The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The determination of the leading Re-
formers of the Irish metropolis, to put Lord Morpeth in
nomination for the vacant seat, is shown to have been
well formed by the effect it has produced upon friends and
foes. The former it has united in the bonds of one com-
mon purpose, approved by every leal heart in Ireland ; in
the latter it has given birth to the anticipations of cer-
tain defeat, and seemingly deprived them of courage
sufficient to adopt the requisite preparations for a contest.
Mr. Vance, the candidate they announced, and in
whose behalf they set about soliciting votes while the
mortal remains of their late Member were yet un-
buried, has resigned his pretensions to the honour
of an expensive defeat, which he was wise enough
to see was inevitable, from the moment that
" Lord Morpeth for Dublin" .was made the watch-
word of the Liberals—proposing an object so truly
gratifying as to secure unity of eesign with de-
termined exertion throughout the entire party. To
render the position of the Dublin Tories yet more
embarrassing, they have met with repulse after
repulse in their applications to different gentlemen for
their permission to put them in nomination ; while
others, who would be " nothing loath" to accept the
honour, are objected to as either too poor to sustain
the chance of a contest, or not sufficiently rabid in
their politics to render them acceptable to the ultras.
It is understood that Mr. Wolverly Attwood and
Mr. Smith, Q.C., have each been the favourite of
the hour with the " managers" for the Orange party.
The frequent defeats of the former, sustained in
attempts to acquire senatorial celebrity, have, how-
ever, produced in him a salutary caution, which
will at least prevent him from becoming the dupe of
the crafty Dublin Tories. The latter, howbeit a man
of talent and respectability, lacks a superfluity of the
sine qua non. His means will not enable him to pay
the price of the servuni pecus, the base and vulgar herd,
on whom the Dublin Orangemen depend for success
in all contests ; while he declines to gulp the pledges
which the back-bone Orangemen demand as tests of
his fitness for their purpose—deprives him of the re-
quisite qualifications for the honour of becoming the
candidate for the representation of Dublin on the
Orange interest, and, if successful, of being the col-
league of Mr. Grogan ! Considerable doubts are en-
tertained whether there will be a contest. We strongly
caution the Liberals against relaxing their efforts by any
such reports.
STANDARD.—We hear a great deal of " incon-
sistency" just now from the adherents of a party more
disgraced by the abandonment of its principles than any
party that ever existed in this country. Without resus-
citating the old Protestant and aristocratical Revolu-
tion Whigs of 1742, to contrast them with the pro.
Papist democratical Whigs of 1842, we have proof
enough of the utter contempt of consistency in the pre-
sent leaders of the party—Lords Melbourne, John
Russell, and Palmerston—each in his turn aris-
tocrat and democrat, anti-Reformer and pro-Reformer,
denouncer of Mr. O'Connell and his slave, champion of
agriculture, and servant of the Anti-Corn-law League.
We are not, however, going to dwell upon the gross
tergiversation of the party, or of its living representa-
tives and chiefs ; still less are we about to defend the
objects of the calumnies of the Whig-Radical organs by
a " to quoque ;" least of all do we undertake the de-
fence of " inconsistency," in prosecuting which defence
(may we say it in modesty) we are as little interested
as most who have concerned themselves in public
affairs for the last quarter of a century. Our pur-
pose is merely to remind men who may be misled, of
what is the character of true consistency. Is it not
the steady pursuit of the same object ? And may
not the same object be pursued by different paths?
An Opposition Journal of last night charges the
Right Honourable Home Secretary as the very
type of inconsistency, instancing an alleged
change in his views upon the Corn-law question,
and referring to a pamphlet under the title " Corn
and Currency," published by him sixteen Nears
ago, for proof of its charge. This is scarcely fair ;
mush might be said of the effect of sixteen years'
experience in modifying any man's views—the peculiar
circumstances of the year 1826, and its disastrous
predecessor ; something ought to be allowed to the fact
that the Corn-laws of 1826 are not the present Corn-
laws. If, therefore, it could be shown that Sir James
Graham had opposed the principle of protection 16 years
ago, the contrast of his present support of that principle
would scarcely impair his authority as a man of sagacity—
would not at all impeach his character as a man of honour.
COURIER.—A few days ago we were somewhat
startled by the nature of the exclusive intelligence
furnished to an evening contemporary by its Dublin
correspondent ; it was, indeed, exclusive, for it stated
that Mr. Vance, not Lord Morpeth, was to be
brought forward on the Radical side, adding, in
depreciation of Mr. Vance's claims, that he was
only the son of a wealthy merchant. We
fancied that we had heard Mr. Vance's name pre-
viously mentioned amongst those who were likely to be
started by the Conservatives of Dublin, and were there-
fore not a little puzzled to reconcile that fact with the
announcement of our Contemporary's Dublin correspon-
dent ; and we now believe we were correct in our
notion, and that Mr. Vance had been spoken of by
his Conservative fellow-citizens as a gentleman whom
it would be no dishonour to the lamented Mr. West to
select as his successor. Mr. Vance has since, we under-
stand, withdrawn his claims, and a very general belief
seems to be entertained that the constituency of the
Irish metropolis will seek Mr.Wolverly Attwood forits
second representative. Many things combine to im-
press us with the conviction, that notwithstanding
the brisk manufacture of faggot freemen and voters
for the last three months by the Lord Mayor, the
Conservatives have still the power to return their
caudidate for the City of Dublin against any opponent.
The Cbarlemont and O'Connell clique by whom
Lord MORPETH has been started, turned to the
rejected of Yorkshire only through sheer de-
spair ; as one of the ablest of their mouth-
pieces at the other side of the Channel, the Dublin
.Monitor, naively remarked Lord Morpeth
is now in America—there is no time to consult
him, nor is it necessary to do so. If he be returned, that
he will accept the honour cheerfully who can doubt?
Supposing for argument sake, that he is not returned.
why, then, the defeat will not be his, but ours." Just so ;
and it is this depressing anticipation of defeat, which no
candidate on the spot has any desire of encountering,
that drives them to seek one across the Atlantic

Mr. Mather, the organist of St. Bride's, Fleet-
street, performed several pieces on the organ from the
works of Handel, Mozart, Bishop. and Arne, yesterday,
evening, before a numerous and highly respectable assem-
blage, at the gallery of Mr. Bates, Ludgate-hill. The
audience appeared highly delighted throughout the whole
performance, but, to judge from the applause, the favou-
rite pieces appeared to be the duet " Crudel perche," by
Mozart ; Arne's " Hymn of Eve," and Bishop's glee
" With Hawk and Hound," which were rapturously en-
cored. Nothing could exceed the exquisite pathos, and
finished execution, which was displayed in the two
pieces—the "Hymn of Eve," and the " Crudel perche."
The performance concluded with the Coronation Anthem
—" Zadock the Priest," which was loudly applauded.
Mr. Mather performed the vocal parts, with his right
hand,on the seraphine, while he executed the accompani-
ment on the organ with his left and, through the 'Ma's,
with his feet.

ANNE BOLEYN.—Mrs. Thomson's historical
romance, under this title, may be expected, we under-
stand, in a few days. It must be acknowledged that the
authoress has selected a very admirable subject—the
portraiture of the career of an unfortunate Princess, the
victim of a brutal monarch—with whose untimely fate
in the Tower of London, the reader of English history,
and every well-informed person, is conversant. But
this knowledge of one whose illustrious station, no less
than her many exalted virtues, have enlisted a sympathy
for her misfortunes, only serves to awaken a desire for a
more complete picture. Hence the infinitely greater in-
teresb possessed by historical romances, treating of cele-
brated events and characters, over the merely imagina-
tive creations of the novelist. Mrs. Thomson, we are
informed, has with a praiseworthy petseveranee, explored
various valuable historical records; and has •thus been
enabled to collect many new facts relative to the exalted
heroine of her story, who, we have no doubt, will live
again in her pages with a vivid reality
THE 'slim NovELs.—The following interest•
ing new works of fiction are just published by Mr,
Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now be
had at all the libraries :-1. The Man of Fortune, by
Mrs. Gore, 3 vols.-2. Fathers and Sons, by Theodore
Hook, Esq., 3 vols, with a Portrait and Memoir of the
Author.-3. The Match-maker, by the Author of
" Cousin Geoffrey," " The Marrying Man," &c. 3 vols.-
4. The Parish Clerk, by the Author of " Peter Prig-
gins," 3 vols.-5. The Old English Gentleman, a sport-
ing novel, by John Mills, Esq., 3 vols.-6. De Clifford ;
or the Constant Man, by the Author of " Tremaine,"
"De Vere," &c. 4 vols.-7. Charles Chesterfield, by
Mrs. Trollope, 3 vols.-8. The Love Match, by Mrs.
Moberly, 3 vols.-9. Joan of Arc, an Historical Romance,
3 vols., and-10. Tom Bowling, a Tale of the Sea, by
Captain Frederic Chamier, R.N., 3 vols.
LEICESTER BOROUGH SESSIONS.—Richard
Crime, a commercial traveller, was convicted before J.
Hildyard, Esq., the Recorder at the above Sessions, on
the 3d inst., on a charge of stealing a quantity of plate,
the property of John George Briggs, of the George
Hotel, Leicester. A report of the case appeared in The
Sun at the time, and a description of the prisoner's per-
son ; several innkeepers afterwards came forward, and
identified the prisoner as the same person who had been
at their houses and conducted himself in a similar man-
ner, whereupon he was fully committed for trial. The
gaoler of Worcester proved a previous conviction against
the prisoner for a similar offence, for which he was sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation, but the punishment
was afterwards commuted to twelve months' imprison-
ment. A letter was presented to the Recorder, written
by the prisoner, stating his previous mode of life, but
the Learned Gentleman said he could pay no attention
to it, and forthwith sentenced him to fifteenbrears' trans-
portation.

THE LATE FAILURE AT ARUNDEL.—On
Saturday last ;Ars. Drewett, the wife of one of the part-
ners, died, supposed of a broken heart, occasioned by
the failure. She was a lady much respected in the neigh-
bourhood, and sister to Mr. Hopkins, the other partner
in the banking concern.