In the Pall Mall Gazette of Saturday the editor seemed
to imagine that we had been casting aspersions on its geographical knowledge in the remarks we made on the blunder of its corre- spondent "Curator," with respect to the locality of Archangel and Southern Russia. Nothing could be further from our minds. The Pall Mall is as profound in geography as it is recondite in ethno- logy. It is almost an ideal paper in both respects. But in its chivalric ardour to defend a correspondent's blunder it has com- mitted a grievous mistake. It is quite true that subscriptions for a famine in Southern Russia might be going on at Archangel, on the White Sea, just as subscriptions for flannel petticoats for South Africa might take place in Exeter Hall. But the fact was, as we have shown in a note on " Curator's " letter, that the supplies were coming from the South, and the distribution of those supplies taking place in the North,—in Archangel,—and that this was the patent and conspicuous basis of Mr. Renny's appeal to the Times. " Curator " was only a little confused between the White and Black Seas.
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