POSTSCRIPT. SINCE the foregoing pages were in type, three names have occurred to us which have been heard in connexion with the Press world sufficiently often to have demanded a notice in our pages, but who were overlooked in their proper place. Josiah Conder, Robert Knox, and the young and rising journalist, James Hannay. Josiah Conder was the first editor of the Patriot, a dissenting organ, founded in 1833, which soon afterwards absorbed the Christian Advocate, and its editor, Mr. J. M. Hare, who became Conder's joint editor on the Patriot. The "Eclectic Review" was for many years the property and under the editorship of Conder, who also wrote some poems and many religious works. Robert Knox came from Ireland, where he was born in 1808, and entered the Irish newspaper world at an early age. He was for some time editor of the Morning Herald, and, on the recent breaking up of that establishment, under Mr. Baldwin's failure, received a consular appointment abroad. James Hannay is one of that band of brilliant journalists whom the Daily News gathered together. The son of David Hannay, a banker, he was born at Dumfries on the 17th of February, 1827. Five out of his thirty years were spent at sea. In March, 1840, he joined H.M. ship Cambridge, 78, and was engaged in the Egyptian war; but-strange transition!-on leaving the sea, in 1845, he became a reporter on the Morning Chronicle, and afterwards joined the staff of the Daily News. In the general election of 1857 he unsuccessfully tried for a seat in Parliament to represent his native place.. Mr. Hannay is also well known as the author of many clever and popular works; among them, "Singleton Fontenoy," and "Eustace Conyers," two novels, "Sand and Shells," &c., and has also contributed papers to the "Quarterly Review," and to most of the magazines of the day. We will take this opportunity, too, of correcting an error into which we have fallen, in speaking of the railway press of 1845. We had thought only two papers came out of the terrible crash alive, but we have since found there was a third, the Railway Record, which still survives. Errors and omissions could scarcely be avoided where the facts were so scattered about and hidden; but we trust we have corrected most of the first which had before existed and supplied many of the second which had been concealed. Glancing the other day over the "Family Tutor," a work published in 1855, we find it states that "The Public Ledger is believed to have been the first daily newspaper." And this is a fair sample of the popular knowledge of the subject. If we have allowed some misapprehensions to go still uncorrected, we trust the scattered nature of the information which we have had to collect will be taken into account; and the peculiar difficulties of a subject, where a jealous reserve is necessarily maintained. to support the anonymous character of the Press, which goes so far to ensure its independence, and even its influence, will be appreciated. That reserve we were bound to respect, or allow our memoirs of the Press to sink into mere personal and mischievous scandal. INDEX TO THE NEWSPAPERS REFERRED TO IN THE SECOND VOLUME. Aberdeen Journal, 137, 298, 337. Alfred, 62, 169. Aris's Birmingham Gazette, 291. Australian, 162. Ayr Advertiser, 142. British Press, 8, 31, 62, 70, 77. Brussels Gazette, 318. Calcutta Gazette, 152. Caledonian Mercury, 294, 298. Canton Press, 318. Register, 318. Carlisle Journal, 131. Carpenter's Political Letter, 194. Carrick's Morning Post, 114, 145. Cerneen, Le, 314, 318. Ceylon Government Gazette, 161. Champion, 54, 69, 99. Clerkenwell News, 343. Conservative Journal, 246. Southern Reporter, 811. Cornwall Gazette, 129. Press (Van Diemen's Land), 312. Correspondent, 147. Courier, 3, 8, 53, 61, 62, 63, 76, 91, François de Londres, 13. Court Journal, 214, 219, 248, 256. Cymro, Y, 337. Daily Express, 337. News, 213, 271, 272, 273, 293, Telegraph, 339, 342. Day, 49, 62, 83, 117. Derby Reporter, 286. Derbyshire Courier, 286. Dispatch, Weekly, 165, 212, 213, Douglas Jerrold's Weekly News- Dublin Commercial Journal (Shaw's), Evening Mail, 205, 206, 311. Morning Post, 145, 149. Dumfries Courier, 134, 298. Journal, 54. Dundee Advertiser, 298. East London Observer, 343. Edinburgh Advertiser, 291, 298. Literary Journal, 272. Evening Herald, 342. Post, Cobbett's, 91. Examiner, 12, 37, 40, 56, 62, 69, 82, 209, 273, 279, 338. Exeter Flying Post, 131. Express, 271. Fame, 32. Finsbury Herald, 343. Freeman's Journal, 298, 301, 311, 337. Fremantle Observer, 312. Galignani's Messenger, 68, 318. General Advertiser, 24, 218. Globe, 8, 28, 62, 77, 113, 201, 222, Gloucester Journal, 130. Hackney and Stoke Newington Hampshire Independent, 283. Harrop's Manchester Mercury, 125. Herapath's Railway Journal, 266, Hetherington's London Dispatch, Poor Man's Guardian, 178, 190, Hicking's Gazette, 152. Holborn Journal, 343. Illustrated London News, 213, 255, 320, 336, 338. Weekly Times, 256. Impartial, L' (Jersey), 318. Independent (Van Diemen's Land), 312. Whig, 34, 38, 62, 77. |