An enterprising "interviewer" of the Sun details a conversation which he held with Professor Johnston on the subject:"I began about the free scholarships that the college intended giving to candidates nominated by the typographical unions of the country. "He asked me if I was a correspondent for a Northern paper. I told him I was; I came from the New York Sun. He then spoke to this effect:"The number of these scholarships will be limited for the present to twenty-five. We think it enough, when we compare the resources of our institution with those of the northern colleges, such, for instance, as Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. The reason we propose giving these scholarships is this, that printing is one of the arts which diffuse education, and we should therefore seek to qualify printers for the task of educating as far as possible. These scholarships will probably be given only to Southern Unions, because we need them more here than you in the North. We had proposed to issue half of these scholarships to men aiming for the journalistic profession, but have become rather abashed at the torrent of ridicule poured upon us by some of the papers of the country. Now, what we intend is not to make journalists, to make men fit at once for the editorial chair. No. But we wish to give young men as good an education as possible, in order that afterward, having acquired their journalistic training in a newspaper office, they may make far better and more cultivated editors.'

I send you the "Galaxy" for last month, thinking you might like to see the article it contains on "The Morals and Manners of Journalism," by Richard Grant White. By the way, "Shirley Dare" has written to the Tribune a different version of the foundation of the Imperialist newspaper to that given by the "Galaxy." He says they were three young men, tolerably known in New York newspaper offices. Two were Americans, and renegade Republicans. One had gone so far as to carry torches in Union League processions, and talk patriotism fiercely at the kerbstone, and attempted to enlist in the war, but the protestations of his friends, especially his lady friends, held his loyal ardour in check. During the last campaign he occupied his fertile pen with writing editorials alternately for Grant and Seymour, with a possible consulate in view, which he fondly hoped to secure by his disinterested labours, whichever side might win. The list of consulates was filled, but his name was not on it, and the death of hope from a Republican Government left him an ardent Imperialist. The second is an Englishman, who has the best claim to sincerity of belief of any one of the triumvirate. His position at the time was a subordinate one in the freight business. He, however, is the only one of the three who deserves in the least the distinction of culture. The others are graduates of fresh-water colleges, with a post graduate course of bad French novels, and provincial Italian. The third is the working editor of a small financial paper, a very young man-so young that it is difficult to characterise him further. All three were Bohemians of Bohemia, in the eminent degrees of debt and discontent. The promising idea that a paper could force its way to notorious success by the "undraped" odiousness of its principles was suggested to the first of these men after an apprenticeship on Pomeroy's Democrat. The Imperialist organ is, however, as dead as a door nail, and there is no necessity to pursue the subject further.

The Washington Intelligencer, which was suspended after a run of nearly seventy years, has been revived in the Democratic interest. It has gone into the hands of Mr. Alexander Delmar, a gentleman who has had much experience at the Press, and who is fully competent for the duties of his place. He has long been connected with journalism, more especially on papers of a statistical or scientific character, such as Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, the Social Science Review, and others; but of late he has been brought most prominently before the public as Director of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington. SOL.

Firfaith's Newspaper Folding-Machine is highly spoken of and extensively employed in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago. Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati, &c., where it is used in the principal printing offices, sometimes as many as four being found in the same office. It is said to fold from 2,500 to 3,000 sheets per hour, with the aid of only one workman. The cost varies, according to size, from 600 to 1,050 dollars.-Stationer.

Of libel suits against newspapers, the New York Tribune remarks: "When the plaintiff starts to recover 10,000 dols. in a libel suit against a newspaper, and the jury give him 250 dols., it is easy to perceive that his feelings must be more numerous than satisfactory; and yet, in nine such cases out of ten, the lesser sum is a great deal more than he is equitably entitled to, upon a fair estimate of any real loss suffered by him through the publication. Perhaps the Baltimore American, just cast in 250 dols. exposing and denouncing a flagrant wrong; we know that in some for a libel, would always be willing to pay that sum for the sake of cases, requiring sharp correction, we should consider such expenditure upon our own part extremely moderate. At the same time, an injury to character, which can be atoned for by the payment of 250 dols., is really no injury at all; and the only result of such a finding may be to saddle an innocent defendant with costs." The proprietors of the Republican have caused the arrest of C. J. Ferdinand, the former night editor, for selling the despatches, but Ferdinand claims that they were furnished with the full knowledge of the proprietors.

Louis. Its title is Die Vehme.
A German comic paper, published weekly, has appeared in St.

The Newport (R. I.) Mercury is now one hundred and eleven years old. It was first established by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, and was then about the size of a sheet of foolscap. Now it contains eight columns to the page, and is very neatly printed. After the death of Franklin, his widow, Ann Franklin, took charge of it, and Solomon Southwick afterwards conducted it, and after his death the Barber family published it for seventy-two years, passing through the hands of three generations of them. In 1850 its present editor and proprietor, Mr. Fred. A. Pratt, became connected with it as the partner of three other gentlemen, and conducted it until 1852, when he became sub-editor and proprietor. The New York Era, after an interval of two years, has been resumed.

A weekly paper for those interested in Scotch-American affairs is now published in New York, called the American Scotsman. Messrs. P. T. Eaton & Co., of New York, are now publishing a new legal paper, called the Law Weekly.

A new paper in German and English, called the Elections, has been established in Chicago.

Frank Leslie, it is announced, will hereafter personally edit his Illustrated Newspaper.

Horace Greely, of the Tribune, has just brought out a book on "Political Economy" from the Protectionist point of view. The head of the New York Times' editorial staff is now Mr. Geo. Shepherd, formerly of St. Louis, and his chief assistants are Louis Jennings, late of the London Times, and husband of Miss Henriques, the actress, George Pond, formerly of the Army and Navy Journal, and Henry Sedley, formerly of the Round Table. Mr. Jones, the publisher, acts as courts of appeals, and the paper is certainly running very well under its new régime.

The editor of a Columbia (Mississippi) paper having recently got married, a contemporary says:-" May his father-in-law die rich, and enable poor Stevens to retire frrm the printing business, and set up a cake shop at a railway station."

A roving "interviewer" of a Cincinnati journal has caught Mr. Jefferson Davis on a Western steamboat, and discoursed with him at great length upon matters connected with the rebellion, all which is duly printed in the Cincinnati journal, for the edification of the public.

The editor of the Danbury (Ct.) Times is going into the "interviewing" business, and evidently to some purpose. He gives notice as follows:-" We shall interview' a number of our citizens this week on the subject of finance."

The New York Evening Republic has suspended publication. This leaves ten evening newspapers in the field in New York. The suit against the New York Tribune for libel, brought by J. Nelson Luckey, has been decided in favour of the defendants. The New York Evening Telegram, a journal in some mysterious manner connected with the New York Herald, which it greatly resembles in typographical appearance, is one of the best and most sprightly of the many sensational journals of the "metropolis." Cartoons hitting at the follies of the day, have, together with the pungent wit of its editors, run it into a large circulation.

Delaware has but one daily paper; but it is said that there are

more newspapers published in Virginia in proportion to the reading population than in any other State in the country. Twothirds of our newspapers are, it is computed, Republican in their principles.

The system on which American newspapers work is fairly shown by a notice recently published to prove the advantages of the New York Tribune as an advertising medium. That paper is published as a daily, the matter being then gathered into a semi-weekly, and finally into a weekly edition. To advertise so that the notice appears in each of the three editions costs 25 dols., or say 4 dols. for ten lines; or a hundred guineas for a column-upwards of four times the price of advertising in the most expensive English journal. The way the Tribune puts it is this-The editions reach a million of people, while the cost of distributing 300,000 circulars of the smallest dimensions would be over £1,000. Between the value of circulars and announcements in the advertising columns of a newspaper is a wide difference, for a man seldom involuntarily reads the circular, while he often does the advertisement, and although the advertisement pages are as a rule skipped, the circular nearly always goes into the waste-paper basket. As the Tribune says, the circular is beyond comparison the more expensive as well as laborious. When a banking-house informs its constituency of a change in the firm or of the premises, it addresses a defined number of individuals whom it can best reach by means of a circular. But when a man offers an article to the public for sale, or invites their attendance, the circular is a clumsy expedient. The plan which originated in America is to circulate the journal for next to nothing and make the advertisers pay, as there are no means of advertising comparable to that of newspaper publicity.-Anglo-American Times.

"The Public Ledger of Philadelphia has a regular daily edition of over 70,000 copies, which is believed to be the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the world, with but one exception." This is what an American writer says, but although near, we believe it is not quite the fact.

One of the papers lately, instead of recording that the President had gone on an excursion, simply announced that he had "excurted." The other day we read that "Erie" was injuncted. A paragraph in an evening paper was headed thus-" A Woman Burgled Nine Times in Ten Years." All this saves time, like those handy phrases, "and now," "in view of," "in this connection," and many other similar devices for enabling people to use the language without the trouble of studying it.-New York Times.

CANADA.

Our Monthly Necrology.

MR. JOSEPH GRIFFITH.

The Liverpool Courier announces the death, at Birkenhead, of Mr. Joseph Griffith, who, for upwards of 40 years had been connected with the newspaper Press, in the capacity of writer and reporter. He was one of a very small batch of reporters who took down the late Earl of Derby's maiden speech as a politician, delivered at Preston.

MR. DOGOOD.

After fifteen years of pain and suffering, Mr. Dogood, late of the North-hill, Highgate, has been called to his rest. For many years the deceased gentleman was connected with the Daily News and the Morning Chronicle, but in May, 1854, he met with a railway accident, which rendered him partially blind and paralysed. Lord Palmerston, in consideration of his great services to literature, generously bestowed upon him a small pension from the civil list. Notwithstanding his great affliction, he was a cheerful companion, and his loss will not only be deplored by the members of his family, but by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. Dogood was highly esteemed by the members of the local Press of this district.

Law Intelligence.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.-DECEMBER 8. (Before Sir J. STUART.)

WALTER V. PICKBURN.

THIS was a motion on behalf of the plaintiff for an injunction to restrain the defendant from printing and publishing any newspaper with the name London Times, or The London Times, or The Times shall form a part or the whole, or in which the same shall in any way occur. In support of the motion it was contended that the case made by the bill (filed by Mr. Walter, M.P., the principal proprietor of The Times, on behalf of himself and all other proprietors, over 50 in number), and the evidence was that the use by the proprietor of The Clerkenwell News and London Times of the words "London Times" was an invasion of the plaintiff's title, The Times, and that it interfered with the reputation and business of The Times. The defendant had from time to time changed the title of his newspaper. At first it was The Clerkenwell News, or Domestic Intelligencer, next in June, 1855, it was simply The Clerkenwell News, then in 1862 it was published twice a week, and called The Clerkenwell News and General Advertiser, but since February, 1866, it had been published daily as The Clerkenwell News and London Times, the latter words being much smaller than the former. Since October last the latter words had been greatly enlarged, and the publication was now in

of Clerkenwell News and London Times, or under any name of which the words

TRINIDAD.

persons residing at Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Edinburgh, Bristol, and Clifton, and of those who had resided in the United States of America, Australia, and on the Continent showed that The Times was known as and called "The London Times." Further evidence was read the Post Office authorities had given special instructions in respect to the delivery of letters.

AUSTRALIA.

A new comic paper, entitled Humbug, has made its appearance at Melbourne, the cartoons being printed in colours, after the style of the English Tomahawk.

INDIA.

Bombay has produced a new journal, the Indian Church Review. It is intensely Ritualistic. Bishops and others are snubbed or patted according to their proceedings; and the editor, who seems to be in confidential intercourse with heaven, tells the local clergy that, if they do not write for the Review, the responsibility of "not doing good to the Church and promoting God's glory" will rest upon them.

THE FACTORY ACT AND NEWSPAPERS.-On the 8th ult., at Leamington, Mr. Joseph Glover, the proprietor of the Leamington Spa Courier, was charged with a breach of the Factory Act. It appeared that a lad named Walters had been employed beyond the stipulated hours on a Saturday afternoon to take some newspapers from the press, owing to his having been delayed by being sent on an errand. The Bench held there had been an infraction of the law, but inflicted the slightest penalty-20s., and 11s. expenses.

Mr. Dickinson, Q.C., contended that there had been no invasion of the plaintiff's title The Times, and that the defendant had not sought to imitate such title. The price of the defendant's paper was d. three times a week, and 1d. on other days, while the plaintiff's price for his paper was 3d., and the defendant's paper contained no foreign news and no parliamentary debates. It could not be obtained in the country, nor at any railway station, unless specially ordered. The charge for advertisements was for insertion in the defendant's paper considerably less than in that of the plaintiff's. The defendant's paper circulated amongst persons of small means, and in a humble position of life. But the fact was the defendant had used the title now complained of for over three and a half years, and no injury had been proved, or even alleged. The plaintiff rested his case upon his title- his trade-markand the only trade-mark to which he was entitled was The Times, and not to "The London Times."

After further arguments on the part of the defendant, and a statement that no less than 19 newspapers were published in London called the Times, with additional words, as The Church, The Law, The West London, and so forth, it was asked why the word "Times" should be used in this case at all.

Mr. Dickinson intimated that the defendant would not insist upon the use of the word Times." There was, however, a paper in the press for next day, in the title of which the word would appear, and probably there would be no objection on the part of the plaintiff to the issue of to-morrow.

Sir R. Palmer.- The order to be made would be that after to-morrow the defendant must not use the word "Times," and considering that the defendant had agreed to withdraw it from his title, he seeing that the parties were in the same vocation, and there being a desire to put an end amicably to the litigation would waive his claim to costs. There would be liberty to apply in case the defendant should again use the word complained of.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-DECEMBER 15.
(Before the COMMON SERJEANT.)

Dr. Joseph Henry Shorthouse. the proprietor and editor of a newspaper called The Sporting Times, surrendered to take his trial before the Common Serjeant on an indictment which charged him with writing, printing and, publishing or causing to be written, printed and published a certain defamatory libel of and concerning Sir Joseph Hawley, Bart.

Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. F. H. Lewis conducted the prosecution.

The defendant conducted his own defence.

The alleged libel, which was headed "Representative Sportsmen-Sir Joseph Scratchawley," referred to the practices of "roping" and "milking" pursued by a number of persons connected with the turf, and insinuated that complainant had been guilty of such practices. The article alluded to the scratching of the two horses out of three which Sir Joseph had entered for the Liverpool Cup, which was represented to have been done for the purpose of winning money by illegitimate and improper means. Sir Joseph appeared in the witness-box and denied the allegations contained in the libel, and the Duke of Beaufort testified that the "scratching" alluded to was done in accordance with the rules of the turf, and in an hononrable and proper

manner.

The Judge, in summing up, said the first point to consider was whether the articles were libels. Upon that there was no question. The next question was, whether they had been printed and published, and that had been proved. The only remaining question, therefore-and it was that to which the jury would have to direct their attention-was whether the defendant was responsible for the publication of this libel. The paper was printed and published for his benefit, but he had contended that the articles in question were published without his knowledge, and not from any want of due care and attention on his part. It was for them to say whether that contention was made out.

The Jury found the defendant guilty of not exercising due caution. The Judge, addressing the defendant, said that he had been convicted of publishing a libel upon Sir Joseph Hawley, and it appeared to him that he had been very properly convicted of that offence. It was the duty of the editor of a newspaper to make himself acquainted with all the matters that were contained in it, and this, as he understood it, was the meaning of the term. If it was shown that reasonable care was taken to prevent the insertion of libellous articles of this description, that would be an answer, but nothing of the sort had been shown in the present case. All that was suggested was that the defendant was not well, and that he did not go to the office to see what was contained in the paper before it was published; but this was clearly not enough, and it appeared to him that he had been most properly convicted of not having used proper care and caution before he permitted the publication of this article. With regard to the character of the libel, the defendant himself had described it as being most scurrilous. and conveying the most serious imputations upon the character of the prosecutor, and no doubt the effect of such charges as were made in it would be in some cases to cause actual torture to the party against whom they were directed, and must in every case cause serious pain and annoyance, and it should not be forgotton that three similar articles had been published. He had consulted with one of the learned judges who was sitting in the court, and he concurred with him that the sentence he had himself proposed to pass was the proper sentence to be passed; and that sentence would be that he pay a fine of £50 to the Queen, and be imprisoned for three months.

Frederic Farrah then surrendered to answer an indictment also preferred by Sir Joseph Hawley, upon the same libel.

The defendant pleaded guilty.

Mr. Straight, who appeared for the defendant, said that he was merely the publisher of the newspaper in question, and he knew nothing whatever of its contents. The papers were brought to his shop in a cart, and he merely sold them over the counter and had not the slightest knowledge of what they contained. The moment he discovered the nature of the article in question he at once expresed his regret, and he repeated that expression of regret on the present occasion. His case was very different to that of Dr. Shorthouse, and he believed that his learned friend Serjeant Ballantine would consent to allow the defendant to go at large upon entering into his own recognisance to appear and receive judgment if he should be called upon.

Mr. Serjeant Ballantine said that the case of this defendant was different to the other, but still it ought to be understood that a person who was in the of a publisher was bound to use reasonable care and caution not to publish libellous articles of this description. However, he had no objection to the course that was proposed to be taken.

The defendant then entered into his own recognisance in the sum of £50 to appear and receive judgment if he should be called upon, and was discharged Gilbert Robbins then surrendered and pleaded guilty to writing and publishing a libel of the same character in the Man About Town. The Judge said that the defendant had pleaded guilty to publishing a libel, and although it was not one of so offensive a character as that in the former case, there was no doubt that it was a libel, and he had acted quite right in pleading guilty. It appeared, however, that the moment he discovered there was no foundation for the charges he apologised, and he did this before he was threatened with legal proceedings. He had also caused all the papers containing the libel to be destroyed, and it appeared to him that under the circumstances he should be justified in ordering him to pay a fine of £25 to the Queen.

The fine was immediately paid.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER-DECEMBER 15. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)

BRAMBLE V. KNOX.

This was an action brought under the 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 107, to recover penalties from Major Knox, proprietor of the Irish Times, for the publication of the following advertisement on the 13th October, 1869:-" £5 RewardLost, coming out of the Rotundo last Tuesday evening, the 12th October,

a gold watch and chain. If left at Mr. M'Dowell's, 27 Henry-street, the above reward will be given, and no questions asked." The statute provides that any person who shall publicly advertise for the return of goods which have been lost or stolen, and use words in that advertisement purporting to convey that no questions will be asked, shall be subject to a penalty of £50, and full costs of suit; and that any person who shall print or publish such advertisement shall be subject to a like penalty. The defendant pleaded, first, that the gold watch and chain were not lost or stolen; secondly, that he did not print or publish the advertisement; and, thirdly, that the advertisement was printed and published by persons in his employment, who are authorised to receive only legal and proper advertisements, and that the advertisement in question was printed and published in his absence, and without his authority or permission.

Formal evidence of proprietorship having been given,

Mr. John Kennedy, a victualler, deposed that one evening he lost bis watch and chain. Next day he wrote out an advertisement and brought it to the Irish Times office, and gave it to one of the clerks behind the counter, and paid 2s. 6d. for its insertion. He did not know either Bramble, the plaintiff, or Mr. Rynd, his attorney. He got the summons scme three weeks ago, and was then told something about being liable to a fine.

Several clerks in the Irish Times office were examined as to the course of business in the taking of advertisements, &c. It was deposed that they received instructions at the commencement of their employment to take only perfectly legal advertisements, and that they occasionally refused advertisements.

Baron Deasy, in charging the jury, said that the act of parliament on which the action was founded was passed in the year 1861, and had slumbered ever since, until Mr. Bramble brought it into activity. He had a legal right to do so, and all they had to do was to try whether or not Major Knox had brought himself under its provisions. The first issue they had to try was, whether or not Mi. Kennedy lost his watch. Unfortunately there was no doubt about that. The next issue was, whether Major Knox had printed and published the advertisement? Upon the evidence given, counsel for the defendant submitted that it had appeared that Mr. Meats was the sole printer and publisher; and that, therefore, Major Knox had not published the advertisement. As at present advised, he should direct them to find for the plaintiff on that issue, reserving leave to the defendant to move the full court to change the finding into one for him; and reserving liberty to himself to change his opinion on the subject if he should see reason to do so; and he dared say they would not regret if they should hereafter read in the newspapers that he had done so. The defendant had alleged, in his defence, that he was absent when the advertisements were inserted, and knew nothing of The plaintiff did not take issue on that, but averred, first, that the defendant's servants were duly authorised by the defendant to receive all advertisements on the payment of certain sums of money. He would ask them to say whether that had been established or not. Then the replication averred that certain of the defendant's servants received payment for the advertisement in the course of business, and paid over the money to the defendant, and accounted with him, and that the defendant received the money It would be for them to say, on the evidence, what authority was conferred on the clerks. It would appear that, practically, the clerks were the judges

them.

as to whether or not an advertisement was legal without supervision on the part of any one; but in a newspaper like that of the defendant it would not be possible to conduct the business otherwise. It was not disputed that the advertisement in question was inserted, and it was plainly a violation of the statute. No one appeared to have been aware of the provisions of this statute until attention was drawn to it in the manner in which the plaintiff had called Major Knox's attention to it. They should say whether the advertisement had been inserted, and the money received by the express or implied authority of the defendant; and if they should be of opinion that either of these alternatives were true, they should find for the plaintiff.

Verdict:-On the question as to whether Mr. Kennedy lost his watch and chain?--Yes. On the question whether the defendant printed and published the advertisement?-Yes (by direction of the Court). On the first part of the replication-viz., did the defendant's servants duly receive the advertisement and payment for same?-Yes. On the latter half of it-viz., was the payment duly received and accepted by the defendant?-No.

Baron Deasy said the verdict was to be entered for the defendant, with leave to the plaintiff to move.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on December 10th, before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury, the case of Marriott v. Pegg was tried. The action arose out of the Coventry election, and was brought to recover damages for libel published in the Coventry Standard, of which defendant is proprietor. The defendant pleaded "Not guilty," and the publication of an apology. Mr. Marriott, the plaintiff, was a builder and contractor, of Coventry, of which city he was twice Mayor. On the occasion of the election of 1867 plaintiff, as Mayor, acted as returning officer. The libel, the subject of the action, appeared in the defendant's newspaper, and was as follows:-" The Election Petitions.-It appears that the judges are disposed to look over all blunders on the part of the petitioners, and to interpret everything in their favour. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday it was decided that £1,000 security is sufficient for a petition against two members. Mr. Marriott and others talked about bringing disgrace on the city when they bribed Tustin, the deaf and dumb man, and others with £5 to vote for Jackson. We shall see who are the parties who bring disgrace on the city by raking up the most paltry cases to try to throw out two of the best members Coventry ever returned." The article complained of appeared on the 23rd of January last. Plaintiff's attention was not directed to it for some days after it appeared, and he then, through his solicitor, demanded the name of the writer. An apology was inserted in paper, but it was not thought sufficient. After the arguments were concluded, the Lord Chief Justice told the jury that the article was undoubtedly a libel. The sole question they had to determine was the amount of damage which should be awarded to the plaintiff, in considering which they should have regard to the apology made, and arrive at the conclusion whether it was

the

or was not such an apology as the plaintiff should have been content with. The jury, after deliberating for some time, handed in a verdict for the plaintiff-damages £40.

AT Manchester two actions were tried in which the proprietors of the Huddersfield Chronicle and the Huddersfied Observer were the defendants. The

plaintiff was Mr. Edward Clayton, a bookseller, and also a Poor-law guardian

of the Huddersfield Workhouse, and the publications in the journals of which he complained represented that certain improper familiarities had taken place between the plaintiff and an under-nurse at the union. Mr. Clayton denied the truth of the statements in question, and the jury awarded him £1,000 damages against the publisher of the Chronicle, and £100 damages against the second defendant.

AT the Manchester Assizes, Messrs. Beresford and Havill, publishers of a weekly journal called the Free Lance, were charged with having published a false and defamatory libel affecting Messrs. Boote and Rylance, a highly respectable firm of solicitors in Manchester An advertisement relating to a scandal known to many in Manchester, and mentioning the name of a gentleman, had been by accident admitted to one of the local papers. This gentleman consulted Messrs. Boote and Rylance, and, in consequence, one of their clerks went to the offices of all the papers, warning them not to insert the advertisement, as it was considered libellous. None of the papers did insert it except the Free Lance, in which it appeared as a paragraph, coupled with the names of Messrs. Boote and Rylance, reflecting on them for interfering with the discretion of the editor, and commenting on them in terms which those gentlemen thought were calculated to bring discredit and ridicule upon them. The learned Judge thought the charge ought not to be pressed, and the defendants withdrawing what might be construed into imputations on the plaintiffs, a formal verdict of not guilty was entered.

IN the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 1st ult., an action against a Trade Protection circular, for libel, resulted in a verdict of £100 damages.

WESTMINSTER POLICE COURT.-DECEMBER 4TH.

IN consequence of the decision in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, the Clerkenwell News has substituted and London Daily Chronicle as a second title instead of London Times.

THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE" of and from this day will be greatly enlarged, and appear, at the price of twopence, as a morning journal. An evening edition of the paper will also be issued.

THE TIMES' AND THE CATHOLICS.-Major Coxson complains in the Tablet that the Times will not insert announcements of deaths with the letters "R.I.P." at the end of them.

THE proprietors of the Queen's Messenger announce that it will reappear at the commencement of the next Parliamentary session, "in exact accordance with the announcement made in its prospectus."

A YANKEE editor writes: "A correspondent asks whether the battle of Waterloo occurred before or after the commencement of the Christian era." We answer, "It did."

WE are informed that a halfpenny morning newspaper is about to be started in the North of England. It is to be called the Northern Echo, and will advocate Liberal principles.

NEWSPAPERS FOR ITALY.-By a recent order of the PostmasterGeneral newspapers for Italy will in future be sent at the following rates, which must be paid in advance :-For each newspaper, not exceeding four ounces in weight, 3d.; for every additional four ounces, 3d. FROM HIBERNIA. -A Waterford bi-weekly paper, issued every Wednesday and Saturday, makes the following announcement in its Wednesday's impression:-"As our next day of issue will be Christmas-day, we will not publish till Wednesday."

THE Echo of December 18th contained an interesting article on the

Mr. Horace Voules, the publisher of the Echo newspaper, Catherine-street, Strand.

Mr. Draper said he appeared for a man, named Cox, who was committed from this court on Monday last for indecently assaulting another man. In the Ech some editorial remarks appeared on the case tending materially to prejudice the prisoner, the principal being a suggestion that when tried four years ago for a similar offence he was wrongly acquitted, and a police-constable, named Teehan, who was evidence against him, was wrongfully dismissed by Sir Richard Mayne. He (Mr. Draper) wrote to the editor and requested a retraction of the statement, and in the Echo of Monday last a short paragraph was inserted to the effect that "they disclaimed any intention to prejudice the case of the prisoner." This was not sufficient. Cox was more than honourably acquitted; the constable (Teehan) was dismissed, the sergeant (Adams) was reduced, and the other witness (Connor) was convicted afterwards of perjury. He had made all these facts known in his letter to the Beho, and it was of the utmost importance that they should not go uncontradicted, as the prisoner would be tried on Monday next at the Middlesex

session.

HARRISON WEIR has joined the artistic staff of the Graphic. MR. JOSEPH COWAN, jun., proprietor of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Chronicle has given £500 to the National Educational League.

MR. JOHN PROCTOR wishes to state shat he has not drawn for Willo'-the-Wisp for many months.

CUTHERT BEDE, who made a great success with "Verdant Green," has written a new humorous story for the Illustrated Midland News. IT is said that Mr. Hepworth Dixon has registered the title of a journal to be called Light.

THE Echo has written a birthday article. The paper is a success. Various rumours put the cost of success down at £60,000. A NEW penny monthly periodical is announced, under the title of The True Catholic. It will devote itself to the advocacy of Protestant interests, and to dealing with the designs of the Romish Church.

Ir is often a subject of wonder "where all the newspapers go to." There is a little paper called The Weekly Budget, full of sensational tales, that sells nearly 200,000 a week, chiefly in Lancashire.

THE little town of Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, is to have a newspaper, partly printed in London, of course, and partly in Birmingham.

WE are requested to state that the Daily News has opened an office for advertisements at 67, Fleet-street; and the Illustrated Midland News a publishing office, for the London trade, at 33, Essex-street, Strand.

were enabled by the courtesy of the firm to describe its wondrous system fully in the first volume of the NEWSPAPER PRESS, we do not find anything to quote which has not been previously described in these columns.

A LIBERAL daily newspaper, to be published at Darlington, at one halfpenny, is announced to appear to-day. The publisher in his circular states: Some block advertising will be essential at the outset; and, as publisher, I have determined that any advantage given in this way to advertisers shall be conceded-not to quack doctors, as has been the too common practice-but to publishers of healthy, useful, and instructive literature.'

NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND.-At a meeting of the committee on the 4th ult., it was stated that Mr. G. Tomline, M.P., has had engraved Murillo's picture of the "Pool of Bethesda," and has presented the plate to the society. It is intended to devote the proceeds of the gift to a fund, to be called the "Tomline Fund." At the meeting two cases of distressed members were investigated, and a liberal grant was made in each instance.

IT is rumoured that a new weekly paper is in contemplation at Manchester, to be entitled The Home, of which Miss Lydia Becker, the advocate of giving parliamentary suffrage to women, is to be the editor. Women are to be employed as compositors, and are to use the American type-setting machine, by which it is estimated that the work will be done at about one-third the present prices.

LORD PALMERSTON AND THE PRESS.-Lord Palmerston's urbane habit of address made him popular with all sorts of persons, and he was an especial favourite with the short-hand reporters for the Press; indeed, he owed a good deal to them for their careful and accurate work; and what is more, he never failed to acknowledge his obligation. But apart from all selfish interest in the labour of reporting, Lord Palmerston had apparently some genuine sympathy for journalism, and if he could pick out a more than commonly able newspaper-man, he was ready and glad to pay a compliment fairly won.- Cassell's Magazine.

NEWSPAPER obituary literature is undergoing some rather singular changes. In any number of the Times we may find amongst the announcements of deaths the words appended -" Interred this day in the family vault at Cemetery;" ;" "Friends will kindly accept this intimation" (this phrase is more usually seen in marriage notices); and "Friends will please accept this intimation with thanks for kind inquiries." In the American journals it is customary to append to the obituary announcements a statement when and where the funeral will take place; in this country we may shortly find ourselves following the same convenient practice.-Printers' Register.

THE FRANKLIN SOCIETY.-We have received the first of the papers of the Franklin Society of Chicago, a corporation composed of "persons directly connected with the business of printing, editing, or publish ing of books or newspapers, the manufacture of paper, printing presses, or printing ink, typefounding and its branches, engraving, bookbinding, &c." The subject of the paper is "The Printer;" but we are promised the following, to be read at ensuing meetings:-"A Contribution to the History of Newspapers in Illinois," "History of the Press in Lake County, Illinois,' "Historical Notes upon the Press of South Carolina," &c.

THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN.-In a recent No. of the NEWSPAPER