" MIGHTY GREAT LIARS."
TILE name of O'CoNNELL seems to throw the Tories, high and low, into a state of mental fury, which incapacitates them from dis- tinguishing, not only between truth and falsehood, but between probable and improbable lies. The exposure of the base RA- PHAEL plot had the effect of stopping ler a time the manufacture of what .1 u Ni US calls " false facts," and drove them to the !new repetition of abuse; which perhaps may have been profit- able to the Standard, but which the Stamp-otlice records prove to have been any thing but agreeable to the readers of the Times and the Herald. Of course, to mere blackguardista no reply can be made by any decent journalist ; but it happened that, on Tuesday last, the l'inies ventured on a " u•t." Desirous of toadying its new patron, Lord LY:sroituits-r, the Times gave a flaming ac- count of the effect of his Lordship's oratory on Monday night ; when he was represented as having " made the quietus' of Mr. Sit E 1. and Lord Jonx RuSiELL : and then, says the renegade, 11r. 1 Worowli he hail just begun upon, when the Agitator, for his sin., tc.is fed, (roomy ado r ilemtnrs at /he C011inionS, Ill the spare Mow the bar. 1.,111 1.yialhurst saw hint, and indantly attracted all eyes to the coarse calum- niator, by announcing his presence in these words, which his Lordship ddircred, looking steadindly at O'Contell—' Etiam iu senatum mitt : . . notat, et desigoat urulis net C:14101/1.1111111I1p11.1111/111.! nostrum.' it is im- possible to describe the tfiect this quohilion produced, followed as it was by a sort of apology to the memory of Catiline for the injurious compari- son. ' The person, my Lords,' said Lord Lyndhurst, to whom those words were applied, had one redeeming virtue. Your Lordships will tied in the elo- quent description the Roman historian gives of his death, that he had at least —courage.' But we :mist refer our readers to this admirable speech."
This extract is taken from the TimeR of Tuesday morning. In the evening, the Standard did its best to improve the descrip ion of its fellow labourer in the cause of Toryism and truth. Alter eulogizing, LvNontiusT's vindication of his own political con- sistency, the S.' uulard proceeds- " It was Iii ilk retort, however, upon the disgusting beggar, that the indig- nant eloquence of Lord L■ndburst burst with st splendour. We &lull Nether the consuming denunciation of the Hionsil conspirator burst with mote power, brilliancy, and effect from the lips of its author, than when they vete pronounced last night. Led by that judicial instinct which so often drags criminals to confront their doom, the (oboes incendiary placed himself at the bar of the House, when thus Lord Lyndhurst spoke," &c.
The effect of all this upon O'CON NEL L is thus described by the Standard- " This extract is long, but we found it impossible to mutilate the passage. It only remains to he sail'. that the miserable olticet of it skulked cromeltingly away jinni his execution, with that expression of ofrected gayety, clouded by bitter hute, which indicates the compound idling nj the hypocrite and coward. If tie may slightly change a phrase employed in describing the conspirator re- ferred to in Lord Lyndltutst's quotation= Iguaviatnque :mind quam labuerat scraper in vultu adhae retinens.' " Would it be believed by any one not familiar with the practices of' these Malays, that Mr. Ol'osismt.t. was not present during the delivery of Lord LYNonuesr's speech?—that the description of the effect of that speech upon him is therefore from beginning to end, pure fabrication, a downright lie ? But so it is. The 3iorn- ing Chronicle on Wednesday thus exposed the falsehood- " Mr. O'Connell was not in the Lords till an hour after Lord Lyndhurst had ceased to speak. Ile was at the St. Pancras dinner, of which a report is given in the True Sun of yesterday. While land Lyndhurst was abusing Mr. O'Connell in the House of !Ands, Mr. was abusing him at the din- ner. Mr. O'Connell entered the lands as Lord Winehilsea rose, and he asked a friend of ours, • What has been going on?' who answered, Lord Lyndhurst abused you.' Ilis reply was "fit for tat : I have been abusing him at St. Pancras.' " Has the Times, has the Standard, corrected this mistake? By no means. Their readers are still allowed to gloat over the re- collection of LyNnnuusfs triumph and O'CONNELL'S mortification.
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