The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-25 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER SUPPLEMENTS.

TO THE HON THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OW
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
The humble Petition of Charles Anthony, Proprietor of
the Hereford Times Newspaper,
Slieweth,—That your petitioner, in common with the
proprietors of the newspaper press of the United King-
dom, heard with gratitude the proposition of her Ma-
jesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer to repeal the half.
penny stamp on supplements to newspapers; but that
they afterwards with surprise and concern learned, from
the official copy of the resolutions, that the said repeal
would apply only to supplements " containing wholly
advertisements."
That such limitation could only have arisen from the
circumstance of the right hon. gentleman being unac-
quainted with newspaper compilation ; inasmuch as it
would practically exclude nearly every newspaper in the
kingdom, with the solitary exception of the London
Times—(thereby giving to the proprietors of that paper
an exclusive privilege, to the damage and injury of the
rest of the London and provincial proprietary : a civil
wrong which your petitioner sincerely believes was never
contemplated by the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer)—not any other publication having regularly
a surplus number of advertisements equivalent to the
filling of such supplement.
That the compiler or editor has no control whatever
over the number, length, or quantity of his advertise-
ments ; one day a few hours before publication he might
have two or three columns ; the next day five or six ;
the next ten or twelve ; and vice versa ; therefore, it is
obvious that constraining him to fill his supplement
with advertisements wholly, would cause inextricable
contrary, confusion,
thei
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newsl,v o would
columns bot o taarlely entirely impracticable.under
theo n c the
trol of the editor ; he: can shorten or lengthen them at
will, the fluctuating number of advertisements influencing
their extent.
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shall insert in the newspaper and supplement ; in fact,
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cal-iirizolgu'r petitioner therefore prays your honourable
house to grant the said unrestricted repeal, thereby
doing equal justice to all newspaper proprietors, allow-
ing the supplement, in the apt and forcible language of
the right hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer " to go
free throurgfthetheeffpeoestt,otas part
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and parcel of the
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enjoy-
ment to the great body of her Majesty's faithful
subjects.
And your petitioner will ever pray for your honour-
able house..

CHARLES ANTHONY.

HOSPITAL.—A Parliamentary paper, in
return to a motion from Mr. Butt, contains copies of
the charter of King Charles 11., incorporating the Go.
vernors of Kilmainham Hospital ; of the fresh charters
granted by King George 11. to the governors of the hos-
pital ; of the Royal letter of King Charles 11., dated
19th of April, 1681, assigning a portion of the Royal
demesne for the building of the hospital ; and of the
warrant of the Lord-Lieutenant and Privy Council of
Ireland, dated the 23d of December, 1681 ; of the Royal
warrant of her Gracious Majesty, dated the 16th of De-
cember, 1845, -regulating the establishment of the hos-
'
prtal, and of the correspondence between the Right Hon.
Fox Manic, late Secretary-at-War, and the governors of
I the hospital, prohibiting the further admission of (116-
Icharged soldiers.