The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

MORNING EDI I:10N

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.)
(From the Morning Post.)
The Morning Chronicle, justly apprehensive that the
British Parliament will not tolerate for another year the
continuance of an unconstitutional fraud, destructive of
the rights of the legitimate constituenciee of Ireland, and
at once derogatory to the character and adverse to the
wholesenne action of the entire Legislature, has begun
to prepare for the dangerous conflict in which it foresees
its -party, which maintains and abets these flegrant
~buses and incalculable evils, will speedily be involved,
by opening against Lord Stanley, the determined and
irresistible antagonist of perjury and fraud, the flood-
gates of tout and senseless invective. Lord Stanley and
the strong and virtuous party in the House of Commons
will see it, this conduct of the Ministerial organ a new
proof tJeat his Lordship isa vigorous and forwidable assail-
ant, P is sure to be a triumphant one, of the abominable
corn options and vices which pollute tie registration sys-
tv'm of Ireland, and pervert it, from its legitimate and con-
eeitutianel purpose of preserving and purifying, to the
wicked and pernicious purpose of vitiating and dsstrov-
iee the national representation. We cannot resist the
temptation to cull a few of the choice flowers of Minis-
terial eloquence with which it is thought decent to pr-
ima,. n nieeaure the principle of which has the sanction
of a sure majority in both Houses of Parliament, and
!tie enactment of which Ministers were on'y able to post-
pone in the last Session of Pardement by the fraudulent
iutroduction of a measure of their own, avowedly for the
same object, but never meaet to be carried. " Infamous
attempt," " Impudent pretext," "Outrageous aggres-
sion," " High crime and misdemeanour," " Pestilent
heatility to Ireland," " Tory harpies," " Unclean birds,"
" Velgar assassins," " Viper." These are a few of' the
amenities by which the organ of the Administration
shows its respect, and that of its patrons, for the
Inliority of both Houses of Parliament, and seeks to
me pare the Irish people for peaceable and dutiful sub-
mission to a future enactment of the Legislature. But
the duty of obedience to the Legislature is inculcated,
and the feelings calculated to produce it are instilled, by
this organ of the Administration in terms yet more
direct and impressive. The Registration Bill is, me
cerding to our Ministerial monitor, " an attack upon the
vital 'principle of Irish liberty, and will, of course, be en-
contacted with the tierce determination of men fieliting
for their being. The vital spark will survive his (Lord
Ststiley's) envious thrust, and serve to excite a fl true
that will scorch and blast him ! The people of Ire-
lend ohallenge him ; strong in their cause and in their
muioti, they call for their destroyer, hold forth the tem-
pered steel, and bid the viper try his teeth again."
From ail this, for it is not mere raving, rational people
eviti draw only one inference, viz., that the present
Ministers of the Crown have arrired at the conviction
that they must go out, and have begun already to ope-
rate upon the established system of' Whig tactics, in
the persuasion that when once more upon the Opposi-
tion benches en insurrection in Ireland might he a
useful and convenient incident enough. The Whigs
isrel the Morning Chronicle are doomed in this instance
to be disappointed. Lord Stanley's Bill will be car-
ried, and there will not be an insurrection in Ireland to
compensate and console them.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Amongst the many important questions bearing upon
tear tereign and colonial interests, little has been said,
for some time past, about one scarcely less too-
mentoin than any which has recently occupied so
much of public attention—we mean, the question of
:iie north-eastern boundary line. The adjustment in
a letisfeetory manner of that point is indispensable to
the maintenance of our North American possessions.
-We have jestice on our side,—and, we may be said to
lute e necessity. It is impossible to yield to the de-
mestela on this subject of the Republicans of the United
tetee, without virtually ceding to them possession of
else CanaOss. The Canadas are of infitlite consequence
to Great Britain. In itself; the country is of prodigious
value ; and its race of British colonists is unsurpassed
in al; the beet social qualities by any people on the
face 'if the earth. Of the political importance of the
Cenactee, it is difficult to form too high an estimate ;
their commercial importance is absolutely incalculable.
This United States were lost to Great Britain by
gross mismanagement on the part of our rulers. The
conversion of these States from dependencies of the
British Empire into noisy democracies has not (as we
venture to think) added much to the sum of human
Lappiness. England lost, at the time of the change, a
!Large portion of her dignity and moral influence ; while
she has since gained an extensive, precarious, and at
times unprofitable foreign trade, she has, to at least the
same extent, lost a secure and most valuable colonial
commerce. The United States have become scenes of
hustle, noise, and money-getting. In that country-
-" the new country" as the inhabitants delight to
itts rn it—reany of the least amiable feelings of' our
wits:ire have full scope, and amongst these unamiable
feelings, we may be permitted to class the sentiment
of deep hatred with which Great Britain is regarded
by all in America who incline to the democratic
.faction. Let the deep devotion with which the inter-
ests of England were defended by the loyal Canadians
clueing the late troubles, be contrasted with the bitter
enmity which the democrats of the United States en-
tertain towards the mother-country, and then let the
most profound adept in the casuistry of " liberalism "
venture to say, whether the stock of kindly feeling hes
.not been lessened by that, the first of our modern "
enema revolutions," and whether any cause that shall
seatiice to weaken the bonds of affection between men of
the some race, be likely to stregthen the solid interests
of the human family. Whatever be the value of these
suggestions, about one fact, at all events, there can be no
dispute ; and that fact is, the longing desire of the whole
democratic party in the United States to wrest the Ca-
nettles from England. The northern republicans have
'.learned to regard every portion of the soil of America
its theirs by a sort of indefeasible right. They do
teeterminate the red Indians without scruple ; and
they would, if they possessed the power, exterminate
this Canadian asserters of the supremacy of England
with quite as little hesitation. The English power in
Canada is a source o? w eakness to the federal re- '
public. That federation is, in all probability, destined
to endure for but a brief period. Often already has
,it been on the verge of disruption. Let, however, the
'period of ite existence draw to a close, while the
sower of England slisll remain unshaken in Canada—
atm{ it is ler from being impossible, that the next ge-
neration of Englishmen may witness the re-union of
a large portion of the United States with the British
Empire. The possession of the Canadas, at any rate,
places the United States, in the event of a war, to a
„great extent, at the mercy of England. The posses-
:;ion of the Canadas places at our disposal the ener-
gies of a hardy, intelligent, and most loyal race—fur-
niches harbours of the best description for our vessels
of war—and enriches U 3 with the materials of a colonial
trade, which, if wisely prosecuted, might render the
experises even of a formidable war of little moment.
in point of real value, a colonial trade is second only
to a home trade. Compered with the colonial trade
which England might easily create, her foreign trade
is absolutely contemptible. The advantages of a colo-
nial trade are, in fact, the advantages of a home trade
on a smaller scale. A colonial trade is free from
flia insecurity that attends all foreign trade. A colo-
Alial trade is [ICY 2r afflicted with " panics." A colonial
grade is, in short, susceptible of regulation by the
resters, with whom it rests to regulate our home trade.
The colonial empire of Great Britain might afford
curl's scope to industrial enterprise, and might
be undo to minister, in a degree scarcely calcu-
lable, to the wealth and power of the mother coup
wry. True it is, undoubtedly, that the tendency of
modern e philosophy" is to represent colonies as worse
than useless—as " burdens" on the parent State. Let
it not be forgotten, however, that the tendency of the
sank " philosophy" is to represent a large portion of
.our labourers—the real strength of every country—as
•'' a surplus population," and, consequently, as " a bur-
e'ieti" on the country which their energies enrich and
6e"Ceed. The beautiful "philosophy" in question de-
eilitues, in 'manner, the monarchy as a " burden"—
tee order of nobility 113 a " burden"—the Church as a
'• burden." Private charity', too, is, (if the tenets of
he accepted) a pernicious
A
philosophy" may
line ; while a pubic provision for the
eis
lassed amongst the unforgivable sins..ffs
-
irons of our nature. as well as our most
honoured
insti-
tutions, rank, in short, according to the Malthusian and
philosophy," y
free-trade e I h • "in the category of " burdens"—
,
riot in that of " nuisances." Our noble colonies can
afford to be classed with our labourers, our monarch,
and our nobles,

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
If is a lucky thing for the Tories that Sir Robert
°
Teel ;$ the son of a cott
n.
!turned *lie fact to account in :s inner. Having himself
one of his speeches. his
;nalinirers follow their leader ; and the glory of institu-
tinos that allow the lowest
elhl'i
in origin to become the
11;i0c.st in station, is now an st IV common-place
tii iof Tory rhetoric in addressing multitude. In the
,!earth of popular topics under which the party labours,
such d theme is quite a godsend.
C
Orrative Associations it is invalu ible.Conservativetings it may be used as a set-off against cheap thep "'-
c-M e
tall:0- 1
und extension of the suffrage. The Walsall T'anr vbr"ii
. didate has grasped it greedily, and we beg to a
passage from his Wolverhampton speech '
following'
tftLet beauties of Gladstone already enumerated : to
"'The object of the Conservative Associations was to build
icaf .not ,`o destroy. The well-disposed operatives of the
,coslary felt they had a common welfare and a common in-
-terest in the .noble institutions of the land ; they felt that
•the;r benefits were not confined exclusively to the rich,
the noble, and the great; but that, under the happy and
'ell-halanced Constitution of England, the poorest subject
oniyht rise to attain the highest position in the land, and
that hi; int Niest, his comforts, and his welfare, were equally
rootected at, d studied with that of his more fortunate neigh.
urs._.(Loa Id cheering.) They saw numerous instances
of persons wh, ) once walked in a humble station of life,
enjoying th , en vied and highest honours which it was in
the power al. this couutry to bestow ; and he hoped and
they would be enabled to witness .
'believed that many SlMl-
lar instances."
On the face .01 it, this promise goes rather too far.
Those who bold -Oitt 80 4agnificent a lure ought not,