Sentence:  Instead, the "Age" declared, of 'merely noticing the misdemeanour, which would have been the course most consonant not only with public decency, but also with public justice, they gloat on it as a kind of god-send in <WSD>newsmongery</WSD> and recur to it with most damnable iteration'. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Gossip.