The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-25 00:00:00

NUMBER OF NEWSPAPERS IN THE

UNITED STATES,

Among all the various evidences of growth which
the United States have presented to the world none
is more satisfactory or important than the rani,'
increase in numbers and constantly improving tone
of the public journals. Less than a century ago—
in 1775—there 'existed in the United States 34
newspapers; in 1800 we find they had increased to
200 ; in 1830 to 1,000 ; whilst in 1860 the total was
5,253—m0re, we believe, than are printed in every
other portion of the globe. Of these about 300 are
daily papers—some having both morning and even-
ing editions-72 of which are published in New
York, 35 in Pennsylvania, 32 in Ohio, 28 in Illinois,
23 in Indiana, 22 in Massachusetts, 18 in Missouri,
17 in California, and 15 in New Jersey. The dailies
having the largest circulation are the New York
Times, Tribune, and Herald, each of them distribut-
ing over 60,000 copies per diem.
Of the weekly papers 613 are published in New
York, 407 in Illinois, 353 in Pennsylvania, 348 in
Ohio, and 230 in Indiana. 114 weeklies are published
in New York city, 65 in Boston, 44 in Philadelphia,
33 in San Francisco, and 32 in Cincinnati. _

In the Southern and South-Western States the
number is not only considerably smaller, but is much
less in proportion to the number of inhabitants.
The commercial and manufacturing people of the
Eastern, Middle, and Western States, all have their
daily, tri-weekly, or weekly papers, either metro-
politan or provincial, while in the planting districts
only the better conditioned inhabitants are patrons
of the press. Of these five thousand and odd jour-
nals, 324 are devoted to religious topics ; 253 are
printed in the German, 16 in French, 5 in Welsh, 4
in Spanish, 3 in Italian, ani 2 in the Swedish lan-
guages. We see by the above computations that the
newspaper enterprise in the United States has
grown into one of immense magnitude and influence;
but when we take into account the fact that the
number of journals at the present time is nearly
double that of ten years ago, and four times what it
was twenty years since, we may presume that it is
still a comparatively undeveloped power.—The
London American.

We understand that a reply to the second Report
of the Commissioners of the National Defences is now in
preparation by. Captain Cowper Coles, 11,N,—,Anny and
_Navy Gazette.

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY AND THE
VOLUNTEERS.—The Midland Railway Company have, we
are informed, very courteously allowed volunteers the pri-
vilege of travelling when on duty, at a single fare to the
place of destination and back by Ist, 2d, or 3d class. In the
event of a train not having third-class carriages volunteers
will then have to pay a single second-class fare ; one ticket
must be taken for the whole number of men travelling.
This is another instance of the thoughtfulness and judi-
cious generosity which characterise the directorate of this
flourishing proprietory.—Derbyshire Advertiser.
AN UNEXPECTED TREASURE,—Yesterday morn-
ing the Rev. Mr. Ambrose, of Park-street, Regent's-park,
purchased a parcel of theological books at a stall in Hol-
born. Amongst them was a work entitled, " A Christe
Exbortacion unto Customable Swearers," by Miles Cover-
dale, black letter, printed by Nicholas Hill, without date,
but supposed to be 1535. On inspecting the volume, he
discovered seven guineas, of the reign of George 1., as welt
as a letter, which, however, did not refer to the money, nor
the reason for placing it IA its " secret siding Place," 4'w°
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