V." upon the remarkable good-breeding of
his "intimate and valued friend." We see
how much importance is to be attached to his
oriticism of men and manners, when his bo
som companion—the man with whom ho may
bo said to sleep—the recipient of his person
al confidences, takes his letters to the news
papers and publishes them, signature and ail
—exposes their "careiess freedom of expres
sion" to the cold and withering glance of the
unfeeling oritic, and sends tbo "hastily writ
ten communication" down the tide of immor
tality. There is a nice, gentlemanly friend
for vou That is the style of man with which
it pleases "V. P. V." when bereaved of his
"Frank Wuddell," to associate!
The polished "V." will do us the justice
to believe that, not moving in the lo/ty cir
cles of refined society, which he adorns, we
could not be supposed to know, when we
ound his letter in the columns of a newspa
per, that it was there against his desire or
without his sanction. We poor devils of the
lower strata are rather scrupulous about re
porting what we have to eat when we are
asked to dinner, but we did not know that it
might not be a rigorously correot proceeding
on the part of a gentleman who associates
familiarly with Mr. John Van Burcn, takes
tea with Mr. Justice Roosovelt, hob-nobs with
Miss Harriet Lane, embraces Frank Wuddell,
shakes hands with the Swedish Minister,
liquors with Kerr of North Carolina, smokes
with Page of Mississippi, eats mutton and
wines with Mr. Gov. Kemble, and beats Gen.
