The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-29 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We found it impossible to supply the immense de-
mand which was last night made for the Golden
Sun. And we, therefore, continue to-day the
publication of yesterday's Paper. In addition to
this, as we have announced, we shall commence
to-morrow the publication of an extra Paper in
Gold, with her Majesty's Portrait, giving an
ample and complete account of the Coronation,
which we SHALL KEEP ON SALE FOR
SEVERAL WEEKS, in order to satisfy the
immense demand. Those persons who wish to
have it will please to order the " Coronation Sun.'
Our office was last night lite-rally besieged, and we
had the greatest diffieu!ty, by the help of the
police, to get off our copies for the country. Our
town friends we were compelled to disappoint for
a few hours ; but we hope now to be able to
answer all demands ; though the number of per-
sons employed, between two and three hundred,
makes us unwilling, notwithstanding our deter-
mination to use our utmost exertions, to pledge
ourselves.

To our Foreign readers we must especially say that
the regulation of our Post-office, which closes
against Newspapers at six o'clock, prevented our
agent from sending all his usual papers abroad.
`We take the opportunity to enquire of Mr. La-
bouchere, and the other Commissioners who are
engaged in reforming the Post-office, if any in-
convenience would arise from allowing Newspa-
pers to be received as late as letters ; for an
hour, or even ten minutes, is, for us, some-
times of great importance. The Foreign Mail
Du two nights of the week does not leave the me-
tropolis till midnight ; but the Journals, although
our Second and Third Editions are not published
sometimes till ten o'clock, must be put in the
Post-office before six o'clock, or not go till the
next day. Is there any necessity for continuing
this old, and, we believe, now absurd regulation ?
.`SUN gffice, 112, Strand, London.

WITH WHICH
THE ii TRUE SUN" IS NOW
INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1838.

Her MAJESTY, wo are happy to hear, bas not suffered
any degree from the fatigues of yesterday.

The great day of her MAJESTY'S Coronation passed off
gloriously, in accordance with the wishes of her most de-
voted subjects. From the very earliest peep of yesterday's
dawn, and even through the whole of the night, the streets
were crowded with persons taking up their stations,
and with carriages of all descriptions, carrying com-
pany to the places where they meant to view the pro-
cession or the ceremony. Till long after the break
of this day were the streets never deserted by crowds of peo-
ple, and it does equal honour to the excellency of the ar-
rangements, and to the good conduct of the peop'e, that
there was not through that long period, and amidst such
countless and thronging multitudes, the least disturbance,
nor more than the average number of accidents, when the
same number of persons are pursuing their ordinary daily
avocations. Never before in the world, perhaps, was such
an immense mass of persons collected within such an area ;
and never certainly was such a mass so completely orderly
and well-behaved without any apparent coercion. Honour,
say we, in the very first place, to the good-tempered,
cheerful multitude, who seemed everywhere desirous of
convincing the illustrious foreigners who graced the cere-
mony with their presence, that our liberty is not licentious-
ness, and that the silken cords oi love and affection are
more effectual restraints than the iron bonds of a
despotism.
Honour in the next place to the Ministers, and to all
the subordinate departments, for their wise foresight, pro-
viding for almost every possible occurrence, and leaving,
aided as they were by the excellent temper of the people,
nothing to chance. The length of the procession, the
throwing open the Parks, enticing the multitude to srread
themselves over the most beautiful public lawns in Europe, the
dispersing them by free admissions into the various theatres
and public places of amusement, the palpably intention of
contributing to the enjoyment of the whole, nothing heing
exclusive, all combined to mike yesterday one of the
moat memorable days in the annals of a civilised people.
The Government seemed, like the multitude, desirous
of convincing our Illustrious Guests that it can he strong
without being tyrannical, and that it can estabish and
preserve beautiful and perfect order without being ap-
prehensive and jealous of the multitude. The proceed-
ings of yesterday must, we are sure, have impressed all the
foreigners who witnessed them with a high idea, both of the
great utility of our free Government, and of the excellent
disposition of our free people.
Of her MAJESTY, and of all those who took part in the
ceremony, and of every portion of it, our descriptions are so
ample that it would be trespassing on our readers to repeat I
any part of them here. We shall content ourselves
with saying that whether in the carriage, and acknowledg-
ing with kindly smiles and affable bows the loud and cordial
greetings of the multitude—whether as she slowly entered
the sacred temple where she was to plight her virgin vows
to her people—or whether she was going through that solemn
ceremony which hinds her to the nation—her MAJESTY was
throughout composed and collected, judiciously suiting her
conduct to the different circumstances, and showed herself
" every inch a Queen." For a well trained, mature man,
to go through all the ceremonies of Royalty with ease
and dignity, excites general admiration; but to see the sense
of duty so strong in one so young, as never to permit her,
through hours of tedious display to give way to one apparent
sentiment of irksomeness or levity, is as extraordinary a part
of the spectacle as the countless multitudes, agreeing to
express the one single sentiment of unmingled admiration
for one so young, and of herself so helpless. Strong, how-
ever in their strength, she might well feel assured and con-
fident astheir acclamations made the welkin ring with " Long
live VICTORIA."
We are sorry to see thet ceremony, which the public
unanimity demonstrates to be completely national, alluded
to by sorne of our Contemporaries in a party spirit.
The princ'ples which placed the House of Brunswick on
our throne, were prineiplea of exclusion, and of oppression t 9

large clisses of the people. They were.justified, however,
by the circumstances of that age, and of this and of the
surrounding countries. To act on these principles now
would be to divide and to destroy the empire. Her Ma-
jesty is the first Sovereign of her line who has reigned over
a united people, and she must imitate in spirit the conduct
cf these wise statesmen to whom the House of Brunswick
owes the possession of our throne ; and discarding, when
necessary, all precedents, as they did, must adapt her con-
duct according to the circumstances and knowledge of this
age, to promote the welfare of all her peop!e.
The heavy rain which is now falling, and has been falling
for some time (three o'clock), makes us regard the fine
weather yesterday as Heaven's peculiar blessing on our
young QUEEN.

Next to the delight with which every loyal and gene-
rous-hearted Englishman witnessed yesterday the reception
of our beloved QUEEN and her MOTHER, and of our illus-
trious warrior, the Duke of WELLINGTON, was that
which beamed in every countenance where the veteran
SOULT acknowledged the cheers with which the countless
thousands along the whole line of procession welcomed him
to this country. The people out of doors and the
elite of the people in the Abbey greeted him with
one accord. No French Marshal knows better
than the Duke of DALMATIA how Britons can fight, and
no French Marshal has had such proofs how generously
they can forgive. The ill-timed aspersions cast upon him but
increased the enthusiasm of the public, and the universal
feeling which prevailed must have convinced him that it is
alien to the feelings of Englishmen to treat with coldness,
much less with insult,a brave enemy, who holds out the hand
of friendship and peace. His reception at the Horse Guards
was peculiarly enthusiastic, and the warmth with which he
returned the compliment showed that he valued it, be-
cause it came from those who could judge of his merits.
We have heard that the Duke of WELLINGTON has signi-
fied hi; disapprobation of the indecent attacks made on his
illustrious rival ; but to those who know the Duke such a
disclaimer was unnecessary.
We have said in our Journal that Sir GEORGE MUR-
RAY was suspected to have written the article in the
Quarterly Review, concerning Marshal SOULT ; and
we owe it to that Gallant Officer to say, that we
'lave heard on good authority that Mr. CROKER had
perpetrated that piece of bad taste. We bare heard,
too, that the Duke of WELLINGTON was made aware
of the intention of publishing it, awl requested
that it might be postponed till after Marshal SOULT
left the country, when every Englishman would have hailed
it with gratitude. But the Ex-Orange Secretary could
not curb his malice so long, and so he threw his
stink-pot, which the cheers of the crowd yesterday
must have convinced him exploded amongst his own
friends, and has annoyed no person so much as himself.

Though the Government for the present has withdrawn
the two clauses in the Conveyance of Mails Bill, objected
to by interested parties, little doubt exists that if the pre-
tensions put forward by some of tha proprietors be gene-
ra'ly adopted by the rest, some measure of a similar nature
must be carried by the Legislature next Session. Certain of
these proprietors have for the last few days been ringing
the changes on spoliation and robbery, the rights of private
property, the littleness of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, and the greatness of these undertakings, as if a
railway was private property as much as personal or landed
estates. It is an utter confusion of ideas to call a highway
private property. In a few years all the great lines of
roads throughout the country will consist of railways, and
unless Parliament delegate to some impartial authority or
other controul over them, the Army, the Post Office, the
Government—every establishment, public or private—will
to a frightful extent be at the mercy of a few Com-
panies. Before the construction of railroads, Government
could transmit a dispatch through the Post-office at any
time they judged convenient. We could send off an Ex-
press at any hour of the night ; but without some such con-
trolling power this must cease. The Government and pri-
vate individuals can send off communications only at stated
perio3s, or when it suits the convenience of the Managers
to grant a train—the consequence of which will he, great
injustice and injury to private individuals, and great impe-
diment to the public business of the country. Suppose
the majority of the Directors of some Company are hostile
to the Government, a circumstance not at all unlikely, they
may exert their powers of annoyance in fifty ways—they
may exert them also against particular Companies, es, for
instance, against the proprietors of a particular newspaper,
and give the precedence, in case of some important news,
to one in which they have an interest, to the incalculable
injury of all the rest. We do not say this would often be
done, but if the principle of private property, in the strict
sense of the word, be sanctioned as regards Railways,
this may be done with impunity, and the proprietors
may say, like the Duke of NEWCASTLE, " have we
not a right to do what we like with our own ?" The only
safe way is to deprive them of the power—to place these
great highways on the same footing as all other highways
have ever been ; and allow them to be for the use of the
public, on payment of reasonable charges, fixed by arbitration.
This is neither spoliation nor robbery ; and if one of the
clauses of the Bill can be said by some to involve a prin-
ciple amounting to this, so did the former Mail-coach Act,
by which the trustees of roads were compelled, for the
benefit of the public, to let the mails pass free of toll. We
cannot see how it amounts to anything like injustice, or
why, for the same reason, the same principle should not be
acted on now. On looking, however, at the powers
granted to the Directors of Railway Companies, even with
the exceptions in favour of the public, we are convinced
that a general Bill is required, which shall not only apply to
the Post-office, but to the public in general.

By the packet-ship George Washington, which arrived
sil Liverpool yesterday, we have received United States'
Journals to the 9th instant inclusive. A new Treasury
Circular had made its appearance for the regulation of the
money to be received in the payment of taxes, impo,ts
all kinds, and the price of public lands. It attracted little
or no attention, the prevalent impression being that the
Banks had become too powerful to be any longer restricted
or brow-beaten by the Presidential policy of the Adminis-
tration. Still the Share Market in Wall-street presented
but a dull appearance, and Stock went off heavily on the 7th.
Treasury Notes were at par, and United States Bank Share s
at 121, but there was no activity in the Market. The
Philadelphia and Baltimore Banks were preparing to re-
sume cash payments.

The Earl of DURHAIt met with the most flattering re-
ception from the inhabitants of Quebec, who paid him all
the honours that it was possible for them to bestow upon
the Representative of a British SovntEta N. His Lord-
ship upon landing at once entered upon the high functions
vested in him by her MAJESTY.
The United States Government is making every effort,
in co-operation with the British authorities in the Canadas,
to discover and bring to justice the ruffians who burned the
Sir Robert Peel steamer. Several individuals have been
seized and imprisoned on suspicion. The Canadiins are
exasperated, and if the following account be correct, there
are ruffians among them ready to retaliate in kind the most
atrocious villanies

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