The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-16 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.-(THIS DAV.)

This morning the new Atlantic cable was (1...i-
-1 menced being celled from the company's premises (late
Elliott, and Co.), Borden. wharf, Greenwich, on hoard
the Amethyst Admiralty vessel, for conveyance to
the Great Esstein at Sheerneu. The neces,ty of
keeping the cable constantly under water has led to the
erection of eight @Dorman tanks on the company's
premises, into which the cable is daily being coiled from
eight correspooding &win; machines at the rate of SO miles
per week. From these tank, it is for the first time to.dav beMg
transferred to tanks on board the Amethyst, which will hold
110 miles. Another vessel, named the I riaaleo lent by the Ad-
miralty from Chatham Dockyard, haa been altered and fitted
with tanks which will hold 133 miles. The coiling from
the premises on board the Amethyst is proceeding at the
rate of two miles per hour. The Great Eastern bee been
fitted with five large tanks, and it will occupy three
days in transferring the cable from the Ame-
thyst to that vessel. The distance from the west
oosst of Ireland to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, is 1,600
nautical milts, and the length of cable in preparation is
2.300 knots, leavingl 700 knots for inequalities at the bottom
of the ocean and other contingencies. The cable will be
laid across the Atlantic by Messrs. Canning and Clifford
in June nest. The Great Eastern will have 500 hands on
board, with a weight of 15,000 tons, including 4,50 U tons of
cable and 8,000 tons of coal.

COLLISION' ON TIIE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
—Last notlit, a few minutes before 10 o'clock, the express
train from Birmingham due in Paddington at 10.27. ran into
a nerrowcuue goods train lieu the Pugboarne station of
the Great Western Railway, The latter train was being
shunted on • siding. Much damage wu caused to the
permanent way. The engine-driver and guard of the pas-
meager train were much shaken. The passenger train, to-
gether with one due in London at 11 p.m., did not arrive
rn Paddiegton until half-put 4 o'clock this morning.
At noon this day in consequeoce of the company being
able to work only one line, several trains were waiting at
the Pangbourne station.
FIRE NEAR LINCOLN'S-INN-TIELDIL—Last night
a fire broke out in Gate-street, Lineoln'e-ino-fields, opposite
the establishment of Messrs. Day and Son's, the litho-
graphers. The premises in which the misfortune eoar
mewed were in the joint tenure of Mr. Pendington, •
carpenter and joiner, and Msurs. Tucker and Reeves, lock
menufacturers. By 9 o'clock the fire wee extinguished, bat
not before considerable damage was done.
William Sommerville, labourer, was brought
before Sheriff Barclay, in the Sheriff Court, Perth, on
Wednesday. charged, under the Night Poaching Act, with
having shot a pheasant in a field on the property of Lord
and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby. He pleaded guilty. and
wee aentenced to :10 days' imprisoement, with bard labour,
and also to find caution for the period of one year under a
penalty of 20/., or • further imprisonment of six months,
with hard labour.

FATAL ATiIDENT.—A melancholy accident hap-
peoed at the large school belonging to the Society of Friends
at Ackworth. near Pontefract, a few days ago. A young
man named Niece, an sasistant teacher in the school, while
jumping over a pole is the gymnasium, knocked the pole
down and fell upon one end of it, which entered about six
inches into his abdomen, inflicted such injuries ae caused
the sufferer's death a few hours afterwards.
REPRIEVE OF THE DUKINFInIi MCRDERESs,—.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, having
had under his consideration the circumstances of the case
of Salome Mush, who was convicted last week at the
Chester assizes for the murder of her child at Dukinfield on
the 31st of .Inly last, and who was sentenced to death, bee
recommended the extension of the clemency of the crown
to the unhappy woman, and her sentence will therefore be
commuted to penal servitude for life.
THE. CONDEMNED CUPRITS IN STAFFORD GAoL.—•
No intimation had been received, up to Wednesday. by the
governor of the county prison as to the (ley upon which the
sentence of death pissed upon the unhappy men at the late
assizes, now confined there, will be carried into effect.
Charles [trough, whose health is rapidly declining, maintains
the same resignation exhioited by him on the trial. Hales
the Couley murderer, persists in asserting his innocence,
but pays becoming Mention to the exhortations of the
chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Vincent. The third convict, Cecilia
Baker, who has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure,
protests her innocence, but appears to be fully alive to her
awful position, and is irirnest.y attentive to her religious
duties. Although no official notice as to the day of execution
bail been received, it is expected that it will he fixed earlier
than usual, in consequence of the day on which these scenes
ordinarily take place falling upon the illy before Christina'.
THE CH•DWF.LL-HEATH MPRDER.—CONFV,sIoN
OF THE MERDERER —lmmediately after being removed to
the cells below the prisoner's apparent sullen indifference
and apathy gees way, and be appeared much affected. Ile
said to Chief Warder Clarke, " I did it, and I was sore
they would bring me in guilty—l knew I shouldn't
get over it." On being takes back to the gaol
he was placed in the condemned cell where he
is watched night and day. In the evening Captain WC.or-
eery, the governor of the gaol, with the Rev. V.. B.
Hamilton, the chaplain, had • long interview with him,
when the prison,r appeared quite • changed man ; all his
former sullenness had left him. and he seemed quits
meek and penitent. He WY very communicative as to
the crime, and said to the governor that the evidence of
the two men as to the statement he made to them in
Ilford gaol was quite true ; he did " coufees" to them, but
he could not say whether they had repeated the exact
words he used. Of the crime itself he spoke with much
apparent contrition and emotion, " I did it." He said to
the governor, " I had the thoughts on me fur months that
I must do it, and I struggled with them over and over
again, but it was no use, thee were too much for ma"
After this acknowledgment of his guilt he appeared more
easy in his mind, and .pent • nniet night. He appears to
pay the greatest attention to the ministrations of toe chap-
Lie, and seems altogether so altered man. The execution
of the unhappy man is fixed for Wednesday, the Bith lest.
—Chel nu ford Chron tele.
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ORLICT NORTH WI HORPITAL, CALIDONT AN-ROA D.
—Number of patients for the week ending Dec. 10, 000,
of which 211 were new eases.

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