The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-09 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION•

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
'no daring feats of the celebrated Van Amburgh in the New
Historical Drama of " Mungo Parke." with his incomparable
Collection of Lions, Leopards, and Tigers, has already created
•he utmost astonishment—thousands have witnessed the won-
derful effects, and he will appear every evening till further
notice.

THIS EVENING, JULY 9.
Will hearted a New Draw atic Spectacle, entitled
NIUNCO PARKE ; OR, THR ARAB OF THE NIGER.
Kaila, the Arab, by Van Amburgh, in which character he
will be attacked by a leopard and a tger, and finally encounter
th,: whole herd in their dens.
To which will be added,
THE WET NURSE.
Tn eonclude with the New Village Tragedy, entitled
THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S

DAUGHTER.
Realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress."

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIRD WEEK, and INCREASING ATTRACTION Of
BEETHOVEN'S
EXTRAORDINARY BATTLE SINFONIA !
GRAND PROMENADES MUSICALES ET
CHAMPETRES,
By Godfrey's unrivalled Band.
11,e vast Panorama al Fresco of Iceland and its Volcanoes, by
Danson—Breaking up of the Ice—Melting of the Snows—
Release and Departure of the Discovery Ship.
Carter's astonishing " Koniaphostic," or "Lime Light.
Eruption of Mount Hecla, &c.
Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Programe of the Concert for July 6th, 7th, and 9th.
Overtures—Semiramide, Zampa Waltzes—Dle Kosenden,
rower of Len'lon (composed expressly). Quadrilles—Krako-
viak, Falstaff. Aria--" Vivi tu," with Cornet obligato.
Quartetto—" Aht a ;C erl.". Pas des Amazonea. The much-
admirr>d popular Airs from " Robert le Diable,"
Grand March—Die Templar and die Juden. And
THE GRAND BATTLE SINFONIA,
The chef d'oeuvre of Beethoven,
Revived with more than its original effect and grandeur.
ADMISSION ONE SHILLING.
Concert commences at Six.

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even will make them better acquainted, and more 1
desirous to secure them. The privileges of the
Highland chieftains were decaying before the rebel-
lion destroyed them. The rights which the
Standard would suppress are growing every
day in strength. Close to the Canadians
there is a people possessing similar rights,
anxious to impart them, and desirous
of having the Canadians in union with them.
England at a distance of thirty days' sail, and
could only carry out the policy of the Standard,
if at all, at an immense and continual expense. It
could not ultimately be successful. The time must
come when the cotony will claim an independent
national existence ; and the Tory policy would,
therefore, make the union as irksome and ruinous
as possible while it lasted, and make it end in strife
and hatred. Coercion is the principle of the
Standard—social misery, both to the colony and
the mother country, would be the result.
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LONDON:
THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1840.

The Lords did not meet yesterday.
The Commons did not do much, but they promised a
good deal. Mr. KELLY, for example, gave notice of a
Bill to enable freemen of boroughs to vote for elections
of Town Councillors. Mr. GROTE gave notice of his
intention to call the attention of the House to a peti-
tion respecting New South Wales. Mr. T. DUN-
COMBE gave notice of an aidress to release THORO-
i,OOD. And Mr. HUTT gave notice of a motion reia-
tve to the Sound dues. All these are promises of
work hereafter. Some, however, were suppressed,
;ter. Sergeant TALFOURD withdrew the Copyright Bill
till next SesFion, and put an end to that.
The petitions were numerous.
In reply to Lord SANDON, Mr. HOGG stated that
measures had not been taken to separate the East
India Company from the growth of opium in India,
though the question had occupied much of the attention
of fie Directors.

The Bill for authorising the Cornmere'al Treaty
Riffs AnstriA was read a first time.

Oa the fertlier consideration of the Report of the
Sale of Beer Bill being moved, Lord SANDON pro-
posel a clause to prevent beer being drunk on the
tirerniies. After a short debate, the clause was re-
jected by 91 to 47. The Report was received, and
the Bill ordered to be read a third time.

The House was for some tune occupied with the
Dr:linage of Lands Bill in Comndttcc, and three divi-
nions took piece on different clauses. The Bill was,
'however, carried through, and ordered to be reported
to-morrow,

The Marriages Act Amendment Bill also went
through a Committee.

Mr. F. KELLY'S Bill to abolish Capital Puoisbments
was read a second time without opposition. The Hon.
Member explained that he had prepared Bills to cx-
tend the same law to Scotland and Ireland. Mr.
Fox MALLS informed the Hon. Member that he
should propose some amendments in Committee.

The Standard is sensible that its remarks are I
blasphemy against the prevailing, theory of Govern- I
ment. Its principles, when men must not he
hanged for great crimes, are those of the iron
hand. It would carry back society, so far as Go-
vernment is concerned—for we have never heard i
that any Tory ever wished to get rid of rail-
roads, steam-boats, gas-lights, &c. —to the \
fourteenth century, or even to the time of So-
LOMON. There is to be progress in all the
arts, in all the sciences, and in knowledge, but go-
vernment is to retrograde and be in a perpetual con-
flict with advancing society. The practices of '
statesmen have been too often in conformity with
the coercive maxims of the Standard; in general
they have acted on the principle that their duty was
to oppose and coerce the multitude—to oppose and
coerce society, and the result has been an immea-
surable quantity of misery inflicted by Government
on its subjects. The Standard and the Tories
would continue that system, and would inflict even
more misery in future than has been inflicted in past
times.

The principles applied to Canada are equally'
applicable to Ireland. Ireland has resisted. Ire-
land is now waging a " pettifogging Parliamentary
rebellion" against the Tories; and if the " prudent
and vigorous statesmen" of the Standard were in
power, England would at one and the same time re-
duce by force Canada and Ireland into submission
to Tory despotism. A hopeful prospect for the
nation the return of the Standard's friends to
office holds out to it.

We showed, in a late article, how grossly incon-
sistent and insincere the advocates of the Nun In
tausion humbug had proved themselves in limiting
their principle, as they call it, to the keeping out
unaccep•able ministers, in,tcad of extending it to
the pulling out of settled ministers coming within
that definition. But this contraction of their very
accommodating " principle," is- only one of many
evidences, all tending towards the same point—the
proof of their hypocrisy. " The people !" " the
people I" is their constant cry. '' The rights of
the people must be maintained at all hazards r
This has a sound of liberty with it which deceives,
and is intended to deceive. When, however, we
come to inquire. who " the people" are, we get a
practical illustration of the well-known story of the
three tailors of Toolev-street, who called themselves
the people of England. Dr. CHALMERS, in his
Veto Act, limits " the people" of a parish to a
class so conveniently small, and so peculiarly qua•
lified, that, whenever it is expedient to black-ball a
presentee, they will never prove refractory in the
hands of the godly ministers who happen to reign,
for the time being, in the neighbouring parishes.
To say that the parishioners are to be decimated
in order to create the Reverend Doctor's " people,"
would be very far within the mark. For, in the
first place, all are excluded from " the people" who
are not communicants. Secondly, from the com-
municants are excluded all the weaker vessels.
Thirdly, from the male residue, thus purged—ch,
shame l—of the fair portion of the congregation, are
to be weeded out all those who have not attained

The Parochial Assessment Bill went through a Com-
mittee, and vas ordered to be re-committed.
The House sat till a Quarter past Eleven o'Clock.

the age of twenty-one years. Fourthly, this last
When no Statesman of any party has ventured remnant is to be still further winnowed of those
d
to go further than express a strong hope that theisreputable persons who are not fortunate enough
Canada Government Bill will be found, from ex-Ito hold the rank and station of heads of families.
perience, favourable to the prosperity of that
It thus appears that a very disgraceful contrivance
has been resorted to, by the Nen-Intrusion Clergy,
Colony, and not hasten the dissolution of the poll-
to narrow the objecting constituency,—the snore
fleal connection with England, which in the nature
disgraceful, when it is considered that the ministers
of things must take place, we may be excused
for not taking any warm interest in a measure of have the privilege of conferring or withholding;
the qualification at their pleasure, as they exer-
ruch doubtful and distant utility. In modern times
the opinion of reflecting men' has been generally i cise the irresponsible office of admitting to
hostile 'to those paper constitutions by which igno- 1 the communion table or debarring from it—
rant, hut ardent politicians have pretended to confer
a power liable
greatly abused. How the plan works in
practice may be understood from the fact, that into great abuse, and very
freedom and happiness on mankind ; and we see
often
no particular reason for exempting the new con- ,
stitution for Canada from the general rule. The the populous parish of Daviot, containing nearly
hundred persons, the number of qualified
essence of prosperity theme is an increase of people ;twelve,
e oo'ctors to the settlement of a late presentee was
spreading themselves over the yet untitled soil. I it ,
i tea, three of whom were for, and seven acrainst
Such a social condition requires less a complicated 1 Ju.s , ~,
this . ,
him : ret is the system which Dr. CH AL -
system of law and an operose machinery for making
-
1a,,55 like the old country, than a tolerable means of I MERS and his clique would fa ten upon Scotland
a
protecting life and property, and liberty to expand. under the shameless pretence of extending the
Growth, rapid growth being its vital principle, a rights of the people I
The late conduct of this consistent champion of
cumbrous system of laws which will not expand 1
i
Non-Intrusion exhibits him and his followers in a
with it, and a law-making machinery perpe.,
view. We have seen how the
truly picturesque .
tually shaping 'new restraints and restrictions, diminished b the
number of qualified persons isy
seem to us hoStile to its welfare. We cannot, the Veto Act, how the "people" are
provisions of .
therefore, share the enthusiasm of some of our Con-
reduced to dimensions so manageable that the Veto
temporaries about the Canada Bill, and looking at i . .
reality,though indirectly, placed in the hands
1 is in
the condition of England, we should have much
of the Clergy, while these holy men profess to
preferred remedying grievances at home, to making
give it to their flocks. In the excess of their disin-
new constitutions for a distant colony.
terestedness, the Non-Intrusion Clergy have even
The case of Canada, however, was one on which
made it a part of the Veto Act, that Presbyteries
the philosophy of Viscount AIELBOURNE, who so
shall have no cl• • iscretionary power, but shall be
lately explained his dread of the principle of com-
ho d to
un reject the mi nister whom a majority of
'
pulsion to do something, must have been put ,
the ccpeople," without reason assigned, have re-
to a rude trial. The rebellion there, the suspen- jetted. This is a cunningly simulated moderation,
sion of the constitution, and the supposed im-
with disgusting which they try, with disausting cowardice, to
possibility to govern the colony as at present, corn- by . . . '
evade all responsibility for these acts which they
com-
pelled the Government to do something ; and how-
themselves have done through the instrumentality
ever much what they propose may be carped at, i
of .
. tow subservient creatures, the well-sifted majo-
their opponents in both Houses, admitting the ne-
ray of the communicants.
cessity of doing something, have confessed that
they have nothing better to propose, and therefore Let us now see how conscientiously these mono-
have they given an almost unanimous consent to Polisers of conscience have acted with regard to
'the Ministers' Bill. Lord ABERDEEN'S Bill. The publication of
It may be recommended still further to the the correspondence which passed be!ween his
public, perhaps, by noticing that the principal objet- Lordship and Dr. CHALMERS on the subject,
lions to it completely answer one another. One while the Noble Lord was concocting his Bill,
person says it is intended to annihilate the rode- throws a flood of light upon the character and ma-
pendence of the Lower Canadians ; another, that tives of the Non-Intrusionist leader. There we see
tis giving all the power into their hands, and re- the cloven-foot p • eeping out, under the Geneva
warding them for their rebellion. Neither of these gown. There the
religious
mountebank appears in
is its principle, nor will either be its effect. It is his true character, playing off his antics at the to-
intended, undoubtedly, to assimilate the two colo- tal sacrifice of everything like principle or con-
nies by the application to both of one English sistency. First he tries to coax Lord ABERDEEN
standard, but, it will only annihilate the French into his views of Kirk Supremacy, by appealing to
Canadians by amalgamating them with a more his Lordship's political partialities, althogh he pre-
powerful race, and it will only reward them by re- tends to be horrified at the introduction of politics
ducing their former power. Without being enthusi- into the question at the Perthshire election. " I
astic in favour of this measure of remote g„d for a grieve to think," says this pious shuffier, " I grieve
distant colony, we are satisfied that such a free to think that the Committee, while it consented to
Government can inflict no great harm on either the a very tame disclaimer of all participation in Mr.
Lower or Upper Canadians. DUNLOP'S movement, should not have acqui
Of all the politicians who have discussed the esced in my indignant disavowal of our having
subject, the Standard seems to us the wildest. any political views." Indignant disavowal I So
Ultra in all things it seems desirable that the ub- this Reverend Gentleman's high religious preten-
lie should be made aware of the consequences of its sions allow him to stoop to the convenient morality
doctrines. They will then know what to expect of Of " indignantly disavowing" the truth. Whether
its friends when they are in power. Injustice and Dr. CHALMERS had any political views or not
rigour are the main pillars of the despotism it let his own words determine. On the 28th of Fe-
would erect : bruary he thus writes to his Noble Correspondent :
44 Here," it said last night, "as in all general measures e c confess to your Lordship the chief anxiety
of policy we must,' to do a great right do a little wrong e which
II:et ea
feelon the subject. It is, lest in Parlia
and in the case of the French Canadians the wrong of an meatle I now
Government do the same' thing which-
the friends of
..,
absolute disqualification of their race, for one generation, they miniature at the election
would be a little wrong indeed. If all did not take the' of
fnseehm to be now doing mon _ .
d their opponents in the
field in the flagrant rebellion, all were implicated in the popularity of
thattheir is,
measure,gob
beyond
with no other view than
pettifogging parliamentary rebellion that preceded the to make ihee' harvest of the consequent division__
open war, and to that war all were assenting parties. The thus sacrificing
ownthe
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object of a settlement to the
patriotic
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question of justice is therefore plain. If we lived in the party object of . their own politics. In thes.., critical cir-
age of prudent and vigorous statesmen, we know how the cumstances it is 0,-v •ous ly of first-rate importance that the
French Canadians would be treated—as the Scottish Conservatives should
far they might
be aware how go
Highlanders were treated after the rebellion of 1746_ with wisdom and safety. I feel persuaded that, as a body,
protected in Ile and property, but governed by force, they will make no compromise
ofprinciple, and it is
stripped by force of their local and generic distinctions, therefore all the more desirable that this principle should
sod by force nationalised. Let the same course be pursued I be in ready coalescence with the full extent to which the
in Lower Canada, and we have the authority of the pre- t element of the popular will might be carried in the election
cedent for expecting that in twenty years the French Ca- of ministers, In a word, I should like, if they could con-
nadians will be a loyal people, qualified to co-operate cor- sistently with their own views of right
and duty, not only
Whigs,
dully with their countrymen of British descent, in what- be upside with the W
, gs but if they could s% far out-
e..er may be conducive to the common good. Let any run them as to maxe the meanire their owe. Yeur
other course be taken, and we may prepare for the return Lordship already knows that, supposing the first, which is
of Messre. Papineau and Mackenzie." really the greatest interest connected' withthis' question
Let question
Let us see what would probably be the result secured—l mean the spiritual indepen fence of the Church
of this policy. The Highlanders had no aid or 1 omneatshuereCofivlivl
onC7nrttrl—sioYnoiug azi
hi e.andy know how small the
resources, but what they could derive from ,1 us; but this does not supersede thew°
quilled. s t 1 oa" s
nloyr many
m k'
of
France ; and a people twenty times as numerous as ' useless, how large the measure of Non-Intrusion might
themselves, and far better organised, were at hand , be, that would not prove hurtful to the Church as a pure
and efficient inlstitute for the Christian «decation of the
to overawe them. The rebellion was less for pri- i
yileges and rights than for dynasties ; and though
PeonleelastjtV'c7 ofscentsLttoona tvheirsy
,giersetait lat,ftude and my
the clans marched at the command of their leaders,' ,great , ,/
day this
q ~ i..
On Cite next day indignant disavower of poli-
it concerned no popular rights, and commanded no '
. • vital vied s intht.:-.•: the ro]luoiing. precious dear-
extensive popular sympathies. The rebellion in ;
' '
ration :
Canada is of the people, and for popular ' ht
rig s, "1 ain quite aware of the worthless policy of the Whigs,
with which every dispute, every contest, every day hi ii vY...C- is to outdo in popularity the measure of the Con, !