Newspapers.—­No country has so many newspapers as the United States.  The following table, arranged for the American Almanac of 1830, is corrected from the Traveller, and contains a statement of the number of newspapers published in the colonies at the commencement of the revolution; and also the number of newspapers and other periodical works, in the United States, in 1810 and 1828.

STATES.           1775. 1810. 1828. 
Maine                           29
Massachusetts        7    32    78
New Hampshire        1    12    17
Vermont                   14    21
Rhode Island         2     7    14
Connecticut          4    11    33
New York             4    66   161
New Jersey                 8    22
Pennsylvania         9    71   185
Delaware                   2     4
Maryland             2    21    37
District of Columbia       6     9
Virginia             2    23    34
North Carolina       2    10    20
South Carolina       3    10    16
Georgia              1    13    18
Florida                    1     2
Alabama                         10
Mississippi                4     6
Louisiana                 10     9
Tennessee                  6     8
Kentucky                  17    23
Ohio                      14    66
Indiana                         17
Michigan                         2
Illinois                         4
Missouri                         5
Arkansas                         1
Cherokee Nation                  1

  Total 37 358 802

The present number, however, amounts to about a thousand.  Thus the state of New York is mentioned in the table as having 161 newspapers; but a late publication states that there are 193, exclusive of religious journals.  New York has 1,913,508 inhabitants.  There are about 50 daily newspapers in the United States, two-thirds of which are considered to give a fair profit.  The North American colonies, in the year 1720, had only seven newspapers:  in 1810, the United States had 359; in 1826, they had 640; in 1830, 1,000, with a population of 13,000,000; so that they have more newspapers than the whole 190 millions of Europe.

In drawing a comparison between the newspapers of the three freest countries, France, England, and the United States, we find, as we have just said, those of the last country to be the most numerous, while some of the French papers have the largest subscription; and the whole establishment of a first-rate London paper is the most complete.  Its activity is immense.  When Canning sent British troops to Portugal, in 1826, we know that some papers sent reporters with the army.  The zeal of the New York papers also deserves to be mentioned, which send out their news-boats, even fifty miles to sea, to board approaching vessels, and obtain the news that they bring.  The papers of the large Atlantic cities are also remarkable for their detailed accounts of arrivals, and the particulars of shipping news, interesting to the commercial world, in which