Provincial Newspaper Society, 1836-1886; A Jubilee Retrospect

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. . '. DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIETY AND RAPID PROGRESS OF THE PROVINCIAL PRESS SINCE 1836. An interesting coincidence happened in connection with the second annual meeting of the Provincial Newspaper Society as will be seen by the two following notices, issued on April I3th, 1838, and June I5th, 1838, respectively: ? In consequenceof the Coronation being fixed for Tuesday, the 26th of June, it has been considered that it would be most agreeable to the members of the Provincial News- paper Society to hold their annual meeting in that week, and the dinner will take place at Gray's Inn Coffee u House, on Thursday, the 28th of June, at 6 o'clock. The day appointed, as stated in the hon. secretary's circular of the i3th April last, for the annual dinner of this Society, being the day on which the Coronation is now to take place, it is deemed expedient to postpone the same from Thursday, June 28th, to Thursday, July 5th, on which day the dinner will take place at Gray's Inn Coffee House, London. The postponement of the annual meeting which was doubtless intended to enable members to attend the coronation of Queen Victoria, gives rise to the reflection that the successful career of the Provincial Newspaper Society is identified with the universal progress which has marked our national life during the Victorian era. Of all the remarkable developments, political and social, which have made the Queen's reign famous, none are calculated to excite greater wonder than the astounding growth of the newspaper press, especially that portion of it which flourishes beyond the Metropolitan area. London has possessed a good supply of journals since the early part of the eighteenth century, and in 1724, could boast of eighteen newspapers, seventeen...