The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-09 00:00:00

IPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(From the Globe.)
We were not aware yesterday of the additional con-
firmation of our views respecting the reality of the
" fatal schism' in the Tory party, which is afforded
ties week by an old and respectable organ of jog-trot
Conservatism. It is not alone the Stondard, " red
with the blood of Ireland," as O'Connell called it ;
but Bell's Weekly Messenger, " guiltless of his coun-
try's blood," has taken the field. One may consult
this highly honoured hebdomadal oracle much on
the same principle as Fox consulted Lord B—, or
M..l:ere consulted his old woman. What Bell's IVcckly
..Vessenger says, many good easy folks think ; or if
tliought is a bold word to use respecting their interior
processes, many good easy folks ruminate in accordance
with Bell's Weekly Messenger. When we find this
s•rt of weekly waggon of political wisdom rolling its
bread wheel slowly—deliberately—not with railway
precipitance—over the political character of Sir R. Peel
—we deem the portent worth marking. Neither is the
reverend sage by any means quite wrong i❑ his estimate
of the insincere (political) character of that very plaus-
ible personage, and the inconsistencies into which his
scant of heart in the cause leads him. Naturally those
who are more in earnest in that cause are provoked by '
them ; we cannot partake their indignation at what
seems to us so venial a crime as not being in earnest in
defending that which is indefensible; we can only coin-
pa.ssionate the leader and the party by turns.
(riom the Stdurtard.)
The discussion on the Canada Bill last night was
long, animated, and painfully interesting. The matter
Icuated was me which to plain understandings, or in
other times, is hen the worl I seas governed by men
with ma►culine minds, would not admit of a moment's
question :—it was this, whether a measure, admitted
.en one side to be at best most dangerous, on the
c'her characterised as certainly fatal, ought to be
adopted ; no necessity for adopting any measure
eeistieg, as must be obvious to all the world.
Whence the necessi:y of rushing upon danger or
upon certain ruin, as the case may be ? There is but
one answer—the despotism of cant. We are to pay, in
the less of the Canadas, and afterwards in greater losses,
the penalty of the departure from the sound doctrines
of those days, when noti ins were herd in peace and se-
curity—the simple but self-evident doctrine, that no
men ought to be entrusted with power, except upon
assurance that he will make a good use of it. We have
contemned this doctrine ; we have been taught to hold,
that all men are alike entitled to power—that the right
to the exercise of power is indefeasible even by treason
itself, and that no distinction can be properly made
between good citizens and traitors, except that some.
preference is in policy due to the latter, because o'
their proved disposition to disturb the settled order o
society.

(From the Courier.)
We do not know of any damestic regulation which
ts excited more general disapprobation than the County
Constabulary B 11. Of late there has been a consider-
able outcry arzainst what are contemptuously termed
OK. Great Unpaid ;" and ifene thing can be mere piti-
fully despicable than another it is the abuse of genCe-
wen who lay aside the inducements to enjoy the
otiwn cum dignitate." It is not easy to conceive a cha-
racter more nevlul to society or more creditable to human
nature, than that of a man who foregoes the means of
luxurious idleness which wealth affords, in order to
attend to the wants and strifes of the poor. That here
and there may he occasionally found a person who ex-
ercises tkis power in an illegal manner, does not prove
that that power is improperly invested in the whole body.
Such cases nre merely exceptions, and, as may be sup-
posed from the general character of the E-glish gentle.
man, and tha education which he receives, they are of
rare occurrence. Let us not be misunderstood, wken
we speak in approbation of the services which our
county magistrates render to the country—services for
which the country cannot pay, inasmuch as they would
disdain to receive pecuniary recompense—as under-
rating the industry, talent, and integrity of those
magistrates who are paid for the exercise of their
abilities. These of necessity have to attend to the m)st
trivial as well as to the most serious affairs, and are
properly remunerated for it ; and but justice it is to
say of this useful boi'y of men, that very seldom indeed
do wo find an individual transgressing the bounds of his
hired duty.