44.4, 
Music.—The concert pitch, or degree 
of acuteness to which instruments are 
now tuned to. play in concerts, has 
lately been ascertained, in the “ Harmo- 
nicon,’ No. 22, to be such, that the 
note flat D, below the lowest line of the 
treble stave (bearing the G cleff on its 
second line), is just eight octaves above 
an imaginary note (because inaudible), 
coinciding in its pulses or. vibrations 
with the swings of a seconds pendulum, 
of mean time, at London; which first 
note, accordingly, makes vibrations in 
1”, equivalent to the eighth power of 2, 
or 256 vibrations. The note next below 
this, on the Tenor or Mean Cleff line, 
or ©, a leger-line below the treble, and 
the same above the Bass stave, being a 
major Semitone lower, whose ratio: is 
+23 which fraction, multiplied by 256, 
gives 240 vibrations in one second, for 
this C note, as the general standard for 
comparing the acuteness or gravity of 
other Notes of the Scale. 
The Royal Tapestries, made by order 
of Pope LeoX. for our Henry VIII. from 
the immortal Cartoons of Raphael, and 
sold by order of the Commonwealth, 
in 1650, with the private property of 
Charles I., have, within these few weeks, 
been restored to us. They were ob- 
tained by Mr. Tupper, our Consul in 
Spain, from a palace of the Duke of 
Alva’s, and are now to be seen in Mr. 
Bullock’s Egyptian Hall. What adds 
to the value of this acquisition is, that 
there are two subjects more than are.at 
Hampton Court, viz. the Conversion of 
t. Paul, and Christ giving the Key to 
St. Peter. The whole are strikingly 
curious. 
The Newspaper Press. —It is not an ex- 
treme calculation to state that there are, 
upon the eight morning papers, and the six 
evening papers published in London, at 
Jeast 120 literary gentlemen, receiving 
weekly salaries to the amount of 6002. ex- 
clusive of those who are paid for their com- 
munications. If, to the daily papers, weadd 
about forty Sunday papers, and papers pub- 
lished twice or thrice during the week, we 
shall make a weekly sum total, for literary 
services upon the establishments, exclusive 
of what is paid for in another way, of about 
1,000/. ; and if we add, to this amount, the 
sums paid, by the whole of them, to prin- 
ters, publishers, and others, in the way of 
regular salary, we shall have an increase of 
at least 1,500/. making a weekly sum of 
2,500/. or 130,0007. per annum, paid bythe 
London newspaper press, in salaries only ; 
and to this we may add, at least 1,200/. 
weekly, or 62,4007. per annum, for the re- 
maining expences, exclusive of stamps and 
Literary and: Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
[Dec. 1, 
paper, making altogether nearly 200,000/. 
per annum. With respect to the number 
of persons employed upon the . London 
Newspapers, directly and indirectly, taking 
in editors, reporters, publishers, printers, 
pressmen, and others, deriving from them 
their subsistence, we are quite able to state 
it, at the very lowest. at 1,500, many of 
whom derive emoluments which enable 
them to live as gentlemen, whilst none are 
without a handsome competence ; for itis a 
fact, that, in no employment, are persons 
paid more liberally than upon newspapers. 
The compositors have, upon morning pa- 
pers, each 2/. 8s. weekly, and upon evening 
papers, 2/. 3s. 6d. ; and the pressmen are 
paid equally well, although their labour has 
been much diminished by the introduction 
of printing machines, instead of presses. 
When we come to add to the list of London 
papers, those which are printed in the 
country, and in Ireland and Scotland, we 
shall and the account still more enormous. 
The number of these may be taken broadly 
at 235, most of which appear once a-week, 
a few daily, and some twice or thrice a-week. 
Sometimes there are 240 provincial papers, 
at others 230: we take the average, there- 
fore, at 235; but from the increasing intel- 
lectual wants of the people, we may safely. 
expect that the number will be soon 250, 
Each of these papers has an editor or pub- 
lisher, and from three to six men and boys, 
as compositors and pressmen. 
amount of salaries paid, upon these establish- 
ments, must be about 1,800/., or 92,6002. 
annually ; and the other expences of the 
establishments may be about 1,0002. weekly, 
or 52,000/. annually, all, of course, exclu- 
sive of stamps and paper. We now come 
to the circulation of the newspapers. The 
daily morning and evening papers, with 
those published twice or three times in the 
week, amount to at least 40,000 daily, or 
240,000 weekly ; and the Sunday papers to 
between 50 and 60,000, making altogether 
about 300,000 weekly.—If to this we add 
the circulation of the provincial press, we 
shall have a striking proof of the state of 
intellect in this country.—Many of the 
country newspapers publish two or three 
thousand copies, but others not more than 
four or five hundred. Considering, how- 
ever, that several appear more than once a- 
week, we do not think we can be charged 
with exaggeration if we say that they throw 
off weekly 200,000 copies, making alto- 
gether five hundred thousand copies. Let 
this number be compared with our popu- 
lation, and then say whether England is not 
an intellectual country. Of this number, 
of course, some thousand copies go abroad, 
but they amount to little compared with 
the gross circulation. Five hundred thou- 
sand copies require one thousand reams of 
paper, which, on an average of 35s. per 
ream, would make 1,750/. weekly, or 
91,000/. per annum. _ Thus we have ‘ex- 
pended by the London press annually, 
exclusive 
The weekly 
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