The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-30 00:00:00

BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

The new company, known by the name of the
&MA Elietric 'telegraph Company. have nearly corn.
peed, and ere about to open, a considerable length of wire
uniting some of the most important northern towns of the
kingdom. This chain of towns includes Liserpool, Man-
cluster. Halifax. lleadtord, Wakefield, Barnsley, beds,
Barrogate, and Stockton-upon Teer, with some other of the
intermediate places. The people of Liverpool and blaacheater
were rather agreeably struck with the rapidity with which
this company •oreteditl in laying down their wires
It the stmt., to complete the connexion between the rail.
way stations and the company's offices. There is no greater
annovinsce in large towns than that which parliament has
ponied to private companies of ripping up their pavements
at art times an tastes where it may be necessary for their
isonsts. The authorities of a town pave the streets at
peat tamale, and then comes a gas company, and then a
water company, and then a telegraph company, to open
deep tons b.. in some of the leading thoroughfares, inter-
rupting the traffic and creating great inconvenience. We
base seen [lose trenches open in some eases sit or
eiglit day. ; but in the present instances we are
glad to perm:se that • great improvement has been Intro-
duced. Mr. Charles Bright, the manager of the Bri'ish
Electric Telegraph Company, we were informed, bad the
merit of inventing a new mode of laying lows wires in the
heels, which gees far to remove the objections we have
pointed out. The method adopted by the old company ha•
hn n to lay down • line of round cast metal pipes through
witch the insulated wires repassed. This is necessarily a
long and tedious operation, because eonsiderable time is
occupied, as each length of pipe is laid down, in passing the
wires through it; hat Mr. Charles Bright's plan is to use
pipes split loogitudinally in'. two halves. The under halves
of :the pipes are laid down in the trench, and
then a large drum, on which the insulated wires are
wrapped. is rolled along over the trench, and the wire is
payo ! sff easily and rapidly into its place—the upper parte
of the pipes being put on afterward*' and seared in their
pure by means of screws through flanges left outside for
the purpose. So well has this mode succeeded, that is
Liverpool the whole lengths of the streets, from Titbebarn
Railway station to *he British Telegraph Company's offices,
fa Eschange.street East, wi re laid down in a single night
(11 hours, and in Manchmitir, the line of streets from
the Salford Railway station to Untie-street, Exchange, in
L hams. This was the who:e time occupied in opening
the trenches, laying down the telegraph lilies, and relay-
ing the pavement; and whi' great credit is due to the
company, on the ground of the little public inconvenience
occasioned, no doubt they world find the benefit of it in
economy of time and money. The company, it is expected,
will be in a condition to open business now ta about three
weeks, having only to complete a short link between Wake-
ficd and Lycils to mike the line complete from Liverpool as
Leas stockton. The Magnetic Telegraph Company have
their line at work between Manchester and Liverpool, sad
an said to be making progress with their extensions towards
lb, metropolis.

Tilt Ci .URTOWN KILKLNNT ESTATEIL—The
county Kilkenny estate of the Hight Hoe. the Earl of
Connown, has been sometime an the market, in cease
do:arrce of certain family arrangements, which rendered it
able to dopes of this portion of the property; but
hem the large quantity of land to be brought to the. ham-
awe by order of the Eseembered Estates Cessolassosers,
an the factitive with which property scald be sold is lets
in that court, in the absence of any usegirthisty is refs-
rence to title or charges remaining nnsatsWed, this pro-
perty, desirable though it contessedly is in many respects,
did not meet with a purchawr at as adequate value. This,
!Dwyer, was only what might have been expected ender
the circumstances. Clear and anezeeptissable though the
title may be to landed property at the primmest time, the
public have come so thoroughly tu appreciate the vale* of a
parliamentary title, that land brought into Use market,
nailer ordinary circumstances does not readily meet a par-
skater. 'this wail account for the very desirable property
to which we now refer not having ere this bees disposed
of: But now taking advantage of the provisioss of the En-
cumbered Estates Act, and of the machinery of thirteen,
the property as spun offered for sale under more faveurskir
circumstances ; and u• have little doubt that the result Will
be to show the eoufideeee reposed by the public in that
tribunal, and the certainty of well circumstanced property
bringing remunerating prices in the Encumbered Estates Court, sins when it could not be sold to &leant'se other.
wise. The estates of Lord Courtown, in the county of Kil-
kenny, co :untie, an area of 7,r;17 acres, the rental of which
is in round numbers, 4.200 per anonm.—Adrocete.
FIRE IN THE KINH.S.EOAI), llRlGHTON.—Yester-
day 140411104, at an early hour, a fire broke out in a large
imiklmt called Belvidere lIo•Ht, at the bottom of West.
Mete, King's-road, Brighton, and destroyed the four shops
iato which the lower pert•of the premises was divided,
and held respectively by Mr. Bickford, jeweller; Mr.
bis,y, optician; the Mikes Newton, dressmakers; and
Mr. Gay, toy merchant. The loss sustained is eoneidera
be Mr. Bickford, in addition to his stock, had a pocket-
book with note■ to the amount of 280 i. burnt he was not
iasurtd. Mr. Dewy was insured in the Brighton Office
for PO. Neither the Mime* Newton nor Mr. Clay were
loured, and they have lost all: Dlr. Clay lost note* to the
Wan of 40/. No satisfactory account of the orig n of the lb Cl 4 bk. gives; hut we ham that Mr. Bickford had
Minters at work on his premises until a late hour over
Right. l'ertispo that affords some clue to the mystery.
TIM Atitst.v or Br. ALBAN/L—A new and bean-
hill ',odor ho. been plated in At. Albans Abbey, on the
Mutt side of the nave, near the small but elaborately orna-
/mewl door li.aown as the abbot's entrance from what were form, rip 1.41 cloisters of the abbey. The window is Mil of the welihnown fresco painting on the wall of the
Meth tracept• The work has been executed in a very
temcnor styli, 'he artist, Mr. Clutterbuck, having skilfully
uttimi the eeptemion of the figures cf our Saviour and'
'Lomas. Toe window is the gift of Thomas Howard,
.ele end is erected by him as a memorial of a deceased
relative, et it whom rave it is Owed.
011 CAT SALE OE OMNIBUS PROPERTY.-011 Twe-
m
.. I a isle by aufte e
m took place in St. Alban'plate, l'ad-
ezon, tithe stock cf the Loudon Conveyance Company;
eittornetance, as may be expected, caused Rio won
ano,ont of iaterest. The property sanorineed for
:LTM 541* II mill and 0011147, auctioneers, City Repo-
. Law .n,eousisted of 371 horses endonsaibuscs(lB
'"" • ins out at grass). with entire plant, stables. and
umashop,, and every convenience requisite toe
usla • 114161' I "ire was • good aetendance of oensibss Ere-
lead "thin disposed to bid fur suck property. The
tlt of the auction was that the whole of the property was
.thewd for a sins of 10,900 i, Si ammo lees-thao had
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