Telegraphic Anomalies

At a recent meeting of the Eriti& chamber of cora merco in Paris E. J Hemebryk, one of the vice presidenta o the Liverpool chamber of commerce made an interesting statement anc sought the support of the Paris cliam ber in his endeavors to obtain accelera tion in the delivery of telegrams in France. He said that telegráphing froin Liverpool he could obtain a rcply from his New York house in three minutes while from his house in Paris it too! five hours. There were couutries, lik Austria, which were even worse, th time í'or a reply being sometimes a muoh as six or seven hours. There coulc be no greater condemnation of the pres ent sy stern than the practice which wa commonly followed by Liverpool mer chants. When they wanted to obtaiu a reply quickly froni, say Havre, they would telegraph to Havre through thei New York office, and they could thus obtain through New York a reply in half au hour which it would talie them four or five hours to obtaiu direct. The blame could not be attached to the English postoffice, for he had ascertaiued that, as a rule, a telegram hartded in at any Euglish office left the United Kingdorn within 15 minutes of being handed in. The Paris chamber agreed to give the subject its most earnest consideration, with a view to taking steps to obtaiu