After PERRY’S death the paper was purchased for £42,000, by WILLIAM CLEMENT, by whom it was held till 1834, when it was sold to SIR JOHN EASTHOPE for £16,500. In 1843, JOHN BLACK was dismissed to make way for ANDREW DOYLE, who had been Foreign Editor, and had married Sir John’s daughter. Black died in 1855. On 26th July, 1847, SIR JOHN EASTHOPE, who had been carrying on the paper at a loss for some time, sold it to the Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone, Sidney Herbert, and other influential Peelites. Its new Editor was JOHN DOUGLAS COOK, who had for some time been one of the reporters of _The Times_, and who gathered round him a brilliant staff of contributors, including George Sydney Smythe, afterwards Lord Strangford, Gilbert Venables, Abraham Hayward, William Vernon Harcourt, and Thackeray. Its business manager was WILLIAM DELANE, the father of the clever young editor of _The Times_, JOHN THADDEUS DELANE. _The Chronicle_ lingered on as a would-be Peelite organ till the autumn of 1854, when by a curious arrangement, the paper, with all its plant, was sold to Serjeant GLOVER, for £7500, on the understanding that, if he continued to support in it the Peelite policy, he should have the money back with interest, being paid £3000 a year for three years. That contract soon fell through, as GLOVER preferred to draw a subsidy from LOUIS NAPOLEON, and to make other experiments. At the close of 1854, the circulation of _The Morning Chronicle_ averaged only about 2500, while that of _The Morning Post_ was about 3000, that of _The Morning Herald_ about 3500, that of _The Daily News_ about 5300, that of _The Morning Advertiser_ about 6600, and that of _The Times_ about 55,000. The last number of _The Morning Chronicle_ appeared March 19, 1862, when what at one time had been the most influential journal in the country altogether ceased to exist. Of this paper SHERIDAN speaks in _The Critic_, and to it BYRON addressed a _Familiar Epistle_. For its columns W. HAZLITT wrote some of the finest criticisms in our own or any other language. Some of the early _Sketches by Boz_ appeared in it, but they were really commenced in the old _Monthly Magazine_. DICKENS’S father was one of the staff. HAZLITT also contributed to it Parliamentary Reports, as at a later period did C. DICKENS. Among other distinguished writers in _The Morning Chronicle_ were Lord Brougham, the Duke of Sussex, David Ricardo, Cyrus Redding, Albany Fonblanque, James and John Stuart Mill, John Payne Collier, Eyre Evans Crowe, Charles Buller, Lord Holland, Joseph Parkes, Michael Joseph Quin, George Hogarth, James Fraser, W. Hazlitt, secundus, Lord Melbourne, W. Johnson Fox, Henry Mayhew, Lord Palmerston, A. B. Reach, Alex. and Charles Mackay, Tom Taylor. THE MORNING POST.