Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-08-13
ThnLnndon Press.

be finely educated.
The London Press.
In England, newspapers sent
from the Office Of publication
through the mails must have i'm
pressed on them the stamp Of the
inlznd revenue office, for which a
penny for each copy is paid. The
price of the Times is three pence,
and you can buy 1t there or at any
news agents shop in the kingdom
for that price. But II you order
it to be sent to you through the
mail 1t will cost you four pence a
copy. The price of the Standard
is a penny, but if sent by mail II
will cost two pence, the extra
penny going to the government.
Each of the newspapers sends to
the office Of internal revenue a |
certain number of blank sheets Of
paper, equal to the number of
their subscribers, and the Office
impresses on these its red stamp,
and returns them to the newspa-
per Office, where they are printed
and sent of. A special arrange
ment, however, is made with the
Times, on officer of the Govern
ment being stationed at the office
of that paper, and afilxing the
stamp there. Now, of course, the
number Of stamps thus issued will
show exactly the mail circulation
Of each journal, but it affords no
criterion Of the entire circulation,
since not only is the whole city
circulation of a journal unstamped,
but all the copies sent in packages
by railway and express to other
towns are equally free from this
duty. Nevertheless, as it is per
haps reasonable to suppose that
in most cases the mail circulation
of a newspaper will hear pro-
portion to its entire circulation
, these figures are interesting. The
number Of stamped copies Of the
Times for last year was 2,O99,95O
, a decrease of 130,9S6 on the pre-
Q vious year. This Is a daily issu'
of 600 copies; and for its 2,099,
$50 copies the Times received
S131, ,4l0, it being sold for thre'
: pence (six cents a copy, exclu
sive of the one penny for tn
! stamp. The Standard, which sell
! ! at one penny issued l,575,34
= stamped copies, or 5,03S daily
Il for which it received onl
i :, S32,S15. 1t printed only 594
y v 6O2 sheets less than tn
J Times, but it received s9S,59 le'
H. money. The Standards circul
y ton through the mails, howeve
increased during the year 2l2,2I
=. copies over the previous year.
- The Pail Mall Gazette comes mex
~ it issued 1872, 200 stamped copie
'e -. a daily average of 1858, and a d
- ~ crease on the former year Of LEO;
!" and for these, at two cents a cop
~ it received s46,3j0. The Mornil
Post is next: it issued 1850
stamped copies, a daily issue
e. only G23; but for these, at thr
H. pence a copy, it received sl2,Sl
le printing less than half as maj
oil stamped copies as the Pail Ma
but receiving therefor thrC
fourths as much money. I
le- Daily News Is the lowest on t
nc list, printing only SO, stamp
ld copies, u daily average of 220, a
and receiving therefor only 81 A.
The whole circulation through t
H. mail of these five journals is oil
on 1885, less number, | suppO
KS than the mail circulation Of eitt
'ld of tie lrst.class morning jOurni
ed Of New York. Curiously enoui
lst the Daily Telegraph, which 81
continues to placard London vi
its absurd boast Of having I
IN largest circulation in tue wor
leu has no mail circulation at all.
l is very difficult to ascertain wi
'ou is the total circulation Of any
the London journals, but W
.lal well informed person connect
ore with the press estimated them
dr. other day as follows: Times, I
yht coo: Standard $4,000; Pail N
gro Gazette, 10000; Morning P(
b." 1000; News, 5000; and the IL
graph somewhat between the st
dard and the Times. The IN
We. profitable of all the papers is
,ns Times, owing to its immense
rs vertising patronage. The I,
nes graph comes next, the Stands
Iga, next, and the Morning Post ne
to the latter being the most prot
i've Bile of all in comparison with
ent capital invested and the exten
Re. its circulation. The News is b
ing a hard time of it, l hear,
its decease need not surprise
one,-[London Correspondent
> i" New York World.
eral The Meridian Gazette annC
ter. ces that Jim Littlepage