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which is, perhaps, an unattainable millennium : the fault is in human 

 nature in the common condition of mal-constructed minds. 



The " Times," being the most prosperous Journal in the empire, 

 is subject to an interminable war with nearly all the editors of the 

 other papers. The following specimen of attacks upon the " Times" 

 conveys a correct idea of newspaper quarrels in general : 



LIES OF THE " TIMES.'' The Times journal, with that de- 

 praved taste for slander which characterises it, has been spitting 

 forth some of its rancorous slaver at the Marquis of Exeter, 

 whom it terms the greatest brothel proprietor in the metropolis. 

 Now the Times, whilst it makes this infamous statement, is at 

 the same time fully conscious that it is false. The estate be- 

 longs to the Noble Marquis, but the brothels are the property 

 of Samuel Arnold, Esq., a county Magistrate, and proprietor of 

 the late English Opera-house. This reputation-murdering print 

 sneers at the Marquis, as a Nobleman who " in private life is 

 considered to be strict even to austerity." If to be a man of unde- 

 viating integrity, to be a nobleman of unblemished conduct, of 

 unimpeachable honour and morality, exemplary in domestic life, 

 respected by all who know him, of liberal feelings, and a considerate 

 landlord, be an object for the venomous aim of the Times, they could 

 not have selected a Nobleman who more fully answers the descrip- 

 tion than the Marquis of Exeter. It is the principle of that journal 

 to malign those in any way opposed to its own shuffling line of con- 

 duct. The Marquis of Exeter is a Tory in heart and action ; a 

 staunch friend of the Constitution of his country ; one of the few 

 who vigorously opposed the "breaking in" upon that Constitution ; 

 and, consequently, a marked man by the Times, and the crew whose 

 eyes were so suddenly opened to the necessity of Catholic Emanci- 

 pation. To be independent is, in these days, a crime in the code 

 of politics ; and the Noble Marquis in question having an ample 

 rent-roll, which renders place not necessary to keep up his rank, as 

 is the case with the majority of our pauper aristocracy, is inde- 

 pendent, and of course an object of the hatred and (consequently) 

 malicious abuse from the " Wellington Journal." The " austerity " 

 of this Nobleman consists in his totally abstaining from gambling ; in 

 making his home the centre of his happiness ; in living on his own 

 estate ; in never exceeding his princely income, and expending it 

 amongst his tenants ; thus obtaining a reputation that defies malignity, 

 and maintaining the true dignity of an English Nobleman." 



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Daily Morning. 



The Times, Morning Advertiser, Chronicle, Herald, Post, 

 Public Ledger. 



Daily Evening. 



Evening Standard, ditto Globe, ditto Albion, ditto Courier, ditto 

 Sun, ditto True Sun. 



Thrice a Week. 

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