Newbern weekly progress., 1860-12-25
The Advertising Rooms of the Lon
don Tines-EH OyS the Patrons of the
PaDer are Received.

A correspondent has the following in reia-
ton to advertising rooms:
Turn to the counter; there is wide space
beyond, and many clerks, writing always VIII
ting. Four favored, or untayored ones-We
know not how to deem it-slt on thrones be-
hind the counter, to take the tribute OF the adj
yertising suppliants these four may
choose our oracle and judge, but 1t matters lit
tie whom we take.
How silent is the room; scarce any sound
but the clink of money and the low uttered
fats of these throned arbiters of advertisers
fates OF no avail remonstrance here; the ad-
yertisement has hardly reached their hands
scarcely has time enough elapsed to skim 1t
over before the quiet utterance OF their Judg-
ment: if one should venture to demonstrate at
the charge, his lines are given back, and the
next conner served no words-they have no
time for words the first decision IS the final
one: we mean. of course, in the buster portion
of the day-from eleven till two. And how
use doth breed habit in a man. these pc
remptorv petty officers of the Times rarely or
never err seldom will the printed lines fail to
bear out their charge; their practiced eye faith
oms the mysteries of every conceivable chiro-
graphy. and like seers of the mighty press, a
field of the type rushes black on their sight,
soon As their wild orb rests upon the scrawl.
And how the piles of advertisements grow
bV their side. As they take them, they give a
printed acknowledgement to the advertiser, and
he then beholds his composition, impaled with
others which have preceded, upon wire. AS
we look into the business of this office, we Won
der where it is to end Already i'll the London
season. when the town is full, the Times issues,
not unfrequently, ten pages OF closely printed
advertisements, of six columns each, and each
column a long one Yet there are always
enough on hand for several days to come; an
advertiser cannot expect to see his lines III print
for three days. and sometimes week from the
| oeriod that he gives it in. We ask ourselves
Why people will consent to wait so long; why
pamper still this overgrown favorlte OF fortune
paving duties to the government as 1t does, to1
| advertisements and stamps and paper, alone
amounting to $500, 900 annually, besides giving
a livelihood to so many, many families?
Old Mr.. Walter took the tide in his affairs
indeed, and it led on to fortune; his doubtful
venture of not eighty years ago, has grown IN
to a British institution, and the Times seems
fixed upon a rock, firm as adamant. 1t IS the
fashion, not to know it argues ones sell un
known" "-n Britain, if the people will give the
preference to the Times and read its pages, ever
if costs self-dsnial in other literary walks we
must not wonder at the advertisers choice ane
patience Other journals address, particular
professions, trades, sects, or castles, ana theJ
who speak to such alone use them Tor theL
purposes. but the Times caters for Englano
collectively; for high and low, rich and poor
for the tradeaman and the noble; the mechah
ic. the.farmer, the merchant, and the manu1ac
turer. alike and he who would fish III this ire
mendous sea, does we'll to hang his bait on ont
| of the innumerahle hooks which dangle IRON
the pole in Printing House Square