Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-04
DELANE.
The RumeFed Removal OF the Editor Of
the London Iimes-What Has New
York Contemporary Has 20
say About 10.

lLOIS IN England IIe3tSu edCn CInSE VIII
respect, and when the idle gossip and
baseless ISLANDERS which beset the career
OF the journalist elsewhere would have
been universally condemned. That day,
however, seems to have depaTted-tO-
gether with many other features Of En-
glish public life which were worthy Of
being kept yet few years longer, and
which Will not easily be replaced. A
great change is passing over that coun-
try; in politics and in the press there is
q class coming to the font which hith-
erto mas had very little to do with lead
ing public opinion or governing the peO-
pie. No one can read the reports OF the
recent debates in the house CT commons
without being sstOnished at the alterS-
ton in the tone and standard Of discus
sion which has occurred in the course Of
q few years. Mr.. Gladstone aud Mr.. Dis
raeli are probably the last of the great par
liamentary lesders-in future we must
expect to see an ill-msnnered gathering
of retired shop-keepers, led by the
noisiest and wealthiest of their mum er
Within twenty years from the present
time, if things go on as they are doing
now, q seat in the house Of commons
will no longer be an object of ambition
among the classes best fitted to represent
q cultivated nation. That the general
decline in public life should have ex-
tended to journalism is not strange, but
it is much to be regretted. For many
years past the English newspapers have
been the ablest in the world, and the
publication Of calumnies concerning ed
itOrs was thing almost unheard of. 1t
was held to be contrary to a proper
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mention another by name. Among the
papers which have broken through this
good old rule is Vanity Edir-a journal
which has gained some degree OF public
favor by rather clever series of carica-
lures, but which in its reading columns
is chiefly marked by q tendency to in
du!gs in more or less slanderOus
gossip and gross blackguardism.
BY way of gratifying these tastes,
it recently published a statement
editor Of the Times, was about to retire
from the paper in consequence OF re-
peated Engagements with the prOprie-
tor'-coupled with an insinuation which
it is needless to repeat. We cannot pre-
tend TO contradict this staten ent "upOn
authority as some o. our cOntempOra-
flE6 are uDlilk AfuL DO nAAlhOAlt.N II hCCu-
ed to contradict it. The story is evil
IDENTIFY the work OF one of those
cOntemptible beings who now infest
newspaper offices all over the world and
with whom evil spesking and lying are
n sort of instinct. They all cali them
selves editors" and all believe that
they hgYe a Iisat to assail private char
acter at their own will and pleasure.
hot ~noIlyT nnnh 10 thran fNNnnfhH
in prison, Wnere they would have leisure
to reflect on the Improperly Of endeav-
Oring TO iDjure the regulations OF men
whose boots they are not fit to clean.
We strongly recommend the respectable
editors who still hold positions Of trust
and Importance in England to resist these
new colleagues of theirs, and try in
every way to keep them down. IL they
do not, it will be az little credit 10 man
to be an editor as it will be by and by to
hold q seat in the neW-fashiOned house
of commons. Il does not become any
journalist, no matter what may be his
standing or country, to utter a single
disresyectful word OF MIR. Delane He
is 8 man in whom we all ought to take q
Just and hearty pTide-sn utterly fear
less and incOrruptible man, with a
men OF all lands, such as no other liv-
ing journalist has ever had the m cans Of
acquiring; gifted with qualifications for
his calling to a degree which is now
almost unknown in journalism, and
with a capacity for hard work such as
would astOund the ea5y-gOing editors
and trashy writers of the present day.
a f er a long nights understanding
~ kn OF NIGHT fsli r. C,1flnnkr
the next mOrHing-he will turn to and
write two or three score of letters, and
then look fresher and healthier than
half the yOuLg men who are now
crOwding into newspaper offices from
milliners' stores and lawyers offices.
Ard this enormous labor he has kept up
for thirty-fOur years, never neg Getting
his post or Sinking duty. His men,
OIy is prOdigious, and his penetration
and insight end unwearied application
would long ago have raised him TO the
highest post in the legal profession, had
he followed it after he was called to the
bar. An eminently fair and upright
man, severe in discipline, but always
Just, getting sll the work out of his sub
OIdinates that they can possibly per-
form, but at the same time treating them
in such a way as to win their highest
admiration and lasting affection, quick
to discern merit and to put it TO the best
uses, ever ready to encourage the young
man just entering upon life-such is Mr..
DelaDe, at whom the new style Of Eng
glish journalist seems to think it brave
and manly thing to fl ing mud. To say
that the London Times has made no
mistakes for years past would be sbsuTd;
the work OF every mans hands is full Of
imperfections. But in the main it has
done it's work faithfully and well, has
nobly msintsined the credit of jour.
nalism, and defended the honor
of its country. 1t has served
the English people with a fidelity
which they will not readily forget.
Whenever Mr.. Delane retires from
position which he has filed with the ut
most distinction for four-and. thirty
years, it will be with the respect and
confidence OF his cOuntrymen, no less
than OF his employers. AS for any "dis-
agreements" between him and the pro-
prletOT of the paper, it is q SANDER too
absurd to be answered. These two gen.
tlemen have been intimate and trusted
friends for nearly forty years, and such
friendships are not easily sundered.
They have the sort of confidence in each
other which nothing in the world can
shake, That Mr.. Delane needs rest has
long been known, and it would not be
surprising to hear that he had made up
his mind to enjoy few years of it. But
he could still do twice the work, and do
it four times as well, in the same space
of time, as any Of the younger genera
ton OF editOIs-men who, as rule, are
no more to be compared with him than
a knock kneed and thick-headed recruit
is to be compared with the most accom-
plished al d skillful general of the age.
a Splendid Woman smugaIsr.