The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

Mi. Bright and the "Fortnightly Review."

HENRY D. SEYMOUR

tion. Earnestly hoping that you may so temper your acts
and speeches as to render it possible for moderate men to
agree with and support you.—l remain, yours truly,

HENRY D. SEYMOUR.

J. Bright, Esq.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—May I beg you to insert the following le

ter, which, I may add, was written and despatched
before I was aware that the previous correspondence
was already before the public?-=Yours obediently,
193, Piccadilly, W., Jan. 2. J. MORLEY.

My dear Sir—l have been out of town, so I hope you
will acquit me of any discourtesy in neglecting your let-
ters. The letter for the writer of the article shall be for-
warded as you desire. The writer declines to acknowledge
our right to know his name, but, in ordei to show that he
is not desirous to shelter himself behind the shield of ano-
nymity, he has written a letter to Mr. John Bright himself
—a letter which I am forwarding to the Reform Club by
this post.—Believe me, dear Sir, yours very truly,
Jacob Bright, Esq. J mix MORLEY.

FEES IN THE HOUSE OF Commoxs,The fee on
filing a petition or other document or private bill in the
House of Commons is £5, and £l5 on each of the three
readings, as also on the report of the committee. Out of
the 317 bills for next session one house has 74.
CATTLE AND SHEEP.—According to an agricul-
tural document just issued there were in the year 1866 in
the United Kingdom a stock of cattle in number 8,716,276,
and of sheep, 26,375,993.
Sir Henry Paulet and Mr. John Alorant are can-
didates for the office of verderer of the New Forest, vacant
by the death of Mr. H. C. Compton. The election takes
place at Winchester. The voters are freeholders of Hamp-
shire, and the poll may be kept open 14 days.
SIR WALTER Scorr AND HIS A.D3IIRERS.—When
Sir Walter was first known to be in money troubles, it was
remarked that if every ono who had taken pleasure in his
writings would but give him sixpence he would be the
richest man in England.
REFORM DEBATE IN EDINBURGII.—The discus-
sion between Professor Blackie and Mr. Ernest Jones is
appointed to take place in Edinburgh on the evenings of
the 3d and 4th proximo.
- TROUT FISHING.—In the dark water by the side
of the rock must be my first cast. With a lift of the
arm and a turn of the wrist, the top of the rod bends
slightly behind me ; the long line makes a circle through
the air, flies forward, unfolding its long length as it de-
scends, and the red-tail fly drops like thistle-down upon
the water. It hardly alights before it goes down, down,
down, and then the line runs rapidly, cutting the water up
the stream. I have hooked a trout now, and no mistake.
The resistance which followed when I struck, the fly taken
down under the water, and now the mad violence with
which he rushes away, show me that he is a good one.
Now everything depends upon the manner in which he is
hooked, the temper of the Limerick hook, the strength of
the gut, and—the skill of the fisherman. If you doubt the
latter, look at that tyro, with all his neat, expensive, and
scientific appointments. Look at him where he stands,
with his eyes open and " rabbit mouth agape," beholding
his line float back to him again, minus flies, casting line,
and a fathom off its point, as with a rush and a swirl that
big fish, which was his quasi-captive for a miuute, breaks
away unharmed. "Bad line, sir ! rotten gut ! I barely
touched him, that is all." Very possibly, sir, but that may
not be all. We know the old proverb of a workman and his
tools. Do not think me cynical ; it has happened to myself
before now ; but be satisfied that a large trout will not be
caught if he can help it. But I have had this one on long
enough to understand that he is hooked well and firmly ;
at all events, long enough to know that there is nothing
wrong with the line or collar. They would have gone when
I first struck if they meant to go; and now he is swimming
deep in the middle of the rapids, with his head up the
stream. That will never do. He will swim on there for half
an hour that way and be none the worse. It is his natural
direction; so 1 wheel up my line slowly, with my rod nearly
bent double, drawing him to the edge of the stream, and
turning his head round as .1 draw, get him into smoother
water, and immediately he is off and down he rushes,
making the reel whiz again as he carries out the line. The
instant that I dare I give him a check, for he is drawing
near the fall, and if he once goes, good-bye top of the rod
and line and trout. It is only just in time, he runs back
again, and I wheel up again as fast as I can, for a slack
line would be fatal. Will it be ? He will try directly,
after a rush or turn up and down, making less distance
and rising higher in the water every time, so that I get an
occasional glimpse of his great tail and dark track above
the surface ; he fairly leaps clean out of it, and shows the
goodly dimensions of a two-pound trout, if ever I saw one,
and now unless my line is slack he breaks it, for he throws
himself right upon the top of it as he comes down. Yes,
but I was up to that dodge, and as ho sprang up out of the
water, down went the top of my rod into it, and the heavy
fish fait upon the loosened bight. Up ho is, and into the
air again 3, down goes the top into the water, and then he
makes another furious rush up the stream, turns again, and
I bring him easily back this time upon his side. I think
that I can land him ; no, ho 'sees me as I steal my left
hand down with the short landing uet towards him, and
makes another struggle for liberty—nearly succeeds this

time, for I did not think that there was arun left in him,
and he is only just turned in time. Then ho gives in ; a
few short lengths run out and easily wheeled up, and I
draw him towards me with his nose out of the water, my
butt pointed towards it, my line tight, my elbow bent and

wrist slightly turned back, left hand below the winch,
. _ _

right hand upon the handle, slowly and warily, till he lies

motionless close beside the gravel bank, and I slip the net
under him, and ho is mine. Nearly two pounds and a

half, beautifully spotted, with a belly as yellow as gold.—

Fraser.

NEW NATIONAL GALLERY.—We are requested to
state that Foreign Ministers, members of the two

Houses of Parliament, Royal Academicians, and the com-

peting architects, will, on presentation of their cards at
the entrance door by the Victoria Tower in the new Palace

at Westminster, be admitted on Monday and Tuesday, the

7th and Bth inst., between 10 and 4, to view the designs
for the now National Gallery, in the Royal Gallery ; and
that the public will be admitted on Wednesday, the 9th

inst., and the three following days, and also on the last
four days of each of the two succeeding weeks.
THE OLD ENGLISH NAME OF HOLLY•waS "Holm,"
or " Holm Oak," and in many parts cf England it is still
known by these names ; and Holmsdale, in Surrey, and
other villages whose names commence with Holm, have
been derived from the abundance of hollies which once
grew in their vicinities. It Las been thought that the
"Greenwood-tree," familiarised in the story of Robin
Hood and other old English ballads of forest life, was
identical with the holly. It grew in great abundance at

Sherwood and other places in the central and northern

counties.—Once a Week.

What must be done to conduct a newspaper
right ? Write. . .

What is necessary to a farmer to assist him ?
System.
What would give a blind man the greatest de-
light ? Light.
What is the best piece of counsel given by a jus-
tice of the peace ? Peace.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Since my arrival in town this afternoon I
have seen the correspondence headed "Mr. Bright
and the Fortnightly Review," published in The Sun
of to-day, and I should be obliged if you would
insert at your earliest convenience the following
letter relating to it.—Your obedient servant,

P.S. I never heard of Mr. Jacob Bright's letter
of the 19th of December till the 29th of December,
and I wrote my letter to Mr. Bright and sent it to
the editor of the Fortnightly Review on the 30th of
December.
Athenaeum Club, Jan. 2.

Knoyle, Salisbury, Dec. 80, 180.
My dear Blight,—As lam informed that your brother,
Mr. Jacob Bright, has been writing to Mr. Morley, the
editor of the Fortnightly Review, complaining of an inaccu-
racy in an article in which one of your speeches was mis-
quoted, and requiring to know the author's name, I write
this letter to inform you that I wrote that portion of the
article which relates to English affairs, and in which the
error complained of was made. lam always prepared to
accept the responsibility of what I write, and had you
expressed a wish to know the name of. the writer of
the article in question, no doubt Mr. Morley would, after
consultation with me, have sent it to you without delay.
As Mr. Jacob Bright had no kind of right to ask for it
I think Mr. Morley acted properly in refusing it. I don't
know whether you yourself ever saw the article in ques-
tion, and I will, therefore, mention that it is the Public
Affairs article of Nov. 1. An apology has been inserted
in the January number of the Review, and 1 have directed
a number of it to b 3 sent to you at the Reform Club. I
beg again to apologise for the mistake, and to assure you
that you were not intentionally misquoted. At the same
time, I must say that I beliwie your statement, that half
the land in England and Scotland is in the hands of 150
and 12 proprietors respectively, is incorrect, but as yougive
no authority for so important a declaration it is impossible
to point out where the error lies. That there should have
been any mistake I deeply regret, although it did not affect
my argument,..-. I am one of the many members of the Li-
beral party who, admiring your oratorical genius, and fully
admitting the public benefits which you have in many re-
spects conferred on the country during your long career,
must respectfully beg to differ from you as to the sudden
and sweeping changes which, to judge from-your speeches,
you would wish to introduce into our laws and constitu-

AQUATICS.

LETTER FROM HAMILL.

The Newcastle Chronicle prints a letter which has been
received by Mr. Brown, of the Blenheim, Newcastle.
Though emanating from and signed by both, it is written
by John, in that free, open, and candid manner so charac-
teristic of him, and which won him so many friends when
here. The latter will-be glad to hear that both brothers
are doing well, and that John has now fairly settled down
to work again, after the excitement attending their visit to
England. By letters and papers kindly forwarded to them
by Mr. Brown, they were informed of the victory of Cham-
bers in his recent race with Sadler, which, as may readily
be imagined, set the whole family rejoicing. In fact, we
may say that nearly all Pittsburg, where Bob's name has
now become as " familiar as a hous.thold word," was in a
state of jubilancy on the receipt of the news. So elated,
indeed, was family, that their sister met John at
the gate of their house, as he was coining in from work,
and shouted ":iurrah for Chambers !" by which, John
says, he knew that all was right, and that Bob had won.
lie seems to have anticipated the decision come to by
Chambers subsequent to the ma:ch in question, for he
hopes now that we havogot the champ inionship once more
on the Tyne; Bob will not go from home again, but that,
should he row again, ho will insist that any one wanting
to compete for the supremacy should come to the Tyne to
measure blades with him. James Hamill, it appears, has
not done anything in the rowing way since he wont home,•
but he has accepted a challenge from Walter Brown, who
recently beat Joshua Ward (James's old 'antagonist), and
was in turn beaten by him, to row in the spring ; and then
it further appears that the said Walter Brown intends
challenging the winner of the race on the Thames, which
of course means Chambers, and by the tenour of the letter
it would seem that he wishes Chambers to go to America
for that purpose. In the event of either Bob or any other
man going from the Tyne to America to row, John hopes
they will decide upon going to Pittsburg, whore they will
guarantee them a fair race, and they will also have an
opportunity, he says, of repaying some of the kindness
they received while in Newcastle. The letter concludes
with kind regards to all their friends in Newcastle, includ-
ing, of course, Bob Chambers, Harry and Jack Clasper,
Messrs. W. Oldham, J. Wilkinson, W. Blakey, T. French,
Bannister, J. Leithead, and a host of others whose friend-
ship they enjoyed and reciprocated while here.