terms. He
himself stript to his shirt-sleeves, and went to work with the rest;
and for the next six-and-thirty hours he was incessantly employed at
case and at press. On the Monday morning, the conspirators, who had
assembled to triumph over his ruin, to their inexpressible amazement
saw The Times issue from the publishing office at the usual hour,
affording a memorable example of what one man's resolute energy may
accomplish in a moment of difficulty.

The journal continued to appear with regularity, though the printers
employed at the office lived in a state of daily peril. The
conspirators, finding themselves baffled, resolved upon trying another
game. They contrived to have two of the men employed by Walter as
compositors apprehended as deserters from the Royal Navy. The men were
taken before the magistrate; but the charge was only sustained by the
testimony of clumsy, perjured witnesses, and fell to the ground. The
turn-outs next proceeded to assault the new hands, when Mr. Walter
resolved to throw around them the protection of the law. By the advice
of counsel, he had twenty-one of the conspirators apprehended and
tried, and nineteen of them were found guilty and condemned to various
periods of imprisonment. From that moment combination was at an end in
Printing House Square.

Mr. Walter's greatest achievement was his successful application of
steam power to newspaper printing. Although he had greatly improved
the mechanical arrangements after he took command of the paper, the
rate at which the copies could be printed off remained almost
stationary. It took a very long time indeed to throw off, by the
hand-labour of pressmen, the three or four thousand copies which then
constituted the ordinary circulation of The Times. On the occasion of
any event of great public interest being reported in the paper, it was
found almost impossible to meet the demand for copies. Only about 300
copies could be printed in the hour, with one man to ink the types and
another to work the press, while the labour was very severe. Thus it
took a long time to get out the daily impression, and very often the
evening papers were out before The Times had half supplied the demand.

Mr. Walter could not brook the tedium of this irksome and laborious
process. To increase the number of impressions, he resorted to various
expedients. The type was set up in duplicate, and even in triplicate;
several Stanhope presses were kept const