The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-21
English NeMSpaners.

From an instructive article on 'English aud
American newspapers" in Hdrpers Moathiy
tor August we extract the following:-
"Lookipg at the London daily papers en-
mdSSe, you will find that the majority of their
contents are exactly alike, after making due
allowances for peculiarities of style and edit
orial differences of opinion. The keen compe-
tition for news so observable in the American
papers is almost unknown in England. You
will rarely find any important intelligence in
one newspaper which is not published in all
the Othera; and ii you do, it is ten to one that
the special news is contradicted the next day,
In fashionable intelligence, however, the Post
is far in advance of its cotemporaries, and is
really the only journal worth consulting for
tlis kind of news, Why it should be so
cannot explain, since the same intelligence is
easily obtauable 10y all the papers; but the
Post gets it first and pays for it handsomely,
and the other journals are satisfied to copy il
the morning afterwards.
"The ridiculous Court journal, chronicling
that the Queen rode, drove, or walked in or
out of the Home Park, is still regularly pub
lished in all the London papers, and the move
meuts Of the other members of the royal family
sIe recorded with the same eXactitude; but not
q single paper has the spirit to inform us what
the royal family had for dinner, aud how mach
they ate or what time they went to bed, and
how they slept. Even the Post is deficient in
this respect The Ne,oS was the otIijal and
popular organ of the liberal party before the
establishment of the Ieicgraph, and is now
about to seek to regain this position
by reducing its price from threepence
to one penny. In tone this journal
closely resembles the New York Times
lis liberalism has conservative element, its
opposition is gentlemanly, its manner is genial,
The attaches of the NeCS state that all of them
are possessed of private fortunes, and work
rather for the love of the profession than for
the pecuniary rewards. ] sincerely hope that
this statement may be true without solitary
exception; in which case we may place the
NorS among the curiosihes of journalism. Its
proprietoTs have certainly a right to rank first
among newspaper editors, for they have re-
reatedly divided among their employees large
portion of the profits of the paper. The for
eign correspondence of the Ne,CS was once un-
rivalled; l am sorry to learn that it has been
recently reorganzed.
Upon American affairs, while the Times has
no opinion at ALL and the Telegraph none that
it knows of, the NeooS has always advocated
the doctrines of the Republican party, and was
the only London journal thoroughly right from
the beginning to the end of the late American
civil war.
"The Star is an exact reproduction of the
New York Tribune, or the Tribune is an exact
reproduction Of the London Star, whichever
way you may please to phrase it. Whatever
the Tribune says about American politics the
Star accepts as Gospel; whatever the Star says
about English politics the Tribune accepts as
rather truer than the Gospel, of which it has,
on the whole not too high an opinion. Each
regards the other as the only real exponent OF
national sentiment, praises John Bright and
Charles Sumner as the greatest statesmen in
their respective countries, condemns Mr..
| Disraeli and President Johnson as the most
| in the same authoritative, dictatorial violent,
and vituperative style. Need l say more to
present both journals to the minds of my Eng
| hsh and American readers