The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-17

trymen, would have thought it necessary to take
the trouble to think out before hand, was looked
upon as marvellous performance. This arose,
probably, from the extreme dulness OF Other
speeches delivered on that occasion.
But how many of the brilliant things that are
said, DONE and written in this country, ever come
| to knowledge of the British people! One of the
great objects of the British press seems to be, to
lnterpose an opaque shell to the TRANSMISSION
of republican light from these western shores.
With much higher grade of education,
ESQ ca|ledD among the few, and a vastly
higher style OF literary journalism there is very
little general intelligence among any classes In
England. 1t is either feast or a famine.
man either wears monkish gown at Oxford, or
he can't write his name AS it is IN the social
world, where one class expires with famine that
the other may die of surfelt.
To show the studied pains the British govern
ment itself takes, to keep all intelligence about
this country from the mass of its people, 1t
is only necessary to state that, every nerve which
money, or power, or legislation, can strain, has
been exhausted, to divert the current of emigration
to other parts of the world Expensive and allur-
ing representations are made of the superior ad-
vantages of the distant and barbarous colonies of
Great Britain; agents without numoer are sent to
every village and parish of the home islands, to STIR
up spirit of emigration to Australia and Van Die
mans Land; and the government, with specIous
appearance of paternal Kindness offers Its vessels
for gratuitous transportation to distant and savage
shores, although 1t not unfrequently happens that
the same ship which carries out these colonIsts
to their delightful home is partly freighted with
criminals, condemned to transportation to the
same delightful place. Thus Botany Bay is held
up terror to the evil.doer by the Judge on the
one hand, while his neighbour on the other, is de-
scriblng, in co,ew de rose, the charms of his new
home to the half-starved emigrant
Ard yet, so poorly does this system work, there
are more of the oppressed laborers of Great Bri-
tain who starve their stomachs for six months, Or
year, to get to this country, than can be made to
60 to all other parts of the world, even by the aid
of transportation and banlshment More light
goes from emlgrants IN this country, and more
real information about it to the British islands,
than emanates from the entire British press.
But we will briefly answer the query of our cor
respondent" How shall the people of England
become better acquainted with America 2" There
Is but one answer to this question, and it is the
one we have given a thousand times during the
last ten years. To know thing, we want the
thing itselt-not feeble and distorted represen-
tations OF it. 1t is so with nations. To know the
spirit and institutions of Greece and Rome, we
read their literature, and history and arts, as they
come from themselves. Books have nearly ceased
from their office of representing society they are
now chiefly confined to purposes of science. EN-.
Enlistment, and amusement. The periodical press
has usuIped their place. The only way then.
that much can be hoped for on the score to which
our correspondent alludes, from the free circul
ton of American newspapers in England
We venture to say that there are newspapers
printed In this country, which, if widely circulated
In Great Britain, among all classes, would do
more towards diffusing correct knowledge of us.
our manners, institutions, literature and progress
than could be gained from all other sources nut
together. So far as the Ntc York Herald is con.
cerned, our readers know that it goes throughout
the world. We have subscribers all through the
British Islands, and in every large town on the
continent from the Emperor of Russia to the great
Plus TX. We have some reason to hatter our
selves that we have done our share towards a diff
fusion OF the republican spirit among the nations
of the old world; and, were it not that most of the
journals OF this country are ensaved to party and
ridden by these hacks till their bones come through,
We might have scores of able and influential pa
pers, that would gain great circulation in foreign
countries. But, so long as they act as the mere
organs OF corrupt parties and cques, libellIng
every decent man who does not bow to their
standard, or vote their ticket, SO long they will
have limited circulation. They not kept up tor
the public, and the public care nothing about them
Every honest and independent man In this country
is sick of them-they have lost their influence,
and are only kept up by laying large contributions
upon pares,who are obligated to club together, to
keep them out of the gutter. They are unreliable
even for the comnonest items of intelligence; and
were it not for the independent press, little accu-
rate information of any kind could be Obtained
Men read independent journals, for they are the
only true opponents of facts or opinions, and the
only truthful reflections of society. Spread the
circulation of these journals through Great Britain
and the want our correspondent complains of will
no longer exist. But rely upon the corrupt mo.
narchlcal press of England or the Fiddlers and
Trollopes. and Dickenses she sends us, or, what
is very little better, the party presses of America
and the complaint will be made till doomsday.
ONO AND PENNsYLvANTA.-From present ap.
pearances, there will be desperate struggle
between the rival political parties in the States
of Ohio and Pennsylvania, IN the election for
President, early next month. The most distin-
gulshed orators and stump speakers, on both sides,
are engaged to traverse those States, and sound
the praises of Generals Cass and Taylor. Pro
mumciamentos, from committees and conventions,
are being scattered about like leaves in autumn
and we would moi be at all surprised to see the
elections, In those States, more desperately con-
tested than any that have ever taken place there.
The friends of Taylor lead the van, in the way of
stump speaking and promunciamcmto issuing.
TEXAS AND New MEx1co-One of the important
events OF the day likely to produce an excitement,
and, 1t may be, lead to some serious consequences,
is the extension of its laws and institutions which,
we learn, has Just been made by the State of Tex