I went into the office as the train stopped a moment, and had a glimpse of the instrument as we have seen it in the 'Illustrated Times.' The place was the ticket-office and the man very uncommunicative, but he told me it was not in operation and that they did not use it much.

This is easily accounted for from the fact that the two termini are inconsiderable places, and Wheatstone's system clumsy and complicated.

The advantage of recording is incalculable, and in this I have the undisputed superiority.
As soon as I can visit the telegraph-office here I will give you the result of my observation.

I shall probably do nothing until my return from the north." Nothing definite was accomplished during his short stay in London, and on the 17th of September he left for the Continent with Mr.Henry Ellsworth and his wife.

Mr.Ellsworth, the son of his old friend, had been appointed attache to the American Legation at Stockholm.