New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-01
NOTES FROM LONDON.
JOURNALISTIC. Personal AND oTuERs.

JOURNALISTIC. Personal AND OTuERS.
lrRom TUE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oy THE 1EIBrSEl
LONDON. June IL.
This years quest of the managers OF the News
paper Press Fund for celebrities add splendor 10
their annual dinner. was not brilliantly successful.
Mr. ChIlders, Chancellor of the ENchequer. pre-
sided; an able and distinguished man, certainly
and good speaker. but not among those whose
mere name attracts crowds. Lord Hougbton Is
back from Italy and was present. 10 look after one
of his pet institutions but of other ornaments Of
English public life the number seems extremely
limited. II the newspaper reports may be trusted
there were besides Lord Houghton but two Peers.
and neither Lord Crewe nor Lord Gerard would
perhaps be thought of as an orator The latter, TO
be sure has the distinction of being father-in-law
TO one of the most beautiful women In England.
Diplomacy came forth in the person oil the NAL
agasy Envoy. Sir Lepel Griffin Is An eminent
Anglo-Indian; and If TO his name you add those OF
Admiral Cooper Key. Mr. Bernsford Hope and Mr.
Newdegaic, the list OF persons recognizable by the
public is complete. OF journalists, known ana I'M
known, not one is mentioned save Mr. Hilary
skinner who proposed the health Of the CHAIRMAN
From the point of view of the managers, who rely
for their yearly aims on the attractions of great
personages this banquet would have to be reckoned
among their failures. The Cab-Driyers' Benevolent
Association beats them hollow
One exception there is to the barrenncss OF the
rest of the catalogue of guests and addition TO
be made to the names above given read In the
papers that the toast of the houses Of Parliament
was iptIusted TO the Hon. S. Ward Of New-York.
Under this alias may he discovered by a good OBJ
server the genial features and becoming smile OF
one of your feow-citIZens whom anotherchionlcler
further llsguses as the Amphitryon of the Breyoor
and Weicker's. whatever that may mean. i am
ante sure that If the British journalist or anybody
else be in distress, nobody purse would cDen
sooner or wider to help him than "Cnclc Sans
But what has he under his own or any other name
10 do with the British houses of Parliament IL
nay be doubted whether he ever entered them or
either of them, nor is it clear why any American
should be called on TO propose toast so peculiarly
appropriate to the native Saxon. That Mr. Sam
Ward made a fluent, original and pleasant speech,
may be taken for granted.
Mr.. ChiIders discOursed the familiar text
of the difference between the newspaper of to-
dav and tho newspaper Of generation since, and
he went as others have done before him. to America
for illustrations of change. What had most i'm
pressed him was the immediate publication OF the
revised New Testament by Chicago paper, or two
Chicago papers, as he SAID. and the more recent
telegraphing OF Mr.. Spurgeons sermon TO the same
enterprising city. Whether II was In TACT tele-
graphed, or whether. If so, how many other papers
were "syndcated" for the purpose, j cannot say.
Nor am sure that such facts do really indicate the
Ligh-water mark of modern Journalism. They
strike the popular Imagination and they seem to
have struck Mr.. Childers. but that is only saying
that cleveriy planned advertisement reached
those for whom IL was meant.
ii would be more to the purpose to be able to say
that the Ysess Fund is losing ts hold, as 1t ought
on the Jabiic. Some day the public may be trusted
TO pcrseffe the incongruty between the tone oil a-
thority b which it is addressed, and rightly al
dressed IN the powerful journals of this country
and the tone of mendcancy which peryades the
Press und appeals Another incongruity may equal
iy strike them There at least three daily papers
Ia London whose yearly profits range from *2oo,-
600 to $SOO,00O. 1t is true that these huge sums
10 into the pockets fthe proprictors, who are not
always working journalists. But journalism has
none the less become commercial enterprise con.
Quoted on a great scale. employing large capital
and Welding large returns On what pretence can
It ask or allow those connected with 1t to ask. for
charitable contributions from tho general puDno'