The Profits Of Newspaper Business

The proütH of tha newspapor busÍDees for the last year may bo jdctgéá from the follovvinp statement ade by tbe New York Tribune, as to its recwpts nnd expensúé for 1864. It gives íbera tima : Receipts.... $747,501. Expenses. .-.$735,751Profit $11,760. ïhis is a very rnurrow margin for o large aff oullay - narrower thau wa wort accuHt.omed to, It is due raaii;!}' to the fiict that, after we bad recorred paytoeat, for the bulk of our Weakly Énibflbi-ip tions at Tory tiv rfitdjí, ttfd pricí of Paper - owiur a g.od part to tbo deprocü tioü of our NatiüDsl Oarrencv - was tto largjdy cubi-.act.d sb tnnubjeot vis to va KStual Iobb oa most of thoso subsonptions. We paid moro for tho bare papor Bont to most of our aubeciribora during 1S6 1 th&n wa rooeired for tha printed sheets. But, M tbo prices wo re now recaiving, the bueiDeaa of tLst yar would hare cetted a haodgoaie profit, Our reooipte, cppecially for advertigiiJí vrere ncver boiore so l&rge ; but wo paid 8426,000 for wbiio paper, whiob wo shonld havftbougbt in 1803 foi '■ 000, and ia 1861 for $200,000.