New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-01-25

IPRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
LONDON, Jan 6-We are indebted to this mornings
Pail Mall Gazette for q fresh sensational may use
80 Objectionable a word. 1t prints summary q
column long, of Mrs. Stoves Lady Byron |iRd'cdttd
received by cable from New York With the excep-
ton of the abstract of the Presidents last message
published in The Times this is the longest dispatch
received from America by any English journal, or by
all of them together since there has been an Atlantic
cable The euterprising New-York agent of Mr. Reu-
ter sent half dozen lines the day before giving not
en- account of Mrs Stoves book. but of what two or
three Now-York papers said about il; thinking we
might like 20 know that in the opinion OF one Jour
nal her motives are TO make money or to gam no.
toriety by pandering to depraved tastes Inc
coarseness of such attack as that produces so Tar
IA il has any effect at all reaction in Mrs. Stoves
favor; which may, for aught know have been the
object of teleTaphing it.
The telegraph is used by the American press so
much more freely than by the European, that You
will scarcely consider this single dispatch to The PdH
Mall Gazette as an evidence of extraordinary enter
prise Yet ii Is and it deserves TO be noted If it is
not followed up it will have little influence
London journalism, but if it is the first signal of
new effort it may have very important results. 1t
looks very much Ike n challenge to its cotem-
poraries and if it be that The Pail Mall Gazette has
mission and career before it. / have said several
times that there room in London for new paper
of any politics and at any price that would print the
news-in other words, that should once more put in
motion the energy intelligence, and the lberaty in
spending money which The Times formerly showed,
but of which there are this day few traces in that
or any other London paper 1t may be said in excuse
for their sluggshness that they give all the news
the public wants What paper has to do
Is to create the appetite as well as
satisfy it. That could not be very
difficult task. At any rate it could not be difficult
to teach the London public to prefer full and accu-
rate intelligence of matters they do care about to the
meager and bungling dispatches they now put up
with from Mr.. Reuters agency. The experiment is
worth trying. and The Pail Mall Gazette has good
chance to try It, Its cond uctors have ability and
some expcrience-though their evening journal was
not as strong in its views as IN other departments
Its publisher. am told. has long had ambition to
found a great morning journal and what he has thus
far done has been mainly experimental. He has capt.
ta-what is to prevent him from succeedingY With
ont expecting ever to find The Pal Mall Gdsette an
advocate of really Liberal principles IN England still
less of Liberalism in America and OF justice to
America in controversy with England, should
be glad to it prosper. 1t helps journalism the
world over when paper which, with all its faults,
has plenty of ability and which generally has dig
nifty and "a high theory of its profession, can gain
secure footng-sill more if it strike out a new
line and teach sOue needful lessons to the rivals
that are counting on its failure.
The death of The Morning Herald was followed by
funeral sermon in The Times the folly of partisan
journalism as illustrated by the nearly simultaneous
decease of the most extreme among Tory aud the
most extreme among Liberal organs. But The Herald,
which, though dead yet speaketh through the
columns of The Standard. retorted with an article
upon weathercOck journalism, at least as pointed,
and at least as apt as that of The Times the other
text 1t is not often that The Standard gives me the
pleasure of quoting from its columns with unquali-
fled approval but here is passage which is as clever
a. il is true:
NO one believes that The Times will expire as The
Morning Herald did, OF an prescriptions ana riga al
herence to the spirit of any one party Journal whose
pass and regard only that side of question which is
mOmentary present. which holds that there are
turn its judgment may be eventually modified proclas
point of fact that It's main business Is 10 hve IN any
however induced by these most salutary precautions
canIUt said to Justify the newspaper which deber
m less elastic and less fortunate rivals. The question
10 this, whether newspaper owes the hrst duty
10 itself or the public II prefers its own commercial
interest it Will not perhaps do as Ihe Morning Herdla
,lId but rather The Times does. 1t will choose work
IN which IL be superannuaed 1t will adhere TO
the principles which are for the day most popular ana
the wane IL will watch for the current OF the public
humor. and set its sails In the same direction VIII
attach itself party which has not earned the merit
~ ascendency II VIII look for the cry which promises
10 the Oudest that by echong In good time may
be lis prompter 1t will admit that all sides may
be right but will follow only the side which is upper
most 1t will ride the stream with an air as though it
Mas directing its flow There can be doubt that this
Is the most iudciOus rule for success in journalism
measured by length Of years and large
circulation certain that this is officially the
highest virtue in iournalismf
Mr. Walker still remains in charge Of The Daily
Ne,rs and the difficulties about his successor are not
removed 1t is again asserted that Mr.. Dcey, of The
Teqaph is to have the chair if he will take 1t, but
that he will refuse it, because he either cannot or will
not break bis present connection.
Gen. Schcnck's comments on the Peabody resolu-
ton i'm Congress, and Mr. ThurlOw Weeds
rebutting testimony in favor of Mr.. Pea
body's loyalty. have been quoted into some
of the English papers. Mr. Peabody's fame
must be very doubtful if it depends on the
evidence of MIR. ThurlOw Weed, but even If Mr..
Weed were good witness to the disputed point his
evidence does not cover the case And neither his
nor any other testimony can alter the fact. Mr. Pea
bodys detestation of the war and sympathles with
the Confederacy during the earlier part of the Re
belion were secret in London, and were too ire
ouently declared to be entirely forgotten now. l
never heard them questioned, aud it is too late TO
question them now by a kind of averment which,
like Mr. Weeds avoids rather than meets the issue.
This is not the time when an impartial estimate OF
Mr. Peabody's character and services would stand
much chance of being listened TO. His gifts have
been so splendid as to hide all defects by excess OF
light Nevertheless, there is another side to the
picture. and when his real biography comes to be
written, Gen. Schencks criticism will be found to
have been very moderate as well very true
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