The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-09 00:00:00

" O'CONNELL TO RAPHAEL.
" ' June 18.

" TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE TIMES,

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Sec what it is to have injudicious friends. Any one
would have thought, for instance, that the best thing,
under the circumstances, for the friends and allies of
two ex-Liberals of the Press, and the Parliament
whose conduct with respect to the O'Connell corre-
spondence is open to so much suspicion—any one
would have supposed that the best way to serve them
would have been first to let them speak for themselves,
and then put forth as much special pleading as you
like in their favour—but not so with our learned and
chivalrous Evening Contemporary, the Standard.
Unfortunately, however, in its haste to serve its Tory
friends, it has only contributed to place the matter in
a broader light, and the plea which it sets up is in
direct opposition to the statement of its clients. Thus
the Standard says :
" The Morning Chronicle would apply to the Times our
complaint, that Mr. Raphael did not correct the blunder in
printing the note of the 18th. Why, in the name of common
sense, how is the Times to correct it? If others do not know,
the conductors of newspapers (the writer in the Morning
Chronicle included) are aware of the course pursued in these
cases. An article is composed correctly or incorrectly, ac-
cording to the legibility of the M. S., and the care and skill
of the compositor, and then the copy is destroyed. What
means can there, then, be preserved for after correction ?
What sage was to point out intuitively the particular syllable
in which a mistake was made, it being the very essence of a
mistake that a man does not know when he is committing it."

We pass over the slight error of asserting that, in
defiance of an Act of Parliament, it is common for
newspaper conductors to destroy the manuscripts con-
fided to them. The Standard is, of course, entitled
to speak of its own customs in this respect. We only
beg to repudiate his inference, if applied to this jour-
nal. But we come to the specific charge in question.
What becomes of the ingenious reasoning of our Tory
friend when its protege, the Times, declares that the
manuscript was not destroyed ? We give the argument
of the one party, and the admission of the other, in juxta-
position :
REASONING OF THE ADVOCATE. STATEMENT OF THE CLIENT.

[Standard, Dec: 7.] [Times, Dec. 5.]
" Why, in the name of com- "On referring to the M. S.
mon sense, how was the Times we find that the mistake is our
to correct it ? printer's, and_ not Mr. Ra-

phaers."----[Editorial notice
"An article is composed of Raphael's letter, stating
correctly or incorrectly accord-. that, in the Times of October
ing to the legibility of the MS. 31, the word " ballot " had
and the care and skill of the been printed instead of " bul-
compositor, and then the copy letin."]

is destroyed."
The MS., therefore, was not destroyed, as the
Standard charitably suggests ; and the question is still
to be answered, why the two parties allowed an odious
charge to be fastened upon Mr. O'Connell, founded
either upon their own wilful contrivance, or at least
upon their own culpable negligence ? The Times,
with the MS. in its possession, published the charge
on the 24th of November. We here subjoin it—

"THE TRUTH-LOVING DANIEL.

" O'CONNELL TO CARLOW.
"'Nov. 10.

" I enclose you the ballot " opinion from the
of this morning. _Nothing can moment the committee was
be
better. struck; was, that it was hope-
" 'Ever yours, faithfully.' " less to contest the matter fur.,
thee."

" Here he wanted to get the " Here he wanted to get
second 1,000/. from 12i3 poor several thousand pounds 'rint'
dupe. from his yet greater dupes.
" Now, ye members of Brookes's I deceived and fallen
Whigs of England, 'look on this, and this,' and say ye, who
is the mighty great liar ?'
" Nov. 23, 1835." " FA C T."
Now this is spread abroad, copied, commented
upon, exposed, and yet neither th© Times nor Raphael
think proper to take the slightest notice of it till the
4th of December, when the following laconic note and
laconic notice arc at length drawn forth without one
word of apology to the injured party :

" SIR;—In reference to the correspondence published in
your paper on the 31st of October, in the letter dated the 18th
of June, from Mr. O'Connell to me, the word ballot' is
printed instead of bulletin.'
" I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
" ALEXANDER RAPHAEL.
" Great Stanhope-strect, Dec. 4, 1835."

*s* On referring to the FYI S., we find that the mistake
is our printer's, and not Mr. Raphaers.—Editor (f the Times.'"
That the printer, reader, and editor of the Times
should all have mistaken Bulletin for Ballot, is, to say
the least of it, somewhat startling. If the manuscript
was that of an attorney or an attorney's clerk, distinct
and legible, the mistake would be still more surprising.
It appear:s, however, that the poor printer not only mis-
took Bulletin for Ballot, but also mistook the order
of the correspondence ; for, of 'course, the 'transpo-
sition of the letters so opportunely agreeing ttitle the
first mistake, could not be the act of the writer. But
,we mmt observe, that convenient as it may be for cer-
tain parties, when Billingsgate will no longer avail
them, to take shelter under the mask of a clogged and
pertinacious silence, the public well know how to inter-
pret this negative species of defence ; and although the
Standard may think proper-to exonerate all parties, the
common sense of the public will, we imagine, lead it to
a very opposite conclusion. At any rate if such arc
the legitimate weapons of Tory warfare, we have ad-
ditional reasons to rejoice that we are not of that parti-
cular faction. We pity the condition of the poor old
Times, and its amiable proiege, the ex-Sheriff Raphael.
Morning Chronicle..

" AGNES DE MANSFELDT," by the author of
" Highways and Byways."—'esensation that this well-
digestedaa.
g work cr ted A The literary and fashionable
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been before ' y . (//That its present popularity will be
extended, a onfiined, no one who has read these beau-
tifully written volumes can doubt. Mr. Grattan has been
most happy in the selection of the historical epoch that he
has so vividly illustrated. He has produced a work for
posterity.

_
A case of homicide of a singular, although distress-
ing nature, was this week investigated in this county, by a
coroner's jury, under the direction of Mr. Southam, of
Cleobury. The deceased and prisoner were watermen,
and were engaged working a barge on the Severn' near
Bewdley, when they were observed to quarrel and fight.
Seizing each other, with intention to decide the battle in
one struggle, they lost their balance, and tumbled into the
river, where Head was drowned, and Simmonds rescued
at the point of death by persons from the shore. He is
committed to our gaol for trial at the next assizes.—Shrews-
bury Chronicle.
" THE CHRONICLES OF WALTHAM," BY THE
AUTHOR OF " THE SUBALTERN."—In this work Mr.
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as a writer, and with complete success. Since the publica-
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peared no production of its class comparable to the " Chro-
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late flock, to liii order, and to his country at large, by
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events, and lessons of morality as free from cant and pedan-
try as have ever done honour to the ministry he so credit-
ably fill. q."— United Service Journal.
BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY RAILWAY.—Sir
Robert Peel and his brother, William Peel, Esq., have, we
understand, given their sanction to the projected Railway
from this town to Derby, notwithstanding the propcsed line
goes through their estates.—Birminghani Philanthropist.
Several horses and pigs have, during the last few
days, been washed ashore between the Land's End and
Penzance. It is feared that some steamer has foundered
at sea, but no information has as yet been obtained to
ascertain the fact.—Ereter Western Times,
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Such is the extreme mildness of the season, that it
many of the gardens in and about town the shrubs are
budding precisely as they would in the spring.

FARRINGDON, BErtics.—There are growing in the
garden of William Ward, Esq., of this 'lace, violets of
various species in full bloom, and at the portico of the dwel-
ling house is a yellow jasmine, nine feet high, covered with
blossoms.