es; I have removed them from
New Rochelle; I have dug them up; they are now on their way to England;
when I return, I shall cause them to speak the Common Sense of the great
man; I shall gather together the people of Liverpool and Manchester in one
assembly with those of London, and those bones will effect the reformation
of England in Church and State." After some two or three hours we took our
leave, with unlimited admiration of his brave utterance and his colloquial
talents.

With such a hastily written and imperfect sketch of the newspaper
periodical press, of printers, editors, booksellers, and authors, I must
close this portion of my present reminiscences. I have depended on a
memory somewhat tenacious as my authority, in most instances, having no
leisure at command for reference. A volume might be written of pertinent
details. Nevertheless, enough has been said to illustrate, in part, the
advancement of one species of knowledge in this metropolis. Did we
institute a comparative view of the past and present condition of the
press, we might be better enabled to announce the existing condition of
our city as a Literary Emporium, That it is in accordance with the spirit
of the age, seems demonstrable. Abroad, in England, in 1701, when the
stamp duty was levied upon every number of a periodical paper consisting
of a sheet, the whole quantity of printed paper was estimated at twenty
thousand reams annually. Nearly at this period (1704), when the Boston
_News Letter_ made its appearance in the American colonies, some two or
three hundred copies weekly may have been its circulation. What is the
quantity of paper demanded by the present British periodical press, I am
unable to state. In this month of January, 1852, it is calculated that
there are about three thousand different newspapers and other periodicals
printed in this country, the entire issues of which approach the yearly
aggregate of four hundred and twenty-three millions of numbers.

When Franklin was a printer it was a hard task to work off over a thousand
sheets on both sides in a day, by the hand press. Since his time we have
had the Clymer, the Napier, the Ramage, the Adams, and now Hoe's Lightning
press. By this last-named achievement in the arts, so honorable to a son
of New-York, and so stupendous in its results to the world at large,
twenty thousand papers may be printed in one hour.

If we advert to the instructive fact, of the enormous circulation of