British Newspaper Statistics

From the Newspaper Press Directory for 1877 wc extract the f olloWuag on the present positiou of tlic nêwspaper press: " Thertí toe now pnbliahed in the Unitc.1 Kingdoaa L692 in wspiipers, distrilmtcd as follows: England - London, 320; provïins, 991; total, 1,811. H?nles,56; Bootland, 164; Drejand, 1 tl : isles, 2). Ql these th reare lOSdoilypápeía published ia England; 2 daily papers pnbliaheil in Wales; 18 daily papora publishod in ScoÜand; 20 ditilj papers publifiheO ís Irclaiu!; 2 dftüy papers pub] ■'■ in the British isles." Oa rei ereiic'è to thé oáítiou of tlus aseful lirrclHv Eor 1847 we Ündthe following interestiiig topte, viz. : vhut in th.it yeax there weiö publishcd in the United KiBgdom 557 journal; of these, 1 ' w' -i-.' issued daily, rits. i !;' in Engkuid, I in Sootland, nüd '2 in [roItuiil; lm! in 18.77 i; ■ ■■' 'i' uow pgtablished uncí ifliculated L,69'2 papers, ei wln.'li do lesa tban i 16 isiiietl dnily, ;!mt .lic press oí the cöuntïy lus mvs greatiy extended dtirimg the ■ lust i.iiirïy yeaxs, and espeoially bo ifl tin forni of daily paper; tho daily issues standing 145 against 16 in 1847. The magazmee now in courso of publication, including the quarterly reviews, number 808, of ■which 275 nre of a deoidedly reliiciuKcliiirai'.tcr, representingtheClmrch of England, Weslcyans, Mcthodiste, Bnptist, Independent, Bomaii Catliolics, and othcr Cln-istian commnnities.- Lon'(nu Ttrhies,