The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

THE " TIMES " and the- SWINDLERS.
(From the Observer.)
The subscription to the " Times' Teatime-dial," in
commemoration of the moral results of the recent trial
at Croydon, has now turned a thousand pounds sterling ;
and the list of subscriber=, as will be seen on reference
toonr advertising columns, represents all the mercantile
and banking wealth of the metropolis. The probability
'that, when all those who intend to contribute to this
fund shall have given in their subscriptions, the entire
amount will be, at least, double, that which has been al-
ready announced by the Committee. It then becomes a
question, the disposal of this large sum of money. A
tablet, to be erected in the new Royal Exchange, is the
mode of commemoration which seems to be adopted by
the representatives of the subscribers ; and, perhaps, no
other mode could be more effectual for the purpose to
which, of course, it is destined—viz. the reward of disinte-
rested exertions in the cause of credit, and the terror of
swindlers of all classes. But this monument cannot
cost more than a thousand pounds to erect ; whereas the
the subscription will in all likelihood be three times that
sum before it shall finally close. Then comes the ques-
tion, what is to be done with the surplus, after all the
necessary expenses shall have been defrayed ? On this
point much may be said ; and if we have kept silence on
it hitherto, and only incidentally allude to it now, it is
not because we are insensible:of its importance, or un-
prepared to express an opinion respecting it ; but simply
because we deemed it little less than presumption to in-
terfere when the whole matter was in such able hands as
those of the Lord Mayor, the Lord Mayor elect (Al-
derman Pixie), Sir Peter and Mr. Laurie. The ques-
tion, however, having been mooted by the Secretary, Mr.
Hughes Hughes, in the inconsequential and unnecessary
speech made by him at the last meeting of the Commit-
tee on Wednesday ; and the subject being, therefore, no
no longer a point for the Committee solely, but also fur
the public to take part in its discussion, we beg to direct
attention to the letter of " A Solicitor," appended to
these observations, received by us on the Bth of the pre-
sent month, and withheld from publication only because
of the delicacy which we felt in interfering with the
functions of the Committee, for the reason above stated
—namely, our thorough conviction of their perfect suffi-
ciency ; a delicacy now removed, as we have already
said, by the observations of the Secretary. And while
we do not wish to be understood as dissenting from the
decision of the Committee in respect of " The Tablet,"
we do trust that the benevolent suggestion of our Cor-
respondent may be taken seriously into their considera-
tion, for is it not said in God's word that " the end
of the commandment is charity ?" A long, and it may
be, an expensively acquired knowledge of newspaper
prosecutions, sled us to reflect seriously upon the great
good that might be effected foi the community at large,
of which the Journals are after all but the organs of ex-
pression, if the wealthier classes could be arrayed in be-
half of the right, so far as it concerns them, when under
unjust prosecution. And here it may be remarked, in
passing, that the virulence of prosecutions against news-
papers is always in a progressive proportion to their
glaring injustice. The case of the Times and the gang
of swindlers, no completely broken up by their exposure
in the columns of that Journal, presented an opportu-
nity that was not to be lost ; and we availed ourselves
of it accordingly.

TO-THE EDITOR. OF THE OBSERVER.

" Old Broad-street, Oct, 8, 1841

"SlR—The highly liberal and praiseworthy remarks
so disinterestedly made by you, as a political opponent of
the Times newspaper, having been in a great measure the
cause of the movement now making by the commercial
gentlemen of this great metropolis, with the view of
offering some acknowledgment of the great exertions
made by the proprietors of that paper, I take the liberty
of offering for your consideration the following sugges-
tion :—Whether, instead of erecting a tablet in the Nev;
Royal Exchange, as proposed by Mr. Alderman Wilson,
which would be productive of no red benefit to any one,
it would not be better to apply the funds in founding
alms-houses for decayed printers employed on the Times,
or a school for the education of their children. Though
the proprietors of the Times have, much to their credit,
declined receiving anything like a personal pecuniary
compensation, they would not perhaps object to this
charitable application of the money, which, whilst corn-
plinsentary to them, would, as it appear to me, furnish
a lasting record to their serearits of the sense entertained
by the world of their great and unprecedented exertions
in the cause of honesty and fair dealing.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, yours, 8&c. " A SOLICITOR."

HOW CONSERVATIVES GET RE-

T URNED.

Just as we were going to press we received the result
of the Pembroke boroughs registration revision. The
Revising Barristers were occupied four entire days ; four
hundred and nincty-four persons were objected to by the
Reformers, who succeeded in expunging from the list no
less a number of fictitious voters than three hundred and
ninety-four, including the Landshipping colliers, who
are disfranchised to a man.

We said last July at the termination of the most
disgraceful proceedings perhaps on record connected
with the Pembroke election, that Captain Child, the
opponent of the bankrupt banker, had accomplished a
great object, and won a glorious victory by opening
the boroughs We spoke, as it will be seen, advisedly.
We saWthat the Libeial candidate had struck in the
wedge which might not then ba driven home ;
but that it would never be drawn out again—and
has net,. of the revision just concluded,
amply tki)iti!e us Out ? All that Tory ingenuity
and malice could then devise—all that treachery
could effect, and bribery as well as coercion
accomplish, aided by priestly rancour—all these foul in-
fluences have been destroyed ;—at one fell swoop three
hundred and ninety--four of Sir John constituents! Lave
been swept away. The Lib( ral candidate, Captain Child,
1 as c.it up the corruptionists' only hold—he has beaten
the bribers, relieved the bribed from degradation and
slavery, and neutralised the corruptionists' power in Pem-
broke, " all as all had never been I !'

We have le4rned from Captain Child that he has in-
structed his solicitors to adopt proceedings against all
those persons who voted at the late election without the
stamped qualification. Will the Conservatives who se-
duced their slaves into this infract:on of the law miti-
gate the consequences of its violation ? will the treach •
•rous TorieS pay them the price of their perjury ? will
they indemnify all those whom they have entrapped ?
or will they leave them to their impending fate ? Hav-
ing sucked the orange we think they will probably
throw away the peel—for :it is the characteristic of the
Conservatives, first to Seam() and then abandon the
wretched
.victims of th?irpOlitieal lust to all the penalties
as well as to all the infamy or prostitution.—WeMnvin.

PROPOSED OPENING OF THE
MANCIIETER ANI) SHEFFIELD RAILWAY,
FROM MANCHESTER TO GODLEY.

The progress made on the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway at this end of the line will enable the Directors,
we understand, to throw it open from Manchester to
the viaduct over the turnpike-road at Godley toll-bar,
a distance of from eight to nine miles, in the course of
a few woeka only from the present time. Indeed, all
that is wantiflg to complete this portion of the railway
is a short portion of the embankment necessary to form
a junction with the Manchester and Birmingham line
at Chancery-lane, over which lice, it is well kno,xr, they
are to run as far as the station in Tray's-street, and ul-
timately to the splendid new joint station of the two
Companies erecting on the coal v.harves in Piccadilly,
and extending
across Sore-street and this junction,
we understand, would hose bee; effected so as to have
enabled the Company to open immediately but for the
late inclement weather, which has driven the labourers
upon the embankment from their work.
We aree
e ay
enab;;e%splthecet .b
reforitich is
to congratulate the public
on the 3p
held out to them of as
rapid and convenient communica •
districts which this portion of theti Manchester with
the
populouster and Shef-
field line traverses as with the ether large
arge towns ofocr
neighbourhood, including Stockport, Bolton, Rochdale,
intianchester and
and Heywood. The portion of the
eti, traverses
Sheffield Railway about to be opened,
a district studded with populous manufacturing tow
t a 3 the ,
and villages, and amongst them we may me •
Openshaw, Audenn-tanw, H..
most important, Gorton,
ley Hill, Fairfield, ,Ashton.under-Lynn, oo-
Staly bride
Dukinfield, Tintwistle, Hollinwood, Newton,'andanud Hyde.
'
From its junction with the Manchester
ham Railway at Chancery-lane the line runs on :wing-
siderable embankment for about a mile and three-guar.
ters, where it enters a cutting at Opernanw,
, and passes
under the Stockport Canal, a little distance from Messrs.
Orrell's factory, and under Lee-street ;from thence it
passes, with a few exceptions of fillings hardly worth
mentioning as embankments, through cuttings or upon
the surface of the ground the whole rema;nder of the
distance ; so that it may be presumed there is little
likelihood of any interruption after it is once opened from
'slipping', settlings, or other accidents to which embank..
meats are liable. The embankment we have mentioned
at the Manchester end of the line has, with the excel).
Lion of the small portion at the junction, referred to
above, been formed a considerable time ; the permanent
Tails have been laid down, and locomotive engines and
heavily laden waggons have been running on it for some
!hue, so that it may be said to have settlod down, and
its Permanence, solidity, and safety are placed beyond a
doubt. The first station on the line is the Fairfield
station, at the head of .Gorton reservoir. The station
Teethe accommodation of Ashton is established at Guide
Bridge,_t about three-quarters of a mile from the new
church ; and this station will also accommodate the
suranli4eirith Healey Hill and neighbourhood. At Du-
_ e , .1. •
theta 13 another statior, situa:cd at Dog-lane,
meat D,_,. ,
to,snshtp, ili"'"1-1.1 HAIL Toe line passes fireugh this
ens p, sad
mem,. s .traverses the extensive coal-fields of
relay. -rli::: anti Leevond of the Dankirk Coal Com-
the traffin of , station he-a will be the point also at which
upon tho.,4:entrridge and neighbourhood must come
established for tbeee next station is Newton Green,
ships of Newton and Hyde.
of the populous town-
ley, on the Mottrara HY(I.
The next station is God-
termintils o'rd" Hyde turnpikc.road, for the
P' esent theTiatwwe, Holliuwood the line ; and here the traffic of
, Glossop, &c.,
the line, and arrange will come upon
the Sheffield coaches and have been made by which
. carriers will meet the trains
there, for the accommodation of the " through " traffic.
The works, most
three viaducts, the %it:mita notice on the line, are the
tuon e, Hatewood,and Etherow,
the latter of which;
‘ nearly completed, is on a
portion of the line net ignee.vel.p in that about to be
opened. The Dukinfield, i
five arches,
Valley viaduct, is a
handsome brick erection
arches, each of ccusi-
derable span, crossing the R.l'ver.T,imc, and exhibits
the appearance of a' firat, aahnetstral, piece of masonry.
The viaduct at Godley, is of nine arches, one of which
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