The New York herald., 1869-06-15
Our Foreign Correspendeuce-A siuxie D.yse


Our foreign correspondence alone occupied
in yesterdays HERALD eleven or twelve col
umns. 1t comprised, in addition to our tele-
graphic dispatches from Havana, London,
Paris, Madrid and Berlin, long and extremely
interesting letters from Havana, Panama. Rio
Janeiro London, Dublin, Paris, Madrid Cadiz,
Berlin, Calcutta and Hong Kong. Everybody
has read these letters, and it would therefore
be superduous to recapitulate their contents.
But we must say that they offer striking con-
tradiction to the prophecy of certain wiseacres
who dreamed the correspondents occupation
gone in consequence of the rapid transmission
of news by the electric telegraph. The tele-
graph has greatly modified, but by no means
superseded, the system of correspondence
which has so long been q conspicuous feature
of the HERALD. Whatever improvements
may hereafter be made in telegraphy-and
very serious immediate improvements are inn
peratively demanded on the part Of certain
telegraph operators, who betray their incsps-
city to send any messages which are not az
and unintelligible--it is patent that we cannot
yet dispense with the valuable service rendered
by written letters. Such letters complement
our kilograms. The latter are but skeletons,
which the former clothe with flesh and blood
and life. No mere telegram could give so
vivid and complete picture of the condition
OF things in Havana, in Panama, in Rio ia
neiro, as our letters from those places None
could make so full and startling revelation OF
the real state of the British navy--setting
forth so clearly the secrets of the strength Of
the United States and the weakness of Eng
land-as our London letter. Our Dublin let
ter reports at lengtHwhat is thought and said
of the Irish Church bill throughout Ireland,
and treats of the bishops leases, the Sligo
riots, the land question and educational stats
tics. Our Paris letter presents mass of curious
and suggestive additional particulars relative
to the late French elections. Our two letters
from Cadiz, especially the one recounting an
interview of Our correspondent with Sal
vochea, and our letter from Madrid, expose
the wheels within wheels of the strange revolu-
ton which is now agitating Spain. Our three
letters from Berlin, particularly that which
relates the interview of the writer with Bis
marck, acquaint us with the condition of
Prussia and with the policy of the Prussian
government. We have elsewhere had
occasion to remark upon the peculiar
pumping process to which HERALD
correspondents have at last habituated public
men of mark and influence. The results of
this process form striking feature of both our
home and our foreign correspondence The
men to whom the process is successfully ap-
piled are brought by means of it into more di-
rect and effective communication with the
public than by any other instrumentality.
To conclude, our letter from Hong Kong
brings the latest news from our Chinese neigh
bors, and our letter from Calcutta might OF
itself form volume on India. No telegraphio
cable has yet connected our Pacific coast with
Asia, so that we must continue for while to
depend on the mail for such vOluminous de-
spatches from Hong Kong and Calcutta. Nor
have the prices for telegraphic dispatches
yet reached so low figure that our European
correspondents can proftably indulge in the
luxury Of transmitting their letters by the
Atlantic cable. We are sure that our readers
will be contented, for the present, to receive
the speediest kilograms and the best letters.
which the foreign correspondents of tho
HERALD regularly supply.
WHAT IS TIE TROUBIE?-The rabid radical
Of the press is very bitter on the keen and
Uanial Mavor of fhia 0raat oil VIM nd