The New England Weekly Review

Hotels.
We copied last week part of an Editorial article from the Boston Evening Chronicle, reflecting in no very mild manner upon certain Hotels between Boston and New York, among which were named the Worcester House, and the Tontine, N. Haven. We had not the least unkind feeling towards either of these establishments, in copying the article, for if we had, we should have transferred the whole of it to our columns without comment. But on the contrary, we noticed it as an item of news and wherein we thought the writer exhibited malice or ill-feeling, we avoided noticing. The Chronicle is a paper lately commenced under the direction of Rufus W. Griswold, the former publisher of the Brother Jonathan, and late of the New World, and we supposed his reflections upon the Hotels to be just and merited, or we should not have noticed them. We specifically stated in our remarks, that 'the charges are very serious,' and so we think them, but we also said, that 'if they were true, out with them,' and we say so again. If the charges are false, Mr. Griswold is liable to be held to account before a proper tribunal, but if they can be proved to be true, Mr. Griswold is in the right, and will be sustained in expressing his opinion as he did, by all lovers of good order and society. We do not profess to know any thing about the Hotels, we have made no charge against either of them, and of course, have none to withdraw. When we speak either for or against a Hotel, or indeed any other matter of public concern, we do it without regard to fear or favor. Our course has been, and always shall be, so long as we stand between individuals and the public, FREE AND INDEPENDENT, untrammelled by favor, and unawed by frowns or threats. We mean to do right, and though we make no claims to infallibility, yet we believe we hit as near the mark, as those who would line our conduct.