, 1841-11-13

or interest, that the Constitution has placed
a check in the negative of the President"
From the Philadelphia Enquirer.
According to official accounts recently
published, there are more newspapers circu-
lated in the American Union than ia any
other country on the face Of the globe
Thus-in Great Britain and Ireland, the
number of newspapers published is 480; in
France $50; in the German States 308; in
Holland $50; in Prussia 1888; and in the u.
States 1855 periodicals, 1880 of which are
newspapers. Some Of our weeklies circu-
late as many as from 10000 to $4,000 copies
Of each number; and we believe that one of
the penny papers Of New York issues more
than $4,000 copies daily. Blu, our object,
when we commenced this article, was to in.
troduce an eloquent description Of the news
paper press, recently delivered in Jefferson
College, louisiana, by Professor Everett. 1t
is admirable:
San orator in the British Parliament, for
example, finishes his speech at 4 O'Clock in
the morning, and at eight receives it IN his
newspaper with his morning meal, reported
in full, and ready to be hurried on the wings
of steam-more swift than those of the wind
to the remotest corners of the globe
Though his voice is heard by only two or
three hundred persons, he speaks, in fact, to
all his countrymen far and near-to foreign
na.ions-to the world. By the joint result
Of these two prodigious inventions, a stage
is erected in every printing Office, around
which the whole contemporary race is as
sembled as an audience. In this country
alone there is already more than two thou
sand. What a spectacle Of wondersS What
potent machinery for good and evil! know
the abuses that belong to this system-that
are, perhaps. in a greater or less degree, in
separable from it. am aware, of the frivo-
lous and even mischievous character Of much
Of the popular literature: of the narrowness
and coarseness, l may say, brutality-of a
portion of the periodical press, without dis
of party. Yet, with all its faults, Of
omissions and commissions, how much really
valuable matter is, after all, to be found in
brief chronicles OF the times! How
much useful information and rational enter.
tainment does not almost any one of them
the least complementary home to
the fireside Of the remote inhabitant Of the
country! 1t cost him a dollar to 60 to one of
our city theatres, and assist for three or four
hours at a pretty Indifferent representation Of,
in general, an ordinary play. For twice
that amount the publisher OF his newspaper
furnishes him for a whole year with a weekly
admission to the great world spectacle, ID
which l have alluded. He listens to the de-
bate in Parliament and Congresses: the p..
ces and council rooms Of Princes are laid
open to him: he witnesses the tumult Of con.
tested elections, the shock of contending
engaged upon the field of battle
The. progress Of letters and the arts, the stir.
ring incidents Of private life, come 10 as in
lerludes. Considered as a mere entertain
nent, how much superior is this vast and
'acred panorama to the empty pageantry Of
he initiative stage. 1t has sometimes been
that the citizens Of the United States
lave no relish for amusements. This great
spectacle, gentlemen, which is regu-
arly furnished by newspapers, is the prin-
;ipal amusement Of the American people
What makes it far more interesting is, that
he spectator is also, at the same time, an ac-
or. The same convenient sheet which
'preads out weekly upon every village table
summary of the affairs Of the whole con !
emporary world, also inferms the citizen !
the election is coming onat-h his own
DOR, and when be may have a delightful ex.