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Show A CO 5HDIXG to the London correspondence corres-pondence of the New York h'nO-lie, h'nO-lie, the recent dismissal of Marma-duko Marma-duko Sampson from the financial editorship of the London Tiihvs, a post which he had held for twenty-. twenty-. fivo years, is supposed to be due to his frequent mistakes of judgment and blunders in reference to financial events, and enterprises. But his assistance as-sistance to the Emma mine speculators specula-tors brought about the crisis of his f.ite. He retires with an- ample fortune, for-tune, and this fact is made to color the most malignant , accusations against him. According to this writer wri-ter London is equally guilty with America in the matter of placing properties on the market at immense figures. He says: If you would messuro the audacity and greed of London " promoters," ask honorable hon-orable Americans who have come hiihor will) bona tide and meritorious projec's, what price they have b en constrained to pay for admission to bunk parlors and tho stock mart. Ask, alsj, what proportion propor-tion of ihc cot of manipulating a sale or a lon figures under the head i f " managing mana-ging newspapers," and you will obtain a ki'y io transactions that would bo impossible impos-sible in New York. It rau?t not be imagined im-agined that tho whole London p-es is t tinted with practices that obtain in sortie of the city oilices. |