliged to inform you that this has not
been the case. Information has been given to me,
derived from official and other sources, that many
citizens of the United States have associated together
to make hostile incursions from our territory into Ca-
nada, and to aid and abet insurrection Mere, in vio-
lation of the obligations and laws of the United States,
and in open disregard of their own duties as citizens.
This information has been in part confirmed by a hos-
tile invasion actually made by citizens of the United
States, in conjunction with Canadians anci others,

The Manchester Chamber of Commerce adopted on
Thursday a petition drawn up by Mr. COBDEN, " for
the repeal of all laws relating to the importation of
foreign corn and other foreign articles of subsistence,
and to carry out to the fullest extent, both as affects
agriculture and manufactures, the true and peaceful
principles of free trade, by removing all existing ob-
stacle to the unrestricted employment of industry and!
capital." This sweeping, bold, and noble petition,
which is elsewhere inserted at length, was unanimously
preferred by the Chamber to the one which was pro-
posed by the Directors the week before, and which
was rejected because it did not refer to the
facts stated to the Chamber at the last meet-
ing, It is the opinion of the Chamber
of Commerce, after a week's deliberation, and
after the facts stated by Mr. J. B. SMITH have
been subject to cri▪
ticism and examination, that the
petition first proposed was too moderate. An amend-
ment to the first petition moved by Mr. DYER which
was still stronger than Mr. COBDEN'S petition, and
spoke of the Corn-laws as " instances of ignorant and
selfish legislation, which stamp with indelible disgrace
the Parliaments that passed them, and described the
continuance of these laws as fraught with cruel injus-
tice to the industrious consumers, and inconsistent
with the duty whi▪
ch all governments owe to the
people, of keeping open to them the best and cheapest
markets for an abundant supply of food—and this
law is alike opposed to the 'principles of humanity,
and to the peace and welfare of the country"—was not
found fault with, and was only withdrawn to make
way fcr the uniform and complete petition of Mr. COB-
DEN. The decision of the Chamber, come too after
much discussion and deliberation, is therefore as solemn
as possible, and speaking, as it does, the sentiments

of tho-ie who carry on the most important manufac-
ture of the empire, must have great wei4ht with the
Legislature. However blind that hody of la.downers,
hoodwinked by their extreme selfishness, may be to
the visible signs of the times, they will not be deaf to
the startling notes of the great Manchester manufac-
turers. The speeches delivered at the Chamber---..the
curious facts brought forward, proving the comparative
decay of our trade, and threatening the wealth and
power of the Aristocracy, will have mote weio-ht with
the unfeeling and arroL!ant CILA N DOSES ,laid
KNA TCII B ULLS of the Parliament. than Cie voice of
reason or the demands of justice. Mr. J. B. SM ITEI
proved that our exports had not kept pace with those
of other countries :

" In 1815," he said, " we exported 51 millions; in 1846,
53 millions, en increase of four per cent. The United Stm! CS
exports in 1815 amount, d to 28 millions of dollars; in 1836
they had rrached to 60 millions of dollar:, h.-ing an increase
of more than 200 per cent. Prance, in 1815, exported to the
value of 23 millions of francs, but in 1836 she exported to the
value of 74 millions of francs, which was an increase of nearly
400 per cent. ; so that, whilst our exports had increased but
four per cent., those of France had increased 400 per cent. 1
Was not this an alarming fact ? And the increase of the manu-
factures of foreign countries in different articles was another
interesting fact."

We refer to his speech for the illustration of the last
statement ; and also to the excellent addresses of Mr.
It. H. GREG and Mr. COBDEN, for some equally start-
ling statements on other points. We have not room
for comment to-day—which is not indeed needed—
but recommend the whole of these gentlemen's state-
ments to the serious and earnest consideration of our
readers. If they cannot move the landowning law-
makers to alter their anti-national and murderous po-
licy, nothing will but the crash of a Revolution tutn-
Wing into ruin property as well as political institutions.
But though all the other Members of the Legislature
should be deaf to their warning, Mr. Poo L ETT THOM-
SON will, we are sure, be awakened by it. Mr. COBD EN
read him a lesson which he will not -forget; and he may
make up his mind to retire at once into the obscurity
of private life, giving up all hope of ever again sitting
in Parliament, or he must, as Mr. COBDEN said, be
a bona fide and staunch representative of the free
trade interest of Manchester. The Right Honourable
Gentleman must cease to fill the disgraceful office of
a mere toady to the most heartless and selfish Aris-
tocracy that was ever suffered, for purposes of decay
and ruin, to sway the councils of a great commercial
and manufacturing nation.

We have authority to contradict the report inserted
in the Dublin Evening Mail and other Papers, that
the Marquis of No RAIANBY is not going back to Ire-
land. The Tory Papers invent all kinds of falsities to
excite dissatisfaction with the Ministers, and encourage
the hopes of their friends ; and this report is one of
them. The Noble Marquis intends, we can state posi-
tively, to return to that country the first week in Ja-
nuary, and the ladies and gentlemen who have made
arrangements to be present at the next levee and draw.
ing room will not be disappointed by those ceremonies
not taking place.

The Paris Papers of Thursday, have been received,
with those of Madrid of the 13th instant. Their
contents are of no political interest. ESPAR-
TERO is using all his influence to have CORDOVA
and NA RvAEz tried and shot by command of a court-
martial. If treason were to meet its deserts ESPAR-
TERO'S head is the first in the QUEEN'S service that
ought to fall.