Mr. Urquhart has written a -long letter to Mr. 'Nei:house,
in which the ease against the Foreign Office relative to the publication of the Poryidio is restated, and it appears to tI9, clearly made out. The fol- lowing extract from a note to the letter show; that Mr. Poulett Thom.- son was aware of Lord Palmerston's connexion with the .Porghlio--
"Through you also was transmitted to me, on the 22i1 of May 18:36, a note requiring an explanation of some observation that had licen made in the Port- on Mr. Poulett Thomson, in consequence if a complaint made to Lord Palinci.ston by Mr. Punka nomson. lf, after such communication between Lord Palmerston told one of his colleagues, Lord Palmerston denies mhl con- nexion between the Poryl-ilo and the • Foreign 1/..partnu nt,' it is dear that at least one of his colleagues in the Cabinet was so far implicated in this scheme as to enable Lord Palmerston to assert that which that colleague knew to he thlse, without fear of personal indignation or public exposure from such col- league."
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