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loan who hears it

most men forming their
slanders of the newspapers wt
hopeless task of defending."
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or to justify the attack made upon thee. At the same time
I would scrupulously avoid giving any real ground for such
attacks. It is no light matter to charge us with encolvaging
the horrible crime of assassination, and with a wish to excite
the multitude to deeds of violence and blood ; yet these are
thy charges upon us. It is useless to disguise the truth ; it
was the act of a bitter enemy, not of an honest friend. A
real friend would have given counsel in private, rather than
have denounced us from the floor of parliament."
The noble lord rejoins—" Dear Mr. Bright—l wonder at
you persisting in alleging that I charged the man's speech
on the league, and still more at your saying I should explain
away what I had been supposed to say. But if any one in the
house wishes to hear me repeat that disclaimer, let him ask
me and I will do it. I must, however, say that the league

solish friends are every day making such disclaimers
. .—Yours, ever truly."
—" I do most certainly persist in saying
couched in such terms, and was so spe-
ein truth a charge against the league. . . . .
iinly against the wish of many of the deputies that
was committed to thy care. My object in this
respondence is entirely to repudiate thy charges upon us,
and to deny that thou bast any ground whatever to claim to

Again Mr. Bright
hat thy charge was

Ily the honest friend' of the league."
am then writes as follows—" I have received
at night, and I am astonished at your having
sto assert that it was against the wish of many
puties that the motion was committed.to my care.'

your letter of!

.. . I will have 'no further correspondence with you
on this, or on auy other subject. My reason for refusing all
further communication with you is, that I find you are con.
nected with the anti-bread-tax paper, and I observe you have
carefully kept from denyi -* von are the author of fir
foul and false statemP-'

that y
,ts of that print."

Mr. Bright thus closes the correspondence—
serts that lam connected with the anti-bread-tax paper, and
that I have carefully avoided denying that I am the author'
of the article which has so griveously offended thee. I know
on hast obtained the information as to my con-
with the paper in question, nor is it_of importance

Thou as-

not bo

that information be true or not. I have said no-
thing of the authorship, never having supposed that the ar-
icle could have been attributed to me, and have, therefore,
felt called upon to deny or to admit it ; and now, when
I am thus charged, I think it well not to give thee any infor-
mation, and not even to say whether I know anything about
,* not. Thy correspondence bears strong testimony that
conscious of having done us wrong, and that this
ass makes thee somewhat uncomfortable."
post which conveyed Lord Brougham's first
''ht, his lordship sent a copy of it to Mr.
'd the following is the substance of the

By the s

er to Mr. I

Hamer Stansf

)f the latter gentleman.

CLE IN THE CIRCULAR IS A COMPLETE

FACTS; AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES

CURRED WERE PRECISELY AS YOUR LORDSHIP
The deputation sought an interview with
se of Lords, and pressed you to introduce the.
he way most likely to be beneficial. Your
the attempt would be useless, and all but
- t some other peer should be applied
_

Besting th

o ; but, upon the deputation urging the matter further, you
greed to reconsider the subject, and they were to see you
gain, and did so, respecting it ; and the subsequent inter-
iew which Mr. Bright and myself had with you, and the hoe-
&nifty and civility we received, were gratefully felt,_ and

a details for the motion. I can only account
A 'e, the animus of the writer of that article,
by supposing mm goaded to madness by your lordship being
the first person to connect the diabolical assassination of Mr.
Drummond with the league."

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It is amusing to see the remarks of our radical contempo-
raries on this correspondence. A writer in the Liverpool
Times of Tuesday says, that during this " reign of terror"
he is obliged to shroud himself ; and under an anonymous
signature makes the following curious confession :

Being a timid man, Mr.-Editor, I make no comment on
this controversy. Indeed, like Macbeth, ' I am afraid to
think of what I have done,' in making to you this communi-
cation, for the fate of Mr. Roebuck warns me of the tribula-
tion and woe with which the vengeance of the league, accord-
ing to the admonition of the hon. member for Stockport, is
ready to overwhelm the thoughtless wight, whom a love of
fair play may prompt to rebut by evidence any false or erro-
neous statements made by its associates. or its agents, to the
disparagement of Lord Brougham."

As we anticipated, an attempt was made to exclude the
gallant Commodore Napier from the Senior United Service
Club. The ballot took place on Tuesday last, when there
appeared no less than 13 black balls against his admission.
It is known that one black ball in ten excludes the candidate ;
and it therefore follows that the, gallant officer must have
nine times the 13 balls, and one over, in order to neutralize
the efforts of the hostile clique—that is to say, he must have
had 118 white balls. For the credit of the club, we are glad
to state that he was hailed on the occasion by an approving
salute of 195 white balls.—Observer.

PINING PRINCE ALBERT.—The lawn in front of Dulwich
College is exceedingly well kept, and, in order to preserve it,
the public are requested to keep on the gravel walk, and there
is a custom among the boys of the college to fine any otie
they can detect trangressing this rule. Prince Albert and
one of his equerries visited the gallery on Saturday last. and
dismounting at the chief entrance, walked on the forbidden
lawn up to the college, which being seen by one or two of the
boys, they forthwith went to the equerry and told him he had
a fine of 6d. which he readily paid. " I saw t'other
the same," said one of the hopefuls, and going
nce, told him he wanted 63. of him also, which,
piffling out his purse, father chap laughingly paid. The
confusion of the youth, on being told that it was the husband
of our Queen that he thus accosted, may be imagined, not
described.—Sunday Times.

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