The New York herald., 1851-10-21

between Berlin and Magdeburg is broken; and Ia
consequence, delay, irregularity, and uncertainty
with regard to all electric communication through
Germany has arisen. Another bad arrangement is,
that through dispatches are stopped to give wayto
intermediate messages, whilst the opposite system
has justly and fairly, and with the best result,
always been adopted in the management Of the
diligence and the railway. But through dispatches
are generally sent from station to station, causing
an immense loss of time, there being twenty-six
stations between Berlin and verviers alone; most
Of the officers are unable correctly to work
Mores apparatus, which Is alone capable Of trans
mitting messages from one extreme to the other.
The figures not sufficiently known by the clerks,
who consequently ever inquire whether they have
rightly understood or not, heavy fines being iniiet;
ed for incorrect intelligence, which are deducted
from their scanty salaries. How little the
officers care whether the public make use OF
the telegraph or not, Ia best illustrated by
at the Hamburg Telegraph Office, where he had
to wait his turn, with the director Of that bureau
-"Most dispatches, presume" said the stranger,
"reaie to the public funds P To be sure, nineteen
out of twenty" answered the director. {" Then you
have Mr.. James c., the principal regulator on
'Chspge as frequent Gust omer T." o Lord, yes,"
was the reply, he bothers rs all day" A private
COMPANY would find IL to their interest to salts
fy the demand of the public, but Mr.. Won der Heydt,
the Minister Of Commerce, and Mr.. Nottebohm,
the chief director, are perfectly indifferent about
the accommodation they afforded. No wonder then
that the public make as little use Of the telegraph
should not have been covered by the receipts. The
complaints, however, becoming extremely numerous
and frequent, the authorities have at last deded on
laying down second wire above ground, consider
able portion of which, especially the line between
Berlin and Magdeburg, is expected to be completed
at the end Of next month. The amount required
for ts construction will be advanced by government,
since the sum granted by the Legislature has long
since been expended.
The Tunes and the Daiy Nars, anxious TO pro-
cure the quickest possible intelligence for the mer-
camille community, have undertaken, at a consider
able expense, to furnish in their daily publications
the exchanges Of Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, and
Frsnk OF the preceding day but this most de-
sirable object has hitherto not been accomplished,
owing 70 the irregulsrty and delay on the Prussisn
line. Dispatches sent of from those different
places between two and three o'clock p M. arrive
at Veivers invariably in the course Of the next day,
speed with which the railway might successfully
compete: Surely, the English journals ought to be
assisted by the German governments in their expen'
sive endeavor TO publish the continental exch spges
and prices Of funds at the earliest possible period,
since the German houses established in England,
ard the German merchants trading with this coun-
ty derive the greatett bent 6t from II, and since
tends to give solid tssis to the trsrsactions
in the money market. and TO deprive 1t of that
gambling character Of which the continental go
ven me nts justly ccmplsin. step In this direction
would the Austrisn govern eat tbe trouble Of
sending police seebts on Change, aud the unples
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