The proprietors of provincial newspapers are complaining very much of
their position. Everything used in the trade, from printers' ink to editors' brains, is rising in price, and still they are- compelled by the public to adhere to the uniform price of a penny They should take a lesson from the proprietors of St. James's Hall Restaurant, Regent Circus, who the other day sold Mr. Perkins "cutlets for two." Mr. Perkins divided them with twn friends, and was charged for "cutlets for three." He refused to pay, and the waiter, under orders, we presume, detained his hat, which he had exactly as much right to do as any creditor of Mr. Perkins" would have to " detain " his spoons. The magistrate fined the waiter- 60s. and 40s. costs ; but it is clear from the evidence, and from a subsequent correspondence, that English eating-housekeepers, unlike English butchers, think they have a right to dictate who shall eat the meat they sell. We advise the journalists to take the hint. They have only to watch the publicans to whom they sell their papers, and steal the hate of everybody who read without buying a fresh copy, and they will be rich at once. If you are not entitled to give away the "portion" you pay for,. why are you entitled to lend the paper you have bought ?
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