Many of the country papers are kind enough to enlighten
us, front 4PflaniSeri* tpgzi.„ cs- intrinsic value—the question of " town or country" does not affect them ; but it is, to say the least of it, ridiculous, to gather news of the Court by the way of Birmingham or Brighton, or of the Cabinet from the remote parts of Scotland. Who are the correspondents of the country papers ; and what may be their sources of exclusive intelli- gence ? These correspondents are all of them connected with the London press ; and can furnish to the provincial papers nothing of which the journals in town may not have the benefit, if it be worth the having. We perceive that the Standard has been laying con- siderable stress upon sundry revelations of change in the Cabinet which have appeared in the Glasgow Courier. These Journals, it so happens in this instance, are authorities to each other. The Glasgow Courier relies on the exclusive intelligence of the Standard; and the Standard is bound to admit the unimpeachable evidence on which the conclusions of the Glasgow Courier rest.
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