The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-12 00:00:00

New to 15/ ; Blackvvail, * to s ; London and Birming-
ham 80 to 81 ex. div. ; South Western were 14, and
New North Midland 34 prem. Brighton Shares were
8* ; Greenwich 11A- ; 'South Eastern and Dover 15/ ;
Manchester and Birmingham 8 ; Midland C, unties
11 ; Northern an 1 Eastern it ; and North Midland
1 1 } discount. ; London and Westminster Banl.-. Shares
were 4* premium.
The following is the official return of the exports of
the precious motels from the port of London in the
week ending Thursday last
Silver Bars to Rotterdam 64,000 oz.
Petcrsburgh
" " Calais 190,000
" Coin to liamburgh
64 41 Petcrsburgh
g. " Mauritius
Calais 20,000

4 ii

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Another Parliamentary Session has now complete]
its addition to the evidence that the Tories have per-
manently forfeited their chance of governing this
country. The Session has been one of frequent, severe,
and sometimes desperate political conflict. They have
not gained one inch of ground. No single ray of addi-
tional brightness beams upon their prospects. The bar-
riors to office remain insurmountable. Chieftains and
followers return to their homes with wasted spirits and
impaired energies. They know that not to have gained
is to have lost. Not to be nearer the object of their
desire is, for them, to be farther off. The sickness of
hope deferred relaxes the sinews of the party.
Hard will the task be to get up the steam
for another venture, which their sinking hearts
already tell them will be not less unproductive than the
last. Every year that passes over the Tories in ex-
clusion from office, is a welcome addition to our
national history. It prolongs the moral retribution
which has at length f ,Ilen upon our ancient oppres-
sors and plunderers. It strengthens the presumption
that the national bar upon the faction is irremoveable.
But there are circumstances connected with the Session
just closed which enhance this gratification. It was
ushered in with loud and insolent threats. The days of
the Ministry were numbered. The alleged blunder of
Sir Robert Peel, the year before, was to be amply re-
paired. A new system of Parliamentary tactics was
announced, the effect of which was to be as resistless
as that of the French revolutionary generals against
the antiquated and methodical tacticians of the
continental armies. Ministers were to be cut up,
and cut down, and cut out, without mercy. The
tone of the party offers a sad contrast at the end of
the Session with what it was at the beginning. We
have not seen the word " re-action" for a long time.
Confident assertions that Ministers should be com-
pelled to resign are replaced by pathetic provings that
they ought to have resigned. The new tactics of the
Quarterly have turned out to be nothing mere than the
ancient tactics of Captain Bobadil. The crest-fallen
blusterer almost lacks heart to vow vengeance for next
year. There has been, throughout the Session, this
particular beauty in the efforts of the faction, that
while they failed of obtaining power, they were certain
of losing character. Much, for instance, was hoped for
from the attacks by Sir James Graham and Mr. Glad-
stone, on the conduct of Government towards those
more than semi-barbarians the Chinese. To oust the
Ministry on such a point was, indeed, a desperate spe-
culation. No party, conscious of real strength, and
having faith in its own prospects, would have selected
it. But what was the result ? Something infinitely
worse than simple failure.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The Morning Post has taken occasion to make the
elevation of the Governor of Canada to the Peerage
the subject of an attack upon that gentlemen and the
Government. We never expected that the policy of
Mr. P. Thomson would have been approved of by the
Post ; but we think our contemporary has made
rather an infelicitous choice in selecting the Bill for
the settlement of the Canadas as the subject of con-
demnation. The fact is, that this Bill was received
by the House of Lords with nearly unanimous ap-
probation ; at least in this instance they found it
inexpedient to make this measure a party ques-
tion. If it has been in any degree impaired in its
efficiency by any " amendment" introduced into the
Bill by the Duke of Wellington, it requires an ob-
liquity of judgment, which we do not envy our con-
temporary the possession of, to attribute to the ori-
ginator of this measure, as a fault, that it has been
rendered " null and inoperative" by a political op.
ponent. We should be glad to know what useful
measure has not been impaired in its efficiency by the
" amendments" of the obstructive Peers in the Lords.
In this case, however, they thought it more for their
credit to pass a measure for the pacification of the Ca-
nadas, than to endanger the connection of that colony
with the mother country by refusing to pass it. The
Post, with a consistency peculiarly its own, states that

this measure was " undefended by his colleagues,'
although they have rewarded him by recommending
him fora peerage, and that the union of the Upper and
Lower provinces of the Canadas has been made a pro-
minent feature of congratulation to the country in her
Majesty's speech. If this Bill was " undefended by
Ministers, and displeased all men of all parties," as the
Post alleges, we should be glad to know by what
means it has become the law of the land. With regard
to Mr. P. Thompson personally (now Baron Sydenham)
every one who has had the honour of his friendship
and confidence will look upon the attack of the Post
with unutterable disgust. Diligent as well as
perfectly acquainted with the business of his
office, he was accessible at all times, and in all
places, to all persons who either sought information or
required advice. To the party with which he acted

he was a staunch and zealous friend, and scrupled
no surrender of time or labour in order to aid them
in the accomplishment of the views and objects which
they had most at heart.
( From the Morning Herald.)

In her Majesty's speech there occurs the following
gratulatory mention of the completion of the Legisla-
tive treason to the Protestant institutions of Ireland :
—" I have gladly given my assent to the Act for the
regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland." As
the speech is the conjoint production of the Cabinet,
we are at no difficulty in referring the above passage to
its real authorship. Normanby is as much the slave of
O'Connell in the Home-office, as he was on the Vice-
Regal Throne of Ireland, where he played the " fan-
tastic tricks" of a Popery-bestridden puppet. The
disgrace, and fraud, and infamy of the Spanish bucca-
neering war, or the protocol slaughter of Antwerp, or
the costly itinerant inanities of the " Bowring job," or
the violence and blood of the opium war, were not
more certainly brought upon this country by Lord
Palmerston than the establishment of O'Connell's

normal schools of political agitation" by the Nor_
manhy and Morpeth " section" of the Cabinet.
" Gladly" have those Ministerial corps of the Irish
repealer obtained the Royal assent to that deed of sur-
reader, which transfers the Protestant fortresses of
Ireland into the hands of the haters of the Saxon race
and religion. It was on the battlements of those for-
tresses, thus foully delivered up to the enemy, that the
flag of constitutional liberty floated in the crisis of that
great struggle which ended in defeating the machina-
tions of the tyrant power of the Vatican, and placing
the house of Brunswick on the throne. That flag is
now torn down, not by Whig hands alone. The isor-
manb)s and the Morpcths, who bow in abject
sycophancy to the mendicant impostor of Ireland, had
I the assistance of men filling a high place in the
Conservative ranks, and professing to be the deposi-
tories of Conservative principles. Even O'Connell,
familiar as his mind is with every form of political
baseness, cannot conceal his disgust and contempt for
the conduct of the " Conservatives" who have thus
grossly betrayed their sacred trust, and given him the
most powerful lever ever placed in his hands for the
dismemberment of the empire. The repealer of Ire-
land and the Recorder of Dublin, like the two solemn
but amusing quack doctors described by the graphic
pen of Goldsmith, aad whose names, if we recollect
right, were Rock and Franks, may now " go tt-
gether hand in hand, smiling onwards to immortality."
But the malignant hostility of O'Connell to Protes-
tant principles and institutions, is not quite so bad ai
the treachery of their pretended f iends. Saul perse-
cuting the saints was Not so odious as Judas betraying
his master.