The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

PRINCE NAPOLEON.

Prince Napoleon bas visited Turin, and has had a long
conference with the King of Italy. The purport of this
interview is, of course, merely matter of conjecture at
present, but the Paris correspondent of the Advertiser
thinks he has hit upon the solution. This writer says
Prince Napoleon has gone to confer with King Victor
Emmanuel on the candidature of the Duke of Aosta, the
King's second son, for the throne of Spain. The
Emperor would not exactly like this choice, but it would
be less disagreeable than many others. The King of
Italy, however, will not hear of it. It is feared that
Prince Humbert will have no children—rather a
premature conclusion, as he has been married only a
few months—and it is therefore desirable to keep the
second son disengaged, lest the dynasty may be sacrificed.
Prince Napoleon's mysterious manner of running about
Europe gives rise to the strangest conjectures. His
resemblance to the great Napoleon is so close as to be proof
against disguise, and we constantly hear at his being recog-
nised in one place when he was supposed to be in another.

IHE "NEW YORK -TRIBUNE," AS A
CAMPAIGN PAPER.

There is some curious information in the New
York Tribune about the election campaign. " The
Rebels held a meeting iu Pleasant Grove, Kansas,
on the 7th. A vote taken after the meeting resulted
in 120 for Grant and 40 for Seymour." Judging
from their votes these were " Grant rebels," 3Au
animal we now hear of for the first time. "
vote for President was taken on board the steamer
United States, Captain J. C. Babbitt, on her pas-
sage from Plattsburg to Whitehall, on ThursdaY
evening, the 17th Sept., resulting as follows :--47
for Grant and 17 for Seymour. Grant's majority
17." Our arithmetic does not bear out this
calculation ; and we recommend the author 0
these figures to leave the public to work out
the results for themselves. Here is another
instance. On the 18th of September the result
of the ballot was " 37 for Grant and 16 for Ser
moue. Grant's majority, twenty-three. In 0.,
latter instance one man refused to declare hhilsel
in apparent shame. He was immediately erediteil
,
to Seymour." Take our advice Horace, and piii!
an extinguisher over the man who makes these 01
culations, or no one will place the slightest faith PI
the Tribune's figures, which would be unfortunate,
considering that its leading columns are mainly oc-
cupied in blazing abroad its own merits, and the
huge figure at which the people estimate them. r-Lue
Weekly of Sept. 23 heads an article, " Two 1111 e;
dred and Forty Thousand," and continues in the
highfaluten line to explain what that means,'lna't,,
ing our mouth water :

"Let us glance at the magnitude of the businesit. 711::
Tribune is printed on a sheet measuring 37 by 471 incin
weighing 65 pounds a ream. One issue of 240,000 eoPe"
of The Weekly alone requires 480 reams —5OO sbeets
each—at 65 pounds to the ream, making the total wogi,"-
t
of a single issue 31,200 pound's •or ire than 15 0135;
The paper when turned out from'the mills is folded bah
the size of the sheet, and put in bundles containing "7°„
reams, 1,000 sheets each. The bundles are compressed ,
almost the solidity of a bound book, and measure about '
inches in thickness. Two hundred and forty piled on
upon another would make a column 110 feet in heigh,rl
with 37 by 238 inches side measurement. If each of WI
240,000. copies of The Weekly Tribune. were addresseu,
singly to the person who subscribes for it, and it require:-
but 10 seconds to write the name of the ' subscriber, P?si"(;
office, and State, it would take one person 67 days of
each to perform the labour, but to accompli
work in one day of 10 hours 67 persons would be require,-
for each issue, or it would take ten persons working even
day in the year to write a wrapper for each subscriber. y,
course wo do not address each paper to an individual stln's
scriber, though we do so address several thousand colli
each week, not with pen in hand, but by machinery; t,ll
the labour is so vast in this department as well as
others in our establishment, that, notwithstanding We ba..
in operation the most improved and effective machille,*,r ,'
to do whatever work machines can do efficiently, w`.3r,,,,
quest our friends to comply with the following directWl
which, if followed, will save us several thousand doll3il
a year in clerk hire, &c., enable us to fill orders with mu%
more accuracy and celerity, and save much ill-feeling
cor,
the part of those who think they have been badly treat
We can make allowance for men accustomed to 01°
style of thing, calculating two and two to be n''
e.
Poor John Smith of Morgan County, Illinois, cam
grief, and is badly shown up, to point the moral al%
adorn the Tribune's tale. A letter from hi°llll
given as a specimen of " How not to do it." Sullo
is earnest in his praise of the paper, and having
eye to the main chance he regards it from the wed
cenary point of view, estimating what it has same
him by its information on the markets. Mr. Horgwot
Greeley, to whom he addressed the letter, did nbe
ask him, as he might have done, for a share of ,
plunder. Indeed, in the first instance, no one co n
as our readers will presently learn. Smith goal°,
to say that with others, being interested in aPPee':
he wishes them to be quoted in the report to pc
vent imposition on the part of the dealers, 3% i
thus winds up :—" I have sold my farm c'h
Salem and will remove to Franklin, to vybse
place you will direct my paper hereafter."
neglected to state that the Salem, of viii-of
there are many, was in Ohio—that the Franklhl,,
which there are more, was in Illinois—and that the
Smith, of which there are most, belonged to a
.Salem Club of 27 subscribers, so his letter dropPeo
into the waste-paper basket, no one knowing he,sf'r, et
address to him. The Tribune then says :—" lto
two weeks he wrote again, accusing us of Wishiagibe
swindle him, and saying he did not care for; if
paper, but did not like to be cheated ;' and adds 'g•
w e would send his paper from Salem, Ohio, to Fr3vot,
lin, Illinois, he would receive it till his time was heicti
and then take some paper the proprietors of "4.0"
would do as they would be done by." In replr,or
letter from the office, friend Smith " was very se'ivo
he had given us so much trouble, it was all his etiie
fault, the Tribune is the best paper in nod
world, he could not do without it, Sze./ „"pa
added a postscript stating that he had fe,:".ch
that the article of merchandise, in nit.
his friends were interested, was quoted in the 11341
ket reports." Then, of course, comes the ",j
story :—" A word to advertisers : For 432 we 51),,r,e‘t,
one line of the broad columns of the Weekly 9 Trw:111.11)
our lines being one-sixth to one-quarter longer --;0
in other newspapers—which is less than one et o,
line for every I,ooo—before 240,000 subsernio
thus enabling the advertiser to cotnmunicater
wishes and make known the value and price e'oo
wares to several times 240,000 readers. e.
Weekly Tribune is the cheapest advertising 'o,s,
dium, as well as the best and cheapest weekly °ea i 4
paper in the world." The last sheet publisbe ,pot
the smallest village, declares itself to be the 'jet
advertising medium in the world. We wi°33,l3e'
why that sulky thing enthroned in Printing Ile- ail
square never sticks up a poster, nor makes such sit
announcement ; yet people, unasked, carry no
advertisements to the office, and pay money (.1,„"
for the insertions. No one can move about lot
don without being informed by the Telegraph bf
it has the greatest circulation in the world, no
the Standard, that it is the largest paper, while be
modest Daily News merely declares itself to ~ree
high-class Liberal paper. But although the VI
jef
flaunt themselves before the Cockneys' eye?, tnifti
do not devote column upon column of their ;0.
space to impress these assertions upon their read to
Itsincrease in circulation the Tribune consid.ellthe
be the best indication of Republican feeling loot
nation. It does not desire to " choke off" tbeli tb°
Republican prints, but it does desire to have
subscribers of every Republican sheet, each 138160%
paper reading man throughout the Union t',340,
the Tribune as well as the paper of his air
Such an arrangement would be highly r3el
factory, and no wonder that Horace Groli'
lays it down as the ultima Mule of 1341) bal
canism. The use of a Republican is tell the
the Tribune ; the use of the Tribune is to JO.
Republican what he thinks, and believes, and W" the
But the Tribune is Horace Greeley, therefore tod
use of the party is to support Horace Greelei,ro'
his use is to supply the party with opinions, ect.4
meats, and a policy. We are told that the pr.e4,;eri
of the Republicans are encouraging in Nlissouri-Zejog
encouraging indeed—to a man who rather likes '10330
shot. Their prospects in Georgia are in the scot,
way satisfactory in the highest degree ; in jute"
generally throughout the South. It may be frr
resting to some of our readers to learn that thee
bane has discovered Roebuck's dumbfoundedatiots
niard, who has hitherto been supposed a ere'S,
of that gentleman's imagination. " A otP
te
taken on the Bloomfield and Newark .ty,a-! ~
with the following result :—For Seymour, 'to'v
Grant, 126. Of the 23 votes for Seyinollilloo,
were given by Spaniards, neither of "troll
could read or speak English." These were. „ioo'
valuable votes as expressions of American 0P1" tlo
and we hope that the Tribune will next get
bo
vote of an " assassinating" Italian, and tell tifes
jsll'
political proclivities. What ticket the Wild osii;
man votes, and why, the World can be to'
though the Why would puzzle the readiest lc,:joi
that ready people. Frank Leslie pictures a ties
with a hod on his shoulder replying to the„,ctiot,
rt
ri
tion, "Do you support Seymour? " "No." npo
you don't support Grant ?" "No •, I
Betsy. and the children, and mighty hard 0" OP
find it." Pat might take a wrinkle frail"
Greele.y, and make that party support hina.-'
Al merzean

Bi.
frACgs
ALLCROFT —On the 16th i r
ntshst. at 55, Porchester—t
Mrs. John D. Allcroft, of a daughter. If°lo
QUEENSBEDRY—On the 13th inst, at KiDMOUnt
Dumfriesshire, the Marchioness of Queensberf.'
son.

De4'
'W ARBURTON—On the 14th inst., in The Close, l'•""
ter, the lion. Mrs. W. Warburton, of a son.

Marriages.
S
.K.(30.t
HAW F wen —On tho 15th inst at Pernbury, ,16,
John Charm--,v"-%;110

John darles Kenward Shaw' 'Bart., of Ken``lril,
Emma, Anna Maria, eldest daughter of John '
Finch, Esq., Captain RN., of Knight's-place. ,blif;',/"
LONG—WicatAm—On the 16th inst., at St. Mark's u
North Audio y-street, Commander Samuel LOS'ooge;
eldest son of Archdeacon Long, to Alice Jane, nvior
daughter of the late Vice-Chancellor Sir James
Deaths. AOl

AUSTIN —On the 14th inst., at Clapham, Thotrin,ss'9, fft,
man Austin, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, age" of
Brun —On the IZith inst., at Wimbledon, Eliza, wife
E. Bird, Esq. 4111
BLONAY—On the Bth inst., at Vernaud, near 1-45"„53,
Baron G. do Blonay.

INGALL —On the 15th inst., Mrs. Anne Inga,ll, of Bt.
Surrey, aged 71. h
a Qy4
VANDERKISTE —On the 15th inst.,at llighbury, JI
derkists, Esq , aged 53.
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