The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-18 00:00:00

MINEB.-(THIS DAY.)

Oil O'CLOCK.
The dealings in the mining market to-day ate
upon a limited scale, but the tone is decidedly
better, owing to the upward tendency of the
quotations for copper and tin. Great
Vor. and East Lovell shares are in request
at 19 to and sto respectively. Marko Valley
are quoted 31 to 2. Prince of Wales 18s. to 20s, ;
East Caradon, 6 to & ; Clifford Amalgamated. 71 to
i; Grestßetallack, a. 6d. to 10s. 6d.; and Herod,-
foot, 30 to 32.
The subjoined weekly report with reference to
the metal market is extracted from the circular of
Messrs. Von Dadelszeu and North :

During the early part of the week the metal market
showed great steadiness, and since the redaction c 2 per
cent in the rate of die.count metals are not only much
firmer, but higher prices would be paid if holders were
disposed to meet the de,nand. —lron. Although the reports
from Staffordshire and Wales do not exhibit any improve-
ment, it is to be hoped that we shall have better aceoante
before long. Scotch pig iron is steady at bds.-4:oppat.
Prices of English are very firm at official quotations. Boors
of the smelters refuse to sell now. Better prices have
been paid for foreign, viz., 871. 10s. for Kapunda • M. for
Barra; and 8.1!. 10s. for Wallaroo ; Chili ingots, Tiff.; slab,
761.—Tin. There is but little on offer jest now. 77L
would be freely paid for Straits, but no sellers sow wader
781. Bence, Si!. to $2!. English tin is also firmer, fixed
price demanded. The Dutch market firm at 471.—Tin
plates continue in good demand, and prices look up.
'wad is steady, but the demand not quite so brisk.--
Speller. After a considerable amount of business at 1111.
for immediate cash the market has assumed a firmer tone,
and transactions have taken place at 19i. 10s. for Septem-
, ber delivery ; special brands in outposts quoted at 191. 15a.
i to 201.

48

TUN ATLANTIC TICLKURAPH FIPEDITION.

A diary of the great expedition, whose success has
aim paid into the region of history, hes just been pub-
lished, the diarist being Mr. John C. Deane. It extends
over emend newspaper columns ; but a large portion of it
sessiale of • summary of the war and home news, includ-
ing 'Via the markets, received daily during the progress of
the voyage ; it being remarked that " news comes to the
Orest Neate' niegraph se regularly as Mr. Renter sends
ft to the Leaden newspapers." The Great Eastern left
Deroluives, Bantry Bay, at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday, the
12th of July ; and the diary includes everything of im-
portance that immured from that time up to the landing of
the cable. We subjoin • few extracts relating chiefly to
the laying of the cable and incidents connected with it :

SUNDAY, JOLT 15.

All through yesterday the paying-out machinery worked
SO
snaeothly—the electrical tests were so perfect—the
weather was so fine, that fresh confidence in the ultimate
result has been naturally inspired. The recollection, how-
over, of the reverses of the expedition of 1865 is always
before them whohave the greatest reliance in success ; and
there Is a quiet repose about the manner of the chief prac-
tical men on board which is an earnest that they will not
allow themselves to be carried away by the smoothness of
twisty-four hairs' events. The convoy kept their position
eeenratitly during the day. The Terrible signalled to us
at L 45 p.m. that a man had fallen overboard. Her cutter
was speedily lowered. The sailor had, however, laid hold
of • rope thrown to him from the frigate before the boat
molted him. At 10.45 p.m. kir. Willoughby Smith sent
tee the latest news from Europe, set up in this form :
"The Great Eastern Telegraph. Saturday evening,
10.45 p.m., July 14, 1866. Vol. I, No. 1. General Cial-
dini is moving upon Rovigo with an army of more than
100,000 men and 200 guns. The Austrians have evacuated
the whole country between the Wand° and the Adige."
Reams 1t not a feat sublime,
Intellect bath eonquered time.

The welcome arrival of this message (and by concert
with the shore we shall be kept advised of all the leading
Swope= news) is a practical proof of the valise of our
(thief electrician's arrangements ; for while the message
was being transmitted to u the insulation testa were con-
tinuously going on.

MONDAY, JULY 16.

Still everything going on well. The sea like a mill-
pond. The paying out of the cable from the after-tank
',opening with uniform certainty and steadiness, and the
electrical tests perfect. We are now paying out some of
the cable of 1865. This tank contains 839.685 miles, of
white there are 267 miles of the old cable. The fore-
tank, from which we shall pay out next, bolds 670.83
Exiles, with about three miles of shore end, and the
number of miles stowed in the main is 865.439. Mr.
Canning calculates that we shall have payed out the
gemalning portion of the old cable by to-morrow morning,
and if nothing anon in the way of accident, be Thursday
**ht, or early on Friday morning, the after-tank will be
emptied. We ought to be then pretty nearly half way to
Maori's Content.

TUE:4OAT, JOLT 17.

Another twenty-four hours of uninterrupted 'access.
All day yesterday it was so calm that the masts of our
envoy were reflected in the ocean, an unusual thing to
see. A large shoal of porpoises gambolled shout us for
half an hour. A glorious sunset, and, later, • crescent
Isom, which we hope to see in the brightness of her full,
lighting our way into Trinity Bay before the days of this
July shall have ended. At 7.55 a.m., Greenwich time, the
remaining portion of the cable of 1865 had been paid out
of the tank, and we are now rapidly getting rid of the
Jiff! cable. At 9.10 the screw engines were slowed to 18
revolutions, and the paddles slowed to 4. Our average
speed since we left has been about 5. The strain indicated
by the dynamometer since yesterday at 12 o'clock has been
11. After breakfast we saw a barque to the northward
steering eastward. Our progress up to yesterday is thus
indicated in the official paper posted in the cabin:—Cable
Pad out, 537.82 ; slack on distance, 12.44 ; lat. 52 deg,
15rain., lon. 23 deg.4B min.; distance from Valentia-office
496.1; to Heist's Content-office, B. 89, 35 W., 1,173; depth
of water, 1,950. Wind south. News from London just as
Ire were at lunch.

WEDNV4DAT, JULY 18.

A fresh breese from the southward—a dull grey sky,with
occasional rain, and a moderate sea prevailed from noon
yesterday. At 5.28 p.m., Greenwich tune, a bell in con.
swim with the electrical room sounded in the tank. Mr.
Temple, one of Mr. Canning's staff, being on duty, imme•
diately pressed the valve of the steam whistle, which is
fitted, at Mr. Latimer Clarke's suggestion, at the stern,
and communicates by compressed air through piping to the
screw' paddle-engines, and helm, a similar apparatus
being fitted in the bows of the ship. The signal was so
promptly answered by the engineers, that the Great
Eastern was stopped in less than her own length. Mr.
Mark hearing the bell, ran at the top of his speed to
the paddle engines' hatchway ; but long before he could
reach it they were stopped. Of course great anxiety arose
to ascertain what was the matter. We were all delighted
to learn that it was a false alarm. One of Mr. Wil-
loughby Smith's assistants had by mere accident touched
the spring of the bell. We had, however, practical
proof from this incident that every one was at his post ;
and Captain Anderson, ever thoughtful and watchful,
took advantage of what occurred to make some alterations
in ooneert with Mr. Canning in the instructions to the
oleos: on duty, so that he should verbally communicate
with the engineer if a similar alarm was given, and not
trust entirely to the whistle system, effective though it ia
in working. All went on well until 12.20 a.m., Green.
with time, when the first real shock was given to the sue-
ems which has hitherto attended us ; and this time we
had real cause to be alarmed. A foul flake took place in
the after tank. The engine' were immediately turned
astern, and the paying out of the cable stopped. We were
all soon on the deck, and learned that the running or
paying out port of the coil had caught three turns of the
Sake immediately under it, carried them into the eye of
the evil, fouling the lay out, and hauling up one and a half
tans from the outside and five turns in the eye of the
snider flake. This was stopped fortunately before entering
the paying-out machinery. Stoppers of hemp also were put
*anew the V wheel astern, and Mr. Canning gave orders to
stand by to let go the buoy. This was not very cheering
to hear, but his calm and collected manner gave us all con-
fidence that his skill and experience would extricate the
cable from the obvious danger in which it was placed. No
fishing line was ever entangled worse than the rope was
when throat up in apparently hopeless knots from the eye
of the mil to the deck. There at least 500 feet of rope lay
in this elate, in the midst of thick rain and increasing
wind. The cable crew set to work, under their chief en-
emata's instillations, to disentangle it. Mr. Halpin was
there, too, patiently following the bights as they showed
themselves, the crew now passing them forward, now aft,
luta at last the character of the tangle was seen, and soon
it Worm apparent that ere long the cable would be
cleared. All this time Captain Anderson was at the
taffrail anxiously watching the strain on the rope, which
he could scarcely make out the night was so dark, and
endeavouring to keep it up and down, going on
and reversing with paddle and screw. When one
reflects for a moment upon the size of the
ship and the enormous mass she presents to the
wind, the difficulty of keeping her stern under
the circumstances over the cable can be appreciated. The
pert.paddle wheel was disconnected, but shortly after-
wards there was a shift of wind, and the vessel canted the
wrong way. Welcome voices were now beard passing the
word aft from the tank that the bights were cleared, and
to pay out. Then the huge stoppers were gently loosened,
end at 2.5 a.m., to the joy of all, we were once more
discharging the cable.

FRIDAY, JULY 20.

Yesterday was a day of complete success ; the paying
out in every respect satisfactory. The wind still from the
eastward. but inolined to draw to the northward ; the sea
entirely gone down. As Mr. Canning told us we should
seethe after tank emptied at eleven o'clock (ship's time),
we were all collected there about ten o'clock, by which time
th• cable was down to the last flake. Nest to having
daylight for changing from the after to the fore-tank we
could not have had a more favourable time—clear starlight
—no wind and a smooth sea. Looking down into the tank
the scene was highly picturesque. The cable-watch,whose
figures IMO lighted up by the lamps suspended from
above, slowly sod cautiously lifted the turns of the coil to
1111211 their path to the eye. As each found its way to the
drum the wooden floor of the tank showed itself, and
then we saw more floor, and as its area increased the cable
swept along its surface with • low subdued noise, until
with grateful curve it mounted to the outlet, where it was
nos to join • fresh supply. And now we hear the word
pared that they have arrived at the last turn, and then
the nee who stand on stages of the platforms rd the eye