Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-05-31
From the North american Reuiew.
LONDON NEWSPAPERS.

LONDOI\ NE w Sl AZ LINZ.
The morning newspapers are SIX IN num-
ber. The labor and expense Of conducting
them is immense. AT sevenor eight O'Clock
in the evening the Editor goes to his Office.
The night "brings back his day." For an
hour or two he is busy in examining letters
and communications, of which, in times OF
great public excitement, more than three
hundred have been received at one Office
in one day; and from midnight far into the
morning watches, his pen is racing over the
sheet before him with the speed of the wind.
The expenses, too. of a morning paper are
very great. On this point the author shalt
speak for himself.
''Ths daily expenses incurred by NOR.
ming paper, conducted with any degree OF
spirit, are enormous. To those unac-
quainted with them they must appear 10
credible. The sum weekly paid by the
leading morning journals for the intellectual
and manual labor expended on them, with
out regard to the price of stamps, the ad.
vertisement duties, &c. is from 250lto 3O0l.
The price paid by The Times which is
greater than that of its cotemporaries,
owing to the greater frequency of its double
sheet publication, is not much under the
latter sum. No morning newspaper could
pay its expenses; provided it had no adyer-,
tisements, with circulation under six or
seven thousand. AS few Of the morning pa
pers have SO large circulation as this, it is
therefore clear that the advertisements arc
the great source of profit. When these
are numerous they are extremely profitable
to the proprietors; for in London they are
charged at very high rate. The smallest,
though consisting of only one line, is, in
the front page, five shillings. The charge
for one of column in length, would vary
in different papers,-for the proprietors Of
the several journals have not uniform
scale of charges,-from fourteen to sixteen
guineas. The price, if remember rightly,
which The Times charged for the adver.
tisement, in 1885, Of the conservative FL.
ectors of the City Of London, which con.
tanned 5000 or 5000 names adhibted to
a petition of Parliament, was two hundred
and fifty guineas. The advertisement, ii
nv memory does not mislead me, filled
about four pages Of a double sheet. On
some occasions The Times double sheets
contain between nine hundred and thou.
sand advertisements. The profits, then,
from this source, must be enormous. BE.
fore the reduction Of the advertisement duty,
the yearly sum 'The Times, paid TO gov
ernment for advertisements alone, was not
much under 20,000l.
81 do not know more interesting scene
than that which is to be seen in the Office
Of morning paper when all hands arc at
work. Notwithstanding the extent of the
place, the variety of the departments, and
the number of persons employed, every
thing not only proceeds with the regularity
of clockwork, butthe perfect order prevails.
Every one knows his own duty and cheer
fully performs it, without intrrrup;lng Or
interfering with his ncighbor in the drs.
charge of his. There is no talking, Or any
noise of any kind: every word that is spoken
is in suppressed whisper; and when any
one has occasion to 60 from ono part OF
the establishment to another, ne lreads
the floor as sofely as if he were afraid OF
his own feet.
Foremost among all newspapers both in
London and elsewhere, stands THE Tines.
the Jupiter Tonans of the press,-lne
Thunderer. 1t was established as long asc
as 1883, but did not begin to take the lead
among the English papers, till after the
peace of 1915. DR.. Stoddard, now Sir
John Stoddard Governor of Malta, was
for some years previous 10 this period its
principal editor; and so graat was the vir-
ulence of this gentleman's attack on Ma
poleon, that the emperor (credat Judeus)
thought Of prosecuting him for libel!
The successor Of DR.. S:oddard was Mr..
Barnes, the present editor. His salary
is supposedto be twelve hundred guneas.
The proprietorship Of the faP-T IS divided
into sIx.eeu slares: the whoc IS valued at
$50, ,O0OL; and the annual profits aye said
to be between 20,000L and 10000. -
circulation is estimated at 10000 copies
daily. The,price Of the paper f"c pence
4 number. Near V one hundrod iGd:vtd-
uals are directly and constantly employed
up m it. and the num5cr Of conlpo>.crs
cioac is Lc;wccn ti'v and siytv lnc.nt,dg