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Show ITIIB ADVEIVtlSING KOOMS OF ! TllE LONDON "TIMES." Tftu London t orrcspondent of the New i Orleans i'icnyun writcn thus of the nd-Ycrtistug nd-Ycrtistug ruo'ins of tho Timts: Torn to the ci'ttnter; there is wide -pue.' beyond, and many eletks, writing, .ntwuy writing.; I'our fav,orcd,'or favored ones wo know not how to deem it hit on throm-s 1eniin) hi coimttr, to take- the tribute of the advertising snp-plldiU; snp-plldiU; from these lour we may cliche uhr-ontclo aud judge, butil matters little-whow little-whow we tukp. How .silent fe.the roomj seiirce any sound, but', the chink of money-nnd money-nnd tlm low uttered fiats of ihese throned arbiters of ltd venders'-fu tes. Of tlo avail reiuonslrrtnee herc; the ad-vcrtU'euleiit ad-vcrtU'euleiit hns hardly reached their: hands scarcely has lima enough elapsed to skim it over before the -quiet utterance of their judgment; if one should veuture to remonstrate nt the charge, his Hues are given back, and the next x-omer 6crved no words' they have np time for wordujthe first decision Js the final one; we meau, of course, iu the busier portion of tho duy from ttevcn till two. Ami how "use doth breed a habit In a man;'' thtsc peremptory officers of the Ximti rarely or never err; seldom will tho printed lines fail to bear out their charge; their practiced eye fathoms tlie mysteries of every conceivable chirograph)-, and like seers of the mighty press; a field of the typo rushes black on their sight, oon as 1 heir wild orb rests upon the rcrawl. And horr the piles of advertisements grow by their side; As they take ' them they give a printed acknowledgement to the advertiser, uud he then beholds his composition, impaled with others which have preceded, upon a wire. As we look; nt the business of this office, we wonder where it is to end. Already, In tho London Lon-don season, when the town is full, the Tina issues, not- unfrcqucntty, ten pages of closely prin ted advertisements, of six columns each, and each column a long one. Yet there are always enough on baud for several days to Come; an advertiser adver-tiser cannot expect to see his lines in print for (hrtto days, and &omclimes a week from tha period that .be gives it in. We ask ourselves why icoplo will consent to wait to long; why pumjier still this overgrown favorite Of fortune, payipy duties du-ties to the Government, as it .does, for advertisements aud tanis and paper, alone amounting to $500,000 ammully, besides giving a llvelilioed to so many, many families? |