The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-16 00:00:00

No. 384.

Certificate of Provisional Registration of the General
Oceanic Telegraph Company, pursuant to the Act 7
and 8 Vic. c. 100.
I, Frederick Rogers, Esquire, Registrar of Joint Stock
Companies, do hereby certify that the General Oceanic
Telegraphic Company is provisionally registered according
to law.
Given under my hand and sealed with my seal of
office, the sixteenth day of Juno eighteen hundred
and forty-fiVe• FREDERICK ROGERS,
Regisftar of Joint Stock Companies.
Provisional Registration.

1,2, 3. The Name, Business, and Promoters of the Genera'
Oceanic Telegraphic Company.

Provisional 1 Dated
Registration.
116th June, 184 a,
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1. Name of the Proposed Company.
General Oceanic Telegraphic Company.
2. Business or Purpose.

To form a connecting mode of comLunicat;on by t9legra-
phic means from the British Islands, and across the Atlan-
tic Ocean to Nova Scotia and tha Canada s, the Colonies
and Continental Kingdoms.

3. Promoters of the Company.
Occupation, &c. Place of Residence.
Engineer. No. 2, Hanover-square,
London.

Name.
Jacob Brett.

(Copy of Letter.)
To the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bar
London, July, 1845
We beg the honour to submit a plan for general corn
munication by means of Oceanic and Subterranean In
land Electric Telegraphs, for which patents have been
received byithe undersigned, and for their construction
on cheap and efficient plans.
By means of this telegraph any communication may be
instantly transmitted from London, or any other place, and
delivered in a printed form almost at the same instant of
time at the most distant parts of the United Kingdom or
of the Colonies.
The advantage and power offered to the Government by
this invention render it of the greatest importance that
they should have it under their own control, and arrange
and conduct this plan of general telegraphic communica-
tion.
The following are a few of the advantages offered by
this patent :-
1. The immediate communication of Government orders
and despatches to all parts of the empire, and the instant
return of answers to the same, from the seats of local Go-
vernment, kc., all delivered in an unerring and printed
form.
2. A general telegraphic post-office system, uniting the
chief and branch offices in London in connection with all
the offices throughout the kingdom, for transmitting mes-
sages of business, &c., from merchants, brokers, tradesmen,
and private persons, at a fixed rate of charge. These com-
munications would be printed on papers and all enclosed
iu sealed envelopes, and addressed by confidential clerks,
and issued by special messengers or the usual post-office
delivery.
3. The advantages of this plan applied to police arrange-
ments throughout the United Kingdom, and to the army
and navy departments, must be at once obvious to the
Government. By it instructions might be conveyed in-
stantaneously, and the movements of the forces so regu-
lated that any available number of them may be brought
together at any given point in the shortest possible time
necessary for their conveyance.
These are some of the advantages. Others readily sug-
gest themselves—namely, general communication between
stations on the coast, such as lighthouses, Channel Islands,
&c., so that a general supervision of the coast might be
obtained for the use of the navy, Lloyd's, and for the pre-
vention of smuggling, &c.
JACO And JOHN W BRETT? 2, liturner-square.