The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-22 00:00:00

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THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

Captain Anderson; Mr. Canning, the engineer in
chief ; Mr. Clifford, the mechanical engineer ; Mr.
de Santy, the electrioian of the Telegraph Construc-
tion Company ; and Mr. Cromwell Varley, the
Atlantic Company's electrician, met the directors
of the Companies interested in the Atlantic tele-
graph yesterday. We are informed that those
present were unanimous in their determination to
defer the next cable-laying enterprise until May,
1866, and in their resolve to prosecute the enter-
prise with all possible vigour.
This year Captain Anderson named June, and
was not able to get away until July ; so, if it be
safe to judge by analogy, June, 1866, will be, tittle"
latest, the time when the Great Eastern will again
proceed on her eventful mission. The delay is, it
is said, due entirely to the condition of the great ship,
and so little were the directors and officers of the
Telegraph Comet-mei= Company prepared for it,
that up to Friday evening last it was considered
certain that they would be able to despatch her for
the second time within • few weeks of her return.
Arrangements were being made, and the strength of
ropes for grappling being gauged and estimated,
when it was learnt on Saturday that the condition
of the Great Eastern imperatively called for repair.
For the rest, the conclusions arrived at by the two
boards seem to have been precisely anticipated
in our impression of yesterday. It is consi-
dered most advisable that another cable should
be made and sent out ; little or no stress is laid
upon the question raised as to whether the faults
were accidental or otherwise ; and the judgment
and skill of all the people concerned are to be con-
centrated upon the means of rendering the occur-
rence of these flaws of little consequence for the fu-
ture. Thus, hauling-in machinery is to be placed
at the stern as well as at the forepart of the vessel,
and an adequate supply of the strongest and most
efficient mechanism for recovering will be laid in.
The possibility of bringing up a cable from a
depth of two miles is the novel experience
gained, and care will be taken to have the know-
ledge properly utilised. While on this subject it
is desirable to repeat that the wire and hemp buoy
rope used on the last voyage never failed. The words
used in our Special Correspondent's letter, " tested
breaking strain of 11 tons," and the "failure at a
strain of 75 cwt.," did not apply to the wire awl
hemp rope itself, but to the swivels stationed at
every hundred yards to prevent its twisting.
If the present intentions of the two Companies be
fulfilled, a second cable will be sent out in the Great
Eastern when she goes to recover the first, and this
cable will be—with the exception, perhaps, of •
slight addition to its outer covering, which would
not increase its specific gravity—of the same cha-
racter as the last. Whatever may be the present
opinions of the outside public, those immediately
interested have no notion of flinching, and speak es
calmly of the ultimate uses of the line now lying
broken in the sea as if it were in active work, and
communication had been triumphantly established
between the Old World and the blew.
We have received the following from Mr. Seward,
the Secretary to the Atlantic Telegraph Company :
The several boards of the companies interested in the At-
lantic Telegraph cable held meetings this day (August 21) to
wander their position aide• the temporary disappointment
which has ociurred. Of coarse at so short a noCce no
specific course has been definitely settled ; but we are at
liberty to state that a spirit of the utmost conedeoce in the
realization of a greet success darn; the spring of next year
prevailed in every quarter. The necessary overhauling of
the Great Eanters's boilers, the coostruction of new hauling-
pa gear, the manufacture of new rope, and other work
would, it is found, occupy too much time to allow of
seethe, espedition being sent to sea this year with a °n-
inety of senses, but sot the slightest doubt exists as to
!Waling, with the greatest precisioo, the position of the
broken mad by solar obser►ation ; or of raising and repairing
it with proper apparatus in May or June next.
The several companies are animated by the single prin-
ciple of determination to perfect the telegraphic communi-
cation between Europe and America, and are acting in per-
fect harmony.
Immediate and energetie action will be taken to not only
complete duriog next spring the laying of the present cable,
which recent experience has proved to be perfectly practi-
cable, bet to submerge another by its site, it being the
unanimous opinion of the directPrs of the Construction
Company and of those of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
th►t economy and permanent efficiency will he most
secure►y attained by preparing immediately to lay a sewed
cable simultaaeously with the completion of the first.

BRIGANDAGE IN SOUTHERN ITALY.

The following extract from a private letter from
Naples has been placed in our hands for publication :
" I do not kiww whether the Florentines are more con-
tented than usual, but in Naples disooutent prevails. The
scourge of the brigandage has been really terrible this
summer, and the authorities seem powerless to suppress it.
The affair of poor Mr. Moses has plaited it in a startling
point of view. Fancy a considerable Italian force actually
surrounding the brigands, an English man-of-war on the
coast, au English consul on the spot, and nothing done.
The brigands °bangs one ioaccessible haunt for another, and
laugh at their pursuers. The chief of the baud which cap-
tured Mr. Mows hex been taken, but the rest routines th eir
depredations; at present, indeed, they aro herd premed by
the Italian troops, and find it difficult to live. A letter
from Mr. Moses has reached his friend hers, in which he
states that the brigands now find it difficult to pro-
cure food. His strength is Bulldog rapidly under the pri-
vations he is obliged to endure ; he is no longer able to
walk, and the brigands, in their forced marches, ate obliged
to carry him from place to place. Poor man ! Perhaps if
ha ever escapes their hands, it will only be to die in his bed,
for it appears he was far from strong at the period of his
capture, and had come to Italy for the borsht of his health.
I have heard that the country about Salerno is a desert.
Nearly all the principal proprietors in the neighbourhood
have been airested on woofs of their complicity in aiding
and abetting the brigandage. Arms and ammunition for use
of the brigands were found secreted in a monastery close to
Salerno. In coosequenos of these discoveries rigorous
measures have been put into execution, to the inevitable in-
jury and almost ruin of the population. The peasants are
not allowed to take their goats to the mountains.
sad the creatures die for want of their pasture.
The peasants of she plains must obtain a police pus before
they are allowed to 10 to their agricultural labours. The
fruit trees near the mountains have been cut down, sod
every means adopted to out off supplies from the brigands,
who are thus bunted like wild beasts, but neither tracked
nor taken. It is a terrible state of things, and when one
redacts that these miscreants are blessed by the Pope,
pail by the Bourbons, and tolerated by Napoleon 111., it
is imporilible not to blush with shame that snob trauma-
tious can take place in the age in which we live, and in
civilised Europe:*

GARIBALDI AND HIS VISMOBIL —The MOVillieMO,
of Genoa, publishes the following from Garibaldi
" August 4.—My dear Barili,—Would you do me
the kindness to gate publicly that I do not like to receive
visite.—Ever yet" O. GAIIIIALDL. We comprehend the
poorer. wish. He evidently exciepts the intimate friends
who hove to confer with him for particular retains. The
fortune of the general, who has only the produce of his
! island to support himself and his family, does sot permit
biro to receive summons waiters. The genera has nothing
sepufluous to sped"