the Daily News, in celebration of the Our London contemporary and namesake, fiftieth anniversary of its birth, issued on the 2ist of January a special number of sixteen pages (128 columns), which some one has calculated if published in octavo form would make a volume of 450 pages—and all for one penny. The number is noteworthy one, and the reminiscences of the journal's career and of the men associated with it will be found deeply interesting. The first issue of the D-rily News was on the 21st of January, 1846, under the editorship of Charles Dickens, but the novelist soon wearied of the hard and almost incessant work of the newspaper editor, and in a little more than four months from the day the paper started his connection with it ceased. As the writer of the paper's history points out, Dickens stood at the very front of English literature, and if he had continued to be the editor of the Daily News he must have sacrificed the best part of a superb literary career. Mr. Thomas Britton, the Paper, who has been connected with it from spon publisher of the fay the commencement, contributes a chatty article upon the early days and he takes occasion to contradict' the stories which have grown up as to the outward pomp and display which marked the office arrangements. The silver salvers upon which the editor was handed his letters, and the plush-liveried footman, are declared to be myths. Upon Dickens'
for ''a weary, anxious, Inborious year" by retirement the editorial chair was occupied his friend Mr. Forster, and then Mr. C. W. Dilke,—the grandfather of the present Sir Charles Dilke—a_man of extraordinary soournplistanents and at the same time remarkable business capacity, who initiated the policy of reduction in price which has gone on from five-pence, the original cost of a copy, to the penny charged to-day. But, interesting as is the history of the ily News, we cannot follow it here in detail and can only briefly refer to some of the names which have been connected with it at one time and the other. Douglas Jerrold, Father Prout," Harriet Martineau—one of the earliest of lady journalists who for fourteen years continued to write articles, Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh, Professor Leone Levi, Sir Joseph Amould—lately Judge of the High Court of Judicature in Bombay—Mr. Grenville Murray, Mr. Labouchere, and Professor Cairnes, were frequent contributors, besides many other lant wielders of the pen whose -association was not so close. Asthe consistent exponent of Liberal views the Duily News steadily grew in popular favour and respect, but, during the Franco-German War, it developed such a, spirit of enterprise in the rapid transmission of news from the scone of strife, that it speedily came to the front, and thanks to Archibald Forbes and his no less intrepid colleagues and successors, it won a reputation which attaches to it still. The names of J. A. MacGahan and Edmond O'Donovan will be long remembered in this connection, as well as their adventurous wanderings in the Enst of Europe and Centril Asia, As the Dvily News says of the latter: "The fame of his correspondence from Mery with the Daily News will always live in the story of journalism. A pathetic, but courageous and manly, letter from him was received by Mr. Robinson, written a few days before what we must assume to be his death, but did not reach London until after the battle in which he must be supposed to have perished. It foretold his fate—'to die here, with a spearhead the size of a shovel in my breast.' He was swept away, no doubt, with many other non-combatants, in-charge of the enemy. Nothing was ever made out for certain—the sand of the er his unknown but unforgotten grave." But it isnot only in war and war correspondence that the D riley News has, been prominent. Ithas been in the front of every good fight made for reform in English social, political, and economic legislation," and in offering our hearty congratulations to our contemporary, we may safely predict that, under its new editor it will continue to flourish and exercise the influence for good which it admittedly has for so many years. In conclusion we may quote the following verses from Mr. E. J. Milliken's poem Fifty Years: 1846-1896," printed in the special number.
"Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day, Better fifty years of Et than a cycle of Better indeed! The Singor's creed—Not in mere boastful insular mood, Whose vain complacency can feed On narrowing of the great and good 5 Not in the pompous Podsnap style The Genial Master mocked and seathed But modestly—our Mother Isle, In wild mid-ocean's mists enswathed, well adopt. Better! And why?
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