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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2816, 22 February 1878, Page 3

The Press, in noticing a late number of the Nineteenth Century, says:—" Sir Julius Yogel proposes to do for the Telegraph Department in Britain what Sir Rowland Hill did for the postal system. It is well known that since the telegraphs have been taken over by the Government there has been a monetary loss to the country. They do not cover working expenses, much less repay any of the purchase money. They ought to do,both, says our Agent-General. And he shows that by reducing the rate of transmission, by making the minimum ten words instead of twenty, by adopting a postal delivery, and by affording facilities for telegraphing money orders, the thing can be done. The lack of each of these advantages points to some serious defects in tbe management of the department at home. Mr Seudamore ought to be very thankful for having such really practical suggestions made to him. The new duplex, even quadruplex method also favours the cheapening of the tariff, and the consequent prosperity of the department. If we can make the system pay with our population of half a million only, surely tbe United Kingdom, with its population of thirty millions, ought to do the same. The article of Sir Julius on^ Cheap Tele* grams' is timely and eminently practical."