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The Gazette of Tuesday, in very lengthy editorial article, makes an ostensible attack >on the speech of Col. Fowler, published in the last number of this paper. We say os- tensible, because the speech itself being one of the most able and argumentative produe- tions that has appeared in favor of State Gov ernment was only made the means by which tho editor of the Gazette could covertly make m attack on this paper and the party which has supported 1t, and by which he could effect a general discharge of Billingsgate and slan- ders directed against Col. Fowler, indvidu- ally. For months have they been accumula- ting in the breast of the editor, and for months has he been seeking favorable op- portunity to pour them out upon the head of his victim, and unable to contain them lon- ger. he attacks tho most able thing that has appeared in flavor of the very doctrine he pre- tends to bc so warmly advocating. We should have supposed he had exhausted the whole Newgate Calendar, had we not been promised fresh discharge next week-and when we consider that his talent lies in abuse and his argument in epithet, 1t should be mat ter of no surprise at all that his stock of Bill lngsgate is not exhausted. It is not our in tcntion, however, to make ourself the cham pion of Col. Fowler, in this matter, knowing him, as we do. to be perfectly able to defend himself against any islanders or abuse which may bc uttered by the Gazette,

 The most amusing part of the article in question, however, is the sinuous wriuglinp and twisting by which the Gazette tries to irl- sinuate that the course of this paper has been yacillating or rather that it has not always been in favor of State Government. As ear ly as the summer and fall of ls30, the paper through its editorial columns, and also by many of it's correspondents, advocated this measure, as one which would result bencG-