Lord Grimthorpe seized, of course, with delight on an opportunity
of killing two birds with one stone, when he found that thirty-eight ecclesiastics had fulminated against Mr. Gore, and that it was open to him to hit with the same missile both Mr. Gore and his antagonists. Accordingly, in one of those raspy letters which naturally suggest a stone capable of slaying a couple of birds at once, sent to Thursday's Times, he indulges to his heart's content both his disgust for Mr. Gore and the Pusey House, and his dis- gust for the Deans and other dignitaries who have fulminated their protest against Mr. Gore. But so far as we can judge, he is more anxious (and much less likely) to injure Mr. Gore than he is to injure the injudicious divines. Perhaps he will find that the stone has missed both, for his letter expresses so much unsupported contempt for both parties, that it will not be much read by the friends of either party. Apprrently Lord Grimthorpe knows but little on the subject on which he is writing; otherwise he could hardly write at once so scorn- fully and so ineffectively. He seems to be firing in the air. Raspiness is his forte; almightiness is his failing.
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