The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-09 00:00:00

THE LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPERS.

(From the Doily New.)
The Cumberland Pucquet prints the following
fiction, premising:
That the facts may be entirely relied upon : —The Tires newspaper
has very nearly perfected in its °dice a machine which will run off
ten thousand copies within the hour ; and should this desideratum be
achieved, its thiinder will be issued, from the commencement of 1810,
at Yourpence. The Morninj Chronicle, on the other hand, having
tried the fourpenny effect, is by no mesas plowed with the results of
the harardous experiment. and intends to clap on the additional penny
at the same period. The Daily Nom is on the point of changing
hands, and will take its new flight at fourpeoce.
It is moat discreditable to some of the provincial journals
that they are -ready—like the journal which we some
time since forced to a public apology—to make asser-
tion of circumstances as within their "own know-
lege," or, as in this instance, to put forth " facts " which
" may be entirely relied on" (which assertions and facts
affect the interests and character of others) in utter igno-
rance of what they thus unhesitatingly vouch for.
We pass such paragraphs daily without a comment; bat
they are sometimes forced on our and public attention
by the unusual currency given to them by our contem-
poraries. The above from the Cumberland I'acquet,
the Times and Chronicle may or may not answer ; but for
ourselves, and so far as the Daily News is concerned, we re•
ply that the statement which "may he entirely relied on"
is entirely false. Respecting the Chronicle we have no
opinion to offer: as we said at the time, it made •
foolish no-meaning movement when it came down to Id.,
and may Sod that changing its price has not eased its posi-
tion. The half measure proved that it had no faith in the
policy which the measure seemed to 'auction. The Chronicle
should at once have come down to 3d., and co-operated
heartily and cordially with the Daily News, instead of which
it rejected all offers of alliance and co-operation. As to the
Times reducing its price to fourpence, does not the writer
know that the Times itself hit proved thisto be "impossible "?
It was but a few months before the Daily News flattered
the conspirators, that the whole morning prey of London
were in treaty for the purpose of raising the price. Of
course a report of this long since reached us, but we were
unwilling to advert to the subject, because we had no proof
that it wi.s true. The following, however, appeared some
time since in the Lincolnshire herald, and was thence
copied into the Morning Post, without comment. The
general truth, therefore, may be assumed on the authority of
one of the parties.
Last summer a correspondence took plane between the proprietor.
of the Timm, the Morning Post, the Morning Chronicle, and the
Morning Herald, on tic subject of railing the pi ice; but the move-
ment did not emceed, the Morning Herald having declined to accede.
So much for monopoly! if the Daily News had not
come so inopportunely into the field, the " only Iths of a
penny " was to have served as an apology for raising the
price of all the London morning papers.