New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-12

cent comments Of The Tins upon tue s'a'e o.
regimen .al morals TIE editor OF that JontaN
might then have fought maUy dueis as ne P'ea'ea
with am number OF high-spinted ot1cer'' nad ne
not discomorted the first challenger BY referring
him 70 rle Illness solicitor. In agreement
with Major Powys stand the Earl Of Derby (sAe
Tory leader snd his colleague Lord Mi'mes'
bury. the former of whom, during the last session
of ParRsu ent, threatened to summon the editor
before the bar Of the House Of Lords. Inc
Bench Of Bishops, the Corporation Of LONDON
the red-tapists in their different departments
and many other sections OF the privileged classes,
too numerous to particularize' have segeralIy
suffered beneath the heavy artillery OF the lead
ing journal in manner that disposes them 10
welcome declaration from any quarter that The
Times has lost caste and is no longer recognized
as respectable organ of opinion.
But there is another side TO this affair; the lssi
official stamp returns announce the fact that the
circulation Of The Times is more than double the
aggregate circulation of the ten other daily news
papers Of the Metropolis, aud that in the present
year its progressive increase of circulation has
journalism; this, Of course, maintains its unri-
vailed prominence as an advertising medium,
and the proprietors declare that the material po-
sition of the concern was never so strong and en-
couraging. Ifithas grown in material prosperity
it has correspondingly progressed in general inau-
ence. Never were its columns so open as now to
the denouncers or sufferers from abuses of pub
lie or quasi-public chsrscter-never was its good
word so earnestly bespoken as a condition Of sue
cess by the promoters of public enterprises or
reforms-and to Msjor Powys's stigms of "disrep-
.'utableness, ittriumphantly opposes that same
sentlemans public official, aswell as private uno-
fieial communications soliciting its indispensable
cooperation. The decisive efficacy aud prompt
success of some Of its recent editorial attacks,
or appeals, constitute spectacle unique in jour-
nalisfc literature, and prophetic of the influence
frst-class journals are everywhere destinei to
WELD over an educated and intellectual public.
The appeal is an editorial for fund Of S5O,OOO
for surgical aid to the wounded at Scutsri; the
instantaneous response by the public, the iGme-
date dispatch of one of its own staff to the Bos-
phorus, charged with the application Of the fund.
and latter the frst pressing need was satisded)
ih successful demand for remodelng of the
army and medical staff, is only signal example
of the exercise in one direction Of power which
has been active in many other directions of public
life within the last two years.
What is the meaning of this loss of "reputa-
" ton" on the one hand, and increase of circuls-
ton, influence and popularity on the other In
truth, one phenomenon is explained BY the other;
the increasing hostility towards The Times on the
psrt of the privileged classes is due to the fact
that it has gradually taken up position unequivo-
cally hostile TO them and has constituted itself
toIeI ably regular and indisputably efficient organ
of Liberalism. To have won The London Times,
to have compelled it to elect between the service
of two masters is not the least of the recent vic
torous advances of Liberalism in Britain. In
such a situation there is no choice left; the
Democratic tendency inherent in the institution
of the daily journal ever impels it, when the
scales are nearly balanced, to incline towards the
side Of the Many against the Few. The leading
Journal is but the index of public Opini) which
has advanced and has dragged its organs along
with it. The middle class of Britain have recov-
cred from the panic into which they were thrown
six years ago by the two-headed Hydra of French
Socialism and hemo bred Chartism, and have
reg sined healthier and bOlder tone Of sentiment.
1t is this invisible force which has controlled the
course Of The Times, aud which is tho prime
cause of ts having become in the eyes of the
privileged classes "the most disreputable paper
in the Kingdom
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