ntained the following memorable announcement:--

"Our Journal of this day presents to the Public the practical result of
the greatest improvement connected with printing since the discovery of
the art itself. The reader of this paragraph now holds in his hand one
of the many thousand impressions of The Times newspaper which were
taken off last night by a mechanical apparatus. A system of machinery
almost organic has been devised and arranged, which, while it relieves
the human frame of its most laborious' efforts in printing, far exceeds
all human powers in rapidity and dispatch. That the magnitude of the
invention may be justly appreciated by its effects, we shall inform the
public, that after the letters are placed by the compositors, and
enclosed in what is called the forme, little more remains for man to do
than to attend upon and to watch this unconscious agent in its
operations. The machine is then merely supplied with paper: itself
places the forme, inks it, adjusts the paper to the forme newly inked,
stamps the sheet, and gives it forth to the hands of the attendant, at
the same time withdrawing the forme for a fresh coat of ink, which
itself again distributes, to meet the ensuing sheet now advancing for
impression; and the whole of these complicated acts is performed with
such a velocity and simultaneousness of movement, that no less than
1100 sheets are impressed in one hour.

"That the completion of an invention of this kind, not the effect of
chance, but the result of mechanical combinations methodically arranged
in the mind of the artist, should be attended with many obstructions
and much delay, may be readily imagined. Our share in this event has,
indeed, only been the application of the discovery, under an agreement
with the patentees, to our own particular business; yet few can
conceive--even with this limited interest--the various disappointments
and deep anxiety to which we have for a long course of time been
subjected.

"Of the person who made this discovery we have but little to add. Sir
Christopher Wren's noblest monument is to be found in the building
which he erected; so is the best tribute of praise which we are capable
of offering to the inventor of the printing machine, comprised in the
preceding description, which we have feebly sketched, of the powers and
utility of his invention. It must suffice to say further, that he is a
Saxon by birth; that his name is Koenig; and that the invent