The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1838

Apsil.

June.
6,000

Hull Saturday's Journal...
Hereford County Press ... ... 3,000
Hull Times ..• •••
Ipswich Journal ... ... 9,500
Kentish Gazette ...
Kent Herald ...
Kentish Chronicle ... •••
Kentish Observer ... 6,000
Kendal Mercury ... ... 5,000
Kidderminster Messenger ... 4,000
Kentish Advertiser... ... ..•
Leeds Intelligencer •••
Ditto, at -:Vd. •••
Lincoln Gazette •••
Leicester Journal ... ••.
Ditto, at ••
Leicester_ Gazette •••
Liverpool Courier ... ... 9,000
Ditto, at }d. ... ••• ••• •••
Leici-teradre Mercury ... 6,000
Leamington Spa Courier 4,000
Leicester Herald ... ... 1,500
Leamington Chronicle ... 1 600
Leicester Chronicle ... 4,000
Lancaster Gazette ... ... 2,000
Lincolnshire Chronicle ... ... 12,000
Lincoln Standard ... ••• •••
Ditto, at id. ... ••• ••• •••
Leeds Mercury ... ... 36,000
Leeds Times ... ..• ... 12,000
Liverpool Mail ... ••• ... 12,000
Ditto, at id. ... ••• ••• •••
Liverpool Standard ... 8,000
Liverpool Mercury... ... ... 26,000
Ditto, at -id. ... „,
, Liverpool Telegraph ...
Liverpool Times ... ... 4,000
Liverpool Chronicle ... 8,000
Ditto, at 4d...........6,000
Liverpool Journal ... ... 6,000
Liverpool Albion ... 11,000
Lancaster Guardian ... 3,000
Leicestershire Telegraph ... 3,000
Liverpool Advertiser ... ... 5,500
Monmouthshire Merlin.. 5,423
Maidstone Journal ... ... 5,000
:Maidstone Gazette-. ... 6,000
Myer's Merc"ntile Advertiser.. 5,000
Macclesfield Courier and Herald 5,000
Manchester Guardian ... ... 40,000
Manchester Times-. ... 11,200
Manchester Courier 8,500
Ditto, at -id. ... 4,000
Manchester Chronicle ... 6,000
Ditto, at id. 1,500
Manchester and Salford' Adver-
tiser ... ... 12,000
Monmouthshire Beacon... ... 2,5110
Norfolk Chronicle... ... 10,000
Northampton Mercury ... ... 8,000
Nottingham and Newark Mer-

4,600
5,000 10,000
6.000 6,000
6,000 6,000
6,000 6.000 6,000

Stirling Journal•••
Stirling Observer

2,000 3,000 3,000
3,750 4,000 3,750

WELCH PAPERS.
FROM APRIL Ist TO JUNE 30th.
April. May,
8,000
6,000
7,200

June.
8,000
10,000
3,200
1,500
5,000
3,000
5,000
6,000
CHARLES DUKE DONNE, Registrar.
Register of Warrants-office, Stamps and Taxes,
Oct. 20, 1838.

Carmarthen Journal... ... ...
Cambrian ... ... ... ...
Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald
Cronel yr Oes
Merthyr Guardian ...
North Wales Chronicle ..
Silurian ...
Welshman ...

6,000

6,000

... 5,000
6,000 5,000

1,500
5,000
2,000
4,000

6,000 18,000 24,000
6,000
6,000
3 200
1,100

3,000

12,000 3,000
~, 2,500
3,000 3,000
4,000 4,000
2,000 1,000
2,500 5,000
4,000 4,000
5,000
4,000
2,500

A Return of the Number of Newspaper Stamps at id. and id.
issued to the several Newspapers in England, Scotland, and
Wales, from the Ist of July to the 30th of September,
1838, inclusive, specifying each Newspaper by Name, and
the Number of Stamps issued each month during that
period to each Newspaper.

LONDON NEWSPAPERS.
FROM JULY Ist TO SEPTEMBER 3'lll.
July. Aug.
Age ... 12,000 6,000
Atlas ... 12,500 15,000
Athenaeum ... 6,250 5,500
Bent's Literary Advertiser... ... 1,000 1,250
Bell's Life in London . . . 82,000 80,000
Bells's New Weekly Messenger 10,050 15,000
Bell's Weekly Messenger ... ... 85,000 68,000
British Emancipator ... 4,000 4,000
Course of the Exchange ... 120
Courier ... 33,000 36,000
County Chronicle ... 6,000 6,000
County Herald ... ... 4,000 4,500
Champion ... ... 2,500 2.500
Courtt Journal ... ... 10,000 5,000
Christian Advocate ... ... 2,900 4,770
Circa ar to Bankers ... 1,000 3,000
Commercial Daily List ... ... 3,000 3,000
Court Gazette ... ... 4,000 10,000
Commercial Gazette ... 2,000 3,000
Crown... ... 1,000 5,550
Cinque Ports Chronicle
I .nglishman 1,000
Evening Chronicle ... 21,000
Examiner ... ... 20,550
English Chronicle ... ... 12,000
Evening Mail ... ... 25,000
Ecclesiastical Gazette ... 12.000
Era

Sc pt.
6,000
10,000
3,000
1,000
84,000
11,500
68,000
6,000

100
36.000 45,000
12 000 12,000
20,000 20,000
... 4,000
8,000 5,000
24,000 32,000
... 8,000

4,000 6,000
8.000 8,000
8,000

12,000
12,000 14,000
3,000 6,000
3,000 3,000
6,500 6,000
6.500 6,000
5 000

1,000
23,000
25,325
6,000
25,000
11,000

3.000 6,000
4,000 4 000
4,000 9,000
40,000 50,003
9 500 16,500
8,000 20,000

Financial and Commercial Record
G ardener's Gazette ...
Ditto,
John Bull
Justice of the Peace and Parish
Law Recorder...
London Mercantile Journal
London Dispatch ..
Literary Gazette ..
Law Chronicle ..
London Gazette ..
Law Gazette
London Price Current
Lean's Engine Reporter and
Advertiser
Morning Chronicle ...
Morning Post ...
Morning Herald ...
Mining Journal ...
Ditto, id.
Metropolitan and Conservative
Journal ... .
Morning Advertiser
Mark Lane Express
Ditto, id. .
Magnet .
Moor's Stock List .
Naval and Military Gazette ...
News and Sunday Globe
Observer ...
Perry's Bankrupt Gazette
Patriot

54,000
9,000

90,000
12,000
3,000
17,000
10,000

22,000
8,000

16,000
8,000

6,000 7,500 6,000
1,000 1,500 1,500
27,000 25,000 10,000
... 2,000 2,000 2,0 0
540 539
... 20,000
42 42
500 ... 1,000

cury •••
Ditto at -.}d.
North Devoa Journal ...
Newcastle Join nal... ... 12,500
Nor thampton Herald ... 6,000
Norwich Mercury ... 10,000
Noteingham Review ... 8,000
North Devon Advertiser ...
North Derby Chronicle ... •••
Nottingham Journal ... 10,000
Ditto, at id. ••• ••• ••• •••
North British Advertiser... 36,000
Ditto at id. ••• ... 36,100
Northern Star... ... 40,960
Newcastle Courant... ... 8,000
Newcastle Chronicle ... 15,000
Northern Liberator... ••• 5,000
Oxford Journal ... ... 10,000
Oxford City and County Chro-
nicle •••
Oxford Herald
Ph mouth Herald ...
Plymouth and Devonport Jour-
Preiton Pilot
Ditto at
Preston Chronicle ... ... 10,500
Preston Observer ... 6,000
Paisley Advertiser ... 3.000
Reading Mercury ... ... 12,500
Rochester Gazette .. ... 1.000
Sherborne Journal ... ... 6,000
Stamford Mercury ... ••• ... 37,500
Star in the East ..• ••• ... 1,000
Somerset County Gazette ... 2,550
Sussex Advertiser ... ••• ... 5,000
Sheffield Independent ... 3,500
Staffordshire Advertiser... ... 15,000
Shrewsbury Chronicle ... ... 6,000
Staffordshire Examiner ... ... 6,000
Sheffield Iris ... 4,000
Sheffield Mercury ... 8,000
Ditto at id. ••• ••• -
Suffolk Chronic:is - 9.0,000
Sherburne Mercury... ..• 4,000
Salisbury and Wiltshire Herald 3,000
Surrey Standard ... 4,000
Ditto at a Nd
Sunderland Herald... ... 4,000
Sussex Agricultural Express... 14,000
Salisbury Journal ... ... 10,000
Shetland Journal ... 1,350
Sheffield Chronicle... ... 3,000
Staffordshire Mercury ... ... 5,000
Salopian Journal ••• ••• •••
Scarborough Herald ..• .•• •• •
Stockport Advertiser ... ... 2,000
Suffolk Literary Chronicle ... 500
Sunderland Beacon ... ... 10,000
Shrewsbury News ...
Shrewsbury Reporter ...
Taunton Courier ... •••
Tyne Mercury ..• ••• •••
Ditto, at 4-d.
Western Times ... 8,000
Wolverhampton Chronicle ... 4,000
Worcestershire Guardian ... 4,400
Ditto, at 2,000
Warwick Advertiser ... ... 5.000
West Kent Guardian ... ... 1,000
Western Luminary ... ... 2,500
Whitehaven Herald ... ... 2,000
West Riding Herald ... ... 5,500
West Briton and Cornwall Ad-
vertiser ... ... 6,000
Windsor and Eton Express ... 1,000
Wiltshire Independent ... ... 5,500
Worcester Herald ... •••
Ditto, at id ... ••• ••• ••
Wilts and Gloucestershire Stan-
dard ... ... 2,500
Worcester Journal ... ... 10,000
Ditto, at Ad. ••• ••• ••• •• •
West of England Conservative 1,000
Wigan Gazette ... ... 3,000
Westmoreland Gazette ... •••
Worcestershire Chronicle ... 10,000
Ditto, at id.
Warwickshire Times ... ... •• •
Yorkshire Gazette ...
York Chronicle .. •••
Yorkshire. Racing Calendar ...
York Courant 16,000
York Herald ... 24,000
Yorkahireman 7,000

... ... ... .. 500
..
... ... 171,000 171,000 154,000
... ... 87,009 72,000 62,000
... ... 160,000 150,000 150,000
... ... 5,500 b,500 5,500
... ... 1,000

. - . - . 11,500
_. _ . 120,000
-.-. 13,000

8,500
150,000
14,000
20,000
498

8,000
120,225
17,250
3,750
16,000
6,000
6,000
50,000
1,890
20,000

16,000
...
9,000
6,000
...
1,125
20,000
...
12,000
7,000
23,500

••• ••• , 5 000
„.. ... ... 4,000
... 6,000

2,259
15,000
...
10,000
7,500
14,000

Price Current ...
Public Ledger
Publisher's Circular .

100
10,000
7,150
15,000

... ... 5,500
... ... 3,000

Planet... ...
Post Circular
Police Recorder .
Racing Calender ...
Record ...
Railway Times... ...
Ditto, id.
Sunday Times ... 70,000
Standard ... ... 100,000
St. James's Chronicle ... ... 67,000
Shipping Gazette ... 26,000
Sun ... ... 156,000
Spectator... ... 12,000
Satirist ... . 12,000
South Australian Record...
Ditto, id...
Sunbeam ...
The Times ...
Trade List... ...
United Service Gazette ...
Universal Corn Reporter...
Weekly Chronicle ...
Weeld3r I:ll.9psitch
Weekly True
Watchman
Weale's Advertiser ...

11,000
22,500
8,500

1,350
27,500
9,500
5,000
65,000
80,000
52,000
24,750
102,060
15,000
12,500
1,250

1,500
1,750
900
-. .- .- 340,000
-. .- -. 1,000

200
290,000 350,000

7,000
200
... 125,000

5,000
500
125,000

700
116,000
200,000
23,000
7,500

Sun

soo,ooo - sboo:000
24,000 21,000
6,000 19,000
750

ENGLISH PROVINCIAL PAPERS.
FROM JULY Ist TO SEPTEMBER COO).
July. August. September,
Aylesbury News ... 3,500 ... 3,50 U
Bristol Mirror ... .. 10,000 10,000 10,000
Ditto, at Id. ... ... 3,000
Bury and Norwich Post ... 7,000
Bath Herald ... ... ... 6.000
Bath Chronicle ... ... ... 6,000
Brighton Gazette ... ... 5,000
Brighton Guardian ... ... 6,000
Bucks Gazette ... 1,000
Bury Herald ... ... 2,000
Brighton Patriot ... 3,000
Birmingham Journal ... ... 12,500
Birmingham Herald ... ... 20,000
Brighton Herald ... ... 4,000
Bath Journal ... ... 2,000
Birmingham Gazette (Aris's) 15,000
Bucks Herald ... ... 2,000
Bath and Devizes Guardian ... 3,000
Bath and Cheltenham Gazette ...
Boston Herald •••
Berkshire Chronicle ...
Bedford Mercury ... ... 50
Birmingham Advertiser ... ... 5,000
Blackburn Gazette ... ...
Blackburn Standard ...
Bolton Free Press ... ... 3,000
Bolton Chronicle ... ... 5,000
Bristol Mercury ... ... 10,000
Ditto
Britannia ... 480
Berwick Advertiser ... ... 3,000
Berwick Warder ... 5,000
Bath Post ... 5,000
Bath Figaro ... ... ... ••• •••
Bengal Hurkaru Extra ... ... 2,000
Bradford Observer ... ... 5,000
Chester Courant ... ... 4,000

7,000
4,000
5 500
5,000
6,000

7,000
4,000
6,000
5,000
6,000
1,000
2,000

500
2,000
6,000
10,000
21,000
4,000
4,000
15,000
2,000
3,000
6,000

2,000

10,500

1,000

Cambridge Chronicle ... ... 5,000
Ditto, at Id. ... ••• •-•
Chelmsford Chronicle ... ... 5,000
Coventry Standard ... ... 3,000
Cornwall Royal Gazette ... 4,1100
Cheltenham Chronicle ... ... 4 500
Coventry Herald ... .. 3,000
Canterbury Journal ... ... 3,000
Cheltenham Journal
Cumberland Packet ... „,
Chelthenbam Looker-on ... 3,000
Cbeltenam Free Press ... 4,000
Chester Gazette ... ... 5,000
Carlisle Journal ... ... 8,000

4,000
6,500

22,000
•••
4,000
4,000
3,000
...
5,000
7,000
3,000

SCOTCH PAPERS.
FROM APRIL Ist TO JUNE 90th.

April.
Aberdeen Herald ... ... 12,000
Aberdeen Journal ... 17,000
Aberdeen Constitutional ... 8,000
Ayr Advertiser ;.. 6,000
Ayr Observer 3,750
Arbroath Journal ... 1,100
Dumfries Times ... ..; ... 5,000
Dumfries Courier ... 4,000
Ditto, at id.
Dumfries Herald 3,000
Dundee Advertiser ••• 4,000
Dundee Chronicle ... 2,000
Dundee Courier ••• ••• ••• 2,000
Edinburgh Courant ... ••• ••• 21,000
Ditto, at id. ••• ..• ••• •••
Edinburgh Mercury ... 9,000
Edinburgh Advertiser ... 12,000
Ditto, at id. ..• ••• ••• •••
Edinburgh Gazette "•1,000
Edinburgh Journal ... ••• ... 6,500
Ditto, at Id. ..• ••• •••
Edinburgh Chronicle... ••• ... 5,000
Edinburgh Observer ... ••• 7,500
Edinburgh Saturday Post... •.. 4,a00
Elgin Courant ... .•• ••• ••• 48
4,250
Fife Herald... ... ••• ...
Fife Journal ••• ••• ... 2,000
Forres Gazette ••• ••• •••
Galloway Register .•• ... 3,500
Glasgow Courier ••• 6,000
Glasgow Journal 2,500
Glasgow Chronicle ... 9,000
Glasgow Herald ... •... 24,000
Glasgow Saturday Evening Post 3,500
Glasgow Argus ... ... 12,000
Glasgow Constitutional ... 3,000
Greenock Advertiser ..• •••
Inverness Courier 6,500
Inverness Herald ... .•• •••
Jo hn- o' Groat's Journal ... 3,000
Kelso Mail ... 3,000
Kelso Chronicle... ... 4,000
Kilmarnock Journal ... ... 3,000
Montrose Review ... ... 6,000
Montrose Standard ... ••• •••
Montrose Courier ... ..• •••
Perthshire Advertiser ... •••
Ditto, at id. ••• •••
Perthshire Constitutional
Perthshire Chronicle ... .••
Scotsman .. ... 20,000
Ditto, at 4d... ••• •.. ••• ••• •••
6;h Jin i,l
:••• .. • • • ...
Times .• • •• • ... ... 3,000
Sottish Guardian 6,000
Ditto, at ••• ••• •••
Scotch Reformers' Gazette $,OOO

4,000
•••
6,000

Ditto, at 2,000
Chester Chronicle ... 8,000
Cheshire Reformer.. ... ... 4,000
Carlisle Patriot ... .. 6,000
Durham Chronicle... ... ... 3,500
Devonport Telegraph •••
Devonshire Chronicle ... ... 900
Dorset County Chronicle ... 6,000
Devonport Independent... ... 4,000
Derby Mercury •••
••• 6,500
Dover Telegraph ... ... 2,500
Derbyshire Courier... ••• •••
•••
Doncaster Gazette ... ..• 8,000
Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette 4,000
Dover Chronicle ••• ••• ... 1,000
Derby Reporter ••• •.. ... 4,500
Doncaster Chronicle ..• 3,000
Durham Advertiser... ••• ••• •••
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 10,000
Ditto, id. ••• ••• •" ••• 1,000
Essex Standard ••• ••• ••• 2,400
Ditto, -&d. ••• ••• •••• ••• 1,200
Essex Herald .•• ••• •.• •••
•••
Essex, Herts, & Kent Mercury 4,000
Essex and Suffolk Times ••• 4,000
Eastern Counties Herald ... 24,300
Falmouth Packet ... •••
••• 4,000
Ditto. -1-d. •• ••• •••
••• 750
Felix Farley's Bristol Journal 8.000
Ditto, r. ••• •••••••
Falmouth Express and Colo-
nial Journal... •.„
Gloucester Journal.,, •••
•••
13.400
Greenwich Gazette 3.000
Greenwich Patriot ... • 1,500
Gateshead Observer •••
••• 8,000
Ditto, id... ••• ••• ••• •••
•••
Gloucestershire Chronicle •••
•••
Hereford Journal ..• •••
•••
10,650
Hampshire Chronicle ••• •
5,000
Hampshire Telegraph
• 28,000
Herts Reformer ... 3,000
Huntingdon Gazette 9,000
Hereford Times
Hampshire Advertiser ••
•••
112:000000
Helifax Expre,.,s
Hull Adv, rtiser 21;000
ilampshire Independent... 4,500
Hull Packet ... •.• ••• ••• 5,000
Hull Rockingham
Hertford County Press ... _4,400

8,000
4,000