Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-07-16
Correspondence of the n. Y. Herald.
THE LONDON TIMES.


Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.
THE LONDON TIMES.
LONDON, June Sit seems to be admit
ted that there is in England an inevitable
tendency towards social and political institu-
tions similar to those of America, and the
newspaper press is the great propelling pow
er. The middle and working classes are
rising in the scale of general intelligence,
while the privileged nobility are losing caste
and influence through the mental effemina'
cy of the younger members of their order.
At this time the power most felt, most
feared and most obeyed in England, is the
Press, at the head of which stands the Lon
don Times-an constitution" which wields
more influence over all Europe than any of
their crowned heads. The columns of the
Morning Times furnish topics of converse
ton for all society during the day; while all
admit its information is the earliest, COM
pletest and surest, gathered as it is from an
army of correspondents, scattered and sta
toned throughout the globe.
The London Times made its first appear
ance in the year 1888, as successor to the
Universal Register, paper which had is
sued from Printing House square almost from
time immemorial The Times is now in the
zenith of its power and prosperity, the ne
cessary result of those qualities which al
ways secure newspaper success in this as
we'll as in other countries-'tunfinching ad-
herence to its object, prodigal intellectual
ability and towering assurance, backed by
perfect organization of its printing estab-
lishment, and its world wide network of cor
respondence and reports"
lately had an opportunity of taking a
peep into the Times Office, and after traver,
sing several narrow, dark alleys, came sud-
denly upon small court in the centre of
"Printing House square," upon which fronts
the "Times Building"-a plain, unpretend-
ing and irregular structure, with blacken-
ed exterior in perfect keeping with its an
tiquity. One feels here as if he should tread
lightly. He is about entering the temple
whence issued the mighty power which car
ried the cause of Queen Caroline Amelia
Augusta, of Brunswick, against George W.;
which caused to be adopted the poor law
system; which levelled Lord Brougham !;
waged successful war on Ireland; adopted
the league against the Corn laws, and "when
Golden had begun to despair, announced
his triumph" Yes; the Times has written
its own history, recorded its own triumphs,
and erected monument as enduring as time
itself.
That unostentatious entrance on the right
leads to the quiet and plainly furnished sane
tum of Mr.. Mowbray Morris, the presiding
genius of this wonderful establishment, whom
I found to be an accomplished gentleman, Of
refined taste and polished manners, and re.
sembling good deal in personal appearance
the Hon. Caleb Cushing. Being furnished
with tickets of admission to the printing of.
fee, through the politeness of Mr.. Morris,
our party crossed again the small court and
entered the venerable pile from the diagonal
corner, where, we were taken charge of by
"Mr. johnson, printer of the Times," who
has been connected with the Office for thirty.
five years, and who made up the paper reg
ularly for upwards of twenty-five years.
We entered the Office twenty-five minutes
before II o'clock; and as our tickets named
thirty minutes past IL, We were politely shown
into the refreshment room to wait for five
minutes-such is the exactness with which
everything is DONE In this room I noticed
a large number of dusty, black looking vol
umes, which I ascertained to be Parliamen
tary debates, running back through lons
series of years. Here the reporters take re
freshments during the sittings Of Parliament
as they have no opportunity of taking thei
meals at home.
Under the kind guidance of Mr.. johnson
we proceeded first to the reporters ROOM
long, dark, comfortless looking hall, with
table running through the centre, surround
ed with heavy oakeu chairs, and covered will
a profusion of writing materials. From thi
we passed next into the compositors' room
where Parliamentary debates are put in type
and where forty-two compositors are employ
ed. Adjoining is the editorial, news and ad
vertiscment rooms, in which eighty-eigh
compositors are constantly engaged, recei
wing each forty cents per thousand ems 70
their labor. Next came the proof readers
room, where eight persons are employed ex
clusively on advertisements, and four princi
pal and six assistant readers on editorial an
other matter. These several rooms are al
on the same second floor, and are small ant
dark, with low ceilings, and devoid of al
the modern conveniences which mark ou
first class printing establishments. Speal
to the proprietors and call attention to thes
facts, and they will answer by pointing t
the antiquity of the building. The com
positors engaged on the advertisements ar
required to put up also the reading matte
for the second edition of the morning paper
The supplement, or advertisement sheet goe
to press at six o'clock on the evening pre-
vious to its issue.
The present edition of the London Times
numbering SO, 900 copies daily-nearly TWEEN
ty thousand less than the New York Herald
lis printed on six presses-three vertica
ones (Applegarth's patent) and three hori