NEWSPAPER COMPLIMENTS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3210, 3 June 1879, Page 4

NEWSPAPER COMPLIMENTS.

Certain London" Editors do not seem to fraternise with the utmost affection. Thus The Whitehall Eeview, upon' the death'"'of, the Princess Alice, said in rather-a- stately way: "It is our mournful duty, to convey to the Queen the, respectful^' and sincere condolence oi that section of the community more intimately connected with the Court and its surroundings than any other portion of Her. 'Majesty's subjects." Upon this, The London World newspaper, rising up savagely^ says that the> proprietor of The Whitehall Eeview is an egg merchant, named Peacock, of the firm of Merdin and , Peacock, Wells-street; that the editor is an ex-reporter of The Morning Post, and was formerly the sub-sub-editor of a third-rate country newspaper.. And he wants to know, does 'this sub-acidulous critic, "how this tradesman and his young man are more intimately connected with the Court, and its surroundings than any other portion pf< Her Majesty's subjects " —unless—mark' the .fine irony !— " the one purveys the butter for the royal household, and the other the paper in which the 'butter is wrapped !." And so, with a .withering allusion to "rampant-idiocy-'and sickening flunkeydom," he leaves this pin sticking in the Bide of a contemporary and a brother !