The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-18 00:00:00

THE SUN,

victims, 82 were killed according to the laws of wir,
29 were punished with death as spies and mutineers,
and 183 were fng on the g Mows as felons and mur-
derers, we conceive that the 11,1,g3ar Bloody Assizes
will he reduced to a somewhat less criminal character.
To illustrate the falsity of the accusations en masse,
we may remark that the Cabinet of DeLreezin is
charged with causing the destruction of men who fell
victims either to infuriated mobs or to private
assassination. A Croat is killed by a chymist named
SZABI, and the crime is hurled at the reputation of
Kosstern and his colleagues. A cabinetmaker is
butchered by the rabble, and the deed is regarded as
a new cause for execration against the Hungarian
Government. A monster who was executed for try-
ing to strangle one of the magistrates is described as
having perished by reason of his loyalty to his SOVE-
REIGN. An execrable ruffian, hung for having hunted
the lady of the manor with bloodhounds through a
forest, is revered as a martyr to the cause of the KING
and EMPEROR. So on throughout the entire list, if
we except 153 cases, in none of which are given the
smallest details whatever. And this is the document
officially published by the Austrian Government, in
compliance with whose assertions we are to execrate
the patriots, and statesmen, and heroes of Hungary as
wretches of the most sanguinary temperament. Some-
thing more authentic than this catalogue, branded
on the very face of it with the brand
of imposture, will be needed before the
people of England can transfer their senti-
ments of loathing from the Austrian soldiers to
the heroic soldiers and administrators of Hungary,
Some more specious charge will be required to
blacken the fair and lofty reputations of KOSSUTH and
DEMBINSKI ; some more effectual arguments to clear
from guilt the infamous renown of HAYNAII and PAS-
KEWITC

The dastardly attempt here made by the Austrian
Cabinet and its apologists, the attempt to vilify the
Magyars by a long list of fabricated cruelties, is not
only unsuccessful to the last degree, but is even with-
out the merit of ingenuity.

The remarks which we made in reviewing the evi-
dence recently given by Mr. Hunsorr in the course of
the cause on which he was subpoenaed as a witness, at
the Yorkshire assizes, have called forth a leading
article in the York print, to which, for the sake of
exhibiting the character of those who conduct that
paper, and the impudent recklessness with which they
advance the most unfounded and even absurd imputa-
tions against those who chastise, however lightly,
their little arrogant ways, we mean to devote a few
moments' attention. The provincial press is
at the present clay, in most cases, ably
and respectably conducted by gentlemen who
know the responsibilities of their position ;
but there are exceptions, and it not unfrequently
happens that a country scribe makes his office the
means of annoying and worrying some individual
who may happen to have been of a different colour in
politics to those to whose prejudices he is glad to
pander, and who perhaps may have superadded to
his other crimes a contempt of the said scribe,
—neglecting to send him a card of invitation
to dinner at the Mansion-house, or peremptorily
excluding advertisements under his control from
the columns of his mischievous publication.
and what sort of excuse dogs the York worthy make

for hiving issued a garbled and imperfect report of

Mr. IluDsoN's evidence, and of having slanderously
scattered imputations solely with a view to create
prejudices against him—imputations w'kich he himself
KNEW were unworthy of belief? Why, a statement
that The Sun, being " the only newspaper in the
kingdom" that would venture to say A word on be-
half of the ex-Rsilway King, had actually been
sold to Mr. HUDSON ! It is rather unfor-
tunate for this invention that on the same
day on which the York paper itself was
published, the Morning Post, the Weekly Chronicle,
the Standard, and some provincial papers, touk pre-
cisely the same view of Mr. HUDSON'S recent evidence
as we did. To those who know the fidelity with
which this journal hss adhered to a consistent course
of public principle for upwards of twenty years—
. " True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shone upon"—

it will hardly be necessary for us -to contradict the
story to which we have alluded. It can only be
characterised by that nervous little monosyllable
which we shall not discompose ourselves here to re-

pent. How can people be surprised that Mr. Hun-
SON should be libelled, when everybody who ven-
tures an independent opinion as to his public conduct
is libelled before the honest citizens of York?
The Yorkshireman writer has the unprincipled effron-

,ery to assert as a proof that this paper was sold to

Mr. HUDSON, that the proprietor, Mr. Muano
YOUNG, " had been more than once a visitor at
Newby Hall." There is not one word of truth in
this assertion—it is a pure fabrication I So far from
rhis being the face, Mr. YOUNG NEVER SPOKE TO
Ma HUDSON IN lIIS LIFE, and never had any com-
munication with him directly or indirectly. It

is also added that Mr. YOUNG had been " the
guest of Mr. HUDSON'S private secretary " one fort-
night before the appearance of certain articles in The
Sun, in 1849; but, like all the rest, he vouchsa&s
nothing to support the statement but his own word.
The public will estimate the value of this word,
when we assure them that Mr. YOUNG never
saw Mr. CLOSE, the party alluded to, in the
year 1849 at all, consequently was not
his guest "a fortnight before " the time when,
&c. Mr. YOUNG never was,—in town or country,—
in 1849, or in any other year,—the guest of Mr.
CLOSE, or anybody belonging to him, or any other
person actieg as secretary to Mr. HUDSON. He never
spoke to Mr. CLOSE but once in his life ; it was at the
York station, on the 21st July, 1848, wizen he saw him
for five minutes in the company of another, for the
purpose of getting a pass, in the way of business, from
York to Hull, on returning from Newcastle. Now,
such being the fact, we call upon and require the edi-
tor of the Yorkshireman publicly to retract and apolo-
gise for his libellous statements respecting Mr. YOUNG.

In our review we asked who was the author of the
pamphlet purporting to .be " a revised and complete
report" of the late trial ?—we had a reason for asking
that question. It is, we are now informed, the pro-
duction of the editor of the Yorkshireman, who comes
forward, like some theatrical hero, indignantly ex•
claiming " 'Tis I, Hamlet, the Dane !" Then that
being so, we have a word with you.
In the biographical sketch prefixed to the trial,
which you have published in a pamphlet, there is
the following announcement :
" We may remark, in concluding this section, how-
ever, that a small portion—and very small—of the
materials for the foregoing sketch has been gleaned from
an article which appeared in a London paper, now de-
funct, called the English Gentleman. But as we wrote
that article ourselves, upon special order, we have only
borrowed that which, in truth, is our own properly. We
have thought this explanation necessary, lest some slight
similarity in ideas, or facts, or language between that
which appeared in the English Gentleman and that which
we give in this pamphlet might subject us to an accusa-
tion of plagiarism. All we have done, therefore, is to
adapt, for present purposes, our labour of former years,
and to place it before the public in a more permanent
shape than the ephemeral columns of a newspaper can
exp. ct to accomplish."
We have referred to the article in the English
Gentleman,--one copy of which fortunately exists for
reference,—and what will the gulled readers of the
Yorkshireman say when we tell them that the whole
tenor of the sketch there is complimentary to, and com-
mendatory of Mr. HUDSON, whose biography is given
by that paper us the first of a series of the portraits of
those " who most fully realise and sustain the cha-
racter of English gentlemen ?" There is as much
difference between the language employed by this
same high principled nail in the Yorkshireman and
in the English Gentleman, as between " Phillip
drunk and Phillip sober." Mr. lltinsozs's success
and good fortune in every project he entered into—
his influential position—his extraordinary and in-
domitable energy—his useful and active career,
—his exertions and his telet,—his moral
character—his filling " the honourable" post of Lord
Mayor, &c., &c., &c., are spoken of ! liespectit g
the Yoik Union Ihek the vt ry Iran wl o now vili-
fies Mr. HUDSON for his conduct in reference to
penned the following paragraph:—

"Most people are aware of the ruin and insolvency
cf the Yorkshire Agricultural Bank, which ruin was the
result of the carelessness and incompetency of the d:-
rectors. 'To the honour, however, (:f Mr. Euthon, be it
said that the Bank of which he was ge originator is to
this day in a flourishing and efficient condition 1"

But this is not all ; the unprinciploxl creature who,
in the pamphlet which we last week reviewed, casts