The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

strances were returned
ua regret
promise of redress.
g Our India express of the 22d ult. broil 1
issue. It arrived at the London-bridge tern minutes after two, A.M.; and was, therefor
at the Herald office before half-past two.
ragraph of news reached the Daily News
to fear. The result was, that the 11
lished eight columns of India news in
edition, while the Daily News was of
give a summary, in one column--and
in its London impression. This was se
unjust—it was so manifestly absurd to
average expense of 4001. a month, for tl
advantages which were so unequally di
that the proprietors of the Daily News
polled seriously to remonstrate.
There were other and important circuit
which, out of delicacy, the proprietors did nc
that communication. According to the acct
to us, our agent started, from Suez awith one single copy of an India papei
Alexandria just in time to jump
the steam-boat—and arrived alone with hie
paper at Marseilles; whence again t
was forwarded by express to London. 1
being admitted—and we submit them as
submitted to us—the reader will see that t
have been treachery somewhere, when w,
the Times, Chronicle, and Past, ail publish
wary of India news, manifestly from
source, at the same time, as the Daily Neu
The arrival of the October mail completed
tery—if mystery it could any longer be called
occasion, the Times' express by Trieste boa
Marseilles. Here was a triumph for the Ti
the Times, as all the world knows, is not aces
hide the light of its triumphs, or share then
adversaries; yet it so happened that a gent
connexion with the Daily News, was present,
into the office of our faithful ally walked a n
from the Times, bringing with him " a
technically called; but in plainer phrase, ,
the news thus received by the Times' express
reconciling of such matters, the reader will bi
ourselves, to find "a foregone conclusion." B
mind that a negotiation had, as we have his
opened between the Times and Herald son
three months before, was this communication
we ask, a return courtesy, or a courtesy to be r
Common sense tells us it must have been an
other,—while either ought to have been im
The news brought by our express was t
property of the Herald and the Daily News;
ally received for its separate and sole use, the
which it paid or was to pay with our common
But mark the further progress of events ! 11'
mail and the postman delivered letters and
from India, at our office, between twelve
o'clock on Wednesday the 7th, the Herald an
News express did not arrive till Thursday
about five A.M. !—a circumstance of little cons
to the Herald, while on such good terms
`courteous' an adversary as the Times; but
interest to the Daily News, which is not so fa
The public, we think, will agree that the ti
come when, in justice alike to ourselves and a
scribers, the question as to the position of the
and the Daily News should be decided bey
future doubt or cavil. It would be absurd to
that we would, could, or should continue to pa
5,0001. a-year, as our share of the expense of
press, which delivered its letters and papers
hours after the common post ! We wrote
therefore, to our ally, and this time ei
cally ; and were informed, in reply, that no
would be made, and that the Herald v
solved on retaining all the agencies and
power in its own hands. It therefore only re
for us to Bend a draft for the balance due-
hands, and part. Our ally forthwith made hi
profession of adherence to the wisdom of new
monopoly—was received to the paternal embr
the high-price league and the family of
have now only to consolidate agencies, and a
matters to their mutual satisfaction and for their
benefit ; whilst the Daily News stands alone, to e
its own agents, run its own expresses, and
single-handed the battle against the combined I
What then ? Have we any fear of tl
salt ? None. We bate no jot of heart or
we have firm and unhesitating confidence
the public, which in so many kindred m
has recently made its voice heard and its
law, in spite of ruder opposition than this,
here be true to itself. We believe it will into
its omnipotence between us and the selfishness
would thus summarily put down our efforts at
own good cause. The combination itself is pr
conclusive proof—that a cheap newspaper can sue
and that the high-priced journals know it. It is
' that by this combination we are placed at a d
vantage : quite true that every express which we
and every agency which we open, must cost us
times as much as it would cost any of our high-p
contemporaries; but the public will, we sine
believe, willingly, help us to pay that cost, and r
those agencies and expresses dear to our rivals.
feel assured that we have for our encouragement
hearts and hands of all honourable men ;—and to
us, the purse of that great millionaire, the Public.
a nation that respects good faith, honours honour,
has 'fair play' for one of its mottos, this very cowl
tion will be turned against the interests of the cot
ing parties. In the honest resentment and firm d
miatition of the public, we place unhesitating e
deuce, and propose at once to meet the machinai
of our rivals by a simple measure, which will utl
defeat their purpose. We propose to find the
for neutralising the effects of the combination, by
addition of one halfpenny to the price of the pa
that the monopolists may be resolutely and sacs
fully defied, we will make the price of the Pee
Newspaper Threepence : an announcement at w
we sincerely believe, under the circumstances,
subscribers will rejoice. And we may here obsa
that the tha
paper the penny stamp being deducted,
thaaenmebetimaa half-ar
ecoD7ll;:mdAewntsnowtimced
by the proprietors. But that no one may have a
pence instead of fourpcnce will be the price rem
Bible ground of complaint—and that all who have'
their subscription, in advance, may have tho Pa
according to the terms of that subscription—ev
Newsman shall receive the number of copies which
customers have heretofore required, for three min
from this day, at the price heretofore paid for then

Let us be excused if we here repeat that the pu
arc as much interested in this question, and its is
as we are : that if the London morning papers (
by combining, keep up the price to fivepence,
public must now and for ever pay just what the
nopolista choose to ask.

One thing we desire to impress upon our read
The triumph of the free-trade principle in newsps
literature is established even by this cornbinatim
defeat it. Our rivals are now upon their strong grot
—having summoned the strength that consists
union, even when the cause is a bad one. The cou
and issue of these experiments have satisfied the p
prietors of the Daily News, that the price now p
posed is (with the public support) sufficient for
establishment against any strength which the mo
polists can muster. The Times which has taken st

anxious and questionable measures to verify its o
false calculations, will no doubt claim the additio
halfpenny as proof that a morning paper cannot
published at twopence halfpenny. We answer ti
the proof is just the other way. It is made manif
that a combination for, instead of against, the pub
would have made the lesser price a remunerative of
—and that the additional halfpenny will defeat all 1
extra strength which the monopolists have lx
enabled to collect for the defence of their interest.
the price of threepence, and with such encouragem4
as the public gives us, we are content to fight thi