The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-29 00:00:00

NEWSPAPERS.

The march of intellect is no where more discernible OW
in the enlargement and circulation of onr Journals
Taxation has kept pace with literature, but has net sub-
dued it, as the following letter will testify. It pasta&
dressed by a Mr. Aris, some 80 years since, Editor and
Proprietor of Aris's Birmingham Gazette, now one of
the most popular of periodical Journals :

Gentlemen—l am very sensible that to raise the price of
anv commodity is always both unprofitable and hazardoto,
and even was it not so, the obligation you have laid me
under by your generous encouragement of this paper, would
be sufficient to deter me from any attempt to advance the
price of it, was it in my power, Consistent with my own
preservation, to act otherwise.
But when I assure you it is not, and that I have already
lost a considerable sum by selling it at three—halfpence, I
flatter myself that no gentleman will take it amiss if I can'
not continue it at a price which, instead of serving, can
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only injure one.
That a great deal of money may be sunk in a very little
time by a publication of this nature, cannot seem eh lingo
to any one who considers that out of every paper, one
halfpenny goes to the stamp-office, and another to the per-
son who sells it ; that the paper it is printed on costa
farthing, and that consequently, no more than a fartbin%
remains to defray the charges of composing, printing, Loy
don newspapers, and meeting as far as Daventry the post;
which last article is very expensive, not to mention the
expense of oar London correspondence.
The truth is, I had no design originally of attempting
the printing a newspaper for three-halfpence, but another
paper being published at that price by Mr. Walker,
obliged me to submit to thu same terms, though now vie
are both sufficiently convinced that we were in the wrong,
and think it high time to drop the opposition, and unite
both papers in one.
Therefore, for the future there will be but this pare
printed, which will be in conjunction; and as the above
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a true state of the case, I hope that those gentlemen WO
have hitherto honoured me with their favours, for which,
take this opportunity of returning my thanks, will not

think the advance of one halfpenny unreasonable.
But in corder to make some amends for that additiotsll
halfpenny, I shall for the future enlarge the pages in such $
manner as to contain a greater quantity of news than 0
present ; and the public may depend that no pains or t%:,
pence shall be spared to render this paper as useful as
entertaining as possible.
r I am, Gentlemen, _ _

Your most humble servant,
THOMAS ARM

July 4, 1743.

LONDON MARKETS.

PRICE OF BREAD.
The highest price of Bread in the Metrodolis is 930. W the
4th. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to INd.
that price.

PRICE OF SEEDS.-April 22.
New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 42e. 50s. fine -s. 56'''
Old Ditto Ditto.-- ..... 40s. 48s. fine -e. --4'
New Foreign Ditto -
Old Ditto -
New White Clover
Old Ditto Ditto- - - e":... ....;46'6::
-s. 506. fine -6. 606_,:
New 'Trefoil -----17 s. .10s. fine ...6. •-CZ:
Old Ditto .----- . -.44. 10s. fine --6. l'.
Rib Grass ---
English Carraway Seed -.s. 30s. 40s. fine •••4'
Foreign Ditto ._ , --6. -s. --6. fine -4, '
Coriander-- -...... -s. 146.
St. Foin -----(per Quarter)- -s. -e. 40s. fine I,t
Rye Grass
Macey Ditto - -- 365. Sts. new *6. "...;‘,..:
Linseed, for feeding --, ...»-s. 38s. fine -. .7"
Ditto, for crushing.--- -s 365. 3Ss. fine --''
------ Canary Seed, New. -s. 60s. finefre3.
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Ditto Old .-. -s. -a. --s. fine--..
White Misstard Seed-....(per Bushel)-- ss. 7s. 6d. Ss. Inc --''
Brown Ditto . .9. 10s. 15s. fine--7
Turnip Seeds, Rounds , -s. 256. 30s. tine"-
Green and Red Ditto ...- . -s. 235. 316. fine ...4'
Tares, Old ........-.., ........ -s. 4.05. 445. fine.":„:
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Ditto New -s. -s. fine 485.5 n:
Rare Seed, English, fine (per Last) -1. 301..,... Foreign .-1. xt"

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—ApriI 26. ed.
Hay 70s. Oct. to 98s. Ud. I ('lover 80s. Od. to 1156.
30, Od. to 383. Od.

P 1 ICES OF' HOPS (per Cwt.)—April US.
Kent Pockets . 41. 65. 41. 18e. to 81. CO''
Sussex I)itto --.... 4/ 48 41. Be. to 41. 15''
Essex Ditto ......... 41. 4s. 4/. 151. to 51. O
Farnham Ditto, Fine ..... 0/. Os. SI. Os. to 91. W.
Seconds --.*. Cl. Os. 71. Os. to fili. et'
Kent Lialis—..—
Sussex Ditto —4/. 2s. 41. 158. to 51. ,
31. 168. 41. 2s. to 41. u.'"
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4/. Os. 4/. 16;1 i.. 4, 41.