MISS RYE.

Press, Volume III, Issue 336, 27 November 1863, Page 2

MISS RYE.

Miss Rn has been too spiteful against the prorince of Canterbury, but surely the LytUlto* Times has been too spiteful against Mice Bye. Miss Rye's comments upon this settlement were an attempt at smart writing which only reached flippancy; they were unkind and untrue; but very good people may at times write both unkindly and untruly; it does not follow they are t; miserable shams : ' because they urc often entirely

deficient in tact, and sometimes rather spiteful. Miss Rye's letter was too exaggerated to be really j hurtful: it was not virulent; her remarks could do no one any harm but herself, and the remainder of lier letter is sensiblo enough, and by no means unkindly to the province. The Lyllelton Times says Miss Rye is deficient in true charity ; so she was, when she wrote what she did : and so was the LytleUo* Times when it wrote its leader of yesterday ; and so we aU are at one time or another : we claim no exemption from the general failings of the human race in this respect, and we confess to thinking that a state of universal charity

would end in a state of universal insipidity ; a little venom is an invaluable iugredient in human existence ; it is so valuable in fact that it should be used sparingly and never wasted : we confess to thinking that the Lyttelto* Times did waste a little yesterday, and would plead with our readers for Miss Rye in consideration of her sex, her zeal, and her often infirmities.