editor of the Gazette to withhold his theretofore assistance to the Society, but had the effect also of injuring the society in other ways. one result of this disagreement will be seen in the following correspondence and foot-note:-
A lady subscriber has received a circular, signed by one Thomas Elworthy, cautioning her against having her mind biased by invidious comments of a small journal, and she asks, with good natured simplicity if such caution has any reference to the mild and to her at least satisfactory explanation given for not reporting the Workingmens' exhibition.
Our correspondent further asks, should her suspicion be correct, if we intend to repudiate what in her judgment appears to be an unfair accusation our reply is that certain persons, using Mr. Thomas Elworthy as their mouth piece to damage the position of the Gazette - for, that is the "small" journal referred to have, inadvertently laid themselves open to animadversion, which may prove exceedingly inconvenient to them. If to convert a real friend into an implacable enemy is the aim of Mr. Elworthy and his coadjutors, then they are doing the surest thing to accomplish it. But more of this anon. In the mean time let us give utterance to the following brief lament:-
Alas! poor Ed. - thou man of plebian birth.
Dire is thy fate, sad soul of honest worth.
The world must mourn thy overpowerng woes,
Stabbed as thou art by pseudo friends and foes.
Compelled to meet an arch conspiring band,
Alone, by Knight, and in thy native land.
Four swords 'gainst one, thy righteous arm of might
Hath scarce a chance in such unequal fight.
yet, nobly wilt thou foil each vengeful thrust
That would thy life's blood mingle with the dust,
Till one by one thy base opponents fall-
Helworthys, Gips-ies, Knights and Burg-ers, all
It should be explained that Elworthy and Bung were professedly total-abstaners, and that the term "small journal" used by them was the invention of Mr. Knight; proprietor of a paper considerably smaller than the Gazette to which the description was applied. Gipps was the name of a gentleman who wrote libellous letters against the gazette in Mr. Knights paper, whose proprietor got a "Roland for his Oliver" and had hide his "diminished head."
The exaggerations and misrepresentations of Total Abstinence lecturers at that time were greatly inimical to success; and had it not been for frequent musical and other entertainments - many of them of a novel character - in which moderate drinkers assisted, together with the annual festival, to the financial part of which now-abstaining gentlemen and ladies contributed the Temperance Hall instead of being the great attraction that it was, would -
