A NEW AND PECULIAR JOURNAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4245, 28 October 1874, Page 3

A NEW AND PECULIAR JOURNAL.

A London correspondent of the Argus says that a new weekly journal called the World has been heralded into existence by a clever but rather coarse prospectus, and the five numbers which have been published up to this date are also clever and coarse. Mr. Edmund Yates is said to be the editor; and, though his staff is anonymous, it is not difficult to recognise the identity of several of its members. The style of the Queen’s Messenger is not easily to be mistaken, and Mrs. Syme Linton’s habitual slander of her own sex is of the shrill and shrewish order, through whatever channel it may be directed. The death of Viscountess Amberley (Earl Russell’s daughter-in-law) has given unfortunate occasion for some writing by the strong-minded ladies who put themselves forward to preach atheism, and to inculcate such horrors as the destruction of sickly children, and the euthanasia of the aged and infirm, with extension to those who are “ any way afflicted and distressed in mind, body, or estate,” as its legitimate, indeed logical consequence. Lady Amberley was an active and useful person, in spite of her dangerous eccentricities, her denial of Christianity, her desire that her body should bo burned and utilised as manure for her flowerbeds (which the backward condition of the law happily forbids), and her susceptibility to the flattery of foolish women, driven into infinite indecencies of speech and writing by their inordinate vanity. The obituary notices of the poor lady, written by some of the most notorious of our unsexed advocates of philosophic minds, and the absolute liberty of the creature to blaspheme the Creator, must be very distressing to old Earl Russell, as a development of the eccentric religious history of his otherwise tolerably decorous family.