The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-05 00:00:00

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Mr. Cobden tnd the Newspaper Press.

(Front Sae Afanchater Guardian.)

Mr. Cobden hat re-published the correspondence
between himself and Mr. Delane, with a preface
and a supplementkry correspondence between him-
self and the editor of the Daily Telegraph. In his
preface, he says
Not one epithet has been with-
drawn, or a denunciatory phrase softened in the
following pages, 'lad I leave the impartial reader to
say whether, if I sad known at the commencement
of the correspondence, all that I now know, some
of my expressions might not, with propriety, have
been a little more 3mphatic. I could have commi-
serated the shock Which I have given to the exqui-
site sensibilities of my censors, it I had not seen
with what robust superiority to all the pangs of
outraged taste they were able to peruse the elan
derous imputations by which my letter was pro-
voked. For the rest I do not profess to have acquired
that steel polish which some of our Saturday'
cynics' of the emotionless school of Reviewers,
and Spectators' would seem to have attained,
by which they are enabled to subordinate the feel-
ings of indignation at the foul wrong to the claim,
of a glittering rhetoric or the attitudes of the pos-
ta re
refused
faussted t' er . '
publishlna
letter.
f r too 0
bthe e
n's first letter, but,i e leg rap which
had
afterwards, while still declining to print it, had
commented on it, Mr. Cobden writes:—" The
ground on which you, refused theinsertion of ray
letter was that the latter part of it was personal.
Have you really allowed yourself to be persuaded
that that was the reason why the 7trnes refused it P
Nothing would have pleased that paper more than
to have caught me at a personalty. You can hardly
be unaware that what deterred the Times from
printing my letter was the allusion I made to
an improper, because secret, connection which
existed between the conductors of that journal
and the dispensers of Government patronage.
I repeat that the sole objection to this con-
nection is its secresy. The 7imee has advocated
the system of anonymous journalism on the
ground of its necessity for preserving the indepen-
dence of the writer towards the public on one
hand and the governing powers on the other. I
have not a word to say against this principle, if it
be honestly observed towards both parties. But
my charge was and is that the Times has broken its
compact with the public by dropping the mask in
presence of those who are the dispensers of the
patronage of the state. * Far from thinking
that the class of whom we are speaking should be
excluded from the public service, I form a very high
estimate of the fitness for legislative and adminis-
trative functions of those who write for the politi-
cal instruction of the people. And it is on this
account that, while I deny to no one the right of
an honest incognito, I regret that the prevalent
and perhaps unavoidable habit of anonymous
writing in the metropolis should entomb, for
ell practical political purposes, so much of
our best intellect, and rob society of tho full
development of that individuality which, more than
all besides, is essential to the progress and elevation
of our species. In the provinces the anonymous
system has, practically, up to a very recent period,
never been in operation ; because there every man's
occupation was mom or less known to his neigh-
bours. And if space permitted, I could trace the
salutary effect of this upon the political progress
of the last generation ; for it would be easy to
adduce the names of half a score of men, the con-
ductors of journals in Leeds, Edinburgh, Liverpool,
Manchester, Norwich, &c. to whose able, honest,
and energetic efforts, as leaders of public opinion in
their several localities, more than probably any
other traceable cause, the nation is indebted for its
successful resistance to that reactionary spirit,
which, from the end of last century down to 1820,
ran its course of tyrannical repression and filled all
but the stoutest hearts with despair. These men
have all passed away but they should not be forgotten.
And if, when my friend Dr. Smiles, himself a dis-
tinguished member of the fraternity, shall have com-
pleted his biographies of our great discoverers, and
improvers in physical science, he should give us a
volume of the lives of those pioneers of political pro-
gress, it will be seen that their triumphs are trace-
able to something more than an investment of
capital in presses and type, with an impersonal
editorial staff—that they were in each case due to
the open and avowed writing, and the personal ex-
ample of the individual man, who was living in clear
daylight, under the full gaze of his neighbours,
whom he was not only stimulating, but leading in
the path of duty, and by whom he was in turn
cheered and sustained. I might, also, if space
allowed, refer to the advantages which open and
avowed journalism might afford to the electoral
body, in the choice of representatives to Par-
liament. Those
members of the House of
Commons connected with the public press
who have been elected during my experience,
and who, with the exception of the first-named, were
connected with provincial journals—Messrs. Miall,
Baines,
willll aguirver may be the differences of opinion as to their
views, beatO Fagan, Lucas, and othere—what-
knowledged by all who have sat
with them been, in every case, among the
foremost oftshhineairvpagrty for political intelligence and
honour. I have said enongh to show that I take a
more exalted view than most men of the mission of
those who instruct the public through the news-
, while asserting their title to
which they
I am assailing only a
system byhh they are
huddled clandestinely
itpnhatepoemri nopfsretersi 11° andl3b h
rta al
ethat,
employments, as the result of a secret
and illicit intercourse with the Government of the
day. And
And I revert to the question—has not the
tr
a right to be informed, on my responsibility,
c
and this illicitintercourse has been carried on be-
tween the Times and the Government P''

The Danish Commander-in-Chief.

We find in a Copenhagen letter the following
sketch of General Meza, the Danish commander-in-
chief :—" The General has descended from a family
of Spanish Jews, who settled in Denmark about a
hundred years ago. Although more than seventy
years of age, he retains many of the qualities which
with the bulk of mankind are the happy privilege
of youth, and become dimmed long before the green
old age he enjoys. In this, as in every other re
spect, he is a worthy cppenent of Baron Wrangel,
Prussian general, who is nearly en octogenarian,
but was never seen in a cloak, end will head a
charge with something like the fire he exhibited at
Waterloo. Herr de 111cza was born at Elsinore, the
son and grandson of wealthy medical practitioners.
At the time of the English attack he entered the
the Artillery, and served as a❑ ensign in the bat-
teries of Frederickshaven during the campaign. On
peace being restored, he soon distinguished himself
by a knowledge of mathematics, which procured
him a place in the School of Artillery, and in course
of time made him a teacher in the School of War.
In the war of 1848 he obtained a brigade, and was
appointed chief of the Artillery. There was hardly
an office in the army whose military powers were
looked upon with greater distrust by the people
as well as the troops. The pedantic and capri-
cioua dogmatist, whose crotchets had been
hawked about the capital, and formed the delight of
ensigns for many a year Wall to encounter ail the
disagreeables of war. That he knew more than any
man in the country how to point a gun, and calcu-
late the flight of a ball, every one readily admitted;
but a man who had never allowed a window or a
door to be opened, and was wont to appear mused
up to the eyes—a man who was ready to faint on
hearing an accent misplaced on one of his favourite
French words—did not seem to be the sort of fellow
to live in a camp and beat the enemy. However,
when it came to the test, Meza unexpectedly re-
vealed himself in a new character. In the field no
one eared less for wind and weather than the morose
and hypochondriac general, who, healthy as he
was, had considered himself a sickly valetudinarian
all his life, No one was more ready to encounter
the inclemencies of the temperature, no one was
more exacting in this respect than the adorer of can
de Cologne and the smelling bottle. In all the more
important encounters of the campaign he was at the
head of the artillery, indefatigable, and as discrete
as spirited and bold. His services at Baa Schles-
wig, Nippel and Dyppel, won him the applause of
the army, and made him a full colonel by the end
of the year. On the sanguinary 12 April he took
the two Saxon guns, the chief spoil of the war in
Danish hands, Having subsequently commanded at
Aisen, and garrisoned Fridicia, he took part in the
heroic sally in which the Germans were repelled,
and relieved the besieged fortress. His excellent
conduct on this occasion won him a general's brevet,
which a few months later was succeeded by stars,
together with his appointment to the command of
the ordnance. The re-opening of hostilities in the
second half of 1850 found him an invalid ; having
undergone a serious operation he was unable to take
the field. O❑ the 24th July, however, he fought
at Staderup, and the day after shared the honours
of Idsted, in the staff of General Krogh. Retreat
became necessary, but it was conducted with con-
summate skill by our hero, whose reputation in-
creased amidst the disasters of the day. The troops
had not marched very far, when, bringing the
artillery to a stand, and re-forming, he repelled the
enemy, and checked the pursuit. At the conclu-
sion of the war he was named Inspector Royal of
Artillery, and in 1858 received the command of the
forces i❑ Schleswig, Jutland, and Funen. Having
subsequently held command at Copenhagen and
Zealand, he had, a month ago, the honour of being
sent over to the continent to defend the Diane-
werke. His military talents were shared in an
eminent degree by Colonel Kaufmann, the chief of
his staff. Kaufmann, a Holateiner by birth, has
been in the civil and military service of the king-
dom for many years, and proved himself a cool and
intelligent officer in the war of 1848. Of late he
has acted in various capacities, representing his
government in the Diet at one time, and then sub-
mitting to be sent to Kiel to coerce the university
and frighten professors into loyalty."