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

(From the Times.)

The only intelligence from Valentin yesterday
was a simple repetition of the messages which of late have
caused so much despondency among all interested in the
success of this great enterprise. The tests still show as
completely as before that the rope is parted at between
1,230 and 1,2.50 miles from land. The earth corrects
amain back through it now are regular and strong,
though still no mention is made of battery currents.
No news now of any kind celzulated to explain with
any certainty the cause of the mishap is looked for till
the Great Eastern bared( returns. She is expected off
Valentin or Cape Clear to-morrow night or Thursday
morning at latest. A rumour wee very generally current
yesterday that the breakage had been caused by the failure
'of one of the cable talks. As a matter of course, in the
'beano* of any oomoluoication from the Great Eastern, such
a way of amounting for the loss is one of the idlest
of idle rumours. If the tanks were ever likely
to have given way, it was on the voyage round to
Valenta, when they bad their greatest weights of
cable sad water is them, and whoa their strength
was fairly tried by rather rough summer weather. When
the Great Eastern rolled, the pop:heron shoring, which
supported the tanks from the main deck to the bottom of
the ship did certainly creak and straits criciaderably, but
when, on the contrary, the vessel was pitchiug slightly
they werem *mimetic, as part of the tanks themselves. It
is not likely, then, that any of the tucks would
yield when relieved of more than half their
weight of cable and more this half their weights of
water. Another theory pet forward is that the
engines of the Groat Eastern may have broken down—a
conjecture which is ineuitely more probable than that any.
thing went wrong with the tusks. Both, however, are
mere conjectures, and the ooly thing which can be takes as
certain is that the cable is broken. We believe, as we said
from the first, that when the Great Eastern rehires it will
be found that the fault was paid oat some 10 or 12 miles
before it was discovered on board the sh;p, and that is the
effort to haul it back sad repair it the cable was broken
and het ou Wednesday aftertioon or Thursday morning.

KEEP Coos. —We beg the people of Canada not
to get unduly exalted about the subject of annexatioo—or
rather about our desire to mines their unitary to the
Union. We do not know anybody on this aide of the limes
who gives a thought to this matter: sod we are sure there
is sot an Americas who, .miler any circumstances, desires to
force them to become a part of the United States.
It seems that Mr. Porter's speech at the Detroit
commercial convention hes given them an undue
idea of their importawe to us, end an undue esti-
mate of our anxiety to woo sod win them. They are
proteeting, through their papers and otherwise, that they
don't desire anoszatloo ; that they won't bs snoozed ; that
they are loyal to the Queen, and eatiafied with their insti-
tutions ; that they dread democratic rule, and are opialbd
at our national debt ; that they are happy as clams with
the prompt condition of thiege, end would he wretched as
roasting clams under any other oonditioo. MI es have to
say is, " all right!' Be not excited. We will not, sod
would not, snots you. We should not, in fact, know that
melt • thin* was ever thought of by snybody, if we did not
from time to tints learn of it from the Canadian papers.—
New York nous: