The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1849.

Recent occurrences in various parts of her Bri-
tannic MAJESTY'S dominions have sufficiently indi-
cated the classes to which the English SOVEREIGN can
look for evidences of loyalty. Nothing, indeed, could
possibly be more brutal, besotted, or treasonous than
the conduct of two miserable factions—the one in
Ireland, the other in Canada—both of the ultra-Tory
school of politics. We have no language sufficiently
strong in which to express our profound indignation
at the traitorous proceedings of the Annexation party
in our North American possessions, and of the san-
guinary gang of Orangemen. Already we have taken
occasion more than once to hold up to national abhor-
rence the infamous proceedings at Dolly's Brae. We
are now induced to revert to the equally atrocious
insurrectionary movement at Montreal—a movement
commencing with bloodshed and conflagration, and
resulting in a formal project for the separation of
Canada from Great Britain, and its annexation
to the United States. These effects of ultra-Toryism,
though diametrically opposed to the general preten-
sions of that party, cannot in any manner be cause
for astonishment among those who bear in recollec-
tion the conduct of the same wretched faction in
England immediately on the death of WILLIAM, and
the accession of VICTORIA. A body of politicians
who could dare at that period to dream of revolting
from the allegiance due to a young QUEEN scarcely
emerged from the age of childhood, without a slur
upon her virgin and spotless reputation as a SOU'.
RElGN—men who could think of substituting for
this gentle lady a prince with a name not only
corruptible, but so far corrupted as to reveal ali
the loathsomeness of its moral decomposition,
suck men, such politician•, must have little
pretension to our respect ; and whether
they have pretension or not, most certainly
they don't get it. On the contrary, they have our
most earnest detestation—they and all the rest of that
miserable tribe of dissentients—who are at present
striving to foment discontent in Ireland and in
Can ada.

Even since the revolt, which some eleven years
back raged in Lower Canada, the seeds of discontent
have been ripening among the inhabitants of both
provinces. Little hope has glimmered through the
sullen atmosphere of treason which has been brooding
over the population. No matter how generous the
Administration, no matter how kindly the policy of
the Cabinet, a hatred towards the local Government,
and through that towards the Supreme Councils pre-
siding over the destinies of the mother country, has
gradually manifested itself with more and more viru-
lence ; and every successive year has given the m2.lcon-
tents an accession of spleen, cunning, and audacity. The
conspirators have incubated their treasonous pro-
jects before the very windows of the Governor's re-
sidence, in the very teeth of the subordinate adminis-
trators, under the very nose of the Canadian Parlia-
ment. They have schemed and plotted with the resolute
devotion of men who have nothing to lose and every-
thing to gain ; and recruits have continually poured in,
consisting of destitute politicians and penniless adven-
turers. Having matured their infamous plans in some
measure, the bolder members of the secret association
of malcontents at length flung down the gauntlet,
," cried havoc, and let slip the dogs of
war,' lit the brand of internecine battle,
and openly raised the standard of insurrection.
His Excellency Lord ELGIN was mobbed at the en-
trance of the Government-house, pelted with rotten
eggs and brielibatr, and yelled after like a dog on a
race course. A valuable or rather invaluable library,
containing an immense accumulation of public records
and official manuscripts, was ruthlessly given to the
flames of incendiarism. The msce was walked off with
by some impudent cur of a and the splendid palace
employed as the place of assemblage for the na-
tional representatives gutted by fire, from roof to
cellar. Such were the first flagrant intimations
received by the Cabinet in London that her Britannic
MAJESTY'S principal representative in North America
would require almost unlimited authority to suppress I
the rebelliously-disposed, and to enforce some show
at least of allegiance. Since then matters have
assumed a somewhat less noisy, but still a very
threatening aspect ; and thousands of the resident and
naturalised Canadians are now beginning to talk
boldly of the necessity of an immediate separation
from Great Britain and of a speedy annexation to the
United States. While affairs present this extraordinary
appearance, one of the most flagrantly implicated of
all the agitators arrives in England and is feted,
cheered, toasted, eulogized, &c., &c.—by whom ?
By the ultra-Tories—by the Protectionists ! It

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