The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC LINE IV GIBRALTAR.

The existing war on the Continent places in so
striking a light the importance of securing a means
of telegraphic communication with the British pos-
sessions in the Mediterranean, totally independent
of any continental medium, that we have much
satisfaction in stating that government have
entered into arrangements for laying down,
as speedily as possible, a telegraphic cable direct
from Falmouth to Gibraltar—a distance of 1,100
nautical miles. Tenders will shortly be invited for
the manufacture of the requisite length of cable.
Meanwhile, the Gutta Perch, Company are already
engaged in preparing the covering for :it. The
engineers charged with the carrying out of this im-
portant government undertaking are Mr. Gisborne
and his associates, and it is believed that by August
next considerable progress will have been made.
With regard to the motives of government in thus
departing f,om the ordinary practice of employing
the agency of a public company, some curiosity
will be felt. Messages on the service of the State
will of course have priority over all others.
but as the undertaking will be constructed
with the money of the nation, a proper degree
of attention must be paid to commercial require-
ments. It is surmised that the authorities may per-
haps contemplate handing over the line, when com-
pleted, to be worked or leased by a public company,
or other parties. A decided defect is involved, how-
ever, in the existing arrangement that the cable
shall contain ouly one wire, the more especially as,
although the line is at present to be carried only to
Gibraltar, its ultimate extension to Malta and Alex-
andria, there to form a junction with the wires to
India, is certain and not remote. Until this com-
prehensive scheme is tarried out, there will be no
real security for interests of vast national importance,
nor will government be making a proper use of the
invaluable appliances placed ►t their command by
modern science.

A Madrid journal refers to the subject of the far-
tlflontiots of Gibraltar, which the English are etrengtheme
tag, it *aye, on the lend side as well as on the sea; and it
ineieta tha• the Spitnioh government, on its part, ought to
build fortifications to protect the town of San Roque, which
is menaced by them. It, however, makes the following odd
determent:—" After all the batteries of the rock of Gibraltar
are mote menacing than dangerous, for the ro.k itself will
fall down on the first discharge of the guns, owing to the
profound caverns in its flanks; and the smoke alone will
suffocate the artillerymen !" &vets' Engl•ah ships of the
BO* bed, it Is mud. arrived at Gibraltar, and bad anchored
there.

The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just decided,
In a C 1195 •Madtme X— v. the Mayor of the 10th arron-
dissement," I'..at a foreign woman legally divorced in her
own country, cannot during her first hasband's lifetime--
although he also is a foreigner—contrsct a !wooed marriage
In lessee, where, since 1816, the law does not permit a
divorce under any circumstances whatever,

A letter from Boston, Vatted States, says
" real Ye rphy arrived here on the 28th, and has bean a lion
ever since. Y. sterday he had a dinner, at which several
not.lalitirs were wan". The price of edmieeton was two
guineas, or 10 dole. 10c.; it wee a vary select affair. A little
volume as Pears triumphs has been published la New
York. The work parports to be by his ' late itecratary,' sad
is dm amusing epecimen of fluakcyient, the author bring a
small Boswell to a li tie Joanna."