New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-28
THE PRESS or LONDON.
Baltimore Exchange.

Cou.,poud.pc. Of The Baltimore Exchange.
LoxDoS, May s. 1853.
Ten years ago everybody read The Times, and few
read any other paper. Some four years ago the Is"
was altered making the stamp no longer obligatory
exec on such papers were to 20 by mall aud even
On these postage stamp Queens head wilaDswer
a. well. At once there sprung up a shoal OF cheap
papers, both in London and other ctes. The majority
of these died natural death in very few months at
ter their premature births. But IN London there are
three leading, permanent penny papers, 1he StGr-
one of the rt in the third or fourth year OF its
e1iste nce-Tke Telegraph and The Stan iard.
The Starr is said to be owned and controlled by Mr..
Cobdep Mr. Bright and other leading Liberals, usu-
ally know az the /" Manchester school The Tee
eraIh is the organ Of no particular party but taxes
up everything that offers TO be popular 1t apes Ihe
T.mes in having three pondsrous editorials everyday,
ar exhibits nothing particularly oria1t 81 Digtua
dard is one OF the old high-prced papers lately put
down TO penny (you knov this Is two cents OF your
money! but without abrdging its size or quality. II Is
AL abe well edited paper, and altogether the pest OF
the London cheap pfess. 1t has eight pages was
the first penny paper that came out on double sheet
and before Tie Telegraph and The Star knew what
they were about their circulation was Gown 10 sm n
purfb.r and TIE Standard boosted Of printing lOO oO
TIE London newspaper. reading world having been so
loDg Oh spare oiet, at opce bought me SfaHaard
very LARGELY a. they glad TO get the most they
could for their money. Finally, The IeegrGPh, IN
he ID
of The Standard and Smith, the great e~sman, VINO
cells papers at ell the railway stations IN the klagdo
refused to sell The Standard because tue puDhsnes
would not supply him before everybody ese-as re
Times did-aDd now ne ItiegT"Mh s "a onlv
Of Tile Standard in circulation. The latter mas only
been a penny paper siIce February. Inc newsnleu
always know about the circulation OF Inc different pa
pers. Formerly immense numbers OF IN "'s "e'9
taken by the local newsmen all over LONDON auu
loaned out at a penny an hour and then sold 70 60
into the country, the next day, at haprce si'e ah
il tar four, five or six pence or more oI " eaon
humber Now they tell Inc, they DO mol take na. &c
many Of The Times to hire out OF teIa as 49,,
but Il at their buy one OF the penny paper.
instea d. Another result is seen All over ouuou ue'
as in the American cities, you no" nieet 'a 1S III
full genius, the new.boy. stopped anu .e'sIe S..u
one the other day who sat the railing OF or!oge
counting up bis mornings gans al ABOUT eiocA'
q. In. He had taken seven and sApenee neariy Iwo
dollars that morning. In the aiternoI D. ne oie neaI
as many of the evening papers QUO not s
Tie Star enjoys very gooo, anu aiu'oe' D"'''
rup'ed evening circulation. . - 400 - an ooo
10 tie Crimean war period, s prooaoiy Gown 10 cn-
culstlon Of $4,000 or 35,VV. ~ nao n;.ie
90 eco in 1850 Not only is ts circulation ailhisnIg
but il has a diminished advertising patronage AG,
vertising terIns also are cheaper anu re e' olu
rates aie not kept up. The Manchester ~ ~
once paper of Il 900 circulated twce Hees, .Si
pence a humber opposed, abused and rldicuied 'he
perpy press g. cheap and nasty Out ], nnaIy hsa
10 become one tsef 10 save It's oscou end AeeP HUN
total extinction IL is now penny uany' ..
Another class Of paper. mas come INTO eAs;snee 10
London, ard these are species OF lOSe PsI.a papers
published for the most part on Sat Idsy once week
ard q, The n,ce Of nenny. or more frequently half
PENNY. Near where i've houd.hes T,e s.; PaaeCa'
GG-;ttt, penny kebd' msdal and in tie PsIia3 Ts
tsIy district Of Finsbury part Of lSri9I are I'M
CT. Press, The HdlIorH Jo.rad me CtIN,ta"
NSs the Finsbary Herald, TIE 81. Ltkt'' Ners,
lie Shredded OJIrer TIE hiIsgtqn Ga:ette sGa
Tie I,ingtoa Times. Tie first two Of these are sod
At .ptnpy, and the other sI 8; halt psrhy 'on; Ssn
TIC Tn. Certainly ba: they II aiish CT cheap
drs,ers shops corner groceries stray coSr sni lost
chdren snd wax warm if rot .loluent On rome IN Il
iers, vest,y meetings, municipal affairs ana local sos
up. Al Of ;be above pspefs' eA-eP' NO. Gave s'"p