We are sorry to perceive that our friends of the “_Southern Literary Journal_” are disposed to unite with the “_Knickerbocker_” and “_New York Mirror_” in covert, and therefore unmanly, thrusts at the “_Messenger_.” It is natural that these two Journals (who refused to exchange with us from the first) should feel themselves aggrieved at our success, and we own that, bearing them no very good will, we care little what injury they do themselves in the public estimation by suffering their mortification to become apparent. But we are embarked in the cause of _Southern_ Literature, and (with perfect amity to all sections) wish to claim especially as a friend and co-operator, every _Southern_ Journal. We repeat, therefore, that we are grieved to see a disposition of hostility, entirely unprovoked, manifested on the part of Mr. Whittaker. He should reflect, that while we ourselves cannot for a moment believe him otherwise than perfectly upright and sincere in his animadversions upon our Magazine, still there is hardly one individual in ninety-nine who will not attribute every ill word he says of us to the instigations of jealousy.