The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-18 00:00:00

EVENING EDTION.

that the active sympathy and generous interposition
the Government of the United States should not be
withheld from so benevolent an object, and he has ac-
cordingly directed me to instruct you to employ, should
the occasion arise, all those good offices and efforts
which are compatible with discretion and your official
character, to the end that justice and humanity may be
extended to those persecuted people, whose cry of dis-
tress has reached our shores.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN FORSYTH.
John Gliddon, Esq., United States Consul at
•
andria, Egypt•

CANADA.
The Toronto Examiner of Wednesday last comes to
ttr
us in mourning for the death of Lord Durham, with a
long and highly eulogistic notice of him. It says that
his loss will be severely felt in every part of the British
empire, but in the North American colonies it will be '74
irretrievable ; that generations yet unborn will be
taught to revere him as the benefactor of their country.
Governor Thomson has recently been making a tour
in Upper Canada, and at the last accounts be was at
Niagara Falls. He was received with great cordiality
in all places through which he passed, and lie appears
to be gaining ground in the confidence and affection of
the people.
An effort has been making to change the scat of Go-
vernment in Upper Canada from Toronto to Kingston, ,f 1
but it probably will not be successful. The Governor 44.
is said to have expressed the opinion that Kingston was
too near the frontier for the purpose. -,S;)
The electioneering campaign is fairly ulder way in e
Upper Canada, Te Montreal Heralt states, that
there are different rumours respecting the time of meet- 40Pd
ing of the provincial Parliament. One goes that the• rdl
proclamation will take place in January or February,
and another, which does not mention the date of the
proclamation, but asserts, that the meeting will not take
place until after the opening of the navigation next
spring, if even then. roa
The Governor-General has power to delay the pro-
clamation of the Union for fifteen months, from the t23d
of July last. Within thirty days after the proclamation
he is obliged to declare the parliamentary limits of the
cities and towns ; but he is obliged to call the Legisls" •
Lure together only within six months after the date
of the proclamation. Within fourteen days after the
sealing of the instrument for summoning the Parlia-
ment writs for the elections must be issued, and re-
turned before the expiration of fifty days. So that it
appears his Excellency might, by the Union Act, delay
the assembly of the Legislature for about twenty-eight
and a half months reckoned from the •)3d of July last'
But were the proclamation of the Union to bede-
layed beyond the last day of the last session of the
Upper Canada Parliament, that Parliament, according
to constitutional usage, would have a right to assemble
and proceed to business. The provinces are in lavi!.
as yet, separate, and will continue so until the date et
the proclamation of the Union, but it cannot be the in'
tention of the Governor-General to delay the proclaim'
tion so long as to give life to the old Parliament et
Upper Canada, and certainly not to issue new writs for
that province r.lone. So that practically the procla-
mation must be made before the end of March--thet
being about the time of the prorogation of the Upper
Canada Legislature, if we remember rightly.
STATE OF CANADA.—MORE INCENI*

AItISM.
- The quiet of this unhappy province is every now And
then disturbed by the French Canadians. The follow'
ing particulars have just reached us of an outrage cool-
mitted at Hemingford, on Tuesday last, the 18th inst.:
" From the depositions taken on the inquiry which
has been instituted, it appears that about two 0'c100.,.
A. 5., on the morning aforesaid, the barns of Messrs'
Fisher and Mr. Atkinson, of Hemingford, were dis-
covered to be simultaneously on fire. By the exertioes
of Mr. Wilsie, justice of the peace, who resides in the
vicinity, the alarm was quickly given, and as soon As
daylight appeared a search commenced, and there beiog
a heavy dew upon the ground, the footsteps of threhe
persons were distinctly traced across the lines ; and Sere
had been the promptness of the pursuit, that they Were
soon apprehended and taken before Mr. Harden, a ma'
gistrate of Champlain. The names of the incendiarie‘
arc—Jean Baptiste Fournier, Pierre Monclos, dit.,,i4f,"
Tulippe, and Eustache Seguin. When before .1'.13.;
Harden, LzeTulippe confessed he had participated in tto
outrage, and by his evidence clearly brought 11°1118,, of
his accomplices, to Fournier in particular, the nrlril-ecl,
setting fire to the buildings in question ; and slat
to
moreover, that it had been the intention of the part the
set fire to other barns, which was prevented 11
barking of some dogs. garden
" The evidence was so conclusive that Mr. —,hint;
decided upon convicting the villains, but, not WI, he
to take the sole responsibility of the act upon hiMsel' s..
called in the advice of Mr. Hubbell, a brother M3gl t
trate and a lawyer. The latter gentleman decided tlin
the laws of the United States could not take cognizance
.
of offences committed in Canada, and instanced the case
of Dr. Holmes, the murderer, as one in point, and de;
creed that the prisoners should be forthwith discharged
which was at once acted upon, amid the cheers and
acclamations of the assembled mob. Amongst the
mist conspicuous of the mob for the release of the
villains were Mr. Bromley, the Custom-house officer'
and Mr. Blakely, the road commissioner ; these gen-
tlemen declared openly that the act was perfecof
justifiab!e, and the prisoners con!equently guiltless ;;
the eye of the law. Immediately after this suroonr.
!
i
disposal of the business, as if to acid insult to iejurl
warrants were issued against the Messrs. Fisher the°ll,
Atkinson, who had gone over to give evidence to i.na
facts before stated, which obliged them to 'Taos tie.t,
line with all speed to avoid being arrested on the P,,
of having brought false charges against the misc,reaniye
who have found so much sympathy on the south ' at
of the line 45 deg. In the search, which took Placei 0
daylight, nice of the matches intended to be used by t`,lt
villains, and which La Tulippe confessed to have I°-;
was found near one of the consumed barns. It nn"ci
sists of a long piece of twisted cotton wick well stacPc
in turpentine, and terminating in a cartridge of ut?:
powder, to which is appended a roll of cotton similar '
steeped. La Tulippe, in the course of his confe3siliT,
stated that there would be more burning aboutt the
same time in the interior, alluding, probably, to
Uhambly and L'Acadie fires."

THE EASTERN QUESTION.
(From the Royalist Journal, the Quotidienne.)
olio
The- English journal which first revealed to the Poo
the understanding- of the Four Powers in the Ea', of
question—viz., th. Morning Herald, published in °llaclis
its last numbers, the tenor, if not the text, of four thesea
tional articles to the treaty of London. Two out of tba
four articles have especially been commented on 12f als
French Ministerial press. We re-produce them here:eess
though we had published them already ; for it is $: to
sary our readers should have them before their OF", to
understand snore clearly the observations we are g°111.7„..
lay before them. The two articles are the following a ott
" In case of need a Russian army shall be directed the
Asia Minor, and placed so as to cover and del," tio•
capital of Turkey ; but the Dardanelles and the lions
rus shall be closed against ships of war of all ns
whatsover. . aple;
" The auxiliary troops may proceed to Constantli," 11 0°
but they shall withdraw as soon as their services 3PII
longer be requisite." the
This last article has not been translated alike by last
press. The Ministerial Journals in the place of the
member of the phrase have inserted the follow°40;011
" They will remain there so long as the Sultan 000
udge their presence necessary." And thence I's ire
burst of anger against that madman (eerveau brute I loci
Palmerston, for not having managed to shelter Pg
from the snares of Russia. t"
It might be asked, are the articles publishe- diesel
Morning Herald authentic? The Sun has contr°, that
them. But we believe, though we do not affirm 1;t, fef
they really exist ; and our principal reason, at
.10 more
the first article is, that it is at bottom nothing
c•ries
of
than the diplomatic formula of the incessant
EnMaglaF,d. las t"
rk, that it shuts up the Bosphorus as vfel f
.Dardanelles ; it prohibits, therefore, Russian ship a-entlY'
from entering the Sea of Marmora, and, eon" Con'
the Emperor Nicholas can no longer send a fleet lied by
stantineple. He is, recording to an expression aPPhia the
M. de Lamartinc to Mehemet Ali, consigned wit
Black Sea. he par*
Well ! this double closing of the Bosphorus anclte placlt
It
dandles is European jurisprudence ever since
I."s jab
the
Sea first bore a Russian ship on its boso rkY
bosom.
risprudence which Europe proclaimed Tatterwhenc bar
powerful, and which England invoked in 1804' t.e pars
ing failed in her attempt to force her way througli t'
la
daneDoll es. goo, e
you know on what principle Lord Palmer,. ro th
1833, grounded his demand ot an explanation !r°tj nitiar°
Russian Government respecting the Treaty, o
g' .0011
Cora,Skelessi? Why, precisely on the principle of ra, He
two passages giving access into the Sea of Marilwr
„
treaty
said to Russia, " According to the terms of Y - ci,faoGe'
the Porte, which can afford you no effective be
at oar,
binds itself to close the Dardanelles, should you la_esvarcif
with an European power; but you do not saY 715i1, h"
the 13osphorus. Will it be closed also ? •orisr 11_
Fur if the Bosphorus be opened you violate the Jot alio!'
deuce of Europe, and
it." Thersfore the first additional article
.to vnkla
of London i 3 a renunciation of the Convention_oolcdod,
Skelessi, and is, consequently, a concession te
England must not, irreStfr
ia
At the same time it is a g:iarantee of the gas'
and integrity of the Turkish empire. for i dervrtaostao
of the iacility of anchoring her vessels before
Ere'
tinepie. article, t"
According to the terms of the second aro.-
peror Nicholas may send troops to the Sultan()
to defend his capital ; but those, troops are tr:),0,.ba.10
by the Four Powers, but they arc to be ensba
the
ug*
merchantmen, and are to remain but so fang
83
, e slavAe
may consider their presence necessary. t no. -10ar.
They are to be counted, because they nitsu:rked an
the Ottoman empire they are to be
eT:n Close" ,11' tithe
merchantmen, because the Best supporte
ships of war. They cannot, therefore, u
'ireatY call o°l
navy ; and should the non-execution of the fleet c"." were.
Allied Powers tsi Cous'autinopie, a Russiae,,es a,
of
be placed beforehand across the Dardannecteiviq ofex:erra
Ia short, the Sultan is left judge !of thebeeaoe' ifihdeVen
leg the Russian troops in his capital
iated his IP
not, the allied powers would have oo tc?-chceoluPrl-te..dci