The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

On looking over the file of the Vindica!or, the great
organ of the Papineau party (now published in the State of
Vermont), we stumbled on a very important document in
the number for October 6, 1837. We allude to the
" Address of the Sons of Liberty of Montreal to the
Young Men ef the North Ann rican Colonies," it serted in
another column. As this document contains, perhaps, the
latest edition of the grievances of the Lower Canadians, we
tray be allowed eo take them from it as an authentic sourer.
" Hosts of officers," they say, " appointed without consent
of the people to %shorn they are too frequently obnoxious,
and never responsible, and holding commissions during the
pleasure of an irresponsible Executive, and placed in authe-
rity over us, with salaries enormously dispreportioned both
to: our means and to their services." We have no doubt
that in Canada, as well as in every other part of the
dominions, salaries are fixed rather ascerdlng to
the aristocratic scale than the value of the services. But
the people of England have the hest right to complain of
thie, far they ate the great paymasters. The people of
GINN hardly know what taxes are, the good people
of England elasosing to be at the trouble of govern-
ing the colony et a great expense to themselves, as witness
the public accounts, in order to have the privilege of busing
bad timber at a higher price than good timber can be nb-
talned at in the ports of the Baltic. As to the public lands
grardci to a company of speculators, the F:ench Canadians
are only entitled to complain of this if it be true that
"their fathers, their relations, and their brother d olonists
are refused or unable to procure wild land on which to
settle." With all deference to the Sons of Liberty, we
believe this to be a calumny. The fact is, that they will
not take wild lands on the terms and in the way that
Englishmen take them. They wish to live apart and not
mix with Englishmen. They complein of the laws affect.
ins tenures, as being imposed on them by a roreign Par-
liament, and as inapplicable to the state of the country. We
'Ave already shown the necessity of the Tenures Act. As
t~ the complaint of being deprived of the power of ex-
tending their commerce to all parts of the world, instead
of being confined to certain markets, we would only ask,
to what market would the Canadians go ? They are
favoured in our market for the only commodities they pro-
duce, and we are not aware of any other people that would
pay higher for bad commodities than they need to pay for
good commodities. Then comes the great grievance of the
Legishetive Council and the Executive Council, nominated
by authorities ignorant of the country, and residing three
thousand miles off. On this subject it is unnecessary at
present to dilate. Two opportunities have been lost for
securing their independence of Britain, and, in order that
they may not be unprepared for the third, they " invite the
young men to form associations in their several localities,
for the attainment of good, cheap, responsible government,
and for the security, defence, and extension of their common
liberties ;" in short, to fight,for their independence. In the
summary of the grievances, towards the end, it will be ob-
served that they contend " for the repeal of all laws and
charters passed by foreign authority, encroaching upon the
rights of the people and their representatives, especially
relating to the property and tenures of lands, whether he-
ther belonging to the public or to individuals." In this
manner these French Canadians pass over the circumstance
that the British Government, having obtained the territory
from the French, with all the rights possessed by the
French Government, was universally understood to have
the legal right to grant wild lands. The proposition to ap-
ply their novel construction of the right of the " Canadian
nation" to all the lands within the territory to existing ti•
tles, hitherto deemed legal, is neither more nor less than
plunder and confiscation. The British Parliament may
have sometimes carried the principle of respecting vested
rights too far ; but these men would respect no:rights. The
issue of a struggle commencing under such auspices call
hardly be doubtful, but the advocates and notaries of Lower
Canada have overshot the mark. The holders of lands
under grants from the English Government will not allow
themselves to be stripped of their possessions so easily as
they supposed.—Morning Chronicle.
Of the intelligence which has arrived since Sunday last
from Canada we may pronounce generally, that it is of a
favourable nature, inasmuch as there is no appearance of
the rebels having anywhere met with success, or indeed
shown themselves in arm against the troops of her Majesty.
St. Dennis was recovered by Colonel Gore, who bad with
him a force of eight companies, after the place had been
abandoned by the Papineau insurgents in at fright. St.
Charles was also occupied by the Royal forces. Papineau
and Nelson had fled, it gas not known accurately whither.
Many arrests of individuals, charged with being deeply im-
plicated in the rebellion, were made by authority of the
magistrates ; so that the line of the Richelieu river, which
runs through the centre of the Montreal district, from
within the New York boundary, and seems to have been
the chief seat of the insurrection, is now reported to be
in a state of returning subordination and tranquillity.
There is throughout any of the official despatches
which have yet transpired no symptom of alarm on the
part of Sir John Colborne at the progress or occur-
rences of the insurrection, or of anxiety for its probable
result. If, indeed (of which, as yet, there appears no
doubt), that gallant officer, with the small force under his
orders, shall succeed in holding Quebec and Montreal dur-
ing the winter, it is morally certain that the powerful rein-
forcements already prepared to join him at the earliest
opening of the St. Lawrence, will remove all reasonable ap-
prehension here, and all sanguine anticipation in unfriendly,
quarters, as to the military consequences of this wail out-
break on the part of the French Canadians. 'rice assem-
blage, however, in Lower Canada during the next spring
and summer of a stout, well-disciplined, and well commanded
corps of 10.000 Englishmen, may produce advantages in our
relative position towards other parties, as well as the dupes
of M. Papineau, which will amply repay the cost and trouble
of their transport thither, and of their future maintenance
end operations. A spirit of undue encroachment upon
British territory in other provinces than that of Lower
Canada, founded perhaps upon a knowledge of the tur-
bulence prevalent throughout the latter province, and on
n presumption of our consequent weakness there, may
encounter a seasonable and wholesome rebuke, upon
finding that the effective force of England in North Ame-
rica will have been trebled at the very first moment when
the elements cease to obstruct it. On these grounds we
approve of, and rejoice at, the amount of the reinforcement
now under orders of readiness far embarkation. But how
small a portion of this perplexing subject is disposed of by
the success, however signal and decided, of the British
arms! How many important and anxious questions are
left floating after the sovereignty of England shall have
been telly vindicated, and the power of her laws at least
tacitly recognized, by the cessation of all open resist
unce ! Have we vet—have the most far-sighted of our
statesmen bethought themselves how to make profit of that
victory which none, we suppose, will venture to dispute
that there is at least a fair prospect of achieving ? Has
any of. our statesmen yet pondered upon the means of
improinne, dispersed and broken rebels into contented
and loyal subjects of Qieen Victoria's Crown ? Are the
French Canadians to be continued in possession of privi-
leges which they have so obdurately turned against the
hand that bestowed them ? On the other side, stripping
away their privileges, can we hope to trust, as vessels, those
on whom, as freemen, we have been forced from a regard
to our own security to trample ? Shall we leave at the
mercy of a majority of voters elected to the provincial Par-
"lenient by an illiterate and prejudiced rabble, detesting
the name of England, the old revenues of the Crown,
constituting the only fund upon which we can reckon
with the least reliance fur the support of civil govern-
ment within the colony ? Again, would it be a codivenient
measure, would it be a safe one, to throw the two
pros incial Legislatures into one, and employ the English-
men as a keep r over the Canadian, should the latter prove
intractable, or continue disaffected ? 'These arc, one and
all, momentous questions. They are now but slightly
thought of or dirty looked at, but they are more pregnant
with durable danger and embarrassment than any question
the solution of which touches merely the defeat :e• triumph
of some 3,000 or 4,000 soldiers. We deem it hardly
worth while to notice the Gazette of last night, which pub-
lishes only a brief and insignificant despatch of Sir. John
Colborne, stating nothing- more than what was known
through the other channels which we have already referred
to—viz., that the rebels had retired from some of the posts
they had temporarily occupied in. the Montreal country,
and that their places n ere supplied by the Royal troops.
But thereis au omission better worth observing than
any thing I:dant:lined in the Gazette—namely, that of
all the despatches which it is well understood were
brought by 6,, last arrivals, none were produced, save
that of some dozen lines er so from the General corn-
mainline the forces! Frain Lord Gosford there has not
been commune! ited to the country one single word, in
the shape of a despatch, since the breaking out of the re-
hellion was made public. Will Ministers assert that there
seas no intelligence of any kind received officially from Ca-
nada, at the same time with that from Sir John Colborne,
which we this day present to our readers ? We appre-
hend they will not venture to say so ; and what a crisis is
this at which to keep England in the dark :is to what con-
cerns the existence of her colonial possessions ! A thing
indeed called a " proclamation" from Lord Gosford has
found its way into the public journals, and a more silly and
contemptible production, we will affirm, was never sent
out with the signature of a man in office affixed to it. The
gist of this State paper—this perfection of foolscap—is to
assure the whole body of rebels, with some half-dozen ex-
ceptions, that they may go on as far as they like in deso-
lating the country and butchering their loyal fellow sub-
jects, for that whenever it suits them to come in, and cry
peccavimus, they will be received with open arms by Lord

We understand that considerable progress is made in
Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Bill for the Amendment of the
Law of Copyright, which, it may be remembered, was or- It is said that Sir George Warrender's costs in the
dered, on Thursday, December 14, to be brought into the suit for divorce instituted against his lady, and which has just
House of Commons under the superintendence of the Chan- been abandoned, is nearly 10,000/. •
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Robert Inglis, and the Hon. The largest steamer in her Majesty's navy is the
and Learned Sergeant. It will be rady, as we hear, Gorgon, recently built, being of 1,150 tons builders measure-
immediately ' crew,
after the recess ;so that no time will be likely ment. She will carry 20 days' coals, 1,000 troops, 156
e lost in applying the requisite remedy to a grievance with stores and provisions for all for six months. The
to b
n
universally admitted. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's motion on gines are of 320 horse power, awl the •essel is so constructed
the Law of Copyright may be considered as an excellent that the steam-machinery can scarcely be retched by shot.
pendant to the Bill for the Amendment of the Patent Law, Brown, one of the chief leaders of the Canadian in-
brought years
Bills forward by Mr. Mackinnon. The objects of both surgents is said to be the same person who storted a few
ills are in some degree similar. The object of both is to ago the Dublin Comet, and who also wrote a principal part
B rn of
rotect the rights and property of the intellectual classes,w a book called the Parson's Horn Book, which excited a
great deal of conversation in the Irish metropolis at the time.
whether engaged in the pursuit of literature or of science. Mr.
Sergeant Talfourd's Bill, however, does not, like that of last He was convicted of libel, and had his sentence in part re-
mitted by, we believe, Lord Anglesea, on condition of his vo-
Session, extend to the fine arts—painting„ music, and sculp-
luntary exi :: from Ireland.
tore. He has confined it to literary copyright alone, and he
The National Gallery, Trafalgar-square, having
has dropped the question of international copyright, which is
left to the negociation of Government. It will be remem- been ready to receive the national pictures, several of them'
were removed last week front Pall-mall to the new building,to
tending protection to the copyright of subjects of any Fu-
bored that his Bill last year provided that foreign authors
and the remainder will be removed this week, when the whole
should receive the benefit of its protection in this country. will be properly arranged and classified, and the gallery will
The present Bill, however, merely contains a clause ex-
bo.ei v openedeeff,,,ct
tfor
the
pictures, admission
to
being the l public.,hte d
from lt
i the sw
well suited
top, and the
reign Government which may have afforded protection to rive effect
being thus equally distributed 4 on the paintings, but
.the
the copyright of British authors. By this process the sub- narrowness of the exhibition room detracts much from';
the ap-
je,l_cartdistoadpelvacentiavgeeobuy thesl
y simplified. At the same time we are pearance of the apartments, which are out of all proportion,
g
prelim:et try observations made by considering the extent of the front of the building.
. Sergeant Talfourd, on bringing forward his measure, MASON IC AN ECDOT E.—At the battle of Det-
that. he deems it requisite a separate Bill should be intro- tingen, one of the King's body Guard bad his horse killed
duvet to extend protection to time fine arts, the laws r,_ under him, and found himself so entangled in the animal he
specting which are, as he justly stated, in a most disgrace- could not disengage himself. An English dragoon approached,
fully difficult and complicated state. Ti,, defects „ol sabre in hind, to finish him, which he would have done bad not
had not the guardsman, who was a freemassn, accidentally
abuses of the law, as regards literary copyright specially,
made the sign of the Order. Happily for him the English
are too notorious, and unfortunately too generally felt
dragoon was also a member of the Order. He dismounted,
by all the numerous operatives whose workshop is t':e
brain, helped the Frenchman to extricate himself, and, allthough as
and whose implement is the pen, to claim any a
.brother he saved his life,_ nevertheles%he ele him his
lengthened recapitulation from us. 'The law, as at pr.so er, because (we quote the exact ' d: t f the author) "a
present constructed, damages instead of protecting literary Freemason never loses sight of the duty he owes to his own
is is composed. property. Nopoesned.ewoubl dare to steal the paper of whichPrince."—Fieetnasons' (-iitti terly Review.
i book
The theft would be subjected to a ABOLITION FB E VERI " A sanguine car-
certain penalty ; but directly that paper is renderedj inconi- 1 den of the °Lie lt
l\ Albioiti. after - consigning (Lein-
.tnensurtely more valuable by embodying the labour of the aeries to damnation,t desires to deal out also tiwsantesunna;ary
'compositor, printer, and publisher, and author, it becomes s !verity to the producers of porter. " I hope, "says this So-
l:la:a eto e. plundered with impunity. How easy is it for len, "to see the bueiness of brewing anni!tilated by the
Legislature. Let us have a moral emancipation, even if some-
!. hook-pirate to deface the offspring of another man's
thing in the way of compensation were awarded to the brewers
p.iinful and costly labours, to serve them as gipsies do their
for their utensils and stocks in trade. But sornethine must be
,stolen children—and thus evade the identification of .the
istolen property, and the legal punishment due to his i of- done to rescue the deluded victims of the inebriousadraught !
tfence. he robbery is the more cruel, inasmuch
labour employed upon the creations of th9lsim'ilaidenisa smoir' tee
it: men knew the beauty of a inner and the pleasing sensetions
T
given to the palate from drinking "water from the spring,"
they would no longer continue slaves to the abominable, filthy
exhausting than manual labour— fleeting in its means habit of tippling ale, porter, or any other intoxicating liquor.
jof realization—and more inadequately remunerated. But There is no good ale, there never was, nor good porter
grant time evasion be not effected—'rant '' inadequately
the robbery either. We cannot, without committing a libel on common
is obvious and direct—is the autCor
means. His remedy is one of the most better
rnsoiffve lawß Y.
cesses in time country ; and to hold out such a means no sense, call anything good that prdedueee an immediate and in-
pro_ evitable evil. . i Itlk, water, an ginger beer are absolutely
dress to literary men, so badly remunerated as they arc, us good, because meoxioue and necessary, but any thing that in-
Creases the pulsation by heating the blood vislently and untie-
, well as so incompetent to realise their acquisitions, is adding t
turally—anything that deranges the digestive
mockery to grievance. It is as unsubstantial as the ban ue organs—that in-
jures the stomach, inflames the brain, produces delirium, ileum-
of brilliant but empty covers offered by the tantal9ising nity, and premature death, must be a positive and crying evil.
And I cry to every good citizen to join in discountenancing
Caliph Alraschid to the hungry Bartnecid.e
Advertiser. .-111"iling drinking altogether, except water, milk, tea, coffee, &c."
An Hibernian schoolmaster, settled in a village near
The morning organ of Nlinist,!rialism is very anxious that London, who advertised that he intended to keep a 'Bunday-
the law of the land touching the trial of disputed elections school twice a week, 'Tuesdays and Thursdays, reminds us
should be altered, but is quite disheartened by the sad re- of the mock mayor of a place in the west, who declared on
section that in England there is no sufficiently rapid le- Ina election, that he was resolved to hold his Quamter See-
flint]. of putting down one law, and setting up anotinme:::
" We must wait," says the Chronicle, with an air of rho
cte.'l.lres. stops monthly.
nintimo.ellurmtihstimlysi t.eraelnitoatitpla)retiloigf
deepest vexation—" we must w sit for the tedious 11:3.1.
di :
beheldocean,
ut
asb Iran},,rt leagues
distance
of an Act of Parliament through four stages (with divers four of his heart exclaimed,
and frequent postponements in each House of Portia- Arrahsa: of
Slia'CliPs:•Piapnedallinhatr.ldu's joyoa deck to behold the rich
ment) before any remedy, however slight and trivial landscapemly
can be applied." We greatly sympathise with our APPETITE. About a week since, a fellow, who
resides about eightm milesie front this city, undertook, for a wager,
contemporary's trouble and sore distress. To be be sure
to eat three live
complisited at a beer-el;owns
it is a dreadful thing that when power is in liberal
fellow',piit oF abete.eniayrlatof
rit;l.,,:iajejciln:l:rdt.yhi.segu neighbourhood,s t ing feat he e
Aanci 0
hands it should not be exere•sed forthwith. To wait
for the " tedious process" of an Act of PaiLtunent isate three raw potatoes fur a
Oil Tuesday last, a married woman, named Clark,
a substantial grievance to the enlightened people of an
residing in Castle-mill-street, whilst sitting at tea complained
enlightened age, who are accustomed to the rapid march
of a pain in her side, and the words had scarcely. escaped
of intellect, and theslashing expedition of railroad. What
her lips, when she fell down and instantly expired. —Brieto
a pity that leggard legislation should thus Tulip be-
' hind the heels of mechanics 1. Other philosophers lien try
' 0:1)....10nday as Jane Hodson, a fine girl, 15 years
than Dr. Reid should be directed to take the House
old Rag standing by the side of the steam-engine at gosh°
of Commons into their consideration. It might be
cr.it.titai
oehrr
iell coal-mule, litihincithiii,e,
caughtthell-1i
in
,u, bxi
well to offer a preiniurn out of the public purse to the nem
iip,ei'ar'venddh.e_.crutieibi:o,tt.ilhl,yesh:vf'ricgrlaecigtliss7tio. fftheem tntliate ma-
who should devise the hest mode of applying steam potter
;o the propeling of legislation. It is monstrous that, while:beforeassiatance could be given. The peer
everythilg else is getting on with such accelerated speed, toperer shortly
Acts of Parliament should be as slow as ever, and as tor- THE SEYAS ) afterwards
gardenbuds
bushes ofin
the
atst week a strawberry, full ripe,
toise-like in their progress. The strong disapprobation was gathered int tNime. 4
t;li,!,no.
fwt litiiteil
et
Hohne, Bellevue,
Thelear,ttetatlhiii-s
which the eh/ onick entertains for such a tedious mode of West Derby. —Pres. toggnaoroo(seebbns,c.rroruferNh.l—ur.tAjao.lamproof of the mild-
ra tieing and unmaking laws as that by Act of Parliament, mess of the season, a
hutsßl t I t
somew.el l, G.e e
well-formedtib a nk,i sberr coveredie s not
N i :oni
is supported by many high authorities. The Grand Turk
g.trden ar, in the same sate. Such a eircumst
thinks it a very roundabout method, and so did the late Dev of
Algiers. The Emperors of China and ef Russia think, with
attached grallita7
w•ason is almost, we believe, without a
the Chronicle, that such a process is very inconveniently te- precedent. —Aberdeen
herald.
INESE PUNISIINIENTS —Tile most general '
dious, and that edicts answer much better. The King of
Prussia is of opinion that an order from one of his Secrete-
strumcnt of punishment is the bamboo, whose nitean4io; in-
Prussia
of State, and a movement of a regiment of dragoons, exactly defined. The number of blows,
constitute a mech more compendious method of government
purposeA.ltli s u col if
apmrsee,i.icatilsebi precision
rn
nit:
uouerstviynli et:rd:ti
commutablevoi
fd utai
el
degrees of
than that which proceeds through four stages in two Houses
of Parliament, with " divers and frequent postponements." this punishment i shfccior fire or otherwise,
.In short, there is no quarter of the glebe where sub- the apparent quantity of flag-eel:at ions, of
15reate r than
jest man bends submissive to the absolute iwcy of real. A small hollow cylinder, full of talliesulOsie's of wood,
Sovereignty in which our Liberal contemporary would 'stands before the Judge, and, according to the nature's
not find sympathy with its extreme distaste for offeeme, lie tali rs out a certain number and throws them of the
floor of the Coma These are taken up by the atetrneflorin the
the " tedious process of an Act of Parliament." Even
and five blows nominally, but in reality only four, are 1,41""ci
in Timbit,!too it tansy be that our Contemperary's hinge- ,or each. This mitigation goes to the Emperor's credit, biCitne.r.
sheet—if it ever travel so far—will awaken a throb of answer
clime ,
at ihn"de,
ea11e,..16.‘ Imperial favour," and it is in strict cuaormity withi
compassion for the ualiiippv state of Great Britain under the Chinese 'Baxial, that "in enacting laws rigour is necessary;
worn
the operation of its tedious Acts of Parliament. The in executing .xecutieg them,.nter.ey ;" although the converse ha- b• •
Chronicle never before touched such a chord of unit ersal of late generally maintained antong ourselves. The neat t* oLthn
feeling. Be it now the merit of that journal to— merit is time kea or laugue, which has been called the )uo---;
collar, laming a species of walking pillory, in which the prisoner
the
" Spread the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole." is paraded, with his offence inscribed. It is sometimes
But this want of speed in the Parliamentary process of for a month together, and as the hand cannot be p to
law-making is not the only grievance which swells the liver mouth, the wearer must be fed by calve. After it
this enure,
of our Contemporary— in the first place, temporary banishment to a dis'ence not a
" Fervens ditlicili bile, turret jecur." ceeding fifty leagues from the prisoner's home, and the/1 .c--
besond the Chinese frontier, either temporary or for"life,iled
He feels that even were some miraculous agency of Li-
Tartars arc punished by eim equal number of blows with h
beret despotism to give more than railroad swiftness to Le-
%ship instead of the bamboo, and fn ordinary cases with the
gislation—were the gods to annihilate both time and space, Puri;slm.
to make titer Ch ronicle happy—still this would not be lengue inste ad of banishment. The three capital
ments are-1, strangulation; '2, for greater (Attlee, decollation;
enough, for the Tories would obstinately refuse to sanction 3, for treason, parricide (which ranks as petty treason), sa..
an ex post facto law—they would not allow a law of 1838 crilege, See., that mode of execution called ling-Ay, o a die_
to be made applicable to timings done in reliance upon the graeefal and lingering death," which Europeans have sorra,-
law of 1837. This is such a dreadful grievance, that we what incorrectly styled cutting into ten thousand pieces. The
despair of adeq'mately describing it. We must, therefore, heads of robbers and murdevers are publicly exposed in a cage
give the words of our care-corroded Contemporary : suspended on a pole,—Dovis'e China; Library of Entertain-
"We aro to recollect, also, that, if a complete and suffici, nt jay Knoudedpe,