HONEST AND APPROPRIATE TESTIMONIALS.
IN the Chronicle of Monday, we read, in that type and form of para- graph which notify all historical events, from the eversion of a dynasty to the upsetting of an apple stall, these curious critical commentaries ; which of course must be received by the general read:le uninitiated in the mysteries of the press, as the unbiassed opinions of the able editors journal.
First, the ournal.
First, TUE COURT JOURNAL.—The success of this new Weekly Paper has been most complete. The second number, published on Saturday, contains, among an immense variety of amusing matter, a curious paper on the aris- tocracy, suggested by the late ball at Devonshire House. The writer is, an- ' doubtedly, a person of very exalted rank."
Here is a highly natural conjecture, conveying the idea of a grand qualification for composition, " a very exalted rank." Nothing more needs be said in praise of an article, than that it proceeds from the pen of a person of "very exalted rank." And this eloge comes from the democratic Chronicle, which would scorn to flatter the "vile aristo- crats," except indeed for a con-si-der-a-tion of sixpence a line.
In a neighbouring paragraph, the liberal journal says, "The Monthly Magazine for May more than sustains the high character -Which it has earned within the last five or six months. The massacre of St. Bartholomew, illustrative of Popery as it was AND WILL RE, is an article -written in characters of tire—it bears thoughts that breathe, and words that burn."
How appropriate this appears in a paper the most devoted to the Catholic cause 1—but such is the force of half a guinea. The Regina Tecunia rules the small print with most commanding sway—all preju- dices and principles succumb to it. How long will the virtue of long- primer hold out against the neighbouring corruption? The pressmen who thus lend or rather let themselves to practices upon the credulity of their readers, are not one whit more respectable than any other description of trading cheats.
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