Star.
London, England, 1829-08-04 00:00:00

HOW TO MAKE A PAPER.

SHARE, in his amusing Magazine for the prz.sent
month, has raised the veil which shrouded the mysterious
body of Newspaper Editors ; and, in a sparkling article,
of which we are in no wise ashamed or afrai.l to give an
extract, has admirably depicted the substance and ma-
chinery of the diurnal press.

eggllK-Tie SANCTUM AT VIZ UT IN TNI MILANO.
The Editor sitting with his handsin his breeches pockets,
leaning !neck in his chair, and looking very earnestly
at the ceiling. In about ten minutes he gets up and
walks to the window, breathes hard upon the glass,
and flourishes a capital R with his finger in the wet
he has made. Looks at his watch, and rings the
Printer's bell. Eater Printer.
Roma—How much matter have you got. Mr. nee?
Mr. P. (after a panic )—Nrit more than two columns, Sir.
Hisiens—The devil!—flow many ads can you muster to-Jay?
Mr. P —Three adunins and a half, Sir, locks iiii4 quacks ; but
I must use " When men of education and professional skill," and
the " Real blessing to mothers."
Roma—Have you no standing matter?
Mr. P.—Not a line, Sir. I used the last of the standing matter
yesterday. the account of the American Sea serpent. which was left
out full two months ago, to nuke room for the Fire in Wer-aret •.
Rims (musing)—Very well : based your bell as WWI as I
•have any copy ready.
Mr: 11.--Tbe men are all standing still, Sir. just now. If you
have any matter which you intend to use a week hence, they may
as well be going on with it.
Rotten (rummage, among his papers).—Here —take this " Ho-
meiotic Suicide." It will do for any day when you want half a
column for the back page.
•t sr' - • • • • •
Sanwa. (Pea hi. hands into his breeches pockets again, and begins
to whistle a tune.)—This will not do--I must write something—but
what it is to be about, I know no more than the monument. (Nib.,
his ppo—aettles his inkstand—and grs his paper ready.) The Par-
liasnent is up—tbe law coons have adj..urned fur the lung vacation
—the Opera.house and the winter theatres Dave closed—and at the
Haymarket and English Opera-house, they have both brought cant
pieces which are having a run—nothing stirring—not even a case
of decent oppression in a night constable—or of tyranny is a
police magistrate. Whigs and relies have shaken hand., and
retitled delinquencies are too common to be either new or scalds.
loos. The Editor of a drily paper may be aptly compared to a
galley slave. When the winds roar, and the tempest is abroad.
and the waves swell, his bark moves along swiftly ; but when the
calm misses, and the sky is serene, and the breeze is hu4sed, and
the sea Is smooth, it is then be must ply the oar, and tug, and pull,
and toil to give the vessel motion—(Takes his pen and writes fit-
riciudy).—That will do for one of those short leaders about nothing
—which look very much as if they alluded to something that could
not be mentioned—(Heads).
" There are certain rumours afloat—upon a delicate subject
which has lately occasioned a great sensation in particular quirt:es.
We are in possession of facto connect-4 with this estraorditury
affair which we may perhaps teel ourselves at liberty to mention in
a fey:, days. Meanwhile, all we can say at present is, that dis-
closures MINT take place, however painful they may be tallow then
one distingoished individual. We shall only add, that the Duke of
Wellington left town .yesterday in his travelling chariot with four
bursts for Windsor, Ott: a private interview of nearly three hours
with an aterraious raasosatie • and that it Is reported his Grace
ordered summonses to be Issued for a Cabinet Council this day,
before his departure from London. We shall not lose sight of this
business."—((bags the Printer's bell—Mr. Pica etater..)—M he
this the Ant leader. and you may as well put it in double leads.
Mr. P.—Very well, Sir. There's a leg police case just come
in, of ; Baronet'. daughter taken up for shop-lifting, and an ac-
count of the berating of a gasometer, which killed 'kern men,
three boys, and as tad 11/0111411, who heed in a front garret Over
Use way.
fisteaa.—Use them both; the shop•liftieg under the head of
" merman mutton or *stare"—and the accident to the gam.
meter under that of " TatIAMIDOUS aartossoe!—Eirrese uvas tun!"

Well!—One leader only won't do : I must write something
else. No Paris Papers—no Dutch Mall—no Modes Mail—ao
German Mail—no Mail from Buenos Ayres—no New York Pa.
pas ! By the by, it will look like a piece of information to aa-
pounce that there is nothing—( Writes.)
" We kaVe lieklem known a day so barren of intelligence of
every description. There has not been a single arrival irons the
Continent, nor any ship, letters, or papers, from the other side of
the Atlantic. Whether this profound calm may be considered as
the harbinger of a coming storm we know not : but when we re-
member the ominous complesiou of the Weems last received from
the that of Europe. and the louring aspect of drain is general in
the Transatlantic Hemisphere, it is not unreasonable to conclude
that *or neat accounts from both quarters will be important. Oar
readers have not fagot the opinion. we expressed on Tuesday, and
the comprehensive view we took on Wednesday, of the whole of
our political relations. We are standing, as it were, epee the
crater of a volcano, which may break forth every moment. The
attitude of Russia is equivocal—the imanions of France are doubt-
ful—Austria still wears the mask (though we are not deceived by
the Peninsula betimes more and more embarrassing to
the groat Powen of Rurepe. if we torn our eyes towards the United
States of America, what do we beheld ? Alas ! this question needs
no answer from us. And if we look at the new republics of South
America, does not the same scene present itself? But we will not
pursue the painful theme. A few hours, In all probability, wig
put us in
.possessioo of facts that will more than justify all tier pre.
actions.'
• • • • •

Trim Rev. Ma. Fury--Are you the editor uf the
Itortos-1 11111.

Tat hay. Js. F.--The• I have called upon you, Sir, to re-
quest that you will contradict a most malicious and uttrounsle4 ra
port of the death tat my uncle, which appeared in your paper
yesterday.
Sorma--With great pleasure, if It be unfounded ; but I can
aware you there was nothing malicious in the statement. Who Is
your uncle?
Tue Hay. Fifa. F.—The Bishop of There is a letter
I receive! from him this morning, dated only yesterday ; and your
wzsays, be died suddenly at his Episcopal Palace last Saturday.
false reports are not only most distressing to the friends and
relations of an individual, but they are cruel disappointments to a
numerous class of your readers. I have met three Deans and one
Prebendary already, who have hurried up to town iu consequence
of the scandalous rumour.

Enron--1 ant redly very sorry ; hot the fact Is. the rumour did
not originate with tai : it was espied from soother paper. However.
[shall be most happy to give it a positive contradiction.
Tar Inn. Ma. 11—Tow may do so, as you see, by this letter,
with perfect conadence. I can partly guess bow the mistake ori-
ginated. The bebop of who is upon a vidt to my uncle,
and who is in his eightieth year. actually lies at the point of death.
His recovery is hopeless. 1 bad; bet the blunder is the more
awkward, because my and. has loos had the Frontlet, of being
uandated to the ere ofa—ma, if be outlived his friend.
Zama (writes) —" We cannot sulaciently reprobate the manner
In'whielkanny of our contemporaries give circulation to the most
unfounded reports. We, yesterday. incautiously copied feign
another parr.* statement of the pretende.l death of the Bishop of
We have the beet authority for awning that this paragraph
I. wholl "khan. foundation. • 'We have seen a letter from the
Right Rev/. notate, written tour days after the date ut his alleged
decease, and at which period be was in the enjoyment ot excellent
health. We are hippy in being thus enabled to dispel she gleam
which the reports of his Loulship's death must have occasioned,
whereon' talents, piety, moral worth, private virtue. and public
integrity are held doer. At Say time, the loss el such 8 man as
the Bkhop of would be severely felt; but at a moment like
this, when the best musts of the cbarch are in denser, It would
be a mashed calamity. In the words of Shalupeare we ate ready
to

He's a learned man. May he continue
Long in his country's favour, and de jostle*
For truth's sake, and his conscience ; that his boon,
When he ►as run his course, and sleep• in blessing•,
May have a tomb of orphan's tear wept on 'an !"
•• While, however, we ►eartiy rogratslate oar readers upon
this head, we deeply tern to add, that the life of the venerable
Bishop of --- is despaired of. He lies dangerously ill at t►e
Episcopal Palate oldie Bishop of --; and though he was alive
when the last accounts came away, the severe nature of his malady,
at his very advanced age (for ►e is between eighty and ninety),
forbids the most sanguine hope to calculate upon his emenery.—
He, too, is sae of*, pillars of the Church ; and whenever it shall
please Myna Peavmenca to take hi., t►is may be his epitaph :
•s Thh Bebop,
Than. from an bumble stock, undoubtedly
Was behien7d to torch hamar. From hie cradle •
He was *a scholar, and a ripe and good one ;
Eaceedlag wise, fair spoken. and persuading.
best wing,
He was meet princely.
And, to add pester beoeuri to his age
Than man could give him, he died, fearing Oed."
SISASSIPLI
Come. 4 shall d• pretty well fee leaders, after all, though *ere
it setbing in write *oat,