The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-31 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

The following telegram has been received by
Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited), at 5.65
p.m. July 30, from Mr. R. A. Glass,
director of the Telegraph Construction anmdanMain-
tenance Company Limited
VALENTIA, JULY 30.

The annexed despatch will explain the absence
of intelligence frees the United States and
Canada, and the delay in the transmission of
messages to places west of Newfoundland. The
public will be glad to know that the obstruction is
only temporary, and likely to be removed in the
course of the present week. The Atlantic cable i
works with great perfection, the communication is
' rapid and distinct, at Si words or about 34
letters per minute :—" Cyrus Field, Newfoundland, '
to Stewart and Glass, Valentin.—Many thanks for
your congratulations. On our arrival here I learnt
with much regret that Mr. Mackay had not been
able, with the appliances he had, to repair the cable
across. 1 at once chartered the steamer Blood-
hound, and she is now alongside the Medway,
taking in cable grapnels, .Cc., and leaves to-night,
Sunday. We hope to get the cable repaired this
week. I have chartered the steamer Dauntless to
carry the messages across until cable repaired, and
she left for her destination this morning, and will
be there on Monday night."

BERKSHIRE VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT. —The
annual encampment of the Royal Berks Rifle Volunteers
commenced yesterday at Streatley, about eight miles from
the town of Reading. The site of the camp is about one
mile from the Goring-station, on the Great Western Rail-
way. It is a sloping piece of ground running down from
the Reading road to the edge of the river Thames. There
are six lines of tents, and 12 tents in each line, besides
tents for the officers, staff, constabulary, &a. The weather
was brilliant, and the different corps marched into camp
with great cheerfulner throughout the morning. The
Ist Berke (Reading) went down by a steam barge (the
Experiment), the Newbury name acmes the country
in vehicles, end the corm from 'Windsor, Maiden-
head, Wallingford, and other places, arrived b train,
Boon after their reaching the ground the volunteers
set heartily to work in putting their tents in order, and in
a short space of time the camp was a scene of great anima-
tion. In the afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the men selected to
shoot for the prizes marched from the amp, beaded by the
Reading band, and commanded by Colonel Loyd Lindsay,
M.P., to the Downs, and shooting commenced at short
angers The shooting for the regimental prizes will continue
until this afternoon', and on Wednesday other prizes will
be shot for. Thursday will be occupied by athletic sports
and boating, and in the evening there will be a grand dis-
tof fireworks.as The colonel h made arrangements for a
on the same evening, to which not only the officers but I Rittl.w.tv Bru,a. —The number of railway bills
the privates will have an opportunity of inviting their which will receive the royal assent this year is calculated
friends. The battalion will be inspected on Friday by at 227, as compared with 276 in 1865, 289 in 1864, 150 in
Colonel Colville, Assistant-Inspector of Volunteers, after 1863, and 150 in 1862. The number of railway bills
which the whole regiment will dine together, and then the this year wsa 417, as compared with 406 in 1865, 13111
encampment will terminate. 1864, 2ZB in 180, and 230 in 1862. The n mber of Ms
THE OPENING 07 THE RAILWAY TO VENTNOE.— withdrawn or rejected this year will thus beu 190, as °Dm-
The
ionvoxpectod
opening this line from shookiio to pared with 130 in 1865, 118 in 1864, 108 in 1863, mad 80 in
Ventnor is now pretty near its accomplishment--a boon 1801_,
that will be fully appreciated by the travelling public. It .1106PITAL FOR DISRAELI 01P THE CHEW, VICTORIA-
is with the greatest pleasure we now inform our readers PAR[.—The number of patients relieved at this institn-
that all that is now required is the report of the inspector. lion during last week was 1,305, of which 270 were new
—lsis of Wipla paper. cases.

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In Genoa it is said that so much discontent has
been occasioned by the late naval battle that a pe-
tition to Baron Ricaaoli is in course of signature
among the inhabitants requesting that admiral Per-
sano may be tried by a court-martial, " as was
done in the case of the English admiral John
Byng." The petitioners say that public opinion
attributes the " deplorable event at Lissa, by
which Italy has lost so many lives, to the " pro-
verbial incapacity" of the admiral commanding the
fleet, and they suggest that he should be super-
, seded by Bear-Admiral Galli dells Mantles.