The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-07

Although these returns of the STAN ped issue
give 10 perfectly reliable bases as to the cir
eulation of this or that journal yet it is the
opinion of an intelligent and practical OBJ
server, who has taken considerable trouble to
obtain results, that the following figures ap-
proximate the truth: Daily circulation of the
Tip.s, about fifty thousand; Morning Adrer-
tiser, seven thousand; Daily NeuS, from three
thousand to three thousand five hundred
Morning Posi-, same; Morning Herald, about
two thousand; Moraing Chroaiele, one thou.
sand TO fifteen hundred Globe, from two thou
sand 10 twenty-five hundred; Sun, from fif-
teen hundred to two thousand. With the
exception of the Daily Nstos, which has re-
Gently reduced its price to threepence, all
these journals are sold at fourpence each
The circulation of the penny newspapers i.
much more considerable. According TO some,
the Daily TsIegraph issues daily 10000 copies
or, according to others, $4,000 or 65, 900 the
Standard from IS 900 to &c, 1000; the Star. from
10000 TO 10000. The Weekly Obserru issues
about 50OO or 5000 copies Weekly Dispatch,
aoout40,O00; Bsirs Life in London, about2s ,0C0.
These Journals are sold at five cents. The
Saturday Rerietr, price sixpence, has a circu-
lation Of from 5000 to 5000; the Athsndmm
sold at fourpence, nearly 1000. The London
ILLUSTRATED Nous, which sells at fyeneGce, has
a circulation of nearly 100000. OF the weekly
papers sold at two pence the Weekly TIMES
ian entirely distinct paper from the London
Timss) has circulation of nearly SIS 900; the
Nstos Of the World, of more than 100 600; Lloyds
Weekly Newspaper and Reynolds Newspaper, of
10000 to 10000 copies. Nevertheless, the
public journals, it is remarked, form only q
small portion of the periodical press, the
family journals, published on Saturday, some
of which have a circulation Of 400, 600 copies,
and the vast number of illustrated stories,
novels and niscellanies, published on the
same day and sold at low prices. completely
throwing into the shade the circula ton of the
newspapers.
In England, 1t is added, every class and
every opinion has its organ. The sporting
world are represented by Belrs Life, The Sxa-
day Times, The Era, The Field, Thx Sporting
Times and agriculture and commerce by the
Marx Lane Express, the Farnters' Journal and
the Gardeners Chronicle The various shades
OF opinion in the Anglican Church are repre-
septed by The Guardian, The English Church.
man, the John Bull, The Recorder; the Dissent.
ers have Non-Coaformists, The Patriot and The
Bal,oa'k; the Methodist the British Banner
and the Wesleyan Times !; the Roman Catholic
Church, The Tablet and the Weekly Register.-
sazettes, while such city as Edinburg has
eighteen, and Glasgow thirty, besides their
daily papers.
Politically, the London TIMES, +" that Proteus
OF journalism, represents, properly speaking,
oaiy the fluctuations Of public opinion, to the
pressure OF which 1t invariably yields 1t owes
It's power, perhaps, solely to that unquench.
able mobility which is it's only role and Its
peFfading spirit.' The Morning Post. The
o'o's, The obsfrver, the Edinburgh Rsrie,o, The
A2am'ner, are mentioned as the priacipal or.
sans OF the Wing party the Daily Nsws, an
'hospendent liberal journal, represents more
par0s"iariy The Russell coterie of that party
aas rory organs are the Morning Herald. Tn.
Ssaaapd' ihs Prss', g,a.er's Masasi.,. RiaeL.
w'oas Nag me, the Quarterly Rtviep. and the
Consstnh0naI Prss. The Mo,.;.v c,-.:-,.
represents the liberal Conservative par,y Tho
Merntns Star, the so-caiied liberal sch,o, ~. -
Manchester; the Daily Telegraph aud ,ns
Watminstsr RsrisW, rsdicaiism; the Moy.i,.
ASe1fissr is the organ Of the ultra Protestant
party.