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"What is it that drops the same thought into ten thousand minds at the same moment ?
-the Newspaper."

DE TOCQUEVILLE.

She has her ambassadors in every

"There she is the great engine-she never sleeps.
quarter of the world-her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies,
and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Yonder Journal
has an agent at this minute giving bribes at Madrid; and another inspecting the price of
potatoes at Covent Garden."
PENDENNIS.

LONDON:

DAVID BOGUE, 86, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCL.

LONDON:

HENRY VIZETELLY, PRINTER AND ENGRAVER,

GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET.

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