The interregnum in the management of the Daily News has
ended,—to the delight, we should imagine, of its readers,—Mr. E. Dicey having accepted the editorial chair. We may, we think, congratulate the proprietors as well as the Liberal party on their selection. Though a determined Liberal, Mr. Dicey has shown in all his writings a rare impartiality and comprehension of his op- ponents,—qualities, which, though they may not always strengthen a journalist, are almost indispensable to an editor, whose duty is not merely debate. As regards foreign politics, there is probably no man of his years in England who, has had anything like Mr. Dicey's experience both of countries and of men, or who under- stands so clearly the forces which move opinion in the three countries about which Englishmen care,—France, Germany, and America. His defect, if he has one, is a little too much distrust of English prejudice, a little too much belief in English dislike to reconsider convictions, and that is just the sort of defect which makes newspapers pay.
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