Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-06-27
How the Dishonest Journals of
England Suppress the ROyal
NcNSs-A Sub Editors Blundcr.
World London Letter

l"oi III l<oHuOh lIctleI !
1t is a harsh, disagreeable, ungra
clous thing to say, but it is fact that
the Prince of Wales has lately been
doing his best, or his worst, to injure
himself in the estimation of those who
are most anxious to respect him, and
to preserve the monarchy. l state il
mildly when L say that IA feeling of i'll
tense annoyance and painful disgust
prevails not only in the stricter relig-
ious circles of the kingdom, but even
iii the clubs and the cOteries of fash
ionable society in consequence of the
recent doings of the Prince. Since
the 1st of May, as all the world knows,
this weak and foolish young man has
been enjoying an almost endless round
of festivities at Vienna, PrestL and
Berlin. 1t was remarked with char
grin that during these fetes he acted
more like a frivolous pleasure-seeker,
to whom some new delight was a daily,
almost an hourly necessity, than a,
serious and sober-minded prince, heir
to great destiny. And it was re-
marked, with something more than
chagrin, that SO devoted was he to
pleasure that he could not rest on Sun
day, but employed the hours of that
day in amusements which, to the aver
age English and Scotch mind, are at
best but tolerable on weekdays and
absolutely intolerable on SUNDAYS.
Little was openly said about this,
however-the newspapers " burked'
most of the dispatches that told indis-
Greet tales-and what happens in Aus
tria need not be generally known in
England. But on last Sunday morn
ing the Prince arrived in Paris, on his
way home. The Derby is to he run
| tomorrow, and of course the Prince
would not miss that. Now, what hap
pens in Paris is almost as if it hap
pened in London. The two cities are
only eleven hours apart and Paris is
always full of English people and of
London newspaper correspondents
Now, when the Prince arrived there on
Sunday morning, after three weeks of
endless JIlnketlngs, one might have
expected that he would have been glad
of little quiet, and would have been
willing to respect-outwardly, at least,
the sanctity which attaches i'll the
English eyes to the day of rest. Far
from it. Almost Immediately after his
arrival at the Hotel BristoI-he had
travelled all night-he drove out to the
Bots de Boulogne, and breakfasted at
the famous Cafe de La Cascade. a house
near the race course, and the resort Of
the creme de la creme of fashionable
Paris society. The breakfast Was Il
''stunning" one and took up much
time; returning late to his hotel he
received Lord Lyons, who dined with
him and then, as q nice way OF spend
ing a quiet Sunday evening, this future
head OF the English Church went to
the "Narietes" theatre, where that re-
fined and elegant play, LA Veuve de
Malabar," was performed. His first
act on Monday morning was again to
drive to the Bots de Boulogne, and
after dinner he again went to the the
atre-this time to the Palais Royal,
the chaste home of opera boutfe.
The revolution at Versailles had
occurred on the evening before his
arrival at Paris. The event was of the
to France, but to ali Europe One
would have thought that the study of
this event and of its probable Sc
u11ences would have engrossed the
mind of the Prince. But he was too
busy in the Bots, at the cafe, and at
the theatres to give any thought to
politics. He made no visits to the new
President or the deposed one, and to-
night he arrived home in time for the
Derby tomorrow. I can scarcely give
you an adequate idea of the disgust
and anger all this excites in the very
quarters where ''loyalty' is most fer
vent Curiousl y enough, no publicity
would have been given to the news OF
the Princes doings i'll Paris but for al
accident 1t would have been known,
all the same, but it would have re
manned one of the things that every
one talks about but which do not ''gct
into the papers, All the London
dailies, without exception, are in the
habit of suppressing much more news
than they publish about certain peo-
pie. It is ''bad form to publish any
thing that reflects liscredit on any
member of the royal family, instance:
and the "suppressed' dispatches and
letters of any of the dailies would form
n very interesting volume.
In this instance, all the journals re-
ceived dispatch concerning the ex-
plots of his Royal Highness in Paris,
and they all-with o,le exceptiOn-dis-
crcetly burked it. A Junior sub-editor
| happened to be alone on duty III the
office of one of the papers. He had not
naturally thought it was his duty to
get as much news as possible in his
paper When the Paris dispatch came
he ordered a display head for it, and
to the horror of his superiors the fatal
news appeared this morning i'll big
! type Thus the scandal could no longer
be kept quiet q; the clubs tonight are
buzzing with it. One NJ. p. has avOwed
| his intention of asking i'll Parliament
! if ''tbe disgraceful news" be true, and
| the Republicans are chuckling over
! the thought that Albert Edward has
| SO soon and so completely destroyed all
the popularity which he regained
! during his illness and Immediately
after his recovery.
What have said about the London
papers s1lppressing news reminds me
of something which [ have often
thought OF saying concerning the want
of candor and truthfuiness on certain
subjects which is characteristic Of all
these journals. An anecdote will illus
trate what mean. The day after the
great National Republican Convention
at Birmingham the managing editor
of one of the journals called to see
me, and L showed him the report OF
the Convention [ had received from
your special correspondent. eyes,
said he, s'our correspondent has sent
rs report WHICH nave Tetu Will
great interest, and he tells me privately
that it was a most respectable and I'M
portant Convention. The movement
has become 4 very serious one; the
men engaged in it are already power
full, and they have a following
always avowed-more numerous than
even they themselves believe "What
will you say about 2" | asked
ooh" said he, ''ridicule and laugh at
it, of course. You don't suppose, my
good fellow, that we can afford to tell
the truth about such things, do you?''
And so it was not only with his jour
nal, but with all of them; one only
publishing even a fair report of the
Convention, and the others mutilating
and almost classifying the reports OF
their own correspondents, and assert
ing in their editorial columns that the