In the accession of Mr. John Morley, the editor of
the Pall Mali Gazelle, to the journalists of the day, the Press of this country has gained much, and the Liberal Press has drawn a prize. The terse and trenchant articles in which, ,day after day, he has dealt with the Bradlaugh case, for instance, as well as with the general condition of the House of Commons, furnish a very remarkable contrast to the hesitating, hedging, and even flabby attempts to make public opinion on the subject more flaccid than it natur- ally is, to which we have been lately too much accustomed from the leading journal. There will be subjects, we cannot doubt, on which we shall differ widely from Mr. Morley, and we may have perhaps even to regret his force and fire, were it not that all really strong writing matures the public opinion to which it is opposed, almost as much as it does that which it represents. At all events, brilliant journalists are not now so plentiful, that the accession of such a pen as Mr. John Morley's to the Liberal ranks can be regarded as anything less than an event of the first interest.
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