PUT HIM IN A GLASS CASE:

North Otago Times, Volume XIV, Issue 542, 26 July 1870, Page 8 (Supplement)

PUT HIM IN A GLASS CASE:

In consequence ef an agrgrestiTe article written in the Qaulois, Count do ATieuwerkerque ooauniisioned tiro friends, General Bourbftki and General <J« Oondreoourt, to oall oat the writer, M. Saroey. Tbia eminent publicist, having already fought several duels, felt himself able ■without derogation to make an unconditional apology. Suoh a thorough one wu probably rarely leen in the press. He publishes an artiole in the Gaulois headed " A mistake," in whioh he d«olaree that all the hard and intuiting things he ■aid of M. da Nlaawerkerqne mast b* attributed to the f«ot that he went into the country on Sunday, and had not had an opportunity of wading the proofs of hie " copy." This experienced and aooompliihed writer saje that hie pen sometimes rune away with him, and writes things whioh he deeply regrets when he eeee them the next morning. Henceforth, he e&ya, he will attire to adopt the role laid dowa by his brother of the quill, M. Yillemot, " nerer. to write anything refleoting npon an indiridual whioh he would shrink from saying in a drawing-room before that person's Mends." This sight of » Frenchman apologising for an ininlt instead of aooepting a challenge is one of so rare ooonrrenoe, that we might almost suggest to Mr. Ayrton that he should make orertures to hare M. Saraey put in a glass oase at the Kensington Museum, and labelled " An apologising Erenohman."