New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-18

Iebed IN Edinburgh, OEsg0W, Mabchr-trii -'0"-
castle and other Of the heading towns OF the prov
inces None Of these have been 80 successful 81
Tie Manchester EJ0miner-the property OF some
Of the Aading members of the Anti-Corn-L Law
League, and paper Of the most advanced opinion
and Of The night way Of thinking. IL las gradually
risen 10 circulation of q, 600 day, and 1t has
compelled its most uppsh and Wing contemporary,
The Moael.Str Guardian-St one time the most
important newspaper out Of London-to come
down 10 penny also. Then, 70 Edinburgh, there
IL The Scotsman, the leading journal OF Scotland,
which has established penny sheet, no doubt "a
q safety-valye from ruin; and The birmingham
Jovrnoj, the leading paper Of that town, mss done
the same. Probably The cheap newspaper press OF
Great Britain that portion Of il which is pub
Hshed daiy-may have total circulation Of 10000
or 900 coo copies.
Nogg, as compared With the circulation Of the
hieh-priced and naughty toned daily press, thls IS
satisfactory result. There is not in reality, AMI
never has been, any dear daily press out OF London,
and 80 the dear daily press of the United Kingdom
simply comprebends The Times and five other
metropolitan papers. Tie Times has, at present,
circulation Of 10000; perhaps not so many.
During the war With Russia, its average circulation
was G0,OO0 The five other dear dalies will not
give mofe altogether, than circulation Of 20 600;
30 that the whole of this branch Of the Engll.h
press now only represents, 10 circulation, the
position which one journal reached three years
ago; CO. 900 Of daily issue Of the dear papers has
thus 10 be compared with the 10000 OF 100000
Of daily Issue Of the cheap paPeFS. NO ole can'
sherei"r", now doubt which Of the two mas
become the more influential. And this is gratiii-
ing conclusion TO come to--Dot simply because
newspapers, Ike other commodities, are chespened
to the community bu. from the fact, which expert
demonstrates, that, just as newspapers be-
come cheaper and have larger and more popular
constituencies, 60 do they become more liberal and
progressive in their opinions. Even the stand-sIill
politics of the Tory party cannot now be recognized
in the leading columns Of the penny journal which
the Tory party bas established.
But in England there is also cheap weekly
press Which is one Of the most remarkable features
of modern times, and which altogether overshcots
its cheap daily contemporaries in extent Of circula
ton. The weekly journals to which We alude are
published in London on Saturday for Sunday read
ing, and are sold at four cents per copy. They
give careful compilation Of all the news of the
week, combined with criticism ard commentary
of democratic character. The most success
fal of these was under the editorial management
of tie late Douglas Jerreld, and even under
that of his son its circulation represents as
many as the circulation of the whole OF the
cheap daily press put together. Three other
Journals Of the same class have each circulation OF
$1,000 or lO0C or even LOO, 900; and there are
other twopenny weeklies which are using their
best efforts to make equally good position for
themselves. 1t may be said that. altogether, the
cheap weekly newspaper press OF London circuiates
half million Of copies among the working and
middle classes of the country-a number which Is
in the proportion of thousands to tens as compared
with the circulation of the dear weekly press OF
the metropolis. And yet it is somewhat remarka-
Bile that in political society in England,
YOU seldom hear these cheap weekly papers
mentioned and If you did not know better you
might come TO the conclusion that all the political
feeling of the United Kingdom was fed by The
Time and three or four weekly papers that
present, commercially, q most ptiable con-
dition. Members Of Parliament, for example,
often confess that when they 60 into the country to
meet their constituents, the people seem to know
more about politics than they do themselves; and
they can't understand where they get their know-
edge from. The truth is, that these honorable
and right honorable gentlemen have never yet been
made ACQUAINTED with the fact that the influence
of III. Times is really nothing In England, com
pared TO the influence which the cheap journals
now exert; the one journal sending its 10000
copies to hotels and reading rooms, the others
sending mountainous heaps OF sheets by the railway
trains, TO be circulated throughout the homes OF
the people. In fact you hear every stupid fellow
in England talking about The Times as if it were
the only journal in Englsnd or Europe. He Will
tel YOU that il swsys the universe; the fact being
according to his own experience, that it only sways
the little world found within his own understanding.
There is still another special festure of the cheap
Press of the United Kingdom, which must not be
overlooked. 1t is the extraordinary issue of penny
weekly papers that DO not profess TO give news at
! all, but which are very remarkable for their
advanced political views. These have existed for
many years and did not need to be printed with the
compulsory slaulP, oecdusc tnc Aa"!ois w 'H0
Crown never could bring them within the definition
of newspapers Nor aid the repeal of the comPui-
sory stamp change their character in the least
they remain now what they We're before, and many
new papers of this class have come into existence
recently. Fiction is tie most prominent festure
Of their pages; but discussion is presented In the
shape of leading articles. Some Of them tre Illus
.rated; others are entirely composed of closely
nrJnted lrtter-prrss They are 70 be met with in