The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-14 00:00:00

LORD CLARENDON AND THE 1610.RN11VG
JOURNALS.

(From the Morning Advertiser. )
Tie conduct of Lord Clarendon towards the gee
nerality of the London Press, in connection with
the present state of affairs in India, is reprehensible
in the highest degree, and were Parliament now
sitting, the noble lord might depend on it that his
conduct would be made the subject of severe and
merited censure. Anxious to curry favour wish tine
Times, and merging the high character of a Minis-
ter of the Crown in that of the ignoble character of
a parasite of our contemporary, Lord Clarendon
engaged some weeks ago to let tars Times have a pri-
ority, over all the other journals, of information
from India. The arrangement wee, that the intel-
ligence received by Government by telegraph from
the East should be transmitted by the Foreign Office,
to that journal on the instant of its arrival.
Of course, Lord Clarendon would not dare to let
the Times have the intelligence exclusively. That
would have been an experiment on the forbearance
of the other journals, and on that of the public as
well, which the Foreign Secrttary had not the
courage to make. Still, in the way we have men-
tioned, the Foreign-office favouritism was shown
to the Times, by giving it the earliest intelligence,
leaving it to our contemporary to let the other
papers have copies of what was sent by Lord Cla-
rendon a couple of hours afterwards.
Now, to those who am acquainted with the
practical working of the press, it must be obvious
that .our contemporary of Printing-house-square
has, in this way, a great advantege over all the
other journals. Before they, have the slightest
idea of what the nature of the intelligence is,
the Times can have written its leading ar-
ticle en it. Last night, at eight o'clock, we re-
ceived information that t he telegraph despatch front
India had been transmitted to the Times, and_ we
ware informed by the Foreign Office that at ten we
would get a slip from Printing-house-square. This,
it will b 3 observed, was an interval of two hours.
Now, why such an interval, assuming it to be at all
defensible that the Times should get the despatch
first 3 The whole thing might, with. the greatest
ease, have been got ready for the other journals iu
a quarter of an hour. But the Times had its object
to serve. Had the despatch been received at me
or two o'clock this morning, the delay would not
only have been injurious to the other journals, .Lut
would h ave caused them very serious inconvenience.
It would have precluded the possibility of their
publishing any comments of their own on the intel-
ligence in the same impression of their respedtiVe
papers.
But this is not all. We charge Lord Clerendon,
or those acting under him, and for whose conduct
he is consequently responsible with a breach of
faith in this matter. Anticipating the indignaCoa
of our contemporaries and ourselves at this marked
and invidious preference of the Times, Lord Cla-
rendon caused, a few days ago, a circular to be ad-
dressed to the offices of each of our morning con-
temporaries, as well as to that of this journal, say-
ing, that whenever the telegraphic contents of the
Indian mail reached the Foreign-office at a suffici-
ently early hour to admit of copies being taken for
each of the other morning papers; copies would be
sent to them contemporaneously with the copy sent
to the Times. The Foreign-office has not fulfilled
its promise ;it has broken faith with us all. The
despatch arrived at seven o'clock, and surely
that was a sufficiently early hour to admit of
copies being taken. Half-a-dozen clerks would
have transcribed the requisite number of copies in
fifteen or twenty minutes, or three clerks would
have done it in half an hour or forty minutes.
The conduct, therefore of Ler.' Clarendon in
this matter is, we rep eat, reprehensible iu the
highest degree ; and we shall be surprised it one
and all of our 'contemporaries do not denounce it
in those terms of indignation which such flagrant
unfairness to them and to us, and such pitiable
truckling to the Times, so richly deserve. If our
contemporaries are only true to themselves,--if
they but vindicate, with becoming spirit, their own
rights, and tell Lord Clarendon, in plain terms,
that they will not submit to the indignity which he
puts upon them, and the injustice he does alike to
themselves and their readers, we venture to say
that his Lordship will not have the temerity to act
in the same way on the arrival of the next Indian
mail.

ETON COLLEGE.

The vacation, which commenced on the 27th
July, terminated on Wednesday last, on which clay
the lower boys and colleges arrived—the fifth form.
returned on Thursday, and the sixth form on Fri-
day and. Saturday, when the whole school assem-
bled. Thera has been au increase in the numbers,
although many left at the election vacation.
As both Harrow and Winchester have been
allowed an extra week's holiday this vacation, it
was anticipated the same would have been the case
at Eton. However, as the marriage of the Princess
Royal—probably at Windsor—is approaching, it
h7s been thought advisable by the authorities to
postpone the extra week until it can be given in
honour of that auspicious event. During the re-
cess the removals consequent upon the Rev. E.
Coleridge's appointment as Fellow have • taken
place as follows :—The Rev. E. Coleridge, to his
the
tßhe Rev. W
official residence in the cloi-ters ; e
Joys
to the Rev. E. Colridge's ;
and At:
L. lardisty,f to the Roy. J. L. Joynes's ;
tiwell Waterfield, Esq., to the Rev. W. L. liar-
distY's.
The vacation has also witnessed the necessary
preparations at St. John's Church for the reception
of the Lower School (generally about a hundred) ;
the
tower,or which,
fbeenrom trhemoved to a chamber in the
always intended fps
ahelerection of the church, vr..a:
y the a
vawroghlooerl innosftrtn lengthenede andnt,t o t
the
full width, so thatlower school
will, by these means, be accommodated in, that
partofthe sacred edifice.' The most important
building
lte operationrato ns oi
nf thete vaaeclaitegioen has
ewe nil
itehhe
he L-
tensive alterations
almost entirely rebuilt from the designs of
Woodyear, Esq., brother-in-law of the Rev. W.
Efal b,
L. Elliott. Little more than the walls of the old
hall remain. There is a new open timber roof of
chaste design, and also new east and west traceried
windows. The entrance to the hall is intended to
be closed, and a gallery ,built over the buttery
for the accommodation of visitors, and ladies in
particular, who may be invited to witness the col-
lege festivals. The whole of the work in the hall
has been expeditiously executed by Messrs.
Wheeler, of Reading. When, as is eventually in-
tended, a new tesselaied
pavement
has been sub-
stituted for the present flag-stones, the Collegeball
will almost equal in architectural beauty the 001-
lege-chapel. Until the completion of these impoT
tint alterations the King's scholars dine iu the,
election dumber,