The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-30 00:00:00

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A few words will suffice to refute the laborious,
and, we must say, the disingenuous statements of
the Standard. We stated that the result of the re-
gistry was in our favour. The Standard contested
the fact, but also further observed, that " its strongest •
hopes of an overwhelming Majority in the House of
Commons, whenever it shall be assembled, rest upon
the chang-3 which has been wrought in the minds of
tize old electors by the experience of Sir R. Peel's Ail-
ministration," &c. ; upon which we remarked, that
if a change towards Toryism had been effected in the
public mind by " the experience of Sir Robert
Peel's Administration," how happens it that the
papers which.supported that Administration have, as
a whole, declined in circulation, whilst the Liberal
Press, which opposed that Administration, has,
as a whole, increased in circulation ? We- said
nothing about the Morning Chronicle separately. We
spoke of the LiberKl Press and of the Tory Press as
indicative, to a certain extent, of public opinion—we
dated our remarks from t;:e period alluded to by the
Standard itself, " the experce:lee of Sir Robert Peel's
porary flies it2'em,il ets
Administration." But our conte:n
own chosen epoch, and seems desiOus to trace 1,,
effect of the " change produced upon th,: public mind
by the experience of Sir Robert Peel's Administration,"
by a reference to the state of the Press two years ago.
So much for the candour and logic of our slippery op-
ponent. As to " shop" affairs, we repeat that we did
not enter into them—we spoke of the Press as a whole ;
but we may -remark, that it is absurd to state, as the
Standard does, that the circulation of the Times and
Herald are 9 or 10 to I, compared with that of the
Morning Chronicle; the returns give for both the
Times AND Herald TOGETHER a proportion of some-
thing less than 2 to 1 of the Chronicle, instead of
9orlo to 1;' and how imperfect a criterion the
past average is of the circulation of these papers at
the present moment, we before sufficiently pointed out.
The Times will, no doubt, be obliged to its " able
and excellent contemporary" for this additional ex-
posure of its apestacy, upon which all the present ar-
guments of the Standard are built. We had ima-
gined, however, that the ci decant Liberal journal
not only went " a certain length with the party
desirous of change," but that it went also "a I
certain length beyond the Statesmen whom it
is now compared with=my Lord Grey and
Lord Stanley. We had imagined that the se-
cession of the latter Nobleman from. Lord Grey s
Government was spoken of as matter of " sincere
conaratulation" by the Times of . that epoch. We
had imagined, also, that Lord Grey was goaded for
not going far enough—for shrinking from a collision ;
and that the Whigs were denounced, as meriting a
loss of public confidence, because they were not pre-
pared •to act upon the advice of the Times, and
adopt, without hesitation or delay, the, appropriation
clause of the Irish Tithe Bill. But it seems the
Times only went a certain length, and now follows
the example of Lord Grey, in doing—what ? Sup-
porting the Orangeists and the " unnatural wen. '
Does Lord Grey do these things ? Alas, for those
who are compelled to exercise their ingenuity in de-
fending so desperate a cause I The Times certainly
went " a certain length," and " somethingmore" into the
bargain, when the Standard used constantly to denomi-
nate it as "the dirty Times," "the odious libeller,
" the arch maligner," " the base Times," &c. &c., and
its " certain length" friend used to retort by such
epithets as " Tory jackall," " nightly cur," &r. But
to conclude : so far from the whole circulation of the
Liberal and Tory press being, as the Standard hastil7
asserts, " more than three-fourths Conservative to less
than one-fourth Whig Radical," it is only necessary
to refer to the published returns to perceive, as was
clearly shown by The Sun, that, taking the entire
London Press, there is a positive majority on the
side of the Liberal journals. So that looking at public
opinion, whether ascertained by the registry or indi-
. cated by the Metropolitan Press, we repeat that we
see every reason to congratulate our readers on the
lair prospects before us, and sufficient humanity to
bestow our pity upon those desperate wights who are
obliged to resort now to disingenuous criticism, now to
unmeaning mystification, and now (but this is a more
serious affair) to plans of persecution and coercion
which are fortunately not quite so practicable as they
are disgraceful and malignant.— iforni,n Chronicle.
The account we give in another column, though it
be but a brief one, of the proceedings at a dinner given
at Belfast, on Saturday last, to the Lord Lieuter;:trit
of Ireland, will we read with much interest. The re-
ception which his Excellency met with on the occasion
was most enthusiastic, and called forth from him, as
indeed it could not fail to do, the warmest acknow-
ledgments of gratitude. The room in which the fes-
tive meeting took place was crowded to excess, and
many applied in vain for admission ; hut it will be
seen from some casual observations which fell from
his Excellency and other speakers, that the leaders of
the Church or Orange party in Belfast were absent.
However much Lord Mulgrave may have regretted
this, he has been too long in Ireland, and knows
too much of the violence of Orange party feeling,
to be surprised at it. He very wisely held out the
olive branch of peace to all parties at the dinner ;
but that was just the way to incur the still
more deadly enmity of those, who for a series
of centuries had been so much in the habit of
trampling on the Catholics, that they at last seemed to
think they haul an unquestionable right to subject them
to any indignities and oppressions they pleased. Hap-
pily, however, the hostility of the Orange party is now
rendered perfectly harmless by the enlightened and con-
ciliatory course of policy which Government is pur-
suing in Ireland. Lord -Mulgrave, among other wise
and liberal observations, said, in this free country he
would have all power founded on duly weighed and
legitimately expressed public opinion. This is a sen-
timent worthy alike of the patriot and the statesman ;
and if the Ministry of Lord Melbourne only act up
,to the sentiment, both in this country and in Ireland,
that Noble Lord will find his Government based on a
foundation which no tricks or stratagems of the Court
party, or opposition in either House of Parliament
will be able to sil.3lce. Lord Mulgrave is at present
on a tour of inquiry into the real state of public mat-
ters in Ireland, and, as he is determined to act, and
advise Lord Melbourne to act, according to the infor
illation he receives, we may anticipate the best results
from his journey.—Morning Advertiser.
Mr. Haywood, of Sheffield, has addressed a letter
to Lord Kenyon, in which the following question is
put to his Lordship :
" Laid not his Royal Highness, as Grand Master, and
your Lordship, as Deputy Grand Master, know what your
missionary, Colonel Fairman, had done on his first tour in
1832 ?—or rather, did he not act under his Royal High-
ness's and your Lordship's directions, and was he not under
those directions instructed to sound the brethren how they
would be disposed, in the event of the King William IV.
being deposed, which was not improbable, account of his
sanctioning the Reform of Parliament ; and, if so, it would
Become the duty of every Orangeman to support his Royal
Highness, who would then, in all probability, be called to
the Throne ?"
We arc authorised by Colonel Fairman to declare,
that the whole of the above extract is false from be-
ginning to end. Colonel Fairman never acted under
the directions of the Duke of Cumberland, nor under
those of Lord Kenyoo, for the purpose expressed above ;
nor did Colonel Fairmao ever utter any language that
could be most construed by the most jesuitical pre-
tender to convey any such traitorous intent as that
described .by Mr. Haywood. lif,l repeat, distinctly
and unequivocally, on the part of Colont:.‘.l Fairman,•that
the entire statement of Mr. Haywood is ti..pure fabri-
cs.tion.—Morning Post.

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MEETING OF MIDDLESEX
MAGISTRATES.

The CaArt assembled at twelve o'clock yesterday for the
lespatcli of county business, BENJAMIN 11,0TCH, Esq.,
n the Chair. There was a full Bench of Magistrates.
After some routine business had been disposed of. the
Report of the Visiting Justices, as to the state of the House
of Correction, was brought up and read.
CHARGE AGAINST MR. ROTCH.
Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE took occasion to advert to cer-
tain observations male the other day in the Court of Alder-
men, which reflected on the character of their Chairman,
and asked whether that report was correct, or sanctioned
by him. .
The CHAIRMAN assured the Court that he was grateful
;.or the opportunity thus afforded him of repelling the at-
tack which had been made on himself, and not on the Ma-
gistrates collectively. He was in the company of gentle-
men who knew how to appreciate anything which he might
say in answer to an attack emanating from persons who
were in reality ignorant of. their own situation. • The fact
was, that certain returns had been sent to him to fill up
in his character as a Magistrate, and in others as Chair-
man of the Sessions. There was also another class of
returns, as Chairman, which he was required to sign, but
which were not to be communicated to the Magistrates.
The last had been alluded to in the newspapers, and in
another place. One of these reports, which related
to the gaol, and which also had been sent to the GO-
vernor of the county gaol, who was called on to 41.1.
mei- certain questions, he had filled up, as was desired,
with his oswers and opinions, and returned it to the Com-
mittee of the 17.1' of Lords, appointed to investigate the
hroughout the kingdom. In that re-
state of the prisong lled upon to state and consider,
port he as Chairman was
4e of the county g4Ol, He
with his opinions thereon, the
,inating the gaol of
had been charged elsewhere with deny._t
Newgate " our comity gaol." Why, at ti2re anything
was
or indelicate in such statement ? the
Attorney-General, when. speaking of that prison, &daft
that the Act of Parliament recognized the gaol of Newgate
as the county gaol ?—(Hear, hear.) If the gaol of
Newgate was not the county gaol, then what was it ?
(Hear, hear.) Were not the county officers denied ad-
mittance to it for prisoners? He (Mr. R.) would put it
fearlessly to the Court whether they would have been satis-
fied if their Chairman had suffered the opportunity to pass
without representing to the Lords' Committee the injury
which the county was sustaining by being denied admit-
tance to the gaol of the county.—(Hear, hear.) He had
merely done so, and meant to abide by the observations
which be had made on the state of Newgatc, while, at the
same time, he mourned over them.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir PETER LAURIE thought the Chairman was not justi-
fied in committing the Magistrates, which he had done, by
stating the opinions which he had given as sanctioned by
them.
Mr. BALLANTINE was satisfied with the Chairman's ex-
planation.
Sir J. S. LILLIE moved that the defence of the Chair-
man was perfectly satisfactory to the Court, which motion
was agreed to.
In consequence of the lateness of the hour the rest of the
business stood over till that day fortnight, to which day the
Court adjourned.