THE RECEIPTS AND CIRCULATION OF NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 636, 15 February 1870, Page 4

THE RECEIPTS AND CIRCULATION OF NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS.

An American correspondent writes : — " The law requires that the publisher of each newspaper shall make a return, under oath, of his gross receipts for sales of his publications, i.nJ. pay a certain revenue tax thereon. What is known as the Thirty-Second Collection District of : New York contains fifty-two different, newspaper offices, daily and weekly, arid a table has been published showing the returns made by all these for the year : ending Sept. 30. The returns embrace sales only. The Herald heads the list, its receipts for the ye«r being 801,,327d01s ; the World cpn)es next, with 689,Q40d015 ; the ifYtbunehas 514,20 l rdols ; the Time's only 445,211-d015.. . Thiese are the fonr.morning dailies thiit sell at. 4 c.(2d),. ; and'are supplied to the news-dealers .ait i3 ..cents The Hun, which is a2c mora ing paper,!received 186,707d01s ; the Starts Zeiixihg, a German 4c paper, 217,250d015'; the J /W, the Express, and the News, evening papers, received respectively 100, 435d015, 99,472^013, and 209,000d015.' The Neios is a miserable little sheet, and sells for lc. The Joynwl of Commerce, a morning paper taken only : by the merchants, 're' 4 ceived 99,500d015 ; the EeUetriztkhea Journal (German), 86,302db1s ; thei^enic;-: hrat (also German), 26,511dp1s ; and^ricfc Porneroy's Democrat, 77,265d015. Of all the weekly papers, the Ledger, & atory paper of the highly moral sensational order, takes tho lead, its sales amounting to the large sum of 699,828d015. Harper's Weekly, an illustrated paperj comes uext, with 444,934d01s ; and a wretched comic sheet, called the Fanny Fellow, has an equal sale.. The religious papers lag far behind — the Observer, '' a Presbyterian organ, receiving only 73$X4d&c\& ; the Methodist , 21,487d01s ; the CliristuinlkUTujeivcer, 14,760d015 .; and the Liberal Christian the illiberal su m of 7610doisi Tlie ticotlush American sells to the extent of 13,112d01s ; aud the 4/^^,10,5924018, The total revenue of these 5.2 publications ii G,485^202d018 from their sales alone, besides tlie! very large suni they receive from advertisements, ; So it appears that New York is a good place for newspapers. A measure of tlie circulation of the papers. U afforded by this return. Tlie four" morning dailies, for ituitance, that retail nt 4c are sold to the news-dealers, who take the whole editiou, at. 3c ; and the 801,327d01s received by the Herald, consequently, represents an average circulation of . 72,900 copies, daily ; and tlie 0'89,040d01s of th World an ayerage circulation of 62,900 collies. Eiich of these ]*apers is.piiutud Stfmlays a>well as. weekdays, hb is also the Times.