New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-19

The Dispatch being Sunday paper va
fully reported, up TO the time Of going to
press and especially the police reports, ~hi,h are
siDsulsrly interesting to su cockney rosders- In
word, The Dispatch wa made an acceptable pager
10 bo-e who drksd the violence Of lis political
and the sneers Of il. anti religious articss lp>ric-
slarly was mimic Al 10 The Times for its change OF
politics in 1884, but the leading journal Of Europe
bad i;s full revenge for when, by right OF seniority,
Alderman Hsrmer was next IN rotation Tor election
ss Lord Mayor Of London, The Ii nes opened ia
batteries upon him. connected with Ihs Dispatch,
which II characterized Journal 81 war WITH good
government, morality. and religion, and rasfd sucn
excitement against him, that the citizens OF Lon
don pared him by, and refused to cleo, him. Since
the death of Mr. Williams. the letters Of Publ
cola are continued by W. j. Fox, formerly
Unitarian pr, acher, and Parliamentary repre-
sensitive for the borough Of Oldham. The oelec-
tionsble tone of the paper Ia religious points hss
been modified, and it IL believed that this
has rendered il unpopular with the work
ing casses-is principal readers - who hsd
strong preference for highly-spiced art-
cl,s. The Dispatch contains al immense quantity
OF reading matter, has regular Paris correspond
ence, and is crowded with advertisements, for which
il cha ges at higher rate than any other weekly pa
per- The Illustrated LONDON News excepted. Before
the competition from the haprice papers IT'S annual
profits were not less than 10 600 year. Even now
with the circulation diminished but the advertise
mens much increased,l il must yield net income OF
over : 600 per 1t is such large paper that
each single number of it weighs thrse ounses and
ihree.qusr.er. English paper is sisei which enables
i, TO bear ink without blotting but increases the
weight.
Recently, the principal property in the Weekly
Dispatch has been purchased by Mr. Chaplin, who
by marriage with Mis- Hosmer, daughter and heir
ess of the late proprietor already was owner of one
halfofii.
BELLS WEEKIY MEssESGER is "a much an agr-
cultural IS political paper-ts Monday edition con-
tanning copous market reports Itis a good general
Journal. without any very marked politics though IT
leans to Protection. Its literary reviews are Impair
al and able and its weekly review of The Politics
" of Europe most careiely compiled. Its c'rculs-
ton which continues large s chiefly in the country
THr SUNDAY TINES has also suffered severely from
the competition with the cheaper papers. Ii was
con menced, over 80 years ago, by Mr.. DANIEL Whtue
Harvey for many years popular aud eloquent men,
Der of Parliament and nov at the head OF tue foh;e
of the City of London. Much money Wa jidclousy
expended upon il, and extensive circulation ana
large supply Of advertisements rewarded the outlay
After Mr.. Harvey disposed Of the copy right 10y
which he cleared SIS 900 the paper passed troughs
variety Of hands, and eventually became the property
OF John Kemble Chapman, lone of the hemoie
family married to Ellen Tree sister and MIR Levy
a Jewish capitalist This wa, in 1895, aad the psper
has since been well conducted. Mr.. j. a. ST. John,
the Egyptian traveller, has long written the political
articles and the letter signed Sidney Brooke, a
weak imitation of " Publicols' and LittloJ
and tie theatrical articles are written by Stirring
Coyne. the dramatist. The Sunday Times is also
sort of authority sporting matters. In the sunday
edition il gives late news, lchehy taken
from the Saturdays evening papers, ana
The latest police reports. In politics It very eecen
trc going TO great lengths for liberty OF opimoa'
and also coniendng that the Roman Catholics shouia
be KEEP, down and that Cardinal Wiseman should Do
sent 10 solitary lat the least in the Loi'
lards Tower Az il largely crculates In the metro
potan public houses The Sunday Ii mes takes some
interest in all proceedings connected with the IL
c.n.ed vietasnsn and their interests
The Sunday Times is understood to have lately
fal en- into new propretorship. TIE frs. editorial
eneagemen was that of Louis Kossuth, the Hung mi
an ex Governor 10 write leading articles the pass
ing political events of the day
The OBSERVER, which, for long time, by supply
ing Saturdays very fully, was sort OF Sunday
morning paper, has crept up into respectable circu
lation No one attaches the slightest importance to
any of its original articles but IT long has had inor-
nation as TO new appointments, changes dismIssals
and deaihsl from the different Government offices,
and its paragraphs detailing this news crafty cur-
osity, ard are generally correct. Its original
writing is the merest and weakest twaddle
and ts dramatic critiques in which, If there was
an opinen in one sentence II vas cautiously quail
fed in another, were cleverly buriesqued by
Poole, in bis extracts from the Little Pedlingfon
Newspaper. The Observer is the property OF Mr..
William Clement, who also owns Bells Life ia Lon
don J and at one time had very great circulation
The late Mr.. Clement did two or three bold things,
which helped his paper forward. In 1920, when
Arthur ThstewOod and other members of the Cato
e. conspiracy were tried, for high treason, in Lon
don, the presiding Judge soemnly prohibited the
publication Of any part Of the evidence In any one
Of the five or six separate trials, until the whole lad
been terminated. Clement was the only newspaper
proprietor who dissbey ed the order lie ~as brought
into Court, and fined $500, which he paid very vii.
lncly-haviDg sold 200 900 papers extra, which, OF
itself was great advertisement for his journal, and
probably clearing 81 600 over aud shove the amount
of the fine -Four years later hen like prohibition
wa made at the trial of John Thurte, for the muir
der of William Weare, The Observer again was
guilty Of q similar " contempt Of Court, and LOO
ine was enforced. For years past The Observer has
been defcien, in enterprise and spirit II is paper OF
capacous sze but singularly devoid Of anything like
intellect
The EcoyoxIsr, commenced during the Anti Corn
LAW excitement, eleven years ago, hss good circu-