New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-11

papers are, 70 say the feast. not inferior to ster'
Our discussions on Governmens--it IT, alas n,
beast 10 cay it-sre several hundred yesrs ahead
Of those Of Eogland; and their spe,u'auon'
Cd ystens and ihe, ries Of politics 3eculiaoni
uron which 40 much god writing and polish "a
rhetoric are exoeOded-,re always 10 the rear OF
or prs ctscs The truta Il. our papers ara better
thar tho.s Of the Eogli.b, because mose al
yspced Oar sutvey of the entire field Of life
snd lumsui'y is greater. Our reporting, Tor IT,
.t.rce, though less ponderous on spscial SUB
iec,.. q, in Legislative speeches, is much more
cor g,eher ,ive. I'VE give moss to the people
and the eat 10 the Government, but N, I'ms'
reversts sbis-its recent articles on the natal
ministra,ion Of sff,irs in the Crimes form'dS s1e
exec 3iiol 10 it's customary rules. We do not
expect to trest 10 this country of men or topics
Dtert sting 70 Epgli.b journals; urthemessr ef Tor
tss moot part homely. They are ofltbor, ani the
details of the struggles OF a uev peop'e, IN neE
Continent requiiog to be subdued. Oar mode
too of writing is different. Ia the Eogli'a news
papers every leadicg ar'i,le is measaeed-oat by
the yard Iii be lot column, Is Is nothing.
psrssrsph-'be spi,e of brevity the epigran-
L attic i0cision-they do not understand Alls
LEI gth-all pobdero.ity. A theme which cannot
be blown into the given proportions is no siens.
But tefe We msn,ge so, that ten or hunirei
line. he iLdifferendy used 10 a newspaper article
81 the purpose in hand may demsad. And shea
We bsve got rid of rhe,osic,i stsrch-of red
y; and and
we come sns ck IT, the fact.
In drawing Ibe,e para lels betSixt the Eaglsh
ard Aue rican pres,es, We must not omis tue su,e-
Iioriy Of the latter in the use of the magnetic
Telegraph. We slsays feel inclined 10 laugh
when We read teiegraphic dispatch OF ihe
Londos inns ard compare it with the same
thing here There they costiyely rscite dis.sn.
sayipes and dOiOgs by lines; here We count the
Geographically by columns. We think 1t nothing
20 reIoIt Presidents message broidside of
nine coumns-by telegraph. Compare shat with
the LIlipuasn work of the best Euglish journals.
la this particular, The Times, wltn its compeh-
tors in London hes been peculiarly feeble during
the Eastern war ITS telegrsphic dispatches have
been ridlculousy curt, and empty, while it has
TO. taken single step for the extraordinary trans
mission ofLews by express or otherwise. Bat when
she war with Mexico WAS ragog, the cheap press
of Nea.YOrk maintained throughout the South
erp Ststes a vast system of expresses with tele-
graphic communications where liaes of wires
were established, which gave us details, whole
sale and retail. Of every movement, far suepass-
ing the Government both in the promptness and
completeness OF the intelligence furnished. Ii
the came press had been in London, instead oil
the lees erterpri,ipg British journals, il would
have had chapter and verse OF she Crimean cam
psipn by special steamers, relays of couriers,
ard telegraphs, and would hsve escaped being 50
gloriou.ly hoaIed ss was The London Times and
,be British Government aud people about ihe cap
ture of SeyastOpOl.
A free people must, it msy be rOundly affirmed,
have tie beet Lewspspers; it is not question OF
stamps giving monopoly to one ich shd po Serfal
OIgsnliks The Times but question ofoifdsed pop
usr intelligence, requiring the best practical jour
nsli.m. The scattered condition of our American
population, the want of concenu atom ia nun oers,
wealth and effort have hitherto prevented this
COL Summation; bat it has now come, m.uger
prices cheop hey Id credence, judged BY the
European pfi es Of newspapers.
But apart from these tbrgs, we hesitate not to
say that through toe American press, the Amer-
can People better acqusiateJ, ten to one. with
the sfsirs Of Europe, tbaa tv.n the mass of
Europeans themselves We take it, that our
foreign coresp ondonce will hold its own in com
psrlsen with that of The Times Our crticism,
aud vatciI atoms on the war have always been
Justified by the event-have theirs' AS for the
gossip of Paris and London, i. Is 80 we'll rendered
through letters coming directly hither, az in the
journals severally published in those cities, re-
cprocaliy setting forth their minor dongs. WHAT
the American newspapers were few years back,
when capital division of labor, aud the electricity
Of associated and multiplied talent were wanting
to give them yisor aud exten,ion, is one thing;
but what they are in New York now is quite
another.
The Abti-hisher-law men, who were aud