Mr. Seudamore has sent in a report upon the financial
results, of the purchase of the telegraphs. The broad results at present. attained are that the telegraphs cost 7f millions sterling, that the' receipts are now 10 per cent, on that sum, that the expenses are' under 5i per cent., and that the purchase therefore returns some, profit to the State. This profit, moreover, increases, as the system, extends itself, and becomes more thoroughly appreciated, but the true financial result of the undertaking will never be known till' the department is able to introduce the uniform sixpence. Thee middle-class is learning to telegraph to save itself the trouble of writing, but the millions do not use the wires except on excep- tional occasions. It was supposed in the beginning of the week, that the telegraph was over-working its employes, a boy named' Whitaker having died from over-work, but it appears that the' boy, who received 25s a week, overworked himself to obtain money from other clerks. The boy's greediness is of course Mr. Glad- stone's fault, like everything else, cholera included—vide Pa11.111allk Gazette every day—but still his death was not the result of Mr.. Scudatnere's meanness.
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