ABSTRACT
In introducing the subject of the “Unstamped Press” it is important not to omit a mention of William Carpenter, the issue of whose Political Letters in October 1830 at first seemed likely to make journalistic history. Early in 1846 the Daily News and Evening Express had been launched in the Metropolis with a view to their becoming the morning and evening organs of the Radical public of the capital and even of the nation. The Nottingham Review, founded in 1808, is an especially interesting paper to follow in making a judgment on the gradually increasing strength of Reforming pressure. The adoption by The Times of the cause of Reform was of great immediate importance, but of relatively little ultimate sociological significance. The Times, after all, was merely living up to its reputation of “being strong upon the stronger side.”.
