DELIVERING THE "TIMES."
The circulation of the principal critical Weeklies is: Saturday Review, sixpence, 38,000; Spectator, sixpence, 22,000; Athenæum, sixpence, 29,600; Examiner and London Review, 13,000. The Saturday Review has forty pages of double-column matter, large print, twelve of which are devoted to advertisements, the remaining pages being taken up with editorials, book reviews, notices of the drama and fine arts. The Athenæum has twenty-two quarto pages of three columns each, ten of which are taken up by advertisements, and the remainder by book reviews, and dramatic, fine art, and scientific notes. The editor of this journal is Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, M.P., who wrote an excellent book of travel, entitled "Greater Britain." Ruskin and Huxley have been contributors to the Athenæum. The Spectator has twenty-eight pages folio, and is chiefly noticeable for its valuable historical studies, and its short and spicy paragraphs on the first four pages of the paper. Any of these weeklies will be sent abroad for the additional cost of a penny stamp.
THE LONDON TIMES.
The first number of the London Times was printed January 1, 1788, by John Walter, and the first newspaper printed by steam in Europe was the Times of November 29, 1814. Applegarth and Cowper's four cylindered presses, printing five to eight thousand sheets an hour, were in use by the Times for many years. These were succeeded by Hoe's press with Whithworth's improvement, and now the Bullock press modified, which prints on an endless sheet, is used by the Times. The circulation of this, the leading journal of Europe, varies from 57,000 to 65,000 copies a day, and the owner is Mr. Walter, the son of its founder. John Thaddeus Delane, the son of William F.A. Delane, the former financial manager, who has been succeeded by Mowbray Morris, is the editor of the Times. He is an Oxford man, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. Since 1839 he has been connected with the Times, to whose editorship he succeeded in 1841, on the decease of its then famous editor, Mr. Thomas Barnes. The value of the Times newspaper property has been estimated at three million pounds, or fifteen million dollars. As Thackeray said, its ambassadors are everywhere; one may be seen pricing potatoes at Covent Garden, while another is committing to paper the Cabinet intrigues at Berlin. Among its most celebrated writers have been Barnes, Sterling, Horace Twiss, William Howard Russell, Thackeray, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Baron Alderson, Louis J. Jennings, the American correspondent, now editor of the New York Times, and others. Southey was offered the editorial management at a salary of £2,000 a year, and the same offer was made to Thomas Moore, the poet, but both declined acceptance. The Times, with supplement, has seventy-two columns of matter, on sixteen pages, and 2,250 advertisements have been inserted in one day's issue, seven tons of paper, with a surface of thirty acres, and seven tons of type, being used.
CIRCULATION OF JOURNALS.
The circulation and prices of the leading London journals, are as follows: Times, 65,000, four pence; Daily News, 48,000, one penny; Daily Telegraph, 175,000, one penny; Morning and Evening Standard, 80,000, one penny; Morning Advertiser (rumseller's organ), 35,000, one penny; Pall Mall Gazette (evening), 30,000, one penny; Echo (evening), 75,000, one penny; Globe (evening), 8,000, one penny; Punch (weekly), 55,000, six pence; Illustrated London News, 60,000, four pence; Graphic, 80,000, six pence; Bell's Life (sporting), Wednesday and Saturday, 66,000, one penny; The Field (sporting, weekly), 18,000, six pence; Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper (Sunday), 140,000, one penny; Weekly Times (Sunday)—owned by London Journal, which has a circulation of 200,000—110,000, one penny; Cassell's Weekly Magazine, 90,000, Weekly Dispatch (Sunday), 215,000, two pence; Reynold's Newspaper (Sunday), 280,000, one penny; Jewish Record (weekly), one penny, 7,500; Tablet (Catholic weekly), four pence, 36,000.
