The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-09

The Sunday Press In their SHIRT Tails.
This is undoubtedly religious community. We
have every variety Of Christians in abundance
Episcopalians, Prssby tsriaDs, Asthodists, Bsp-
that's, Anabaptists. Refo,mers, Independents, Con-
greg ationalists, Universalists, Catholics, Wes-
lsyans, Moravians, Quakers, Shakers, Swedenbor-
gians, New. lights" with about fifty other
sects which We have not time to enumerate,
all houiishing like tho green bay tree. Churches
spr up on all sides, and only exceeded in num-
Der By hotels and groggerss The amount Of clergy,
occupied and unocouped, in saving the souls Of tho
public, far exceeds that Of the shoemakers and 10
fully equal to the enormous list Of lawyers. These
facts establish oonciusively that religious
people. When we talk, therefore, Of the Sunday
press, stranger will naturally expect TO hear Of pi
GUS newspapers, edited by godS men, and furnishing
appropriate spiritual good for their readers between
morning and evening service. Lot us see how such
expectstions will DO fulfilled.
Five Sunday newspapers are published in
New York, and have On aggregate circulation
about eqael to that Of the Sunday HERALD. The
we first open is the Sunday Courier. A friend
Of ours the other day divided the Sunday papers
into two ciasses-the ribald papers and the stupid
ones Were we to adopt this classification, the
Courier would naturally faM under the latter head
1t is not spicy tho Mercury or the Des-
patch, nor can it vie with the atlas for gross
black guardism, or with the Times for stolid
obtuseness. 1t is simply a quiet sheet, to
be dOsed over after dinner, calculated to shock
robody, and to excite violent feelings either
Of praise or blame OF the fifteen columns it de-
votes to tales and literary sketches, only and
quarter are original, If rather prosy account Of
journey to California deserves the title the rest is
flled with borrowed tales, many of them hsckned,
and nearly all familiar to novel and magazine
readers. By way Of soiace under this mesgre
fare, the proprietors Of the Courier promise new
novel, by the author Of Elmira Baneker, (whe or
what was Emirs Bancker?) (which" say they,
will be found tobe more richly worth reading than
any romance whioh has been published during the
present century, including, of course, the works Of
Dickens. Scott. Cooper, Bulwsr, Irving, Sc It
will be as instructive it is amusing and thus
combining utiis duci, will refresh the old, while
it delights the young" This beats the quack doc
tors hollow. The only thing the Cosyaer people
want. is certificates from old and young that, hav
ing seen the proof sheets, it refreshed and delight
ed" them respectively, and that they will trouble
the editor for another bottle-we mean. auoshe1
on Q days folicking at Newport, old clothes, The
character of the day, the last murder, and q few
scraps Of political items and town talk 1t contains
an article on the Duke Of Wellington, which We
shall notice shortly-item, pleasing weekly sum
mary Of outrages (far less piqaant, by the way,
than the collection furnished by the Despatch)--
item, some theatrical notices, in which we ere told
that Mr. Placde is 'unequalled, if not unapproach.
able'-that Mephistopheles is indifferent and ex.
tremely stubid'-that Laura Keene "has yet mu ID
to learn"-but that s'the public, the man Of the
Courier, will be indulgent and encourage her, (save
the mark item, article headed Musical (which
contains nothing whatever about music, except the
names of few singers, with the stereotype cpl.
thets, savoriDg, the whole, like the last, Of
iudcious system Of oyster house feeding: and this
is what the Courier calls Sunday reading.
We must do the atlas the justice to say, that it
isnot utterly orgeful of the day which it is read
In late number it thus alIudes to religion
Until the Church Of Rome assaulted and violated
by Henry the Eighth-tbe prodigal the hoertine the
general debauchee the murderer Of hsfa dozen
and by Wickbnc and Lutnor-the .oio~i.t. and the
other conoli-ed TGke-it the foster mother OF all
that is glorious and great"
The editor has the GOODNESS to add that he is
Protestant; We had fsncied he was Turk, and
adorned with four such woodcuts as one usually
finds in the barroOms Of country taverns with
short biography of four of the candidates for State
Offices, published, Of course, from quite disinte-
rested motives and without the knowledge of the
individuals thus immortazed, "The cuts" says
the editor, "are admirable specimens of wood en-.
craving" and he has the unparalleled cruelty to
publish the name Of the artist 1t contains, also,
the last chapter of harro wing tale, repr nted from
the English edition, written partly in bad English,
and partly in worse Irish, called " Fardorougha,
the Miser,' of which the editor, who is classcally
inclined, speaks in this wise:-
In giving It to the reader hare realized greo. salts
We have had that it has entertained and de-
lighted readers We hope that we may soon offer to
them a banquet equally rich and rsfnedn
Besides three or four long political articles
and q biography of Wellington, in which
Mrs. Coutts is called "Cutts" throughout, there
are editorials on the quality OF the "puro
Holland gin sold by friend of the editor on the
bargains to be obtained a. n certain store in the
Bowery, and the mstchless excellence of certain
dry goods for sale at place mentioned juubled to.
getber with the Reindeer accident, emigration, and
the Pierce rally, and written in style fully equal
to the extracts we have already given But it is
perhaps, as lingust that the editor Of the Atlas
shines the most brightly. We trust our printer viii
reproduce the following extract hteqti,n:--
"AbolyiDg ourselves from the hserie which 40 often
marks The If the and the d,ihtante VI
listened to the fine band Of MINISTRIES Mr. Wood fur
nifhes; and with thousand others conceded what was
not necessary, that they the mcrtsoros Of rhs
age"
We think it would be supeyfus and derosatororary
to add any further examples Of the 4taS' style Of
Sunday reading.
The Despatch has one merit. 1t does not meanly
fitch frsm other papers, as the Cota,o and Tins
do but is entirely composed of original matter for
which it pays This is creditable and praise worthy
We are ar from thinking, however, that the original
matter is always as good as it might be the
articles entitled Canadian History" and eth,
Iron Duke have, in fact but few claims 60 the
epthst; and We tatalir o lass