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Evening Star, Issue 3363, 29 November 1873, Page 2

The Claimant, in a recent public speech, stated that the amount of money spent in the prosecution had readied nearly 1/27,000, The Foresters’ fete at the Crystal Palace took place on August 17, and was attended by nearly 70,000 persons. In 1 S(>7, the numbers were 59,522; 1808, 2:i,0M7 ; 1800, 05.8p(i, SH.BSG; 1871, 81.025; 18™, 81,055- curious statistics for tl;? JS’cw Zealander of the future. From returns lately published, we learn that there are in India 21.5 different newspapers, of which sixty-eight are English, thirty-six in the dialect which passes as Fnglish among the, natives, 211 are in the native ’yuguagya. One among them, suk| a* a jitc, or farthing, is perhaps the lowest priced newspaper in the world. The number of readers in India is very small; and it is the practice for crowds to assembl* ami listen to mio reader, and in this way nows is dispersed with remarkable rapidity. At the hegiiuiinj of the present century there were nut jflore tjj*a five newspapers in Jndi*.