The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-28 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY EXERTIONS.

Prom the itreeeW Advertiser.
Tlilr PANtf;'SSES OF THE MORNING ADVER-
TISER—THE LATE ELECTIONS.
A month since the General Election was concluded, and
with its termination subsided much of that intense eeklety
to learn the results of the elosely contested struggles that
marked its progress, which exceeded even the great efforts
made by some of the London morning journals td gratify it.
That we ourselves partook} degree, of the gene-
ral excitem+ittts We are aware, when we now take a review
ci the extraordinary, we may truly say unprecedented and
thoroughly successful exertions, made by this tiontlial, in
conjunction with our respectable Votitetiiperary, the Morning
Herald, to gratify the appetite for early intelligent and
when we admit that it was not until tile Peter a political
anxiety (in reference to theSt etections) had, in a great de-
gree abated, ive appreciated, in the full measure it so
amply demanded, the admirable combination of well-de-
vised and well-organized meant by which we were daily
enabled to present to our readers the most extensive, the
most authentic, and most rapidly conveyed body of elec-
tion intelligence from every quarter of the United King-
dom that has hitherto been presented to the readers of a
London newspaper. This being the eaee as regards our-
selves, we cannot but surmise that the public, who cannot
so well know as we do the amount of energy, activity, and
expense by which such efforts must be sustained in order to
be successful, and who are generally prone to gratify their
curiosity without weighing the extent of the means by
which their gratification is procured—have frequently read
in the Morning Advertiser within the last two months, in-
telligence of deeply important events, which had occurred
at the distance of two hundred or three hundred miles from
the metropolis on the night previous to the day on which
we published them, without further consideration than the
mere facts stated might have induced. This of course
may be dated, in the first place, to the all-absorbing anxiety
to which we have referred, and which was created by the
events themselves ; and, in the second place, to the fre-
quency with which we were enabled to publish them, which
must in some measure have blunted the desire to learn in
what manner we accomplished a number of achievements,
which, if placed singly before the public eye, would have
created boundless speculation and unqualified eulogy. Un-
der these circumstances, we consider that a slight review of
the principal incidents to which we have referred may tend-
to obtain for us that credit for the accomplishment of
our aim—to afford to our readers the earliest information
of those facts on which so much of the welfare of the em-
pire depended—which is seldom denied to ability and enter-
prise. Three years since the expresses of the Tinter, with
reports of the celebrated political dinners at Glasgow and
Edinburgh were deservedly considered to be the most suc-
cessful efforts that had been made on the part of the Lon-
don Press to furnish early intelligence to the public. The
distance from each of those places is 400 nsiies, and this was
accomplished by the Times in 32 hours. These feats were,
however, surpassed by the Morning Advertiser two )ears
since, in conveying to London the reports of the Devon-
shire election, at which Lord John Russell was defeated ;
and of the West Yorkshire election, at which Lord Mor-
peth vanquished the Tories and Mr. Wortley. These elec-
tions took place, the first at Exeter, which is distant from
London 172 miles, the latter at Wakefield, 186 miles north
of the metropolis. Reports, however, extending to some
columns, of the nominations for these counties, and the final
%tate of the polls, were transmitted to London, and printed
in this Journal on the mornings after they occurred, each
of the distances having been accomplished in about 13
hours. Again these efforts were exceeded last winter by
The Sun, in transmitting from Glasgow a report of the Peel
dinner there, which was accomplished in the unprecedented
period of 27 hours ; this, too, under the disadvantage of
being compelled to travel over roads which were covered to
the depth of many inches with a thawing snow. During
the progress of the late elections, however, we were ena-
bled to afford to the readers of the Morning- Advertiser
many instances of rapidity in conveying intelligence which
could well vie with the most successful of those we have
enumerated, and many which have never been equalled,
and which are likely to remain unsurpassed ; for instance,
the nomination of candidates for the representation of
West Yorkshire, and the state of the poll there, which
took place at Wakefield, 186 miles distant from London,
which were each published in the Advertiser of the morn-
ing after they occurred. The nominations and the states
of the polls at the following places were also published in
this Journal on the mornings after they occurred—many
of the polls in the out-districts of the counties not having
been ascertained till seven and eight &clock in the evenings
on which they were taken :—Liverpool, 205 miles from
London ; Preston, 217 miles ; the North Lancashire no-
mination, at Lancaster, 240 miles distant ; the South Lan-
cashire nomination, and the state of the poll on the two days
of election, at Newton, 193 miles distant; the Cheshire
election, 189 miles distant from London ; the Flintshire
election, at Mould, 202 miles distant ; the Manchester
nomination and polling, 186 miles distant ; the Salford
election and polling, 187 miles distant ; the Leeds nomina-
tion and polling, 195 miles distant ; the Blackburn election,
208 miles distant ; the Halifax election, 197 miles ; the
Bradford election, 196 miles ; the Wigan nomination and
polling, 200 miles distant ; the Bolton election, 197 miles ;
the Bury election, 195 miles distant ; the Warrington
election, 188 miles distant ; the Macclesfield election, 167
miles ; the Oldham nomination and polling, 191 miles ; the
Stockport election, 176 miles ; the Ashton e'ection, 187
miles ; the Chester election, 189 miles ; the Rochdale
election, 198 miles distant ; the Huddersfield election, 187
miles distant ; the North Warwickshire, at Coleshill, 105
miles distant ; the North Staffordshire, at Stafford, 142
miles distant ; and besides these, the Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton, Litchfield, Worcestershire, Walsall, Bristol,
Bath, and Stroud elections, with a multitude of others
at places the distances from which to London vary
from 100 to 200 miles, all of which were published in
the Morning Advertiser on the day after they occurred,
and any of which instances, if unrelieved by such a
number of others, would have excited astonishment
and praise. We have only in conclusion to refer to
our exertions in forwarding from Carlisle to London
the report of the nomination and the polling on each of
the two days at the East Cumberland election—decidedly
the most important that occurred in the empire, as involv-
ing the fate of Sir James Graham, and the opinion of the
people in reference to the instances of political baseness
which his conduct so thoroughly evinced—Carlisle is 306
miles distant from London. The distance was accom-
plished by us on three several days, in an average period
of 15 hours ! This needs not a word of comment ; every
individual aware of the fact must do justice to an effort
accomplished by. such an expenditure of money and exer-
tion of energy and skill.
It would he unfair to conclude this brief notice of the
most unparalleled exertions ever made in the history of
newspapers, without stating that they were undertaken acd
car: ied into effect in conjunction with our Contemporary the
i lid Herald. To the gentlemen connected with that
establishment, as well as to the numerous correspondents
of both journals, Ile here record the expresSion of our
warmest thanks for their cordial co-operation—a co-opera-
tion of heart as well as of hand, and which terminated in
results as creditable to both journals as they were most sa-
tisfactory to the public, and most honourable to all who
had part in it.
[We have sincere pleasure in bearing our humble
testimony to the above series of splendid exertions.
Achievements of the most extraordinary enterprise are
only impossible to those who have not the foresight
to conceive, and the daring to attempt them.—Ed.
Sun.]

Viscount Glentworth, grandson of the Earl of Li-
merick, and nephew of the Right Hon. the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, has been nominated Captain of the Tower
Hamlets Militia. The Noble Lord was r,cently married to
Miss Villebois.

ROMANCE IN REAL LlFE.—This day fortnight
an event took place at the shop of a respectable watch-
maker in this town which had nearly been attended with a
tragical result. The sister of a young lady who once made
some stir in this town, respecting a certain hymeneal disap-
pointment, had, it appears, for a long period received visits
from the gentleman in question. She either had, or con-
cluded she had, reason for believing that the consummation
would be matrimony. Suddenly, however, and, as the lady
avers, without any reason assigned, the gentleman disconti-
nued his visits. She repeatedly called at his shop and re-
quested to see him, but, either by accident or design, her
wishes in this respect were frustrated. If the shop-boy may
be believed, she more than once betrayed signs of violent
agitation, and exhibited a pair of pistols. Last Monday
week she called at the shop, where she found the gentle-
man. She asked him if he intended to call at her house.
He said no ; he did not intend to call any more. At
that moment she placed her hand in her pocket, and.
he heard the click of pistol-lock. The sound was that of
placing the weapon on full cock. She drew the pistol from
her pocket, and he rushed towards her and seized it with
the intention of disarming her. A struggle ensued, dur-
ing which the pistol went off. The ball entered the young
ma's leg just above the knee, and shattered the bone in a
most dreadful manner. She immediately threw away
another a pistol and rushed from the shop. The young
man took up the pistol which she had thrown away, and,
on examining it, found it to be loaded with ball. An ap-
plication was made to the magistrates last week for a sum-
mons against the lady, and the case was heard on Friday.
The young man is in a very precarious state, and was so ill
from the effects of his wound that it was found expedient
to have the case heard in the office of the magistrates' clerks.
The above facts were stated, and the young woman was
bound over to keep the peace for twelve mouths.—Liver-
pool Albion.