§ SIR THOMAS DEWAR (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)To ask the Postmaster-General if he will state to what point the present system of underground telegraphic cables to the North has been advanced; and whether the area which has suffered specially through storms in former years has now been passed.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) The pipes in the underground system to the North 1320 have been laid as far as Carlisle and also over the Beattock Incline. Wires in the pipes have been provided as far as Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds, and are now being provided in the Warrington-Carlisle section. The original section, viz., that between London and Birmingham, traversed the area which had suffered especially through storms in former years.