THE LONDON TIMES.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 11, 4 May 1877, Page 2

THE LONDON TIMES.

With the bejjinninij of the new year; remarks the Melbourne Argus,, theproprietors of the London Times com* inenced the issue-of a woekly edition, coo* laining just five times tlie qumiitv of* matter to be found its daily issue of June? 32, ISIS, whea it published the official; bulletin of the battle of Waterloo. Externally, ihe new venture it very like theprimttife form of The Times. The size of the page and the number of columns arethe tame ; and there if the old familiar black letter title, with* the Royal amis, the zoological monsters; supporting themy and the conventional rose, shamrock, and' thistle thrown in by way of ornament. But when we contrast the daily Time* sixty or seventy years ago with those of its weekly epitome in 1877, we are convincingly reminded of the enormous, strides which newspaper enterprise has made daring the lifetime of two genera* tions. The twenty pages issued front Printing-house Square every Friday afternoon at the low price of twopence, contain the oolHical history of the civilised world during the preceding: sennight. A page is devoted to telegraphic despatches, some of them extend* ing over a column each- from Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Borne, and Philadelphia. There is news from Japan not more than a day old, while the foreign correspo*~ dence by post includes letters Cram, * Shanghai, Calcutta, New Orleans, Bel* grade, Alexandria, St. Petersburg. Con. stanlinople, Athens, Philippopolis, and Sydney. Art, literature, science, biography, statesmanship* legislation, juris; prudenoe,. and the religious and socialcontroversies of the day are also represented or reflected in the columns of the weekly folio. In short, it seems to b* the aim of the compiler or editor, of this weekly rolume to make it " thea&stacfr and brief chronicle ot the time, and* to* render it especially acceptable to all who* would like to preserve the mow _ valuableportions of the daily issue, but hare been, bitherto prevented by the enormous balk. is well as the unwieldiness of the broads volumes of The Times. To Englishmen in Indi» and in her Majesty's colonial possessions this publication will be quite ft twon. No one who receives and reads ft regularly need experience any difficulty n keeping himself perfectly on ctunutf irith the course of events, not only in Europe, but in every part of the world 0 which the telegrapbie wires extend, or 1 special correspondent has penetrated* #