PENALTY OF THE LONDON PRESS.

Evening Star, Issue 4216, 31 August 1876, Page 4

PENALTY OF THE LONDON PRESS.

What is worse than all, however, is the revelation, of the of -the - ; -'city editors" of our newspapers. Sampson of the 'Times' is an old offender, who has already been condemned by the public voice, and we do not wonder to see his name down oppor site several hundred pounds paid to him for an eulogistic paragraph upon Lisbon tramways. The muse of 'Marmion,' who was Btijjgaai}issd as being greedy for taking half-a, crown a'line/lived in Very dull days, and poets know better now where to send their pigs to marked than even Scott did. But the highest rate.,that has ever been Eaid for literature sinks into insignicairtSs:o%6iSpai«d -with a city editor's

honorarium for his work of imagination. To '*uaafce;the thing that is not as the thing -that is," in prose, and among the commercial intelligence, is a feat that fetches about L 25 a linel'^Qf -courte, everybody is not a Sampson, nor is every,newspaper a 'Times/ .Skaoity editqr of. the '.S^ndai-d' ,only,ffpt do .'of: the, 'Daily ISfews' of himself ajid thje.respeot--3 ;Which he was oonnected. as to bondeso«n<i ttf-take L2O. ill these papers -el&2f&>£™ 3?&W Compfti.y j. and the , T&ggttSh'lß- the ridble-exception?

which is able to congratulate itself, not ex actly having been, bribed -for on( 6of iWaabQsdjnates. did a little money—--toot u/pqn the service for whip! the money was paid. Baron Albert Grantinc 1 , Go., in its case, got-hold very literally of the ; w*6%jg .ta&Tt, -ifad greased the fingars of a '' iaewspapOT r aTe#k' who was of no user to them. But what a picture upon the whole * do-. th»*se!reyelationß:afford of " How we live • jjj#ir'* in-the world of commerce ? I am told of g^tfg'irieji'who are actffiaTntedf -wi€o v tfte 'ways city, time well jtfijicipkd enough

to resist the temptations teat are continuupon - them, and whioh no amount of salary can make it " worth* their 'while " to resist.