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DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS•

JULY 1, 1826.

[THE TIMES.]

The Northumberland election produces so many
strange:inconsistencies, that it would take kvolume to
explain them ; and if explained, they would. but little
interest the public—at least, they would bear, .in the
mind of the general reader, but a remote relation to
the national concerns, The cause .of tins 'confusion
is, that some of the candidates, as well as electors of
leading name,. are suffering private piques and resent-
ments to influence and direct their public conduct.—
This is what they have no right to do.- . The feudal
Barons of old involved all their retainers and villains
in their ownquarrels, bringing them forward to reyenge
the personal affronts, real or imaginary,of their Lords ;
but in the present enlightened- state of ,society it is
meat ;unjust to dtag freeholders to the poll on a similar
principle, to make them the prosecutors of their land-
lords'. enmities, Sir Caniaby. naggerstone, a Roman
Catholic,- and of an ancient family of that faith, gives
a plumper to Mr. Liddell, in an election in which a
son of that consistent Nobleman is a candidate, who
had sacrificed office itself' to the sole object of emanci-
pating the Catholics. If the Roman Catholics gene-
rally are thus to reward their friends—if this is to be
the method in which they are to promote their own
interests, who is there that would not shrink from
personal contact with them, and give up their
cause as hopeless, through the desertion or luke-
Warmness of those whom it is meant to serve ?--
Sir Charles Mona, also a Whig, and the ancient
Whig representative of the.county, gives a.plumper at
this election to Mr. Bell, a Tory of high tone. If
Sir Charles Monck and other Gentlemen of similar
rank.were insulated beings, they might act according
to their own ,fantasy, without much injury to those
public principles which they have, professed through
life ; but what are they who are swayed by their ex-
ample, -or influenced by their authority, to think,
when_they see their leaders thus 44 shoot madly from
their spheres?" They must begin to apprehend that
political principle is thing of naught. No man who
as in a situation which entitles him to be looked up to,
is at liberty to act from private motives on a public
question.

[THE MORNING CHRONICLE.]
• The illiberality of the maxims laid down by the
Judges with regard to the Press, the disposition mani-
fested by them to deprive it of very much of its utilit
by Making faithful reports of police and law cases ille-
gal—the countenance shown by than Omit pudor ! )
to those knavish attorneys who seek the notoriety of
the Newspapers as well as profit by bringing actions
merely for the sake .of costs, and who, as they behing
to the sharp practising department of the profession,
would rather be known for evil than good'
—naturally
rallies the wise and good round the public. Press, and
disposes them to err in an opposite direction from that
which the Judges take. Much indulgence is cer-
tainly due to Newspapers, and when it is considered
that the' very condition of their existence, is that the
uneven mass of matter of which they are composed
AA be put together with little time for preparation,
and none for revision, the bitterness with winch some
ofthr Judges have inveighed against trifling.proceed.
ings, as, for instance, the sin of allowing two rival
quacks, to attack each other in the advertising columns,
appears the more preposterous. If Newspapers are
on the whole productive of great good, and the con-
ditioii of theitsexistence.is that they shall occasionally
fall ,into mistakes, ten visit all their mistakes with
rigoUr is not justice, but tyranny. But while great
indulgence is due to Newspapers, they ought not
to, presume E 0 far on the feeling ni favour of the free-
dom of the Press, as to carry alarm into the bosoms
of families for the, personal safety of individuals
belonging to them. When the line of propriety is,
passed m tint;respect, it becomes other Journaliststo
slidsV, That hoWever ready they might be to sympathise
with the, accidental mistakes, or even the occasional
imprudences of each other, they disclaim that latitude'.
which would make the press. a curse, rather than a
blessing,---These observations are called 'for ,in justice
to ourselves, in consequence of the followingparagraph
in Time Courier of yesterday
We shall not be tempted by the very foolish and illiberal
re-
wades in The Morning arcade of this day, to return to the
subject of Colonel Lowther and Mr. Brougham. What we said
yesterday wag to repel the charge of fabrication, and having done
that, it becomes us W leave the general question where it is."
Now we appeal to our
readers, if it was possible to
• act more fairly towards the, Courier than we acted.—
We gave the version which
,appeared in that paper last
• Saturday, and was copied into the New Times cif the
following Monday, and we subjoined the versions
which appeared in three Morning,Papers, having their
Separate Reporters at Appleby` and after noticing the
proceedings to which the fabrication in the Courier
had led, and the statement 'Mede by Mr. Brougham,
in presence" of Colonel Lowther and Mr. Strick-
land, and acquiesced in by them, we left it for
The Cowie? to explain in what way the fabrication had
found its way into its columns. We drew no inferences
against our contemporary.. But, when we saw next
clay, an impudent attempt to prove the correctness of
the report ; an attempt, by the bye, more insulting to
Colonel Lowther than Mr. Broegliam, because' it un-
• pates to him the meanness of having eaten up his
words, or at least, 'the not daring to contradict Mr:
Brougham,. when he stated that he had declared to
Mr; :Strielthuid that the offensive language pit in his
mouth by the Courier was not true—we then deemed
it high time to mark, in strong terms, our reprobation
of the conduct of our contemporary, which we were
called on, in. justice to ourselves, to do. We knew
that the public would not endure to be imposed upon
by personal malignity, distorting 'facts, and fabricating
injurioua speeches, and persisting, with dogged per-
verseness in the enumeration of refuted charges. And
the respectable part of the press is bound lo disclaim
all participation and approval lit such a course of pro-.
seeding. Colonel. Lowther is cliargedwitli employing
towards Mr. Brougham language such, as no brave
plan 'could either utter or permit. No sooner does
the paper reach Appleby, than the latter Gentleman,
astonished at the vulgarity, as well es tho inaccuracy
of the imputed language, requests his friend. Mr.
Strickland to inquire Of the Colonel whether he ern:7
toied it, and the answer is a decided:negative.. This
tat'enient publicly made by .Mr. B. on the hustings,
in the bearing of all who heard.o the splih►
ques-
*on and iii the presence of olonel Lec. and of Mr,
Strieklund, neither of those Get m
ittleen, nor any
oni,inai44l4l,l xis ao vast an assemblage wi!tie. vies,
either denies Mr. B. 's statement,
.nor corrects it inthe
lead pasticlitoz.the Colonel merely protesting
,that lie
is not responaitle' for statements or
}observations
made
without huilit6-40ie,....can there ie a more satisfac,-
..
tory disclaimer ,of. the report or a purtian net4it oter
if we hia no 'told the erttcle in the Courici 91"tirs-