The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING FAPYILS OF Tills DAY.
(From the Morning Herald.)
The whole system of British colonial empire has been
recently exposed to the severest shocks—a little further
pressure, and the fabric may fall to pieces. Few problems
in politics can be proposed more difficult of solution than
how the Canadas may be most efficiently governed ; yet
such has been the influence of misgovernment—lnch the
course of recent events—that the task of attetnptiug a so-
lution may no longer be postponed. Of the various diffi-
culties that present themselves, the vast extent of the Ca-
nadian territories—the differenoe of races—and the effect
of long-existing animosities, constitute most prominent,
although not the only obstacles to the success of the Mi-
nisterial project. It-has long been apparent that the Ca-
nadas must be better governed than they have ever yet
been—or that they must be abandoned. In Upper Canada
a democratic faction has long striven to effect the incor-
poration of the Canadas into the federal union. In Lower
Canada the French inhabitants have for fifty years been
anxious to withdraw themselves from the dominion ot Eng-
land. The weak, vacillating colonial policy adopted is
this country has ministered to popular discontent, and to
the spirit of democracy in a vast variety of ways : the re,
suit is, that the Canadas have, for a long time, been ren-
dered dailjess valuable as a source of power to the
mother county.
( From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Bishop of London, in the House of Lords on 'Bats-
day last, emphatically pledged himself to the doctrine that
the Church (21. England is not founded on liberty of cola.
science. It has not been our practice ever to receive im-
plicitly, as Gospel, the declarations of a clergyman who
has so largely and actively mixed himself up with other
concerns and discussions than spiritual, as his Lordship of
London. The purposes of the partisan soust sometimes
taint the predications of thy
-Prelate, even when he is most
within the limits of his proper sphere. And as a different
conception of the Church of England was expressed or
implied in the remarks made by two or three usher Pro.
lates, on the same occasion, there can be no great pre-
sumption in our suspecting that the Bishop of London's
dogma savours of heresy. If it be received as a feet, we
can only say that the Church of England is thereby cont.
pletely unprotestantized and denationalized. A church not
based on liberty of conscience cannot be a Protestant
church. It abjures the very principle of Protestantien,
It denounces the Reformers and the Reformation. It
forfeits all claims to the property and revenues that are
held on the tenure of Protestantism.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
We rejoice that Mr. Pigott has, with the sanction of
Lord Morpetli, brought in a Bill fur reforming the abuses
of the Irish Registration, in defiance of Lord Startler and
his boasted majorities. The House of Commons will thus
be enabled to choose between oppression and protection—
between adherence to the Reform Bill and the first step in
a retrograde march towards the exploded system of nomi-
nation boroughs and Parliamentary irresponsiblity. If, by
pz!rseverance in the evil practices of corruption and intimi-
dation, the principles of Toryism are destined once more
to entwine themselves with the administration of public
affairs, we doubt whether any amount of prudence in the
ascendant party can preserve the peace of the kingdom.
The elements of strife and contention are abundant every-
where, and they have only been kept in subjection by the
adoption of a just and popular system of government.
The event of a general election might possibly overthrow
the present Ministry, and restore the Tories ; but such a
result, produced, as it necessarily must be, by the most
barefaced interference with the rights and independence of
the voters, would be speedily followed either by a political
convulsion or by a concession of the Ballot—which the
enemies of Ireland bate to their utmost core, but which
must be carried sooner or later.

TIIE TRAVELLING SEASON.--NOW that the
season is at hand for the exercise of those travelling propensi-
ties which distinguish our countrymen, they will, doubtless,
be not a little gratified to learn that an entire new path has
been opened and smoothed before them by the work of Mr.
Trollope, entitled " A Summer in Brittany." This distant,
but easily accessible province of France, is unquestionably the
most singular and interesting district belonging to it, and
inhabitants, particularly the peasantry, may be said to proecat
as curious and suggestive a subject of observation to the student
of man, as the fossil remains of extinct roues of beings do to
the geologist and physiologist. The picture of Brittany pre-
sented in the pages of Mr. Trollope, is one of singular novelty
and variety, and will certainly attract many travellers to visit
the original who would otherwise have directed their steps to
more beaten paths. The work is edited by Mrs. Trollope, the
most original-minded traveller, as well as writer of our day.
THE CELEBRATED CARRIAGE MATCH AT
NmwstatticET ix 1750.—A match was made between the
Earls of March and Eglinton with Tlieobald Taafe and Andrew
Sprowle, Esqrs., for 1,000 guineas. The conditions of the
artieles were, to get a carriage with four running wheels, and a
person in or upon it, drawn by four horses nineteen miles in
one hour. Their Lordships were to give two months' notice
what week' it should be done in, and had the liberty of
choosing any one day in that week,' whieh wage perforeseii
on Newmarket Heath, on the 09th of August, in fifty-
three minutes and twentv-seven seconds. The horses
were all thorough-bred and trained for running; the twe
leaders, including riders, saddles, and harness, carried about
eight stone each ; the wheel horses about seven stone each.
The carriage, with a boy on it, weighed about twenty-four
stone. Therborsts had all bolsters to preserve their shoulders.
The traces, by an ingenious contrivance, run into boxes with
springs when any of them hung back, to prevent the traces get-
ting under their legs. A rope went from the further end of
the carriage to thepole, and brought back under it to keep the
pole steady. By the side of each wheel there were tin cases
with oil dr,qping on the axle-tree, to prevent its tiring. The
boar placed on it was only to fulfil the articles.
11RE.—SIX: DOUSES DESTROYED —Mon_
day, about twelve o'clock noon, a fire broke out. in ono of the
thatched houses in Virgin-square, latterly \ eitch's-aquare,
Stockbridge. It is not known how it originated—one aunjeo-
ture being that a squib had been thrown accidentally on the
roof ; another that it had commenced within the house, the
flame from the hearth having caught some clothes that were
hung up to dry. The square is c.lnposed of housealpf one
story, inhabited chiefly by washerwomen,. and on the side
which took fire, the roofs are entirely of thatch. Not many
minutes elapsed before the engines were on the spot, but owing
to the high wind which prevailed at the time, the flames ex-
tended along the line with fearful rapidity, and in a short time
no fewer than five houses were in a blaze. By way of preen-
tion, the thatch was torn off a part of the sixth, and a farther
breach made in the roof of the seventh, but the conflagration
was fortunately got under before reaching the latter. We un-
derstand that some of the poor inhabitants lost a considerable
part of their effects.—Scotsman.

TILE FLOODS.—The Scotch papers speak of
the occurrence of floods in several places. Though less de.
structive than those of 1829, they appear to have been produc-
tive of much mischief. Happily, there has been no loss of hi*
from the inundation.