Lord Darnley has been convinced that he was in the
wrong, and he has said so frankly. In a letter to Mr. Lake, published in all the journals of Wednesday, he states that he was not justified in giving him notice to quit on account of his own quarrel with the West Kent Yeomanry, that he regrets his own course in the matter, that he withdraws his notice, and that he trusts their former friendly relation as landlord and tenant may be restored. That is manly, and the Mayor of Gravesend is equally dignified in his reply. Mr. Lake accepts his lordship's letter with great satisfaction, acknowledges" his just and generous impulse," but "feels that after what has taken place, and es- pecially after the expression made use of by all his lordship's tenants to himself," his "sense of honour and independence will not allow him to remain a tenant on the estate." Mr. Lake and Lord Darnley between them have delivered the heaviest blow recently received by the feudal rigime.
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