The Times of last Saturday brought to light an infamous
traffic in scandal and tittle-tattle which it should be the object of every decent person to try to kill at the source by refusing to countenance newspapers which publish such stuff. It appears that a woman who passes under the name of Harriet Churchill tempts the servants in the houses of well-known people with offers of considerable sums of money to sell any " spicy " information they may overhear as to family quarrels, divorce suits, actions for slander, and so forth. A specimen letter from "Harriet Churchill" to a butler was shown by the butler, who is to be complimented on his independence and public spirit, to his employer, and the employer sent it to the Times. "Harriet Churchill" says that she writes for American papers, but we wish we could think that she, or her congeners, have no market for their noisome wares in England.
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