The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-27 00:00:00

rim SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEMNG, MAY 27, 18a,

own certain knowledge whose name should be there upon
that catalogue of men whom the country delights thus to
honour with this substantial attestation of its sympathy
and of its cordial recognition of noble services done to
the community at large. The instance, here, is that of a
man of distinguished ability, of the most sterling in-
tegrity, consistently devoted to the furtherance of the
popular cause, one who has not simply grown grey in the
service of the people at large, but who has exhausted all
his energies in forwarding those interests to the neglect of
his own, and who now, from the collapse of his individual
fortunes, can at least look busk to the devotion of a life to
principles, his advancement of which seems to be entirely
forgotten by all but his personal intimates, is Most cer-
tainly altogether overlooked by those who are in power.
Yet in the particular case we are here alluding to—the
name of this champion of popular interests was constantly
before the public for thirty years, and, beyond that, was
directly and conspicuously associated with those who, in
1832, carried the Reform Bill, and who, in 1846, secured
the triumph of the Free Trade principles.

Allusion being here obviously made to that well-
known predecessor of ours in the conduct of The
Sun newspaper, to whom, now between eleven and
twelve months afterwards, the generous-hearted
writer in the Hull Advertiser has, within these last
few days, referred so very pointedly, expressly, and
emphatically by name.
It is only fair to the Prime Minister himself (the
diffuser of this annual bounty of the Civil List Pen-
sions) that we should add one other particular to
those already specified, namely, that immediately
after the publication of our remarks in The Sun of
the 13th of June, he (the Premier) most courteously
authorised his Secretary to communicate with our-
selves—to learn the name of the claimant alluded to in
theportions of the leading article abovequoted. That
I name, that claim we at once gladly availed ourselves
of the opportunity of bringing thus (in answer to
his own inquiry) to the knowledge of the
First Lord of the Treasury. There the matter has
since rested. According to The Owl of Wednesday
last we learn that—.

" The following are found among the Civil List Pensions
for 1864-65 :—Mrs. Bingham, widow of Colonel Charles
Bingham, of the Royal Artillery, in consideration of her
late husband's long and valuable services, and of the
straitened circumstances in which she and her children
are left—.£lso. Mrs. Boole, widow of the late Pro-
fessor of Mathematics in Queen's College, Cork, in
consideration of his distinguished attainments as an
original mathematician of the highest order, and
of his remarkable labours towards the extension
of the boundaries of science-4100. Mr. William Howitt,
in consideration of the long and useful career of literary
labour in which both he and his wife have been engaged—
£l4o. Mr. Thomas Wright, an author who has contri-
buted much to English literary and political history—£6s."
Within a few days the full complement of names
for the annual Civil List Pension will be filled up.
Is it too late to hope that upon that list the Prime
Minister will generously have inscribed, at last, the
name of the gentleman whose claims have so
earnestly, and, in regard to time, so very oppor-
tunely been advocated by the Hull Advertiser—
claims first advocated a year ago, not inappro-
priately in these columns of The Sun by ourselves.
[En. Sux.]