It is very satisfactory and re-
assuring.
"I and some others here were much pleased at your expose of Fowler. He
tried to set up here as the cock of all our railways, but he got the
worst of it, and now he has got his quietus (that is, if you intend to
let him rest), and has lost what he was very ambitious of, viz., high
social position in the North. The Duke of Sutherland and others with
whom he had gained a footing, have given him the cold shoulder, and I
hope you will, by some means or other, enlighten his friends at the
Egyptian Embassy. I may write a few lines to you tomorrow - being now in
great haste,
"Yours truly,
"A. G. DALLAS.
"P.S. - I have not kept a copy of my San Juan letter, which I have only
just hurriedly written."
"Dunean, Inverness, N.B.
"30 October, 1872.
"My dear Sir Edward,
"I wrote you a few hurried lines last night, with an enclosure, for
publication, on the subject of the San Juan Arbitration.
"In the 'Times' of yesterday there is a letter signed 'The Ghost,'
which, like all that the 'Times' permits to appear in its columns, is
intended to throw dust in the eyes of the public, and direct attention
from the real authors of the calamity, viz., the present Government, to
that of Lord Aberdeen, or the German Emperor.
