We should like here, in justice to our profession, to
say a word as to the newspapers which played the better part and refused to encourage the attempt at crisis-mongering. Chief among these has been the Daily Telegraph. That is a paper with which in former days the Spectator has often broken a lance, but we are bound to say that during the last ten days the leading articles in the .Daily Telegraph on the subject of the Derby scheme have been worthy of the very highest and best traditions of patriotic journalism. No articles could have been sounder or less calculated to inflame and exasperate the situation. Though firm in intention, they have been moderate in language. They have never stooped to the imputation of motives, or yielded to the temptation to play one Cabinet Minister off against another. Particularly excellent, where all were good, were the leading articles of Friday week, of Wednesday, and of Thursday.
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