New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-20

organs Of common sense, which, BY the way ls
not at all inconsistent with the support o. things
most Absurd in themselves, provided they have
usage and tradition on their side. Common sense
n conservative, and consents 70 change only N the
noss gradual way, when necessity absolutely com
mands. Speculation. system making, the ad'ocs'
cy Of abstract IDEAS, lie beyond the range Of Lon
don jouIuAlI They take hold Of matters IN anosneF
way they never lose sight Of the solid eartn Of
facts and Their consequences
In their peculiar sphere il I dihicus to say how
London journals can be improved when we say
this, esPeak Of them as newspapers-medium'
Of Information Is 70 public matters. Whatever
industry ability, and Undertaking expenditure
can DO, they accomplish. Look a. their Psrlia
mentary reporting, for instance. In The Tunes or
Morning ChrOnicle, which IA brought you AZ
breakfast you fnd at full length the debates OF
last night in both Houses The adjournment has
hardly taken place, and ye. there is the whole
every motion, every speech, every division-oc'
cuPyirg, perhaps, dozen closely printed columns.
Or, perhaps, the day before, Mr. D Israeli or Mr.
Golden msy have spoken FOR two hours 10 meet
ing in come County hundred miles from the
City the reporters Of the journal were there,
the railway train stood ready to whirl them to the
metropolis as soon as the last word WAS uttered,
and page Of your paper contains every bit and
every heresy Of the orator So 10 respect to every
thing else The news is the frat and main demand
Of the British public, and the London papers con-
tend with each other which shall best satisfy that
demand
Certain moraists see a grave evil in this craving
for news and newspapers, and would fain reouAe
the world into eiS eagerness Of curiosity aud more
attention 10 what they call more important things
We DO not deny that there may be an excess IN
thisas in other matters, nor that in an earnest
country ike England, the excess Is more likely
to be carried to extremes than elsewhere bat we
doubt whether the good reiult in th. case do not
far outweigh the bad. We are not going to at
tempt an apology for newspapers, for there il no
need of it but we suggest that nothing IN the last
half century has done so much as they TO bring the
various parts Of the world into kindly relations
The keen curiosity which is thus reprooatsd' Is,
perhaps only the natural desire OF men to know
each other, and appreciate the hopes and prospects
Of every neishborhood and nation. Acquaintance
is the commencement Of friendship, aud news
great means Of acquaintance. Beside, in these
times national interests are deeply involved, 80
that the Briton las personal stake 10 what i'
passing on the Elbe or the Mississippi, and u
therefore anxious to hear fcom there "sPeedlly
and as regularly as possibe-which we take to be
an evidence Of general progress and not OF any
calamitous decay. Why, what is the nervous or.
sanzation OF tue human body-one Of the finest
! and most perfect pieces of mechanism that We
know-but an admirable system for the convey
snce ard publication OF news from one point to
another These narrow reasoners make sorry
blunder when they fear that the world Is going
yrong because their little systems Of thought Gnd
,rsditonary formulas fall into neglect " people a.
large become busy with topics u real and instant
interest The time wnen nothing was good
that was not written 10 attn, and the scholars
cried out in alarm alton began touse the yer
nacuGr Of the people. A similar process Is now
going on aud We venture TO assure the inhabitants
| Of college clo.sters and Quarterly Reviews, that
they moralize vain upon tic popular prose, aud
that they muss come down to il, or rather come up
TO it, and learn its language, and get some notion
| Of what the world is and what it is about II they
wish not to be left behind, forgotten and unnotcod,
ike birds whis!lDg against the wind. 10 France,
aswe have already shown, this necessity has been
complied with in England it is not yet generally
recognized.
In fact, democracy Of any sort has not made its
way into English society; there everything is
Aris,ocrstic distributed into ranks and classes
even the bootblack is an srist"crat, looking down
upon st lower strats Of humanity. And not only the
more stately spheres Of literature, bat the news
papers a. well, are impregna.ed with the 'ane
spirit genuine sympathy with the People and
an intelligent de nocfstic sentiment, are known by
only small majority Of EDgllshmen, and repre-
sen,ed-not always wisely-by few publications
Of little political Influence. Ii may be sad
that we here do Injustice to the Free Traders aud
their organs bat we do not suppose them 70 be
democrats, although they have certainly stuck
fatal blow at the old 'ystem, and begun process
of social dissolution Of which they koow not the
end. They are Political Economists contendlng
for Trade and Profits, bu! 10. for the interests Of
the masses, who in their view sre mere machines
for the production Of wealth that faith in the
native in.til eta OF Man, and in the orgina .nd ia
slienable equality q rights, social and political
which are the beginning and esserce OF Democracy
are only less repulsive to chem than to older add
more conservative parties because they enjoy the
adyantage Of being innovasers, and thus are IN
superior condition Of mental freedom
But while we would no. seem blind to the ser
vices Of this triumphant party s,in less would we
fail to render justice to the more radical and pro-
found thinkers who find limited be arns through
few weekly papers and disseminate truths which
will show their fiui. more and more when the sui
hsse is extended and the grea. body Of EGG sh-
men become citizens as well as subjects. The
Ccnnunii.s Chartisis, Chnitian Socialists, will,
we think fl larger space in the fature history oil
England than they DO in present regard and inaa'
r tbasr laho Ia hatt IN.