The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-01
initiate the American policy, inaugurated by the

initiate the American policy, inaugurated by the
HERALD, to establish carriers for the different
wards and precincts of London, and to dispose
of their sheets to street statesmen This plan has
been adopted by three penny papers now pub
lished in London, and with proper management,
the employment of adequate talent, and with per-
severance, the result is a matter Of certainty.
We therefore look to complete change in
the scope circulation and influence of the Eng
lish press A new additional class of patrons is
about to be created-those of the lower and mid
ding classes Large masses of people, who
have drunk in their information second hand at
the ale houses will now read and think and
Judge for themselves All that is required is the
use of skill in management and adaptation to
the popular wants. To certain extent the
public taste will have to be catered to, but in a
short time it will direct itself When every Ia
borer every operative and shopkeeper, every
farmer, will be able to purchase news
paper at penny day, an element
will be created new to the English sys-
TEN. It's effects upon the existing laws upon
the arrangements Of society, and upon the ma
tional legislation, may be Swallowed forth, but
cannot yet be portrayed in all their bearings.
One practical view presents itself amid these
considerations 1t is that journalism in England
is the most inviting field offered for talent and
capital that has yet been presented in that coun-
try. Ii the penny press be only well conducted
If it meets the urgent demand of industry,
the arts, Of political economy and the public vel
"a. 4.
GLASS of advertisers will make its appearance
A thousand wants, q thousand necessities a thou
sand schemes will be presented to the public
which are now in embryo merely, or are stided
by the expenses Of publication. The very re-
cesses of the English heart will be lighted up and
shine through new outlets.
Politics win have q wider scope for discussion,
public opinion viii have new and a powerful
exponent
1t is obvious that, its old shackles being thrown
of, greater Latitude Of discussion will arise with
the opportunity.
1t is worthy Of notice that the cheap press Of
England has already assumed republican tone.
The more its numbers increase the more strength
it will gather. 1t is not chmerical to estimate
the circulation of the new penny periodicals at
the end of ten years, at half a million day.
Who can ten what will occur when this takes
place? What statesman can predict the future Of
England when public affairs are thoroughly I'M
derstood and comprehended by the people? What
viii be the fate Of their old institutions Of their
laws OF primogeniture, Of the ascendency Of the
aristocracy and of the character of their laws,
when every Englishman is a reader, thinker
and a talker these subjects, kept up to the
work by daily press, with half million Of cir
culation? We confess, while we recognize the
stability of the English character, ts long subor-
dination to privileged classes, its reverence for
royalty, and its generation for the past, we per
ceye in the coming revolution of the English
press a corresponding revolution in English opin-
ions, a change in its domestic affairs and in its
foreign policy.
This will assimilate that country more closely
to our own; and when its moral influences Snd
political power 90 hand in hand with ours, Who
can tell what will be the fate of the old govern
ments raised on the labors and drenched with the
tears Of the oppressed?