The Sun. — 1837-01-27 (London, England)

NEWSPAPER EXPRESSING.—WC were prepared, with matey of our Contemporaries, to eaptess our all but inexpressible Astonishment, when; et six o'clock on Monday evening, Messrs. Robertson and Scott, newspaper agents here, politely sent us a copy of a Second Edition of Saturday's London Morning Herald, containing a report of the proceedings at the Peel Dinner 'at: Glasgow up to its close, at some minutes past one o'clock of the same morning. But something still more wonderful came to light. The same paper was received in Glasgow by Mr. M'Phun at eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon. We had cogitated, and wondered, and conjectured, as concerning the manner—railroad, steam-engine, balloon, or other—in which our London Contemporary bad achieved this apparently impossible feat, and, like a Glasgow brother, had put it down to the account of diablerie and Dr. Faustus—when the murder popped out in pretty considerably probable report that the said Second Edition hie-been printed in Carlisle. That such, or something similar, was-the fact there can be no doubt, as the paper bears intrinsic marks that three. pages of it were printed in London, and the other, containing the Second Edition, somewhere out of it, albeit the whole bears to be " printed by John Ryan, printer, of No. 104, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, in the City of London," on " Saturday, January 14, 1837." Now, had the Morning Herald avowed this fact, we should have been inclined to give it credit for an " ingenious device ;" as it is, it looks, we must say, very much liko a hoax upon the public and upon its readers. The Sun promised to do great things—and it bona fide did so—for we had in Edinburgh copies of that paper on Tuesday, containing between nine and ten columns of the Peel Dinner. This was a feat worthy of The Sun, and corresponding to many of its former exertions.—Caledonian cu.y.  The Morning Herald, London journal, has been detected in something very like a fraud, which is doubtless in its own opinion, only " an ingenious device." It may be remembered that Sir Robert Peel's Speech at Glasgow was delivered on Friday evening, the 13thinst. On. Saturday the Herald published a Second Edition, purporting to be printed in London, containing a report of the proceedings, which was forwarded to Glasgow and other towns in the North, as a specimen of " the extraordinary and unprecedented exertions" of the proprietors of that paper. Extra. ordinary and unprecedented, indeed, would they have been, even exceeding the bounds of possibility. It now appears that the Herald forwarded a number of copies of Saturday's publication, with three pages ready printed, and one page left blank, to sew town in the North (Manchester has been stated) where the reporters on their return from Glasgow easily procured the blank page to be set up in type, -and then despatched the papers, as before stated. We do not know that this matter ought to have been looked at in any other light than as a clever trick, except on two grounds. The first, that the Herald has since inserted in its columns a number of acknowledgments to its great activity from the deceived parties, and has taken great credit for the feat, even allowing it to go forth in its .own columns without contradiction, that the account was expressed to London in twenty-two hours, and re-expressed to Glasgow in twentythree hours. Secondly, that it ha committed a fraudulent act upon those of its Contemporaries who bona fide made great exertions to procure a full and accurate report ; particularly on 2Yee Sun, whose really surprising efforts we noticed in our last.—Bristol Gazette, of Jan. 26.