APPENDIX. 453 Note 13. — Aftei-Mards, i.e., in 18G7, there took j)lacc an esti'angcment which separated him from a former comrade during a period of rather more than three years, but oddly enough in that instance it was the Editor of the ' Times ' wlio took umbrage at M'liat, after all, was only a mere ' return thrust. ' Note 14. — One of the most successful feats of journalism in this direction was performed by the ' Morning Chronicle, ' in the days of the Free Trade Debates. The late Lord Derby one night, or rather far on in the morning, delivered a great speech in favour of Protection ; but when he sat down amid the cheers of his party, there already had been written in pencil by one of his hearers a complete ' leading article ' which dealt at the instant with his arguments one after another. So, the early trains which carried down into the country the great orator's speech, carried down with them also what Free-traders declared to be its com- plete refutation. It is known that the hearer of the speech whose pencil so instantly answered it by the leading article was Mr Hay ward. Note 15. — The saying was by Mr Moseley, a man believed, as I hear, to have been the most powerful of all leading-article writers. Note 16. — I have heard that when thus dealing with the
- proofs ' he disclosed a severe taste, striking out a great deal of
ornament, and many of what — to the WTiters — had seemed the best parts. By this discipline, if so one may call it, he fostered a disposition to write in sterling, unadorned English. Note 17. — The conductors of the ' Times ' were fully aware of this. ' Indeed we have ever had in our eyes the fact that there ' are Russian agents and partisans in this country who peruse ' the newspapers every morning in quest of hints for their em- ' ployers, and who, by means of the telegraph, can communicate ' what they may think of any service to Berlin, and thence to ' Warsaw, before the ' Times ' is in the hands of the London ' reader. We are well aware of the fact that, dm-ing the whole
- of the war, the shortest road from Sebastopol to London, and
' consequently from London to Sebastopol, has been through St ' Petersburg.' — ' Times,' 7th December 18.54, Note IS.—' Times,' 24th November 1854. Note 19. — The predisposition which inclined our people to be delighted with the ' Flank March,' and to approve the subsequent counsels owed its origin to a healtliy, patriotic impulse much
