The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-23 00:00:00

NEWSPAPERS 1

MARVELLOUS CREATION OF

READERS ! !

Our excellent Contemporary, the Morning
Advertise•, in commenting on the disputed circu-
lation of the other Morning Journals, gives the
following edifying, yet modest, account of its own
extensive circulation. It is as follows :

" We destroy no stamps—we export no paper
to Hamburg with stamps cut off, ours is a genuine
sale—and when. we add that this journal is read
by forty to one of any journal published in Lon-
don, or within 25 miles of it, which we are ready
to prove, the boastings of these journals, and
their quarrels, are not worth a moment's coniii-
deration.

" Circulation 380,000 in three months.
"Annually, ONE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED
AND FORTY THOUSAND, which, being multiplied as
above—or only leave the half of our statement
to- be correct—gives a circulation in point of
readers which no journal can boast !"

Boast indeed !—it would be hopeless for any
Journal, not even excepting the Times, or " the
great Globe itself," to boast of any thing compar-
able to such a circulation of readers—unless,
perhaps, it be the memorable garrison of Gibral-
tar, under the renowned Elliot, who Made the
soldiers pass round and round in review before
the Spaniards, till they thought the muster-roll
would never end. And so with the Morning
Advertiser circulation—we can hardly reckon
it up with tolerable correctness; let us see—One
million four hundred and forty thousand--what
beautiful alliteration ! But come to figures—or,
as our learned Contemporary would say, to the
scratch—

Circulation .
Multiplied by

1,440,000
40

Gives
This is really astounding !—so much so, that
our worthy friend seems rather posed himself—
•' And back recoils, he knows not why__
E'en at the sound bimsclf had made!"
For in his exultation he generously offers to
knock off one half of his readers, (we wish he
would give them to us!) and yet he will have a
circulation " of which no journal can boast "—for
see—the half of fifty-seven million six hundred
thousand is somewhere about 28,800,000 readers,
being about the amount of the interest of the
National Debt !—Twenty-eight millions of read-
ers!—bless their learning! We never could
satisfactorily account for the march of mind be-
fore ! But here it is, as plain as a pikestaff.
However, there is no glory without a drawback.

Envy hill follow merit as its shade--
And a wicked wag has just thrown a huge blue
book on our table, 'ycleped Population Returns
for the three Kingdoms, defying us to find out
the readers, which he says do not exist—the po-
pulation for the three Kingdoms being only
twenty-six millions ;—and he modestly doubts if
they all can read—certainly not the wild Irish,
who are to be struck out of the new Registra-
tion Bills. This is a sad dilemma; but hold—
" you have forgotten the increase in the popula-
tion, which the next returns will show." Good,
good ! this proves the circulation beyond doubt,
and we wish our friend joy of his numerous
readers—barring a million or two !

JOHN TUOROGOOD.—The prosecution threat-
ened two or three weeks ago against the above
martyr to conscience, for another Church-rate,
has been abandoned ! After some strong threats
of enforcing the rates of 13s. 6d. Mr. Thorogood
was informed on Thursday last that the rate was
paid by some person or persons unknown—very
possibly the Bishop !

The proprietor; of Waterloo-bridge have
acted wisely in adopting the proposition for re-
ducing the toll for foot-passengers, so often
pressed upon them by Mr. Morgan, one of the
largest Shareholders. They will benefit them-
selves as well as the public by the change, in-
crease the value of property on the Surrey side
of the River; and in time will be the means of
rendering the neighbourhood of the two theatres
more healthy and more respectable. The
public, it is often said, have no idea of gratitude;
they suit only their own convenience ;
but if there was an occasion on which
they were bound to exercise that noble quality,
it is this. A Company of private indivi—
duals have erected at an enormous expense
bridge which is justly the pride of the country;
vast sums have been sunk never to be reclaimed,
and though many of the Proprietors have doubts
as to the result, they nevertheless have boldly
ventured on the experiment. We wish them, as
they well deserve, ultimate success.

The Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway
Bill, "to eriavalt The Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock
Railway Company' to raise a further sum of money, arid
to amend and enlarge the powers and provisions of the
Acts relating to the said Railway," was presented and
lead a fist time, and ordered to be read a second time.
The Metropolis Improvements Bill, " to enable
her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Re-
venues, Works, and Buildings, to make a new street front
Coventry-street, Piccadilly, to Long Acre, and also a new
street from the east end of East Smithfield to Rosemary-
lane, and fur authorizing advances to he made towards
other improvements in the Metropolis," was presented and
read a first time, and referred to the Select Commit ee on
Petition; for Private Bills, with instruction to the Com-
mittee, that they do examine whether the Standing Orders
have beet, complied with, as in the case of a petition foi. a
private Bill, and under the same rules and regulations.
The Bill was ordered to be printed.
THE INUNDATION AT BRENTFORD.—The
fifth and last day's inquiry into the circumataecea con-
nected with t!:e death of the lad Spruce at Brentford took
place on Thursday. Af. er a very long i.qeiry the Jury
reti:e.l, and on t'le folloairg mernieg, aft. r having been
locked up for eleven hours and a half, they retui ned a
special verdict to the etroet, as we read it, that the loss rf
life was caased by the we :k and defective state of Vie
wills of the reservoir belonging to the 11,g-cot's Canal
Company. It begins in the following strata :—" We find
thst William Spruce being then and there on board a cer-
taithen ac n barge," &c., and repeats eight times the said words
d there" in the verdict.
SOCIETY IN INDIA.--Stories illustrative of
Eastern lifo and marinas have long formed a most at-
tractive bia'ich of general reading; and we have now
to add to the amusing works of this class, a work which
has just made its appearance under the above title, rival-
ling in interest and entertainment all preceeding efforts.
It is the production of a distinguished English officer,
who has lived many years in our possessions in the East,
and in a singularly pleasing story he has exhibited the
exptrience h 0 ha; acquired of the peculiar habits and cha-
racteristics of the natives of Hiedostan of, different ranks,
and pourtrayed all the vorieties of the English resident to
be found in the " best circles " of that part of the %voile.
The title, " Society in India," is a most appropriate one,
fn. the work may be considers 1 as afferoing the most p:c-
turesque and comple'e illustrations of Life in the East
ever published.