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New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1129, 27 June 1867, Page 4

I The journeymen compositors of Paris hare held a meeting, arid, hare declared, that they will bo glad to see the printing trade thrown open, instead of being kept a monopoly in tho hands of certain privilegod persons aa heretofore. Tyi-oobaphicaii Hobhous.—A new York letter ■writer thus sketches a few typographical errors:— One day last year Mr. Greeley wiote an editorial entitled " William H. Seward." Imagine his rage when it came to him in proof headed " Richard the Third!" Yet any body familiar with chirograph}-, if his inky jerks can be so designated, will readily see, not only such a mistake could be made, but how it probably would be. Again he wrote about "three men in buckram," and the prosaic type-setter got it " three men in a back room." And chis, notwith - standing the fact that two compositors of sagacity and experience are hired at an extra salary, because they can read his copy. But George Ripley has been the victim of the grossest outrages in this line. In one of hi 9 book notices he took the liberty of quoting from Shakespeare. " "lis true, 'tis pity; and pity 'tis 'tis true." And tlis -wretched bungler got it, 'Tis 'two 'tia fifty ; 'tis fifty—'tis fifty-two !" That is somewhat worse than Janjes If. Babcock's martyrdom, when he wrote, lt Is there no balm in Gilead ?" and read next morning, to his consternation (l Is there no barn in Guilford?" Mr. Crawford, a member of Parliament, recently sent to India the message, " Xlie news from America favors the holders," and it arrived there with the information "that "Hews from America savors of soldiers f"