The New York herald., 1869-12-08
POSTAL TELEGRAPHS.
The New Postal Telegraph System Of Great
Britain-A Numerical Code to Supersede the
Spelling and Writing Plnn-NO Tamperinx
with MESSAGES and No Miatakes.

From the Irish tDublip) Times, Nov. 24.l
The army and navy telegraphic code has recently
received the Postmaster Generas sanction Tor pub
lie over the government teiegraphs so soon as
tney are transferred 10 the Post once Department.
Unsuestlonabiy this Is one OF the most importans
reforms which could possibly take place IN the sya-
TEN OF telegraphic communication. The greatest
grievance IN connection with the telegraphs ana
one winch the public mas borne silence Tor years,
Is the publicity OF Geographic matter. The casual
sender and receiver OF teegrams can hardly real,ze
the amouat OF .mutilatlon,, ana .tampering'' an i'm
portant message underRoes during is transmission-s
DurIng the evidence taken before the Committee on
Teegrapnic Communication a Mr.. Green satd:-.Dn
tue til OF June we teleyrapned them, Buy ltnseei
for 56s rapeseed and poppYseed SSs.; satpetre de-
ciining' They telegfaphed, Buy Inserd Tor 53s.,s
leaving out rapeseed and poppyseed altogether, and
putting In eatpetre advancing.o
The code system, as sanctioned bv Lord Harting-
ton and now used IN both our services consists Ia
the transmission BY means OF o numerical code,
instead OF by The ordinary Morse speiiing process
By means OF this code, which Is based upon cOin0i
nation OF symbols, consisting OF doLs ana dasnes.
words or phrases are represented Dy groups OF nu-
merical symbols, never exceeding i've. THIS code,
which mas been drawn up by MAJOR r. Bolton,
represents particular words and phrases by definite
combination Of their numerals IN aJdlIlon TO which
tDere are symbols ior expressing oecmals fractions
stops, italics and inverted commas, DC. There Is
also spelling PROCESS Tor rendering proper names @
dictionary OF the language, and Its arran2eInent
OF the most valuable ana ingenious features OF
tue system. The pages are numbered iii consecutive
order and also the lines OF each page and when t is
desired 10 send message ali that Is necessary Is TO
transmit the number, or numbers reierrlng TO the
page the codo where Is TO be found let
Ter word, sentence which the correspondent Is TO
be acquainted with. Now, II we require 10 send this
message by the code, "Cotton ia laung, and should
not advise you buy We search uuder the letter
for cotton and tlols found at page 030, aad the
act sentence wlsh.lor Is numbered T. so write
o3o1, and this form the IN essage sigDaed, and
reaches its destination, wnere 1t ls keyeu,u the
purport arrives unnuulated and Beyond the chance
OF DeIng tampered with. Ihls Is the boon 70 the
public
Let US see how the Post once gains loses by the
Of the code. 1t Wouid appear at the lrst sight
that they 10 be losers ali tnat business which
is now known 'excessed,n or, IN other words, on
those teiegrams containing more tlan twenty Words
now allowed 10y tue direrent telegraph companies
ior certain priced messages. Grating this
tnat the Post once would be losers such trano
b-ing transacted by the code system-iet
qire how much VIII be the gain ON ordinary
me ,sages that and must be under twenty words,
The gam h simply this:-Inat message OF twenty
words can be transmitted by code In group at
the most OF two groups or ngures, containing never
more than live figures eacD, or, IN pam English,
twenty words are slgnaiied by means ten igures.
Now IL Is q well known fact that the latter travel
with twice the rapidly and safety tnat words can
be transmitted over telegraph wires; and the fact Is
patent to every that since 1ve letters are the
mean of words IN the English language, group OF
five figures should be accepted aau charged Tor as a
word not only Tor this very important reason, but
on account OF tue immense saving these groups
effect the Post once IN Tune anu labor or working
the teegrapbs.
The code comes into use Immediately the Official
transfer OF the teiegrapns lakes pace We congrat
ulate this gallant ollcer, MAJOR L. Bolton upon nls
VIC ory over the Unfair and patry influences which
have been recently and SO uusuccesSuiiy Drought 10
bear against the Adoption OF the code system.