FIGHTING SHY.
Tile folowing (printed amongst the leaders) is all that our whilont loquacious neighbour, the Examiner, can find to say in answer to our exposure of his fallacious falsehood about the Ministerial " faculties for business,"or to our enumeration of facts touching his charges against the " extreme section of the Radicals," and his defence of his own bombardment policy-
" There was a time when we thought it worth while to expose the false re- if the Spertat'a. ; that titne has gone by, for the Speclatxr is now sufficiently understood, and quite harmless. Its sneers at the Ministerial management ot business in Parliament florin,'' the last session will he found by any persons whir may take the trouble to look for them."—Eraminer, Sept. 23.
Our neighbour, however, " thought it worth while " to write at the Spectator, ia two of his most carefully-conned papers; and he " thought it worth while " to fabricate a little fib against the Spectator, wilich we, recollecting bi former feats in the same line, thought it worth while to expose. To make the exposure complete, and afford the tyro a les- son in the art of shifting, we conclude by exhibiting the small affair in its progression. 1. rpm» the Brambo.r, date,1 S‘pt. 9. " A contemporary who during the session was iii the habit of sneering 'richly at her illajesty's Ministers' mode of conducting the puldie business in Parliament, has itas,h the late discovery that they have inapt oved in the afore- sail matiageimmt tf business. What is to be thought of his justica during the session, or of his truth now?"
2. Front the Spec/:for, Sept. 15. " This is what we slid say by way of commentary on the Exton inee's text of the provietts week, that the Government must underga some repairs,' for that ' a dep:orable deficiency of the faculties of business has lot, 'y been obscrvable ia Pat liatnent '— " ' The ti,,veri:ment, hot la in members and stotelnet, appears to its nv,:h the she,. as ,nh n Co, ;;,Inuirol it as the best of all possible Minis:Cos. ahd freely t•.,1: !IQ-, to ta,lc %Om it:ool to doubt its dietuni. As for the busittes: ale. it tide, wa Clink have rather improved iloritnt the last s.assb al, speakiog of tip. niattage- 1,.eld of ineiste..s. re.j,trd tO thcir nature The (IC ii List awl the eausrla wen, : tli Irish Poor.law was sent up re,:•on.rb!At so,ns• to the I ; airl if tlh• Tit), awl Corporation Bills were free this se tr in rem Wog; Coe Upper vat fl,ey did not reach it at ail. The Miuistet:b we erneeive ti be 'eh then (theays zr, re.' '' ' What is to be thought of' our contemporary's ' truth now '--or of his hazarding so shabby a bit of misstatement, with the means of exposure so close at hand ?
" The fact is, we made rather less account if the defic'enc.. of the faculties of business' in the last session, than heletolore. We had ceased to regard the Whig Government as any thiug, but a locum knells for the 'furies. Neverthe- less, It may be perfectly true, both that the Government had 'rather improved' in the management of measures ' without regard to their nattere'—in the official trick of pushing them through their stages—and that the said manage- ment, more especially if 'thee nature' of the measures were regarded, was still bad enough to justity weekly sneering."
3. Front the Examiner, doted Sept. 23. " There was a time when we thought it worth while to orrice the false re- preqentations of the Speetator ; that time has gone by, for the Speet,11,or is now sufficiently understood, tenth quite harntleas. Its sneers at the 'Ministerial management of business in Parliament during the last session will be found by auy persons who may take the trouble to look for thetn."• • !lyre the Eraininer changes the issue : the question was, flu to cc hat we hall sail improvement in the mahluement of business" —for whieli the babstit.le t irust foe - a :tot is, a ques•aoa as to the quantum of " weekly Sotiel."
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