The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

THE STATUS OF EDITORS IN ENGLAND•

(From the Anglo-American 2 Imes.)
One indication of the Americanization in pro-
gress in England is the number of newspaper men
proposed as candidates for the new Parliament.
The status of an editor is, and always has been,
higher in America than on this side the Atlantic.
Indeed, the power of such organs as the Times, the
Daily News, the Telegraph, the Standard, and Star
is singularly out of keeping with the standing of
those who direct them. Doubtless, in England, the
anonymous system differs from that in vogue in
America, as here the journal is everything, the per-
sons who conduct it, nothing; while in America
the conductors insist on making themselves known,
and half merging the journal in themselves. Few
Englishmen can tell who the editor is of the paper they
constantly read, and they never heard the names or
saw the persons of those whose articles have inl"
pressed them most. Yet these very men, if they
know anything at all of America, associate the
Tribune with Horace Greeley, the Ti»zes with RaY-
mond, the Herald with the Bennetts. If asked
who the leading men in the United States were,
these would be among the first names suggested.
Thus the editors of the leading journals are given 3
place with the statesmen, the great lawyers, and
the soldiers of the Union. Indeed a connection
with the press is not only a free passport every-
where, but a good means of rising into political
imp Jrtance and attaining to some of the high offices of
State. In this respect the colonies deal more libe-
rally with editors than England does. Often the
best means of attaicing to eminence is through the
press; perhaps for the same reason that the jour-
nalists of America are such prominent persons, the
anonymous character not being there wait"
taiued. It is evident, however, that something
of a change is taking place in England, for
we find the following gentlemen brought forward
as candidates for Parliament. Mr. Walter of the
Times is standing for Berkshire; Mr. Russell for
Chelsea; Mr. Baines, Leeds Mercury, for Leeds;
Mr. Cowen, Newcastle Chronicle, for Newcastle ;
Dr. Sebastian Evans, Birmingham Gazette, for
Birmingham; and Sir John Gray, Freeman's Joni"
nal, for Kilkenny. Sir Henry Hoare, Mr. Charles
Reed, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Samuel Morley,
all connected with the Daily News, stand in the
Liberal interest ; and Mr. Clayden seeks to be re'
turned for Nottingham.

Commodore Vanderbilt has been unfortunate is
the accidents which have recently occurred on the
roads he controls, more especially on the New Y°l.!
Central. The public are getting seriously annoyed
at these catastrophes, so.ne the result of gross
carelessness and inattention to the condition of tbe
way, while millions are expended in bribery and on 3
vile system of gambling. On the Hudson Riper
Road, lately, an accident occurred a few miles be-
low Greenbush, by which two passengers were
killed, and forty more or less injured. This vc3e:
the result of a broken rail, and two serious ace'
dents followed on the New York Central from
somewhat similar causes. The list of losses 433
the water have been heavy, though no lives were
sacrificed. The ocean steam 3r Del Norte, whil.; 04
a voyage from Sitka to Victoria, was wrecked oa
October 1 ; the steamer Gen. qtilinan, from Vick's;
burg for New Orleans, sank with 1,700 bales 017
cotton and 4,500 sacks of corn ; the bark L. it;
Bissell, of Detroit, was burned with its $50,0°9:
cargo ; and the steamer Lily has been sunk on We
upper Missouri.
John Quincy Adams, since his return to 11Iassi'
chusetts, has spoken earnestly in favour of the
South, and promises never to stop nor relax the
heartiest and most strenuous efforts to remove such
" blessings" as Reconstruction from the necks of the
fellow-citizens, who, he says, want no more contest
no more ill blood ; they want merely to shape:4
hands, saying, " We fought, and now the fight,le
a WI
done, let us be friends." " That is the feeling
mass of the whole people I met at the South•
saw no unkindness, no sort of feeling indicatir'g„
unkindness towards any of the people at the Nortb'
The criminal returns for Massachusetts in 1868';
dated Oct. 1, show a total commitment for crimes
and offences of 13,526, though the number of Per;
sons committted is little over 10,000, many
recommitments. The returns were from Charleston
prison, the State workhouse at Bridgewater, t"
Boston House of Industry, the fifteen county
houses of correction, and the nineteen county jatiosi
9,942 commitments were of males, and 3,50 0
females; the corresponding figures for 1867 were
8,996 males and 3,284 females ; showing tha'
increase of crime has been chiefly among men. 40,
whole increase of commitments has been 17' as
the increase in drunkenness and common drunkar
alone being 1,136 ; so that the increase in geoe,ro.
crimes apart from drunkenness has been bat
or about per cent. only. The three bigbe,
crimes show the following relative figures :---I‘ll/is
der, 28 persons committed in 1868, against 37;
1867 ; manslaughter, 16 in 1268, and 8 in 18601
rape, 31 in 1868, and 28 in 1867—making a t°/,
for these three crimes of 75 in 1868, and 67 in 186
The whole number committed to the State Pri'ro,
in 1868 was 180, against 128 last year ; the Otto
ber in that prison, October 1, was 558, all(1,-io
average number for the year 546, against 53'
1867. Except for drunkenness it is not 0040.0
that the commitments are really, though they g
apparently, in excess of former years, calculattio
the increase in population, the longer sentences, °
the fewer pardons.

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