The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-05-25
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RNNt 1HNtHat 81 q 8iIstf HtH ANI.slf-
ting aImo,t entirety Of local original mat
tct reached ma yesterday and yen Will
allow mc 60 ,ay that think it Is orc uf
the most remarkable issues offs "couuiry
newspaper that over saw aud, es YOU
are aware, ann not exactly "a yro u
newspaper matters. Nou are rapidly
solving the problem ofbow 10 make a
country paper interesting aua business
success. follows a. matter Of course,
am glad to see that y0u have reached
tie handsome edition Of 5000 copies, "a
circulation not often attained by any bat
city newspapers. perhap, It may interest
the reader, Of the JorpNu TO know the
ejrculations of the great London dailics;
Tic Times, sometimes called
tbe TLunacrar 5000
ThcTcicgaph--lhc Herald
ofLoadou 10000
Tho standard Tory organ 10000
The Daily Nows-thc most
respectable popular London
daily 10000
The Echo-cyening half-peuny
journal issued IN four edi-
lions, approaches 100000
The other daiics are undjstuguished fot
their circulation, though several of thcm
hold very brilliant positions in literary
point Of view. or these the Pail Mall
Gazettc--a two penny evening journal,
beautifully printed upon cream colored
paper, much in vogue here; the Echo also
uses its the most thought of, and It Is
certainly well written journal, in fact
ne newspaper, in the estimation Of all
press people aud those who relish good
\ English, 1t is a far better written jour
nal than the Times even.
The newspaper prc's Of London and
+ Paris is exceedingly prolific and presents
many interesting features, which on some
other occasion may touch upon.
4 Oar news from Paris to day leads TO
the hope that the Commune will soon be
/ rubbed ont. ! am sorry TO find some
\ Americans in Europe sympathising with
4 this despotic, self constituted Committee.
4 lf a republican government in France IS
to haye a fair trial, it certainly cannot be
under the auspices of the men who have
been carrying on for month back this
4 sad business in Paris. The "staud and
deliver game, they have been playing,
stamps the character of their movement ;
which is simply organized pilage.
Eighteen thousand convicts, with all the
political wire-pullers of the lowest style
Of democracy from the slnms Of the CAPT
tails of Europe, cannot be expected to con-
stitute government much to the taste
Of orderly people, no matter how they
may entitlc it,
The En- Emperor Napoleon has Just
reached his sixty-third year. lie is resid-
ing with the Empress and the Prince al
Chisehurst, short distance from Lon
don; but it seems that Ills Majesty is
so much annoyed by sight-secrs, that lie
contemplates removing to a locality quite
distant from the metropolis in Yorkshire
His latest portrait-carte exhibits him
as decidedly older looking than formerly
Rumor says that attempts have been dis.
covered and frustrated for the assassina
tion of Napoleon, as well as the Prince,
since their arrival in England.
You are aware that the entire tele.
graphic system of Great Bsitain is now
the property of the Government and is
worked under the direc ton Of the posta
authorities. A great extension of tho
lines aud increase of the number of Offices
has been effected during the past year
and the services of thousands Of young
ladies have been made available as clerks
and operators thus opening another res
pcctabc field of employment to the sex
The Post Office had already taken on thcil
staff many thousands of Young ladies and
when they took up The management o
the telegraph they were enabled at once
TO increase the number very considerably
So far as am aware, the service is a
, well done as fpcrlormed by Young men
and the government is entitled to mucI
praise for opening mp this field Of respcc
table employment for females. The mum
bcr of dispatches transmitted over th,
, British lines during the week ending ljtl
April was 2O7 ,607 Daring the cores
, ponding week last year il was lj7, ,s07.
, There Is a very splendid band from Pali
: now in London, playing nightly at ono 0
the popular music halls. This baud il
. that Of the GardeS de Paris. They asked
permission two or three days since 10 pla,
/ before the Lord Mayor aud bis homo
gracioHsly asscnted, inviting five or si'
hundred Of the upper ten to listen, whicl
! they did with much qualification. Tia
. execrablc character ofmost oflhc L0ndoi
military bands, makes the artistic cXeeu
! ton Of these thoroughly good player
\ highly enjoyable. For shilling one cal
pass an evening at the Agricultural Hall
I l.liugt0n and listen TO their delici0u
music. My Lord Mayor did the haad
some thing, in the way Of lunch, for thD
band upon the completion Of their pro
=, gramme. There il a Hood of French ar
: lists, theatrical and musical, in Lond0l
!, at this time; aud three companies Al,
/. playiug. or about 10 commence, at Al
many different theatres. II is to be hope,
lhat the flyorite London actors vii
sometimes pass an hour or two ia educa
ting themselves bY witnessing the excel
"a
Partisan scene. The crudjlies of tht
best Of London actors aud actresses sA0p
1 90 with glariug effect when couirastc,
i With the finished style Of even TIE hum
! bier members of the French companies.
! The London Timcs Of this morning
contains plain spoken leader wort