DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

( issue folded and ready for distribution. The paper on the reel is four miles long ; and this four miles of 35 ) paper is converted into newspapers in less than half an hour. The Zimes consumes nightly ten tons weight of paper, representing a roll 160 miles in length. It is needless for me to dilate on the number of journals and periodicals which are daily showered all over the country, the universality of the informa- tion they contain, the admirable style in which for the most part they are written, or the accuracy and certainty with which they are supplied with news from all quarters of the globe. A new feature in journalism is the work of the War Correspondents, who undergo all the perils and fatigues of the severest campaigns in pursuit of their calling, meeting death, as did Mr. Pemberton in the Franco-German War, and Mr. Cameron and Mr. St. Leger Herbert in the Soudan Expedition, while taking notes in the thick of the fire. The services of Dr. Russell in the Crimea, when his letters to the Times not only sustained the en- thusiasm at home, but preserved the army by draw- ing attention to its defects; and of Mr. Archibald Forbes in the Zulu Campaign, where he rode 160 miles through an enemy’s country, bringing the first tidings of the decisive battle of Ulundi, are matters of common knowledge. Nowadays gentle-