The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-19 00:00:00

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which, but for the generosity of Englishmen, and
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Printing
-nntino: its knees, and
glorious reception Kossuth hag met with,- might well
ie, broken his heart—now that the Tires has ae'4ed
eis aistaidly and atrocious part towards the Hungerian
exile,. does it for one moment imagine that any one
protest that its slanders acre not the nesult of Austrian
iwilipiirdabtieolnievaendit ascendancy in
-heuseesquare.
but simply the fruits of a conviction of what was right?
But we are not left to deal in vague generelities respect-
ieg the cennexion‘between the Court a Vienna,and the
Times. We can point to flues -which,. in a conrrof la*,
would be hold as couclusiveiproofrof tjeat caurnexiori.S 11f
the limes be not the creature of Austria,—eti Organ and
advocate` in this country, how does it happen, that only
ten-or twelve days ago, it-published eeieraciptete papers,
in the vain hope of destroying the cheaicter'ef Koettokis,
which ,could not , have been procured from any other
quartet save • the' 'Court of Vienna? Let the
Times ' grapple with cud_ get over that "stubborn
Inct,".if it can. But were the Times the immaculate
journal it professes to be,—were it only influenced by
pure and disinterested motives, how comes it to pass,
that, in addition to its unceasing and savage attacks ou -
Kossuth, it studiously suppressed some of the greatest
demonstrations which were held in his tavour?'" In its
impression yesterday, it hypocritically complains, that '
no tickets were forwarded to it to report the proceedings
at the Hatiovetesquare Rooms on Thursday, and repre-
sents this as a reason why no report of those ptoeeed-
logs appeared in its columns. This surpasses, were that
than did it not report the great Kossuth demonstration
demonstration
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at
thieo
nprienv previous
Finsbury? audacity of
vir Why, we
Why
made by the borough of Westminster? Why did it
ignore, by also passing over in silence, the still greater,
nay, 111,1-
Ataryleboue? Why did it abstain from reporting the
great demonstration in Lambeth, and the no less imposing
pwreohesieienphgtiennngt
inrweihcci
demonstrationscoo hlnut demonstration made by the men of
did the Times dispose of, in six lines, the magnificent
en-
tered Birnainghane
obe-
dience to on Monday week, a reception to
and it we
having preferred against it the accusation not have done adequate juAiee? There is but one an-
swer to all this: the Times is the veriest slave of Austria,
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as to suppress all notice of these im-
posing
the money of Austria.
YWwhich an undue influenceimes.
With
through which its services had rtehtained for Ole
of its profligacy, which will admitn
Cyvoheartt of
th Austria,
seother mweeandaisatrine chtyl that construction.
other ways than by the mere expenditure
otattiLher.e wiere
Mg medium, of purchasing the support of thecirTct! at-
may be exercised over our contemporary, it is not
neces-
sary that we should specify. Were we called onto dosoB
tateoi.id,r, ampleit
to Petipllotitu°ress
we might allude to one mode of influencing the Times,
which, in its results, is just as corrupt as if money were
actually paid down. There are intimacies to be
formed and kept up with foreign ambassadors, and
at foreign courts, in return for which the most servile
services may be expected, and, indeed, conventionally
exacted. But the Times represents us as being in..
fluenced in the course we have adopted, by " the grati-
fication of a momentary spite." We believe the uni-
firm tone and tenor of the Morning Advertiser, will
furnish a sufficient reply to this unwarrantable insinua-
tion. Whatever may be the feelings of rivalry which
influence us, that rivalry is at least honourable and
generous. It is not the gratification of a momentary
spite, but respect for the great interests of truth, justice,
generosity, and humanity, which has influenced us in
the course we have pursued. We saw a deliberate at-
tempt—the most dianelicel that was ever hatched out of
a place which shall be nameless—to assassinate the
character, dearer far to him thou life, of a man who was
the child of misfortune. We saw the infamous object
pursued day after day, by means no less infamous than
the object itself. The sight awakened in cur bosoms emo-
Lien-A of burning indignation. We sought to shield the
character of Kossuth from the shafts of a journal which
was prostituting all its powers to destroy him. We
turned on the assailant himself. We not only crushed the
slanders we they appeared every succeeding morning,
but we denounced the heartless slanderer. The success
with which we have laboured to tear the mask from off
tee face ot the Times, and to bold that journal up, it, all
its hideousness, to the scorn and abhorrence of the world,
is best attested by the pitiable positiun in which it now
admits itself to be elaced. We must enter our decided
individual protest against that portion of the nines ar-
ticle in which it says—" We speak with no presumption
when we say that, could the Times be convicted of ac-
cepting a bribe, the entire press would lose far more by
its own implied debasement than it could gain by the
destruction of our ascendancy." The Times has no
right to presume anything of the sort. And it does
" speak with presumption" when it assumes that the
other members of the metropolitan press would be
afficted by its delinquencies. Because the services of
the Times could be bought by Austria—assuming such
to be the case—it would be a monstrously illogical con-
clusion that every other metropolitan journal
had its price also. We repudiate, in terms
the most explicit, and with feelings of the
deepest indignation, this impertinent attempt of the
Times to reduce other journals to the same moral
level as itself. It is strange enough that when the Times
exhibits such extreme sensitiveness relative to what the
Morning Advertiser has said of it, and manifests, more-
over, so consuming an anxiety—if its. own word may be
taken—to uphold the character of the metropolitan press,
it should itself, so wantonly, when it suits its purpose,
I do its best to destroy the character of its contemporaries.
It was only the day after Kosauth's visit to the City
that the Times, in the plenitude of its zeal to do its
Austrian master's work, broadly charged The Sun and
the Globe with having vamped up, for Continental cir-
culation, an exaggerated account, before the events oc-
curred, of the proceedings at Guildhall on that memorable
occasion. A more grave accusation against the respec-
tability, the truthfulness, and the integrity of the news-
paper press, it would not be possible to make. And yet
the Times, atter deliberately preferring so damaging a
charge against our two evening contemporaries, can now
whine and blubber like a soundly-whipped schoolboy,
when the integrity of its own doings is questioned.
Immediately on the back of this comes a ponderous
dissertation on the necessary connexion which ex-
ists between rectitude of conduct on the part of the
press, and moral influence over the public mind. The
Times has discovered that no journal can be powerful for
good or for evil which does not practically recognise
the claims of truthfulness, honesty, and justice. Why,
this is notoriously our " thunder.' The Times has stolen
it from us. It has not only played the felon with oar
ideas, but it has almost adopted our very phraseology.
For weeks past we have been expressing ourselves to
this effect. The Times, however, may, after all, in this
instance, b 3 partially excused. In adapting this lan-
guage it ispeaks feelingly, because it speaks experimen-
tally. It knows from painful experience that a journal
loses all its power—aye, and a large portion of its circu-
lation to boot—when it sets at defiance the obligations
of truthfulness, justice, humanity, and generosity. Here
the Times speaks what it knows and testifies what it
feels. Its testimony, therefore, is for once unimpeachable.
"He best can paint them who has felt them most."
The Times now throws itself, culprit-like on the
mercy of the public. This is the way in which all
cony:end criminals act. Those who have the least
mercy for others are always the first to cry piteously
for mercy to themselves. Had the Times any mercy
on Kossuth? Mercy! We beg to recall the word.
Kossuth needed not the mercy of that journal. But had
it nay pity for him, in the midst of his great and mani-
fold misfortunes? Had it any bowels of compassion for
an exile, whose accumulated personal griefs and sorrows
for his country were enough to have pressed down to
the earth a man of the strongest mind? None what-
ever. It had not even justice. It slandered and perse-
cuted him with a systematic perseverance, and a ferocity
of purpose, which have no parallel in the history of the
ra
roruyt ctahset fromvital
thrusts
press. If the calumnies of the Times bad been credited,
it its base slanders had been believed, every British
bosom would have been steeled, and every door shut,
specimens of Nature's moral workmanship would conse-
quently against that glorious being. One ot the most magnificent
have been left to wander up sad down our
unnoticed
daonnde ourunknown—an
il es t to
huma-
nity as well as an exile from his country—unlest, in-
deed, the weight of his sorrows, aggravated by the Neglect
of the English people, had consigned him to a premature
grave.
s w e have
which the Times has made day after day at K '
character. We have sought to throw °nut"
our shield
around him to protect him from the Ca ' nagger of his moral
assassin in Printing House-square. We have doze
more. We have sought to kindle into a flame public
feeling in favour of the H •
ungarian patriot, and to fan
the flame when it had been kindled. Oa no part of a
public career, somewhat protracted, do we look back
with greater satisfaction than on the course we hare
talcsm with regard to Kossuth and the Times. Wek
be-
lieve we hare done our work so effectually, that we B'll4'
not be called on to do it anew; but should such a neces-
sity arise, the public may be assured that we shall not
shrink from again undertaking the task. On word
more, and we have done. We
have scrrupcuontreyvers y
ab-
stained from all private allusions,
in
ou
entreated to
with the Times, though often and _ earnestly
at
our disposal for
avail ourselves of materials placed
that purpose. But aboard w
ld asystem of slander and
muc
per-
secutive, which is
ore to be dreaded than the
longer persisted in, against one
of the greatest and h
assassin'a dagger, tsheas nyt
of
men,
an exile from his own
country, and coming
among us to seek a temporary
asylum in our houses, and a home in our hearts,—we
shall not feel that any
moral necessity is imposed upon
us of practising
the same abstinence on future occasions

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of
Customs E CA.N
having
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before
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the
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returns
and amount of service rendered during the period of six
months by the collectors of the Customs revenue, who have
acted as shipping masters under the Mercantile Marine Act,
13 and 14 Victoria, chap. 93, the Commissioners have caused
the collectors and controllers at the several ports to be made
acquainted that they will postpone their final decision upon
this question for the present, and have directed them to
transmit at the expiration of the present year a similar
statement of the duties performed during the preceiing six
months, when the Board will be enabled to form a correct
opinion as to the extent, &c., of the service likely to devolve
upon the several collectors in the capacity of shipping MM*
teis under the Aet.

Mr. Coruewall Lewis, M.P., Final:it is! Secret&
to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, has,
after a lengthene absence, returned to town arid resumed
his official duties. His :place has, in the meantime, been
filled by Sir Charles Trevelyan, Assistant-Secretary to the
Lords of the Treasury.
The Hull Packet notices the committal of a
woman for bigamy. Both marriages were celebrated withi
a fortnight.