The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-18 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

HERTFORDSHIRE.

The revision of the lists for this county corn-
minced at Watford on Monday. Mr. Boutems, the secre-
tary of the Reform Registration Societe, attended for the
liberal parsy ; and Mr. Sworder, of 'Bert:awl, with Mr.
l'smingham, thireceretary M the Protectionist Society, for
the tones.
On the claim of Edmund llowe, in the Abbotte Langley
list being objected to by the liberals, Mr. Sworder con-
tested the validity of the notice, on the ground that it was
dated on a Sunday, arguing that as it was the commence-
ment of siege! process, and as the notice was signed by Mr.
Bontenu, in the exercise of his profession or calling, the
dating on the Sunday rendered it invalid.
Mr. Bontems denied that he had dated the notice in the
exercise of any profession or calling—asserting that he had
simply exercised a right given hira by acts of parliament,
which prescribed no particular days on which the respectise
notices should be either dated, signed, or served. Ile
further referred. to the case, of " Rawlins and tire Over-
seen of Wc,t Derby," and •• Colville and the Town Clerk
of Rochester," to .;how that the Court of Common Pleas
had derided that notices might be actually served upon the
parties on a Sunday, and therefore of course might be dated
and signed on that day.
The Revising Barrister did not think there was anything
in the objection. The statute expres,ly required that the
overseen should publish their notices of objection on a
Senday, therefore he did not consider that other parties
could be precluded from doing it. lie should therefore
decide the notice to be good.
The name way then struck of the list.
In the parish of Aldenham the names of Robert lull and
Francis Curwen Sundt were struck off by the liberals, on
the ground that the rent-charges fur which they claimed
could nut be proved to be good.
In the same parish, and also in the parish of Bushey, the
claim of Mr. J. W. P. Watlington was expunged by the
liberals, on the ground that the claim had been signet and
sent in by the steward of Mr. Wallington, and without Mr.
Watlington's name even appearing upon it.
The name of Mr. 'l'. . l'ow les was also struck uff, he
having claimed for a "leasehold farm," he being only en
"occupier" under a lease.
In the parish of Watford James Broad was objected to by
the tories, and Mr. llontems contended that the notice was
bad, on the groond that it bad not been addressed to the
claimant at his place of abode "as described on the regis-
ter," the wont " London" being added.
Mr. Sworder contended that the objector was at liberty
to add to the address, in order to make it plainer, and more
likely to reach the party.
Tin: Barrister said he thoullit so too. If the a Ilition
was likely to prejudice the claiinant he should not ad w it,
' but in thee case it did not.
Mr. llontune wiled the barrister to consider whether
• he would grant an appeal on the point, which he promised
to do, and Mr. Bontwas gave the required notice.
The following is the result of the day's revision:
Liberal gain—Claisus
objectior slt-5S
Tory gain—Claims ',
Objections l7-40

Majority for liberals

THE GREAT CABLE FOR THE TELEGRAPH
BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

Yesterday the great cable 21 miles long, and de-
stined, when sunk hetween Dover and Calais, to form the
key fur electric communication and correspondence between
this country and the European continent, was completed
at the works of the Submarine Telegraph Company, Wap-
ping, the last coil being securely circumflexed at anout four
o'clock. The occasion furnished an interesting opportunity
for observing the rather novel and noticeable processea em-
ployed in the fabrication of this newly devised agency for
international communication as worked out through the
medium of gutta percha and the wire rope machine. Enter•
ing the factory, situated in the lligh-street, and which
though a per:Cct p indemonium of tar, and smoke
and steam, has been visited by a number of
distinguished individuals, there are two well-constructed
wire-rope machine., each about 20 feet hith and 15 in cir-
cumference, representing a large iron framework in the
form of a cupola, with a shaft or cylinder in the centre,
worked by a steam-engine of five-horse power. Obedient
to the ringing of a bell, a concourse of workmen front the
wire-rope works of Messrs. Newall, at Gateshead, took their
places round one of the machines employed in the first pro-
cess. The machine, the action of which is vertical, being
set in motion by the steam-engine, the first, or interior por-
tion of which the composite cable consists, was payed out
on to the shaft. This first layer is composed of four electric
copper wires, known as the 16 wire gauge, each encased iu
a covering of gutta pereha of a quarter of an inch in
, diameter. Those, placed in the machine, and with
I the assistance of the manipulators, are twisted and
plaited in spiral convolutions 'n the manner of an
1 an ordinary rope or cable round the shaft. The next super-
incumbent coil to this consisted of hempen yarn previously
saturated in a reservoir of prepared pitch and tallow, and
in its tura is tight twisted and compressed, impermeably
and by steam power, over the gutta percha, with its
inclosed copper wires. This is overlaid again with a series
of hempen yarns, five or six in number, and about an inch
in diameter, saturated in the pitch and tallow, with the
view of what the workmen call " worming " the gutta
percha. The pat,' percha thus protects the delicate wire,
and the hempen yarn, in addition, acts no a cementitious
material to the more perishable gutta percha, which ulti-
mately has thrown over it a coat of mail of galvanised
wire. This completes the first process, and the
manufacture of the rope in the spiral form is for tie
purpose of giving flexibility. The second process consists
in hauling off the cable so far completed, and pissing it, in
another compartment of the factory, on to another wire
rer machine, where the cord is completed, covered over
with ten galvanised iron wires, each wire being about the
thickness of a lead pencil, and known as No. 1 galvanised
wire gauge. This galvaithed iron sheathiut is to protect
sad preserve the interior layers from the action of the sea,
and the weight is considered to be sufficient to sink the
cable es necessitate gracitatis. The appearance of the
cable thus completely encased in a shining coat of gal-
vanised iron, and divested of tar and dirt, gives it quite a
silvery appearance. The coil thus completed is drawn off
ties machine and draughted out by the men, as sailors
haul rope, into the factory yard, where it now
remains rolled up into a circle, some five feet
in h=t, and twenty feet in circumference, re-
g a dead weight of 2® tons. In order to test
ges
sempleteness, 51r.C. J.Wollaston, the engineer who con-
ducted the experiments last year, and who, in conjunction
with Mr. T. It. Crampton, has the carrying out of the en-
gineering arrangements, tired a fusee, through the 24
miles of electric cable, from one of the batteries in the
building. A steamer has been placed at the disposal of
the promoters of the undertaking by her Majesty's go-
cerement to convey the cable to Dover. The gutta
percha wires have been prepared by the Gotta Perch'
Company in the most perfect style of insulation, and the
whole of the one hundred miles of intended communication
represented by the four wires of twenty-four miles
soak have been tested, and their integrity been found
true by Mr. Wollaston, in the itegent's Canal. The ma-
nufacture of the cable has now been in hand three
the men working night and day ; and it is hap=
expected that the contrivance will accomplish an sawn.
able end.
Few persons are aware of the international value and
oommercial advantage of completing this last link, the want 1
of which at present detaches disadvantageously this country
bons so many of her European allies, and her own import-
4flit pearrions and dependencies, and probably this could
MS Mein stronger illustration than is contained in the re-
pomatation of the fact, that when the sob-marine telegraph
war the English channel is a thing accomplished, there
will ho uninterrupted telegraphic communication between
England and all the following principal cities and towns of
the European Continent to which the telegraph is now com-
pleted:—Canis, Paris, Lille, Brussels, Antwerp, Ostend,
Liege, Cologne, Hanover, Brunswick, Berlin, Frankfort,
Leipzie, Dresden, Prague. Breslau, Stettin, Craerow,
Vienna, (Trieste, 1,450 miles departure port for India),
Venice, Milan, and by the end of the month to Turin and
_,, I Genoa.
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FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY,

Yesterday a public meeting of the subscribers and
friends of the above society took place on the recently ac-
quired land situated near Coekshot-hill, adjoining the scat
of Lord Somers, at Reigate. The object was to take formal
possession of the estate, which consists of 21 acres of land,
purchased for the sum of 3,6001. It is expected that it will
make about 120 ellottmeats, entitling each allottee to a vote
for the borough, or the eastern division of Surrey. The
South Eastern Railway Company liberally placed at the
disposal of the society a special train at the ordina_ry fares.
The chair was taken by JAMES WYLD, Esq., M.P., one
of the vice-presidents. A largo marquee was erected on
the ground, where tea was provided for the company,
which being more numerous than was expected, tho meet-
ing was addressed by the speakers from a platform erected
outside the tent. Among the company were the following
gentlemen : Captain Parrett, Mr. R. Kettle, Mr. James
Taylor, of Birmingham, Mr. G. Edgar, Mr. Downes, and
Mr Haggett, the secretary ; Mr. Wells, the solicitor to the
St. Pancras Freehold Land Society, C. Pearson, Esq., A.
Jermayn, C.E., and several members of the committee.
Several gentlemen having addressed the meeting,
A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

DEATH OF THE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF !tsr EDI-
CINI AT OXFORD.—Died yesterday (Sept. 17kolLts his resi-
dence, St. Oiles's-street, Oxford, after a few ' illness,
John Kidd, M.D., of Christ Church, Regius Profiteer of
Me.licine, Tomline's erselector of Anatomy, Aldrichian
Professor of Anatomy, and Radcliffe 's Librarian. Dr. Kidd
was highly esteemed and respected, both in the University
and city of Oxford. In 1800, being then a student of Christ
Church, Dr. Kidd took the degree of M.A. ; in 1801 that
of Bachelor of Medicine; and in 1804 he proceeded to the
degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1822 Dr. Kidd succeeded
Sir Christopher Pegge, Dart., In the once of Regius Pro-
fessor of Medicine, to which is annexed Tomline's Praelee-
torship of Anatom and the Aldrichian Professorship of
y Anatomy ; and is 1834 he succeeded Dr. Williams as Rad-
c:ilfe's Librarian. The election of a successor to the latter
office rests with the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
Chancellor, the Chancellor of the University, the Bishops
of London and Winchester the two principal Secretaries
Of State, the two Chief Justices, and the Master of the
Rolls.