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

press in England ful Ct enterprise aud tslen,
without being conventional, cosmopohte without
cessipg to be nSiionll free and independent with.
oct narrovuess or egotism.
lis pretended BY those who have al interest IN
keeping up the present system, that's cheap press
can never bear the expense OF. tirstrste journals
and shat to become accessible 10 the majority OF
the population would be to resign the means Of ex
celence and descend to plebeisn nferOrity. Not
Iopg since The TrSs took occasion 10 sheer at the
Paris papers fer their supposed inability 70 keepuP
ss large IN establishments and pay as much for the
news IS itself, apparently forgetting that although
they do not spend money in the same manner that
it does, they yet make the largest oussys to meet
the peculiar wants Of the public around them
When Journal like the Prtsss, which sells In the
streets for less than penny, can employ twenty
editors at tolerable salaries and pay $4,000 for tie
privilege Of printing a sioge book in It's feaIIet0H
il 10 mistake to suppose that cheap press must
be 4 poor ore. The fact IS, that wherever daily
papers flourish, il is by virtue OF their advertise
menx which are profitable in proportion to the
circulation Of the papers, Journal which circu'
tstes ilty thousand copies finding no difficulty In
obtaining better prices for Advertising than one
which ci-culates only ten thousand. The two o.
sments Of large circulation are excellence and
cheapness and we make no doubt that il the va
rious taxes on English newspapers were removed
The Times itself might be furnished to the puouc
every way a. good as now, or even great deal
better, for the mere cost Of the white paper on
which it is printed, and still pay its owners very
handsome profit.
The editorial writing Of the London journals
bears the marks Of high culture and great eabora-
ton In no other papers are the externals OF COM
position so carefully attended to none make the
art OF rhetoric so much a study nor aim so con.
stan,ly &. polished force and elegant breadth Of
style. But such efforts are quite successful only
with the best talents, and cannot safely be made
by writers whose highest mental gin is common
sense. 1. is accordingly no impossible thing to
find in these journals articles which are good
enough as to sense, bat suited in manner and
weak both from being wordy and from being so win
show and pretense. But these are exceptions,
which are overbalancsd by others of the opposite
character. And though we have asaste tor a less
studied and more earnest kind OF writing, aud pre-
fer another range Of ideas to that in which London
journalism revolves we do full justice to the great
general ability and skill Of its leading articles In
deed. nowhere IL the faculty Of writing powerfully
and Effectively so highly priced or so literally paid
AZ in London. To the talent OF It's writers, iss late
news, ard more than all, to the commanding naval
and commercial power Of the nstion-but not to its
own tendencies and ideas-the London press owes
it's inHuence on the Continent VIII IN sconsiderablei
its in Huence in this country is due to the fact that
we speak the same language, and are q younger
branch Of the same family.
The London journals are organized with great
completeness, cot only news and politics. bat liter
,rv. dramatic and musical criticism being provided
for and regularly treated at length. Literature
is. however, a collateral rather than prominent
feature Science, which occupies so mucn space
in the Paris papers, in the shape OF weekly reports
of the doipgs Of the Academy, has only an acciden
tai place in those OF London, from the fact that
there is no such institution there. With regard 10
Art generally, the London criticism is inferior to
that Of Paris, though Ssto music We venture-wlth
all the diHdence proper TO the utterance OF an
opinion contrary to that Of almost all competent
\ 1Q0EeA-LO pronounce ~ toiNo M SSSNt ~ -Nr 1890
The labors of London Editor are Of the ardooul
and incesssnt kind. The fact that his paper is a
unit With an opinion and responsibility OF its own
and not a mere vehicle for the opinions Of its
writers. throws additional care on him. He must
make Of himself mutiform and weariess agency
supervising all, and bringing all into unity within
his sphere, watching everything without, ready
for every thing, never hating, never tagging. And
the qualities necessary to him, are no less nsces
sary to his assistants. They must be hard work
ers; the life of Partisan journalists is play com
pared with their Industry.
MEX. Huns, himself We believe, prominent
iournaIist Of London, who has la!ely published an
interesting book on the History Of Newspapers,
turpi,hes some statistics TO the number Of per.
sous employed aud the expenses OF Morning
Psper-whicb, by the way, IL everywhere
more costly and laboriouS thing than an Evening
Psper. Mr.. HuLts estimate is briefly IS follows
A chief editor paid ls glineas week sub editor,
u eainess; second subedltor, 10 gdineaS foreign
.ub.editor, guineas writer's abOut guineas a
dsyl E25 sixteen parliamentary reporters, lone
at7 guiness and the others a. guineas per week.
Es7, 70.
Each paper Of any Preten'ions must have an
establishment at Paris. The bead OF this who
bears the title Of Correspondent is paid 10 gaineas
hweek;afeporser gainels; office expenses and
coat Of Paris papers, gaineas the agent at Boa
loqne, who transmits the dispatches, has l guinea
and the expense Of postage is also considerable A
Madrid correspondent 10 alIo required at gaineas
one 1t Rome, 4 guineaS; Naples or Tarin, goin-
cas-; Vienna guiness Lisbon, gunsas Der
lin, guness; the correspondents al Malta, Alex
andria, A.hsni, Coustastinope, Hamburg, China
Singapore, New-York, Halifax, Jamaica, aad othsl
places where news is 70 be expected, are paid &c
cordipg to the Importance of their posts the Tine
correspondent in New. York was, we believe form
erly paid 300 per aDnum for tTo letters per
mouth. Then there must be correspondent a