New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-10

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cannot e,sily be filed. lie go~ipped snd trsldled.
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u,ssd them, bad BE- been removed. Bu. the Man.
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caly srorg, and were abe 20 beat down any
hostile movement BY the Licensed Nc.ualers AZ
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another newspaper may be .stab -ted ar the organ
Of tie csfs ni.nt,-e speculation which can ony enc
in DISAPPOINTMENT and loss Of money es the publican.
Of London are unable 70 'ufport TWO daily journals
fiber n, az d, a. Tee Sunday Iines. Era. ACC
Weekly Dnpatoh weekly papers are already on
'b.ir side be.des The three penny IoG-uals, 'te-s e
rot room for publicsn- Weekly.
THE DAILY NEWS one Of the most osteuta'iol.
failures in newspaper literature has ony lately got
ahead OF the fagrant difficulties in'o which pre-
sunp'uoUs d smsnssemeD, ever plunged al enter
prize. Charles Dickens after he vii 10 America
ard Italy, vas inoculsted 9Th tue idea hat The
Times ought 10 be and 70 be put Do <n, AMI
that he was the do Il. liz lsi5, when specuis
ton wac ruinousy rife il England, Dickens proposed
10 start a rev morning jourDe, to be called Ice
Daily Ness He had moneyed frends win greG' faith
in biz editorial cspsblltles particularly as be org
eiDa)y bad been esieemed good parliamentary re-
porter snd these raised q sum sufficient. Il was
thought, Dsbe the project succeed. Al that crisis
the Anti Corn Law League vas very eneri eucally
pressing the late SiF Robert Peel TO change the wnole
commercial policy Of The British Empire, By bre king
down the barrier Of Protection. Tue friends o: NJ
Dickens were chiefly among this class of polite 4ns
end 'udependsBt Of their own large pecuniary means
were supposed 10 have The power of devoting aft
Gent portion of the League fGnd 70 ssss, in estlb
lisbiIg such powerful organ as daily paper.
large corps reporters engaged at salare- much
greater than gentlemen Of that class had ever before
been PAID ano each gage rent, instead OF bsing for
twelve mon,bs as usual for tlr5e years certain.
Emil ept wTiters were also ret ned at unusually high
salaries large and reil- paid safl Of foreign core
tpopd. Dts was organized and attributed among the
leading cities of Europe and America-one was even
s.ni out to Calcutta, and another to Cairo. ar.
Dickens vas tie editor, Nth the moderate salary OF
fny guineas week ls,mewba; more than double
what is paid to the editor of The rimes aud train
of ass sraDts accom- sned hin. England sss filed
with the fame Of the coming journal, which, It Sas
boosted was to smash TIE Ii Les The first num-
Der appeared On The 2l, Jsnoary, 1916, end did not
smash anything bu, thu concern Itself. Even &c q
first number il was below mediocrity. Nor did i
improve as il went on Dickens threw into i be
travelling sketches the Pictures Of Italy, on even
tlese were coldly received. After some weeks o.
great al uoyance irritation and disgust, caused by
lis editorial fa0re,l Dickens withdrew He n)neyed
friends would gladly have done the same, but con-
tnued bound by the heavy and long engage nens
vii b bod been made In the end, they lost nearly
al that they had invested. The paper was then
placed under the busiDess management OF the elder
Mr.. Dixie, whose tact bad worked The Athenelm into
a good property, aud his notable remedy vas 10 re
duce the price from ten cents TO five Ai1er some
months Of trsl the price was raised TO SIX Gems a
copy This did not answer, enough the circulation
wa % 600 q Gay and the original price Of ten cent?
was rtsumed, Mr.. Dixie retiring into private LIE
The prniers bradbury 4 Evans hal sunk money
in the concern and now 10 keep talbot, mad u e1-
mend more From fret to last, in line years, about
900 600 has been spent in the effort TO essaolish
The Daily News At present, its circulation Just
Days expenses, which great as very high talent If
employed Oh IT, in every department. and tie foreign
correspondence is the best perhaps, in London. /;
had several very clever men among It's succe'sor
of edgs-Dickens, Grove, lone Of the best informed
politicians in Europe Thornton Hunt, author Of the
History of the Fourth Esate, aud John Forster, Of
The Examiner I. is the most democratic OF ali the
daily papers in London; the most consistently andra-
iionaly liberal in lie advocacy Of liberal opinions
The Daily Ness, in word, was the champion of
Progress until the recent desih OF Mr. Hunt the &C
complish.d editor. From come influence or other
this journal has suddenly become Mnserial-in other
words a thick aid thin advocate OF Lord AbeTdeens
foreign policy such ast ".
The BoRsIsG HERALD vas established seventy
two years ago, and has always occupied respects
bic position among The London newspapers, though
its circulation, at times has been very limited But
its length Of years had won il good advertising
come ctlon which kept it above water. 10 s2o not
more than 200 copies daily were sold. The trial OF
Queen Caroline, in which The Herald assaod the
LADY ard defended George ~, increased its sale to
1000. Another circumstance greatly improved It.
A Mr. John Wight, who had a strong fund of h1-
NOR, was sent one day 20 report case a. Bo"-st'
Police Office, and gave such an amusing account OF
some Of the proceedings there that he *as perna-
peDty appointed reporter OF The Bo5'st. casee-a
duty which he performed In each pleasant, witty
lively manner, that the public came 70 look for mis-
reports day after day, expecting something TO laugh
at. To say the truth, onehalf the reports we're
imaginative and much OF the remainder broad car
feature But they are popular, come thousand vol
uu.s Of them, in collected form, illustrated by
George CrIikshank were sold and, in twelve
months they treb.d the circulation. Soon after on
quarrel between the proprietors, NJ. Ih1ates who
held most shares, and managed the concern, deter
mined to annoy his partners by eIpendng The prohs
Of the paper upon itself. The result wa vast in
provement in tie every department, which for q brief
period, peared TO threaten The Times i'sef. Ba.
The Herald, at that time piquing itself upon political