Green Mountain Freeman

The Press in Russia,
The number of newspapers and periodicals now published in Russia, is 154, of which 64 are published at St. Petersburgh, 18 at Moscow, 5 at Odessa, 22 in the province of the Baltic and 50 in the rest of the empire. Of these 154 publications, 108 are in the Russian language, 29 in the German, 8 in the French, 5 in the Polish, 3 in the Latin, and 1 in the Italian.
Russia contains about sixty millions of inhabitants, and consequently there are, upon an average, about three newspapers and periodicals for each million—a very scanty allowance, we should say, of intellectual provender. In the British empire proper, with a population of about twenty-six millions there are published about five hundred newspapers and periodicals, which gives one for every fifty-two thousand of the inhabitants. In the United States there are probably not less than sixteen hundred publications of that kind for a population which may be assumed to be about twenty millions, exclusive of all colored persons who whether bond or free, are not much addicted to reading of any kind.— This gives a newspaper or periodical for every twelve thousand five hundred inhabitants; and we suppose that, on an average, there is certainly one for that number of inhabitants, and in some sections of the country, a good many more.
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