We can most vividly appreciate just how far the early newspapers succeeded--for the _Evening Post_ was typical of the best sheets--and how far they failed as purveyors of current information, by listing the materials presented in a single week chosen at random. In the seven days May 9–14 inclusive, 1803, Coleman published the following intelligence: FOREIGN DOMESTIC War Rumored Between Britain and Fire in Troy, N. Y. France Monroe Arrives at Havre Editor Duane Apologizes for Libel French Hunt Haitians With Cheetham Fined $200 for Libel Bloodhounds Column on Harlem Races Two Columns on British Penal Reform Paine Publishes Letter from Jefferson French Prefect Reaches New Orleans Grainger’s Record as Postmaster-General British Give South Africa to Dutch Fire in New York Coach Factory Demands of Dey of Algiers on Powers Two Benefits at Local Theatre More Rumors of Anglo-French War Election Dispute in Ulster County Agrarian Violence in Ireland Election Incident at Pawling London Stock-Market Fluctuations Advance Sale of Marshall’s “Washington” European Trade Rivalries in XYZ Affair Reviewed Levant French Troops Concentrate in Holland This was absolutely all, and many of these subjects were treated in only a few lines, and with obvious haziness and inexactitude. It is plain that the week’s budget did carry much illumination to the public mind; but it is also plain that only a tiny part of the world’s activities were being covered, that city news was appallingly neglected, and that a modern journal treating each day hundreds of subjects would then have been inconceivable.