In the Courier of this evening, we find a letter
from Mr. BARRETT, editor of the Dublin Pilot, on the subject of his late conviction in Dub- lin, for publishing what has been decided to be a libellous letter from the pen of Mr. O' CONNELL. It is amusing to contrast the very cour- teous and complimentary style which Mr. BARRETT adopts in writing to the Courier, with the expressions to be found in Mr. 0' CONNELL'S letter in the Spectator of this, the some day, referring to the same jour- nal. Mr. 13Aneerr speaks of our contemporary's " just and sound views of the late prosecution of the press by the Irish Government"— of his insisting " on the application to Ireland of the common princi- ples of justice and humanity "—of his " enlightened sentiments "—of the means he possesses " of extensively disseminating truth among the English people," Zee. But Mr. 0' CONNELL'S letter to the Spec- tator is filled with vituperation of the Courier. The individual who writes under the Irish head of that paper is termed one of the " ac- cursed "—an " ame damide of literature "—" a calumniator and a liar" —and -an " anonymous traducer." The journal itself is designated as ." that most unprincipled newspaper." This is something like blow- ing hot and cold with the same breath ; for Mr. BARRETT is supposed to be Mr. 0' CONNELL'S mouth-piece. It certainly looks very like jugglery.
Mr. BARRETT'S letter conveys no new information on the subject of his prosecution. It tends to confirm the opinion, we have already ex- pressed of its unfairness and impoliey. Mr. Emmert' seems to con- sider it necessary to justify himself for not giving up Mr. O' CONNELL, as the author of the letter ;—by the way, he directly contradicts the as- sertion of the Globe, that be was offered impunity as the price of such treachery. But we never beard that the editor of the Pilot was ex. peeled to turn King's evidence against O'CONNELL ; though some per- sons affected to think (absurdly enough, as it appears to us) that the latter should have put himself forward to shield his instrument from prosecution.
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