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London, England, 1837-10-25 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1837.

CAMPBELL'S POItMg, uniform with ROGERS S
bst published in Ono Volume, illustrated by Vignettes from Designs
by Turner, price 20s. boards (proofs 30504.
THE POETICAL WOItKS of THOMAS
CAMPBELL.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXVIII
Will be published To-Mofteow.

CONTENTS:

I. HOME TOURS- MRS. BRAY and SIR GEORGE HEAD.
11. EN(3LAND, by J. FENIMORE COOPER, aq.
111. CIRCASSIA and the BLACK SEA
IV. MN IS on ETIQUETTE.
V. WHEWELL on the UNIVERSITIES.
• VI. THE PICKWICK PAPERS.
VII. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S SPEECH at STROUD.

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THE MARKETS.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS.

Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. 8, ..
llsston
Gainsborough — 51 29 28 42 _
GranthAm
Grimsby
11orm astle 4l 60 32 37 20 24 36 42
Lincoln..
Spalding
_ __
btainford 4B 56 2S 33 21 25 36 41 _
York 5O 56 26 34 24 26 az 41 i-- _.,
IRISH MARKETS.
DUBLIN MARKET NOTE Or the WEEK ENDING OCT. 20.
From To ~r.•,.,.
• 3:4 Wheat, per barrel 2o stone l7 ° 30 0 '25 4
0 Bere l6 stone 0 0 0 0 0 0
91 Barley
9:•5 Oats
13 261 Flour, per cwt ... 8 ft,i,i9 6 0 21 0 _ 0
128 Oatinesl.7,..-- A stone 9 0 21 0 10 1

9:•5 0:11s
13 261 Flour, per cwt rt.i..9 6 0
I.S Oatmeal --- I stone 9 0
Sold to Bakers only.
I; 55 Cwt. Flour
15
0 2
Average price of Wheat and Flour 45;10111.11.,e ort l:l o 1
sacktk..2l: 6
0,1.
Receipts of Flour 5 Firsts, from ).,
Sales of Do 13 261 ,
z,econds .. from 15s. 0 I. to IS:. ot,
.
intre ts

PRICE or nits-%n.
Quartern Loaf 91,4 d. I Half Quartcrn 4l4d.

CORK M A RKETS.—Oct. :11

WIWI (per 205t.)...17, tld. too, odd Oats (per 14st) 6,34. to lOs
Barley wer 165 t.)..„ 6 0 14 0 I Flour (per cwt ) 7 0 20 U
Oatmeal (per cwt.) los. (hl. to 168. Od.
Reef, 4d. to tat. ; Mutton, to 6d. • Veal, 4d. to 01. ;
Pork, 4tl. to 40. ; Fresh Butter, 10d. to 11d. per lb.
PRICE OF BUTTER.
To the Merchants. To the Country
955. Bss.

First Quality
Secruid
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth

79

A ft KETS.- 21.
Cwt

CLONMELL M.
rcr _
s. d. s. d. s. st.
95 0 Hides (raw) 0 to 32 8
13 t Bacon Pigs IS 0 42 0
44 0 Heads 2U 0 ,0
I'er Bag.
Flour, Second 31 0 I Hour, Thirds 21 0 :AI 0
—llouschold...*.:6 0 2tl 0; Fourths IS o 18 0
I'er Barrel.
Rapeseed 20 0 0 j Barley ...12 013 0
Here 8 4 10 0 Coals
Per tone.
Wheat Ol5 024 I Tallow (rough) 4 0 4 6
Oats

s. d.

New Butter

Oatmeal 12 6
Rendered Lard 0

KILKENNY
Wheat (perbarrel) 3d. to 21s. (3d.
flarley i J 11 9
Oats

MARKETS.
Beef (per 1b....-- Os. 31. to Os 54.
Mutton 0 3 0 5
Pork 0 2 0 3
Veal 0 4 0 5
Fresh Butter 0 10 1 0
Salt Ditto
Potatoes (per st.) 0 2 0 3

Flour (per bag) IS 0 33 0
Butter(percwt.) 9'2 0 94 0
Macon Jigs 27 0 29 0

Coals — 1 0

SCOTCH MARKETS.
HADDINGI'ON CORN MARKET.—Oct. 20.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans.
fits Od 36s Od 3.35. OA —s c•d 38s Od
56s Od 3ls Od 243 Od --s at 35. 0,1
53s Od Vs 6d 21s 61 —s Od 22t Od
353 qrs. of Wheat in inarket,34o whereof were sold.
13 Uilsold.--0 Grey.
21. 164.51

First
Second
Third
There wer

,verage.....4

6.l2tts

DALKEITH CORN MARKET..
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First COs Od 34s Oil Od
First
51s Od .76 61 22s &I
Third . 4ls 01 212 s lid 1 s 81

•Oct. 19.
l'ease.
43,01
43, 01
33. Ohl

Beans.
43 0,1
42, Od
38 Od

GRESHANI PROFESSORSHIP OF MUSIC.—Yes"
terday the election of a musical professor took place. The
probationary lectures, delivered in the theatre of the City
of London School, in the course of the past week, have
been crowded to overflowing. The candidates, in the
course of their several lectures, all recognised the principle
that the intentions of Sir Thomas Gresham were to make
these lectures of the utmost possible utility to the public.
Mr. Edward Taylor was the successful candidate, the num-
bers being—for Taylor, 8 ; Horsely, 2 ; and Phillips, 1.
The Hamburg Correspondent states that a letter
of the 13th ult. has been received from Trebisond, an-
nouncing the voluntary dispersion of the army which the
Sehah of Persia was leading against Herat, and the pro-
clamation by the nation of one of his uncles as Sehah in
his stead.

(ADVERTIStMENT.)
SUSSEX NEWSPAPERS.

(From the Brighton Guardian.)
Some few weeks ago we published an extract, affecting the
Sussex newspapers, from the Newspaper Stamp Returns made
to the House of Commons in obedience to its order dated 30th
June last ; and in so doing, ire limited our extract to the first
five months of the half year which the return covered, and we
did so for two reasons,—first, because the limited extract so
made presented the true state, as near as might be without
being precise, of the relative circulation of the papers,—
secondly because we did not desire to accompany the publica-
tion by explanatory remarks, disturbing the simplicity of the
return. Within the last few days however the return from
which we obtained an extract has been printed and circulated;
and we therefore, to prevent the public from being abused by
attempts which will be made to impose upon it by fallacious
numbers, now give the six months' return, with such remarks
38 we think necessary to give Advertisers a full understanding
of the matter. The full return, then, is as follows :

Return of the Number of Stamps issued by the Stamp Office,
for all Newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland, from Ist
January, 1837, to 30th June, both days inclusive, specifying
each Newspaper by name, and the Number of Stamps issued
each month during that period to each Newspaper.
LEXTRACT.]
1837. Jan.

Feb.

Brighton Guardian .. 8000* 4000
Sussex Advertiser ... 5000 52,65
Brighton Gazette ... booot 10000
Brighton Herald...... 4000 4000
Brighton Patriot ... 6OOO ...

Alarch.l

April. May. June.
4000 8000 4000 4000
6500 3500 ,6500 5000
5000 ... 5000 10000
4000 4000 4000 4000
8000 ... 2000 6000

From which the following results as the legitimate comptited
yearly consumption of Stamps for the several papers.
Brighton Guardian
-Sussex Advertiser
Brighton Gazette 60,000
- —Brighton Herald
Brighton Patriot
Establishing the fact which we announced on the 19th of
July last, "that the Brighton Guardian had attained the
largest circulation in the county," outstripping its three
seniors. The Sussex Advertiser has been in being nearly a
century, the Brighton Herald 32 years, the Brighton Gazette
rather better than 16 years, and the Guardian only 101- years;
and it has now, as a reward of its incessant toils, its admitted
industry, and its proverbial accuracy publicly acknowledged by
one of its most determined political opponents, been placed at the
head of the newspaper press of the county. This is a compli-
ment to which we are not insensible ; and as the Guardian
was the first to introduce a full-sized newspaper into Sussex,
and to lead the way in the improvements which have taken
place in the county in the getting-up of newspapers generally,
so we can assure the public, that none of its energies will
be relaxed by the marked favour with which the exertions of
its conductors have been honoured.
But we dare say that some interested parties will be found
to take exception to the annual computation we have made.
Nay, we have already seen a deception attempted upon the
public by parties who claim for our Tory Cotemporary a
yearly circulation of 70,000 ; and to expose this cunning fraud
upon the advertising public is our present purpose. The de-
ceivers say—that 35,000 stamps have been issued to the
Tory journal in the six months between the Ist of January and
30th of June, that twice 35 is 70, and consequently that the cir-
culation of the Brighton Gazette is 70,000 in the year. Now
this seems very plausible ; but when the hocus pocus is ex-
plained, it will be found to be as incorrect as the idea that
" twice one and twenty and twice twenty-one" are one and the
same thing.
A moment's attentive observation of the above return will'
satisfy every observer that the circulation of the Brighton
Gazette does not exceed 5,000 per calendar month ; for it will
be seen that although 10,000 stamps with its instinctive die
were issued in February, not a single stamp was issued for
it in ttie month (f April; whence it is clear that the 20,000
issued to it in the first three months of the year sufficed for its
four months circulation, because till the fifth month has corn-
,nenced, no fresh issue was made on its account ; and we are
strongly inclined to believe, for reasons which we will, pee-
sently give, that part of the first three months' issue from tho
stamp Office remained to supply at least the first week of the
fifth month. But taking the ISSUE as the bona fide CONSUMP
TION, it is clear beyond dispute that only 20,000 were used in
four months by the Brighton Gazette, and that another 5,000
issued in May supplied its wants in that month. If then not
more than 20,000 could be got rid of in four months, and the
'text 6,000 answered all the calls fur newspapers in May, can
tny body doubt that the 10,000 issued in June was the supply
for two months ? In computing therefore the annual con-
sumption of the Brighton Gazette, the advertising public will
see the necessity of dividing the June supply between the
months of June and July; and in that case it will be, as we
:ave correctly stated it, 60,000, or 4,000 below the Brighton
Guardian.

But we are not sure that it is entitled to be ranked so high.
',Ve have already shown, taking for granted that it consumed
month by month the stamps issued for its U3C, that in four
uonths it could only have circulated more than 20,000 copies;
but for reasons which we will now state, we are strongly in-
'lined to believe that it had not circulated the whole of the
20,000 in the four mouths, and that enough remained to work
•,ff its first publication in May. The Ist of May this year fell
on the Monday, so that the 5,000 stamps issued with its in-
'tinctive die in that month could not have reached Brighton
till the 2nd. Now all persons connected with printing arc
aware that paper before it is used for printing newspapers
rec:aires to be well soaked in water for a very long time; and
we believe it is the invariable practice of our Tory contempo-
rary to wet down his stamps on the Monday, which is none
too soon. It follows, as a matter of course, that stamps not
issued from the head office in London till the Monday could
not be soaking in water in Brighton on the same day ; and as
a further necessary consequence, that the first publication of
the Brighton- Gazette in May, namely Thursday the 4th, was
supplied from the stock-in-hand issued front the Stamp Office
in the previous March
There is still another reason for supposing this to be the
case. Independently of the time being insufficient between
Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon, when the Brigh-
ton Gazette goes to press, for the paper to soak properly, no
newspaper proprietor since the institution of the instinctive
die, woul4 risk the penalty of printing on unstamped paper,
by delaying till the 2cl of the month the receipt of the stamps
which he requires for use in the afternoon of the 3d; and we
are therefore confirmed in the opinion, in which we have no
doubt all thinking persons will join, that in settling the circu-
lation of the Brighton Gazette at 20,000 for the first four
months of the present year, we are ranking it higher than the
absolute fact justifies. Supposint, that it had only stamps
enough left from its March supply for its issue in the first week
in May, and allowing—which, when we see such tricks are
played, is scarcely justifiable,—that it did consume the whole
of the 20,000 in the eighteen publications which, including
the 4th May, it has made since the commencement of the year,
we find that its actual annual circulation will be decreased to
something less than 58,000, leaving it 6,000 in the rear of the
Guardian, though it is its senior by six years.
What the motive of the proprietors of the _Brighton Gazette
was in ordering a supply of 5,000 in March, when it is mani-
fest that they had the greater portion of their February supply
on hand, we shall leave others to decide ; we will only state
the fact that a Tory Member, who has since been kicked out
of the House of Commons by his constituency, moved early in
April for newspaper returns; but by some mistake the order
of the House was limited to the Metropolitan Press. Had
the provincial issue been given at the same time, our Tory
Contemporary would have been decked in the borrowed plumes
of having had 20,000 stamps in three months ; whence an an-
nual computation of 80,000 would have been trumpeted to the
world—with what honesty and approach to truth we leave the
public to declare. Whether our Tory Contemporary received
soy intimation from the Tory ex-Member fur Belfast, we
know not; but it does seem curious that the consumption of
April should have been anticipated by the issues in February
anda r
ad a osMwst March ctfled
hppu;rbealtinec, design dx ,
bg we fear, when the public come to remark
that the same mancuuvre 'is repeated in June, without the
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of contemporaries whom these Tories dare not encounter on
even terms, and saying little for the honesty of their profes-
sions of attachment to that holy Religion which inculcates
principles of rectitude and honest dealing towards one's neigh-
bour.

The same remarks apply to the your,; Brighton paper. Its
first two issues lasted it four months, and 3,000 met all its
little wants in the fifth. Its last issue was clearly meant to
cover two months' demand.

Besides the journals enumerated in the above extract, there
is a thing got up and concocted between the Carlton Club
manufactory for country newspapers and certain Tories at
Lewes, which clamours to be included among the Sussex
newspapers,--a distinction, which, when we recollect its am-
phibious character, if we may so apply the term, we cannot
award to it. But it is Tory all over ; it is redolent of the
peculiar honesty and adherence to truth which has time out
qf mind characterised that political party. The thing is sent
clown from London, as the cook says, " done on one side,"
ifter it has supplied some half dozen or more things of the same
genus ; and at Lewes it is then finished off. This offshoot of
the Carlton Club was first darted into this county on the 4th of
February in the present year, and the gentlemen who blow
the trumpet at this end of the line would fain persuade the
world that it has already outstripped the Brighton Gazette,
its like in politics, but its- vast superior in every other
attribute that ennobles a newspaper. They would fain
have the world believe that the Tories of Sussex, for-
getting the services rendered to their cause by the
Brighton Gazette for the last sixteen years, have set
it aside in favour of a thing which, when compared with that
Gazette as a medium of county intelligence and as evincing
the talent of its conductors, is contemptible in the extreme.
We cannot think so meanly of the Tories; they are prover-
,
* The Guardian is supplied in parcels of 4,000 each.
t The Gazette in parcels of 6,000 each.