THE FOURTH ESTATE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2634, 18 June 1877, Page 2

THE FOURTH ESTATE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Mr Hutchinson (says Mayfair) adds another to the list of gentlemen of the in the House of Commons. In addition to the editor ami chief proprietor of the Halifax Courier, there aro now Dr. Cameron, proprietor and editor of the North British Daily Mail; Mr Joseph Cowen, proprietor of that " influential paper in the North of England " to which Mr Gladstone alluded the other night; Professor Smyth, proprietor of the Derry Sentinel; Mr P. A. Taylor, proprietor of the Examiner; Mr Beresford-Hope, founder and proprietor of the Saturday Review; Mr J« Morley, of the Contemporary Review j.Mp Walter, of the Times; and Mr Ingram, of the Illustrated London News. Mr A. M. Sullivan might last session hare been included in the list as proprietor and editor of the Nation; but the hon. member, disposing of his newspaper property, has absolutely severed himself from journalism, and does not even write an occasional paragraph for the Nation. There is an hon. member, who'once occupied another position in the House, a more elevated one I may say, inasmuch as it was an appointment in the Press gallery, he being on the reporting staff of one of the London daily papers. Mr Lowe is, or was, a famous journalist, and so is Mr Leonard Courtney, the new member for Liskeard. We need not mention Mr Gladstone, or include other names of hon. and right hon. members accustomed to write for the journals, to indicate the increasing measure of direct representation of the Press, which is one of the features of Parliament that throned in power that .wellknown "gentleman of the Press," Mr Disraeli.