+================+========+========+ | | 1869 | 1870 | +----------------+--------+--------+ |London | 95 | 334 | +----------------+--------+--------+ |Birmingham | 10 | 14 | +----------------+--------+--------+ |Edinburgh | 9 | 15 | +----------------+--------+--------+ |Leeds | 10 | 18 | +----------------+--------+--------+ |Glasgow | 13 | 19 | +----------------+--------+--------+ |Manchester | 21 | 32 | +================+========+========+ This table does not indicate fully the expense incurred by the State in providing local telegraph systems. Under the companies the offices were all concentrated in the heart of the city; under the Post Office administration the offices were spread throughout the city and suburbs. [49] _First Report from the Committee on Public Accounts_, 1873; Appendix, p. 118; and _Report from the Committee on Public Accounts_, 1874; Appendix, p. 159 and following. [50] _Report by Mr. Scudamore on the Reorganization of the Telegraph System of the United Kingdom_, January, 1871, p. 43. [51] _Special Report from the Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bill_, 1868; q. 1,864 and 1,922. [52] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, July 5, 1869, p. 1,217. [53] _Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society_, Session 1866-67. [54] _Special Report from the Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bill_, 1868; q. 1,922 and 94; and _First Report from the Committee on Public Accounts_, 1873; Appendix, p. 96. [55] _Report from the Select Committee on Post Office (Telegraph Department)_, 1876, p. xi. "The Committee have not received any full and satisfactory explanation of these great differences between the estimated expenditure of 1869 and the actual expenditure incurred up to 1876." [56] _Miscellaneous Statistics of the United Kingdom_, current issues from 1872 to 1882. Telegraph Stations open to the public: