SUB-EDITOR'S ROOM, "TELEGRAPH" OFFICE.
The Morning Telegraph is the most popular daily newspaper in the world. During periods of great excitement its circulation increases to over 200,000 copies a day, and it takes four ten-cylinder, and four six-cylinder Hoe's presses, to strike off its daily editions. The correspondent of the Telegraph at Paris, Mr. Whitehurst, is hand and glove with Napoleon, and his salary amounts to £10,000, with a horse and brougham thrown in. The editor of the Telegraph is Thornton Hunt, son of Leigh Hunt, who was for twenty years on the staff of the Spectator. The sub-editor of the Telegraph, for they have no managing editors in England, is Mr. Ralph Harrison, to whom I am much indebted for courtesies received. The owner of the Telegraph is a Hebrew gentleman named Levy. The Daily News is owned by the Liberation Society, a Dissenters' association, and is edited I believe, by Mr. Edward Dicey, formerly a special correspondent of the Telegraph, who went to Suez for that journal. Tom Hood, son of the poet, was editor of the Tomahawk formerly, and lately of the Latest News, a penny Saturday paper, and Arthur A. Becket has edited Fun. James Grant is now editor of the Morning Advertiser, at a salary of fifty pounds a week, and Blanchard Jerrold receives £800 a year for editing Lloyds' Weekly. The salaries of editors on the London press vary from fifteen to fifty pounds a week, according to the ability displayed, and the circumstances of the journal on which they are employed.
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