CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9] — Page 196

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240 Enly 1859

July

has

"In Stong hory the Aucunters of the Fourth Estate seem to belong to the irritabile genus vatum, the initable race of the prophets. They are perpetually at loggerheads with each other, always fighting, but never coming to the point "from which they set out

The most virulent

and personal abuse seems to be the

order

the day

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fo the name ones should disgrace "editorial Chairs in Chissa".

Britons that unworthy

some of

The Indian Field

published at Calcutta

says

the

a paper

under date

5th February 1859 "We have received

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"some Houghtony Nuspapers but without

any News.

They are so taken

are so taken up, as

are

are in celestial

ofor long past, with contemptible quarrels into which Officials always dragged that they are absolutely offensive to reople who don't know "The parties and who don't care a "Cowrie whether they "Sunshine or in Staves. We have "nothing to choose between the Friend "of China and the China Mail; it is just six of one and half a dozen of "the other, and their rescective heroes, "whether Marshalling officials "fighting about pork butchers and pigmarkets, appear of about equal "Calibre and much too small for the

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