The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-14 00:00:00

WILFUL DAMAGE TO TELEGRAPH CABLES.

It will be remembered that some time ago a sub-
marine telegraphic cable had been wilfully damaged, by
driving a nail through the outer iron wires, and so destroy-
ing the insulating material, rendering one of the conductors
entirely useless. That this was not an isolated instance of
• submarine telegraphic cable having been moat maliciously
injured, the following will show :
The Hanoverian (Emden) cable, belonging to the Sub-
marine Telegraph Company, was laid by the contractors in
18.58, and during the submergence, when more than halfway
towards the island d Borkman, a considerable loss of insu-
lation was observed, and the cable was buoyed in order to
be able to return to the spot i' necessary, when the whole
length was laid down and the end landed. W hen the pay-
ing out was completed and the telegraph Matt manta attachr d
on ahore,M was found that both wires were workable, and an
arrangement was concluded between the contracting parties
for it to be repaired at the manufacturer's expense, should
it be requisite to do so, within twelve months. The year
expir, and both conductors were still at work. In the
fall of 1861, however one of the wires showed great leakage
and was seldom used on account of the difficulty ex-
perienced in mutating the relays. In consequence of this
the directors of the Submarine Telegraph Company de-
termined that the repairs should be undertaken at the first
appearance of fine weather. On the 15th of June last the coin-
pany 's engineer left with a etaamer fortthe put porie,and reached
the Dutch comet on the 19th of that month. The weather,
instead of proving fair, as might be expected at that time
of the year, lOU on the contrary must boisterous, and up
to the 10th of August, when the fault was cut out, there
were but seven days, and those not the very fittest, in which
it was possible to handle the cable. Greet difficulties bad
to be encountered on account of its having become deeply
imbedded in the sand off the Dutch Islands, at the place
where the fault was found. Sometimes the cable bad to
be grappled for some hundreds of yards away ; at
others it was only possible to get it out of the sand
at the rate of 15 or 20 feet an hour. The position
of the fault was at last reduced to within • space
of six feet, which piece was cut out, kept intact, and
banded over to the secretary in London, so that it might be
ultimately carefully examined, and • fresh length of new
cable spliced in its place. Sir Jsmes Carmichael, chairman
of the company, some of the directors, and Mr. France, the
company's engineer, together with Messrs. Glass, Elliott,
andgeanning, were present at the examination of these two
yards of cable, which bad caused so much anxiety and loss
to the company. Exteriorly no fault could be found, but
on minute inspection a alight indication of rust was ob-
served between two of the outer wires, caused, as
might be imagined, by the removal of the tar,
by the abrasion of the implements used in
making the puncture. The iron wires were then carefully
removed, and at the particular spot it was found a sharp
instrument. such as a sailor's knife, had been forced through
the iron wires, severing the hemp serving, penetrating and
cutting through the gottaperch& to the copper of one wire ;
the incision ou the other side was not quite so deep, proving
beyond question the malicious origin of the injury, which
must have been done either during the manufacture or at
the laying down of the cable. The reason of this fault rest-
ing so long dormant was owing to the serving of tarred jute
closing uuder the pressure of the protecting iron wire of the
sheathing on to the gotta percha, it requiring some time,
during which the cable was worked, before the current
forced its way through the artificial insulation. The
damaged core ia sealed up again and placed in the hands of
the secretary.

ANOTHER GAROTTE ROBBERY. —On Wednesday
at 4, G shortly
before
ille-a twelrs Hursk
Hattuo-garden, was inresg ifdroinilt
Brixton with a friend, on arriving at a dark spot between
Kenningtoo-park railing' and the church their attention
was attracted by the noise of scuffling a abort distance
before them. They instantly hastened forward sod found
a gentleman on the ground, insensible, and one man riding
his pockets. He too instantly secured, sad Mr. Hunt
raued another who had run off towards Kesoliagtoo-crop,
but he ran into the arms of • policeman, who secured him
at the toll-bar. Assistance promptly arrived, and the gen-
tleman was removed to his residence. The two ruffians
were lodged at the police-station, Kennington.
The temporary road in Hyde-park, which waa
opened for the purposes of the International Exhibition. be-
tween Queen's-gate, Kensington, sod Victoria-gate, Bays-
water, will be dosed on the 18th inst.
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