Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-01
The London Tt1nes-Tts PrOmOter-Itl


Tn0 AOn0O2 AlAAD0-El8 EE0AlOlSE-1ND
Editor.
The London correspondent of the Bos-
ton Advertiser dishes up the following:
Mr.. Golden, in his celebrated quarrel
with the Times, published the name of the
editor of that paper far and wide, and
Mr. Delane has since appeared to like the
distinction, and has lost no opportunity
of publishing it himself. 1t is not SO long
since that the names of our leading jour-
nalists were sacred memories, known only
to the initiated, and it is almost q new
sensation to hear people in the railway
trains and omnibuses asking one another
if they have heard of the violent dispute
between Mr.. Delane, the editor of the
Times, and Mr.. Walter, the chief proprie-
tor. The Times, suffers by this famiriari-
ty. The superstition which has attached
to it, through which people have really
seemed to think the articles were written
by the gods, is dispelled by pulling aside
Of the curtain, and the paper is cessing to
be the formidable power it once unques-
tioRably was.
But the quarrel. OF this there are
many accounts, the most popular being
that it rose from the disapprobRtion of Mr..
Walter, who is aiming at peerage, with
Mr.. Delane for sneering at Earl Russell
and endeavoring to set him aside for Mr..
Dslane's particular friend, with whom he
may be seen arm in arm very frequently
at Pail Hall,-Earl Granville. This YER
sion goes on to say that Mr.. Mowbray
Morris, the manager, and Mr.. Dasent are
also in the proprietorial black books, and
that the three will resign unless they can
induce. the other partners in the paper to
take up their defense The gossip is very
definite, you see and causes considerable
satisfaction to journalists, who, like other
professional men, are always intensely in
terested in scandal about brother crafts
man but love of truth obliges me to
say that the whole narrative may ultima
tely prove q myth. Mr.. Delane only
Yesterday professed TO be amused BY il;
tleman who Is supposed 70 pe oiPIo1,-.,s -.
ing for peerage. However, one mus
not expect literary men to let go 30 prselII
ous a mersel directly. Like some ~
vour COED people, who won't take tne
denisls of any Of the eEnglshmen sale .
have obtained Gllotments in the OonlSo
crate Ioan-so many of my friends shake
thar heads and adhere TO it that reyolu
tion has broken out IN the olnee OA III
Times, and that we are destined to VIII
ness delicious disputes, with plenty Q
n~ersonalities ~ and abundance Of secrets. a
to the poerage part Of the business, ma!
add. that Mf. Walter has as much chane
: of Getting distinction Of that kind fr0I
tbe present Premier IS of obtaining II
. oommand-in-chief of the American tore'
frorn President johnson, Earl kussei
: unlike Lord Palmerston, keeps his nose
the air. 80 far as the press is concerned
snd 7 really believe would not shake han'
T With a iournrlists from the selfish motiV
q 70 save his premiership. He has had
!, iations with the press-the DG'ty ne
n n for instance,-but he has never sought
2i b;ssit. and has been. opposed in mucn
I his policy by the particular paper VIM
'd ba most respects. To him the proprlet
q Of Of the Times would be as a perfect stra
= Ger and the ambition Of the aspiring g
ne Ieman is more likely to BE- grAtih
y through tory influences, If gratited at
:, o. than through those OfAny of the house
Of Bedford. aFE.aaE- 2 -
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