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EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. 169-July 1846.] C From the First of June, THE DAILY NEWS, LONDON MORNING NEWSPAPER, TWOPENCE AT HALFPENNY. THE HE Newspaper is the intellectual life of the Nineteenth Century—the great agent of modern Civilisation. Not to speak of the moral and political safeguards which it affords, it places all, whatever their varieties of fortune and position, on a level as to information. By its means only the small capitalist is enabled to contend successfully against his wealthy rival for a knowledge of those changes which affect supply and demand-and therefore prices. Without the daily Newspaper, a man and his family might be located as well in the back settlements of Canada as within ten miles of the great centre of European Civilisation. These facts are felt-the gain is understood-and the number and character of the Newspaper press of any country are an admitted test of the enterprise and intelligence of the people. Yet it is remarkable, that more than a century since, there were eighteen papers published in London, daily or three times a week-while now there are only fifteen! though the population of to-day bears a ratio to that of the period in question of more than 3 to 1; and, by means of the post and other facilities, the whole kingdom has been brought within the easy range, and under the direct influence, of the London press. In the single City of New York, more daily papers are published than in all England, Scotland, and Ireland, put together. The circulation of papers in Paris exceeds that of London twenty-fold. How is this? Of a fact so startling, where lies the explanation; what is the cause?-PRICE! That the public know the advantage of having a Daily Paper, is manifest, from the thousands and tens of thousands who pay twopence for an hour's reading, and threepence for a paper the day after publication. What, then, are the causes which maintain the high price? First, the amount of capital required to be invested in a Newspaper speculation-with whose extent and proper application the man of business and the capitalist are for the most part unacquainted. Next, the various talent, knowledge, and experience, which must combine to produce the important result. The number and greatness of the requirements have, in truth, occasioned something very like a monopoly-and monopoly always commands its own price. Thus, whilst energy, enterprise, capital, and competition, have been doing good service in all other things, including literature in various branches, nothing has been attempted, in the direction indicated, for the political, social, and intellectual wants of three great nations; and a Daily Paper still remains a costly luxury, in which only the wealthy can indulge. In Paris, within the last five years, a reduction of one-half of their old price has been made in the most distinguished journals, with the result of increased efficiency, power, and interest. Any such attempt in London does not seem to have been thought of. The experiment is now being tried of establishing a London Daily Newspaper, on the highest scale of completeness in all its departinents, which shall look for support, not to comparatively few readers at a high price, but to many at a low price. Its success depends upon the Public. In the first instance, however, it was necessary to prove that the projectors were capable of competing with the high priced that in energy and ability they were able to perform all that is required; and of this the Public have now had sufficient experience. THE DAILY NEWS appeared in January |