THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1871.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 33, 14 November 1871, Page 2

THE Thames Guardian AND MINING RECORD. TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 14, 1871.

In the following remarks we wish distinctly to be understood,as not referring to the matter on which we are about to comment, from any sensitiveness on our part with regard to the conduct which lias been displayed in the affair by those who know no better, and of whom we could expect even worse, but simply because, as the subject is one intimately connected with the recent unfortunate death of poor Batey, and might affect, prejudicially, the interests of the widow and orphan, wc are anxious that the public should not be placed in a false position. The matter is simply this:— Mr Pulleine, lion, secretary to the Batey Fund, is employed upon the staff of this paper, and, in publishing an advertisement in his capacity as secretary, he very naturally wrote his address as the Guardian Office. This he did more particularly (because the advertisement refer ed to the forwarding of money, subscription lists, and information, and his private address. Hape Road would have been most unsuitable for the purpose. The advertisement with the address) as described, Thames Guardian, was taken to the office of our contemporary, but the humane proprietor of that estimable periodical, in order to gratify a spirit of petty spleen against this paper, forgetful that the matter was one in which the very highest charity was concerned, arid mindful only of an intense, though puny hatred against ourselves, deliberately altered Mr Pullcinc’s address to Ilapc Road, thereby certainly satisfyfying a purely malicious feeling, and yet at the same time impeding the progress of a most excellent cause. This, We may say, is not the first time that the proprietor of our contemporary lias acted in a similar maimer. On previous occasions, however, the matters only affected ourselves, or some one of our constituents, and we therefore passed them over unnoticed, but as it is now concerned with an object which all have at heart, we draw the attention of our readers to it.