The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-06 00:00:00

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LONDON. TUESDAY. MARCH 6.

Tax commencement of the open season has
brought round the time for renewing an enter-
prirs which must needs be the greatest of any
year in which it takes place. The public be-
comes acquainted this morning with the prepare- I
Lone that have been making through the winter
months, and which are now well-nigh completed,
for laying a submarine telegraph between Ireland
and Newfoundland. It was never for a moment
doubted that the enterprise interrupted last
summer by an unforeseen accident would be re-
sumed. The experience of last year established
not only the full practicability of the project, but
the existence of conditions so favourable for its
execution that its abandonment became from that
time forward simply impossible. Step by step our
knowledge has advanced, and with it every opera-
tion subsidiary to the enterprise has acquired
increasing certainty, the very accidents which
tried our patience supplying way-marks to warn
us against future error. It may now be said
that there is no contingency to which a cable
is exposed in the process of laying against
which the present state of our science
does not enable as to make complete
provision, so that the risk of the work is now re-
duced to a minimum. The experience of 1858
*bowed thit a submarine telegripia cable could be
laid between Ireland and Newfoundland, and that
messages could be transmitted through its length.
In fact, by the cable then laid, u many as 271
messages were sent from Newfoundland to Valentin,
and 125 from Valenti* to Newfoundland. But
even after that experiment many persons doubted
whether the cold, deep water of the Atlantic, by
its accumulated pressure, would not destroy the
insulation of the cable. But the cable of 1865
was submerged to a depth of 2,400 fathoms, and
so far from the great pressure at that depth de-
stroying the insulation, it positively increased it.
The most perfect messages which passed in the
Great Eastern to Valenti& were transmitted when
the cable lay at that depth below the level of the ,
sea. Experiments made before the cable was :
sent out satisfied engineers that this would I
be the case, but the result has made what was
before a truth of science a fact obvious to the
simplest understanding. As to the practicability of
laying the cable, the experiment of last year is not ,
only full of encouragement, but from a rational
point of view conclusive. Unless we suppose those
with whom the matter rests to be quite incapable
of instruction, the work will be resumed this year
with means and appliances that should make failure
little short of impossible. The qualities of the
Great Eastern, which will spin be employed in
the service, remove half the difficulties that would
attend the laying of a cable from a first-class
steamer of the ordinary dimensions. Her une-
qualled steadiness, the result of her size, and the
perfect control over her movements which is ob-
tained by the joint use of paddle and screws, make
the work she has to do virtually independent of
the accidents of weather. And an equal measure
of confidence may be placed in her paying out
machinery, which worked so perfectly last
year. It is just as certain, that with
good tackle and strong hauling-in ma-
chinery, a fault when it occurs may be
lifted from a depth of 2,000 feet, and cut out
on board the ship, when the cable may be spliced
and laid in perfect condition. Moreover, it is
proved `that in a depth of two mikes cable may be