Mr. Hodgetts subscribed to
the fund to the extent of L50, and the singularly inappropriate name for
a _weekly_ paper, _The Birmingham Journal_, was selected. The first
number appeared June 4th, 1825. The editor was Professor Bakewell. It
continued in the same hands until June, 1827, when Mr. Hodgetts paid out
the other partners, and became sole proprietor. He enlarged it in 1830,
at which time it was edited by the well-remembered Jonathan Crowther. In
1832 it was sold to the Liberal party. _The Argus_, in its issue for
June, 1832, thus chronicles the fact:
"THE JOURNAL.--This newspaper is now the property of Parkes,
Scholefield, and Redfern. It was purchased by Parkes in February
last for the sum of two thousand pounds, and was delivered up to him
on the 25th of March last. Poor Jonathan was unceremoniously turned
out of the editorial snuggery into the miserable berth of the
Editor's devil. 'Oh, what a falling off is here, my countrymen!' And
who, think ye, gentle readers, is now Editor of _The Journal_? An
ex-pedagogue, one of the New Hall Hill martyrs, a 'talented' writer
that has been within the walls," &c.
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