Other important newspapers started in the ten years that followed Day’s founding of the _Sun_ were the Detroit _Free Press_, the St. Louis _Republic_, the New Orleans _Picayune_, the Burlington _Hawkeye_, the Hartford _Times_, the New York _Tribune_, the Brooklyn _Eagle_, the Cincinnati _Enquirer_, and the Cleveland _Plain Dealer_. In 1830 there were only 852 newspapers in the United States, which then had a population of 12,866,020, and these newspapers had a combined yearly circulation of 68,117,000 copies. Ten years later the population was 17,069,453, and there were 1,631 newspapers with a combined yearly circulation of 196,000,000 copies. In other words, while the population increased 32 per cent. in a decade, the total sale of newspapers increased 187 per cent. The inexpensive paper had found its readers. [Illustration: AN EXTRA OF “THE SUN” These Special Editions Were Issued on the Arrival of Every Mail Ship from England. ] [Illustration: THE THIRD HOME OF “THE SUN” Beach and Bennett, Rival Publishers, Had Offices Opposite Each Other at Fulton and Nassau Streets. ] In his report on newspapers for the Census of 1880, S. N. D. North says that from 1830 to 1840-- By the sheer force of its superior circulation, the penny press exerted the most powerful newspaper influence that was felt in the United States, and during this interval its beneficial influence was the most apparent. It taught the higher-priced papers that political connection was properly subordinated to the other and higher function of the public journal--the function of gathering and presenting the news as it is, without reference to its political or other effect upon friend or foe. The advent of the penny press concluded the transition period in American journalism, and had three effects which are easily traceable. It increased the circulation, decreased the price of daily newspapers, and changed the character of the reading-matter published. As Charles H. Levermore wrote in an article on the rise of metropolitan journalism in the _American Historical Review_: Independent journalism, as represented first by the _Sun_ and the _Herald_, won a complete victory over old-fashioned partizan journalism. The time had forever departed when an Albany regency could tune the press of the State as easily and simply as Queen Elizabeth used to tune the English pulpits. As James Parton said, “An editorial is only a man speaking to men; but the news is Providence speaking to men.” Thus Ben Day’s _Sun_ remade American journalism--more by accident than design, as he himself remarked at a dinner to Robert Hoe in 1851.