But then, their variety of intelligence from all parts of the world, telegraphic and specially written, in one morning's issue, is greater than you would gather in any one of our dailies in the consecutive numbers of a week! Take away the leading articles, foreign correspondence, and parliamentary intelligence of our Jupiters of the press; and what have you got left? Only some police reports and an attenuated column of telegrams--solely from France and Germany, or some other part of Europe. We have an Atlantic cable; what news of America do our newspapers publish through its means? Simply the rise or fall in the value of gold, and the price of Erie and other shares! We have a telegraph line to India:--of course, we get general intelligence, of interest to all people, respecting our great eastern, empire? No, we only hear what "shirtings" and cotton goods generally realise at Calcutta; and, the current rupee exchange of Bombay! It is the same case with regard to Australia and elsewhere. Although we have ample means of communication, the reading public know no more now about what is going on in "Greater Britain" than it did before the days of steam and telegraphs--comparatively-speaking. The Americans, on the contrary, learn every morning the least incident that has occurred in their remotest territory; besides, having European news in abundance--the Atlantic cable being used to an extent which would, judging by their slight patronage of it, send an English newspaper proprietor into a fit! We in London hardly keep pace with the the doings of our provincials within easy railway distance of the metropolis, much less take notice of our dependencies:--the existence of places without the London radius is seldom brought home to the readers of our daily metropolitan papers, except some "Frightful Murder," or "Painful Accident," or "Dreadful Calamity" occurs, to fasten ephemeral attention on them for awhile! Why, cannot we have such general news as the Americans have every day, in our papers, from all parts of the British empire, as well as that "foreign" intelligence, which is limited mostly to the adjacent continent? The expense, you say? Rubbish, my dear sir! Why, in the case of a war, no pains are spared to send out good correspondents of position and ability; no money grudged to bring home information, even if special modes of conveyance have to be organised. Surely, in times of peace, a tithe of this expenditure would not be wasted in making our colonies and the "mother" country better acquainted with each other--to the future benefit of both? I may be wrong, certainly, for we are all of us liable to error. You know-- "Different peoples has different opinions-- Some likes apples and some likes inions!"