The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-14 00:00:00

THE SUB-MARINE TELEGRAPH.

Yesterday the success of this important and in-
teresting undertaking, was again demonstrated by a variety
of experiments, which were performed at Dover under
the superintendence of Mr. Station', of the Cutts Percha
Works, Wharf-road. City-road, and Mr. Cratupton and
Mr. Wollaston, engineers to the Electric Telegraph Com-
pany ; Lord Do Manley, Sir James Carmichael, Mr. Camp-
bell, snlicitor to the company, and many other gentlemen
who left Lotalon for the purpose of being present on
the occasion. The event created much excitement in
the town, and a large number of the inhabitants assembled
on the beach to witness the operations. On former occasions
during the last few weeks, telegraphic communications have
been transmitted to Paris by means of the submarine telegraph
from the Saudi Foreland, about 1 miles from Dover, and
the success of the undertaking has been already amply de-
monstrated. It however remained for those who hive em-
barked in the undertaking, and to whose exertions tho
public are indebted for all that has been done, to complete
their work by proving the facilities for communicating be-
tween Dover and Calais. The object of the proceedings of
yesterday was to establish the principle of submarine com-
munication in its fullest integrity, by " opening- the tele-
graph to the public, who have now the satisfaction of know-
ing that they can transmit messages, in the space of a few
minutes, direct from London to Park On the pre-
sent occasion the opening and the closing prices of the Paris
bourse were transmitted to the stock Exchange in Lon-
don during business hours! To add to the interest
which attached to the proceedings of the day, several guns
were fired through the medium of electricity. These guns
were placed on the cliffs, or on the sea-shore, and the signal
being given from Dover, the electric spark was communi-
cated from Calais, and the report on this side the channel
was instantaneous.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington being at Dover, in
attendance at the sessions, was saluted on his leaving the
town by a discharge from a 32-pounder placed in the east
bastion of the Castle, the electric spark by which it was
fired being sent across the Channel, trout batteries at Calais.
under the superintendence of Mr. Brunton, chemist to tho

Gum Perehe Company.
' In the evening a banquet took place in celebration of
this complete junction of England and If:MCC through tho
medium of a submarine electric telegraph.

Yesterday the news of the division on the Electoral Law
in the French Chamber reached the Daily Neer, Office,
Whitefriars, London, from Paris, in less than an hour and
a half.

We are requested to state that the assertion in the
Tablet, which has since been copied into other papers, that
Lady Rokewoode Gage, daughter of Mr. Henry Drum-
mond, M.P., and Lady Harriet Drunamoud, has joined the
Roman church, is entirely false.—Daily Asrws.
PREMIUMS GIVEN BY THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL
ENGINEEILS.—The council of this institution have awarded
the following premiums :—A Telford Medal, in silver, to
Samuel Clegg, Jun., M. Inst. C. E., for his paper " On
Foundations, Natural and Artificial." A Telford Medal,
in silver, to Matthew Digby Wyatt, Assoc. Inst. C. E., for
his paper "On the Construction of the Building for thu
Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1841."
A Telford Medal, in silver. to Henry Swinburne, for his
paper, " Account of the Sea Walls at Penmen Mawr, on
the Lino of the Chester and Holyhead Railway." A Tel-
ford Medal, in silver, to George Barclay Bruce, M. last.
C. E., for his paper, " Description of the Bridge built over
the river Tweed, on the Line of the York, Newcastle, and
Berwick Railway." A Telford Medal, in silver, to John
Hughes, Assoc. Inst. C. E., for his paper "On the
Pneumatic Method adopted in constructing the Founda-
tions of the New Bridge across the Medway, at Rochester."
A Telford Medal, in silver, to William Price Struve, M. lust.
C.E., fur his paper " On the Ventilation of Collieries, theo-
retically and practically considered." A Telford Medal, in
silver, to Alfred Vincent Newton, for his paper " Ast In-
quiry into the nature of Patent Law l'rotection, with •
view to the better appreciation and security of tho Inven-
tor's rights." A Council Premium of Books, suitably bound
and inscribed, to Joseph Glynn, M. Inst. C.E., for his paper
On the Isthmus of Suez, and the Canals of Egypt." A
Council Premium of BOOM, suitably bound and inscribed,
to Thomas Evans Blackwell, M. Inst. C.E., for his paper
" Results of a series of Practical Experiments on the Dis-
charge of Water by Overalls." A Council Premium of
Books, suitably bound and inscribed, to James Leslie, M.
Inst. C.E., for his paper " Proposal for a mode of Computa-
tion, whereby Floodwater may be excluded from a set of
Gaugings." A Council Premium of Books, suitably bound
and inscribed, to Henry Carr, Assoc. Inst. C.E., for the
drawings illustrating his paper Description of two Bridges
over the River Don and Canal, &c., at Spotborough, near
Doncaster." The society have issued a list of forty subjects
for which they offer premiums.
PROSECUTION FOR VENDING SPURIOUS TEA.—A
series of prosecutions have lately taken place in the provin-
cial districts against vendors of spurious tea. John Ballan-
tine, a grocer at Northampton, was fined by the boroughs
magistrates in the sum of 61d1. for having in his possession
122 lbs. of imitation tea leaves. They adjudged one-half of
the fine to go to the parties who made the seizure, and the
other half to the poor of the parish. In default of payment
to be imprisoned for 12 months with hard labour.—Ara-
strong and Britten, tea dealers of the same town, pleaded
guilty to the possession of Si lbs. of similar rubbish, and
were fined 401., or six months' imprisonment. The money
to be apportioned in a similar manner.
EXAMINATIONS IN L.SW.—Yesterday being the day
appointed for the examination for Michaelmas term of can-
didates for admission as attorneys and solicitors in the supe-
rior Courts of Record in Westminster-hall, 120 gentlemen
attended in the great hall of the Law Institution in Chen-
ccry- lane, and underwent an examination in the five
several practical branches of the profession, namely, ors-
mon law, equity, conveyancing, bankruptcy, and criminal
law. The examiners on this occasion were Mr. Methold,
I one of the masters in the Court of Common Pleas, Mr.
t Tooke, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Palmer, and Mr. Young.

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