Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-01-15
THE INTELLI6ENCER.


ole rely upen itas an organ which always echoes
TOR 1t never Iedds) public opinion, and, at all
events, gives early aud authentic intelligence. =
| whoever examines THc Times with a critical
eye VIII percci' G, at glhnce, that it is notion
account of the quantity Gifts intelligence that
| y Is every where read. FQr, in fact, what are
its comtentS9 Twelve or sixteen pages Of close
| ly printed matter-the Single paper being the
size OF the eight page toliO New York 4ribuHe
and the additional four OF eight pageS arising
IRON its single or double supplement In this
immense quantity of print, about i've 10 six
4 pnges may contain the average amount of aTti-
| ccs not actually paid for as advertisements
From two and half TO four columns of leading
articles; two or three police repor:s n couple
pfc1lumus ofreports on the vibrations of the
money market; half n column Of deaths, mar
'lageS, and births; four or five (particnlarly in
time uf war; of correspondence; a letter or two
on Il popular grievance; two to four columns of
suits tried In the several courts OF law; odd pa
ragraphs from country papers, put in, now and
then, To fill up the corners; an occasional dra-
matte or Operatic criticism; n review, rather
rarely, of some, few work; few itcns of royal
life, in addition to Inc cut.an,l.lry Court Cir
cular" sent out from Buckingham Palace OS.
horne, Windsor or Balmural; a glance at the
markets; these constitute the reading portion of
TIE Times, with the exception Of odds and ends
which Sometimes drop in. All the rest of the
paper is devoted To advertisements, which arc
sent in on two accounts /; first, because The
Times really IS the leading journal :" and, SEC
oudly, because the English people have got into
.he habit Of looking into that newspaper as one
which, daring to speak the truth in high places
contains as much aS they have time to read and
understand iD one day. Its Influence Is great
not only fiom its vast circulation bat from the
ccurracy of its intelligence. 1t may reason
lbSurdly, but its facts are generally correct
What is called its "Ci'y Article" too, has ever
necn distinguished by extreme npartiality-
Grzt M- MIS-
son, and nov under Nj. MUrier EvamS-whereas
the other newspapers in London have repeated
heeu suspected (Sone OF them accnsed) Of
.ending themselves to stock jubbing purposes.
" hiie the NorRiDa CAyOHictc, for example, was
The property of Sir John Easthope-him m,ylf -
StOck.hroker-its columns We're freely used. it
wnS said 10 operate, precisely as he wished TO
bvN or bear, ON the money market
Another cause of the popularity of Iae Times
lies in the circumstance that it trusts very little
TO principle aud almost invariably .f1kl0,rS pub
lie opinion. In 1890, when the accession of
George " brought Caroline of ofBrunswiek over
to England to assume her station and c,ailm her
rights as Queen. ii was reported that the pm
prtetors of TIE Times met 10 consider on which
side they should place that journal; and that, by
the smallest mnjority of votes, it was decided To
take part with ''iujurcd innocence" and QnCen
Caroline against her husband George Nv. The
popul1ce were also on the wOmans side, and
The Times became their Own organ 81 With
all the grcat reforms which have taken place in
the last thirty years. They have successfully
been conceded in consequence orpopGlar cainor,
aud when this was beginning to make itself
heard, Tie Times would appear as its mouth
piece, and eventually claim the merit Of haviag
championcd the successful cause. But SO long
As the demand for any one of these reforms was
made with bated breath, The Times would
either not notice, or would sueer at it. For
some time before the aniiC Corn Law League had
put forth its concentrated strength, TIE Times
affected TO rdicue its aims It's acts, and its lead
ers. When at last it had raised fund Of 500,
600 to carry on the contest, with pledge that
thrice the amount should be forthcoming il re-
qmred, the League was recognised by Tie
Times as "a great fact, I" and thenceiorth no
journal gave greater aid toward the carrying out
free trade 1t now opposes John Bright and
Parliamentary Reform, hut will support both, if
it sees that popular opinion backs them.
The discipline of The Times office is very great,
and has given unity to the whole paper which
greatly indivdualzes it, In 1880, it heartily
took up the question of Parliamentary Reform,
and powerfully defended the Grey Administra.
ton In July, 1924, Lord Grey quilted office,
and The Times (s,ve that it then commenced a
series of fierce attacks upon Lord Broughan)
continued the hearty supporter Of the liberal
principles upon which Lord MclhOurne's Cabinet
was governing the country. Sa'ideny, William
~ dismissed the Melbourne Cabinet The fact
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