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CHATS ON NEWS- I, "7; r' t t. 0': "iii:t} bJ a. CJ,J' a .ø" PAPER' HISTORY. Ã J. t.J 2—Liverpool and its Newspaper in the days of Waterloo. MUCH ink bee ATA flowed from [journalist) cj| quill and nib in the paragraphing of history from day to day, since the time when the Liverpool Courier gave the r.evrs of Wellington's campaigns and set the old city coffee-houeee and ex. changes agog over the latest despatches of Wellington from the Continent. The paper which our great- great-grandfathers then perused was but a tiny folio of some eight pages printed on the most improved machines at a rate that could not have exceeded more than 100 copies to the hour. Its gigantic offspring of to-day, which is thundered out at the speed of 100,000 an hour, and comes betimes with the early-morning milkman, containing the news of the world red-hot, is a reminder of how strong has been the hold on the public of Liverpool's oldest newspaper, through. out all the viccissitudes and world events of one hundred and eleven years. Since the famous January day in the reign of George the Third, when old Thom- as Kaye, its first editor, published his initial copy from his newspaper-shop in Castle Street at the request of the lead- ing Conservatives of the township, the Courier's" success and popularity has thriven with the years. Its prime prin- ciples, to-day are what they were in 1808 it has nursed an early 16th century township returning a minority of Tories, to the city stronghold of British Unionism to-day and it has been as consistent in its politics as it has been plaindealing and painstaking in its advocacy of them. In the days before the railway train had replaced the sedan chair and post- chaise. when gas was a novelty to gape at, when important news from London and the Continent had to be brought in by mounted couriers, and the art of shorthand notation was as rare as in times of Cicero, the-Home and Foreign news of the Cour- ier" of the early Nineteenth Century was the very best that human pains and ingenuity could serve the public with. In those times, be it noted, it had to compete with several older rivals, but its sheer readableness, its weight and trenchan- ey and integrity of principle won it so immediate a success among the bob wigged merchants and fashionable citizens who | [ }}■ 181 j | used to fore-gather in. coffee, tavern and change and mart to discuss the days event.s-, that it soon beat its old contemporaries to easy graves. Casually skimming the ancient files of the- Courier" relating to the period of the Wars with Napoleon, we can see how analogous news of those early years, then read by the old Liverpool mer- chants over their glass of Hollands and pipe of Negro's Head, appeared to those through which we have recently passed. In the, years when Liverpool's sons were fighting on sea and on foreign soil to help bring the Kaiser of his day to his Amerongen at Saint Helena, Liverpool's crack frigates, were being sunk by the French sea-arm until in the'year 1811 there was a falling off in dock-dues to the extent of £ 56,782 10/0 and in ships to the tune of 1123,201 in tonnage. Provisions were scarce, trade was de- pressed, and a subscription was opened by the "Courier for buying up provisions for the poor at cheap rates. The wall%, about Castle Street and the Town Hall were placarded with edicts adjuring econ- omy in the use of bread and potatoes, and forbidding (exactly as in 1916) the con- sumption and sale of bread not twenty- four hours old at least. Even when the wars with Napoleon were ended amid ringing of the peace-bells from the steeples and the discharging of fireworks at Everton, want and unemploy- ment were rife, paper-money obtained everywhere, and commerce," says our journal of the year 181,9 "was never in OW"- memory in so depressed and dangerous a state as in these times. Yet by the first months of 1820 and the death of the Third George, Liverpool had turned the danger point. Canada, India and Cape Colony were the new dependencies and Colonies of Empire just then beginning to discharge their rich freights and merchandise upon Liverpool's docks and wharves. The progressive spirit of the "Courier" was one with the far-sighted merchants who saw in the new-bom steam-power a new and powerful weapon for revolution- ising manufacture and applying it to the domination of the seas and to the expansion of the great seaport's maritime trade. Through all those perilous times, as nor. in these of our own days, the Courier fought for the conservation of all that was good in our country, and for the deetructioa of all that it considered did not minister to the country's growth, either at heme or abroad. Backed by such old i,iverpoor,wort,hies as Sir John Gladstone (father of the great Minister) and the Venerable Archdeacon Brooks it fought the English Revolutioning propaganda bred from the Bolshevism of France in 1793, just as it has fought the Bolshevism of niodeim labour extremists to-day. It was abreast of the times iii 1808, it mirrors and forms the thought of to-day. JttqJooI. FIRST in 1808 and FIRST in 1919.  ':M: 0 :t'J El LENT PRIVATELY. 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