You will - be likely to see a kind of revolution
in the Parisian press, probably within the next fortnight ; the success of the cheap sy,tern having made itself felt in the copious lists of subscribers of the r..o,titutionnet, and even tne Debuts, the Ajax and Achilles of the " ol:1" press, its the journals published at eighty francs are now inva- riably called by their younger brethren, who offer themselves at half that sum. Yet 3/. 4s. per annum can scarcely he (ieemed an unreason. able charge on newspapers like the Daaas, in which some of the first talents of the country till every department. lie politics, science, criticism, the fine arts, the writers OR any subject are chosen front ammig men of the highest reputatton in their respective walks, and ll are paid with a munificent liberality quite at variance With tile nail system of remuneration in this country, where a praviie•ial Judge receives 60/. per annum for his services (but this is par paretelUse.) Many men of European celebrity in science and literature have found a handsome and too often needful addition to their incomes by contrionting to the Details ; for men cannot
live entirely upon fame even in Paris. Some of these writers
receive from 2,00L to 10001. per annum. It is evident, therefore, that journals. thus conducted cannot reduce their price to 41 fumes (It 12s.) a year, which is the charge of their younger brethren. To meet this cheap system, therefore, the leading papers have resolved from the commencement of the ensuing month to increase their size very con- siderably, but of course without reducing their price. They will tUrm a size about that of the Courier and other London journals four or five years ago, before they became the formidable and onwiddy masses of print they form at present. To the principal papers, wealthy and pro- fitable as they are, this increase of expenditure will make perhaps but little difference; but several of the secondary journals will undoubtedly be crushed in the struggle; and it is thought that not more than half-a- dozen will live through the next few months.—Paris Correspondent of the Courier.
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