Avery singular controversy is going on in the newspapers. The
. -parties are the mistress on the one hand and the servants on the other; the subject, a police report; the arena, the Times. It must be a foil menage, as the French call it, when the butler answers 'Ills lady through the medium of a paragraph in a Morning Paper. In the Times of yesterday, JAMES PUTNEY, from the pantry, gives ;Mrs. WELLESLEY, in the drawing-room, the lie direct. It might .lave been done with less trouble by mounting the stairs ; but we nose Manners, takes in the Times, and tells mistress she is am better than she should be, through our paper." We wonder bow JAMES looks, when, in the capacity of groom of the chambers, - lays the papers and his own correspondence before his worthy 'mistress. Ile _probably takes the answer to his own letter to ti --twopenny post, and perhaps cannot sleep all night from impatience to learn what his mistress has said to him. There is something very dignified in scolding servants through a journal; and in the butler, instead of answering the bell, sitting down to answer the Times. "Vdast improvements, Ma'am !—JOHN PARSONS, the Bath or Exeter coachman (we forget which), finding the road somewhat heavy about Knightsbridge the other day, instead of cursing the Trust and slashing his horses, gets off his box at the end of the stage, and tipps the Tines a letter,—a very well- written letter too ; AneIBIADRS himself could not have written a better. When the stamp is taken off, every thing will be done through the Morning Papers : the Editors will have to settle all disputed questions, and the Press will rule the world, both above- and below stairs.
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