"Town" has been delighted this week with a " row
" of the eighteenth-aentury kind. A journal called the Queen's Messenger has for some time past scandalized London by a series of utterly inexcusable attacks upon big people, living and dead. One of them libelled the father of Lord Carington, who, believing that the paper was either written or edited by Mr. Grenville Murray, formerly Consul-General at Odessa, but dismissed from that post on the 22nd of June sought him at the Conservative Club late at night, found him on the steps, and struck him on the head. Mr. Murray in return, summoned his lordship to the Marlborough Police Court on a charge of assault, and also of provoking a duel. Lord Carington was committed for trial, and ordered to find bail, his own and his friends', to the very unusual amount of /8,000. In the course of the inquiry Mr. Grenville Murray was severely cross-questioned as to his connection with the Queen's Messenger, which is registered in his son's name; but declined, by his counsel's advice, to reply,—an ill-judged refusal, as in a letter to his solici- tors, published in the Times at his request, he had emphatically disclaimed being either editor or proprietor of any paper. He distinctly denied, however, having written the article on Lord Carington, about whom he knew nothing.
