The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-31 00:00:00

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, IMO.

We had no wish, in the few remarks we yester

day made on the condition of South Australia, to
weaken the urgent appeal which the Colonial Ga-
zette and Spectator make for pecuniary help for the
colony. It will most probably be better to aid the
colony, than allow it to be destroyed. Lord.JoHN
RUSSELL must find himself much flattered by the
compliment—" That he is not apt to shrink from a
suitable responsibility," coming from those who, in
relation to this subject, have spared no term of
opprobrium they could with any propriety heap on
him ; but he will not be flattered into going beyond
his duty, even to rescue the WAKEFIELD principle

from disrepute.
" South Australia," we are told, " has never
vet appeared in the estimates ;" and we hope that
he colony may yet be saved, without taxing the

labourers of England. If it have in it such as-
tounding elements of prosperity as is said, there
can be no difficulty in the capitalists there procur-
ing all the requisite supplies from their London

friends, without taxing the public here, provided
the government of the colony be placed under pro-
per control, and provided the persons whose pro-
perty will be answerable for the debt can be rescued
from the mismanagement of any and every Colonel
GAWLER. Self-government, or implicit submis-
sion to the parent State, which shall afford protec-
tion in return for all the patronage and income of
a Government able to tax the colonists at its plea-
sure, is necessary to the preservation of the colony,
and neither seems to us compatible with great success.

The principle of Mr. WAKEFIELD'S scheme
is to transplant an old society into a new world.
It is expressly founded on establishing there the
right of property which exists here ; and begins,
like the monopolising landlords here, with exact-
ing a large rent, or price, for the use of the land,
It professes, indeed, to employ the money so raised

in sending out labourers, or serfs, to till it ; who)
when they get there, are to labour, less for their
own benefit than the benefit of those who send
them thither, and have monopolised the land. It
has been expressly stated that the object of the
scheme is to prevent labourers from becoming land-
owners, and to keep them labourers. That may
promote the speedy colonization of the country,
but it involves all the vices of the old society, and
it especially carries with it, and establishes there,
Me same monopoly right of property in land and
over labour which exists in England.
The obvious consequence of that is, that the
society must be coerced somewhat like our own.
The bulk of the people cannot be trusted to make
laws for themselves, or they would obviously begin
by abrogating that particular right of property
which is established in the colony against them.
They must have a Governor something like the mo-
narch of the old country, appointed by the Govern-
ment at home, or they .must submit implicitly to the
mother country. Such a colony, by the very prin-
ciple adopted by Mr. WAKEFIELD, carries with it
all the political vices of our society, and requires a
system of coercion to keep down the bulk of the
labourers, somewhat like that which prevails at
home. That again involves waste and extrava-
gance, corruption :Ind misgovernment, such as now

prevail in South Australia, such as Colonel GAW..
LER has been guilty of, and which we consider as
necessary consequences of the WAKEFIELD scheme.
Though the old plan of a body of men going
abroad, taking possession of land, or squatting
on it, and appropriating as much as they could use,
carrying or not a charter with them, and govern-
ing themselves as they best could, with such help
from the mother country as their wants required,
or as their success attracted—though the old
plan, which was followed on first planting the
waste of North America, was full of hardships,
which time and knowledge would enable men to
avoid, we prefer it to the plan of some persons,
whether constituting the Government or not, seizing
hold of large tracts of country, and allowing no per-
sons to occupy it who cannot pay a considerable
sum for every barren acre they may s ish to bring into
cultivation. The first and only colony yet completely
established on the WA KEFIELD principle is in great
jeopardy, and can only be saved by means of help
from without. The friends, therefore, of that prin-
ciple, admit that it has failed where only it has yet
been tried, and it may henceforth be expected that
he and they will be less forward in vituperating the
Colonial Administration for not at once foregoing
all the plans acted on for years, and acceding to
all the schemes and recommendations of Mr.
WAKEFIELD.

Nothing is more remarkable in the conduct of
the Tories, than their practice of opposing every
kind of reform; and, where reform is accomplished
in spite of them, of seizing it, and endeavouring
to wrest it to their own purposes. This feature in
their character, has attained for them the political
name of—Flunkies of the Whigs. They continually
wear, with great thankfulness, the cast-off clothes
of their masters. Like ambitious flunkies acting
high life below stairs, they assume, with the cast-
off clothes, the names and airs of their masters,
call themselves Reformers, and demand public re-
spect for their apeish tricks. They stand by the
Reform Act, they would improve registration so
far as that would exclude their opponents, and they
were even ready, as they could not help themselves,
to lay their profane hands on the ark of the
Church, and cut off some of its prebends and minor
canons. They see the Whigs hurrying on from
reform to reform ; and on every new territory gained
by the latter, the Tories plant their banner, and
cry aloud—See how great and victorious are we ?
The most extraordinary specimen we have yet
met with of this disposition to assume the mantle
of the Whigs, and call themselves great politicians,
was exhibited by the Standard last night. It ac-
tually called the Revolutionary King of the Bar-
ricades, " the Patriot King of the French." It
spoke of Louts PHILIPPE as "a wise and brave
man." It gave him credit for great ability in put-
ting a curb on the Parisians, and declared that
the Citizen King, the revolutionary usurper of the
throne of CHARLES X., -" governs the kindly.
natured
people of France honestly and in good
spirit." What the Tories will not worship, if' it
be adorned with success and use coercion as its
means, it will after this be hard to say. If Mr-
O'CONNELL should overthrow the Union, and ins
stal a Parliament of his own in College Green,
then the Tories would call him the Patriot
O'CONNELL, say he was a wise and brave man,
and that he meant to lead the good-natured
Irish honestly and in a-good spirit. Should the
Eastern quarrel go no further, we shall be than'
to it for having made the Torits sh'

Our readers will find in another column a letter
;rom Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH to his consti-
tuents, the inhabitants of Leeds, elucidating his
views on the Eastern question, and deprecating in
the strongest terms any conduct, on the part of
Ministers, likely to produce a war with France.
We yield not to the Hon. Baronet in our horror of
war, and no war presents so many horrors to our
mind as a war with France ; but the very horror
with which we regard war, compels us to support
the policy which Ministers are pursuing in the
East. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH asks, with an
air of scornful incredulity, if we are going to war to
preserve Constantinople from Russia ? We trust
that we are not going to war at all; but unless
France be mad enough to mar, by her hostility,
the good effects. of all that has been done, we are
prepared to prove that the Treaty of London is
fatal to any designs of Russia upon the capital of
the Ottoman empire. By that treaty an end was put
to the sole pretended guardianship of the Porte by the
CZAR; the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi was torn to
fragments and given to the winds ; and it only re-
quired the signature of France to convert it into the
most potent moral instrument that ever existed for
rolling back the tide of Russian aggression from
the shores of the Bosphorus. That a nation so
clear-sighted as France should not sce this at a
glance, only proves to what extent an overweening
vanity a constant self-love, and self-seeking
egotism, is capable of disordering the mental visicn
of the acutest people in the world.
Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII,COIOIICITHOMP-
sox, and the whole of that school of oriental poli-
ticians, treat the contest between the Paella of
EGYPT and the SULTAN as an affair beneath con-
tempt. Now, as it involves the very existence of
the Ottoman Empire, we cannot treat it thus lightly.
These gentlemen forget that England took no part
against the PACHA till after he had officially an-
nounced'to the Consuls-General of the Great Powers
at Alexandria his determination to proclaim his
independence. If Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH
has forgotten this important fact, we recommend
him to refresh his memory by turning to Colonel
CAMPBELL'S despatches from Alexandria, which
have been laid before Parliament by Lord PAL-
MERSTON. In one of these papers, dated " Alex-
andria, May 25, 1838," he will find the British
Consul-General thus writing to Lord PALNIER-
STON :—" I have had the honour to report to your
Lordship, in several despatches since my arrival in
this country, my opinions as to the intentions of
MEIIEMET ALI to endeavour, by every means,
to throw off his allegiance to the Porte, and
that sooner or later he would declare him-
self independent." After referring to his
fscourolm-loGenrleenl
ccelespatches on the subject, the Gallant
arlalel)d continuedov,.nimi‘ii.ncfaoosr
mc
iefiodEl 1w :LomETes
FhTree hn
liclslat fore-
noondC t Con-
sul-Genera na -t
(t—itlhae:
morning a long interview with the PACIIA, who
declaretive andhselhimself
unequivocali.ndepteeirmmiesn it h avr.t
hadl:
e wtaosl d
rhesimolviendptoosi
the Porte." A few hours
CAMPBELL waited on the PACIIA by appoint-, 1
ment, and here we shall again quote the Very
words of the despatch r—g, He (the PACHA.) said
that he had requested me to call ,-
...pon him in
order to communicate to m- .
... his fixed resolve,
f which nothic _
g should divert him to ' ,de-
clare his indepen'4'ence of the Porte. That he was
between twq swords, his family and
the Great
Powers ; that he had taken his present resolution,
from which he would not swerve, as the interests
of his family ;lernanded it ; and he then
requsted sst to inform my Government, as
early aa •
Pos;ible of his fixed determination."
This, :
'ffe Oink, is pretty conclusive upon
.01g }lead. Now, had the PACHA been
.0041 allowed to proclaim his independence, his
diem,- next step would 1
have been to make war ou the