The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-07 00:00:00

(From the Morning Pay.) •
It may be proper to notice a most discreditable vein of
chicanery which runs through the whole of the documents
presented to Pilliament, that are of the manufacture of
British functionaries, whether in Asia or Europe. We
allude to the studa:us separation of British subjects end
British interests in China into two classes, the class of
opium smugglers, and the class I.f British subjects engaged
in the lawful and permitted commerce with that country ;
and we mention it because the habitual and conventiona4
falsehood which excited, and was calculated to excite,
in China, no other feeling than contempt, may pro-
duce upon some portions of society in Great Br-
tain an impression utterly incompatible with soy just
estimate of the transactions in which the public function-
aries of our country have been, and arc about still more
deeply to be, embarked. It is evident that this assumed
distinction had no foundation in fact, and that from the
moment when the Chimeie Government showed itself to
be really in earnest in the enforcement of its law sgsirst
the importation of opium, all reference in argument to
feel' ru irivrg;iirtry diAinetion became merely ridiculous,
and all measures of resistance to the Chinese regulations,
which assurecd its real existence as a necessary part of their
justification, became merely wanton and unjust.
(From the liforning Advertuer.)
Captivated by the melodious applause which bar ReCCM-
' parried the late achievement of Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham has dunned his armour, and sounded the trumpet
of defiance in the cars of the Mmistry. It is natural that
these brothers in apostasy should become brothers in arms,
rind that they should unit,: together in assailing the enure
front which they simultaneously deserted. That men of
kindle feeling and generous dispositions will view such
union with aversion and disgust, is a matter of little C0112e•••
qutete, si
• ' lon, as it meets the approbation of those who
s,ck the power of rewarding it wish office, and gffords
an opportunity of indulging party animosity and personal
spite.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
We are told that the embarrassments which have ar:sssit
in our intercourse with the Chinese have been occasioned
entirely by the " wrongheaded conduct of the Whigs" in
sending out " men-of-war," such as Lord Napier and
Captain Eltiat, and in giving haughty and irritating in-
structions to those " bellicose Commissioners." Sir James
Graham, who, as a Member of the " wrongheaded Whig I
Administration," wiiich sent out the " bellicose Commis- t
sinners," is responsible for that measure, and for the
in
structions denounced as " haugbty aid irritating." will
find himself in a position of some embarrasamest if any
his Tory allies follow the example of their leading organ, }
and interpret the Right Honourable Baronet's MO" as a
" vote of censure on himself for his acts in the day's when
he was a Whig."
(From the Morning Herald.)
The war into Which this country hes been pliii)ged by a
reckless Government, on behalf of the opium smugglers
of India, is a war so unjust in its principle--so immoral it.
its motive—so detestably br.se and sordid in itscrigin, east,
and character, that let its military results he what they
may, it can bring nothing but disgrace and ignominy to
England.
Ilud this war of the foulest aggression ever comititted
by a nation calling itself civilized upon another supposed-

to be far inferior to it in all the resources of martial eon,-
filet, been the work of a Tory Administration, the Whigs
would, before this time, have stirred up the whole people
of England to oppose and denounce it—they would have
organized public meetirgs everywhere—they would have
expressed their reprobation of its injustice in strains of
indignant eloquence—they Would have stigmatized it as
one of the grossest and most barbarous violations of the
law of nations arid the principles of public morality that
had disgraced Europe since the " dark ages," and the
Whigs would have heen right. •
(From the Times.)
The affair of Ohina is terrible enough. It is the case of
a lawless and accursed traffic, to be bolstered up by a
flagitious and murderous war. Nor is there the shadow
of rat argument, or even of a pretext, in defence of the
Government, which has involved us in these calamities.
Ignorance, arrogance, and ruinous want of principle have
swayed all their proceedings since the hour when they de-
posed the East India Company from its eminence, and
took upon themselves the administration of those duties
and powers which they had compelled it to abandon. The
remoteness of the great centre of our Chinese e.;tnrflerce
from the seat of empire here would have made it in the
estimation of a wise or conscientious Minister an object
of tenfold solicitude and attention. In the e!es of Lord
Palmerston the distance of the scene was held to be a
sufficient apology for dismissing it altogether from his
thoughts.