Collating statistics given in: (1) Grant's _The Newspaper Press_; (2) in a speech in Parliament by Edward Banes in 1864 (Hansard, 3rd Ser., CLXXV, p.

295); and (3) in _Parliamentary Papers_, 1861, _Commons_, Vol.

XXXIV, "Return of the Registered Newspapers in the United Kingdom ...

from 30 June, 1860, to 30 June, 1861," the following facts of circulation are derived: (A) _Daily Papers_: (1) _The Telegraph_ (evening), 150,000 (neutral).
(2) _The Standard_ (morning and evening), 130,000 (Southern).
Under the same management was also _The Herald_ (morning), but with small circulation (Southern).
(3) The _Times_ (morning), 70,000 (Southern).

Grant says: "The prestige of the _Times_ was remarkable.