New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-12

| QuintupIe Public Execution i'm London
From Our Special Correspondent.
LONDON Feb. 20, 1904
| l have nothing of striking aud sensational
character TO communicate to you this weokno luckily
acquired items Of Rebel projects and intentions, such ~
have lent Interest TO my recent letters TO be impaired
IN the readers Of THb TRIBUNE in advance Of their crop
ming out into startling fact. This an SOFT! for, on
my own account as well yonrs for begin roy weekly
task on On exceedingly cold day and tie choncng Of
two or three good, pping.hot items newly snotched
from the Anglo Rebel oven in which 30 many Of thea
have incubated might help to warm me, which the
biuminous coal fire by which write fails 10 do But
for the present responsibility think would follow
the example OF party OF lively Cockneys. who have just
now passed my window intent the parks and ssaJ'
ing. All OF idle London win be doing the same, II The
frost continues-except that portion which will be
driven 10 the verge of straightforward sometimes
pushed over Skating and other ice pastInes are,
In this metropolis, such very prccsriols indn.
gences that Cockneys are prone to go WIN Iusu
when the chance occurs You might have seen thou
sands OF them only the other day dspOrting thr1sees
on brittle ice Iudciousy watched over by "hdnaue
Society" men with belts, ropes and ladders gnie
convenient for the inevitable accidents TENS ana no.
baths being closa at hand, also DIR. Marshall Han
Directions for Vie recovery Of persous apparently
drowned They give you If patient, hot brandy ana
water q, such places and | have heard u seriousy
maintained by a frosty-faoc Humane Society man. 10
St james Park that the public sometimes risks dues
ing in order TO obtain this Indulgence. " biess your
art Sir deposed he heres scedy sEes a. !. I hp
in five times haready this Winter-tree in this blessed
Park got him out twice myself, did and mind yol
there come time whom shaE! get him out ana SO
told hml"
Taking about ST. James, Park that unlucky National
Shall Committee having apparently got through
It's bunglng, proposes 10 ornament the iocshy IN iues
ton In huge temple or canopy enshrining statle
Of The poet to BE- surrounded by c0onnades adorned Ih
-culptnred illustrations Of subjects from his plays Inc
suggestion is not at al bad one ana has pee
with general favor. The tercentenaTy brthday Wilde
celebrated by dramatic and other entertainments mere
and the country and promises 70 prove mreh Ieas
Of failure than folks had anticipated me oIit UNI
Guilty now is pecuniary which. think VIII ne sot
over for the British public Is disposed 10 De good
natured and to overlook past shortcomings or the sake
Of the object. But. Hepworth DIXON and Co. haye
established absurd precedens against themselves Which
Tiae. owned BY the pfpretors OF The 1,fra.ed Lon
don Nos published clever carcature IN ue shape OF
design for Shakespeare memorial. supposed TO have
been suggested by the editor Of The AaeHsam. IL
represents Dixon himself, holding IN one hand
,ilc gtatuotte OF Shakespeare while, with the other
he caresses a hog. whose collar Is inscribed
the word Bacon in aliusion 10 one OF his own inter-
ary lahors dog too Is also depicted looking up ad-
mfringiy at his chief-said animal being intended to
compliment the contributor TO IA, Zhen~nn4 VINO was
ing his name as member of the Shakespeare Committee,
after he had abused the Story OF Elizabeth IN that
Journal. told that this cut declined by F-a
Nv hch Is surely named the IgcEs lnoeado prln.
cple from the entire absence OF thing funny Ia III
on the ground Of 1t being too personal Comic editors
always afraid OF attacking literary men for al OBJ
yiuus reason. But the editor OF The Illustrated Times
has taken prominent part against The Afh,asHT.
clique and the wood-cut was too tempting missile tJ
fling at II 20 be rejected
IRON one TINS 10 another-;(diiR dscsRsKs dre,ai.
The campaign against Jupiter Jesmes Deane. Esquire
VI Printing House Square and all his works has begun
IN lively manner 7hs Star volunteering three refresh
ing columns on THE Traditional Policy Of TIE Tir.ss
instencing the epochs Of 1921. 1885, and 1863 isTa
tons. Tho article ought 20, and / hope will, be re-
printed in the United States II conyct the big bully
OF journalism on every the opponent of progress
and devils advocate In general until said devil is
como, when It turns round and kicks him. To New
Yorker the article Is rrvsstby suggestive OF parallel
between It's subject and his own. old, laAuigr Herald
published attthc Of Nassau aud Fulton streets
Here 10 extract by way OF sample. Just read ~ T.
Herald instead Of Ir>s and see how de1cousiy every
word will apply;
''The Tim,s has represented throughout the whole
Of its history al that arrogant and cowardy
all that bindy rash and stupidity reactionary, in
the political sense and heart Of the English people.
II appealed to the selfish instincts the ignOblc prcju
dees the vulgar passions the vulgar fears which belong
In abundance to every people la every age simple men
wonder why il succeeded. forgetting the old story OF
the qaack who accounted for his golden fortunes by
unding questoner Of the countless fools ard tho very
few rational beings who every day had TO pass his door
and his adv crtisemens. Every great reform has
in the beginning been Systematically denounced and
ducel by The Iin,, Every great reform has " necos
81, had for is opponents IN the begnns inc great
Every Of these people found his most selfish prE
dice his most stupid dstrust faithfully represented and
carefully foslerod in The Times man must of course
ceae 10 be nrendced and stupid whom he ceased 10 ed
miro the Publication which encouraged his Prejudice
and ftored his stupidity. Therefore fhe TINS las
ALWAYS confidently reokoned large number ot
constant and devoted readers who worship them |
selves in adoring their iayorite oracle. A history
Of me Tunes faithfully and Systematically traced our
would therefore, show that every great reform
movement was bitterly coarsely denounced and slan'
dercd by that paper, until, Of It's own sheer netSe
strength the reform had conquered the country and be-
come the pot and fashion OF tho majority aud thon IL
soon enjoyed the sla, ish adulaon vi TIE Tunes while
the measure OF progress came IN for all the 1870
cious ytuperaton which had so lately been shOwerod
upon ts predecessor If IL be asked why the public do
not discover all this and despise The Times accordingly
IL may be answered first that great part OF the pub
lie have already discovered IT, and do desplse the jour
nal they have found out and that as 10 another portion
of the public we must remember how hard IL 10 bru5
some 81 acknowledge that they were ever mistaken
in Judgment conduct. fon cannot more seriously
offend converted Proectioniss than By limiting
doub 10 whether they were always frcetradeTs. 20
OF The Times and its readers. People prefer to forget
that they once abhorrod roform detosed ireetrade,
and thought all Disorders ought 10 DO hanged aud,
choosing to forget these little errors OF their own, they
cannot conveniently remember thoin against their Ia
yorite journal"
The attack viii be followed MP steadily ard per-
sistently, in various ways. over month ego an
nonnced 10 You the intention OF the LbeTa party TO
start daily paper an entirely novel plan aim;
ing at eliminating that f2l5 900 per annum received
by TIE Times for ersemenls by srording cheaper
medium for publicity, putting the price NJ Just
half that paid to tho leading journal Then 1t was
proposed that the paper should be given away
rather a Wild idaa, [ think, for anything
worth having is worth paying for, and II there
be nation intensely conscious Of this fact than
others it is tho Engsh Now the prioo suggested y
aalfpenny--ony centthe same as was advised by
the originator Of tho cheap daily press Dr. sheppard
when he presented himself in the office Of IAt spI q
the Times in New.York in $780, and got laughed at for
lie atna relat ali ia Mr.