People were perplexed how to reconcile the conflicting state- ments
of the accurate Times and Chronicle respecting the late ascent of Mr. Green (on Friday week) ; the latter paper having affirmed that a Mr. Hemming took the place of the promised pony ; the former that the pony did ascend. The contradiction is explained without affecting the veracity of the journalist, by con- sidering how very easily, at any considerable distance, an ass may be mistaken for a pony. Much more unaccountable are the various exact reports of Lord Chesterfield's movements, in respect of which important matters no two journals agree. One paper tells us that Lord Chesterfield went down to Brighton, and having seen Mrs. Lane Fox on board the Dieppe packet, (a part of his duty, we suppose, as Lord of the Bedchamber,) returned immediately to town ; another assures that his lordship proceeded in the steam-vessel to France ; another po- sitively affirms that his lordship sailed in_Lord Castlereagh's yacht, for the opposite coast.
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