The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-14 00:00:00

to the Newspaper circulation in England and the
United States of America. It embodies much useful

formation :

" The success of the present unstamped newspapers (and
of their success there can be no reasonable doubt) has esta-
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blished the fact---that a cheap newspaper press is called for,
by the desire amongst the mass of the people for the species
of knowledge which a newspaper supplies. The avidity
with which they now purchase a contraband article may, in
some cases receive an impulse from the circumstance that is
is contraband ; but in this, as in every other manufacture

Oh, take them home and put them to bed,
And tell their wife or daughter
,To give when they wake a couple of red-
Herrings and soda-water 1

that admits of smuggling, the success of the illegal trade is
only a manifestation of the greater success that would in-
contestably result if the whole trade in the article vended
largely as contraband were disencumbered of restrictions and
duties. The legal newspaper trade of the United King-
dom is exceedingly small. The total number of newspapers
published is 355 ; the total number of stamps supplied is
about thirty-six millions. This number is, indeed, nearly
double that of the stamps issued at the beginning of the
present century, but it has unquestionably not kept pace with
the desire for knowledge amongst the mass of the people, and
has not advanced in a ratio very far beyond the increase of
population. In the United States of America, on the con-
trary, there were in 1834, 1,265 distinct newspapers, having
an aggregate circulation estimated at about seventy-five
millions annually. The American newspapers, as is well-
known, have no stamp, and are circulated through the
States at a very small rate of postage. The population of
the United Kingdom being twenty-four millions, and the
newspaper stamps issued being thirty-six millions, we have
a newspaper and a half annually to each of the population.
The population of the United States being thirteen millions,
and the newspapers issued being about seventy-five mil-
lions, we have six newspapers annually to each of the popu-
lation.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 14, ISA

Bells, the Blackburns, the Clerks, the Forbeses, the
Hughes Hughes, the Kearsleys, and the Gaily
Knights, the Lowthers, the Pracds, the Ridleys, and
the Sandons, united for once in their lives in the better
company of some gentlemen who meant well, but who
ought to have known better, were the component parts
of the publicans' coalition—requiescant.

We leave them " alone in their glory." We trust
some arrangement may be made by the CIIAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER which may render the
tax less unfair upon the respectable publica❑ ; while
we feel confident that the Treasury, under its
present auspices, will never sacrifice to a clamour the
interests of consumers of other articles so much more

highly taxed and much more worthy of relief than girl.
What are the Temperance Societies about? They,
if they have any SPIRIT, ought to assist the CHAN-
CELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER at the present moment,
and assist in the rescue of Glass and Paper from the
clutches of the Excise—in the rescue of raw Cotton
from the Customs---in that of Knowledge from the
exorbitant oppressive Stamp !—and in the relief of
Timber from the load of a mis-called protecting duty !

The Churchwardens of Bungay, St. Mary, are in
action again, on the subject of Church-rates. This
parish has been made notorious by having called
Ipswich Jail into requisition, to enforce this exaction
from Dissenters.

The Churchwardens have issued this notice :
Butway, St. Mary,
March' 6, 1836.

" Notice is hereby given for a Vestry Meeting, to be held
on Tuesday, the 15th inst., at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to
take into consideration the several assessments of Church-rates
then in arrear.

" SAMUEL SCOTT, }
Churchwardens."
JAMES GOWER,

lance. Those peccant humours which an unshackled
Press would have dissipated in the course of a few
years, now fester inwardly ; and hands which would
have wasted their energy in holding pens, had the laws
for the restriction of the freedom of opinion not been
adopted, will now clutch daggers with the impious de-
sign of burying them in the bosom of him whom they
regard as the opuressor of their country. In a nation
such as France—filled as it is with the dregs of two
Revolutions—it is madness in the Government to sup-

pose that desperate men can employ themselves less
guiltily than in writing what it may consider as trea-
sonable. When the project of law for abolishing the
liberty of the French Press was before the Cham-
bers, we stated that it would have the effect of multiply-
ing the most dangerous conspiracies against the person
of the KING, as well as against the whole form of the
Government. We were right. Not a week has passed
since in which the KING'S life has not been in the most

mininent
. The Chamber of Deputies was engaged on Friday
in the discussion of the several articles of a Bill for

the punishment of French Criminals in Africa and the
Levant. After a debate of several hours, Ministers
carried, against repeated amendments, a clause for al-
lowing all offences to be tried before, and decided by,
the Court Royal of Aix, without the assistance of a
Jury. This clause embodies a most dangerous prin-
ciple ; inasmuch as no distinction is made in the
crimes which are to be referred for trial to this tribunal.
In the si ting of Saturday, MM. LAVILLE and

SAUVEUR LACIIAPELLE read reports in the Cham

ber on petitions praying for a- general amnesty, in
favour of all political prisoners condemned since the
25th of July 1830, including the Ministers of the
Ex-King, now confined in the Castle of Ham. The
Minister of Justice thought the question too important
to be decided hastily, and proposed that the Chamber
should pass to the order of the day. The motion had
not been decided when the reporters for the London
Journals left the Chamber. We believe that M.

TITTERS is personally in favour of an amnesty, but
that the KING is obstinately opposed to it, from a
mistaken opinion that it would betray weakness on the