The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-27 00:00:00

THE " CO.RNHILL MAGAZINE."

Mr. Thackeray concludes his editorship of this
periodical with the following address :—" To Contri-
butors and Correspondents, March 18, 1862.—
Ladies and gentlemen (who will continue in spite
of the standing notice below to send papers to the
editor's private residence), perhaps you will direct
the postman to some other house when you learn
that the editor of the Cornhill Magazine no longer
lives in mine. My esteemed successor lives at
No.
man's brief interval of quiet. He will have
troubles enough in that thorn-cushioned editorial
chair which is forwarded to him by the
Parcels (Happy) Delivery Company. In our
first number, ladies and gentlemen, your obedient
servant likened himself to the captain of a ship, to
which and whom I wished a pleasant voyage.
Pleasant ! Those who have travelled on shipboard
know what a careworn, oppressed, uncomfortable
man the captain is. Meals disturbed, quiet impos-
sible, rest interrupted—such is the lot of captains.
This one resigns his commission. I had rather have
a quiet life than gold lace and epaulets; and deeper
than did ever plummet sound I fling my speaking
trumpet. Once in a voyage to America I met a sea
captain who was passenger in the ship which
he formerly had commanded. No man could
be more happy, cheerful, courteous than this.
He rode through the gale vs ith the most
perfect confidence in the ship and its captain ;
he surveyed the storm as being another gentle-
man's business; and his great delight was to be
called at his watch, to invoke a blessing on the
steward's boy who woke him, and to turn round
in his crib and go to sleep again. Let my
suc-
cessor
pa s s a command a
boardn d t h e;
and" Cornhill,"if
giving me
e always
a
theprinter's boy rings
at my door of an early morning, with a message
that there are three pages wanting, or four too
much, I will send out my benediction to that
pu inter's boy, and take t'other half-hour's dose.
Though editor no more, I hope long to remain
a contributor to my friend's magazine. I be-
lieve my own special readers will agree that
my books will not suffer when their author
is released from the daily task of reading,
accepting, refusing, losing and finding the
works of other people. To say No has often
cost me a morning's peace and a day's work. I
tremble recenti mutu. Oh, those hours of madness,
spent in searching for 1. ouisa's lost lines to her
dead piping bullfinch, or Nhoj Senoj's mislaid
Essay! I tell them for the last time that the (late)
editor will not be responsible for rejected commu-
nications, and herewith send off the chair and the
great Cornhill Magazine tin-box with its load of
care. While the present tale of "Philip" is pass-
ing through the press I am preparing another, on
which I have worked at intervals for many years
past, and which I hope to introduce in the ensuing
year ,
• and I have stipulated for the liberty of con-
tinuing the little essays which have amused the
public and the writer, and which I propose to con-
tribute from time to time to ;he pages of the Corn.
hill ill agazine.

THE LONGFORD ELECTION. The Longford
county petition was printed yesterday. It adduces at con-
siderable length charges of an organised system of violence
previously to and at the election on the part of Major
O'Reilly and his agents; alleges that large numbers of elec-
tors who wished to vote for Col. "White were prevented from
doing physical force, and that great numbers were
literally so byllycompelled by armed mobs, under threats of death,
to vote against their will fcr Major eilly. All freedom
of election was " utterly destroyed and abrogated," and the
house is consequently asked to declare that the major's re-
turn be set aside and declared null and void.
INTIMIDATION.—Eight miners, formerly work-
men at the Gildersome Colliery, but now on strike, were
charged before the West Riding magistrates on Tuesday
with intimidating, molesting, and obstructing some of the
colliers now at work. The men were all bound over to
keep the peace in their own recognisances of £lO each.
The strike among the colliers in the Gildersome district still
continues, without any prospect of =early termination.