The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-28 00:00:00

NOTE BY MR. BAILEY.

Mr. Panizzi having stated in his letter to the Secretary, of
July Bth (see his pamphlet, page 38), that " Mr. Bailey
took away my written memorandum, and ordered Mr. Ro-
berton not to take any step," 1 beg to remark, first, that
when that letter was read at the Council, I was surprised at
the assertion, and distinctly denied the fact, never having
seen nor heard of the written memorandum therein referred
to ; secondly, that Mr. Robertson was immediately called be-
fore the Council, and, on being questioned as to this subject,
disclaimed also any knowledge of the circumstance.

THE TRUE SUN.

LONDON:

SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 23, 1337.

This evening is the last on which the daily True
Sun will appear. We have now for eighteen months
devoted to it every energy of our minds, far more intent
upon national improvement than on success in a mere
commercial undertaking. We have fearlessly advo-
cated the interests of the whole community, as distin-
guished from those of narrow sections. We have
bearded the oligarchy in its strongholds, and exposed
alike the open profligacy of the Tory, and the tortuous
duplicity of the Whig factions.

We do not affect to be insensible to the strong ap-
probation of our views which has been expressed by
some of the highest minds of our time. Vie are
deeply grateful to that part of the public press which
has awarded to us its honest praise, and we shall re-
member with pride, that amongst the public and the
press, it is from the intelligent we have received the
most hearty support.
. .

We have neither spared our time nor our capital in
the effort we have made to establish a Daily Journal
unshackled by party ties, untrammelled by the neces-
sity of advocating class interests, and have made consi-
derable sacrifices in so doing. But we do not see a
reasonable prospect of a remunerative return within
such a definite period as would juitlfy a perseverance
on the part of private individuals, who value their
pecuniary independence as the foundation of their
political usefulness.
But let it not be said we have suddenly abandoned
our efforts. We have, for several month, laid before
the more opulent of the Liberal party the actual posi-
tion of the paper. We have informed them that, after
the present period, the distributive efforts of the Liberal
party must be taxed to carry out to ultimate success
the national object we had commenced with much pro-
mise, and continued so long as individual prudence

would permit.
With some generous exceptions, this met with no

efficient response.
We trust that the Liberal cause will not suffer from
the want of a daily organ. We do not attribute our
commercial failure to apathy on the part of the people.
There is scarcely a mechanics' institute, or a place
where industrious and intelligent tradesmen and work-
ing men assemble, that the daily True Sun has not
been found. We have bad perhaps a greater number
of readers than any other Newspaper, but the indus-
trious many who have most sympathised with us have
been so borne down by low profits and scanty wages,
consequences of aristocratic rule, that a daily paper is
an intellectual necessity they have not the means to
attain.

Under these circumstances the daily True Sun
has been disposed of to the proprietor of The Sun,
and will henceforward be merged in that journal. And
we wish and hope that the new vigour which our own
circulation will infuse into our contemporary may enable
him to take that independent political position which
we have ourselves occupied.

Let the people remember that upon the support they
afford him will depend the degree of his independence.
Let them remember that the labourer is worthy of his
hire ; and that if they would maintain an independent
press they must make strenuous efforts in aid of the
journal wl►ich dares to be independent. Beyond our
sincere desire that 'The Sun may deserve and command
success, we have not the slightest interest in that
journal.

From some remarks which appear in another part
of the paper it will be seen that the True Sun Weekly
Paper will still remain in our bands.
tKe" On Monday, and following days, during the
week, The Sun Evening Paper will be published at
our Office, as a substitute for the True Sun.

Married, at Government House, Fredericton, New
Brunswick, on Saturday, the 25th ult., by the Venerable
Archdeacon Coster, Captain Tryon, 43d light infantry, of
Bulwick Park, Northamptonshire, to Elizabeth, only daugh-
ter of his Excellency Major-General Sir J. Harvey, K. C. H.,
Lieutenant-Governor of this province, a grand-daughter of
General Lord Lake, and niece of the present Viscount.

The Animals Friend Society" last week caused
William Duffield (ostler to Mr. Oddy) to be fined 10s. and
costs, at Worship-street, by Mr. Grove, for having cruelly
beaten a horse which he was breaking in, and violently pulled
the bit. The Society also caused William Easther, Charles
Gamble, and the cab driver 462, to be fined by Mr. Jeremy
at Union-hall: the first, 20s. and costs, for cruelty to an ass,
and he was committed for fourteen days in default ; the
second, 10s. and costs ; and the third, ss. and 3s. costs. All
the fines were given by the Society to the extra witnesses and
to the poor-box.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND MRS. GORE.—
" Mary Raymond" is compared by the critics with Mr. Lock-
hart's " Adam Blair," and Lord John Russell's " Nun of Ar-
t ouca. " We are inclined rather to trace a resemblance between
this charming tale and one of Mrs. Gore's earlier productions,
entitled " Theresa Marchmont," published among the Ro-
mances of Real Life.

THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH'S PRIVATE
CORRESPONDENCE, JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. COLBURN.—These
volumes will take a prominent place amongst the most inter-
esting and important collections of private letters, the publica-
tion of which has thrown light upon the transactions of a great
nation, and the characters of distinguished individuals. Their
appearance is well timed. At the commencement of the reign
of a female Sovereign, when the contention between the Whigs
and the Tories is maintained with so much pertinacity, the
struggle of the two sections of the Aristocracy for supremacy
in the State under the sway of Queen Anne, presents a thou-
sand points of interest, and suggests a variak:y of curious and
profitable speculations, unassociatcd with it at any other time.
THE NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "DARN-
LEY," " RICHELIEU," &c.—We have read (says our Contem-
porary, the Atlas) Mr. James's " Louis the Fourteenth" with
great interest. The work is less a life of Louis than a view
of his times, and less a view of the political than the social
times of that Monarch. It partakes rather of the character of
an agreeable and diversified narrative, thickly studded cdth
personal anecdotes, than of a dry and careful history of Franc..
in the age when Richelieu ruled the destinies of that country;
when De Retz, Mazarin, and Turcnne, de Maintenon and La
Vallierc, divided the attention of the nation, and when the
glory of great deeds was bathed in such hues of voluptuous-
ness and licentiousness that the stern reality tcok the tone of
romance. Mr. James gives us only outlines of the wars ; but
then he gives us bountiful accounts of the Generals, the events
are despatched with brovity, the pers mnel is given at full
length. Such is the general character of this entertaining
work,