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“The Indian News.” A Meeting of the Proprietors of “The Indian News,” was held on the 22nd December, at the Offices of Mr. Sheriff Rogers, Sir George G. De H. Laurent, Bart., M.P. in the Chair. The Chairman said that they had met to confer upon the state and prospects of a journal which every one connected with India acknowledged to be of high public importance …
[London: 1842] Quarto, two page printed circular letter, printed on a four-page bifolium, with a short autograph letter signed from Leitch Ritchie (1800-1865) the editor of The Indian News, the entire circular sent to a Dr. McKenzie, Journal Office, Shrewsbury.
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The circular prints a number of resolutions
from the meeting one of which was the establishment of The Indian News on a
permanent basis. The second page of the circular states the following:
“The Indian News, Monthly Stamped Journal
of Indian and Chinese Intelligence, Public and Domestic”. It contained a
monthly summary of political events, official news, from government notices,
original articles, commercial and business news, cultural events, home
intelligence, East India Company news, Royal Asiatic Society, and
advertisements, etc. The paper was published monthly “on the arrival of the
overland mail, by Stewart and Murray, Green Arbour Court, London. Advertising
rates and subscription rates are also noted.
Leitch Ritchie was a Scottish novelist and journalist. Born in Greenock and worked as a clerk in Glasgow, but in 1820 he adopted literature as his profession. He was editor of the Picturesque Annual, he was the author of Romance of French History, and of four novels, including Wearyfoot, Schinderhannes, the Robber of the Rhine, and the Magician. In his later years he edited Chambers’ Journal, he also wrote short stories, tourist guides and travel books.
