New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-02
GREAT BRITAIN.
THE LONDON PRESS AND THE TRIBUNE COM
PARED IN PARLIAMENT.

PARED IN PARLIAMENT.
In the House OF Commons on Tuesday evening the loh,
Mr. Wilmer Gibson called attention the present state Of
the laws of the press and moved resolution to the effect
that the laws in reference tie periodical press aud
paper stamp are ideined and uuequally enforced and
demand the early consideration OF Parliament Mr. kn-
pad seconded the notion which. after debate,
agreed to- Mr. Hume usual, took the ground tha tho
restrictive laws which etter intelligence should be alto
eeher repealed their sole effect is to keep the people
ignorant and brutal Mr.. Bright in OF rcmsk1,
made the humiang statement that there seventyhss
boroughs in Britain returning members to Parliament, in
not one of which newspaper published OM q Len
don there is Gut daily paper an The whofe u Eagaaa!
He drew contrast between the circulation OF newspapers
in the United States and in Britain, aud laid before the
Houses copy of The London Tunes price 3D. sterling
retail price in England equal to 2 cents-Ie Melbourne
Argus price three cents, and The NEw-ioRX TRIBUNE,
price two cents These papers are about the same sze
Every workman in New-York," continued Mr.. Bright,
lean buy this TRIBUNE newspaper every morning Tor
a penny sterling. Ii is just as good a news
paper as Tie london Times. Perhaps, all hs
Lenders are not written a deliberately as in that
department of Tile Tiesbu it has pot-boats which 20
far into the Atlantic TO meet the packets-t has telegraph
ic dispatches from every part of the Unont has corre
pondonts in all the chief cities of Europe, and-a thing
which Gould scarcely be deemed probable of paper sold
for a pennyit employed staff not much short the be-
hevedl of 300 persons. There is paper in Ncwfork
which sells for half-penny-The Ner-York SuH-,he
copyright of which sold long ago for 100000, and c
copyrights Of tie Ner- York papers are at his moment
~orh douLe the Copyright Of all The papers IN London nth
he exception Of Tie Times. Mr. Bright then referred to
Mr. Whitworth report of his recent visit to the Uniei
States where he and reported on many things which
had startled manufacturers and Of science in Eng
Gland" Mr Whitworh had shown that in certain depart,
of industry in America there is an increasing skill
and knowledge which threaten not only to rival,
but excel anything existing in Britain 1t must be
borne in mind how near the United States to England
Every week, everything that is known in England, Is
known in the United States, and every workman there
has the same ability as members Of Congress TO read all
that is published while the very is the case in
England. In English gin-shops the newspaper is folded
over the bar temptation passersby to come in and
read it, The right 10 have il Mt his own home is denied
the laborng and the effect of the present restrictive
laws f. to drive operatives TO the beerouse If they wa
to zee newspaper and there they cannot il without
imbbing certain rather uncertain quantity Of gn
II is not the United States. II the governing class
OF England distus the people much that they will not
trust them with political knowledge, they are hypocrtes
to the last degree they speak Of tine ignorance and de-
pravy of their corntrymen Mr. Bright gave u;ieranos
to more truths of the same kind, but fear they mostly
fell on stony ground.
Mr. Hume has called for "a copy Of the existing prpl
engagements agreed TO between the United States and
England, aud OF the correspondence fora modification"
"tho terms of the present agreements.
The debate the nomination Of the Committee On
Government inspection Of nunneres, which WA adjoaei
from Sd May resumed, and after long debs'e me
order for the Committee was discharged.
According 10 annual CUSTOM the Lord Mayor Of London
entertained the Judges at dinner at the Mansion House.
the 10th.
The steamer Golden Age was expected to reach Ensaai
about the end of May, her return voyage from Az"
rtlia
The trial of Ward for the murder Of Buerhas been
led into the principal newspapers Of Europe, giving b.
mean opinion Of American law and justice. The wo~
it is that the whole country instead Of the guilty sec
sheres in the Disgrace.
The West India mail steamer Msgdaens, at Seuthsm?
ton, had dates from San Juan Nicaragua to April ~ sa
from Jamaica 9TH The Governor Of the British s'
India Islands had published the declaration Of war
The steam ne-of-bate--hip Royal Albert, l2l gss'
launched at Woolwich on Saturday the 18Th IN pre-
ence OF the Queen and $4,000 SPECTATOR Victors pr
formed the ceremony Of christening the ship. -.
About t40o 600 sterling have been collected for vfs
and families Of sollers ordered to the Eas
On the 18th the Queen was present at a bal eoss.
given by the French Embassador in London. Thi. *
usual in Court etiquette, but meant special ma
Of the present friendly relations between France Oh
Britain.
arrangement, has been entered into by the Bd;.n
Government with the Pacific Steam Navigation Con2sr
by which tho outward mail for Chill and Peru is to a.
patched from Panama the 9th and 2lst OF each noa1
the voyage from Panama to Valparaiso and back 70
performed in 32i days. 3,
An English joint stock company has been formed vli'
capital OF $40 600 20 work the long neglected irh b"
cries.
The British regiments detailed for the Occupation q
Greece the 20th 2st 34th SD 81 Infantry ana Y"
let battalion of Rfes-5,000 men, France sends levS.
An American frigate name not reported wss st .ea
stantinope, April 22. -,
A steam gunboat named the Jasper, the way to ea
Napiers feet, blew up of Beachy Head. The crew, ga
number escaped in the boats, and were picked up
by Liverpool ship. -
Capt Barclay Of Try, celebrated sporting charsfs
in his day and the iarentOr of walking 600 miles IN s
hours died his residence at Ury Scotland, sh n'''
aged IS. ca,
The Queen has approved Augustus w. Scharit as o''
sui at Falmouth, for the United States Of America
A grand State ball.was given at buckingham Pass
the evening OF the 18th Among the guests were INC
$ Minister, Miss Lane Mrs. Sickles Mrs. T. b. LaS'sps
ond attaches of the U. 5. Legation, the Mexican ana
ruvian Mniseis, &C. -.
The Queen on the 18th sent message TO Paris" III
exercising the right vested in her TO call out, enron
pose for military service the militia OF the country
the place OF the regular troops sen. % the war; an