THE FOURTH ESTATE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3931, 21 June 1877, Page 3

THE FOURTH ESTATE IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Mb. Hutchison (says " Mayfair ") adds another to the list of gentlemen of the Press in the House of Commons. In addition to the editor and chief proprietor of the}JE[alifax Courier, there are now Dr Cameron , proprietor and editor of the North British Daily Mail ; Mr Joseph Cowen, proprietor of that " influential paper in the North of England " to which Mr Gladstone alluded the other night; Professor Smyth, proprietor of the Derry Sentinel ; Mr P. A. Taylor, proprietor of the Examiner ; Mr Beresford Hope, founder and proprietor of the Saturday Review ; Mr John Morley, of the Contemporary Review; Mr Walter, of The Times; and Mr Ingram, of the Ilhtstrated London News. Mr A. M. Sullivan might last session have been included in the list as proprietor and editor of the Nation, but the hon. member, disposing of his newspaper property, has absolutely severed himself from journalism, and does not even write an occasional paragraph for the Nation. There is an hon. member who once occupied another position in the House, a more elevated one one I may say, inasmuch as it was an appointment in the Press gallery, he being on the reporting staff of one of the London daily papers. Mr Lowe is, or was, a famous journalist, and so is Mr Leonard Courtney, the new member for Liskeard. We need not mention Mr Gladstone, or include other names of hon. and right hon. members accustomed to write for the journals, to indicate the increasing measure of direct representation of the Press, which is one of the features of the Parliament that throned in power that well-known "gentleman of the Press," Mr Disraeli.