4 MARCH 1882, Page 24

The Newspaper Press Directory for 1882. (C. Mitchell and Co.)—

From the thirty-seventh annual issue of this useful directory, we learn that there are now published in the 'United Kingdom 1,817 newspapers, distributed as follows :—London, 375 ; Provinces, 1,012, —total, 1,387 ; Wales, 71 ; Scotland, 183 ; Ireland, 156 ; Isles, 20. Of these, there are 169 daily papers, 124 of which are published in England, five in Wales, twenty-two in Scotland, sixteen in Ireland, and two in British isles. The magazines now in course of publication number 1,180, of which 326 are of a decidedly religious character.