The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-30 00:00:00

Prithee do not reject ut "
Till you've read our Prospectus.
Early in November will be published, what every impartial in-
dividual will admit is much wanted•in the' Irish Aletrepolis,
a really Honest; Able, and LIBERAL WEEKLY JOUR-
NAL, which it has been determined shall be called

H E W O. R L D.
-R. Now that we have sat down to draw up our Prospectus,
we do solemnly protest that a e would have given a considerable
sum could we, by any means, have induced Lord Brougham
and Viscount Pahnerston to perform the duty for us, by
way of proxy. The one would have described all that
" THE WORLD" ought and will be, a thousand times better
than we can ever hope to do; while the other would have en-
shrouded all our errors and weaknesses in so murky- a mantle
of mystification, that they would have escaped the "audai et
vigilans" scrutiny of the keenest customer in the New Police.
Failing in our attempt either to enlist the ex-Chancellor, who
was in hot haste to meet the hero of'' Waterlge at Dover, or.
the Prince of Protocols, who assured us that :" he had not a
paragraph in him," the last. having been expended to ,complete
the piscatory portion of the Queen's Speech, we had some
notion of applying to Sir Edward Lytton Bulvrer,: but feared
he would be too Whiggish and classical. Then we turned
our eyes to Eaton-square, and thoughtnf placing ourselves
under an obligation to Sir William Molesworth, but changed
our mind, lest his Durham politics should creep through a
transparent veil of Radicalism. Torn Wyse we were half in-
dined to solicit, but he would have been rather heavy, and had
enough to do in Waterford; Richard Shell had the next place
in our consideration, bxt his style would have baen too-spark-
ling and light for us; and, moreover, we knew that he was
busied not only •in preparing aritriotic-address to the electors
of Tipperary, but also in obtaining smug knowledge of the
tallow and molasses trade out of 11.16Cu1loCh's- " Commercial
Dictionary."

Having at length seen that we must ouriwlves put en cur
apron, and take up our tools, for the due execution of the un-
dertaking, we were fairly bothered deciding- whether the affair
should be extremely long and dull, or uncommonly short and
merry. Conscience whispered that we sheuld speak the truth,
161.1 t we remembered that the philosopher 'Of Mahnesbury has
denounced all truth-telling public writer's is' 'dangerou's to the
safety. of a corrupt and tyraunical coramontrealth, mill has te-
commended that, both .them and their luenbrations should be
bundled off to some comfortable and howitable countzy, like
Australia •r New Zealand. . Our
,diSposition and interest
prompted us to treat a grave Matter' with becoming serious-
ness ; but then the advice of Pliny flashed upon our memory,
(Ut in vita sic In stndils pulcherrimum, &c.). where he recotn-
mends us to mingle mirth and gravity in our studies. We
feared to be vivacious and pointed, lest we should be condemned
as frivolous and slanderous, and suffer that public displeasure
which has ever been visited upon unhappy authors since the
time that, the Athenians burned the books of Protagoras, and
the Romans hunted Diogenes and his companions out f k
city, for telling more than they wished to hear.. " Human
Natur," as Dick Stapleton phrases it, would have inclined
us te be, a little vain, thereby • following the counsel
of Lord Bacon, who informs us that " the fame of Seneca and
Cicero was kept fresh by their boasting, which seems to be like
varnish, that not only makes wood shine, but last; but we drew
sstuvelves up, and, upon reflection, decreed that self-praise, so
far as we were concerned, should be monopolized by the'com-
pounders of Morison's Pills, and Holloway's Poor Man's Oint-
ment. Here, then, we were at ,a dead-lock, and seizing our
pen, first wrote a furious letter to Dr. Dionysius Lardner, com-
plaining that science had not yet discovered some, piece of me-
chanism that might manufacture PiOtpeetnieS of all sorts and
sizes by steam— then set about itaditingone after the good old
fashioned plan. <,
The Amphitryon thinks the choicest h/essing of life a re-
cherche repast; the exquisite prizes Ore all things a well-cut
coat, or an unobjectionable cigar ; the nhuyee pants for the last
new novel, or the 'opera ;' the Rational Man ohne loves an
honest and clever newspaper. " But where is he te find it '
Most assuredly not among the Liberal Journals of Dublin ; for
we, not long ago, went over the catalogue of the Liberal Me-
tropolitan prints with the talented Mr. aeorge Robins, who
confessed, with a yawn and a sigh, that beginning with the
oldest, and leaving off with the youngest,—" the chief of the
Irish, Press," (a tribute, by the way paid to 'our own humble
exerti .ns by the honest Sheffield Iris)—." he never had the
misfortune to have submitted to his inspection so bad a lot, or
ens which would furnish such scanty materials for the puff ex-
traordinary." Spenser tells us that the Dublin Liberal News-
papers, or " carryers of newes," in hig time were " fooles and
notable rogues." Tom Moore, if we are to believe_Willis, has
described the present generation, as downright blockheads ;`while'
Mr. O'Connell, by way of driving home the nail, designates the
whole concern

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