The _Sun_ had grown more and more prosperous. In the latter part of 1835 its four pages, each eleven and one-half by eighteen inches, were so taken up with advertising that it was not unusual to find reading-matter in only five of the twenty columns. Some days the publisher would apologize for leaving out advertisements, on other days, for having so little room for news. He promised relief, and it came on January 4, 1836, when the paper was enlarged. It remained a four-page _Sun_, but the pages were increased in size to fourteen by twenty inches. In announcing the enlargement, the third in a year, the _Sun_ remarked: We are now enabled to print considerably more than twenty-two thousand copies, on both sides, in less than eight hours. No establishment in this country has such facilities, and no daily newspaper in the world enjoys so extensive a circulation. In the first enlarged edition Mr. Day made the boast that the _Sun_ now had a circulation more than double that of all the sixpenny respectables combined. He had a word, too, about the penny papers that had sprung up in the _Sun’s_ wake: One after another they dropped and fell in quick succession as they had sprung up; and all, with but one exception worth regarding, have gone to the “receptacle of things lost upon earth.” Many of these departed ephemerals have struggled hard to keep within their nostrils the breath of life; and it is a singular fact that with scarcely an exception they have employed, as a means of bringing a knowledge of their being before the public, the most unlimited and reckless abuse of ourselves, the impeachment of our character, public and private; the implications, moral and political; in short, calumny in all its forms. As to the last survivor of them worth note, which remains, we have only to say, the little world we opened has proved large enough for us both. The exception to the general rule of early mortality was of course the _Herald_. In spite of this broad attitude toward his only successful competitor, Day could not keep from swapping verbal shots with Bennett. The _Sun_ said: Bennett, whose only chance of dying an upright man will be that of hanging perpendicularly upon a rope, falsely charges the proprietor of this paper with being an infidel, the natural effect of which calumny will be that every reader will believe him to be a good Christian. Day had a dislike for Colonel Webb, of the _Courier and Enquirer_, almost as great as his enmity toward Bennett; so when Webb assaulted Bennett on January 19, 1836, it was rather a hard story to write. This is the _Sun’s_ account of the fray: