The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-04 00:00:00

LORD STANLEY ON WORKMEN'S CLUBS.

THE
ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION.

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The following telegram be. been received by
Reuter's Telegram Compeny (Limited) from Yr.
A. K. Glees, msnsgtog anotor of the Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance Company :
" VALENTI*, ADMIT 3, A4O P.M.
" Same report as this morning."

ince ova lIIDDIAL 01)111/11POSIDEIT4
The words 44ause unknown" form the noel
favourable portion of the unfavourable message

from Valentin. Were the cable broken, or were

the Great Eastern at the bottom of the sea, tbil
operators at the shore end would, it is argued,
readily discover the disaster by means of the tests
at their disposal. These tests are as unceasing as
they are searching and severe. Every minute in
every hour of the 24 has its apportioned duty, and
the officials stationed at the receiving house in
Fi

Bay have been employed day and
night in testing the insulation of, or sending or
receiving currents and signals through the cable.
Thus on the discovery of the first hitch it was the
insulation which was at once known to be defective,
and it will be remembered that one of the electri-
cians on board the Great Eastern, Mr. Saunders, by
means of resistance coils and the galvanometer, was

able accurately to point to within a quarter of a

mile of the hilt. The same means are at the oom•

maud of Mr. May and his colleagues at the shore
end, and it is thus sanguinely hoped, in the absence
of specific information, that the Greet Eastern has
again discovered what is wrong, and is too busily
engaged repairing it to attend to menages, or to
said through even such signals as would be possible,
even with a partially damaged cable. Assuming
this to be the case, re-assuring news may be ex-
pected as soon as the land line between Valenti&
and Killarney is in full working ordee. In obe-
dienos to some hidden, but infallible law, the hap-
less single wire composing it was suffering yester-
day from " deflections." In other words, di-
rectly it is of paramount importance to
have speedy and constant communication between
London and Valentia, when the hopes or
fears of shareholders and the interest of the public
are thoroughly roused, it becomes impossible to send
or receive telegraphic news. This was the case at
the very commencement of the enterprise, when the
shore end was successfully laid. It was then im-

possible to send the intelligence to London until
after business hours, or in time for the evening edi-
tions of the daily papers. Subsequently, when the
first fault was found, the representatives of the press
staying at Valentin were more fortunate, and were
able to telegraph the dispiriting fact at onoe. The
next morning, however, when they heard the wel-
come news that all was right, their luck forsook
them, and that in the most provoking fashion.
Soon after 10 a.m., and within a few minutes
of two messages having been transmitted—
messages it must be said to the secretaries
of the companies and in the interests of the public
—it was endeavoured to seed similar particulars to
the office of the Express. By that time the
wire had broken down, and despite the constant
and assiduous efforts of the clerk at the Valentin
end to obtain signals from either Dublin or Kil-
larney, the telegraph could not be used until
between 6 and 7 p.m. the same day. These prece-
dents make one hope the best for the cable, and
that, as unfavourable news concerning it has been
received concurrently with the intelligence that
the land lines are out of order, all may yet be
well. It should be mentioned that the poem a
cow was, on one of the occasions referred to, accused
of upsetting, are far bigger and stronger than those
used to support a dozen times the number of wires
in England. They consist of the barked trunks of
trees firmly imbedded in the earth ; they are
neither smoothed nor painted ; and were it not for
the singular aeries of casualties to which they have
recently succumbed an ordinary obser►er would be
disposed to say that what they lose in shapeliness
they pin in strength and substantiality. It does
not make these constant breakdowns either more
intelligible or more pleasant to learn that for years
the line has worked regularly and without intermis-
sion, and that a special staff of workmen and over-
lookers are now employed to guard against contin-
gencies which h►ve only arisen since the Atlantic
cable has brought it into demand.
Even the fact of the Great Eastern being at this
time in water upwards of 2,400 fathoms deep is not
held to seriously affect her chance of recovering the
cable, and repairing any fault that may be disco-
vered. Messrs. Canning and Clifford, the chiefs of the
cable•laying staff, were strongly of opinion that the
machinery on board the Great Eastern would
suffice for this purpose, even if a hitch occurred at
the deepest part of that portion of the Atlantic they
were to cross, and the annals of submarine telegroq
furnish an enoonraging precedent to all well-wishers
of the present enterprise. With an infinitely smaller
vessel, with a less elaborately organised staff, with
inferior scientific apparatus, and less advanced
scientific knowledge, a cable has been picked up in
1,600 fathom water, the faulty part cut out, the
splice made, and the whole so satisfactorily sub-
merged as to be in working order now. Of course,
any opinions founded upon the nature or duration
of the dimater reported at this time are necessarily
speculative, but the foregoing facts are so far cheer-
ing, that they point to more than one solution of
the dilemma besides loss of the cable or failure of
the enterprise.

Our Liverpool cerrespoodent, writing yerierdey write' I
Says:
"There has been much anxiety evinced to-day, in conse-
queer of what is considered by some a mishap to the
Atlantic telegraph *able, se no intelligence has beer re-
rived from the Great Eastern from the frescos of year-
day ap to this ellerson. The later telegram posted is
the news-room today from Valencia is to the following
effect :
" 'No news has been received from the Gnat Eastern
Are yesterday morning. The insulation is imperfect.'"
"!Some Pottle who reed this will probably jamp to the
rewelumon that the cable is broken or strained. Nothing
can be more erroneous. Bo keg as there le the slighter
puntiatioa, no matter if the signals ate impeder. .0
Irreparable mishap can have taken pleat. U the
sable had been broken the merest electeician could
have at arcs detected the break. But it will be found that
the arranged currents of eleotricity have been overcome by
the sugaette deflections of the earth—that is, the artificial
onsets have been orecems by the netand ones.
Those who an capable el jadging assert that the
preset state of the sturrepben favours the impression
that nothing bat the sager° deluder of the
earth isterfere with the imitation in the cable. With
regard to the land lines of telegraph, all lest night end to-
day there ha been se mash arena electricity dying arse
r to serkery Welders with the work of the dam%
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Lord animas., M.P., spoke kat night at tit•
iseepeattes of a workmen's ball at BirkenhaelL After
Oaks( to the reald growth et the tetra, whisk fartptaer
pen ago bad tatty two handled inhabitants and .ow
peesessed warty 40,00 A, he said the phew shiest for
whist they had me was to hisagerste a pleb, or pisse of

meetlsg fer worlds( mw--s pie-Nfor books, refresbasseie.
sad medal lotarecersa He 1161heet Beteg tow me weeders
Me old liarkseyed sobject of bob*, • maa away from
the pebfirhoese. Animas were ail Madre., aid V they,
weriehig bard sod earwig( largely. shies to mood their
mosey la that way, they did as much vigil to do it se wry
one skil bad to de • Meg that use slimly feelleh.
(Chews sad laughter.) He had shear► icr his own part,
felt that It was sot fee them she led more luxurious aid
lON lawless Voss to .post harshly. What he had • right
to say *us, that so inaa ought to be drives to the piddle.
hew fee west ca say other plea, to go to. Ne seem Mal
to he famed to ge there bermes hie club and there sad
he did sot lilts le mks • eish rustic. er bermes
there VIII so Misr OBOVIIIIII•126 pleas where he esald alley
• trim* 'elk sad • cheerful are ea • said wister's sight.
Perhaps lM might he Wed, " Why deal they step at
home r It might be mid is reply lot Ms of Me Miler
elms, bawl* mere time et their disposal and mom aim
&rabbit bow* did set make it a sirens/ Ms as piim Mak
reship 01111 their wives sad Andres. (Hem beer.) He
did ad wish to illytialk of that dos, which he me boned to
speak CI as is wahaimate me—those who lived la lodgings,
sad she sheltered Moir heft whenever they pat as their

hats. (zmagbiar.) DM ambit iatorourse was as aumaary
to man as food or hub air. A sari in sot laad a healthy
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life Wisest it, sad therefore whatever enabled him to
enjoy that Interwar's to the most estiefeetory manner wee
• Unseat to him Intellecteally and movally. (Cheers.) He
(the noble lord) thoeght, therefore, that Ouse of muting
like this, which were meant to be real stubs or plllO6l for the
meeting of clue, sad out schools or institutes in
disguise—though of souses both schools sad WOW'e were
very good things le their way—places where talk, aid
newspapers, and refelehment might be had, with sue-
ray spied disturbance from drinkers or disorderly pursue,
oeght to Wet, sad be believed shortly would exist, ie
every great town, and in very may of the little towns is
England. (Chum) There were wend good mews why
those en the barb of the Mersey should be moot the first
to see the example with these hietieetleas. Is the fine
due It was sot their habit to leg behind when
wades useful was vendee. Is the next place,
la lime districts there was more messy swept
the Wien and waddle( dam than saywhere else, except
perhaps is lianeheater end Leaden. A third mace was
that there were very few parts of the wintry when the out-
door wear of Ware were lees agreeable thsa they were
in the immediate neighbourhood of Liverpool, aid hence
i they should endeavour to mho onapeneatien se far es they
I sonld by providing In icor comforts sad seinseumat• If
tsamweek* were asked what esourity they had that am Je-
of this Mad would beetapported, his answer wee
limy confidently believed that it would be sot
only Swaged, bet ales to a great extort oweed,
by thaw for whom benefit It bed been eatabliebed.
(Chew) For this purpose the diens had been mode of
very mail meant, is ceder to Mime mama to bums
holders of them. By a stretch of liberality which appeared to
him we extreme, preferential aduateges bad bees given
to holden of to more than two or three Awe over thou
biddies a larger member, so that the former slue were at
lead sure of ardent If this Blab did not receive the sapped
whisk was expected it would arise from a mat of power In
the worldsg mu tokeepitgoleg. (Hear, hear.) There wee
• fallacy or mental winks dies produed by that lode-
dale term, the wartime slam. People were apt whet the
pluses was menaced to thick of the labourers la turd
districts, whose weekly ursine lately naked to meet
their weekly meta ; but In need sit tell them that the
skilled adieu is Leasiehire wee set only above the reach
of disemee--meept wader extrema/2w and ezeeptioul
cireumstsaces, but that he was better off as far as mosey
went thee very may amorist these educated uses
who embarked sum the hoowarsble perils of prolessiosel
life. (Cheers.) The rate of wages in the asighbourbeed
averaged from 701. to 1001. • yeer' ad if • skilled erases
me employed by pleayon,
work he wild ecieinumil a owl.
Wady higher rate. Now, he did eel think he abeeki be
told that men earning Wee wades were wet alga to support
• dab. Yoked, he saw we reason why • large proportion
should not live In their owe freehold bow. (Cheers.) Hs
had always looked epos du *hip as going ture-
ther—the cheep school end the Wallas (whisk
was only the school esellased), the cheap huh
and newspaper, the whip beak sod the bureau
office ( which was soother fern of the saner leek), the
dab, and the freehold how. Three of than they bad
already. The two Were they might have if they chose to
provide Wm for themselves. Speaking in the Merest of
W e employer, be was sot sheid that • mu would work ens
bit the wow for feeling himself is • mare astbfeatory pc.
sitioo. (Hear, bear.) As to Independence, Wady was
independent except the savage. (Applause.) We
all depended nue cue another—the poor nos
the rich, the doh epos the poor. Civilised society
could not Wet otherwise ; bet he believed that
every *Midas and feeling employer Wired these who
worked ender blot to be iadepeadeut in the true sues, W.,
to feel that they were above the ensure of immediate die-
' tress, and ant liable to the caprice or dictation of any mingle
ledivideal. (Loud applause.) The more • feeling el
self-respect and independence is that MINI WO
cultivated amemest snotworlds, thaws tb•
would be the proud, more difiloult would Me
th
future relations bateau them sad their emplopeoe.
(Chew) Is comelweice, the sobie lord wished wary pese.
privity to the amiertakieg, sod weaved a confident bops
in the meows at egos who Utley+ their money, their time,
and their energies to its promotion. (Loud cheese.)
After worst eddremes from working ma,
Mr. LAM. ILP., moved • veto of thanks to Lord
Staley, to Karl Groevuor, and to Lead Richard Groseence,
lefiraPhF who bristly replied.