EFFECT OF THE WAR ON ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 60, 11 March 1878, Page 4

EFFECT OF THE WAR ON ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS.

The London correspondent of the Toronto Globe gives some interesting particulars of the effect of Ibe war on the London dailies. He says that the editors throught it would be a short and sharp campaign, nnd so sent out armies rf correspondents with orders to spnre no expense in getting early and complete reports; but the war never took any hold upon the reading public, and the proprietors of newspapers are getting alarmed at the prospect of an endless succession of telegraph bills, for which there is uo apparent return; cocsequently, reports arebeing cut down and correapondeuta ordered home. The Daily News, he|Bays, has felt the strain bo severely, that it is falling behind in its finances; and it is even rumoured in newspaper circles that Mr Archibald Forbes' sudden return from the seat of war is mainly due to the necessity of curtailing an expenditure too heavy for the resources of the paper. The correspondent says further, the New York Herald has recalled all its war correspondents as not being worth their co3t. The Telegraph and Standard are drawing ia their special intelligence, and I expect during the present winter the Times will be the only paper which will go on with itß system of wholesale telegraphing.