The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS' TELEGRAPH.

MESSAGE FROM IBM MAJESTY.
A telegram from Jersey, dated 3 p.m. Tuesdey, an-
nounoes the inauguration of the Channel Islands' Tele-
graph. The wire works sueoessfully. A congratula-
'awry address was sent by tho directors to Her Majesty,
at the completion of which its anaemia was hailed by the
mumbled multitude with tremendour cheering, The
streets were crowded with people, and sags eying in all
directions, ashore and 'Gat. A prooession aoooin-
ponied by military bands, paraded the town. The town
was to be Illuminated in the evening, and *reworks dis-
played in the Royal-a/nave and other places.
At the opening of the line at Jersey on Tuesday, the
fallowing telegraphic message was forwarded by Mr.
Atibin oenetable of the island, through the Right Hon.
& Walpole, to Her Majesty
"The directors of the Channel Islands' Telegraph
Company, on behalf of the people of the Islands, solicit
that you may be plowed to lay before Her Mort Gracious
Majesty this the aril message conveyed by their tele-
graph, Though the establishment of them means of
rapid sommunioation with the mother country is an
event of minor importance to the empire at large, it is
one of heartfelt satisfaction to Her Majesty's loyal and
devoted subjects here, as tending to draw still closer the
bonds which for nearly 1,000 years have liaised these
Islands to the CrOMR Id Ragland, and more firmly to
secure that oonnection, the foundation of their liberties'
and their prosperity, and, which, like their forefathers,
they would deem no 'earths too great to preserve.
"Jensey, dept. T."
Her Majesty roamed the following gracious answer
by telegraph i--
Holyrood Poises, Toady night, Sept. 1,
"This Queen hie rteelved with the highest eatithw
non the announcement of the eumeeful completion of
a tolegraphie oommunleallon with the Channel letande
and While Her Moiety congratulate* the Cinders of
the Channel Islands Telegraph Company upon their
suseese, eli. Moises In the more rapid moans of oom•
inualeation, end the *loser connection thus happily
established with a portion of her dominion' hitherto
locally seproaad, but always united to her crown by 11
spirit of unewervini loyalty unsurpassed in any part of
them, and of which the image just transmitted on he•
half of the people of the blade contains a very gratify.
lug Ilk premien,"
A telegram realved_from_jersey, dated Wednesday
afternoon, etatee that Her Majesty's reply had mused
great enthsaissin la theist/ids.
'gee laVlewnstari'lsollurey tlll ill/beltir.firtnaTtx!7:tyitru...
heed, is of 1111011$811 a the slim end of the lialterranan
table', bet with ;ride iii a proportionote degree thicke,.
II starts from Chursh Uay Portland, and 1111111 lii depths
of miler espying ham lift to II fathoms, as far as the
blend W Alderney, %lila has been Aced as the
a At this point the Prench Mad he only
nine el4m4iiter d'istant, And Pherholirg Is plainly visible,
Prom Alderney the able Washes to a point on the
north.weol east of Camay, 11114 MOMS that halaud to
lb, Pears Pori, where there le a elation In the goard•
house, nearly open a level with the sea It then runs
to Cape Oros Nes, and is landed upon a oandy beset,—•a
metier of no smell 11111Nri1111011 in an Ninnd as begirt
with rookie,' Jersey. Uotween eight and nine miles of
underground work brings the hue to It. Heller's, l'he
"Melon is eittiate at tue corner of the Grandinuare,
A considerable trade already islet" between the Chan.
nol Islands and It Maio, Orativllle, and other plias on
the French east, An extension in that direction world
afford to Hominoid, and 01.110411 the fulfill"' of coin.
munication which are now denied to them. A maw
of 00 words from Pngland to any of the towns In those
provinces is now charged train his Oil. to 14e. lid, The
olio's* for %message of like length from London to Jet.
soy is AL
Ti, Channel lolanda' Telegraph, which has just been
suocesefully laid, is understood to have cost 11115,000.
The oompany hare a Covernment guarantee of 0 per
rant 161, 98 yearn on their entire °spits' of P 30,000, A
dividend equal to Tier cent can, therefore, be realised
for the shareholders during that period, supporta' the
oominaulation to rennin uninterrupted,