New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-19

OF ne more important events Of the then going
on with the Turks, wSich persoas were permitted
to read on paying a small piece Of money called
gaseta, from whch the word gazette has its orisla.
Ii was some time sRes the invention Of printing
before prints papers were Introduced a, Venice.
owing % The Jealousy with which the government
regarded any expression Of political opiaion. bat
sc soon as they begsn there, they rapidly spread
over Italy. Pope Gregory XIII. who reigned from
l57a 10 1885, issued bull against newspspef wri-
tiers, as bad snd sedi,ious fellows In Germany
the hrt Irregular paper Das FraAkfarter J0srnali
was founded in 1915; pint Of the same nsme 10
shll published ia Frankfort, and q very good one
nn. In France the irss paper wss begun Ia 1854
oy NJ. henaudot, physician, for the purpose Of
supply ns his patients with ness IL was pab-
hshed weekly. lnEnglAnd the Est paper was 7Hs
EngfisA Aerears0, issued In 1855, on the instance
oil Lord Bureigh, at the tms when the Spanish
Armada threatened the Independence Of tho ng
ton when the danger was past the paper
ceased, though it was followed by other siniAr
publications. The frat regular weekly prins was
begun in August, 1922, under the site Of" TAe Ger
tais Ners Of the Prtsest Week." In America the
pioneer twas The Boston NeSs. Letter. which first
appeared in 1904
From such beginning modern journalism dates
Its immense extension, uselolaess influence and
Importance. There is low 20 civilized country and
scarcely province, whiSh has nos lie journals,
even Russia, where the principles Of Asistic des-
po'ism are stu supreme, and where anewspaper 10
apoliccal contradiction and sure forer ner Of da.
structon Tor the entire system, 20 xerfu a. IL may
appear-has something like a hundred printed in
Russian, Polish, SsediSh. Finnish. German,
French, &C.; at Tells, toe capital Of the Russian
Caucasus, there is a ne sspaper Ia ths Georgian
language. Many other Oriental nations slso have
regular periodicals ia their osn tongues, thanks TO
perseveriDg labors Of European and American
missionaries
Though we have great mass Of facts at hand,
our space will not permit US to attemps any detail
ed account Of the press in the less important ma.
tons of the world, such ss Norway. Spain, Portu-
gal, Holland Greece, the South American Repub-
lies, &c And yet the journals Of some OF these
countries possess great merit. One OF the freest
Of all national presses is that of Norway, where
the rule Of Democracy ensures happiness and mod.
Grafton among the people. The Italian Journals
are remarkable for earnestness and ability those
which sprang up during the late revolution were
full OF talen. and noble aspirations which the heat
Of embttered and mortal controversy could not 90.
scure. Spanish and Portuguese journalism cannot
be placed very high in the scale of excellence.
Greek newspapers are interesting; s is a curious
minging of old and new to see the E0rpo or Ens,
printed in the same characters in which Plato wrote
his Dialogues and Aristophanes bis Plays. The pa.
pers Of the various Slavolc nations have from time
to time manifested remarkable ability. aud the fires
ofgenuine enthusiasm ior democratic IDEAS. After
the revolution Of le4s had Temporarily emanci-
pated the press in the Austrian Empire, q consid.
cradle number Of Polish journals at once made their
appearance in Gallcia, advocating the broad.
est and most rational freedom, aud aboring not IL.
together in vain, for the reconciliation Of the hostile
nobility and peasanry, the basis ofthe Associs-
tion OF Interests. 30, too, in province usually
regarded as the strongest hold OF Dsspotism, 10
Croatia, was established journal Of eminent vigor
and tact the Siaronska Jug (Siavoaian Aurora)
which commended for a Democrats Republic
as the true form Of the State. The Demo.
Gratis among the Tschschs. or 6lavons Of Bo.
hernia, had 40 their organ the Naroday Nouisy
(Ners of The Countyy)j the Democrats in the
Prussan.P oliah Province Of Posen had Eve
or ak, one Of which the Gaseta Polka (IolssA
Gazette/ our readers have no doubt often seen
quoted l. is hardly necessary to say that In the Aus
TITAN empire oil these toiers 10 the field opened by
the revolstIOn-which, failure though t be, wiIIyet
be recognised a. grand and most fruitful epoch In
the progress Of the race--bave fallen before the
triumphant reaction, and are now no longer dan.
gerous to order and public morals, that IL to say,
TO the power and plumber Of tyrants and arstocrats
The Gazeta Polska and its ootemporaries in Prus.
sian Poland still managed 10 exist up to the recent
law on the press what has since become of them
we not know.
The leading Press Of the world is evidently the
German, French, English and American, tho jour.
nslism OF those nations being distinguished for the
features which, according to existing stand ards,
make good newspapers. The national character Of
each Of these great peoples fully manifested In it,
jOurnalsi the German encyclopedias comprehen-
syeness, the French point, enthusiasm AID didacto
cearness the English force, solidty, utility, CON-
pleteness and aborious polish; the American enter.
prise, rapid versatility, straight forward ndepen-
dence and sturdy practical sense. These ara the
good qualities. Our readers need not bs informed
that opposite and less pleasing fes.ares olsea 90
company them.
THE GERMAN PRESS.
The news in German papers Is almost always
made up in the form Of corespondence. Every
journal of any Importance has its correspondents
in the principal cities Of Germany and the more
solid establishments employ many writers In other
countries In printing their letters the initials EN-. -
plOyed BY way of signature are generally put at
the beginning Of the first line, 20 that the reader
does not have to look to the end to know whose a.
ticle be 10 reading Next comes the date, and then
the letter follows regularly All matter relating