Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-07-31


items which It Is unnecessary enuRoEatc, we have
weekly expense of nearly 25oi."
The duties ofsub-cditor morning paper com.
mence about the middle of the days al this time he
arranges Tor the printer the original communications
which have been laid before his superior, and which
nave obtained his APPRECIATION and reviscs any report
which may at that time have been sent for insertion.
lie then makes his selections from the provincial pa
pers which are sent TO the office; and when the eve
ming newspapers published, extracts from then,
also, and arranges his extracts for pubcation-oc-
casionally writing original paragraph sub
lect Of interest. From that time, until the paper is
sent to press, which may be ut one, two or four o.
clock In the morning, he is occupied in overlooking
the different reports and communications us thew ar
rive' and IN selecting from them such he thinks
worthy Of Insertions The editors duty begins
strictly speaking, with the publication of the evening
newspapers He has TO read their leading articles
ana to retute or support their arguments. He rc-
mans at his post until late hour, prepared TO write
comments on the foreign papers, they arrive, Ga
duty IN which lie generally assisted by his sub
editor) and to direct, in leading article, attention
TO any torc OF interest before the public. During
the sitting OF Parliament he is compelled frequently
TO remain Mt the Office until two three O'Clock in
the morning; and such is the energy with which the
pubic press IN the metropolis IS directed that II Is
rare to see leading article OF nearly column writ
ten NJ two clock III the Iaornng some subject
which had been discussed an hour two previously
IN the House of Commons"
"Ihe most extraordinary part of paper, the re
porting. remans 20 be noticed 1t has been stated
number from ten To tourteen most of the persons
engaged are gentlemen of education and Frequently
law students who make this profession easy mode
oi qualifying themselves for Of more fame, and
sometimes OF more profit During the Parliament
the slttings of which four O'Clock IN the
afternoon, the reporters of the leading papers attend
by turns succeeding the other, according to pre-
vous arrangement, each remaining IN the House for
half or three quarters of an hour and the reporters
| upon minor papers much longer. Ii the debate is
not heavy, the reporter III the, House of Commons,
when relieved. enters small room at the end OF the
lobby which has been appropriated exclusively to re-
porers, ani there arrauges his (Which SCI
dom taken IN short hand, except in particular ca
ses, short hand reporting, from the lmpossibtv of
finding room IN Il newspaper for all that a member
says, are rather Injurious than useful of the speech
cs delivered during his turn. lie then proceeds at
once to the Office OF the newspaper in which he is
engaged, and the editor attention directed by him
70 any thing Of commanding interest that has trans
pred His slips, they are written. are rven by
the printer 10 the compositors, whose number. du-
rng the sitting of Parliament, generally ncreascd
and reporter follows another, il is no, unusual
TOR debate, which has terminated only ut twelve
O'Clock at night, To be L mp in type and ready for
printing by o'clock in the morning. on the M gh,s
of prolonged debate, when the houses sit late, some
of the reporters may be compelled To 90 back and
take what Is called double turn. This however, on
newspapers which have full corps of reporters, does
not otlen happen; and ordinary occasions the ia
tgue to the reporters Is not excessive, but there
periods when II he, ONES oppressive and injurious 10
~
tiers, that It Is not at all unrcqucnt thing for
reporter to supply, from the OF three quarters
OF an hour To the paper upon which he IS ged,
from two to three columns of closely printed matter,
the extent Of iabour being OF accommodated
TO his own view OF the Importance interest of the
SUBJECT. Some persons have been known TO supply
more than column, and that financial cues
tons; IN which figures formed the bulk, entire from
the exercise ct memory, notes having been taken;
but these are rare instances.
When the copy for so al the articles from which
the compostors set their types called, is finished
the matter, which Is the collection of types SET is
placed in long brass gales from which it is taken BY
the printer, who ties it up in different columns. and
discharges gently upon large stone, until ali the
columns of the paper are brought together, when
chase form, whichis iron frame, is fitted over
them, and they are fastened III with wooden welg-
es IL Is then taken TO the press. rather machine
few presses are now used and the process Of ptn
ting commences"
In obtaining intelligence by express GONE of the
evening newspapers have within the last two or three
years shown almost incredible exertion. The Cour-
Ter and Sun have sometimes contained the speech of
the King OF France at the opening of tho Chamber
twenty-sIX or twenty hours after It had been
obtained by their agents in Paris. During the last
Invasion of Spain by the French, the Globe regular
~ employed courIers from Paris, many of which ar
rived within the twenty four hours: aud the same in
dustry was manifested IN getting up cOmmunica ions
from Liverpool, al time when the affairs Of South
America possessed interest for the English public
curious circumstances illustrative Of the rapidly
"ILn winch lnellgence Is circulated through the
country by means OF the evening newspa pers occur
red about four years ago. vessel arrived off Lv-
crpool with papers containing the account Of de-
cisve battle between the Royaliss and tho Patriots
in South America. AS soon as this vessel was sir
nailed, boat was sent of by the agent, and the pa
Pers we're landed and scnt by express to London,
where they arrived at half past one O'Clock on the
following day. When the person TO whom they had
been Forwarded in the city had mad. his own use Of
the contents in the money market, they were given
by way of favour, tothe spondent ofa evening
paper, the Globe we believe and at half past three
o'clock the owner Of them had copy of the paper in
the city containing translation from the papers which
be had supplied. In less than quarter Of an hour
tic person who had brought them from Liverpool to
London, was sent back 10 Liverpool with copy of
tie London paper, and on the following day at twelve
o'clock the agent in Liverpool had received It. As
the wind had III the meantime been unfavourablc for
the vessel which had arrived with the news from
South America to enter the port, and no cornmunica-
ton bad been permitted from the shore the first
knowledge which the inhabitants of Liverpool had Of