[49] First Report from the Committee on Public Accounts, 1873; Appendix, p. 118; and Report from the Committee on Public Accounts, 1874; Appendix, p. 159 and following.

[50] Report by Mr. Scudamore on the Reorganization of the Telegraph System of the United Kingdom, January, 1871, p. 43.

[51] Special Report from the Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bill, 1868; q. 1,864 and 1,922.

[52] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, July 5, 1869, p. 1,217.

[53] Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, Session 1866-67.

[54] Special Report from the Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bill, 1868; q. 1,922 and 94; and First Report from the Committee on Public Accounts, 1873; Appendix, p. 96.

[55] Report from the Select Committee on Post Office (Telegraph Department), 1876, p. xi. “The Committee have not received any full and satisfactory explanation of these great differences between the estimated expenditure of 1869 and the actual expenditure incurred up to 1876.”

[56] Miscellaneous Statistics of the United Kingdom, current issues from 1872 to 1882.

Telegraph Stations open to the public:
1869187118721873187418781880
Telegraph Companies[A]2,155 000000
Post Office Telegraphs02,4413,3693,6593,7563,7613,929
[B]Railway Stations 1,2261,8331,8041,8151,8161,5551,407
3,3814,2745,1734,4745,5725,3165,336
Miles of Line21,751?[C]22,000 ?[D]24,000 ?[E]23,156
Miles of Wire90,66868,99891,093104,292106,730114,902114,242
[A ] In 1,882 places.
[B] For the benefit of the traveling public, and of persons residing in the immediate vicinity of railway stations, the Post Office made arrangements whereby the railway companies received messages from the public for transmission to the postal telegraphs, and received messages from the postal telegraphs for delivery to the public.
[C] Report of the Postmaster General, 1895, p. 36.
[D] The Fortnightly Review, December, 1875, W. S. Jevons.
[E] Report of the Postmaster General, 1880, p. 16.

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