The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-19 00:00:00

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evening of the 34th inYt.
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Gihniltar, will be made up on t)'e L'Gth inst.
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of the 30th inst.
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Havom, be nude up se the morning of the id October.
The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the I:nited
Mater, will be made up an the evening of the 3.1 October.
The madly for Madeira, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, lie.,
will be made up on the evening of the sth October.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 19.

THE "TIMES" AND THE "DAILY NEWS."
THE Times is very fearful of giving " ur.due im-
portance to trifles," but continues to make Mr. HUD-
SON'S illustration of the half-price paper the subject
of uneasy comment. A trifle will sometimes sink
deep, and make the meet serene breasts unhappy.
Neverthcles4, much kindness is apparent in the
midst ofthe uneasiness. The 7'imes, full of pity for

Mr. Ift-nsoN's ignorance in resorting to such an -illus-
tration, benevolently bestows upon him its own history
of prices ; and is good enough to repeat the warning
it tendered to this journal the day before, of the " even-
tual ruin" which awaits us. Mr. Hunsom will no
doubt be thankful, as becomes him, for the statistical
information he has received; and it is our obvious
duty to continue to relieve and reassure, as far as we
justly can, the natural and honest anxiety of the Ti,,,,s
iu the partic,,lar of our continued solvency. "Hest,
rest, perturbed spirit." There is no ground for appre-
hension. Our career, though brief, has been of un-
exampled sue eess ; and we will not suffer ourselves to
be killed by kindness. Nay, more. Grateful as we
arc to the public for a debt we can only repay by
continuing to labour in their service, we do not mean 11
to do what the Times would have us believe it did for
many years, publish oar journal at a daily loss for the
mere "luxury of doing good."
The Time: elaborately undertakes to prove that
fivepence is the minimum charge of a daily news-
paper. What, then, was its own charge before the
stamp duty was reduced to n penny? When it paid
fourpence to: its stamp (with so trilling a deduction
for discount as to be hardly worth allusion), and sold
for sevenpenre, was it content with a charge Lehor the
minimum ? Was it then content to sell for fourpence,
and does it now assert that fivepence is the minim am 7
We should be glad to be informed as to this. The
world knows nothing of its greatest benefactors.
But let us venture a little deeper into the statistics
of the Mites. To prove the assertion that " news-
paper charges a•e at their minimum," it favours Mr.
HUDSON with the statistics of its own cost:

" For his benefit and for the instruction of others who hare
fewer opportunities than he has of studying statistics, we pre-
sent him with the subjoined account of the cost of each single
copy of The Times, u published to-day :
" Cost of paper for each copy of this day's pub- d.
2
" Stamp
" Neweve mites profit

•• Saic to the roblie

Profit c.r. each paper 01"

The disin,ennousness of this statement is obvious.
Yesterday was one of the days on which the Times
publishes a supplement. The twelve pages contain
seventy-two columns. Of these, only thirty-one con-
sist of what can, in any way, be termed intelligence.
-Much of it can only be so called by courtesy. Adrer-
tisements oet upy forty-one columns. This portion of
the Times would return large profits were it given
away. It is no charge upon the concern. It is the
treasury of the concern. By no fairness can its cost
be saddled upon the newspaper, properly so called.
'That cost is enhanced thereby in the proportion of 72
to 31. The addition amounts to no less than 132 per
cent. For the sake of the advertisements, the Times
goes to the expense of the halfpenny additional
stamp. Here is fifty per cent. more, of unwarrantable
increase in the item of taxation ; and occasional double-
supplements have imposed yet another fifty per
cent. It also calculates the newsvenders profit on
the higher (its own) price. Let the proportions be
calculated in these several particulars, and, by its own
statistics, the Times .'Vetripoper, as distinguished
from the Times Adrertiser, is producible fbr sale by
its publishers at less than twopence. All the additional
outlay is self-paying, and something more. It is profit-
paying, to the extent of fortune-paying. To class it
•with the cost on the newspaper, is like the excuse of
the old lady who exonerated herself from charity on
account of her large payments to the collector of the
income-tax. We do not rest our refutation on these
statistics ; but they abundantly disprove the asser-
tion they were put forward to support. They have also
served to enlighten the public as to that " other pay-
master" to which the Times made allusion in the
article on which we commented yesterday, and as to
those " lo see" by which they are too glad to live. The
five page; of the newspaper (there are no more) are
not reap° Isible for the seven pages of advertisements.
Let them bear their own burthen. Let intelligence
fight its own battle, and not call in the big brother
who carries the placards. We cannot allow garbled
accounts to pass. The day-book mat be correctly
posted into the ledger. The Times has lightened one
account to load another. The figures are misplaced,
which is tantamount to a falsification ; and the sta-
tistics so stated as merely to serve a purpose.
" Newspaper charges are at their minimum." If it
were so, the fact would be very extraordinary. What
should have brought them to a minimum ? The great
power for accomplishing such a result is competition.
There is, we believe, only one daily London paper,
and not one London morning paper, except ourselves,
that is not fore than half a century old. The capital
required for starting a morning paper is a practical
- limit, and, a very narrow one, to competition. And
the morning papers are not competitors with the
Times. They have pursued their intermediate course
of high prices and limited circulation. A very re-
spectable and useful course it may be, but it is not

competition. They have run no race with the Times.
AARON'S rod has swallowed everything, but with no
blossom of promise for future cheapness. The Times
had no competitor till we started in this bold enter-
prise, and realised the only sale by which the term
competition is warranted. Low price is our gage of
battle. In all things else we challenge comparison;
in that point we claim superiority. The Times says,
in its leader of yesterday, that it " courts competition."
It is very well to say this as an empty vaunt ; but
what was its conduct when a real competition for the
first time threatened it ? The advertisement of its
competitor was carried to the office of the Times, was
accepted, and the money was paid for it; but the
advertisement did not appear, and, on the messenger
applying in Printing House-square on other business,
both advertisement and money were returned without
the show or courtesy of a reason. Was this courting
competition? Was this picking up the gage? We
put the Times on its trial; it shrank from
the conflict by refusing to advertise us ; we
have advertised ourselves. We have done so
by the best of all means, an immense circulation;
and we have no fear of the " other pay-
master" coming in abundance to our rescue.
Wherever fivepence goes, twopence-halfpenny shall
follow it, and invite comparison while it exhibits con-
trast. We will fight it out with the giant wherever
the seven league boots of steam may carry him ; in
Scotland or Ireland ; in Europe or America. The
prize of our struggle is to determine the price of a
newspaper. The Times calls us insolvent; we shall
not make oar readers so at any rate. We say the
public shall, and the Times says the public shall not,
be supplied with an efficient journal at a reduction of
.50 per cent. We say that a newspaper shall, and the
Times says it shall not, be brought within the reach of
the great body of the middle and operative classes,
and of thousands of families that cannot boast of
affluence.

This is what we call competition ; competition with
the Times ; competition for reducing newspaper
' charges to their minimum. We dread no ruin. We
affect no indifference to profits. We seek them by a
course which we anticipate will prove not less bene-
ficial to our proprietary than to the public. Bat
neither will we affect to be unconscious of having a

better cause as regards the public. The Times would
over-ride them, as well as us. It declares for a five-
pence eternal. " Concession has reached its limits,"
as Sir JAMES GRAHAM said of Ireland before he

became a party to more concessions. We will
Grahamise the TYnies in this matter. It shall con-
cede more to the public. It shall find something less
than a mitiinium. By the help of the public, Termi-
nus shall budge. The train shall not stop at the
fivepenny station. We acknowledge our interest in the
strife; it is at one with the public interest. We only
want the people generally to comprehend how much
they have at stake, as well as ourselves. Their
needful information; the gratification of their curiosity;
journals for those who never saw them, and to keep
for those who only hired them for an hour; a tax on
their pockets lightened ; amusement and instruction
at their own firesides with their families ;—these are
what we would win for them ; and what, it now
appears, is only to be achieved by a triumph over
the Times, the champion of cheap travelling, but of
dear newspapers.
Towards all existing journals, since the period of
our commencement, we have exercised a forbearance

which to many has seemed fastidious. We have
thought, and think, that newspaper squabbles have
done no credit to the press. We never stirred against
the Times on its narrow exhibition of jealousy; we
have lost no opportunity of upholding, in its cause
or any other, the dignity of the common calling in
which we are engaged ; and we are dragged into the
present discussion now. It is not of our own
accord we waive our ordinary rule of comment-
ing on events, to comment upon the comments
of others. But had we from the first al-
lowed ourselves a larger latitude, there would
still have been a point beyond, towards which we
' should never have approximated ; the gratuitous
ascription of corrupt motives. The Times strikes at
us through Mr. IlcosoN. Its imputations only
allow us the alternative of a folly or a knavery so
gross as to render this journal not:fly unworthy of
public support. Time must decide on the ruin of our
proprietary; but the prophecy is strengthened neither
by facts nor by calculations. It rests solely on the
inspiration of the Times, and we deny the infallibility
of the oracle.

The article of our contemporary thus concludes :
" A journal may, indeed, weather out a short time on a
scale of reduced prices ; but any one conversant with the
exigencies of the press must be fully aware that to continue
this mode of operation under existing circumstances involves
one of two conditions,—either that the proprietors shall
always be able to fall back on the ample subsidies of some
undisclosed willionnaire, or that they shall be eventually
ruined. Perhaps Mr. Hudson is not wholly unaware of
this dilemma, nor practically unacquainted with the method
of resisting or staving off the more disagreeable alternative."

We cannot undertake to say that we understand
this clearly, but so far as we can comprehend or
fathom it, we give it a most unqualified contradiction.
Mr. IlupsoN is not in any manner connected with
this journal, nor has it ever been proposed, by any one
concerned in it, to lay him under contribution for its
support.
In confidence, however, and for the relief of our
contemporary's anxiety, we will mention the name of
our " undisclosed millionaire :" one name, at least,
by which he is known. It is not King
IluosoN, but a far mightier end wealthier poten-
tate. One who has created riches through a
life of centuries : whose debts are counted by
hundreds of millions, and his assets by thousands of
millions : who holds the landed property of the Bri-
tish Isles, has almost boundless colonial estates, and is
commercially connected with all the world: whose
annual income, from real property alone, is estimated
at a hundred millions of pounds sterling, and yet who
forgets not the difference between fivepenee and
twopence-halfpenny. We reckon that we shall "al-
ways be able to fall back on the ample subsidies" of
JOHN Bum., though paid in minimum instalments, and
secure of value reeeived.—Daily News.

IT is a miserable and melancholy state of things,
when the statesmen and parties entrusted with the
care of a nation's interests and honour, are re-
duced to a placid contemplation of evil, of insult, of
encroachment, and of rapine,—occurring on every
side and from every quarter, from supposed friends,
as well as declared foes,—whilst the whole task of
public men, and of their organs, in the face of such
disastrous and humiliating facts, is to make light of
them ; to laugh at them; to act the Merry Andrew,
when any man of feeling and pride would weep; and
to seek, not for preventives or remedies of menaced
ill, but for consolation in the demerits of those who
cause and inflict it, and in the hope that Pro-
vidence or their own folly may one day or other
entail or exact deserved punishment.
Now this has been the foreign policy, if policy it
can be called, of English ministers for these last few
years; and this has been the tone of their organs.
When Texas was swallowed, when the Columbia was
torn from us, the Americans, who so bearded us, were
at first indeed loaded with very virulent abuse ; but
we were afterwards told that interference was impos-
sible, and resistance idle, and that all we had to do
was to console ourselves with the certainty that our
Transatlantic friends would by the one conquest
merely extend their .dangerous slave population,
whilst by the other they would simply snatch a
barren territory and thus that both acquisitions
would punish rather than reward the unwarrantable
ambition which grasped them.
With regard to the gradual absorption of Spain by
France—an absorption as complete as that of Texas
by the United States—there were not wanting those
who clamoured and who warned. Several voices
were raised, protesting against the apathy which
allowed the Regent, the Liberals, and the Con-
stitution, to be expelled by French military con-

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