The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

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There never has been • gad defialtios given airbag son-
▪ itutes a newepapar. The Board of Commbeionen an the
only tit unjust, this setter ; and if their deckles be felt to
be ar sad ust, they coolly give yea Oa opportu-
nity of diem foss a smart of law, whisk they advise
es be essta, offignem *sir dads. meet be abided by.
Tkb h *hi Ant demotion to the day. Paeans nay
esighotto a solo of whisk aka be mafiosi
to teals oft 1111116 If they attempt Ie say-
le=ers the slope of sows, sash as law aad lee pro-
of Mad shaman, paragraphs the
of trade, bakes,' same, ...ow-
tables, tho authorities of the lhaspeffies inter-
im immediately, sad the periodical must be pinta
spa Napa piper, se imam to be publhkeL To
pay • pay he • slap spa ealt skeet of paper
tread b. to ad Is the prim of that pesiodieal N
nualt; sad this Woo is fatal to the eels. Bence this
ineediseses set may nappresses, bat main frese_.
pablielok may papa sad lying sloes% rassieg a
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What tits paper and the gasp deli% may ash
Was an larva heat embarking is des sper teach
amt. The details sail them what they ale laid bit
tam. They an diasiA to caller CO romance paper, enough
to het, if • daily jouraal, aka smooth, sod they tffisesereg
fist es tie tax spa paper banged by ths lassehaneor
mad to Wt. se the same ei duty only, the ilt he Me
reams will be 1,4601., sad to got that sesa eat
1.2001. mere These two mune positively Wit. na Ikea.
KIM ewe 2,001 L naked for paper sr d stomps only tat hog
week% the eel,ta bo 100 name we or 111
name espies, of the sins of the Dap New
se . t Y net nos priatees week that seams
dos raise About VIOL per week sill swiss Ow Mama
aim ed sathinlnffi widiebittbswers me bar wealth thews
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that gehrethe kiss is see WON of Os chap
ha pipe sea se This eons She may Oho
desisads to a daily paltheallie ; sad suit a toed
ie ado oat that is is quite ear seas but very rich mos
ma eater the semepoper trade ia sompstitiou with than
who sow exclusively ail It.
Two slaslines haws bans sleeted spinet any dread=
lobs aril be this tint. Leek, it Is mid, at the Mot lap
whisk the Postolkee gins to newsmen. tam\
their lumped. If ft were wet compulmay rot sour
purer pospeietos to priat upon paper so eserksk lab lima
paw mould ban ales charged gasp, end tins Woad of
earevanalas as este amens, thkstematioa would leave the
appodlo-Mtat, vsz., of oatmeal* lb* heath Others reff
that the moppet le a leamm sad that they whe use
extra seeth:sitelt: be skaged isms prima; thee; be
short, it is • Now meow New If thin
were ao re ler the fast of than ellestionk sal sneak -
deos to prove that the erased bad rowel to be Ismelle, Ibis
W "'Foetus ef them would be pits amnia be their
haseireemes to keep a lags as they are. Rat die hats show
that wished ben4eg reopens to any sew laventhes, the
disOassessal eC er the sethatitution ter, say melblesey be
opralies, that whisk mists sow weeld still be replied.
Oa sash meths es Prrali, eke elthasaus. Literary
Cieteefis, sal ether (so called) aims philologer, the pro.
pious on permitted to sod to the etsopelles an in do-
halts number of moss of paper, whisk sea stamped as
*editor, newspapers. These works hue • twos end gouty
sale That is le say, if the purchaser wants a stamped espy
for the rupee of sending a into the sonatry, he pays a
peony man Ikea that customer does who ady waists it for
his private reading, or to place in his coffin-aka rparka.
These is so dillnety is any way. The paWi&ns soon
dissever Os somber of stamped 'copies required, sad this
Dumber they ban printed ;• while the remainder, being a-
stamped, cheeks Is Loam at • fourth lees is prise, thus
saviag the rmasebility of a large Mask, J4lOlOOll so there
is eh. soot Ode paper and presswork only, end net • posy
Mao doe t,Ym negeedeetively upon the shelves.
Thigh are-laises wbon they suppose that all the our
ppm printed pes deo* the Poet-office. Raetrade of
thessesds of sepia see oat by railways, an filed, bona, or
Wawa kept se disposed of. For ample : it his bees
regaitod in the papa, that In one week, in 1816, tama-
ble of laffrfaalsese which tweed through the London pest
gibe was 760,0101 Take, then, this eureardhaary number,
mad throw it wee the year, that is, multiple it by 62, sad
tie podia is thirty-nine millions. Add to tin latter am-
ber tasty-throe millions for papers pMed be the 'matey
calla, sad there an twenty lett.* It h
no
mama beset the buyer ma pie his paper,
that dissehee he should be charged the same pries is iss
mamma the maim lie labour of traems. Let
term be, ilea. swiped sad mutamped newrapers. Let
the ptheith as new, awry the stamped papers, as also
times saps ek ettaitis of which a queen's lend is affixed,
asil at awes dui objection as to postage owes to be of any
impolacis Tiva every pa 'cation would be a news.
par, sad writers would be able to publish to their readers
each matter as they think would mat Mossiest them, with-
out her of being visited by a government official, in the
farm of as officer from the board of is tad revenue. And
tkon to ray that the daily er weekly newspaper is a luxury,
end beam a fit thing to be used, is to ratio ea antiquated
objection, whisk the extension of comma and an increas-
ing pasted= absolutely show to be muskies bat coma.
Does- the merchant regard his new In any other way
than that which he does his Weak Are not both, to
• isdinomeable ? Before him are the previous evening's,
calming prima of stock, and a detailed smut, of the leading
movements at bouts and abroad. A perusal of them
arms him with the requisite knowledge ; he enters
the adty at 10 o'clock, prepared to Vaasa business,
eat to rears himself from impatient. Which, to such
a soma. is of moo impartsam—his wean paper or
hie breakfast ? Foray, I believe the former. Then
lob Se selimobsemes berme If it were not for
the hit thee la elesobeems both itedy snel thud tan be
en* IA they would sot bo se seessmad as they am. Go
bee a idiotism' at eight eels* ia the mon*, and, it
She morthei paper bs not la, one feels that the place has
la its elder attraction. o t, it is the maw
with the public bones. Alt Oak their interest to take
is one daily and weekly peer or more. No man can
say, with any degree of trutit,tbst the Newspaper of the pre-
sent age is • luxury, in the saes it is want. It is a luxury
whoa viewed as sontributiag to the comforts of social nist-
a*, and mental atteramest. It is • luxury am viewed as
towing to make • man rich in general knowle p ; to bring
out his better qualities. sad to make him feel his responsibi-
lity ; but it is not a luxury which pride makes indialwasa 1-,
nor ens which habit only has made essential. All other
things which an styled lassies have their substitutes ; and
stadia to the position of tan, their enjoyments may be
more extensivel indulged in. The poor man (tricks beer
or coffee, the rich man port or claret ; the former dines oa
" homely fere," the latter has kis mode dishes. But the
newspaper is the same to all. Its broad sheet invites the
eyes of both rick sad poor, and the only difference consists
in this, that the man well-to-do may have the use of a 1 the
papas published, the poor mon • sight of • few only or of
use.
Respecting the restriction as to vise—that of prescribing
a given number of superficial inches, beyond which, with-
out antra charge, newspaper proprietor must not go— it
would fall with the compulsory. penny stamp, inasmuch as
there would be no resat in maintaining it eo soon as the
papers wen permitted to appear mama& more particu-
larly, too, if the pottage were regulated by weight. And
then, es pertains te the Post-ofeae, Las the sheet, irre.
apectively of its sic?, be stamped for cue penny, and half-
sheets, as now, for one half-penny. But do not restrict
these sheets as to sin. Encourage improvements in paper
making in all possible ways; and if a sheet of paper can be
mmle take the me of the Times, and the platen of the
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the geweensone Is sada in Inch extraordinary proo'e of in•
harm psessoeseee, and improve meat. Of this restriction
I. else the wads of complaint are not so scrag as thole
nforrable to the duties under soden. The newspapers are
remeeph, but they are insufficiently numerous; sod the
of tame being bet six morning papers and but five
ovenbeg saes, is assignable only to the paper and stamp
&allot otherwise it most a admitted that the Parisians and
Amides= an greater readers than our own countrymen.
Is it so? Who will ea that the appetite for general inhume-
ties sad literary food is keener in America than it is in Bus-
load ? Free institutions have not raised the prices of news-
papers sad periodicals as they have in this castry; and
were the heal levies repealed, than prices would be reduced,
sad taro would be as say papers printed in Baland as
then are elsewhere. A writer in the Liverpool Journal,
three years ago, says :
One of the first things that &tine's the attention of an
Baglishman, after laming I. the United States, is the groat
number of newsmen he sae is the reading-room of his
hotel ; bet if he were aware of the immense mamba of daily
and weekly papers published throughout the anion, he
would be more asioalsied. The population of the United
States, in 1840, according to the census wee upwards of
17,000.000; end at thatseod 138 daily, 1,141 weekly,
end 126 semi and tat newspapers, together with 227
periodieall, wen published that country. Acta:dine to
the aqadessaaaal memo for ten years, from 1830 to 1840,
the
,of the Ualted States at present about
22.000. saisateartliag to the best estimate the •
ma make bona own elesnadoe, in the abeam of ceno—
awns, then ars sow atiost2oo daily 1,400 weekly and 180
semi and trianekly awesome, taether with 260 'periodi
cals, published it that wantay. This is a vary large 15002-
bar ; but it must be borne la mind there are no stamp
deka, se deer ea sdorthemeats, to pay."
Then ie refines, to Perth Awe wen in 1846, 26 ally
newspapers ; sad it is mid that they new number 36. Hen
the stamp duty was teestady equal is one halfpenny. These
Warm are l, thesamives ladhplable evidence of the in-
juries elate of the Ades ea nresposo and other kinds
If Oakes. Nos net off sedeakei el Mosta and charges
bees slasedsi with Insehehhis good ? Take** Teta us of
Usher toseasay rats, he the month
homy 6,1810, do went ressbad by gosenamt
vaifiessow, LI siat So pow rate hr the esevespeelieg
tanked is ISM, the IMMO Vel WO UK
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