_Midland Counties Herald_.--First published July 26, 1836, by Messrs. Wright and Dain. Its circulation, though almost gratuitous is extensive and from its high character as a medium for certain classes of advertisements it occasionally has appeared in the novel shape of a newspaper without any news, the advertisers taking up all the space. _Midland Echo_--Halfpenny evening paper, commenced Feb. 26, 1883, as an extra-superfine Liberal organ. Ceased to appear as a local paper early in 1885. _Midland Metropolitan Magazine_. This heavily-named monthly lasted just one year, from Dec., 1852. _Midland Naturalist_.--Commenced Jan. 1, 1878. _Morning News_.--Daily paper, in politics a Nonconformist Liberal; first published Jan. 2, 1871, under the editorship of George Dawson until the expiration of 1873. On Aug. 16, 1875, it was issued as a morning and evening paper at 1/2d.; but the copy for May 27, 1876, contained its own death notice. _Mouse Trap_.--The title of a little paper of playful badinage, issued for a month or two in the autumn of 1824. _Naturalists' Gazette_.--In Sept. 1882, the Birmingham naturalists began a gazette of their own. _Old and New Birmingham_ was published in monthly parts, the first being issued June 1, 1878. _Owl_.--A weekly pennyworth of self-announced "wit and wisdom" first issued Jan. 30, 1879. _Penny Magazine_.--This popular periodical, the fore-runner of all the cheap literature of the day, may be said to have had a Birmingham origin, as it was first suggested to Charles Knight by Mr. M.D. Hill in 1832. _Philanthropist_.--First published (as _The Reformer_) April 16, 1835, by Benjamin Hudson, 18, Bull Street; weekly, four pages, price 7d., but in the following September lowered to 4-1/2d., the stamp duty of 4d. being at that time reduced to 1d. In politics it was Liberal, and a staunch supporter of the Dissenters, who only supported it for about two years. _Radical Times_.--Came into existence Sept. 30, 1876, but being too rabidly Radical, even for "the 600," whose leading-strings it shirked, it did not thrive for long. _Register or Entertaining Museum_.--With the prefix of the town's name, this monthly periodical lived one year from May 10, 1764. This was one of the earliest London-printed country papers, the only local portion being the outside pages, so that it suited for a number of places. _Reporter and Review_.--Principally devoted to the doings on the local stage, and published for a brief period during June, &c., 1823. _Saturday Evening Post_.--A weekly "make-up" from the _Daily Post_ (with a few distinctive features) and came into being with that paper; price 1-1/2d. Originally issued at noon on Saturday, but latterly it has appeared simultaneous with the _Daily_, and is known as the _Weekly Post_, its price lately having been reduced to 1d. _Saturday Night_.--First published, Sept. 30, 1882.