So easy is it to distort a circumstance, that is harmless and indifferent in itself, into a grievous fault, especially where there is not Christian charity to throw a cloak over it.' "'Such is a specimen of two paragraphs--one from each paper; and considering that the subject was a delicate one, and involving; the character of a professor, we think it was as delicately handled on both sides as possible.

I am told it is to be publicly alluded to to-morrow in the congregation of which the subject of it, a Mr.Solomon M'Slime, an attorney, is an elder--a circumstance which plainly accounts for the heading of the paragraph in the True Blue.
"There were, however, about a week or ten days ago, a couple of paragraphs in the _True Blue_--which, by the way, is Mr.M'Clutchy's favorite paper--of a very painful description.

There is a highly respectable man here, named M'Loughlin--and you will please to observe, my dear Spinageberd, that this M'Loughlin is respected and well spoken of by every class and party; remember that, I say.

This man is a partner with a young fellow named Harman, who is also very popular with parties.
Harman, it seems, was present at some scene up in the mountains, where M'Clutchy's blood-hounds, as they are called, from their ferocity when on duty, had gone to take a man suspected for murder.

At all events, one of the blood-hounds in the straggle--for they were all armed, as they usually are--lost his life by the discharge--said to be accidental, but sworn to be otherwise, before Mr.Magistrate M'Clutchy--of a loaded carbine.