Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Time

    Claims that the submarine telegraph will stop people being 'tied to time' and that it has taken over from mail as the route for 'all the important French news'. Thinks that the consequences of the rapidity of news transmission via the electric telegraph will be 'watches and clocks' becoming 'obsolete', time being 'set at nought', and the possibility of being 'knocked into next week'.