The Times is at length brought to reason. Here is this cockerel who crowed, and swaggered, and bullied, so long as he was not dealt with as he deserved, who becomes humble at once when brought to book. A week or two since he chatted away with the vivacity of a legion of apes, now he has nothing to say for himself but a meek request that “the man on the Gazette” should publish Sir Allan McNab’s speech on the Brown-McDonald committee report. “The man on the Gazette” begs to assure the man on the Times that he will do nothing of the sort. He entertains very different notions on the subject of “fair play” from the man on the Times, and would not feel that there is anything like fair play in publishing a speech on one side without publishing a speech on the other side to match it. Our columns are not sufficiently spacious to go so extensively into the matter of Mr. Brown’s misdeeds.

The Times has queer ideas with regard to the meaning of words.

It wo’d be easy to convince a man of anything where the Times is judge and jury. Now it was proven before the committee, and to the House, that Mr. Brown was the Secretary who wrote down the evidence given before the commission. It was proven that Mr. Brown was the commissioner who marked with his own hand the extracts to be inserted in the report to the Gov’t. If the publication of garbled extracts constitutes a “digest” then there has been a strange misapprehension as to the meaning of that term in the minds of all men down to the days of Sir A. McNab. We would advise the Times to invest a few shillings in a good dictionary, look up the word “digest” make a note of the meaning attached to it, and then send the book with his compliments to the gallant knight. It will be a material benefit in the spread of knowledge.