The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-29 00:00:00

PEDESTRIANISM.

Goodman is matcher! to run jackaoti, the Yorkshire runner,
150 yards, for 50/. a aide ; the rare to take place on Friday, the
7th July, and the parties to meet at the Plough, on Clapham
Coritmon, between two and four in the afternoon.

The Philosophic Professor, who recently boiled his
gold watch instead of his egg for breaking, being mite'
why he did not have n hole in his stocking mended, re-
plied,--" lam too proud; am above it ; bolo may
be thought au accident, but a darn is a ptrowdildteTri
acknowledgment of poverty."

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Salem firm—Co' aree heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, from
St
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THI,LONDON JOURN4S.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

JUNE 29, 1826.

[THE TIMES.]

We have to notice an act committed by the Courier
newspaper of the most shocking kind. In its leading
article of Saturday last, the 24th inst., it invents, or
it suffers some wretch to invent in London, and to
insert in its columns, a speech for Colonel Lowther at
Appleby, in Westmoreland, in which the gallant of-
fieer is made thus to express himself:—" He (Co-
lonel Lowther) said the Hon. Gentleman who had
proposed the Learned Gentleman had insinuated that
he (Col. Lowther) was unable to compete with him
(Mr. Brougham) in eloquence. He admitted the
fact. He (Cal. LOwther) had not been bred to the
bar—he had studied in a different school ; and he be-
lieved the Learned. Gentleman would, if he took the
trouble to inquire into it, find that he understood his
trade, which was fighting, quite as well as the Learned
Gentleman did his, which I.,as talking; and if he had
any, of the quality which ought to belong to his pro-
fession to spare, it might not,. perhaps, prove unac-
teptable to the Learned Gentleman—(hear, hear)—
from
from whom he would have no objection to take in re-
turn a portion of his oratory."—(Loud Cheers.)—
Colonel Lowther, if he reads the Courier newspaper,
must have been as much surprized as Mr. Brougham,
on seeing words and belltillleittS so totally remote from
those he had uttered or conceived imputed to him.—
The proceedings that took place on the arrival of Sa-
turday s Conner at Appleby, containing the above
vile falsehood, are thus detailed in the Globe and
Traveller of last night
WESTIVOItELAND ELECTION.

in consequence of a report in last Saturday's courier of Col.
Lowther's speech ta Appleby, on Thursday the 22d of June, in
which he is represented as 'peaking of of Mr. Brougham,
Mr. Strickland waited upon the Colonel, ou Mr. Brougham's
behalf, to know if the Colonel had so spoken in some part of his
speech which had escaped Mr, Brougham and his friends, none of
*whom had heard any thing in the least resembling the account in
the Courier. Th• Colonel, in the must direct and explicit man-
ner, asserted that he never bad weed any such expressions, stating
that an he had, said,was, that he and Mr. Brougham, were of dif-
ferent professions, the latter having practised public speaking all
his life, which. accounted for the Colonel's inferiority alluded to
by Mr. Wybergh, and that all the rest was an addition of the
newspaper. Mr. Brougham stated on the hustings, in the evert
rwlisit•had pained, in the prusence of the Colonel, who dis-
tinctly confirmed the statement, denying he ever heel made the
speech ascribed to him by the Courier."
Of-courtie, Colon'el Lowther not having uttered one
word of what was imputed to him, had nothing to do
but to gate the fact, and the matter was at an end.

But this is not all. In the very paper in which the
fiend-inveuted falsehood appears in prose, is a copy of
doggrel verses, containing the same falsehood in
rhyme ; at the beginning of which verses, the writerre7
fers for the subject to " The speech of the Honour-
able Colonel Lowther, at
.Appleby, in this clay's
paper." But bow could the versifier see and hear
words which were never uttered at Appleby, and
which had never appeared in print, till the very same
(lay, (and,in the very same journal to 6); in which his
verses appeared, in .Landon ? It is clear, therefore,
that the writer of the Verses must. have, seen the lead-
ing article of the Courier, in manuscript : or the same
creature must be the author of the prose and the verse.
A man may write verses to-day, on a false statement
that appeared yesterday ; but if the statement comes
out ontthe same day,.verse .anci, io. prom), it is be-
yond contradiction that the author of one must have
seen tit, invention of the other in manuscript, if in-
deed there were two authors, which is not likely. And
now to have done with an fair of honour, which in
that character has terminated properly and happily ;
and which, must, we should apprehend, become next
an affair of law. We cannot help observing, on cast-
ing our eyes 'for the first time over the Bathe paper of
Saturday last, that that journal—Ascribes, in its leading
article, words and sentiments Lord Lowther, the

elder. • brother, which do not appear fr,om the regular
report to have been ever uttered by his Lordship!!
What I are the Lowthers sunk so low as this, then,
in point of intellect, and even in point of money to
retain competent agents near them, that being unable
to speak appropriately themselves, they are obliged
to employ persons at a distance to publish supposi-
titious speeches for them in London ; but those pub-
lishers of supposititious speeches, such dolts, men so
little acquainted with the language of gentlemen, that
they get their employers into the most painful scrapes,
by falsely imputin- to them sentiments which, with
all their political faults, the Lowthers are incapable of
conceiving ? This is degradation indeed. -This is
the first time that a Mrecenas, if rich and generous,
WAX obliged to be content with a Bavins or Mtevius.
Sines the above was written, we have received our
own report of the proceeding's at Appleby on gon-
day) from which it appears that the dirty nusrcpresen.
tation on which we have animadverted has had the
not uncommon effect of involving persons perfectly
innocent in the odium of the guilt.