23 JULY 1836, Page 9

The Times pretends to approve of the regulation by which

each newspaper is to have a distinctive die ; but at the same time, more suo, and doubtless for goodreasons, attacks it in the form of anonymous correspondence. A writer in the Times of Thursday, pretends to re- gard the "die crotchet" as the forerunner of an arbitrary system of in- quisition into the affairs of private traders—tn instalment of future in- novations. He says- " It is vastly liberal ' of the slaves who do the Ministers' bidding, to bark .pn the mob to a particular measure of their odious employers; but let are ask them wherein consists the distinction in principle between arbitrarily printing the word " Times" on a stamp, and the words "Morrison and Co.," or any other mercantile firm?"

But do not the publishers of the Times print the word " Times" themselves on every paper ? What more will be put upon the die than the word " Times ? " There is some secret reason for this hos-

t; to the (lie in Printing-house Square.