The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-12 00:00:00

" A PALTRY PRESS."

These be hard lines, as the sailors say, but " non nester hic
same."

It will now, we imagine, be admitted that something in the
shape of an able and honest Journal is required to " stop the
gap." To put such an intellectual vehicle upon the road, we
think, would be considered Quixotic, even by so speculative and
excellent a judge of such matters as Mr. Peter Purcell. " A
Party is necessary," exclaim the Tory parson, and the Liberal
placehunter, "or else you will reckon but few readers." Upon
this point we join issue, and hope, for the honour of civilized
humanity, that as the Irish public maintain a sufficient number
of newspapers to tell them falsehood, they will vouchsafe to sup-
port ene which, at all risks, is determined to announce to them
the truth.

4‘ All that mortal art bath wrought,
In ear cell returns to nought;
The molten gold returns to clay,
The polish'd diamond melts away.
All is altered, all is flown—
Nought stands fast but truth alone."
In Politics we shall be Radicals, and devoted to the People,
utterly regardless of the smiles or frowns of the select and
interested few. Such a course, we know, is always perilous
and often profitless—.
" Hard is his task who edits-thankless job—
A weekly journal for the factious mob ;
Alike undone, or if he praise or rail ;
For this affects his safety, that his sale
He sinks, at last, in luckless limbo set—
If loud, for libel—and if dumb, for debt."
We sha always be happy, when we can agree with those
men who, nuwever they may sometimes err, have rendered
efficient service, and made many sacrifices for the cause of
liberty ; but we shall not advocate that wait-a-while policy
which holds out promises to suffering millions which are never
likely to be realited—
" My father, Time, is weak and grey,
With waiting for a better day,"
We shall judge the Government by its acts, anti shall oppose
&Premier, be he Whig, Tory, or Radical, when we find him
averse to the removal of the remnant of the Penal Code, which,
absurdly enough, forbids the appointment of a Roman Catho-
lic Chancellor ;—a Colonial Secretary, when he resists the
Ballot;—or even so amiable and enlighttned a Statesman as
the present Irish Secretary, when he selms half disinclined
to grant an increase of popular privileges P the Irish people.
Conscientiously believing that Ireland nevercan become gene-
rally happy and contented until she again as the advantage
of a DOMESTIC LEGISLATURE, xve shall persevere, Ly
arguments and facts, to advocate the
REPEAL OF THE UNIOVs
as not more beneficial to Ireland than the Sistt Kingdom.
We will bring into the field the heavy artilery of reason,
aided by the light brigade of wit and humour. We shall be
staid with the steady, and mirthful with the light-hearted.
Pursuing " the even tenor of our way," we shall " run on
glittering like a brook in the sunshine,"
" From grave to gay, from lively to severe':
The Statesman will find us political, and the Lawyer *in
discover that we know a thing or two ; the Phjsician shall
proclaim us lovers of the healing art; the Sportsman shall
learn that we can clear a muntry with him. " Tflh WORLD"
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SOUTIPkAUSTRALIAN ALMANACK.—TitIS is
a curious publication, not merely\ for the place of its
origin, but for the information it contains, and the ideas
it suggests. We open the" Daily Calendar" for January,
and find that the sun rises on the Ist at 53 minutes
after 4 ; we turn to the 21st of June, and it is noticed
for the shortest day ; we look to gloomy November,
and read that " hay-making commences in this month.
and that oats, barley, and winter wheat are ready for
the sickle towards its close ;" old December, instead of
"cakes and ale," and "snapdragons for the boys," has
directions for the gardener to " attend to the melons,
cucumbers," &c., and to " remove the superabundant
fruit of peach, nectarine, apricot, and almond-trees :"
all natural results, and to be expected when we get
beyond the Line, but which startle in England when
we suddenly see them in the details of early life. Let
us note, too, a straw to show how the wind sets in na-
tional habits, which will hold in greater things, if not
rudely burst asunder by official mismanagement. It
seems a natural feeling of the human mind to begin the
year with the promise or the approach of Spring ; but,
though January is July in Australia, custom, the second
nature, puts aside astronomical laws without a thought,
and the great nations yet to be in the Southern hemi-
sphere will begin their new year when ours is beginning
to grow old.—Colonial Gazette.
RIGHT OF SURGEONS TO OPEN BODIES.—
On Wednesday night an inquest was held at the King's
Arms public-house, in the town of Bow, before Mr.
Baker, on the body of Mr. Charles Tuckfield, collecting
clerk to Mr. Hathwaite and Co., brewers, at Bromley,
Middlesex, wbo came by his death by being thrown out
of a gig. The evidence having been given, the follow-
ing conversation took place :—I beg to ask, Sir, whe-
ther the surgeons were justified in opening the head of
the deceased, to the great annoyance of his family and
friends? Coroner—lf you wish to have my legal opi-
nion on the point, I will say they had no right without
an order from me. If, however, it be the wish of the
family or friends of the parties that an internal exami-
nation of a body should take place, as in the present
instance, I cannot help it. Another Juror—l positively
deny that it was the wish of the family of the deceased
that the body should be touched on the contrary, it was
most wounding to the feelings of the widow of the de-
ceased that any disfiguration of it should •take
and I therefore request to know by what assumed right
or authority the surgeons acted on the occasion ?
Mr. Freeman (the_ surgeon)—lt was done with per-
mission of friends. He bad the permission of both the
uncle and widow of the deceased ; but admitted that he told
them it was necessary, to enable Air. Story to give such
evidence as would satisfy the jury as to the cause of
death. Another Juror observed that the object in open-
ing the head of the deceased appeared to him to be, that
of enabling the surgeon to claim the sum of two guineas
instead of one. The uncle of the deceased, who had
been sent for, here entered the inquest room, and stated
that Mr. Freeman, in the first instance, said the head
of the deceased must be opened, and it was only on this
representation, and its being urged that it was absolutely
necessary for the satisfaction of the jury, that either him•
self or Mrs. Tuckfield would have consented to the
body being touched, and its being done was the source
of great annoyance to both. Several of the jurors here
expressed the strongest disapprobation at the conduct
of the medical men, saying they would never have re-
quested any such thing as the opening of the head, and
refused to hear Mr. Freeman as a witness. A verdict
of " Accidental death" was then returned, after which
a vote of censure was proposed by the foreman on both
the medical men for unnecessarily wounding the feelings
of the widow and family of the deceased by opening his
head, which was carried without a disentient voice.
VICTIMISERS.—At Guildhall, on Thursday,
Thomas Cooke, an elderly man, who has been repeat-
edly charged with " bilking" publicans, was now charged
with eating a hearty breakfast at. the Farringdon Coffee-
house, Farringdon-street, knowing he had no money to
pay for it. The officers told the Magistrate that the
prisoner was a notorious victimiser, extremely fond of
brandy and ham. Mr. Alderman Harmer asked him
what he had to say to the charge ? Tho prisoner
replied simply that he had no money. The Alderman
ordered him to find bail to be of good behaviour.—At
a subsequent period of the (lay a young man was held.
to bail for victimising a waitcress at Williams's eating-
house, Old Bailey, in a similar way.
=On Thursday evening the household of his Ex-
eellency General Sebastian', the French Ambassador,
whose mansion is in Manchester-square, were involved
in much affliction in consequence of the sudden death of
Mr. Peter Bouquet, the house-steward. He had re-
turned from a walk, and was in the hall, where he hap-
pened to meet some of the upper domestics of the Gene-
ral's establishment. He was in familiar conversation
.vith them, quite cheerful. aosl joking, and had not been
there above four or five minutes when his voice faltered,
aid, exclaiming "Je m'en %Pais," be attempted to grasp
tie coat of the person he was talking to, but was unable
to do so, and fell. He was immediately raised, and a
medical gentleman called in, who attempted to bleed
bin, and applied stimulants, but his endeavours were of
no wail. The deceased had been thirty-six Years in the
mice of his Excellency.

YORK UNION HUNT MEETING.—THURSDAY.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, p. p., for all the horses
that started for the Gold Cup, the Champagne Plate, and the
Scurry Stakes. One mile and a half,
Colonel G. H. Thomson's b f Mazourka, 10st. (Capt. Bell) 1
Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam's b m Florida, list 71b 2
Mr. H. S. Thompson's br f Siroc, 3 vrs, lOst 3
Mr. Salvin's ch m Zarifa, aged, l'lstBlb 4
5t04 on Florida. Won cleverly by a length and a half.
Match for 1001. each ; 12st each ; two miles.—Mr. Peter's
ch g Syntax, aged (Colonel Thompson), beat Capt. Richard-
son's b g Barnton, aged. Betting-5 to 4on Barnton. Won
by a bare head.
The Challenge Whip, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each,
p p ; three-yr-olds lOst ; four yrs, llst ; five yrs, llst 81b ;
SIX vrs and aged, 12st ; half bred horses allowed 101bs. Three
mile..
Mr. H. S. Thompson's ch g Van Buren, 5 yrs...( Owner) 1
Hon. G. H. Fitzwilliam's gr g Casis, aged .........
Colonel G. H. Thompson's b g Hamlet, 5 yrs 3
Lord Milton's b g Guy Mannering, 4 yrs 4
6t04 on Van Buren. Won cleverly.
Sweepstakes of 10 sov, each, p. p., for horses carrying 16st.
One mile.
Mr. Salvin's ch m Zarifa,
aged (Owner) 1
Mr. H. S. Thompson's ch Budget, aged 2
Mr. D. Cayley's br h Incubus
5 to 4 on Budget, who was beaten by half a head only.
A Cup or piece of Plate of 50/. for horses not thorough-bred,
that never started for any but a Hunters' Stake ; 12st each.
The winner to he sold for 100 soy. &c. One mile.
Mr. E. H. Reynard's Slyfellow (Mr. Trafford) 1
Mr. H. S. Thomson's gr m Evergreen, 5 yrs
Mr. H. S. Thomson's br g Master Wadham, 4 yrs 3
Mr. Astley's bl g by Defence, 6 yrs 4
Mr. Powell's bl m Off-she-goes
6to 4 agst Slyfellow. Won cleverly.
The Black Duck Sweepstakes of 5 soy, each, p. p., for horses
of all denominations that have been beaten during the races ;
four yrs olds, 10st 61b ; five yrs, llst 61b ; six yrs and aged,
12st 21b ; thorough-bred horses, 14Ib extra. One mile.
(16 subs.)
Mr. Straubenzie's gr c Brother to Goldicote, 4 yrs
Lord Milton's br m Minorca, 4 yrs
Mr. Revnard's b h Vapour, 5 yrs
Col. Thompson's br c Babylon, 3 yrs ' 4
6to 4 agst Vapour. Won cleverly.
Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, h ft, for horses bona fide the pro-
perty of Officers of the Depots of the Ist Dragoon Guards
and 7th Hussars; five-yr-olds, list; six, 11st 71b; and
aged, 12st ; thorough-bred, 71b extra. Officers riders.
Captain Sutton's ch g Gleneagle (h b) (Owner) 1
Mr. Cotton's b m Diana (h b) 2
Mr. Hyliar's ch g
The favourite won by a length.

HOLYWELL HUNT RACES, THURSDAY (CoNcLunin).
The Mostyn Handicap Stakes of 20 sovs each, 10 ft, and 5 only,
&c, with 100 soya added by the Hon. E. M. L. Mostyn.
Two miles. Fifteen subs, eleven of whom declared.
Mr. F. R. Price's Captain Pops, 4 yrs, Est 121 b (N. Stag) 1
Sir 11. Bulkeley's Piccotee, 4 yrs, Est 121 b
Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy, 5 yrs, Bst 91b
Even on Captain Pops. Won easy.
Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, hft ; for two-yr-olds, ist ; and
three, 9st ; fillies allowed 21b. T.Y.C. Three subs.
Mr. F. R. Price's ch c July, 2 yrs (N. Stag) 1
Lord Stanley's br c Charlatan, 3 yrs
Mr. Mostyn's Bodleian, 2 yrs
The Holywell Hunt Plate, by Subscribers of 10 sovs ea,.h, with
50 added from the Club ; three yrs, ist 51b ; four yrs, Bst
91b : five yrs, 9st 31b ; six yrs, 9.t 51b ; and aged, 9st 91b.
Three miles.
Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph, 4 yrs (Templeman) 1
Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Piccotee, 4 yrs
The Hokee Pokee Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 20 added by the
Club, for all ages ; two-years-old, a feather ; three yrs, ist
Sib ; four yrs, Bst 91b : five yrs, 9st 3lb ; six yrs, 9st 71b ;
and aged, 9st 10Ib. The last horse to pay 5 sovs over and
above his stake to the second ; and the winner to be sold for
70/. T. Y. C. (Seven Subs. )
Lord Stanley's br c. Charlatan, 3 yrs... (Francis) 1
Mr. F. R. Price named b f Volusia, 4 yrs 2
Mr. Mostyn's The Wonder, 4 yrs ............ 3
Mr. Mostyn's Hugh Lupus, 3 yrs..,
Match for 1001., h ft.—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's cby Recovery,
out of Miss Patrick, against the Hon. 1). Mostyn's Flatcatcher.
Off by consent.
No race for the Stand Handicap.

NOTTINGHAM RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
A Cup or Piece of Plate, of 100 sovs, given by the Noblemen
and Gentlemen of the county, added to a Handicap of 15
sows each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, &c. The second
saved his stake. Twice round and a distance. (Ten Subs,
of whom 3 declared.)
Mr. Robinson's b h Melbourne, five yrs, 9st (Oates) 1
Mr. Collett's br c The Dean, three yrs, 6st 11lb ...... 2
The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr.
Walters's b h King Cole, six yrs, Bst 91b; Mr. Bowes's ch h
Epirus, five yrs, tlst 71b ; Lord Chesterfield's br f Industry,
four yrs, ist 121 b ; Mr. E. Peel's gr c Saul, four yrs, Bst 1113 ;
and Mr. Walker's br f Lollypop. three yrs.
This race was run twice, owing to a mistake in the starting
place. Melbourne won both heats. In the first he had six
opponents, in the last but one. He won easy.
Plate of 501., given by the Town and the Members for the
Town, for maiden horses, &c., of all ages, and winners of not
more than one plate, &c., of the value of 501. Heats, ence
round and a distance. The winner to be sold for 1001., &c.
Mr. S. King's b f Tivy, three yrs, 7st (Oates) 1 1
Mr. Skerratt's bm by Zinganee, three yrs, Bst 31b 0 2
Mr. P. Browne's b g Monteagle, aged, Bst I Ilb .. 3 3
Captain Lamb's br c Speed, three yrs, 7st 31b .. 2 4
Mr. Clarke's ch c The Recorder, three yrs, 7st . . odr
Mr. Wildman's b m Pandora, four yrs, 7st 131 b 0 dr
First heat won easy, the second by a length. The winner
was claimed.

THURSDAY.
A Plate of 50/., given by the Noblemen and Gentlemen of the
County, for horses, &c. of all ages. Heats, two and a half
miles.
Mr. Massey's b g Tubal-cain, 3 yrs
Mr. Walter's b h King Cole
Marquis of Normanby sb m Gipsey, 6 yrs ... 4 3
Lord Chesterfield's br f Industry, 4 yrs 2 dr
Melbourne, Lollypop, and the Dean were drawn
A Plate of 60/., given by the Members for the County. Heats,
one mile and three quarters.
Mr. Lacey's hr f Viola
Mr. Frost's bl f Gambolette...
Mr. Walter's ch c Sir Mark (post entrance) 2 3 dr
Mr. W. Doncaster's ch f Miss Fergnson 5 dis
Captain Lamb's br c Speed