THE LIBERAL DAILY PRESS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
Sin,—Your correspondent Mr. Matthews, whose excellent letter appeared in your paper of the 28th ult., has, I consider, done great service to the Liberal cause, in pointing out the defections and unfaithfulness of the Daily News, which I am happy to see have at last received a rebuke not only from your correspondent, but also from your own pen.
I have been an almost constant reader of the Daily News for many years; I say almost, because I have been sometimes so disgusted with its half-hearted support, amounting often to almost an attack on the Government, to say nothing of its intense egotism, that I have for a time, more than once, exchanged it for the Daily Chronicle ; but the fact of its being considered the Liberal organ of the Government, and as such, being supposed to contain information not accessible to other Liberal daily papers, has induced me reluctantly to retake it.
I trust that your own recent strictures, as well as the very temperate letter of your correspondent, will have the effect of bringing the paper to a better sense of its duties as the organ of the Government; or if not, that the Liberal party will ere long provide some better channel whereby to convey and advocate its opinions, for to the often very feeble advocacy and half- hearted support of, nay, sometimes opposition to, the measures of the Government, I have attributed the occasional defection of some of the loose Liberal Members ; and in that opinion, I have reason to know I do not stand alone.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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