THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 



THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. 



276. This Company has constructed lines connecting the fol- 

 lowing principal places by means of the submarine cable, extended 

 between Donaghadee and Port Patrick : 



London. Portpatrick. Kildare. 



Birmingham. Donaghadee. Carlow. 



Manchester. Belfast. Thurles. * 



Liverpool. Armagh. Tipperary. 



Preston. Drogheda. Limerick. 



Carlisle. Navan. Waterford. 



Glasgow. Dublin. Mallow. 



Greenock. Athlone. Killarnej. 



Edinburgh. Ballinasloe. Cork. 



Stranraer. Galway. Queenstown. 



This company has established an underground line of ten wires 

 from London to Liverpool, by Manchester, and one of six wires 

 from Liverpool to Portpatrick, and from thence to Belfast. The 

 line from Belfast to Dublin, and from thence to Cork, with 

 branches, is overground on poles. The underground system is 

 again adopted from Cork to Queenstown. 



Lines are in progress of construction along the "Waterford 

 and Limerick Railway, and six additional wires aro being laid 

 between Dublin and Belfast. 



The instruments used are the needle-telegraph, and chiefly the 

 double needle instruments, the current being produced not by 

 galvanic batteries, but by magneto-electric machines, on the 

 principle patented by Messrs. Henley and Forster (220) improved 

 in various details by the Messrs. Bright, the secretary and engineer 

 of the company. 



The speech delivered by the Queen on opening the parliamen- 

 tary session of 1854, was supplied verbatim to the Belfast journals 

 at 2 h. 25 m., to those of Dublin at 2 h. 40 m., and to those of 

 Cork at 3 h. 20 m. on the afternoon of its delivery. 



The tariff is regulated upon principles similar to that of the 

 Electric Telegraph Company. 



Although this company was not incorporated until the middle 

 of 1852, it has now (July, 1854) upwards of 2000 miles of tele- 

 graphic lines, and 13000 miles of wire in active operation, and 

 from the rapid progress it has hitherto made, and its power to 

 extend its capital of 3000007. to 600000/., it is probable that ere 

 long its scale of operation will be much further extended, to the 

 great benefit of the public. 



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