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■journals to contend with, these journals being the 

 organs of one or other of the two parties ; and 

 so fearful are they of giving offence to the party 

 which patronizes them, that anything like freedom 

 of opinion is seldom or never found in their columns. 

 The party spirit of one of these journals must be 

 characterized as furious : it is conducted apparently 

 with the sole view of pleasing a few of its patrons. 

 The acrimony, iavective, and personal abuse, which 

 formerly figured in its columns, and which are far 

 different now, undoubtedly surprised any stranger 

 who had been accustomed to the more gentlemanly 

 tone of the English press, and certainly reflected no 

 credit upon the taste of the public, who were not only 

 satisfied, but delighted with this style of writing, 

 and who, with few exceptions, looked upon the most 

 powerful and most nervous writing as tame, if it 

 were not seasoned with personality. There was, 

 indeed, one excuse for this depraved appetite on the 

 part of the public : it was that in the House of 

 Assembly an example was set. The harangues in 

 that House were too frequently a tissue of person- 

 alities—such as in no well regulated assembly 

 would be endured for a moment; but I am happy 

 to state that, owing to Governor Murray's showing 

 a timely and conciliating spirit, a better state of 



