The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-01 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS•

7ROM TAE DAILY PAPERS or SATUSDAY.
(From the Globe.)
We are glad to find our anticipations of the improved
feeling of parties in Parliament, on the most important
colonial questions at present before them, confirmed last
night. Mr. Pakington is the precursor raven, whose
flights have once and again indicated the subsidence of
the waters on Canadian policy. Lord John Russell said
that " he certainly felt that her Majesty's Government
was very much indebted to the Hon. Member for
Droitwich, because on two occasions he had given the
House an opportunity of showing its decided sense in
favour of the union of the two provinces of Canada,
which was the object of the present measure." Mr.
Gladstone brought the olive-branch to the hands of
the Government ; and Lord Howick abstained from in-
dulging any untoward crotchet on such a subject. This
country has paid so dearly for the pedantry of colonial
sovereignty—for the stiff assertion of rights in enforcing
which she had no substantial interest—that we trust it
is impossible we should repeat the errors of the last
century. That any statesman who has studied Burke,
A.dam Smith, and Franklin, should do so, seems impos-
sible. The grand and liberal views of the first on the
free growth of the British colonies, the acute glance of
the second at colonial ambitions and interests, and the
complete insight given by the memoirs of the third of
these eminent persons into the characters and circuns-
etsnaces with which we have to deal in our offspring,
would render it utterly inexcusable to repeat the last
cectury's squabbles.
(From the Courier.)
The tone of the debate last evening on the Canada
U,ninn Bill was almost all that could be desired. Its
merits were calmly discussed before going into Commit-
tee, and its details afterwards. Some cavil and verbal
impertinences (using the latter word in its proper sense)
were of course uttered by Nis. Joseph Hume, the man
above all others who should eschew the slightest reference
to a country which knows him only as a firebrand, and
the leading cause of all the bloodshed there, and of the
destruction which follow in the wake of rebellion.
And of course also, without rhyme or reason assigned,
Mr. Hume moved to cut down the Civil List, to enact
the Ballot, to reduce or abolish the property qualification
for Members of the House of Assembly ; and having
!mil round the customary course of absurdities, like the
Mind old gin-horse now superannuated and superseded
by steam power, the jaded legislator wound up the
" tottLe of the whole," as no impression was to he made
ori the State, by a regular sally against the Church,
and being unable to dislodge the Bishops, he sunk sul-
leely to repose. This sort of legislation, and twaddling
Upon all subjects without understanding or explaining
any, would seem to show that the Parliamentary
" nia;ch of intellect" has not been greatly accelerated,
however railway travelling may be, since the days of
" Praise God Barebones," or Anacharsis Ciootz, the
ewer:petite representative of the universe.
(From the Standard.)
The conversation between Mr. C. Bruce and Lord
Palmerston upon the subjset of British Protestant
worship at Naples, which occurred last night in the
House of Commons, deserves more attention from the
public than the :natter of it appears to have ob-
tained from the House of Commons. It appears
that the Neapolitan Government, " acted upon
by soma other iefluence," has placed an interdict
upon Protestant coeeregational worship even in the
most mod st and retired form. British Protestants
may not collect to pray together even in a private
apartme it, hired by themselves. The British Govern-
ment, however, make light of the matter. They can
declare war and fit out armaments upon a " sulphur
qua stion," but it would not seem that they think the re-
Lgious liherty of the British subjects residing in Naples
an object worthy of even a slight remonstrance. The
indeed,
made of the sulphur question are,
made partly the apolozy for disregarding the question
of religious freedom. This is characteristic of the times
in which we live : the god of this world is the only divi-
nity practically acknowledged in our public acts. We
snake no difference between Whigs
.and Tories in this
respect ; the Tories, indeed, set the first. example.