The Times has been inflamed with pious wrath against the
con- tinuance of the Marquis of Headfort in the Queen's Household, not only because the Marquis attended an anti-tithe meeting, but on ac- count of his having been defendant in an action for criminal conversa- tion more than twenty years ago. A correspondent of the Chronicle protested against this calumny, and stated that the Marquis's father was the delinquent ; but it turns out both the father and son were in the same predicament, and that in 1816, the present Marquis, then Lord Bective, was mulcted in 10,000/. for his "affair."
Last week we copied from the Scotsman, one of those convenient paragraphs which are always at the service of those who need them, respecting Mr. Turton's appointment to the office of Judge-Advocate in India by the Tories, recently after the discovery of his intercourse with his wife's sister. This was intended as a set-off to the story which alleged that Lord Melbourne himself had first recommended Mr. Turton to Lord Durham's employment in Canada. It appears, how- ever, that no such appointment was made by the Tories ; and that Mr. Turton merely acted for Mr. Pearson, the Company's Advocate, dur- ing that gentleman's temporary sojourn at the Cape.
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