The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

VIZ BLECTINSIBLE.4II2:!FIEN ANGLAND

AND HOLLAND.

A correspondent sends us the following account
of the recent successful submersion of another
electric cable between England and Holland:

It may not be uninteresting to your numerous readers and
the public generally to be made acquainted with some few
particulars concocted with the laying of the electric telegraph
cable between England and Holland, which wee successfully
accomplished a few days since. This new cable was manu-
factured by Mena Glare and Elliott, of Greenwich, and
consist' of four copper wires, coated with rune percha, and
covered with an wires, MU No. 00, thus making a cable
5 inches in circumference, and 11 inch in diameter, end
weighing 8 toes 12 owt. to the mile. The vessel selected for
the laying of the cable was the William Cory. an iron screw
steamer of 918 tons, commanded by Captain Donaldson, and
peculiarly adapted for the purpose in which it 1•1111 engaged.
Oa Saturday, Sept. 18, 1858, the William Cory left Green-
wich, having on baud some 160 miles of cable, to be laid
between Dunwich, on the comet of Suffolk, and Zenvocet on
the Datah coast. The entire proceedings were placed under
the direction of Mr. Canning, engineer, of the firm of Glean
and Elliott. It was undetermined at staring whether a
commencement should be made at Lanvoort or at Dunwich ;
it wee, however, eventually found design& to commence at
the former place. Accordingly, on the afternoon of the
21st, the end of the cable was landed by means of
a couple of fighters, end at 2 o'clock on the following morn-
leg the stem was got up, and the min oat of the cable
begs& This was affected by means of two large drums on
the gutter deck, misted by a jockey wheel is front, and
further aided by a bobbin or round wheel flied over the
hatchway to run the cable out of the hold. By these simple
and basxpeneive mean the cable was payed oat at the rate of
from lost to Mix miles per hoer, with the win blowing hard
end a beery sea. All went well until the William Cory
arrived at Danwich about six o'clock on the morning of the
23rd Sept., having succemfully laid the 140 miles of cable in
40 hours, it having been expected to occupy from 10 to 14
days. Soundings were taken duri the whole of the pro-
°siding a. which never emended 80 Whams, and the telegraphic
test wee applied every tea, nsissates, sod,taniformly saevered
the iaetraamat with the gearsetereetheee. This Use hav-
ing bees mode be the Ilebeesatee Teiegrack Colopsay will
doubting soon he ready he the see of the public, the wow
eery ernageseets ea &we befog la proper.

It appears that the ism of the Oxford mays has
armed, bat that there is 60 be one pore volume of " Cam-
bridge Belays," with which that Nair also will ecoolude.
The War volume is expected to be pabibbe,l et the dose of
the per.

The led letters received from Mr. Albert Smith
were dated Ceylon ; he had punctually kept the dates laid
down If bis farewell ■peach until just before writing, when
the twerging at one of the boilers of the engine had wed
wane bw days' deley.-11hutrated Timm.

" U we may tram to tumour" (mays the Saturday
Seriesr), "Mr. Kosa's farewell sums nll bs distinguished
by a rapid succession of revivals In which the genies of the
tragedian will be ma more coarpicuous than the' splendour
of the decorations. In other words, Mr. Ken s.ll go
through a regular series of great Shaksprian parts, so as to
lean the public immured with the remembratel not
so mach that he was the most brilliant tuaangor,
bat that he wu the fleet tragedian of his day.
His archeological &meow he will cam more
assert by tbs production of Hwy V. in the
early sprang, but to other respects the principle which he
tacitly adopted last season will be ourdisstly acted upon
throughout the mama that bus jut ceremseced. By a long
list of profusely adorned dream he had envied the London
public to overlook the motor in the manager. Ha will now
prove that it is with the aharaoter of a tragic actor of the
highest rank that he wishes to associate his name in the
obrouiclos of the stags."

The Slassfay Times states that Mr. Charles Kew
hes best coedited to his room by an attack el goat, sad
=abaci to perform Nista Ise NV/dam:lay. The ohateder of
Stub& has bola ailed, dada( his iadispelities, by
Kr. Ryder.

On Monday will be produced at Drury Lane
Thane, fee the first time in English, Flotow's opera sanded
Mirrtha.

The building of the new Adelphi progresses but
slowly, so slowly that the doors will not be opened, it la said,
before Boxing-night. The new theatre will be much larger
than the old one, holding double the number of spectators,
and from the plans it appears light, airy, and oomuto-
dious.

Mr. Wilkie Collins's new drama of The Red rsal
MU be performed on Monday at the Olympic, supported by
Messrs. Robson, Addison, F. Vining, G. Cooke, Mn.
Stirling, and Mks Marston.

Mr. Eatery nano:anon hie benefit for Friday next
et the Lyceum.

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Elephants, dogs, horses, mess, have figured on the
stage often enough ; it is now said, by the Parts cammepon-
dent of the Literary Garet*, that in the mem el meet whs.
tar another species of quadruped is to be elesrelsdi to the
dignity of public performers. In the play whish Madame
Sand is preparing, she proposes to Introduce sheep, end not
one, or two, or three, but an satire flock. A dock of sheep
es the stage!

THE DUKE 07 RUIZAIID AND LORD JOHN
MANNERS IN LEICESTERSHIRE.
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WALTHAM, IPAIDAY.

The annual meeting of the Waltham Agricultural
Association was held In this town yesterday, and was nume-
rously attended by the gentry and others interested in the
agriteltnre of the district. In the afternoon a dinner wee
held in the Agricultural Hall, under the presidency of his
Brace the Duke of Rutland. Lord J. Manners, M.P., the
Chief Commissioner of Works, the Rev. G. K. Gillett, mew
of Waltham, Mr. George Norman, Mr. Hubbenosy, the
Roe.— Campbell, Mr. Chowler, do were also pramall.
The usual loyal town' having bees gives,
The noble DOLE in the chair, Is proposing " The Army
and Navy, " sald—l am glad to see that a feeling is now. _

abroad in favour of keeping up our tstahlWamtnts. With
the rest of the world I was at Cherbourg this yaw, and I saw
those magnificent forts, bristling with guns, sad the mag-
nificent fleet that came from Toulon on that occasion. It was
indeed a magnitloent spectacle. lam not, however, on. of
times who are called alarmists. At the same time that I wish
to see air establishments kept up on a proper and a sentare

Wing, my belief is that the Emperor of the French is pr-
ima) sincere and perfectly honest when he nays that he
wishes to cultivate the alliance of this country. (Cheers.)
My belief is that he is ambitious of raisi' ng France still higher
in the scale of nations, but ha will do so by encouraging her
industry, her agriculture, her commerce, and her mambo-
barer, and not by laying wenn if he were minable, the fields
of his neighbours, for that must and would road anakost
the prosperity of his own country. (" Hear' her, and
cheers.) I,* leave to propose "The Health of the Anny
and Navy.'
Thai/cr. G.E. GlLLwrr, in proposing "The Health of his
Grace the Doke of Rutland, as president of the association
sod lord lieutenant of the county," alluded briefly to the loss
which the essoantion bad sustained since their last meeting
in the death of the late duke.

The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the oompffinent,
expressed the hope that he nrght be enabled to follow
in the steps of his lamented father, cad that he
might be enabled to do his duty, however humbly
sad inefficiently, in the sphere in which he had
bum placed. (Cheers.) Ile to propose " Prosperity
to the Waltham Agricultural ." (Loud cheers.)
The toast having been drunk ami loud cheers, the various
Temen were awarded, after which
Mr. NORMAN proposed "Thellealth of the Members for the
County," observing that, though party politics were properly
excluded from their meetings, those- who took a part in po-
litics were not.

The toast was drunk amid loud cheering.
Lord J. MANNERS, M.P., responded, and after some local
sald—Pulitim being most properly excluded from
con•
sideration at such meetings as the prement-1 mesa
party politics, and so little having occurred &trim the moist
se non of parliament worthy the attention of an agricultural
amenably, except in a party point of view, I really am at • loss
to my anything in my capacity as amber far this division
of the county. There was only one measure that affected in
any materiel degree the intensts cc feelings of the
tural classes, and that was the bill for the collection of
cultural statistics. The reception that bill met, however,
was such as to preclude the necessity for my saying any
whatever upon the subject. (Laughter and cheers)
But my brother has tonohed upon • subject which un-
doubtedly attracted far more attention than any of the mea-
sures introduced in the late seasion of parliament, or which
had any connexion with the subjects which have brought us
bare to-day. He his said-andl entirely coincide in every-
thing he said In respect of Cherbourg—that he did not see in
the great and magnificent works which were there presented
to our view anything to occasion unnecessary alarm in the
minds of the people of this country. But, although I quite
sires with him that there is nothing to create alarm,
I confess that I did read with pain and surpries
some of the observations which have been made in public by
other membereof that illustrious body, to which I, thanks
to your kindness, belong. (Hem, bear.) I can understand
• man being so essentially John Bullish in feeling as to ab-
stain from going to Cherbourg at all, but I cannot under-
stand gentlemen in the position of members of parliament
witnessing this magnificent exhibition, receiving, as we all
did, the most hearty and cordial reception, not only from the
Emperor of the French, bat from every one of his subjects
there t, seeing the medial and amicable feelings which
all classes of that vast assemblage, end then coming
CZ-1;d venting all kinds of unmanly sneers and woman
against a great, a gallant, and a friendly people. (Loud
cheers.) So far from teeing in the erection of the great
works at Cherbourg any proof of ill-will towards England,
or any sign of impending hostility, I am myself disposed to
IRO in the cordiality, frankness, and openness with which all
the works were submitted to the inspection of the
whole people of England had been disposed or
able to go thither. I amlepoeed to see In
these great works a pledge rather far future pesos, inasmuch
as they afford on the one side, with the proper preparations
which this country and her Maseaty government may take
on the other, a natural means of Winos from hostile aggro,-
sion, and thus give a pledge and security for future peace.
(Cheers.) I mentioned just now one point by way of illus-
trating the social advantages of these =swings. There is
another to which I am not less disposed to attach great Im-
portance at the present day, namely, the great question of
education. We all know bow the education of the children
of the pemantry of this country has received a greet and
Feasible ioffuence from the speeches whisk have been made,
and the suggeations which have bees throws oat at meetings
of this kind. (Hear, hear.) Bat so mach has been mid on
that subject, and so certainly do I think the progress of edu-
cation in its common and hacknied sense, to be mowed in
the country, that I will dwell no longer upon it, further than
to say that I hope in oar zeal and our endeavours to promote
the education of the intellect, we shall not altogether lose
sight of the education of the body of the children of the
labouring classes. (Hear, hear.) I attach such im-
portance to the manly and athletic games mod
pastimes which have heretofore characterised all classes of
our English community, that I would say to all men—how-
ever wise, however stupid, however rMh, however old—
" Stimulate and foster every manl and athletic game, oxen-
meoicing from marbles andascending up to fox-hunting, and
if there be anything above and beyond fox-hunting, then
teach the labouring classes that." (Cheers.) Tend them
religiously, sad from the lowest and the humblest up to the
matureet and the highest of our national 'porta and pastimes,
lot us endeavour to promote them one and all. (Load
cheers.) I say this because I have noticed with pain and
concern • heresy, as It teems to me, growing and i
in this country, the upshot of which will hei, tamlg=
will be divided into two greet olsease—these who spie and
those who study. It is to promotes ems sash eseesseses
tion as this that we find that adashalle ember sad oferliag
member of parliament, Mr. Bright, reemememihrit ijthimr•-
don to the whiskey-drioldng, joint-Sock-boa-
people of Glasgow ; and we have the Veen dr=
organ, as it nerd to be called, of public opinion
in England, warning all the noblemen of England
out of the bunting-field. As many present know,
I am no great rider, and do not profess to give much time or
attention to hunting ; but this Ido know, that I never jog
home from the hunting Geld without feeling that I have wen
or heard something which has added somewhat to my smell
stook of knowledge, and without rejoicing as a politician—of
course Ido not use the term in • part sense—in the exist-
ence of that manly and Invigorating pastime. (Cheers.)
Then, gentlemen, say I, long may there be a race of yeomen
in England who, like my friends the Guys of Hatton, the
Vincent. of Botteefotd, or the Bland. of Marlborough, ran
carry off the prize in the cattle show yard and the brush at
the bred of the bunt. (Loud °beers.) I have said that in
the firstl session of parliament there was not much to
attract the attention of an agricultural assemblage. The
future of course is dark, but at the same time it la more than
probable that the question most likely to interest an agricul-
tural assemblage In the next seldom et parliament will
be the much-diactiesed question of parliamentary reform.
Upon that gaieties, of course, my lips are waled,
and I can only my that by one of those curious
tares of the wheel which mechanism modem polities. it
seems to be reserved for a tory government to reader less
anetualons, and to irks better adapted to the growing (out-
lines*, property, sod numbers of the community, the Whig
Reform Act of 1892. (Cheers.) I can only my that her
Majesty's government well enter upon that most serious teak
with the single and earnest endeavour so to amend the reps
mutation of the people in parliament se to secure the beet
electoral body and the beet representative body which an be
obtained for the people of this country. (Cheers.) Bat,
gentlemen, after all, hurting., registration courts, polling
booths, speeches from the hustings, end even spathes ta par-
liament, and divisions consequent thereupon, are only a
' means to an end, and that and is the good self-government
of a Christian and air aimed oesaantaity. (Lend chem.)
Without deprecating other waits and other ways of life,
every day I live more and more convinces me that the art
and practice of agriculture fa the safest, the surest, and the
most beneficent of all the industries fa whisk the irk
end capital of men can be employed. (“ Haar.
and cheers.) We shell do well Mem I
think, as I ventured to say at the oats*: to
keep alive by every means in our power the cerporate cha-
racter of our relations one to another, and I know et no
mesas—of no human means—which mu so lady impress
upon all our besets the great truth that landlord and imam,
farm servsat and husbandman, clergy and laity, all form one
great Christian brotherhood, as them periodical meetings, at
which the respective excellence of different men in different
branches of agricultural pursuits are brought prominently
into notice, and which tend to keep alive in all ear hearts the
great fact that every proems, at mem season of the year,
in the pursuit of agricultural progress, bleeds harmoniously
Into one beneficent whole, (Cheers.) I leave it to glom
mare qualified then I am in speak amen the practical sub-
jects which In reality have brought as Imre to-day ; but, I
it might not be anise if I veaturid to resell to your
thought
of dm gnat and =daring heasfits which, I be-
lieve, .apply M thd asemew se a whale, in a social point of
view, -spitallesal ,sr*p sada es his.
Aid I will
new ,it teak the health
of flees adagio tillesme the
courting ereald bays bees a amapises haws ; I mesa
the three who have been poi ersoogh to sot as
judges of stook siva lila occasion. (Clasere.) I take leave
to ample with Oinked theism@ of my excellent friend whom
I so often mast la the hunting Said—Mr. BINA. (Loud
cheers
Mr. Bum) beiefly responded.
Several other toasts, of purely local interest, were subse-
quently proatteed, and the proceedings terminated.

ROYAL SOUTH BUCKS AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION.
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The anneal Meeting of this Society, of 'which the
Queen and the Priam Consort are patrons and liberal sup-
parties, was held on Wednesday. In the morning, rewards
were distributed to shout 100 deserving labourers, while 48
teams competed in the ploughing match, which took place on
Cippentum-court Farm, near Slough, the property of Mr.
Aldridge. Mr. I. Pops Ivo was declared the winner of the
Prince's cup for the beet flys acne of swedes. while Mr. H.
Central won the mine Mend by the Rev. H. Palmer. In
the evening the annual dinner was held, at Botham's Wind-
mill Hotel. &thin&
Mr. R. TYRRILLL, City Ransgebranoer, who has a country
seat in the neighbourhood, presided. There were also present
the Hon. Colonel Hood, equerry to the Prince COMMIS; Mr.
R. Wenitlyn, Mr. T. R. Ward, and Mr. Penningtoe, county
magistrates, two or three clergymen, and about 150 of the
principal freeholders and farmers of this portion of the
county, with • sprinkling of professional men and treat%
The following was the most peculiar Mature in the meeting,
the remaining speeches being of the character ordinarily de-
, limed at egricultural puha:lnv.
Mr. Weextrx mid that in submitting to ths onsiderstion
of the meeting • toast confided to his care, he felt that be
mast Mahn their Milliremce while endeavouring to submit it
In molt a form as would commend it to their acceptance.
Since they bad lea assembled in that room circumstances
had occurred in their neighbourhood which bad given it a
world-wide importance. In consequence of these circum-
stances his toast was invested with more than a common in-
West. Public attention throughout the country had been
directed to these circumstances principally through the in-
strumentality of the amiable end excellent vicar of Stoke,
Mr. Shaw. (Here applause of a most rapturously enthu-
natio ohmmeter broke lath, which prevented the speaker from
proceeding for some moments.) He (Mti;id Wank-
takes
pte trusted
wouldhathatve the
the effect ti which
and of
rooting out of the church those practices which were abhor-
rent to the feelings of every true Christian. The system to
which he alluded he unhesitatingly condemned ea anti-pro- I
truant and ma-Balise, as anti-Christian end unscripttual.
To use the language- of the Bishop of Oxbrd in a document
published a few days since : " God forbid that oar clerk/
should admndster molt a system, or that our wives and
daughters should be sabiented to it." (Hear, hear.) He
(Mr. Wanklyn) would add prayer—May God grant that
both bishop, sad elegy, sad laity may hold the faith in
unity of spirit, in Me lend of algae, and in the righteousness
of IM I" It was beams he believed that the bishop was Mo.
oere in the utterance of these sentiments—(loud cries of
No, no," and tramealove uproar)—it was because he be-
lieved that he was a oonecienttons— (" No no," and
continued Intarruption)—that he was • arinoere—(" No,
no," mingled with an ocoseional "Yee, yes ")
that he was an exemplary and faithful—(loud noises mad
cordant yells)—bishop, that he begged to propose " The
Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese.' (Cries f"o No Noa
ones wanted," "Clergy, clergy," "No bishop," "Mr
Shaw and the clergy,', followed by loud cheers.)
The greatalty of the company drank the toast, at the
same tone out "Mr. Shaw and the clergy." It
should be o that the vicar of Stoke was not present.
Alter mom degree of tranquillity had been restored,
The Row. 8 F.3leheneht., vicar of Farnham Royal, lON
to respond, and observed that it was always difficult to return JJ
thanks at times like the present, when under the Aron
Winona of Meting,. On this meander tomenien
the difficulty was considerably increased. He thee& i
the majority of the meeting were favourable to the
whole Mast as
_proposed by Mr. Wanklyn. (Cries
of "No, no," and "We are unanimous the other way.") If
that were the use, continued Mr. Marshall, he as one of the
clergy of this diocese could not accept the toast. (Coniu- '
don.) From some circumstances he had entertained fears
that this toast would not be received in the usual cor-
dial manner. He had come prepared to avow that be
esteemed it to be a high privilege to be one of the clergy of
this diocese, under its present diocesan. (Renewed uproar.
and cries of " No, no.") He felt confident mat as• clergy-
man he would meet with generous protection when in the i
right—(cries of " That won't do")—with lenient considera-
tion and paternal correction when wrong, and with a fair,
open, and impartial trial, whether tight or wrong.
(" Hear, hear' from the vicinity of the chair,
followed by cries of " No, no" along the tables.)
On the part of his brother clergymen he returned his mod
cordial thanks. He lamented that there were not more pre-
sent. The rev. gentleman was then allowed to finish his
speech, which related to the advantages of the society, &a,
without interruption.