The year 1880 promises to be one of the most interesting and important years of this crowded and eventful century. It will witness a Presidential election which may result in re-establishing the Government of this country on the principles of its constitutional founders, or in permanently changing the relations of the States to the Federal power. No intelligent man can regard such an election with indifference. THE WORLD, as the only daily English newspaper published in the city of New York which upholds the doctrines of constitutional Democracy, will steadily represent the Conservative contention in this great canvass. It will do this in no spirit of servile partisanship, but temperately and firmly. It will be as swift to rebuke what it regards as infidelity to Democratic principles or to the honorable laws of political conflict on the part of its friends as on the part of its foes. It will uphold no candidate for office whom it believes to be unworthy of the support of honest men, and accept no platform which it believes to misrepresent or to contradict the true conditions of our national prosperity and greatness. As a newspaper THE WORLD, being the organ of no man, no clique and no interest, will present the fullest and the fairest picture it can make of each day’s passing history in the city, the State, the country and the world. Its correspondents in the chief centres of life and action on both sides of the ocean have been selected for their character not less than for their capacity. It will aim, hereafter as heretofore, at accuracy first of all things in all that it publishes. No man, however humble, shall ever be permitted truly to complain that he has been unjustly dealt with in the columns of THE WORLD. No interest, however powerful, shall ever be permitted truly to boast that it can silence the true criticism of THE WORLD. During the past year THE WORLD has seen its daily circulation trebled and its weekly circulation pushed beyond that of any other weekly newspaper in the country. This great increase has been won, as THE WORLD believes, by truthfulness, enterprise, ceaseless activity in collecting news, and unfaltering loyalty to itself and to its readers in dealing with the questions of the day. It is our hope, and it will be our endeavor, that these may keep what these have won, and that THE WORLD’S record for 1880 may be written in the approbation and support of many thousands more of new readers in all parts of this Indissoluble Union of Indestructible States. =Democrats= everywhere should inform themselves carefully alike of the action of their party throughout the country and of the movements of their Republican opponents. A failure to do this in 1876 contributed greatly to the loss by the Democracy of the fruits of the victory fairly won at the polls. Our rates of subscription remain unchanged, and are as follows: Daily and Sundays, one year, $10; six months, $5.50; three months, $2.75.