The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-25 00:00:00

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY,
London, 345, Strand, September 1, 1847.
COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPH.
The works of the Lines for commercial communications between
the places enumerated below, embracing a system of Telegraphs for
commercial purposes only, and distinct from that reserved for the
special use of Railways, being so far advanced as to admit of their
completion by the commencement of the coming year, the Directors
think that the time has now arrived when it becomes their duty to
make known the arrangements which they contemplate for the ac-
commodation of the public.
Stations will be opened in central situations in the principal Towns,
whence Messages and Dispatches will be forwarded to and received
from all the other Stations of the Electric Telegraph Company.
In order to give to Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers, and all
connected with trade, the greatest possible amount of information, a
Room will be reserved in each of the Company's Stations for Sub-
scribers, in which will be received, tabulated, and exhibited, all intel-
ligence of commercial or public interest; for instance—
Ship Lists from the various Ports.
Share Lists from the various Exchanges.
Prices Current.
Stock Exchange Lists.
Corn Markets from the various Towns.
Prices of Live Stock, &c., &e., &c.
In London, a Central Station, suited to the importance of the Me-
tropolis, is In course of erection in the immediate vicinity of the Bank
and Royal Exchange; in this Station the whole Telegraphic News
of the country will be concentrated and forwarded in every direc-
tion ; and here, as in other Towns, a Room will be reserved for Sub-
scribers. _ .

The Subscription to these R•oms will be Two Guineas per annum,
paid in advance, which will entitle Subscribers to the right of en-
trance to all the Subscription Rooms of the Company, including the
Central Station at London.
The foregoing details some of the advantages of the Commercial
Telegraph to Subscribers,—but the requirements of the Public in ge-
neral will be provided for by the Establishment of Offices, which will
at all times be open for the reception or transmission cf Messages
and Dispatches, while Messengers will be kept atthe various Station!,
by whom dispatches may be sent out to any part of tile Town where
the communication has been received by Telegraph at the Com-
pany's Station.
Subscribers' Names are received at the Commercial Telegraph Of-
fice, where any further information may be obtained.
The following are the Towns to which the Commercial Telegraph
will be first extended:—

..., Peterborough_ Chelmsford
Margate Wakefield Yarmouth Ipswich
Ramsgate Leeds Huntingdon York
Deal Halifax Hertford Darlington

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Dover Rochdale Manchester Newcastle
Folkestone Hull Leicester Berwick
Canterbury Maidstone Derby Edinburgh
Northampton Tonbridge Nottingham Glasgow
Coventry Gosport Lincoln Scarborough
Birmingham Southampton Chesterfield Bridlington
Wolverhampton Winchester Sheffield Stamford
Stafford Dorchester Bradford Norwich
Chester Bristol Wisbeach St. Ices
Liverpool Gloucester Lowestoft Ware
Rotherham Cheltenham Cambridge Colchester
J. LEWIS RICARDO, Chairman.

3IETROPOLITAI:TOCIELTFE ASSURANCE

No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.
The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Premiums fall
due on the sth of October next, that the same must be paid within
Thirty days from that date.
The Premiums are payable Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on
the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October,
either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the
year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So-
ciety as Members on the sth of October next, should appear or lodge
their proposals at the office on or before that day.
This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates all
its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives for the
whole term of life as Members of the Society.
An abatement of Premium has been made at the rate of 47% per
cent. for the year ending the 4th of April, 1848, under the confident
expectation of a continuing abatement at that rate, at least to all
Members of Five Years' standing and upwards.
RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
Princes-street, Bank, September 14, 1847.