The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-11 00:00:00

THE CHINA SUN.

" Tug St'n's" MAP or CIINIA.—The spirited and enter.
prising proprictots of The Sun newspaper published in their
last Saturday's paper, an excellent Map of China, together with
a very accurate and ably written account of that most in-
teresting country. At the present time, when all eyes are
directed to the proceedings of the British forces in China, every in-
formation of this kind wiil be sought after with avidity. The Sun Map
cannot fail to prove of great assistance to those who are now watching
the progress of events in that far-off region. We trust that the enter-
prise of the proprietors will meet with its due reward. One of the
striking features remarked upon by The Sun is the vast population
of China. " Each province," says our Contemporary, " contains
more inhabitants than an European kingdom of the average size,
and a couple of them are more populous than the two powerful king-
doms that sway the destiny of the world, France and England. Pe-
tche-li, the metropolitan province for instance, contains 27,990,871
inhabitants, while the United Kingdom has only 25,000,000, and
Kiang-tsulmaintains within its comparatively small boundariesmore
people than the whole of France. On looking at this province on
the map, one is astonished how the people find room to move past
each other ; yet with these many millions, a handful of men from a
small island, some fifteen thousand miles distant, are about to con-
tend, or are now engaged in combat."—Leeds Times.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
The French Radical papers (for example the National)
are making use of the deft it announced by the Finance
Minister as an argument against the present electoral sy tern,
and mixed institutions. We admire the ingenuity of this di-.
tort ioa. The system purs tit d these ten years, say these sages,
has landed us in a defcit of 800 millions, on the heels of those
of former years. •‘ For these ten years," says the Natiowd,
" the deficit is the normal state of our finances. Notwith-
standing the unparalleled increase of the receipts,
ex} enses of all kinds have beei so augmented, that,
in order to cover them, it has been necesaary to have
r coutoe simultaneously to loans, and sales of na-
tional property. Do you know what has teen the
amount of deficits during these ten years? From 1830 :o
1840 they have risen to above 800,000,000. For 1840, 41,
and 42, we are promised (approxirreAtively ) an insufficiency
of 839,000 000. Thrjuste milieu will therefore I.ave cost us
in less than 12 rears a deficit of at least 1.6'19.000,000 1"
Thu juste nvliett ! What department, Fritlice, of tee
juste milieu policy is fairly chargeable with these enor-
rnaus financial extravagancies? Is it tie juste milieu
that has insisted on the cot q :est of Af, ica ? 13 it the
juste v.iiieu that has kept Germany in a state of incessant
alarm, by continually recurring incitements to march on
her Rto nii-11 provinces? Is it the juste milieu, finally
1 :hat has roared for armies exceeding Napal.•on's, that the
. farce of M. 'fliers. policy might acquire the dignity of a
tragedy ? No : the juste millieu, in all these instances, has
been freed, by tile Radical pressure, to yield, in some
el,,c,Tree, to a policy which all moderate peliticians have
dTrtmated. The original source of financial embar-
rassment dates firm the Nspolconi:e era, and the succes-
sive additions are owing to the restless spirit which survives
that m a, and which leoka primarily to execs roil acquisith ns
for national greatness. Now this has I,E' f, n the spirit of t! e
Radicals, not of the juste n ilieu The same party who cry
out for electoral reform and democracy, have always upheld
must vehemently the expensive possession of Algiers, the
projects of Rhenish re-cor quest, of defiance and warfare
against Europe. These have been the main scurces of
financial burthens, and financial deficiency—the acurces of
that rn mstrous addition to those burdens, and that defi-
ciency, which has just been made by the Ministry which
leaned on the Radical party for support.
(From the Standard.)
The r•ekrented tenant in a country like Ireland cannot
he independent. The landlord may coerce him, through
the ageecy of temporal power, or the landlord may leave
him to loinaelf, when the priest will coerce him by eget:-
cies both spiritual and temporal. Landlord and prito.t
may struggle for him, and as it were tear him to
pi• ces between them—hut who will call the itate of the
unhappy creature a state of independence ? If the landlord
do, s his duty, then he will not let his land to the highest
bidder; he will Ist it to the man who offers a fair tent,
but such a rcr.t as affords a reasonable prospect cf in-
el•pendcece to the person paying it ; every farthing
demand: d or received beyond such a rent is the price
of a public trust betrayed—it is the bribe for which the
receiver commits a great detriment to the commonwealth,
and the greater the amount of excess the greater the crime,
because the more abject must be the dependence imposed
upon the elector class. But the Irish landlord has not ful-
filled all his duty when he has selected a tenantry, resolved
to secure their independence of his (the landlord's)
power, by engaging to pay no more than a fair rent
He is next to insure that his tenants shall be in all respects
worthy of the elective franchise, by being as inde-
pendent of all other persons as they are of himself.
How an Irish landlord is to effect this, except by
preferring a Protestant tenantry whose independence
of all beside himself, be may assume, or Roman Catholics,
who hare given proof that they are independent, the
Morning Chronicle will find it difficult to show.
But the landlord's duty goes a step beyond choosing
an absolutely independent tenantry. If, as Lord Fitz-
. william has said, influence is a good thing, the land-
lerd is to look for a tenantry, whom, without daring to
coerce, he may hope to influence. But how can a landlord
hope to influence a class of persons, of whom it has been
boasts 1 that they would " return two cow boys" at their
priest's command, in scorn of the wishes of any landlord,
and who have, indeed in practice, neatly realizcd the boast ?
(From the Courier.)
It is a fact, which patrons ought to recollect, that at this
moment they have the majority of those who are legally
the ministers of the Church of Scotland, standing by them
in the exercise of their patronate rights, without their sa-
crifice to the prejudices of the people, and entertaining the
opinion, that in their thus discharging the trust com-
mitted to their hands, they will best promote the peace
and piety of the country, and the best interests of the
Church. There have, no doubt, been introduced into
the Church Courts men who arc stvampin; their le-
gally constituted members ; and these are, almost to a
man, marshalled against patronage : but fortunately the
status of these intruders is soon to become a matter for
decision in the Civil Courts; and no one acquainted with
the law of Scotland entertains a doubt of the result.
We would have the patrons, however, to bear in mind,
that even should a decision be given, that these guo-ad-
:-acra Ministers have been legally vested with rights in civil
matters which they now exercise, the victory is still in
their own hands. While a tottering Administration like
the present is tolerated by the country, their triumph
may be the mote remote ; but an honest Conservative
Government once in office, and their triumph will not be
postponed beyond the twelvemonth. We are glad, in the
meantime, to observe so many symptoms of the patrons
having come to their senses ; and the clamour which is
now raising against them by "the wild men " of the
Kirk, is proof that they are striking into the true line of
defence, so far as their own rights are bound up in the
question—tale true Conservative policy, so far as the best
interests of the best of all of our national institutions in
the north are concerned. We would, on high public
grounds, entreat of such patriotic Noblemen as the Dukes
of Buccleuch anti Argyll, and other patrons of rank
and influence, to bear in mind how much it is within
their own power, by a proper dispensation of their
Church patronage, to stern the torrent of lawless con-
tempt of all constituted civil author ity, which has
broken out in Scotland, under the auspices of men who
ought to have been the last to raise so dangerous a
storm. Nor is it. the truly noble fabric of the Church of
Scotland alone that they are called upon to preserve.
We have laboured hard to convince them that if the doe
trines that arc now promulgated by such men as Dr. Chat
mars and Mr. Candlish are sanctioned by the country,
the days of the Church of England are also numbered,
And it is with no little satisfaction we observe from the
pages of Blackwood's Magazine, that our views are enter-
tained in quarters where their advocacy may be expected
to produce the most beneficial fruits.