The New York herald., 1851-08-20

The Newspaper Press OF New York.
We have received from sundry proprietcrs Of
our city and country popers, communications re-
specting the list Of newspapers, which We pub
ished in the HERALD on Saturday last, COM
plaiuing Of inaccuracies and omissions. We have
OILY to say that list was an abstract of
the United States census; and If the pub
fishers of papers have given false returns or tne
marshals who took the census have omitted any
establishments, the fault is not ours. AL we vouch
for, is that we have given correct returns for the
HERALD establishment, aud true abstract OF the
&c snsus, as we obtained the same from Washington.
Let "every tub stand on its own bottom," We say
ard let those who feel aggrieved apply at the
sus Office at ashington, and have the returns cor
rected We shall be glad, however, to receive any
information from editors and publishers which they
may think proper to furnish us, respecting their
papers, if not correctly reported in the census. The
editor of the Eastern State Journal requests US to
say, that his paper is published at White Plains,
IPe,tcest9 couLty, and not in Suffolk county, as
strangely reported in the census returns.
AS We have said before, we have no doubt that
many Of the returns of the circulation are over
rated; and the list we regard only as an approx
mate statement Of the respective circuations Of the
newspaper press in June, 1850. We have ascer-
tanned that two of the city penny papers, wzich
put down their aggregate daily circulation at
10000, now issue daily on an average, about ooooo
only for the two papers. Wecannot answerfor the
correctness as to the Tribune; but, taking the cen.
sus returns as the basis for calculation, and
estimating SO publishing days in the year, the
following is the comparative annual circulation Of
the two Establishments
DAILY HrAALD--Number Of sheets printed
p.mT TEisrsr-Numbsr of sheets printed
annually 6oss 500
Difference in favor Of the HERALD 4o79eoo
Or, if we take the Daily, Sunday, and Weekly
HERALD, and compare the total annual circulation
of the same with the Daily, Semi We cekly, AMI
Weekly 7ibs.ne, the following is the result for the
HEnArD-Numbes OF sheets printed annually ll93s,4oo
IRIBrSE, do. 10. o,sy9. .Soo
Annual circulation in favor Of the HERALD. $4,000
Difference Of value Of sheets, ut cents each,
in favor Of the HERALD. S5osso
Or over siaiy thousand dollars.
comparison with the old daily press Of the city,
the proprietors Of which for long tine affected to
despise the establishment and rapid progress of the
cheap cash papers, is still more striking 10 fayer Of
the HERALD. Thus, it appears that the total cir
culation of the old "sixpenny papers" Gas they
were formerly caled) according to their own state
ments made to the Census Board, is many thousands
less than that of the HERALD. Here is the table Of
circulation of these old concerns:-
Courier and Enc 500
Journal CT Commerce 500
New York Evening Poet. LOO
Commt rcial Advertiser ...................... $500
New York Express (norning aud evening" .lo,7oo
Total circulation Of the ive cid large papers
Daily circulation Of the HER.LD. 49,. S.o40
Difference in favor Of the HrRALp 69lo
The average daily circulation of these old papers
is (sdmittirg the returns Ct the Express to be
correct, but which are doubted by many of our
cotenporaries, and we shall not quarrel with their
s.atement) 1t will be sufficient for the lrpose Of
business men to observe that advertisement in
serted in tie HERALD is worth str times much
,chta insate ia the arTage Of the old papers, and
tceay.trs per eent more yan all of them conbinai
The total annual circulation Of fthese FIVE papers
being 96s 0O0, and that Of the DAILY HERALD (3lO
days) lO,llS, 100, the difference in favor Of the
HERALD in a year is 2, Isl 400 sheets printed.
1t is worthy OF remark that in the year lS322,
when the aaily press was in the hands Of the old
fashioned papers, (exeepting the Daily Ss,aiae,
printed by George II. Evans and two other papers,)
there were l3 daily papers published, aud their
aggregate circulation eny 5,623, 500 sheets
annualIy-or about one-haf the present circulation
of the HERALD Their daily circulation was Is 200,
or an average Of 400 for each Of the 10 papers.
The following is list Of the thirteen daily papers
published in this city in lS32, VIII
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