The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-23 00:00:00

party. Ceaseless, and overflowing with malice, have
been its attacks. But within the last fortnight those
attacks have somewhat subsided,
and especially has
silence been kept, as much as possible, on the subject
respecting which the manoeuvre in question was to
operate. It was essential to the success of the scheme
that it should not b 2 known -to come from that part
of the field of battle. c About a fortnight ego, the OM to which we allude
brTan to come into operation. C4rtain persons of
quiet, relk ctable character, and not of Tractarien
views, were privately informed, as a great secret that
Lord Derby had given a pledge, or something like it,
that if Convocation formally asked permission to sit
for the transaction of business, he should think it his
duty to advise the Queen to grant it. These state-
ments were made so confidently, so Isecretly, and by
persons of such station, that ,the tecipients of the
news could not fur a moment doubt that the news was
unquestionably true. We could, if necessary, give
the names of parties in high public Offices, who felt
the fullest conviction of the truth of these statements.
We have had no personal knowledge;of the Primate's
views or expectations, but we quite believe, from vari-
ous things which have come to our ears, that his
Grace himself was one of the parties ,who gave cre-
dence to these reports.
In a day or two the alarm reached e daily papers.
One journal, which is not withhel .py party con-
nexions, from publishing any rumou which. reaches
it, at once gave currency to the re t., We our-.
selves were precluded from doing s by a feeling
that the statement weuld be very injut Ous to the Go-
vernment, and that it was in all proby„hility destitute
of truth.
Three or four days elapsed, and tkeijimes, uneasy
at being behindhand in so important a matter, began
to inquire into the truth of the statement; and so
well had the conspirators* laid their plans, that the
Times, when seeking after the facts, was met by a
confirmation of the story. Fairly taken in, it came
out at last, several days after the first report bad been
given in other journals, with a full and entire confir-
mation of the story I
We now solicit particular attention to the next fact
in the case—a fact in which design, and that an in-
sidious design, becomes clearly manifest.
The Morning Chronicle, as the Tractarian daily
organ, and the leading journal of the Convocation
party, was eagerly looked to day by day, to see how
it would deal with the question. It friends took the
most lively interest in the matter; two or three other
journals were giving currency to the rumours every
morning or evening. " What," every one was ask-
ing, " did the Chronicle say ?"
The Chronicle, day after day, said nothing at all.
This was strange ; but the meaning of it is now
clear.

The object of this silence was—not to say a word
until the Times, Globe, and Daily News shiouldonfidrat
have swallowed the bait. Accordingly, on
the Times came out with a fierce article against Con-
vocation,aY and against Lord Derby for granting it ;
and then the silence of the Chronicle was at onee
broken.
And what did it say ? It accepted and endorsed
the report. It said :
"In well informed quarters it has for some little time
been tolerably well understood, that Lord Derby is pre-
pared to advise, or has already advised, the Crown to
issue its licence to the new Convocation to resume its
synodical functions. We have long been in possession of
the report," &C.
Wa3 such an avowal ever before made by a news-
paper ? Here is a journal'which coolly tells its
readers that it has " long been in possession of a
report" of the greatest possible importance; which
report it carefully concealed! Can any one guess
why ? A fact of greater moment could not easily be
imagined, yet a journalist quietly informs his readers
that he has long had it in his possession, but has
chosen to keep it to himself! A goad reason for
such suppression
fact is
uppress, ishaiotnt this singular not tonbgeCaeived.
The admission
" lets the
cat out of the bag." The Chronicle assures us that
it has "long been in possession of the report." We
have not the least doubt of it. If the Chronicle had
even claimed to have been
ebarrpi
fabricated
eeddnaty 1
hiwhengeiatw t: theeie wei t h o 1 a
story was first concocted and sent abroad, we should
The whole " h"stoorryy
.
warn their own •D'ull I.l'
not have questioned the fact.
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father to the thought. So,
say that `the wish was
The trick has been well
round, by other personF,
do you keep quiet till w can get the story sent
or six of the bitteresneawrthicolewsaths
then you may come in
a bystander, and say, ' Oh
yes, it is all true, we heard' aswe can
and other
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of that some days ago.'"
the worst of the ym
its purpose. Any 0
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The beitais
would atis,
a4ainst the present Mt aitnchlainveedetvoerraepapdeafirevde
ioistry might read the l imes,
Globe, and Dail
these censures to Lo
Newsmatter
commit so great a blrundero.l
attacks is true--.that '
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Derby,tha asa good part
werepart ogfeinthgestee
the present, week ; and
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thing, fteraurefutlhiyat
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mistake is in applying all
beforeoter tohfeysucsuhspect
Men of candour,
themselves whetherfolly, any
should man
askof
suspicion ? A
mars ifs previous life warrants such a
the other day, " I l)plain common sense remarked
thoughtfindd that it was expected that
Lord Derby would Moult it to manage one Par-
liament; and I cannot conceive it to be probable that
he is going voluntarily to undertake to manage
two." It might
admiration—"gand have
been added, with a mark of
the second a theological Parlia-
ment!"

_ hopes, andord Derby,
Yet the Tractarians, partly from the eaerness of
their
L
partly from a willingness to injure
will not easily give up the story. Their
weekly organ, only
last night : the English Churchman, says,
" W e firmly believe, that, whenever 'Lord Derby
can see his
will be issued."
If the licence is not issued till "Lord Derby sees
way clearly before him, the Royal licence
his way clearly before him," it will not be issued in
our days, nor in those of our children.

ADVERTISER.—Mr. Hume and political con-
sistency are synonymous terms. We said us much
yesterday : we repeat it to-day. And so we should,
were it necessary to-morrow, and every succeeding
day till the end of the chapter. But though the
Member for Montrose is u very model of consistency,
and though no one ever questioned his thorough in-
tegrity, he is liable to adopt a wrong coarse, because
he is accessible to persons who are not equally
honest with himself. Mr. Hume is often deceived
by parties who have their own private ends to
serve. He does not see what they are driving at :
he . •
Pvds not the objects which they have in
view.
The letter of the honourable gentleman, which ap-
peared in our paper yesterday,. may with great pro-
priety be referred to as a case in point. • That com-
munication was not a spontaneous emanation from
Mr. Hume's own mind. Had he been left to himself
he would never have penned that production. It is
his only in a mechanical sense. No one can have any
difficulty in affiliating the letter. Though it is
dated Bromley Hall, it was not born in that latitude.
The place of its accouchement is nearer home. Speak-
ing of it parochially, we should say it would not be
difficult to establish its claim to a settlement in the
very centre of the metropolis—in a place called Char-
ing-cross.
And as that is in reality the place where this pro-
duction, with the name of Mr. Hume attached to it,
was ushered into existence, so the parentage of the
epistle can be traced to the association to which the
letter refers, as having a local habitation and a name
in that part of our vast metropolis. Not that we
suppose the letter was actually written there, but that
the inspiration came from that quarter. Let any one
put the question to Mr. Hume, whether the produc-
tion referred to was the result of some Movement of
his own mind, and he will frankly answer that it was
not. He is too honest to say that it was a:spontaneous
emanation from himself. Ask him again, whether he
Was not moved to the writing of the letter by parties
who are prominently connected with the Financial
and Parliamentary Reform Association, and he will
candidly answer that he was.
Though bearing his name, the letter is, indeed, a
sort of manifesto from that body. .1i d should any
one deem it necessary to answer the document, it
ought to be dealt with throughout as an exposition of
the views of that bode—it body that can be called
which only cowsists, if we are rightly informed, of a
president, a secretary, and a clerk.
There is one fact stated in alp letter to which Mr.
Hume has adhibited his name, which, of itself, if we
had no other evidence on the subject, would have
sufficed to satisfy us that it was in reality of Charing-
cross manufacture. Mr. Hume informs us that the
Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association has
290 branches in the provinces.
Now, we will venture to affirm, that a fortnight
before writing his letter, he had not the remotest idea
of what number of branches this Association could
boast of as being under its protecting care. We will
go farther, and assert that there is not a person in