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THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
London, 345, Strand, September I, 1547.
COMMICRCIAL 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,
whenoe Messages and Dispatches will be forwarded to and received
from all the other Stations of the Electric Telegraph Company.
In order *0 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.
i'ricee Current.
Stock Exchange Lista.
Cern Markets from the various Towns.
Prices of Live Stock, &e., Sec., &c.
In Londoa, a Central Station, suited to the importance of the Me-
tropolis, is in course of erection in the immediate vicinity of the Bank
sad Royal Exchange; in this Station the whole Telegraphic News
of the country will be concentrated and forwarded in every direc-
tion* aid here,' as in other Towns, a Room will be reserved fir Sub-
scribers.
The Subscription to these Rooms 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
Cattral 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 fer the reception or transmission cif Messages
audDispatches, while Messengers will be kept at the various Stations,
by whom dispatches 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 aro 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 Scarbor ,figh
Cirmingliam Southampton Chesterfield Bridlington
W olverliampton Winchester Sheffield Stamford
Stafford Dorchester Bradford Norwich
Chester Bristol Wisbcach St. Ives
Li rerpool Gloucester Lowestoff Ware
notherliam Cheltenham Cambridge Colchester
J. LEIYIS RICA RDO, Chairman.