The New York herald., 1860-09-13

Total number OF advertise ments ...........ll lel
Here are nearly twelve hundred people
speaking their wants and announcing their
business in one day; for be 1t remembered that
these are nearly all fresh advertisements,
handed in and paid for over the counter the
day before yesterday, which are all read with
ayidity by some one-not like the advertise
ments in other journals, which stand for
month, or II may be a year, until they become
stale. These advertisements belong to the day
on which they appear, and compose . part Of
the life and the news thereof, like any other
matter in the paper-to many people more in
teresting and more important No portion of a
great metropolitan journal, then, is dead mat.
ter even the advertising columns, which many
suppose to be dull and tedious, are full of life
and interest, and fresh every day.
The CHEAP Press IN ENGLAND AND AMER
IcA.-AmoDg the most promising reforms
in England, and the most encouraging
symptoms Of her progress towards the
full Development OF the freedom Of the
people, which hitherto has been of very
slow growth Is the adoption Of . cheap popu.
lar press In London, after the example Of New
York. Here the monopoly Of high priced,
worthless, snobbish journalism existed as well as
In London. But here II was overshadowed BY
the enterprise of individuals who established .
cheap and vigorous press for the people;
whereas in London the change Is due to the re-
moval Of the stamp duty from newspapers,
against which the aristocratic papers contended,
though it removed burthen Of one penny
(two cents) per copy from themselves.
Foremost among the cheap English papers Is
the London Morning Star, which is now estsb-
lished for period Of five years, has large cir
culation, Il extremely democratic In its views,
and has been eminently successful. It wages
incessant war against the privileged classes
who are pensioned upon the people, and 1t
stands mp boldly for the rights Of the masses,
and the overthrow Of time honored abuses by
the advancing waves OF freedom and civiliza-
ton. The aristocratic journalists-and chief
among them the Morning Postum up their
noses at the cheap papers, which are in the
hands Of the people. But these powerful poll
teal engines are gradually and steadily work
ing n revolution In the country, by difus-
ing intelligence among the masses, who ne
yer touch journals Of eight cent respect
ability. like the Post The cheap pa
pers cln afford 10 laugh at the assumption
OF the old iory stilted press. which minister's to
the pride and passions and interests OF the aris-
tocrscy who patronise it. They feel their
strength Lies In the march OF intellect and in
the pulsasions Of the popular heart, and that
Il Il no longer in the power Of the titled nobi-
~ TO crush a free and popular press, nor to ar
rest the progress Of that mighty movement
which will result in the contamination OF a
second revolution. completing what the revo-
luton OF less lelt undone. The first laid low
the divine right Of kings the second. If Il do
not abolish the House Of Lords, will 20 reduce
| It's power a. to render Il more compatible with
the right Of the people, and win sweep away
the most obnoxious remnants OF feudalism.
This progress l. owing In great degree 70
the increased intercourse Of England with the
United States in recent years Here, in this
city. twenty-five years ago there was preten-
tious sispenny press. which gave no intelligence
10 The people, and was chiefly read by few
snobs. A cheap press wss then established
which has grown up into an institution furnish
ing the earliest and most reliable intelligence
to the people Of all that happens, and IL is not
only read by the multitude In this great metro.
polls, but by thousands in every part Of the
country. while the sixpenny journals are scsrcc.
ly ever seen. unless In the hands Of few old
I fogy gentlemen who are behind the age. The
cheap press here possesses power for good
commensuraie with its circulation. II is true
there are no organic reforms needed, no Misso