The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-25 00:00:00

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LONDON :
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1839.

We are much obliged to the Morning Herald for
furnishing us with the following explanation of the vi-
tuperation with which some Morning and Evening
3°urnals assailed our notice of her MAJESTY'S ex-
l'eeted marriage :
II,: 113 W is it that the important article of Court intelligence—
Ilettlsettlement of a question, far more interesting- than the set-
ttel:;at of the Belgic question, though unconnected wi;h
hoZe Dolities—and which throws into the shade Lord Mel-
Niist;B reported recommendation of himself to his Royal
irno 'ls for the vaeant Garter—how is it, we ask, that this
p
ellry 4), rt,ant Court revelation Inels escaped the swift-footed Mer-
die Courier, and even eluded the capacious grasp of
" The great Globe itself !"
The sun, it continues, " has, indeed, a light peculiarly its
Ar--""-and Globe, and Courier, and Chronicle, with all other
rusterial Journals that boast official communications from
thei4l—A,ourt, when they hereafter report the particulars of THE
1114 GE OF HER MAJESTY,' can only shine in borrowed ra-
diance, like so many sun-dials.
Never did that rare astronomical phenomenon which occurs
thuen the planet Venus, in her transit, passes as a black spot over
than
disc, excite more intense interest among the learned.
11 an the hymeneal apparition upon the face of our evening lumi-
try will stir up among all the anti- Malthusian portion of her Ma-
'estY's subjects. Nor will the interest he diminished because of
~Vdifference of opinion which may exist as to whether the thing
2 to be looked on as a fact or a fiction, or something not
!xactly either, but which partakes of the nature of both, and
1(1 eommonly called a " feeler." By a process of logical in-
uction, for which, we are sure our readers will allow us the
credit of some ingenuity, we arrive at the conclusion that, if
It be not one or other of the two former, it is the latter—that
1, an announcement of a matter doubtingly, rather than
determinately resolved upon, which can be affirmed or
lidenntiioTedi; according as it may be well or ill taken by the
for Royal marriages, at least the marriages of reign-
ing Sovereigns, materially affecting, as they do, the interests
of a whole people, should not be actually contracted without
first ascertaining how public opinion—the index of national
feeling—may regard them.
" There is, we believe, an ancient proverb, or prediction,
„lt,ieli ays, Blessed is the bride that the sun shines on ;' and
The Sun, it must be confessed, has begun to shine very early,
If not very auspicously, on the intended or pretended marriage
"-for as yet we scarcely know which to call it.
It is indeed only natural that the poor papers, which
live on Court news, and fancy such crumbs of it
as those with which we occasionally season our sub-

stantial repasts to be a wholesome meal, should have
been somewhat like dogs shut up in a kennel

without food, when they see others at liberty
t'''tside, indulging in all the luxuries of the season.
Accordingly, the great Globe itself wastes nearly
fralf a column of its narrow limits, instead of
filling it with an account from Manchester of the great
meeting, such as we had, in schooling us for having
been so very naughty as to precede it, in giving
to the world the important and interesting
intelligence. The swift-footed Mercury, the Cou -
rier, so named by the facetious Herald, we
presume, because it always lags in the rear, calls our
article absurd ; and the Standard, of ribbon-plot cele-
brity,
lived
whered
a Journal which has for six years
on
conspiracies of its own invention, and is no i
favourbly known for a love of truth, speaks
of "an Evening Journal fishing for a days sale
by the exhibition of some extravagant bait to gull
curiosity." The fact is, that each and all of our Con-
temporaries would have given 1001. to be the first to
communicate to the public the intelligence which we
conveyed to it on Wednesday ; and their anger and
'abuse of us for having so fortunately forestalled them,
snow no bounds. We beg leave to give them
a little advice, each and all of them. The next time
they
open their collected batteries on us they had better
mention The Sun, and not say Evening Paper ;
because as there happens to be four of these, the
shot which each of our Contemporaries directs against
us may chance to hit one of themselves. When the
"lobe, for example, says " no haste for priority of
news can excuse," etc., its readers will surely think
Only of the forging Standard. When the Courier speaks
of an absurd article in an Evening Paper, all its readers
will turn their eyes to the " cod-with-a-child's-head,"
or gobemouche Globe ; when the Standard talks of an
Evening Paper " fishing by extravagances for a day's
sale," the world will only think of the dying Courier
and the decaying Globe. We respectfully advise our
Contemporaries, if they are yet cool enough to
listen to anything like reason, the next time
they have anything to say against us, boldly to name
The Sim, and not pitifully, sneakingly, and meanly
direct their censure against "an Evening Paper." As
we enjoy their wrath, and believe that half their readers
will carry their censures to Globe, Standard, and
Courier, we fancy we arc something like Admiral
KEATS it the Superb, who en(Yaged two Spanish
three-deckers in the Gut of Gibraltar, passed between
_them, fired at both, and then running on in the smoke,
left [them blazing away at each other, till they were