The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-10


printers, correspondents, Sc; and "to render the
channels of intelligence proof against continued
attempts at bribery, in one form or another, the
most liberal scale of payment is required"
In reply to this uncaled for and gross attack
by the Times, the Chronicle in an easy and dig
nified manner, belabors the former paper, and
handles it very severely. In regard to the estl'
mated cost of the Times, it says that that jour
nal attributes to other papers an expense with
which the Times alone is encountered. The
stamp tax for the Times, ID penny hall
penny; whereas, the tax on the Chronicle
is but one penny-lhe tax on the Times being
greater, because it publishes supplement. In
regard to the observations ofthe Times, on the inn
portance of maintaining high standard of remu-
neraton for its editors, &c. the Chronicle Is very
caustc, and cites the Times as an instance that
even the amplest funds cannot purchase tor a
journal political character" and charges that
that paper " has displayed at different times va
ried and striking ability, without attaining the
least reputation for consistency or stability of
principle"
The Ne,ps administers to the Times severe
but well merited chastisement. In regard to the
figures it put forth in regard to the cost Of the
paper, the Ne,Ds remarks:
What monstrous duplicity Is this Why is no men
ton made of the year received for the adver
tsements for the sake of which the machinery is
needless surpusage? The Times Is beyond all shame
and repeats its facts and figures if their fasehood
had mot been sHSy was NOT h ~
paper for each copy of this days publication i two
pence-of the stamp three halfpence Even this simple
is not true Threepence hapenny not the
of paper and stamp but of papers and stamps and
why does the Times give two papers and two stamps
it's pdvsrtssments The cost however Of these sdver-
sements is thus to be bazonsd abroad and not hint
given Of their Proht have mad the ms
reader that to the 3Sths Of profit on each copy
he should add about ego for the forgotten profit
the wholethough the Times shrewd in its own narrow
kind has taken care have fewer advertisements than
usual in "this days paper Three hundred and twen
to pounds Is tosraby large daily itemEwhSse ws'snt
Of the account but we have thought 1t right to PICK
this again. for the comforting OF our readers against
that painful and importunae cry OF the only
three-eighths Of a penny
AS far as the standard of remuneration goes,
the Ne,cs says that the result of the Times argu-
| ment is, that "bribe high enough, and you may
bride the Times ITSELF In this the Ne,cs was
not far from the mark Again, it says that the
gentlemen employed on the Nsps are as well,
and better paid than those on the Times, and
| challenges the latter to the proof. Between the
Chronicle and the Ne,vs, the Times was, at the
last accounts, in what, on this side of the Allan
| tic, is termed "fx"-one from which il cannot
extricate itself.
Thus, then, our readers will perceive the re-
voution in newspaper literature, which had Its
| origin in New York, in the establishment Of the
Ney York Herald, is in progress in England,
and is destined to work as great a change in
that country as it did here.