Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-01-30
Volume IY$=::;;:::iNumber 80,
A Newspaper EsrabIish,nent.

The following article which VIC find in the Boston
Transcript, gives idea of the nature of news
paper establishment, and, although the London Times
Is an extreme case, may serve as warning TO those
who ready nowadays, with little capital;
to embark Id So responsible and costly undertaking.:
Persons apt 10 think that 1t is easy matter
to establish paper, and many individuals have tried
the experiment TO their hearts and purses cost OBJ
serve the ahy deaths that have taken place OF late
years with newly started literary periodicals and small
journals, and when you ask the cause-it is the want
of funds vital disease with newspapers, and akin
to the want of breath with the human constitution
We have been led to these brief remarks by
seeing In foreign journal, enumeration of the
expenditures of the London Times, the largest
paper in the world circulating probably the greatest
number of copies. 1t Is euphattally profitable pa
per too, and this cannot be said to any extent of
American journals.
The statement to which we have alluded, has re-
spect the receipts we'll the expenditures, and
commences with the editorial expenses which amount
iceey to f65 then follows the salaries of correspon-
dents, f40; Parliamentary reporters, (twenty in
numbe f5 each per week) fl00; scientific, fine arts
and literary reporters, 21 pennyIaliners (reporters
Of the occurrences of the day in London viz fires,
murders, curosities, &c.) Ell; for extraordinary
information from authors of celebrity, per week 3U
law and police courts reporters Several In number)
per week ECO. The whole of their expenses for lite
rary matter amounts per week 10 eco
The expenses of printing and composition weekly
> amounts TO lou; the expenses Tor the managine
clerks, bookkeeping. &C., f256; adding to it the
interest upon capital sunk by the establishment for
building, machinery, type, &c. amounts to the sum
weekly, of f. COO therefore per annum of 600
or S250, COO The payments government For stamp:
and advertisement duty E35,COO.
The budget of receipts of the same journal is al
follows In the years 1928, 5000, 600 copies wer
sold per annum, amounting to about fl25,OOO, o
100000. The entire expenditure, with the excep
ton of the payment to the Government for stamps
&C., amounts to 1868 eco. .....
1t appears that the annual profits derived from i
amount TO S240000, without the profits derived iron
the advertisements, OF which account is given, bu
the average number of each copy of the Times con
tains from about 700 to 1000 announcements, ,00t
to 900 per week, and annually 2US 600 to 364, 00
announcements. 1t has also been calculated, tina
10000 typographical letters used to each cop
on an average, and each such copy, divided into oca
vo pages, will form a volume Of 800 pages, so tina
the 6O00, 900 impressions of the Times annually il
circulation would form library Of 5000, 900 volume
In octave.
The number of letters received per day at the Time
Office amounts upon an average to 100, making annu
ally as many as 10000 We find, however, no cal
culations for the time spent in their examination.
The Times newspaper is "great fact in the his
tory of journalizng, requiring CONSTANT activity omen
tai and physically sustain it; and exerting i'm
mense influence. In our own country, not pape
can be compared with it, and yet, as we have said
our American journals are attended with tremendou
expenses. When we hear the birth of q new pape
we wonder at the moral courage of the editor in Civ
ing it being, and if it survive to its second year
we are ready to cry-a miracle