AN EDITOR FORL THE TIMES WANTED.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2540, 26 February 1877, Page 3

AN EDITOR FORL THE TIMES WANTED.

i. Reports of the failing-health : ans 17D.ro*-, bable retirement of Mr D'elap'e/th'tf Editor' .Qf: the the Times; have been circulated for fully £ year past," but'latterly they have,assumed,so positive and circumstantial a form that it becomes necessary to> notice them. It is beyond doubt-that Mr Delano's health is seriously impaired, and that ion this account his duties are being' discharged by another; and as he is now* 6l| years, of age, it is not unnatural to suppose he is seeking the rest which is impossible' of attainment so long as he wields the, thunderbolts of the "Jupiter of Printing House Square. It is stated that: Sir George Dasent, who for many years was Mr Delane's principal colleague, was asked to succeed .him, but Sir George having lately got a snug berth as a Civil Service Commissioner, and' knowing the" arduous nature of the post offered him, declined to be tempted. Mr Leonard Courtney, one of the best of the staff of leader-writers attached to the Times, has been spoken of as the most likely man to fill the vacancy, but he is at present contesting the representation of Liskeard, and is, moreover, a Liberal of too decided , a type to be altogether suited for the editorship of such a political chameleon as 'theJTimea. Meanwhile, Mr Stebbing is conducting the paper, but his efforts are far'-'from', giving satisfaction, and-'many complaints are made of the'doctrinaire character the leading articles of the Time* have assumed, especially in respect to the'Eastern Question. It seems to be" as difficult to get a really good editor for a leading paper now-a-days, as Napoleon found it to be to get a general capable of commanding 100,000 men. Mr Walter has-juit" returned from the Philadelphia Exhibition, where he is said to have seen,, much in the company of Mr Childs, the energetic proprietor of the Philadelphia

Ledger, and probably the moat far seeing newspaper man in America. It is rumpured that Mr Walter, anting on the advice of Mr Childs, intends to start a pejnny evening paper in London, but for thje truth of this I cannot vouch. I believe, however, that I am correct in stating that before long a penny weekly summary of news will be issued from the Times office.—Correspondent to the Olngo Dkily Times. . '