connected with the papers, the subscribers to each saw, or fancied they saw, a marked improvement in the "leading" department. The readers of the Tory and agricultural paper were in ecstacies with the contemptuous terms in which the editorial articles spoke of the "unwashed," and the " great manufacturing lords of the large towns;" while the freedom and fearlessness with which "The Leveller" assailed the aristocracy, denounced the corn laws, and exposed Tory corruption of every kind and wherever detected, raised the "unrepresented masses" to the third heaven of happiness. Nor was this all: week after week did "The Constitutionalist" reply, with unsparing severity, to the " gross misrepresentations" of "The Leveller;" while "The Leveller" "demolished with tremendous effect"-so, at least, its readers alleged the tyrannical positions advanced by "The Constitutionalist." The result was, that the landlords and their tenants toasted, amidst loud plaudits, the "able and unflinching editor

of 'The Constitutionalist,"" at all their public dinners; while the "unenfranchised millions,' never privileged to sit down to a public dinnerrarely, indeed, partaking of a dinner, however frugal, even at home-were obliged to content themselves with passing, amidst deafening acclamations, at their open-air meetings, their most "cordial thanks to the talented editor of 'The Leveller,' for his masterly and untiring advocacy of the interests of the working classes." The natural consequence of all this was, that the circulation of both papers considerably increased. And as proprietors of public journals always, or, at least, with very few exceptions, test the competency of an editor by the effect which his writings have on the circulation, the reader will not be unprepared for the information, that the proprietor of "The Constitutionalist" and of "The Leveller" congra tulated himself on the accession of Mr. Jenkins. He had, indeed, resolved, as a practical proof of this, on increasing his remuneration; and the

only question with him was, whether he ought to double it at once, or content himself with adding half-a-guinea a week to the previous guinea for each of the journals, and make the addition of the other half-guinea in two or three months, should the circulation of the papers continue to rise. In the meantime, Saturday, the hour of publication, was approaching. It was Friday evening, and both the papers must appear on the following day. Mr. Jenkins had not a line of leading article written for either journal, and the printers were besieging his apartments for he wrote at home-for copy. He began to write with energy, and never quitted his seat until he had dashed off a leader for each paper. Somehow or other he could not tell why he was, on this occasion, seized with a vehement desire to write something unusually decided in tone and energetic in language. He was pleased with his success; for, on reading over the articles in manuscript, before despatching them to the printer, he thought that, in

point of boldness and vigour, they surpassed any of his previous effort. He wrote, as was his custom, on the first slip of each article, the name of the journal for which it was intended; and, having sent off the copy to the compositors, he went to bed on remarkably excellent terms with himself. He slept soundly until eight on the following morning, when, it being summer, he rose and started, by coach, for St. Alban's, where he remained until Monday afternoon; his duties for the morning journal with which he was connected, then requiring his presence in

town.

In the hurry of the moment, Joseph had written the name of the wrong paper at the head of each of the articles-that is, he had assigned the democratic article to "The Constitutionalist," and the violent Tory tirade against liberal principles, to "The Leveller." The mistake was not discovered until the entire impression of each paper had been sold. In the leader of "The Constitutionalist "—the journal which

had hitherto been so staunch a supporter of ultra-Toryism, the Throne, the aristocracy, the Church, and the agricultural interest, there occurred the following passage:-" Toryism and tyranny are synonymous terms. The profligate men now in power would not hesitate a moment in letting loose their demon soldiery on every meeting of the people assembled to petition for the redress of their grievances, were it not that they dread the day of retaliation. They are individually and collectively, a parcel of as great despots as ever trod the earth. We could name among the members of the present Ministry, men whose bosoms are as destitute of humanity as was the bosom of Nero himself. same may, unfortunately, be said with too much truth, of hundreds of the aristocracy. They are SO many titled monsters; and the day, we trust, is not distant, when every vestige of the order' will be swept from off the face not only of this country, but of the earth. They prey on the lifeblood of the working classes, whom they regard

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