13 OCTOBER 1838, Page 8

If it were mere sourness against Ministers that led a

whimsical weekly contemporary to wreak its ill-will on those whom it regards as their organs, a little retenue in its sallies would still be advisable—we mean, if it aims at credence from its "fit though few" co-politicians. The complaint of the Times, which we noticed last week, of having been misrepresented by us on the subject of duelling, affords the paper above referred to a pretext for abusing the Globe and Chronicle ! !- by way of killing two birds with one stone. The cool impertinence of including our morning contemporary in an insulting charge, without, in its case, so much as attempting to show cause for it; would be quite inexplicable, except by the motive which explains so large a proportion of the calculated insults to Liberal organs or objects from the some quarter. It is to earn a quotation, and a tribute to its "independence," from the Times and the Standard.—Globe.

[Come, Mr. Globe, " let every thief hang on his own gallows." You have cut a shabby enough figure in this business yourself, and it won't better you to affect concern for the poor innocent Chretaiele. To that brother in the Downing Street trade we had paid due honours on former occasions, and there was no need for quoting chapter and verse against him at the moment. But it did happen, that on the very day when the Globe volunteered its sympathy for the morning coadjutor, that respectable print was actually committing an offence the same in nature, and as impudent, though it may be hardly so obvious, as that of which the Globe had been convicted last week. In an ela- borate leading article, the Chronicle (net to speak here of falsifications on a greater scale, which we deal with in another place) pretended to quote from the Spectator the following sentence, marking it with inverted commas. 4, It is probable that the soothing system will be adopted, and that there will be no fusillades of the peasantry." The original, in our columns, really stood thus: " On the contrary, it is probable that the soothing system will be adopted—no I usillades of the peasantry." In this little sentence the Chronicle inserted five words of its own, end altered the punctuation, for the sake of saying_ " Probablg no fusillades of the peasantry ! "—though, from the sem fence itself, and especially when taken with the context, it was mani- fest that the use of the soothing system was stated as the probability, and the abandonment of the old Orange practice of fusilledne! the peasantry as certain. Did we not, then, worthily include the attest Chronicle with the honest Globe.

The Globe invents a motive for the Spectator. Now with respect to motives, if, leaving fact and argument, the Globe wishes to contend with the Spectator on that ground, we can be at no loss for a disagree. able retort. But when he was about it, he might have found a more probable motive for the "calculated insults" to soi-disant " Liberal organs" than the one assigned ; for instance, a feeling the opposite of respect for their many dirty practices. A more candid observer might have discovered that the Spectator is just the least addicted of all the journals to the giffgaff commerce of empty compliments. And when the Globe imputes to us the design of earning praise from the Times and the Standard, does he mean to say, that their approbation is so much more valuable than that which himself and his colleagues can bestow, that we should covet it at the risk of being abused by the Downing Street scribes? It would be easy to gain their compliments.]