The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-17 00:00:00

G, AUGUST

ARRIVAL OF THE
EASTERN AT CROOK
RESULT OF THE AT
TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION.

N.

(arum's TZLNAAIL )
OROOKRAViaI, Amon 17.
The Great Eastern arrived off here this morning,
and furnishes the following particulars of the
operations for laying the Atlantic telegraph cable,
which, it will be seen, have failed :
The Great Eastern sailed from Valentia, after
making the splice with the shore end on the 23rd
July, and continued on her voyage to lat. 5L25,
long. 39.6, being 1,063 miles from Valentin and
600 miles from Heart's Content, Trinity Bay, New-
foundland. She had then paid out 1,212 miles
of cable, when it parted, on the 2nd August,
at 12.35 p.m., in soundings of 3,900 yards, under
the following circumstances :—A partial loss of in-
sulation having been discovered, the Greet Eastern
was stopped to recover that portion of the cable in
♦hich the fault lay, electrical tests placing it pro-
bably within six miles. The cable was passed from
the stern to the bow of the ship for this
purpose, and, after getting in two miles
of cable, the fault being still overboard, the cable I
broke about 10 yards in board of the wheel at the
beer, having been injured by chafing on the
stern of the ship. Two previous faults had
been discovered, the first in soundings of about
4,000 yards and the second in about 4,100
yards, and had been successfully recovered
and made good ; in the first case ten
I miles, and in the second two miles and'
a half, of cable were hauled in. After the
able parted a grapnel with two and
a half nautical miles of rope was lowered
I down, the ship being placed so as to drift
I over the line of cable. The cable was hooked on
the 3rd, and when 2,200 yards of the rope had been
I hauled in, a swivel in the latter gave way, and
12,800 yards of rope were lost, the cable having
been lifted 1,200 yards from the bottom.
On the 4th a buoy, with a slag and ball, was
moored with 500 yards of rope, to mark the place.
It is in lat. 51.35, long. 38.42.30. From the 4th fogs
and adverse winds prevented a further attempt
until the 7th, which was then made nearer the
sad of the cable, and was sinsucoesaful from
the same cause when the cable had been lifted
about 1,000 yards. Another buoy was here
placed in let. 51.28.30, long. 38.56.9.
A third attempt was made on the 10th, which
failed on account of the grapnel chain having
fouled the flukes of the grapnel. The grapnel
said last 800 yards of rope came up covered
with ooze. A fourth attempt was made
on the 11th, at 3 p.m., which also failed through
the breaking of the grapnel rope, when the cable
had been raised 600 yards from the bottom.
The stock of rope having now become exhausted,
it became absolutely necessary to proceed to Eng-
land for more and stronger tackle.
The practical conclusions unanimously arrived at
by those engaged in various capacities in the expe-
dition are as follow :
1. That the steam ship Great Eastern, from her
size and consequent steadinww, together with the
better control obtained over her by having both
puddles and screw, render it possible and safe to
lay an-Atlantic telegraph cable in any weather.
2. That the paying-out machinery, constructed
for the purpose by Messrs. B. Canning and Clif-
ford, worked perfectly and can be confidently
relied on.
3. That the insulation of the gutta percha covered
conductor improved when submerged to more than
double what it had been before starting, and has
proved itself to be the beet insulated cable ever
manufactured, and many times higher than the
standard required by the contract. The cause
of the two faults which were recovered was
in each case a perforation of the gutta percha
through to the proper conductor by a piece of
iron wire found sticking in the cable. Elec-
trically the third fault was analogous to the first.
The difficulty may be provided against in
future.

4. That nothing has clammed to create the
least doubt in the minds of those engaged in the
expedition of the practicability of a sue-
ceseful laying and working of an Atlantic
cable, but, on the contrary, their confidence has
been largely increased by the experience obtained
on this voyage.

5. That were the Great Eastern steamship sup-
plied with sufficiently strong tackle and hauling-
fn machinery for depths of 4,000 to 5,000
yards, there is little or no doabt of the pos-
lsibility of recovering the lost end of the cable, and
llcompleting the line, already about two-thirds laid.
The Great Eastern proceeds direct to Sheerness.
All well on board.
She reports having parted company with H.IL S.
Sphyux a few days after starting.
The weather was for the most part very calm,
but often foggy and rainy. A stiff breeze
blew on two days, but although the sea
washed over the Terrible, scarcely any motion
was observable on board the Great
Eastern, her greatest roll being 7} degrees
and her greatest pitching 1 to 1/ de-
L grees. The cable paid out beautifully,
and owing to its diameter and lightness
the strain required to prevent the too rapid egress
never exceeded 14 cwt. lts angle with the horizon
duringthe paying out rarely exceeded 91 degrees. No
difficulty whatever was experienced in
mooring the buoys in the deepest water,
two having been left behind moored with
pieces of cable that had been picked up from a depth
of two miles. One of them rode out a stiff summer gale
its position after nine days being unchanged. Cap-
tain Moriarty's chrouoineters found the true posi-
tion of the ship to within a fraction of a mile.
The Terrible has sailed for Newfoundland to coal.

OFFICIAL TBLIGRAM FROM MB,. VARLET.
Mr. George Seward, Secretary and General
Superintendent of the Atlantic Telegraph Com-
pany, has forwarded to tut this afternoon the fol-