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

" alter Savage LApdor bas long been ifs racieet VOL
unieer contributor John Forster lsuthor Of the Life
OF goldsmith is admirable critic-~ith the draw.
back Of never herg able TO any weakness in any
thing done or said by Mscreacy and Bal~er. The
Examiner vas founded in 1903, by Leigh Hunt and
his brother, under whom Keats, Shelley, Hayden,
Hsnlit,. and many other sble ~rers contributed {,
il. II passed directly from the Hunts ~ Mr.. Fon-
hlsrque ~hoss qsio; but severe sarcssu On al that
was Tory sscn-Iaade Itself felt. collection OF hi'
articles ID the passing politics OF the day "a. pub
hshed ih thr,e volumes, England unoer Seven
Adm invrsfions, >" and had large sale.
The ProrrEs PAPER can only be described as
recent and weak ADDITION to the cheap weekles IL
is Chsrst in its principles, and "a edited by Ernest
Jones.
The SPEcrsroR contsins more original matter,
perhaps than any other newspaper in London and Is
edited with as much care as ability. IL contains
history Of the week, cleverly dieested and ably com
uentec upon TIE common sense which runs through
all its articles makes feature which ether papers
would DO well 10 imitafe. IL has many writers, bur
the controlling mind is that of Mr.. Rlntoul, who
s,al ted il lse7 when he seeded from the Atlas OF
which be had been the original editor. lis circda-
lation like that of most OF the dearer Journals, has
fallen of since si Its advertisements are nu rer-
Gus and the concern pays we'll It's literary criticism
s snslytc and impartial Its politics are very liberal
In the summer of 1896, Mr.. Charles Whiting es'
tablished The ATLAS A new and striking feature Is
desirable in a new nal,that of the Atlas WA. it
being printed on a shee: of paper double the size OF
that then used by the Times. When the leading
journal" year, later, actually doubled its
elect TO give eight folio pages instead OF four,
the Atlas issued a sheet double the size OF
that double Times. A circulation of 5 900 weekly,
at rssrly double the price of the other papers,
speedily gave The Atlas very good and safe stand'
ing. But the retirement, of Mr. Rlntou, sccompa'
MED by the best of the contributors, whom he em-
plo,ed on The SPECTATOR weakened it much.
want Of decision in politics WAS also against 1t. On
literature the drama music and the fine arts, it was
powerful apd lust Mr.. Robert Bell now editing
the Brtish Poets had succeeded Dir. Rintoul aud
kept The Atlas aHost for several year,. Alter he le
H. there was a succession OF conductors bad
and indifferent. Nothing is thought of il now-ex-
cept that its Letters from Paris by Mrs. Colmarsh,
ar. eagerly locked for and largely copied by other
editors.
The Pass, a saucy aud sarcastic paper, COM
menced in 1852 to defend the Derby Dsraei party,
ba, the fau, Of being too well written, and so is,
than might have been expected from the wealth of its
party and the gres, cleverness of s articles. Some
of III, Sc, il is said, from Disraeil pen
The LEADER which. as ultra Liberal, Is the anflP'
odes ef The Press, has been longer established
but With even less success. MIR q. Lewe'' Mr.
Witty, Thornton Hunt and others have written tor
it, but i, appears, like Falstaf, to have fatal aac-
"nty in sinking.
TBE BRIrASSIA, for long time one OF the most
spirited of the Conservative papers, IA now IN all re-
spects ejaculation, character and ability the ps'e
shadow of Its former self" Established about six
teen ,esrs ago by the late Mr.. d. l. Coulton' me
whose purse wss so constantly and kindly opened TO
help poor Hay don its political department vas IN
trusted to the Rev. DR.. Croy, brilliant declamao-
~ writer who formerly believed thai strong Tory
em was the sheetanohor Of the Empire that " the
King could do DO wrong, ana that the separation
Of Church and State would annihllate England AZ
once and forever There were hosts Of well neanog
Englsbmen who believed as Croy did, aud Inc
Britannia obtained large eircuation-as large az
one time as GOO week Mr.. Coultcn himself wrote
most of the reviews Of books, which we're ably and
fairly done. Having realized competence, he sold
the paper. The purchasers thought that RIO a week
WAS too much TO pay DR.. Croly for leaders, and
offered him half lie declined, and they tried to get
on without him. 10 two months they were ~'sns
moieiy of their subscribers aud Croly offended at
their uDderv auing him, refused 10 resume hs posi-
ton on any terms. The paper IA still further declin'
ing, and has wholly lost the influence 1t once pos
sessed.
THE JoHs BULL " went up ike a rocket, and came
" down ike its stick" In 1920, when Queen Caro-
line, wife of George " had returned 10 England on
the Accession of her husband 1e Torie started this
paper intrus,ing It's editorship TO Theodore Hook,
then in the flush o. manhood and the prodigalty OF
wit ard talent The most INSCRIPTIONS attacks we're
made in IT, week after week, ON the Queen, her
friends, and her pariisans. They retored by suits at
law for libels. The ostensble propretors declared
themselves martyrs TO the good cause OF morality
and the Tory arisocracy subscribed largely to keep
their heads above water. Soon after the Queen died
but John Bull had got notoriety and hourshed. At
one time il sold IL COO week. Hook became indo
lent and would not, and" usec up by high living
could not write as well as in his earlier days. The
circulation dropped down to 5000 which st yielded
large profits but Hooks death injured the paper ire
paraby. In lsi4 sold within a fraction of $500,
ard now is down 10 lees than half that number. lts
advertisements however, are considerable.
The WEEKLY News ASD CHRosicLE is the very
Cerberus Of the London press, being three single
gentlemen rolled into one" 1t includes The News,
commenced by the Hunts in 1905, and, at one time,
very luci stive paper secondly The Weekly Chroni-
Gle, commenced by Mr. Holt in 1886, and sold, in
ls4o, to Mr.. Ward, for 1000 having then crcu-
la,ion Of over 10000 thirdly, Douglas Jerrolds
Newspaper, which never yielded anything like pro-
it, A. present, The Weekly News Is little more than
collection Of brief paragraphs, with some columns
Of heavy leaders 1t has devoted much 81 its space,
hoxeyer 10 reports Of Temparance meeiil 3 and lee