LONDON NEWSPAPERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4320, 25 January 1875, Page 3

LONDON NEWSPAPERS.

(From tho Loudon Correspondent of tlio Otai/o Daily Times.) I was struck by tlie number of dailies offered for sale whose names were strange to me. One of these, the Daily Chronicle, I soon found was an old acquaintance.under a new Dame, being the former Clerktawcll News- a paper which has been able to boast with truth of having more advertisements than The Times, and which the leading journal thoughtasufficicntly formidable opponent to necessitate calling in the law to compel the News to remove its second title of London Times. Another of the new dailies was tho Daily Independent, whose posters declaro that it " will bo the best daily papor," and "will have the largest circulation in the

world." I am bound to say that these announcements are strictly correct; for whatever excellence the paper possesses is still entirely, in the future. Of the old established penny dailies, I must confess I think the Standard from being the worst has become the best. Its matter is greater in quantity, at least as good in quality, and it is far better printed than is that of any of its Liberal rivals, and I was accordingly prepared to find it in high favor. But for its politics, which are unpopular with the masses, the Daily Telegraph would soon be surpassed by it in circulation, for the Telegraph is a very twaddly concern now. As it is, the Standard is close on the Telegraph's heels as to circulation. Provincial newspapers have invaded Loudon in great force, especially the leading Scotch one 3. Formerly, the Scotsman. and the Manchester Guardian alone had London oifices. Now there are established in London offices of the Manchester Examiner, Newcastle Chronicle, Daily Review, Edinburgh Oourant, Glasgow Herald, Glasgow News, North British Daily Mail, and others whose names I do not at present remember. Several of these are sold by newsboys in the streets in the same way as the London papers, and at their published prices. In Leicester-square and the neighborhood, French newspapers are hawked for sale, their principal contents being cried in French. Possibly this is a consequence of the French immigration during the last war ; and to the same cause, no doubt, is due the fact that one occasionally sees posters printed in French, this being especially the case with respect to sales of property.