A long correspondence was published on Tuesday between Mr. Bright
and Mr. Garth, Tory member for Guildford. Mr. Garth, A long correspondence was published on Tuesday between Mr. Bright and Mr. Garth, Tory member for Guildford. Mr. Garth,
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it appears, during his election had affirmed that Mr. Bright dare not stand for Rochdale, that he had been hooted out of his own premises, and that he had not subscribed a halfpenny to the Cotton .Famine. Mr. Bright therefore writes to Mr. Garth, demanding his authority for such statements, each of which he denounces as "a falsehood." Mr. Garth, after a week's delay, replies that he has no Personal knowledge either of Mr. Bright or Rochdale, that his authoiities were two speeches by Mr. Pope Hennessy and Mr. Ferrand, and that he did not say his correspondent had not sub- scribed a halfpenny. Mr. Bright, therefore, tells him that Mr. Ferrand was once described by Mr. Byng, member for Middlesex, as the greatest ruffian he had ever seen in the House, that the authorities amount to nothing, and that "he had thrown dirt, knowing he could eat it afterwards. Many men go through dirt to dignities, and I suspect you have no objection to be one of them." Mr. Garth retorts that he is not Mr. Bright's match in the use of discourteous and insulting language. Verdict of the public for Mr. Bright, accompanied by a unanimous recommenda- tion to remember that violent language is the resource of the feeble, not of a master of rhetoric and sarcasm.
