The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-03 00:00:00

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WITH WHICH
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LONDON :
11()NDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1838.

,4,77 'lie arrival, yesterday, of the packet-ship St.
it4erete, at Liverpool, from New York, whence she
e" high" °n the 17th ult., we have received a mass of
•
important news from the Canadas, the details of
dav °eeupy a very large space in our columns of this
ei11":. A few days have served to change the whole
41h;e1 of affairs in the two provinces. Civil war has
tinti4°Y broken out in the land of loyal addresses ; and
lea" circumstances which show clearly that it was
%e Meditated on the part of the insurgents. ut
li
eh
th "e announce with pride and pleasure the severel3
,
to Which the gallant Sir JOHN COLBORNE hasgiven
e rebels, we would not have our readers regard
astt rebels,
affair which does not seriously invoke
vernZling more than the passive regard of the Go-
klit''ent and people of England. Of all the metro-
eviri a° journals The Sun was the only paper which
atithe"l a sympathy for the insurgents when the first
The took place last year in the Lower Province.
13,Y Et- Government had then so deeply committed itself
ItWith ries of blunders that we hesitated not to charge
the 6 having provoked outrages which it had neither
tivelllPess to repress nor the magnanimity to fohre-
Itlisaff We pleaded the provocation received by t.
4,lllll.gbilitea.eutteidlo,riatynd prayed Parliament to interpose its
to obtain for the deluded victims of the
raereifinn of a handful of turbulent demagogues, the
tilee:l consideration of the Crown. We were so
tebelBsful as to be well satisfied with the result. The
trait: obtained a pardon, with the exception of a few
eiverdra whose crimes were not limited to drawing the
here nragainst their Sovereign. flow unworthy they
er,-; this lenity is proved by the events recorded in
111tin-I,artills of this day. Henceforth we renounce all
ed'at°Y for them—connection with them we never
ee') aPY• They have appealed to the sword a
lavnti
and • judgments we
e the to its sharp
in% tj:°l, in mercy to the poor ignorant creatures
.`a the ley would involve in their own guilt and ruin.
aid the meantime we wish that our Contemporaries,
a(1,e(1 t°elPe°,ple of England generally, could be persua-
turn people
at this question through some other me-
„ than the and distorted lens of
-0 mg as
14
Q."
In' I • petty
it does consequences of
Ze,tlittaibtin"t national magnitude, it is neither
~rdvrs tir,e t° the judgment nor the sagacity of public
;" inti; employ it • as a handle for fastening
mere y
Illieli;Cation upon this or that party leader. Let us
that it i, a trugse a nt the disme-
s

berment of the British empire—that British blood is
being shed in its adjustment—and it is strange indeed
if we feel aught but that we are Englishmen,
and that the maintenance of our national- dignity
is among the first of social duties. As we said on
Saturday the first case that presses upon the Govern.
ment is to take measures for putting down the re-
bellion at any sacrifice. For this purpose, if there
be yet time, let plenty of British troops be poured
into both Provinces. Whatever inconveniences their
presence may occasion, they will at least pre-
vent the effusion of blood ; and to spare blood-
shed is, after all, the true economy of a
humane Government. The leaders of the insurgents
are incorrigible, and, after their recent abuse of the
Royal clemency, it would be the height of folly to come
to any terms with them. They must be crushed at any
cost, if we would prevent in the Canadas the recurrence
of the atrocious barbarities that disgrace the civil war
in Spain.
The Great Western steamer, which sailed from
Bristol on the 27th of October, reached New York on
the 15th ult., in 19 days from the first-named city.

We insert in another part of The Sun an account
of the reception given to Lord DURHAM by the bur-
gesses of Devonport, with the address which they pre-
sented to his Lordship, and his answer. His Lord-
ship adverted to his colonial policy, and implied that
he has some information to pive the public when he
can speak in Parliament, which involves the national
supremacy and the preservation of ships, colonies, and
commerce. With respect to his attachment to Reform
principles, and to his being adop:ed as the leader of
the Reform party, as recommended by Sir WILLIAM
MOLESWORTII, the following passage of his written
answer may with propriety be reprinted here :
" The principles (said his Lordship) which have go-
verned my political conduct at home, I can with truth as-
sure you are unchanged and unchangeable. They were
formed on the maturest dr:liberation, and have been
strengthened by observation, as each succeeding event de-
monstrated to my mind their soundness and policy. My
attention, therefore, to the cause of that Reform of our
institutions to which you allude, cannot be doubted. It
has been tested by the share I took in the preparation of
the Reform Bill, to which this important town owes its po-
litical privileges, and it has been confirmed, I should ima-
gine, beyond all question, by my declarations to the people
of Scotland in 1834. I need not make any new profes-
sions. I have nothing to add—nothing to retract from
those declarations, which in my conscience I believe to be
the expression of principles alike conducive to the honour
and dignity of the Throne, the security of property, the
prosperity of industry, the promotion of wise and liberal
institutions, and the general happiness of the people."

We give in another place that portion of his speech
at Glasgow, on October 29, 1834, which expresses
the Noble Lords's opinion as to Reform.

We gave a brief account on Saturday, in answer
to the ex-parte statements of the Times, of the
circumstances connected with re-building the Royal
Exchange, which seems to have roused the wrath of
the city functionaries. Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR has
addressed a letter to us, which appears in another
place, and a letter signed " GRESHAMENSIS" has
been published in the Post, in both of shich we are
taken to task for accusing the members of the
Gresham;Trust of a disposition to jobbing. We made
no accusation, but being well aware that jobbing is
very rife in the city,and has been for a very long period,
to the deep disgrace of the city, we asked merely if there
were some great job in contemplation. We beg leave tore-
peat the question, and to add that both G RESHAMENSIS
and Mr. TAYLOR would serve their own cause better

if, instead of being angry with us for asking so perti-
nent and readily suggested a question, they would as-
sure and convince the public, by the production of
plans and estimates, that none of the parties concerned
dream of anything like a job. We accuse nobody, and
have, therefore, no " anonymous calumniator," as Mr.

R. TAYLOR calls the author of the question, to give
up. We did not even defend the Treasury by any
arguments ; we did not say that it was acting right in
withholding its assent ; we merely—having taken the
pains to learn the facts of the case—stated them in
answer to the " anonymous calumniators," and those
who make false statements in the Tory journals. It
is, we understand, admitted by the Gresham Com-
mittee, that there is a difference of opinion between it
and the Treasury on the veto claimed by the latter on
the building to be erected, and if this circumstance
had, in the first instance, been stated with candour, we
should have had nothing to say on the subject.
The correspondent of the Post says in one place,
that Mr. SPRING RICE has never given a reply to
the Gresham Trustees ; and the same correspondent
admits that Mr. SPRING RICE has informed the city
officers that he has consulted Sir B. HALL, &c.
Now we make no pretensions to defend the claims
made by Mr. RICE to see the plans before giving his
consent to spend 150,0001. -of the public money ; but
those who accuse him of neglect should take care to
have a little consistency in their accusations. Mr.
SPRING RICE proceeds on the understanding of
the Committee. The Gresham Trustees ground
their proceedings on an Act of Parliament which,
88 we have heard, is defective by some verbal error ;
and who is to decide betwixt them ? Mr. RICE is
responsible for the proper application of the public
money, and would be deserving of very severe censure
were he to allow it to be expended to enrich the Gres-
ham Trustees, so as to enable them to extend their en-
dowments, and have the giving away of considerable
annual sums. The public, we believe, are quite tired,
at least we are, of seeing immense sums of public money
thrown into the lap of the richest and most wasteful
corporation of the empire—that of the city of London ;
and Mr. RICE, we must now say, only fulfils his duty
in seeing, if possible, that the last sum voted by Par-
liament to aid the city is not, like so much of the
public money misapplied by the city of London,
wastefully expended. We certainly accused the
Gresham Committee of obstinacy, because as we
understand, they have been made aware of Mr. RICE'S
views, and have doggedly determined, without farther
inquiry, to stick to their own. We conclude by ob-
serving, that the statement that a month has elapsed
since the Gresham Committee made any representation
to the Treasury, is in strict accordance with our state-
ment, that they suffered two months to elapse, after
the Act was passed, on August 10th, before they
moved ill the matter ; and they had no right so to
delay their representations, as to force, if possible, an
immediate decision, or have an opportunity of heaping
reproaches on the Treasury for not coming instanter
into their views.

The report of the Committee of the House of
Commons to give an opinion on the merits of
the case is decidedly favourable to the view taken
by Mr. S. RICE, and adverse to the view taken
by the City authorities. Mr. HERRIES is a third
member of the Committee who concurs with Mr.
RICE.

We have received Madrid Journals from the 20th
to the 24th ult. inclusive. The QUEEN REGENT
had dismissed the Cabinet, in consequence of a revo-
lutionary movement in Seville presided over by
General CORDOVA. Her Majesty had summoned
Senors ZUNIALACARREGUY and GONZALES to con-
sult them on the appointment of a new Ministry. As
to the provinces they were in a complete state of dis-
organization—the consequence of the atrocities result-
ing from the system of butchery into which the civil
war has on all sides degenerated.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Friday and
Saturday have been received this morning. Their
contents are of no political interest. Extracts from
them will be found in another column.

Lord DURHAM has not yet (three o'clock) reached
town.
Sir Rufane Donkin has been well received by the
electors of Sandwich, and there is every probability of his
being elected in the room of Sir J. Carnac.
Dr. Lushington, for the Tower Hamlets, is sure of
being reelected, and Mr. Murray, of Broughton, will cer-
tainly be returned for Kirkcudbright.
FIRE IN LINCOLN'S INN NEW SQUARE.--ThiS
afternoon, about one o'clock, an alarm-of fire was made by
the porters in the above square, which proceeded from the
chambers occupied by Mr. Dawson, at N 0.5. On proceed-
ing to Mr. Dawson's rooms the fire was discovered to be in the
chimney, and large quantities of soot in a state of ignition
fulling therefrom. Assistance being promptly in attend-
azec, the fire was happily extinguished, or the consequences
aii?ht have been dreadful.

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