The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-20 00:00:00

COPYING ELECTRIC TELEGARPH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—Tbe fairness which characterises the general
management of the Times, will probably dispose you
to comply with my request by the publication of the
following rectification of a paragraph, entitled
" Copying Electric Telegraph,' which appeared in
your journal of Thursday last :
This paragraph claims for a Mr. Bakewell the in•-
vention of a copying telegraph, which is described
in it.

I beg to inform you that the invention there de•
scribed is neither new nor Mr. Bakewell's. It h taken
substantially from the specification of a patent ob-
tained by me, in 1843, for the same invention, which
I had completed in the preceding year, and fur which
I also obtained patents in other countries. A com-
parison of the statement in the Times of Thursday,
with the specification enrolled at the Patent-office, in
Cbancery-lane, will establish to the satisfaction of any
inquirer the truth of what I now state.
The copying telegraph is, in fact, only a variety
of my electro-chymical telegraph, which is at present
daily transmitting intelligence over upward of 3,000
miles in the United States. It was, indeed, lately
noticed in your journal of the 23d and 24th of Oc-
tober that the New York Herald received by this
means about thirty times as much telegraphic intelli-
gence as the Times itself usually receives by electric
telegraph.
My copying telegraph is capable of transmitting
not only manuscripts written with all the characters
of the autograph, but also of delineating at a distance
any figure whatever which can be traced by drawing,
stamping, &c.
Thus, a paper profile of a fugitive could, by its
means, be transmitted in a few moments to all the
ports of the kingdom to which the telegraphic wires
extend.

It is true this particular application of my patent
chymical telegraph has not yet been put in practice,
because it requires greater accuracy in the machi-
nery and more perfect insulation of the wire where
great distances are to be attained than have yet been
realised.

But sufficient has been done by me to show that
these difficulties are not insurmountable, and I trust
the day is not far distant when a merchant in London
can take a penholder in his band, write a letter of
advice or a commercial order, which will be instantly
committed to paper in Paris, Berlin, or Vienna.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
ALEXANDER BAIN.
Paris, Nov. 17.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
We are requested to insert the following copy of $
letter addressed to the chairman and directors of the
Electric Telegraph Company:—
" London, Nov. 16, 1850.

" Gentlemen,—We understand that the indictment
preferred against us, at your instance, for an expression
deemed to be libellous in our letter published in the
Morning Herald of the 11 th of October, 1849, will be
tried in the Court of Queen's Bench immediately after
the present term.
We, therefore, think it right to announce most dis-
tinctly that it was not our intention to assert in any man-
ner that you or any person connected with your estab-
lit,hmcnt used our message of the 27th July, 1848, or
any other communication received or transmitted by us
through the Electric Telegraph, for stockjobbing pur-
poses.
" The object of this letter is to put it to you whether,
after this declaration, you will think it necessary for
your own ♦indication (which is all you can possibly
want), to proceed any further with the indictment, or
whether you will not be disposed to consider that the
heavy expense we have sustained in your application to
the Court of Queen's Bench for a criminal information,
is an adequate infliction for an expression used under
circumstances of irritation.

" If you should take this view of the question, and
abandon the prosecution, you have our full authority for
publishing this letter, without comment.
" We are, &c.,
WILLMER and Spurn."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.