The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-16 00:00:00

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIT COMPANY.
London, 345, Strand, September 1, 1847.
COMMERCIAL TE LEGE. A VII.
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 nee of Railways, being so far advanced as to -admit of their
cotnpletion by the commencement of the coming year, the Directors
think that the time has now a!rived when it becomes their dirty to
snake known the arrangements which: they contemplate for the -ac-
commodation of the ISirlrlic. •
Stations will be opened in central situations In the principal Towns,
whence Messages and Dispatdhes will be forwarded to and received
rout all the other Stations of the Eleetric Telegraph Company,
'ln order to give to Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers, and all
connected with trade, the greatest possible amount of information, a
ROOM will he reserved ip each of the Company's Stations for -Sub,
scribers, in which will be received, tabulated, and exhibited, all Intel-
ligeuce of commercial or public interest ; for instance—
Ship Lists from the various Ports. •
Share Lists front the various Exchanges. ,
Prices Current.
Stock Exchange Lists.
Corn Markets from the various Towns.
Prices of Live Stock, &c., &c., &c.
In London, a Central Station, suited to 'the' importance of the Me-
trppolis, is in course of erection iu the immediate vicinity of the Bank
and Royal Exchange; in this Station the whole Telegraphic News
of-the-country will be concentrated and 13m:sided in every direc-
tion ; and here, ai in other Towns, a Room will be reserved far Sub-
scribers. •
The subscription to these Rooms will be Two Guineas per annum,
paid in advatrice, which will entitle Subi-cribers to the right of en-
trarce is tk,Subscription Rooms of the Company, including the
CentralStatiOrr at London.
The foregTiliiidetaUs some of the advantages of the Commercial
Telegnipb'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 he open for the reception or transmission cf Messages '
and Dispilfehes,'While Messengers will be kept at the various Stations,
by whom.dispf}tches may be sent out to any part of the 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:—
London Barnsley Peterborough Chelmsford
Margate Wakefield 'Yarmouth Ipswich
Ramsgate Leeds Huntingdon York
Deal Halifax Hertford Darlington
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. Ives
Liverpool Gloucester Lowestoff Ware
Rotherham Cheltenham Cambridge Colchester
J. LEWIS RICARDO, Chairman.