Mr. Richards, the odd Member for Knaresborough, who makes so
much fun in the House that we almost regret his inevitable rejection at the next contest, is very angry with the Morning Chronicle for publish- ing a report of his speech at the meeting of the Central Agricultural Society. Mr. Richards says- " If I had not seen your report of what I said, I could not have believed it pos- siblefor any one, with the slightest pretensions to fairness, so foully to distort and misrepresent the sentiments of another as you have mine. I leave the public to judge whether such attempts at literary assassination be excusable, even for party purposes." The Chronicle denies the charge of wilful misrepresentation, of course ; and that the speech of Mr. Richards could not have been dis- torted for party purposes, is clear from the fact that the Morning Post, the organ of the party to which Richards has ratted, gave the same re- port as the Chronicle. The fact seems to be, that when that more waspish than wise gentleman saw himself in print, even he was struck with the superlative folly of his speech ; and now would fain palm his nonsense on the reporter.
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