The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-11 00:00:00

IMPRISINNIRNT AND HARD LABOUR

For Two Y ears.—R,ce Byron Jones (for forgery).
For Eighteen Months —James Smith.
For One Year.—John Smith, Wm. Sims, John Garry.
For Nine Mon.hs.—John T)ler, Mary Brown.
For Six Months.—W. Newland, W. Peplow, William
Lisk, R. E. Pitt, Henry Woodward, Anthony Ryan, Wm.
Smith, Mary Murphy, Kite John-on, John Smith.
For Four Months.—Mary Ann Murphy, Mary Smith.
Eighteen we:c sentenced to shorter terms of Impri-
-sonment, varying from three months to fourteen days.
Twenty were acquitted, six discharged by proclamation,
and seven trave,sed to the next Sailor', which commences
on Monday, the 17th of August.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTELDAY.)
(From the Globe.)
Lord Aberdeen has been taught by experience the
utter hopelessness of terminating ecclesiastical feuds by
legislatorial interference. When bis Lordship intro-
duced hiq Bill, with many taunts at Lord Melbourne
for refu ing to interfere in the quarrel, and leaving to
Lim the work of framing a measure to pacify
the belligerents, we predicted the failure which has
ensued ; and reminded the Noble Lord of the advice left
by Sir Robert Walpole as a legacy of no common value to
all future statesmen, "never to risk their safety and repu-
talion by interfering with ecclesiastical broils," which that
sagacious statesman aptly illustrated as a temerity only
equalled by " thrusting the head into a nest of irritated
hornets." Lord Aberdeen has tried the experiment, and
has got well stung for his pains. In Lord Aberdeen's
private copy of Sir Robert Walpole's Memoirs will be
found, in his Lordship's hand-writing, opposite to the
admonition to which we drew the Noble Lord's attention,
when he first interposed by legislatorial means to put an
end to the fray, probaturn est—as confirmatory of its vali-
dity, demonstrated anew, as it has been, by the failure of
his own well-meant but ill taken efforts to pacificate the
disputants.

(From the Standard.)
The report of the Canada Bill was considered last night
in the House of Lords. The Duke of Wellington pro-
posed that the date of the Bill's coming into operation
should be fixed at fifteen months after its passing into a
law, instead of six months as proposed in the draft
sent up by the House of Commons. This prop-
sii3n, which was adopted, is a most important amend-
ment, inasmuch as it interposes a whole ses-
sion of Parliament before the measure becomes irrevoc-
able. Should the Bill receive the Royal z.sscnt by the
end of this month, as probably it will, its operation, com-
mencing in six months, would anticipate the usual time for
the meeting of Parliament : delayed fifteen months, it will
allow the full period of the longest Session for reconsidera-
tion, ai.d reconsidered it must be in its principle as well as its
details, if the provinces are not to " be given away," as
William the Fourth told Lord Gosford p:ainly, but
prophetically, they were like to be, when his Lord-
ship was appointed Governor,. chiefly because he was one
of those valuable witnesses who could never see a Ribbon-
man in Ireland. The delay wisely interposed by the
Duke of Wellington, and the almost certainty ensured
by it that the Bill will never become an operative law,
takes away all interest from the &bate upon its clauses.
(From the Courier.)
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Various amendments were agreed to yesterday in the
Lords, on bringing up the report on the Canada Govern-
ment Bill, of an ext,emely salutary character. The two
most important were—first, the extension from six to
fifteen months after the passing of the Act, as the ear-
liest period at whlch the Governor should be
authorised by proclamation to declare ►he union
of the provinces. The second, vesting a power in
the Governor with a majority of two-thirds of
the Executive C,,uneil of sillier:ding any member of the
Legislature for improper conduct, with a right of appeal
to the Queen in CounCH of the party aggrieved. We
may, however, rattle, doubt whether this improvement will
be touch relished in Upper Canada. Perhaps the most im-
portant amendment of all was that proposed by the Duke of
\Vellington. to the eff,ct that no payment should be made
out of the Consolidated Fund without the signature of the
Governor. This was reserved for consideration by Lord
Melbourne until the third trading of the Bill on Monday
next. So far the measure has progressed favourably, and
we may congratulate the country that, by the wisdom
of the Upper House, it is likely to be made as consistent
with the interests of British connexion and the preserva-
tion of the integrity of the empire as it well can be. It
is after all a perilous experiment, upon which we are cam-
' pelted however to adventure by the weakness and wicked-
ness of the worst of all Governments.

ILLNESS OF ROSSINJ.—The Gazelle Musicale
says it has received a letter from Italy, announcing that Rossini
is dangerously ill. His body is said to be much swollen, and
he is unable to stand upright.