The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-03-14
Am Old Newspaper.

The New York Netcs describes a copy, which it
has, Of the "MCrcNrias D0mesttcRS," or "News
both from City and Country" republshcd by au-
thsrity, to "prevent false reports and printed
In London by Benjamin Harris, sat the Stationer's
Armes in the Piazza, under the Royal Exchange in
Corn Hill, 1879" This, the earliest real newspa.
Per representative of the Serenteeth Century, IL
printed on wretched "dirty-white" paper, such
n . street ballad of modern days would be
ashamed to see used in its service. Two short
shabby pages suffice to meet at once the ''news
requirements Of the first British newspaper, and
convey the editorial talents of the leading journal
the year 1879. Thus runs the first and. evident
y the most important article in the Mercurius:
London, Decemb. Is.
Several false and ridiculous Reports being spread
abroad concerning Madam Eln Ggyn as 70 her
death, or absence from her house, we are assured
that that there is no ground for such Report TIE
said Madam Ellin 6wyn being now at her IN house
in health, and has not been absent from it.
Here Is another most delectable piece of edito-
rial intelligence from the same number. 1t shows
that news was then slow to come from the ..nex
parish as now from the '.next nation"
The last Gazette tells US nothing from Edinburgh:
70 that you will not wonder that We have nothing
from thence.
After this news comes intelligence of "Mr. Dry.
den, the great Poet" who fgures la "Mercuriusr
as bandsged up from the effects of severe "troun
cing,' administered to the gentle bard nv sor,o
.'outraged ladies', as the result of .'paeisb var
geance," upon his illustrious "pa:e." The Thun.
derer merely records the event. The police Offices
did not afford to the Londoner the medium of &C m.
plant or the modicum of protection which mod
ems delight to GEEK within the "magister;al pre.
cincts."
The following is a selection from the advertise.
nents:
Lost, Saturday MS ht last in the Mail bet tween
enpsd . s5ee Ws sha a. small faow Col
her Body faliow color. her Head and Neck white,
except her lett Ear and left Eye, which were the
Colour of her Body, her Belly and L. gs white, her
Stearn very small. and half white small streak
d white towards tn top of her left bullock Who.
ever shall bring this Bitch to the Porter at 1t.
Jamess, or give Notice TO him where she is, shall
nave Q dutny Reward. and If any Person have
bought her, they shall have their money again
The News adds that the quotations which have
thus served as samples have very nearly Exhausted
the whole of the. contents of the publication. The
"Aerenr1us" contains, altogether, thirteen arti,
eles Of the class We have quoted, and nine adver.
tisemests, not 90 large, any of them, as the one
extracted above. The bulk of composition" i.
compressed In two pages, covering less than one.
half the surface of New York Ledger page aud
divided into two columns, each giving to eh whole
paper one hundred and eighty lines of printed
matter, or less than one column of an ayeraee
London Times, which Tins usually numbers TWEEN.
~ Thousand lines In ninety six columns having
sixteen pages OF six columns each. The number
OF advertisements in late issue of the London
Times fs about enc thousand eight hundred. or AZ
many In one morning as would "supply" the Nor
sxrius" for five years.