The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-11
yOIRNALisH Ar HONE AND ABROAD.

yOTRNALisH Ar HONE AND ABROAD.
The Di.euss'en Contioued-Ihe Epgllsh
Penny Prss,-a, fluence oi une New York
Herald M the Cheap Nswspspsr Move
m.nt Ia EDglsnd-The British RcIIs ious
from the Scottish. American Journal, Aug. 27l
TIE PRESS II BRITAIN AND AMERICA.
Some Of our soniemroraries, during the past week.
have emp their leisure In making comparisons
between the press OF England and that OF
America Not without they claim credit for the
pewrpspers ef this country aud OF New York Ia partou
ar for having IN some respects surpassed the British
journals. The American newspaper is decidedly more
lively and able than It's English contemporary Beth
In ns original discussions and IN s news department
embrace variety o. interesting subjects than
country newspaper whcee responsibility seems 70
necess,tate adherenaa % the regular "ne OF inc day
derstood the samo Office, ~ implying certain kind
OF winch WAS properly the subject OF gov
erDment tax La TIE LONDON daily journals especially
the DID, methoacal, heavy style IL still regiousy ad
hered TO- .he Dewspsper really presents but Limited
section Of the great drama OF society tnss being daily
much in advance Of the London journals
The vrers who been discussing this subject evi-
anoe with the British press They dwell greatly on the
high pric6 OF the ct the other side com
pared with those here and they talk there were no
enterprise hare the way Of telegraphpg news Now
II must be remembered, London not Great Britain and
that In many things neither leads represents the
INA Ss q
y end birth else There, and london, with M unweldy
bulk slow 70 taks tnom up. Neither Ia price, nor in
point OF enterprise In the Of the telegraph are the
provinces 70 be judged from the metrcpons In ali the
great owns throughout ho country the leading newspa
pe a. cheap ~ tsose Of Ne~ York and Of Them
OF larger The Manchester Guardian and the
Gasgow Herald occasionally print sheets considerably
larger than any Of daies, and the Liverpool Dalv
Post regularly exceeds in size the NEW York HERALD
Thess are two cent papers; % also 10 Scotsman,
the ablest paper pnbl,sheo out OF London; ike.
wise the Manchester Erdmimer the great organ OF the
radical party, numerous other we'll conducted daily
papers In oil the srge provincial cities These journs
and even The country papers, regularly supplied with
the OF each DAY BY electric Telegraph system
eemewhat similar TO thai which prevails IN this country,
but al somewba, greater than 10 incurred 1t this side
The Parliamentary debates regularly reported and
sonetin es a. considerable length this ID donc 10 WELL
neeed by elef epdsv unnecessary supple
mept these reports from the London papers Debates In
the House Of ucmmccs lasting sometimes till three
O'Clock IN the morning reported with grcA. funess
and accuracy the provincial papers Of the same morn
ing, which despatched osthe mail before five O'Clock
Cheap CARLY newspapers nave nov become great feature
In the life OF the British PROVINCIAL cities. Some years
ego was projected thar 1t was imp ,ssole to publish
daily paper at the price OF two Genus and the present
writer had the honor o. being the frst to prove,
by practical example, the possibility OF doing 60
AT that time, nearly i've years ago. there Was only
enc other daily paper out Of London with circulation Of
little over thousand copies. Now there ct least
score Of dsnes come OF them enjoying large circulation
Their progress during the short time they have been In
existence has been immensely greater than that Of the
New York dAes the early days OF the cheap system
the Manchester Eramnr tor instance having attained
In the space OF few months circulation which IL took
the NEW YORK herald more than ten years work up
to- The eaoing daies in Ednburg Glasgow Manchester
and elsewhere either already printed on presses by
Hoe OF this CITY, about be So the use Of these
pruning machines being rendered necessary by their ex
tensive circulation.
This cheap movement has not yet had that efec. in
LONDON which was naturally to be anticipated. But the
truth that matters OF this sort discussed
- II they involved simply . question OF demand and
supply. newspapers do not succeed simply because
there il room for them IN the MARKET, Real live suc
cessu journals 90 NOT grow they have to be made and
made not BY money merely, but By mon possessed Of
tboee special qnancstcus which requisite for such an
Undertaking No oUe can understand th better than the
editor Of the NEW YORK HERALD in whose columns this
subject has been spoken OF lust we're mere cues
tion OF political economy. Now, far money il CON
cerned that hiss been speat abundance in
attempts to start cheap daily papers London but these
attempts have not been marked by suy Distinguished
success simply 20 far see from want OF brains
and ideas. One set of tried the business With
hundred thousand srs and another set proposed
70 Try with million But the result OF these projects
has not been TO the large promises maze
the outset There WIS want Of money there was
want OF the right men and the right ideas 30 the
new class Of papers In the English metropolis have for the
present not come 10 much, although amongst them are
Two three very respectable Journals the New YORK
papers have been made what they are with 4 great
deal less money, but with considerably more talent
and distipc,iveness OF character. It may Lmos.
and the 7rsbre the The Times, enter
prise, and which had to SURPRISING standard
much than half the amount that WAS reouired to
commence the London star But these have always beer
what We on this side Of the Atlantic call sive" papers
The London daes generally, with the single exception OF
the Times the other hand morbund Of nstitu
lions useful chiefly OF their thickness for the
While potcue sis sup st snd With rsssrann -
movement which has usw blessed Britain, as we'll q
America with cheap press, just that the credit
doubt, as regards both countries, that JansS Gordon BenH
has been the cho has done most perAaps AZ much az
al s' s ms ts sy.. S: rn. S, ss,. and s.s DE-
newspapers In New York before the HERALD, but
the HaRAID .oas ne fra that shoscsd determination to
In the whole OF the herald q Newspaper enter
Prise, great originality and versatile power OF sppre.
bending current ideas has always been evinoed. AZ
popular daily newspaper has urquestiopably shown
moro talent and shrewdness than any other and an
amount OF vigorous restless vitality which cannot but
from the tendency Of any views that may be advocated
in It's columns. 10 Mr. Bennett We bel.epe Is oo at
ne cheap nesapaprs # NEG York are not stupid collections
Of shres and patches party organs Of provincial
stamp. 10 The example thus, through his ,tr,snsytaiity
set al NeU York; also oing than Brain no,c possesses
ledge Of wha. was being done 81 New York that stmu
lated those who instrumental In bringing about that
change in the Law which has rendered cheap newspapers
possible; and the New York journals have exercised no
small influence In directing the British publishers in the
recent management Of their enterprises
From the Evangelist, August rs, 1859
THE LONDON RELIGIOUS PRESS.
We ventured last week q comparison Of the news.
paper press in America with that Misunderstanding
some differences between the journalism Of the two coun
tries concedDg the excelences Enssh periodical ters
ture in s large sense and the merit Of the
London Tunes the frat Of living Journals and yet noting
several points in which tae great Thunderer mght
learn from the quick and versate american press These
dierences-whch spring partly from the institutions OF
the two countries from the difference between q world
that old and one that new and partly from the ma
onAl character and temperamen-are yet more marked
We turn from the secular TO the religious press The
latter u an American institution. II was here that re
gious journals were first established and have taken the
deepest root and Is here, at this day. they have
sne woes. clfcuston and exert the greatest influence
Al We receive weekly the DrinCiDal
LONDON we have constant means Of comparing them with
our own. This comparison 1t discoses very wide
difference in the general plan which they are conduct
ed In TACT would hardly be too much say tina, the
religious lourna-as we understand it in ths country
hardly exists In England Our idea Of religious journal
s mst o. all newspaper like any other, giving
iu record OF the current life Of the passing age-Wh this
dfhrence that here the world surveyed from Chris
tian standpoint, and human actions events are
by high religious principles.
The LONDON journals, the other hand are not rei-
gious 30 much - denominatonal Here their basis ID
very narrow and yet strange say they are filed up
In large part with discussions Of political affairs So
that We were 70 adopt the division Of the
()baerfer. into 4 renatOug nd