The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-24 00:00:00

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Mr. F. C. Webb, C.E., who is well-known as
having had considerable experience in the testing and exami-
nuke of telegraphic cables, and who has just returned from
Valencia, to which place he wan recently deputed by the
directors to proofed, for the purpose of alirding them the
necessary Information ea to the present electrical and me-
chanics' state of the cable, reports :—" I am of opinion, that •
serioue fault exists at about 263 statute miles from Valencia,
mea•ured along the cable, and that the cable between that spot
and this shore is comparatively perfect. No testa from here
can now decide whether the cable Is mechanically severed,
since all attempts to detect the reception of the moat intense
curanta front the opposite shore have long Sinn proved
fruitless. Stilt, from the various circurnatanoss attendant on
the decline of the insulation, there Is every resins to believe
that the continuity both of the cable and the conductor is
perfect. Whether any other faults exist beyond the one
sanded to it le impossible to ascertain by testa from Valeticis.
The fact that the signals received at Valencia were always
better then those received at Newfoundland proves un-
doubtedly that the worst insulation has always been sear
Valencia, and therefore it *urns probable that if the fault
which exists on this meat, and which very likely forms the
principal cause of leakage, could be removed, the insulation
would be so far improved as to render the cable again availa-
ble for signalling, provided the fault which is said by those
who have tested from Newfoundland to exist in Trinity Bay
warn also repaired.—l am, /to., "F. C. Wren.
Valeacis, August 10."

From a telegraphic message despatched from Cork,
we learn that the Daily Notts of Monday was received is
Cork at 7 o'clock a.m., yesterday (rurality), lodged of at 4
o'clock In the afterunon the usual hour of delivery. This
rapid delivery was effeceel via Bristol, by the Sabrina, one
of the swift packets of the Bristol General Steam Navigation
Comprey,which made the pedwege from Bristol in 18{ hours,
As the journey from London to Bristol is made by expresa
train is lest than three hours, and by ordinary train in five
hours, the eolith of 'island!' thud brought within twenty-four
boors et the metropolis.
AN EXCITING DUEL—A correspondent of the
Xt., York Timor gine the following particulars of en affair
of honour between the Hon. Sylvester Mowry, delegate
from Arizona, and B. E. Crewe, editor of the drisonian.
1 The duel was fought near Tabu., in Arizona. The cor-
n sT.ondett may a —" They fought with Burnside rides, at
forty paces. Three /hots were exchanged without effect.
Upon the fourth round the cep on Mowry's riffs did not
explode, while Cross's ball whistled harrelesely past Ms
antagonist. Mowry held his rifle still levelled, as an in-
dication that he had not had his 'hot, and many, not
underetandiog the code supposed that he designed trying
It again. Several peeped their pistols, es if to shoot him
down, and there ware Cain Ot Hold your fire!' ' Don't
about, Mowry I' Crane stood perfectly calm, awaiting the
malt. Mr. Mercer (Mowey'is second) advanced, when
Mowry lowered his rifle and handed It to his second.
They still claimed their shot se a right ender the code.
Mr. Craps unheeitalingly expressed hie willingness to grant
It, but his second demurred. After conterneg with several
gentlemen familiar with the code, who agreed with Mr.
Mowry that be was entitled to the shot, Captain Donald-
son (Onee's geoend) 'squirmed, end Mr. Cross handing
him cis riffs, folded his arms, apparently unconcerned, and
faced hie antagonist. At this stage of the pro-
ceeding., the spectators became terribly excited. Many,
perhaps • majority, thought It unfair, and some
spoke of panting a summery stop to the whole affair ; but,
upon learning that these raiment suppeeed to be beat lie-
quieted with the duello bed declared him entitled to it,
they reluctantly fell back. At the word, Me. Mowry fired
is the air, and declared himself satisfied. Cross tied wood
directly teeing box, not knowing that he could rely upon
free generosity to decline firing upon an unarmed foe, fully
repeating death, and yet not a serve trembled—not a sin-
gle evidence of fear was displayed. Tears sprung into his
eye., and ell tncoi'y vanished before such an exhibition.
Mr. /denier (Mowry's second) moored the field, and taking
Crosa by the baud, Informed hilts that Mr. Mowry wee
mantled. They elected forward to meet Mowry, who was
advancing, anti atter shaking hands, they stood for some
urinates to receive the congratulalons of their friends."

SIN W. AILVETRONG AND THE TRAVELLER.—
The annual wire in connexion with Sr W. G. Armstrong's
work.. was held et Newcastle-upon,Tyne, on Monday night,
Mr. Richard Lambert, in the chair. About 2,000 person.
eat down to tee. Mr. Bdward Glynn, who was one of
the *ethers, narrated the following I hod the honour
al, •car. a fortnight ago to accompany your diminguished
chief to the &Huth Dock.. We stared from Corliele
In the monitor, and in the same carriage were a gentle-
men very well known iotheeeighboorbood of Cornet.. hi.
wile, hie wifo's sitter, a ray plement old lady, Sir William
Armstrong, std myself. Sir William, with that retiring
modesty which is so cheracteristic a feature in his behaviour,
took his pest silently in one corner, sod before we bed
travelled very far, the *meet...non turned, as I dare say it
does is nineteen railway carriages out of tw,nty, on the
Armstrong run, and the stnticente in the other carper of
the carriage related, with infinite sear, a tremendous shot
which bad bon made, watch knocked off the head of a wore
at 8 mil•. 7 furlongs. Sir William, who had been regarding
the beauties of the landempe, turned mood end tweed to
sob where was that; upon which the gentleman said that it
W., a veritable face which bad been rusorded in the journal.,
and be again repeet.d the story for Sir William Armstrong's
information. The worthy knight replied with great owlets.,
• Well, the foot is quite true; there was a wild gates killed,
bat the distance resent quite en groat, biting only ssetwhere
ahont 600 yards ; but I can t ertity to the fact of tho death of
the goats; the artilleryman received hie death with great de-
light, end roasted him afterwards,' During the remainder
of one journey, whenemr a flock of plovers at a distance, or
some similar OtieCt preeented it.elf, the ladies were °tying
out there was an admirable shot for the At-moron; gum,
When we grit t, Moth, I tenet own that I felt a malielons
delight in lunette haunt nod informing this gentleman
who the quiet individual was that he had oven in the owner
of rue railway cordage; epos which, very much taken
aback, he said t. me • Gted gr.ciout !—you don't say
es Wee that Sir William Armstrong ? 1",,u might
to have given ma a wink. (Great laughter.) Why,
he eat in the termer of the carriage as though be knew
nothing 'brut it; end I have no doubt that for many years
to cot.* that gentleman will tell to his friends is Carlisle and
the reighbourhood a very excellent story of the Armstrong

TEE NIILITIA.—The Marquis of Wieeheeter, the
lord lieutenant of the county, has Wined • notice intimating
iltes the blempettlre Regiment of Mina latsatry is to be
o.llail out ha Heinle" on Tuesday, the 20th of September.
Toe men are t t muster a the Matti* Arinswy, Soughgate-
target, Wataboaer.

ADJUDICATION OF THE LNDIAN LOAN.

The latest period. allowed for sending in tenders
to the India-office for the Indian Loan of 5,000,000/.
in a 5 per cent. stock was noon yesterday. The mem-
bers of the Finance Committee of the Council of
India—viz., Mears. Eliot Macnaghten, Charles
Mills, and W. Arbuthnot, and Sir Proby Cantley—
having previously had an interview with Sir Charles
Wood, the Secretary of State for India, proceeded at
ten minutes put twelve o'clock to open the tenders,
first declaring, however, that the minimum or re-
served price was 97 per cent. Mr. E.
Macnaghten presided, and there were present
the heads of various departments in the India-
office, as well as the broker to the Council of
India, Mr. Henry Scott, to whose practical sugges-
tions upon the present occasion much of the success
of the loan is attributed. The total number of
tenders sent in was about 800, for an aggregate of
7,550,0001., being half as much again as was wanted.
378 tenders, representing 4,485,3501., were at prices
above 97, and were accepted. In respect of these,
the subscribers will receive the entire sum which
they have asked for. 191 other tenders, represent-
ing 1,339,4001., were at exactly 97. The two sums,
4,485,3501. and 1,339,4001., make a total of
5,824,7501., being 824,7501. in excels of the amount
wanted. The 191 tenderer. at 97 will therefore re-
ceive about 38 per cent. (not 18 per cent., as errone-
onsly rumoured in the Stock Exchange last evening)
of the amount applied for; the exact proportion
would be £l9l 8-10ths on every 500/. tendered for.
All tenders below 97 are of course absolutely re-
jected. Below we give a complete list of the results
of the accepted tenders, viz.:

Per cent.
At £97 0 3
„ 97 0 6
~ 97 0 7
~ 97 1 0
~ 97 1 8
„ 97 2 0
~ 97 2 6
„ 97 3 0
" 97 3 6
" 97 3 9
~ 97 6 0
„ 97 6 6
" 97 7 6
„ 97 10 0
„ 97 10 2
~ 97 10 6
„ 97 10 7
" 97 11 0
„ 97 11 3
„ 97 12 6
„ 97 15 0
„ 98 0 0
„ 98 1 0
„ 98 1 6
„ 93 6 0
„ 98 6 6
„ 98 10 0
„ 98 15 0
„ 100 0 0

It will be noticed that the amount between
971. Os. 3d. and 971. le. is 2,483,850/., or equal to
nearly one-half of the total asked; whilst between
971. Os. 3d. and 971. fie., 3,849,9501. was taken ; and
between 971. 04.3 d. and 971.10 e. a total of 4,188,3501.
Apart from the fact, which is not susceptible of any
ordinary explanation, that several persons bid 98h
98,t, and, in one instance, even 100, for a stock which
was purchaseable yesterday morning in the Stock Ex-
change below 98, th# foregoing statement indicates
that the public end the Council of India had arrived
at pretty nearly the same conclusion as to what
would be a reasonable price for the article offered.
The opinion is retained in many quarters that, had
the price bern publicly fixed by the Council of India
in the first instance at, say, 98, the entire amount
would have been absorbed in a couple of days-
Not, however, to dwell further upon this
point, or upon the wider question of the
necessity of the sacriflos which the withholding of
the imperial guarantee imposes upon the government
of India, the result of the prevent negotiation is very
favourably viewed. From the facility of transfer at
the Bank of England, and other advantages, the
new stack is likely to become a favourite investment'
and the great majority of the subscribers have
already the satisfaction of seeing their scrip at a fair
premium in the market. The tint that the aggre-
gate of the applications was 50 per cent. in excels,
of the sum asked, whilst on the occasion of the
negotiation of the previous debenture loans a con-
siderable balance was left unplaced, says much for
the superior popularity of the arrangements now
adopted.
Satisfaction was also expressed at the prompti-
tude with which the arrangements were carried out-
Tenders were receivable at the India-office until
twelve o'clock, and precisely at one the general re-
sult of the bidding was publicly announced in the
Stock Exchange by Mr. B. Scott.

At 10 o'clock lut night trains were still arriving
from the Crystel Feline every Ave or tea minutes, freighted
with hundreds of the Used excursionists, and sexes of
'axiom relations were stationed there, waiting the arrivel
friends and children whom they bad lest in the crowd earlise
in the day. The number of visitors to the Palace on the corn
responding Foresters itis of last year was 47,700 odd ; bet
on this measles it amounted to 62,343—the largest concourse
of persons, we believe, that has ever been attracted there on
any one day.

One of the jury in the Smethurst cue writes:—
" In order to remove any Impreseion that may exist in the
minds of the public with respect t.f the art:owing op of the
judge having a tendency to icfluenke the minds of the jury.
I beg to Inform you that at the clam of the defence, end be-
fore the judge commenced his lamming up, eleven of the
jury were convinced upon the evidetce adduced of the pri-
soner's guilt, and the remarks of the judge confirmed their
opinions?'

THE PAST LIFE OF The convict
who et peewit lise in a position so perilous is the son of a
small echnolmaster, and was burn tt. the neighbourhood of
Coventry in the year 1804. Tbere 1,, however, no pretext
for the Albritton that his tether was tutor to the Earl of
Dysart, not does there appear to be any better foundation
foe his assestien that he Is a regularly (-located medical
man. According to hie own wooly, as detailed in a beard.
iner-house where be lived, he married his present wife Don
failings of gratitude fur her attention to him when ill during
the period of hie career a. a inediosl strident ; but there is
no proof that he originally wan more than a chemist, or poo-
-1 seem a higher protessionil degree than that of tee Apothe-
caries' Company and a Geruma degree. He nuktabtedly,,
however, carried on method praetkv. et S otAwel:. Cam-
berwell, and various places adjoining London. But it
was at Haulegate where he practised limpet and wee beet
known; he carried en bosh:lima them for erverul yr ve, and
It 4 hat fair to add that, except being coneddered some-
what closefisted and fond of money, be bore a tolerably
respectable character. After residing there fur alma time
be left for Germany, with the double view of placing
binmelf under the celebrated bydropethi-t, Priestnitz, for
the purpose of obteining relief from a lemeneis with
'which he was afflicted, and of acquiring a sufficient
knowledge of the system to matte him to practice it.
On Me return to Rentegate he not only opened a cold-water
care establiebtnent, but yulthshed a both noon the subject.
The latter is entitled " droperberia." The honk is rather
mem mettle as a oenpiluion, sad ti is somewhat crunchable
that worn &Meat in Germany hie 1 victim was at his request
taken care of by a gentleman bets., whom he was c rtntually
brought at Hichmeid on a claarga of tourkr. But at RICO..
gale he never got Into what is term. d fashionable practice,"
ant be consequently removed to the eetahlidenient of Moor
Part, In Sutrvy. After keeping this for several 'cars be
eventually a 4d it to advantage, red led a comparatively pct.
Tate life until arrested on the charge foe vigil Ls has re.
Gently been ecindetuned.
DONATIIIWOK FAZE.—This nuisance wee sop-
posed to be abolished some three or four yeses ago, bet certek-
parties have dieovraed a "flaw" in the agreement, and so
the fele is continued. No horses or other csttle are legally
*old there ea formerly: but the tents, and shows, and
drinking, and disalpetion, are still annually lo he teen on the
Lk pen. Oa Monday evening no tuner than 10.100 Fir-
ma ware present participating in the doings of the fah.

The Misomor-1 Or's.? eels P. As I .se drinking my
own her, • mew who wm et the bar took • drop out of my
pint, sad tb ho maid me to mks • dusk cat of his pet.
I did sad them I lookod shoot for him I couldn't tee hits,
se I west eat si the ow, Waken be was then, to Warm
kits hie hoer. sad I was at saes Worn law custody.
The pitmen mid those ails Dot • word et truth la the ele-
hom, sad that oho prima, was blast of the pot am Vohs
wa bora la dm Yak of whin; wootooyonso et Ws W.
kaalmad th• phonsr-1 hove boon =NAM to low
ply Iced, Ise may yews, owl I sores ow ort oak boilowi
Mal its amid no =phis of oho wt nho arm missed
Si or who* ohs 1 ow we, sad thaw wow Imo wOOO mlr
Iske in OW Beim SW woo, took the pot latiadlag se
dnyttilig bad alit I. She ward so give Iks ama his

TM pears—Then woo wt . drop of boor la the pot, my
bal. _
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The
bOl4ll eel W matey.
The rhea" wee them eamovad laek-sp, end them
te Helleleeey, the wow ass listen bees paid Woe their
el berthen Ye thejsitherveses.

CLILIMIXIVILL.