The Sun. — 1838-10-22 (London, England)

THE CANADAS.  TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.  Six—As might have been exteated, the receipt by the Earl of Durham of the proceedings in the House of Lords on Lord Brougham's Canadian Indemnity has plunged the affairs of the colony again into embarrassment, as his Lordship, perceiving the pernicious effect it has already produced on those over whom he has been called to govern, as especially manifested in the recent acquittal (by a Canadian Jury) of the murderers of the loyalist " Chartrand," after the most conclusive evidence of their guilt, and a charge from the Chief Justice, stating to the Jury that the law required them to give a verdict (in conformity with the evidence they had heard and the oaths they had taken) which should convict the prisoners—added to the daring and seditious harangue of the prisoner's Counsel in her Majesty's Court of Justice—has caused his Lordship either to tender, or actually resign, his important post. The Times of Thursday, in its editorial article (alluding to Lord Durham's resignation, and the difficulties which it conceives it will cause to the Government) concludes thus—" A pretty muss they have made of it 'I hat a " muss," as the savant editor ob,,erves, has been made by that fatal instrument, the Bill of Indemnity, is now too palpable to be disguis! d; but who are the parties who actually created this "mess?" As,urcdly those who so ardently suip:xted Lord Brougham's opposition to the salutary mdinahces cf the Earl of Durham, of which every loyal Canadian approved, and many of their moot eniii.ent legal men considered to have been as just as they were expedient. The almost daily virulent attacks on the Earl of Durham in the Times, from the time of his being nominated to the government of Canada to the present moment, when, to suit their own party purposes; they have shifted their ground and altered their ,tone, may have been, and perhaps continues to be, very amusing to the editt.x of that extensively circulated Journal and many of its readers, but let it be remembered that " what is sport to them, is death to IF," or our cause ; for when these attacks are read on the other side of the Atlanlic, the effects most likely to be vroduced are, unsettling the minds of the loyal, and emboldening and encouraging the disaffeeted to oppose and set at defiance the measures resorted to by the person appointed by her Majesty :o administer the government of the colony. Now, that a Governor of a colony possessing such a variety of contending views and interests as the Canadas should succeed in giving satisfaction to all parties, cannot be reasonably expected ; but all the Canadian Journals, from Lord Durham's arrival to the latest accounts from Canada, although differing on certain points, yet manifest a decided confidence in his administration of the Government, and are apprehensive of the most serious consequences should his Lordship abandon it, which they now much fear he will do. The latest private accounts state that the Constitutionalists are about to demonstrate their feelings by a large public meeting, as they consider the colony to be in a very critical position. London, Oct. 20. 1838.  A