19 MARCH 1887, Page 25

The Newspaper Press Directory for 1887. The forty-second annual issue.

(C. Mitchell and Co.)—The present edition has been enlarged, and the special articles on India and the Colonies have been re- written and revised up to date. It appears that there are now pub- lished in the United Kingdom 2,135 newspapers,—in England, 435 in London, and 1,246 in the provinces; in Wales, 84; in Scotland, 191; in Ireland, 188; and in the British Isles, 21. The magazines and reviews number 1,462, of which 360 are of a religious character.