The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-29 00:00:00

711 E LONDON PRESS.

The Philadelphia Ledger informs us that an oil;
cial return has been furnished to Parliament of s;
the newspapers of the United Kingdom, with °l
names of their proprietors. We confess that We
have not seen it, but as the Ledger adds, " Disraeli
is accused of having some malicious motive in ,
fishing facts hitherto known only to the Gale,
went," the British press may purposely have 'Lee
dined to aid him in publishing information, it c!°
not desire should be generally known. The Tend es
is returned as published by "Anna Brodie a%
John Walter." Now, this little sentence carries 1.0
it a great disenchantment. The Thunderbolt t.,0
considered to be the attribute of Jupiter, and t"e
thunder manufactured in Printing-house-sqtr,
was supposed to be in some mysterious way %o,
nested with the gods. Anna Brodie and d°
Walter arc doubtless very respectable perso°73
but the idea of their taking John Bull by tbd,
nose and walking him along is too good. fade :its
it is not unlike some such transformation seen'di.
that of the gaudy illusion, which delights the a° d,
ence at Covent-garden or Drury-lane, beings I,!3odenly wheeled round and the back laid bare. e :18-0
Daily News is published by S. Morley, Cba" of
Reed, and Henry Labouchere, Liberal members
Parliament. The Daily Telegraph, by Moss, l'ev;i:
and Lawson ; the Star, by Henry Rawson, a Tut': p
Tory daily paper, by Johnstone, an officer of v e
Court of. Bankruptcy; the Morning Post, the agar.,
of fashion, by Mr. Rideout ; the Morning' by
tiser, by James Grant ; the Pall Mall Gazette, "ii;
George. Smith, the publisher of the Cornhill Ott
me." We lately noticed the last-mentioned Pirtle
as having sandwiched the Cornhill between
Quarterly Review and Blackwood, the two door
,
and most renowned periodicals. The Shilling
gazine, which had just completed its ninth le,!/:,
was described with them as lying on a club tauro
before the present members of that club Weeo
born--a neat little thing in puffs had it net, bed
a shade too glaring. A case not unlike this ,
furnished by the Times in last Thursday's 18330
Turning from an Irish picture, it alludes to: r-
American counterpart sent by our Philadelphia CO'ol
respondent a few days ago. It represented Gen sr
Grant's reception of a Senator who wanted 018 the
sistance of the Government in improving who
levees of the Lower Mississippi.' " New, ere
wouldsuppose from this the "Americas countqS, st,
had been cut bodily from the columns of tiwthe
Louis Democrat, and had gone the rounds of Cot,
American press? It was " our Philadelphiao dig'
respondent" (by the way, the manufacturer of sod
mal prospects") who produced this picture, so,
dismal prospects they certainly are for the lobby the
" The Express is owned by the proprietors of
Daily News, and the Globe by Sir Stafford 14.01,-
cote, Secretary for India, in Disraeli's Adroillisnet,
tion. The Glowworm is a small evening Paul
out late at night, and dealing in sensall'o-
news." There appears to be a very incomplete 1,
turn of the weekly press, which is supposed to CO
sist of 16 journals only !—the Saturday Rev" all,
the Spectator, the Economist, the Examiner, ,afbesl
few more; indeed those only we enumerated ",
alluding to the newspaper clique. Such a paP.e' is
Lloyd's Weekly News, whose circulation isua,
excess of all of them put together, is utterly the
known. The impression is actually given that erg,
weekly press of London is confined to sixteen PaPoid
while far more than twice that number are born vet
die every year in the metropolis alone.
we leave the Ledger to speak for itself. " Ac' 1.4
ing to the above statement, the London Pr.ed of
composed of eleven dailies and sixteen weekhe'io,
all kinds. The list, however, we believe to be
complete. The whole number of newspapers Vri-prea
in England, but outside of London, and regltieo
at the Government office, is about 650. foil 130,
thereare 34 ; in Scotland 135 ; in Ireland' 006
his brings the entire number of dailies up
weeklies published in Great Britain and Ireland
to about one thousand.—Anglo-Americaa 7iptes.

Births. wi
le
LOWTHER —On the 27th inst., at Ampthill-park, ale
of Wm. Lowther, Esq., M.P., of a son.
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MORETON—On the 26th inst., at Worthing, the 00-* ,
R. Moreton, of a son.
.Elfe 47'
SuEnLocx—On the 25th inst., at Limerick, the -
rapt. Shorlock, 72d Highlanders, of adaughter•

Marriages.
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HOWMAN—GREENWAY—On the 27th inst., at -- t •
Warwick, Henry Aithur Howman, to Lett ittivoi,
youngest daughter of the late George : °
C. Ore
Esq., of Warwick. aeow
PALMER—WELLS On the 26th inst., at Battersea, ':;at,clo,
Arthur, eldest son of J. Palmer, Esq., of 01,30YA.Weil',
to Frances Carr, eldest daughter of the lateVir-1.1
Esq., of Battersea-rise.
Deaths. Dire,
BACCILUS—On the 23d inst., at Apsley Guise, Bodf°l.°P
Mr. Wm. Bacchus, aged 60.
Geo.
BALDWIN—On the 26th inst.
, at Fakenhatn, Norton',
Thomas Baldwin, aged 51.
DEWY—On the 23th imt., at Twickenham, Robert
Esq., aged 87. Comp-road'
'
MAUDE— On the 27th inst., John Maude, 801 l C°1:11.
Leeds, aged 73.
AN London : Printed and Pabliehed by WILLIAI-.. A
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TRH SUN Otac3boet9
Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, in the
Aliddleient—Friday, JoAutary 20, 1869.