The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the • Globe.)
The Tories, it must be admitted, deserve the praise
of perseverance. They are not deterred by failure, nor
confounded by exposure. One refuge of lies after
another in which they trusted is swept away ; and still
they return to the work of fabricating falsehood, to be
again demolished as before by the exhibition of truth.
The labour of Sisyphus is theirs. With immense toil
they succeed in rolling their stony mass to the summit
of the hill, when it recoils and precipitates them to the
plain, overwhelming them with confusion, and covering
them with disgrace. Thus their sin works their punish-
ment. The exposure of their unprincipled falsehoods
follows closely on the heels of the mendacious creations
of their brain. The public, warned against putting the
slightest confidence in their unsupported statements,
read with necessary incredulity the pompous allegations
against the Government, and calmly wait the confuta-
tion which is to manifest their deformity and destroy
their very being.
(From the Standard.)
The Ministerial Journals are indulging at this mo-
ment in loud Io Paans in behalf of Mr. Poulett
Thomson, because, in spite of his accession to the Go.
vernor-Generalship of Canada, that country does not
happen to be in a state of open tumult and rebellion
overlooking the fact that be arrived at the seat of his
government just in time to reap the full benefit of the
wise, firm, and precautionary measures which had been
adopted by his predecessor, Lord Seaton. Beyond the
merit of quietly awaiting the results of these measures,
we really know of no peculiar credit to which the
Honourable Gentleman can lay claim. The union of
the two provinces proposed by Lord John Russell to
the House of Commons on Monday, had been rendered
inevitable by the absurd and impolitic admission, that
Lower Canada ought to have a Representative Govern-
ment, and was suggested by Lord Durham for the pur-
pose of mitigating, in some degree, the evil of entrusting
with political power a race of people who have shown
themselves so entirely unfitted to exercise it.
(From the Courier.)
Lord Ashburton complained the other day in the
House of Lords of the " intense system of agitation" un-
remittingly followed up by the Anti-Corn-law people ;
and he further intimated that the passive abstinence of
the agriculturists from meetings and petitions was attri-
butable to the perfect reliance they reposed in the jus-
tice and good faith of the Government. This sort of
language sounds somewhat strangely in our ears, for
all past experience has shown that no interest, how.
ever national or high of import, has ever yet been allowed
to interfere with considerations of quarter-day, but
one by one each has been surrendered as the pres-
sure from without became urgent, and ejection from
office imminent. We are far, therefore, from thinking
with Lord Ashburton, that agricultural supineness is
and has been, referable ja the smallest degree to any
confidence in the promises and palaver of Ministers, for
the very extravagance of Lord Melbourne's hyperbole,
when " protesting to God" that the man must be
" road" who should dream of modification or abolition of
the Corn-laws, was of itself conclusive evidence of insin-
cerity and hypocrisy.