The New York herald., 1850-06-11

THE ADvKRTsRe OF TIE CoRPoRATIoN.-By
reference to our report Of the proceedings OF the
Board Of Aldermen, last evening, il will be seen
that the long. g.lsoked-for report Of the Committee
on Ordinances, in reference to the advertising Of
The Corporation, was, at last, submitted to the
Board. II is now four months since the Board of
Assistant Aldermen adopted their report, and the
Board of Aldermen have been all that time coming
10 a decision upon the simple question-in what
papers they ought to insert their advertisements
and the best Of the joke is, that they far as
ever from a solution of the difficulty. After
being referred, and referred back, and referred
again 10 smother committee, it is now referred
once more to another still, and Heaven knows
where the references are TO end. If the Finance
Committee should be tedious as the Committee
on Ordinances, We may expect their report some
time next fall A short time since, Mr. Haws, the
Chairman, being questioned to the reason of the
delay, said il arose from the difficulty of the COM
mittee agreeing among themselves; and, now
that they have agreed, they have only agreed
to what they well knew would be rejected
An Aldermanic mountain was in labor, and
a ridiculous mouse is brought forth. There
would be no difficulty in arriving at decision
satisfactory to the public, if these gentlemen acted
for the people in the way they would act for them
selves. lfthey wanted, as merchants, TO insert an
advertisement, they would insert in the papers of
the highest circulation, because, by so doing, they
would get treble, or even skiold value for their
money. Let them act in this way by the citizens
whom they have sworn to serve, and they will
very speedily loosen the gordan knot, and solve the
wonderful riddle Of the sphynx. Let them give the
advertising, as the Post office department does, to
the two papers ef highest circulation, or if they wish
TO give TO three, at &, 900, let them do So Then
the Herald, the Sun, and the Tribune would be the
papers. The circulation Of the Herald stands above
them all; yet, strange 10 say, il is totally omitted in
the report of the committee. IL is pretended that
it is because the Herald would not accept the terms
of the committee. This is not the fact; and the
tender of the proprietor, addressed to the a, has
been suppressed, in which he offered TO insert the
advertisements for 81 900, or on the same terms as
the Sun II is clear, therefore, that there is foul
play on the part of Eaws IL Co. Further, that
committee were directed, by resolution, to include
the H,Gid-they have not done so. Can they, dare
they, give reason! If they did venture to do so,
that reason would be found to be that the Herald
watches too closely the proceedings Of these gen.
tlemep, TO be a favorte with them. But il is a
ayorite with the public, whose patronage is worth
more Than the wealth Of the Corporation. Let them
expend ell 900 per annum upon their stomachs, be-
side 81 per day per man, wkile they grudgingly
give $4,000 for the information of the people. day
of reckoning is TO come.
We had almost forgotten to notice one ridiculous
assertion, in reference to the class OF persons by
whom the Sun is said TO be read" the small
holders of real estate" They must be very small
indeed for is notorious that the principal readers
OF that journal are the niggcrs and the chamber
maids and the great majority of the owners of real
estate would scarcely touch it with the tongs.