The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-12
LONDON JOURNALISM.
The Criticisms Fearless but Not PERSONAL---VERY..
rance Of American Affairs.
[Col. J. ". Forney's London Letter.

[Col. J. ". Forney's London Letter.
There is a certain difference between what
| is called the freedom OF the press in America
and the freedom of the press in England.
With us publicity seems to be the rule: we
| rather delight in holding up to scorn our pub
| lie servants, This is done not by all the news
papers, but by many of the widest circulation
| and credit Here, however, willie the Lon
don Times does not hesitate to take the loftlest
| character by the beard for lis public conduct;
while day after day such men as Mr.. Disraeli,
Mr.. Gladstone, and even the Prince Of Wales,
literally and fearlessly criticised, you never
see private or personal illusions. One great
reason for this consistent rule is unquestion-
ably the cosmopolitan character Of the people.
London is worlds center; the concerns
of nations are discussed here precisely as the
affairs Of countries are debated in America.
The internal arrangements OF the United
Kingdom, close, condensed easily handled,
cover space SO exclusive that it leaves wide
latitude in regard to the various concerns of
other people. Great Britain is powerful be-
cause she has concentrated upon a very small
territory an immense and wide-reaching ma
chinery; because here is gathered incalculable
wealth, individual and national, chiefly in
vested and expended here, and because at any
moment, holding as her Ministry does ire
mendous enginery in their hands, they can
WELD it instantly and irresistibly, alike for Of
Tense and defense. No one who witnessed the
immense outpouring Of London on the 9th of
November day and night, during and after
the Lord Mayors annual procession, which
also takes place on the anniversary of the
birthday of the Prince of Wales could fail to
see the force Of this remark in the quiet and
orderly behavior of the people. In any other
country, certainly in America, such
multitude would have been full of
noise and confusion: but here. if
there was too much solemnity, and
noticeable lack of merriment, there was also
pervading respect for law well worthy Of
the commentator OF the Minstrels at the
great banquet in the Guild Hall in the even
ing Such n people has abundant leisure,
thus restrained and educated, to attend to
outside matters; and so it is that commerce,
religion, and society in this great capital are
alike distinguished for the completeness of
their information in regard to matters at
home, and for the fullness and ability with
which they discuss matters abroad. There
is, it must be confessed, too little known of
America. An Englishman is far better ac-
quainted with Greece, Turkey, India. and
Asia, and the course of Continental affairs,
than he is with the United States; but every
hour this Indifference and ignorance upon
American topics is lessened. The increas-
ingly rapid oceanic INSTRUMENTATION be-
tween the two countries lit is said that there
is steamer every few hours from Liverpool
to the United States) is awakening new and
livelier interest in our affairs, and in another
decade it will be as fashionable and as COM
mon to talk about America, her institutions
and habits, as it is now for this people to
discuss the pecularities of France or Ger
MANY,