The weeklies were the _Examiner_, edited by the two Hunts and Albany Fonblanque; the _Spectator_, whose price seems to have varied from ninepence to a shilling; the _Atlas_; _Observer_; _Bell’s Life_; _Bell’s Weekly Messenger_; _John Bull_, which Theodore Hook edited; the _New Weekly Messenger_; the _Sunday Times_; the _Age_; the _Satirist_; the _Mark Lane Express_; the _County Chronicle_; the _Weekly Dispatch_, sometimes sold for 8½_d._, sometimes for 6_d._; the _Patriot_; the _Christian Advocate_; the _Watchman_; the _Court Journal_; the _Naval and Military Gazette_; and the _United Service Gazette_. Among the reporters who sat in the Gallery, it is remarkable that two-thirds did not write shorthand; they made notes, and trusted to their memories; Charles Dickens sat with them in the year 1836. [Illustration: Yours truly J Croker -JOHN WILSON CROKER-] The two great Quarterlies still continue to exist, but their power has almost gone; nobody cares any more what is said by either, yet they are as well written as ever, and their papers are as interesting, if they are not so forcible. The _Edinburgh Review_ is said to have had a circulation of 20,000 copies; the _Quarterly_ is said never to have reached anything like that number. Among those who wrote for the latter fifty years ago, or thereabout, were Southey, Basil Hall, John Wilson Croker, Sir Francis Head, Dean Milman, Justice Coleridge, Henry Taylor, and Abraham Hayward. The _Westminster_, which also included the _London_, was supported by such contributors as the two Mills, father and son. Southwood Smith, and Roebuck. There was also the _Foreign Quarterly_, for which Scott, Southey, and Carlyle wrote. The monthlies comprised the _Gentleman’s_ (still living), the _Monthly Review_, the _Monthly Magazine_; the _Eclectic_; the _New Monthly_; _Fraser_; the _Metropolitan_; the _Monthly Repository_; the _Lady’s_; the _Court_; the _Asiatic Journal_; the _East India Review_; and the _United Service Journal_. The weekly magazines were the _Literary Gazette_; the _Parthenon_--absorbed in the _Literary_ in 1842; the _Athenæum_, which Mr. Dilke bought of Buckingham, reducing the price from 8_d._ to 4_d._; the _Mirror_; _Chambers’s Journal_; the _Penny Magazine_; and the _Saturday Magazine_, a religious journal with a circulation of 200,000.