NEWSPAPERS. Considered in its rela tion to produce, industry, and commerce, it is scarcely possible to place a limit to the im portance of a newspaper. It meets us at every turn, as an example either of the aid which newspapers render to commerce, or of that which commerce renders to newspapers. As a question of paper-making, of taxation on paper, of type founding, of steam-press machi nery, of rapid printing, of the advertising system, of the tax on advertisements, of the reporting system, of the statistical tabulating system, of the postage system, of the express travelling system, of the ocean mail system in all these respects a modern London news paper is a marvel.
. Under the head of PRINTING will be found a little information concerning the vast scale on which the great newspapers are printed in London and in New York. In the present article we shall take a newspaper as the repre sentative of rapid transport, showing how it reaches Dublin at a period of urgent demand. Let it be the Queen's speech of February, 1851, as printed in the morning journals of the next day ; and let us trace the mode adopted by Messrs. Smith (who conduct vast operations of this kind), to convey those journals and that speech to Dublin, to Liverpool, and to Manchester. A special engine left Euston station at 6-22 ear., and after some slight detention for water, &c., amounting altogether to 20 minutes, it reached Crewe at 10.8, the distance of 160 miles having been performed in 31 hours, or a running rate averaging 60 miles an hour. From Crewe an engine pro ceeded to Manchester, 32 miles, in 40 minutes, and another to Liverpool, 44 miles, in 75 minutes. The express to Ireland started
from Crewe at the same moment as the Liver pool and Manchester expresses; it proceeded by Chester, where the superintendent of the Chester and Holyhead Railway joined it. ,, Under his management the special engine reached Holyhead at 12.45, having travelled over a great portion of the distance between Chester and Bangor at the rate of 60 miles an hour. At Holyhead the Chester and Holyhead Company's steamer Scotia, com manded by Captain Hirste, was lying ready to start with the express, but in consequence of the violence of the gale she was unable to get clear of the harbour for some minutes. Notwithstanding the delay and the heavy sea, she made Kingstown Harbour by 5.30 P.M., and the morning papers were distributed in Dublin by a little after six o'clock. The mail trains carried them into the provinces —the same mails which conveyed the London letters and papers of the previous evening. It is now proved that the entire distance from London via Holyhead and Dublin to Cork— upwards of 600 miles—can be accomplished in 16 hours. The Queen's speech was for warded by Messrs. Smith on the afternoon of its delivery, by telegraph to Crewe, and thence by special engine to Holyhead, and by steamer to Dublin. It was printed in Dublin within eight hours and a half after its delivery, and reached Cork, by special engine engaged by Messrs. Smith, in four hours and a half from Dublin.