Mr. Horsfall of Liverpool has addressed a letter to the
Liverpool Albion in defence of his conduct with reference to the Liverpool Stan. dard. He produces the opinion of two arbiters, acquitting the Messrs. Gladstone, a Mr. George Grant, and himself, of dishonourable conduct towards Mr. Alexander, and denies that he had any control over the paper. He acknowledges that be subscribed to establish it, but says that " the idea of being thereby necessarily a proprietor is ridiculous." He declares that he never, to the best of his 'recollection, furnished Mr. Alexander, verbally or otherwise, with the substance of any re- marks he thought proper to publish respecting individuals. Mr. Horsfall affects to think that be has said all that is neceSsary for his vindication : perhaps he has ; but if so he has been much misrepre- sented—he has certainly not met the charges brought against him of denying connexion with and patronage of a very scunilous and shin. demos journal. With respect to the charge of having violated confidence by publish- ing private correspondence, the Liverpool Chronicle says, " besides the CO py flour which we printed, four others were offered to us one of them by a gentleman who who has been a busy Tory, but who, to use his own words, is now sick of the party, owing to their late factious con- duct."
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