New-York tribune., 1879-10-27

of ;he nrw paper. IN tho case of Mr.. West plea
Of guilty" was accepted in that OF Mr.. Lang
try there had hc>n q convection. The Respondent
will frohaby he fined $500 and imprlSoneh ior
eighteen months. The case excited great interest,"
n large number If the most fashionable people De
ing present nj the hearing.
There T. nothing to he said in defence OF wanton
defamation. especially of "A woman Tbs kind oil
article which this newspaper printed could do no
good could do only harm. though it's statements
were entirely true but It's faIsehood is of course.
n bitter aggrayation. These unfortunate ladies'
however. might have escaped these indignit'es. II
their lives had been of less public charhcter'
There is a thin Ino dividing celebrity from noio-
rIcty. and a woman handsome enough to attract
attention NAV sometm be careless enc gin TO cross
il. There are lovely women in England whose
photographs are never gazed Mt DIV cro"uS
gathering about the shop windows, and OF whom the
bascst sunday journal of the metropolis would never
think printing 40 much as two-line paragraph
Adjoining the privacy of home. the ornaments oil q
higher circle of society, good wives and daughters
and devoted mothers, they would shrink from any
thing like "A coarse and unlimited publicity almost
much rs from a personal PROCLAMATION. we dohot
mean to say that il Is not entirely possible for
fashionable woman to be celebrated for her beauty
to be photographed and copper-plated and mezzo-
ons and to be sold IN the carte de vsite or i'm
pcral size everywhere for siypence shilling or
apound and still to retain her good name and fame
dcscrvcdly. But this world, it is pretty well known,
is sadly gwen to lying; and we may have an excel
lent conscience and set not care to be lied about.
Whoever accepts publicity accepts its risks also.
There callIngs the peculiar character OF
which renders it Impossible to be avoided
but any one whose lie is strictly private
may, by the exercise Of a moderate degree of prn-
dencc, remain happily unknown and reasonably
obscure. And this. of course, Is truer OF women
than Of men. Home with It's various natural al
fliaiions, has heretofore at least afforded a pro-
lection for the priyacics, without impeding the ac-
tivltcs of useful life How it may be- hereafter we
90 not take upon ourselves To predict
\ good deal has been said, and sometimes not
very kindly. by our English critics of the coarse
ness and personality OF American journalism We
are perfectly wiling to admit that we have not
been altogether free from blame, nor do we put
much value upon rccriminatIon but we must cay
frankly tnat there are newspapers published III
London which could not for month be
tolerated in New-York. Here, either She
public would not be enough interested in them
to buy ihem and they would sink INTO
the slough of insolvency; or the police would
make short work Of their property and their cbn-
ductors. The slander of the iashiest sheet now TX
tant in New-York j. of an extremely mild descbp-
tion compared with the coarse and foul datrlbes OF
journals which appear to be prosperous IN LONDON
in spite Of occasional checks from the courts
Neither Mr. Laboucherc nor Mr.. Rosenberg would
make much headway here. The creatures who do
such work with Us are almost always so utterly OBJ
scure as 20 be harmless. for those who read them do
not understand them, and those who might be
pauod b ihcr ISLANDERS do not know Of their exist
cncc