A Hundred Years Ago
The total number per diem of the daily journals printed in Paris exceeds 60,000. - The number per diem of- all the journals printed in the same city during the -month of April amounted to '91,982! The Opposition daily prints circulate 32,929; of which number the Ccmatitutzonnel alone sells 16,666; the copies of Royalist journals amount to 27,866. The daily press of London consists of twelve journals, six morning and six evening, which circulate altogether about 25,000. Paris has a population of 700,000; . London, of 1,500,000. If the demand for newspapers in the one town were as great as in the other (and if the tax were -a penny instead of a groat, there can be little doubt that it would be greater), the sale per diem of the London daily journals would not be short of 125,000; to say nothing of the hundreds of daily papers that would start up in every respectable town in England, which at present are compelled to depend for their earliest Mtelligenee on a journal printed at one, two, or three hundred miles diStance.
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