The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-25

A FRIEND hands US copy Of the Lon
don Times Of the 10th inst, o paper which
has been llkened to the trunk OF IN ele,
phant in its ability to pick up pin or Il
handle affairs Of weightier Importance.
The issue before us Is elephantine in 9th.
er respects, numbering twenty pages, oil
one hundred and sixty columns, and de-
spite careful classification and arrange.
ment, would be pronounced unmanageY
able blythe average American newspaper
reader. OF its contents, sixty.one
columns, or a little over one.halt, are fill,
ed with advertisements. The daily in
come from this department would up.
pear to be small boaauza,
although it. is the policy Of the English
newspapers to make subscription pay more
and advertising less than in the American
system, which aims at large circulation
through cheap subscription, and then ex.
poets advertisers to pay in proportion Ia
the extent and distribution of the issue
ofthe remainder a large proportion is de-
voted to Parliamentary intelligence, in
comparison with which the average Con,
gressional report is cheerful and interest.
ing reading. Court reports are handled
with surprising fullness and detail, com.
paratively uninteresting case before a
police magistrate being given more space
than is accorded the entire police report in
many ofour metropolitan journals. Foreign
intelligence, made up almost exclusively
OF specials from European capitals, is the
best work furnished, and although colored
in many instances by the prevailing
prejudices of the writers and the readers
for whom it is intended, is by far the
most interesting department Of the news
columns. The local letter page is well
the hereditary right OF English
men to make their personal grievances
known to the editor of the Times, being
preserved in all its original
force.
As to the editorial opinions, which are
to reflect the general senti-
ments OF the English people, as in this
country the attitude Of the New York
Hra!d is supposed to indicate which way
political winds are blowing, the issue in
question does not take a very cheerful
view OF the situation OF the Empire. There
appears to be deep.seated conviction that
in the settlement OF recent European
questions, English interests have neither
been satisfactorily protected for the time
being, or sufficiently secured against tu-
ture danger. Hence feeling OF uneasi-
ness and a disposition of querulous
discomfort with the administration,
which finds vent in many chan.
nels. There seems to be a feeling of
genuine national sorrow over the tragic
death ofyoung Prince Napoleon, and the
tributes to his memory and the words Of
to the douhly stricken exile
whose last stay is taken from her, are
touching and heartfelt, The discussion
of some attempted local reforms IL charac'
teristic. On the question OF closing pub
lie houses on Sunday, the Times takes
ground that will hardly seem tenable to
our temperance readers. Suppose few
people do get drunk and disorderly on the
Sabbath day in public houses, argues the
Thunderer, is that any reason why we'll
disposed persons should be compelled tc
buy their beer on Saturday, and drink II
fiat on Sunday?
Altogether the Times affords very salts
factory picture of our systematic, pugna'
cious and suspicious cousin over the water
who is as ready to go to Afghanistan OF
India to defend his possessions, as he Ii
to resist the closing Of fresh tap on Sun
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