The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A certain old lady, who has long figured among the best
possible public instructors, as the dullest of the dull, con-
trived on Saturday last to be exceedingly amusinc, by a dis-
play of ignorance and stupidity not to be paralleled in mo-
dern journalism. The following forms part of a leading
article of the Morning Herald:—
" Whilst, however, Lord Durham has been ' conciliating'
the Americans, and toasting the health of their President, how
have the men of the United States been acknowledging his
Lordship's civilities ? Let the following most expressive state-

went supply the answer ! The narrative, be it observed, is
taken from one of the United States journals 1
[FROM THE NEW YORK INQUIRER, AUG. B.]
" The steam-boat, Bunker-hill arrived in our port
yesterday, having on board some 200 discharg ed Canadian
volunteers, who had been taken on board at Malden, to be

landed at Chippewa. They were dressed as all militia
usually are, as suited their fancy, and their colours were
as various as their dresses. They were accompanied by
their officers, and were very civilly behaved. Notwithstand-
ing this, however, a number of blackguards soon gathered
round the vessel while she was discharging her freight, and
commenced abusing the men, and ultimately pelted them wig:
missiles. Captain Homans, of the Government steam-boat
Alilwauhie, having, however, been applied to, he stationed sen-
tinels to protect the strangers, and the rabble dispersed. We
trust a strong example will be made of some of them for their
disgraceful conduct. The same game. we hear, was played at
Toledo and Cleveland.'

" This outrage, let it be noted, was committed on the loyal
subjects of the Queen of England—on men admitted to be
very civilly behaved'—not at an American outpost, near the
scene of the late disturbances, but in the city of New York.
The outrage in question is, in truth, but an embodiment of
those sentiments towards England which animate the breast
of Mr. Van Buren and of the vast majority of his fellow-
countrymen ! And it is to the authors of such a disgraceful
violation of all international courtesy that Lord Durham de-
lights to truckle !
If Lord Durham shall remain in Canada, Canada will, in
all probabiiity, be lost to the English Empire. Let Lord
Durham be recalled ; and let his place be supplied by thirty
sail of the line, and by thirty thousand additional troops. Mr.
Van Buren would, then, adopt Lord Durham's policy, and
truckle in his turn !"

Nothing in Foote is richer than this exhibition of Grand.
mamma. Mi den, at which the steam-boat Bunker-hill

takes on boar-. 1 200 discharged Canadian volunteers, is
situated at th 6 bead of Lake Erie, on the Canada side ;
and Chippewa, at which they were to be landed, is also on
the Canadian side, near the isle which was the theatre of
General Van Ranselaer's operations. The distance be-
tween Malden and Chippewa is only about 300 miles.
Grandmamma, however, makes the steam-boat with the 200

volunteers descend the Niagara falls, a mere nothing of
course, and touch at New York, about 800 miles off, to
reach a distance of only 300 miles. The port at which
the steam-boat touched, whence the letter published in the
New York Enquirer was received, was probably Buf-
falo ; but Grandmamma, seeing the extract in a New
York paper, with most magnificent disdain of
geography, at once brings the steam-boat with
the Upper Canada volunteers to New York, and
makes, not an American outport, but the city of New
York itself, the scene of an outrage which the old lady
opines should lead to the instant recal of Lord Durham.

Let Lord Durham be recalled, and let his place be supplied
by 30,000 additional troops ! Captain Bobadil could have
imagined nothing more magnificent. How Grandmamma
could have contrived to pass through this Canadian insur-
rection, and find herself now in such a blessed state of igno-
rance as to suppose the city of New York on the way be-
tween Malden and Chippewa, is most extriordmary,
making all due allowance for the state of her intellect.

The story told of a statesman of his having pored over a
map of the Netherlands till his eyes were near blind with-
out finding the Scheldt, which he could not recognise in the
French L'Escaut, is far outdone by the New York feat.
Into what a strain of indignant eloquence the old lady
bursts forth ; and how Lord Durham must quake when
Grandniamma's order of recal first meets his eye!—Morn-
ing Chronicle.
We have already stated, that no sooner has O'Connell
escaped from his hypocritical penances at Mount Melleray,
having got absolution and paid his bill, than back he re-
turns to his extra-conventual species of Trappisin ; and, by
way of indemnifying himself for his seven days' nominal
abstinence, rushes afresh into his old excesses, which again
will doubtless be settled for at his next pantomimic shrift.
Our readers would observe in Saturday's paper, that fol-
lowing up the precursorship of his iceregal avant courtier,
who travels a post or two ahead, flinging open the gates,
emptying the gaols, and discouraging the interference of a
constitutional magistracy, the anointed knave has com-
menced, at Cork, a regular circuit of political dinners, or
(as termed by himself) a series of "influential meetings,"
by the help of whose ignorant and drunken clamours he

vows his determination— never to rest till all he wants
is gained. Taking care that his demands shall be such
as afford little chance of his vocation and tribute being
speedily put an end to, lie details in extenso what alone will
satisfy him ; glances at the encouraging support which be
gets from a profligate Government ; sets forth the difficulties
and obstacles which still lie in his path ; and, finally, points
out the means whereby, he affects to think, they will ulti-
mately be overcome. Ireland, it seems, must have " a per-
fect equalization with England," that is, as he explicitly
declares, the same privileges to 40s. freeholders, the same
municipal reform, the same elective franchises, the newly-
adjusted rent-charge for tithes totally abolished, and, above
all, the same number of Representatives in Parliament !"
On this latter point, unless equality can be otherwise
gained, " O'Connell announces his resolution to kick some
.50 English Members out of the House of Commons without
mercy. Twenty-five boroughs are to be disfranchised at a
single stroke ; and, alas for the Harwich consti-
tuency, the work of destruction is to begin with
them. The rent-charge for tithes is also sentenced
to death. Improving upon Lord Howick's memorable
declaration, that the Tithe Bill was satisfactory only in as
far as the Irish Papists might be cajoled for a time to put
up with it peaceably, his Lordship's full-grown pupil is
already straining every nerve to excite and envenom that
hostility to the measure for which he can safely plead the

suggestion and apology of even a Minister of the Crown. I
Fortified by Lord Ilowiek's unguarded sanction, which,
after all, probably arose from the Noble Lord's habitual
distress for ideas rather than from any deliberate convic-
tion of its propriety, O'Connell doubtless feels that as long
as that Minister is undisniissed there are no extremes on.
the tithe question to which he may not betake himself
with perfect impunity. Accordingly, he now
tells les
myrmidons that all necessity for stealthy conspiracy is at
an end. The dark and dawn need no longer be re-
sorted to, as a covert for their insurgencies. The Peep-
o'-day Boys, as he assures them, may forthwith conic out
"in the full noontide of the sun." " A rent-charge," he
says, " is only another name for tithes exacted from
the tenant ;" and unless a total abolition be conceded,
he will arouse the hostile energies of the entire country—
" the Union shall be prostrate, and Ireland free." Of
course such miscLievous and bombastic foolery as this is
not to be reasoned on, except as between the head of the
Cabinet and his incautious subaltern ; but since the char-
tered agitator expresses such a longing that the two coun-
tries, should be " the same" in 30 many defined particu-
lars, we only wonder that he did not add " the same in
taxes, the same in manufactures, the same in religion, the
same in shipping, and, above all, the same in unmitigated
contempt for trap and Trappists, of what order soever."
In reality, few things could give us more pleasure than to
see such an equalization effected, provided it were really
" perfect ;" but this the blustering mountebank has no
notion of. With respect to the Whig Cabinet's willingness to
encourage and assist him, he at once declares that he gives
them all manner of credit for sincerity, but frankly confesses
that" they can do nothing." Contrary to Lord Palmerston's
electioneering boast when promising a ball to the liberal dam-
sels of Tiverton, Mr. O'Connell admits that the Whigs have
dwindled down in public estimation, till at last they have
scarcely a bare majority ; while poor Callaghan, one of the
twin Members for Cork, laments that the Irish tail, instead
of having leisure, as in former Sessions, to take their mur-
phies and whisky in comfort, had latterly " enough to do to
keep the Ministry in power." To say the truth, the pro-
gress and strength of the Conservative
party were'
descanted
on at this Cork cabal with rather more candour than satis-
faction; With the sound and constitutional views of that
party the immense majority of this country was justly iden-
tified ; and hence the cab allers were entertained with a tor-
rent of vituperation against "England," such as the prince
of slanderers himself has rarely, if ever, given vent to
before. Having declared that the chief obstacles he
has to contend with arise from the Conservative cha-
racter of the Legislature, and from the " hatred" which
all classes of Englishmen bear to Ireland,. alias himself
(of whom he says "
they aredailygrowing worse") he winds
up all with a fitting
appeal on behalf of his Precursor
Association,"
imposes upon each member the duty of beat-
ing up for recruits, talks of
is chosen delegates shall not
in organizing " a great combination
of mind," and announces that h
only hold public meetings England, but go " from member
to member" in the House of Commons, offering them the
short alternative of " equalization or repeal."hions
of
a seatForo nuir-
selves, we have never felt particularly amt
to
it
encounter Irish
Parliament, nor have we yet to learn that
impudence is a pretty formidable affair ; but, certainly, in
the prospect of these threatened importations and impor-
tunities, we should like vastly to see the mortal delegates
that would venture to twitch our sleeve on any such mission
as theirs. We should be strongly tempted to show them
that their doctrine of " member to member" is susceptible
of an illustration more honoured in the breech than in the
observance."—Times.
It is an important truth that charity should begin
at home. It is no less true, however, that it ought not to
end there. These two propositions are joined together by