The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-20 00:00:00

TEE ELECTRIC TELIGRAPE IN INDIA.

" Never since its discovm," writee the corre-
spondent of the Time, " hes the electric telegraph played so
important and daring • role as it now does India. With.
out it the Commander-in-Chief would lose the effect of half
hie force. It lies served him bettor than his right mm. By
ft he is enabled to direct the march of his battalions, the
movements of hie artillery sad cavalry, to terries news of
their encoeseee, to survey. as it were, at any one tiros the
whole position of hie army and of its auxiliaries, to annum-
alone with the Governor-General and with his subordinate
raw* to sift the truth from the falsehood of native infor-
matics., to learn whet posts Cr. likely to be threatened,
whin the iaesy are in force, to spare
essytesviliti: staff and his
I.o.lsad elesenee. std
480 laynactlit°fur itisendln
importance. As to the
ankle of the telegraph, which includes of
cams them who direct it, I need only *kern that In this
war, ter the brat time, a telcirraphic wire has been carried
aka/ ladle are and through the midst of a hostile country.
Airs peon, from post to post it baa moved on with our
setillem sad scarcely baa the commander- in-chist established
his heed-Quarters at any spot where he intended to May for a
few days when the post end the wire were established also.
The ,gesph was bit
_into communication with the
Otrretworaal at tabed, with Outram at the Alum-
high, with Calcutta, Madre, Bombay, and the most re-
acts districts over which the system is distributed. It
is meinly to the eta, tem_ gy, and ability of a
MOW of the angel amnesty, Lieutenant Patrickr
Strout, that these advantages ere due. He is .misted,
it is Irma by a few min, but he it is who devisee and sawn-
the execution sod the extension of the line from Tees
to place. At one time his an an chased for alike by the
inamy's cavalry—at aztotber time they ars attacked by the
Sowers, and they end the wires are eat halo tintee—Main,
theft sienna batteries are emesind by the fire at a gun or
their can knocked is piton by • rand lint, bat mill they
work en, creep ewer mid plane, ream walmennes, span
Avis, and pines isaales, dilemmatic, mother the rude poles
nine aloft their shed., bmdea, and the quick again vibrates
with its silast tem= mid the thandor of the artillery.
Whits Sir C. Campbell wee at Cawnpore he could learn from
Sir Jetues Ostrom the remthe of on attack before the worm
bad disapprend from the field. As he admitted towards
Lucknow, the line was anted with or soon after him ; a tent
wee pitched tear hie, a hole was dug in the ground sad filled
with water, end down dropped the wire from the pole stack
up In haste, direct into the water otter-like, the simple mag-
net was arranged, the bet,..-.4 set in play, and at once the
steel moved responsive to every touch. Owing to the ex-
treme dryings of the atmosphere and the power of the sun—
which at this omen bakes the earth like a brick, the insu-
lation of the cornet is nearly complete. The wire
is thick, and is not protected by non-conducting
coatings of any kind ; it is twisted round the
'op of a rude pole, fifteen or sixteen feet high, sod,
und,-v ordinary states of the atmosphere, it is found to wrier
repel'. We had not been very long in the Dilkoosha ere
we saw, In dim personales, the line of posts advancing
towards me, and non the wire wee slipped into one of the
,vieelows, end now it is at full work, our-
r„ by all t,Se shattered splendour of the palace. in-
quiring after the Ote•orkas, asking for more of some thing
or other, exohaeging Mem hotness Sir Colin and Lord Can-
miming • newspaper menage to yourself,
am▪
id the whistle of the boNt. the roar of the round allot,
mil all the feverish somas of war."

Ms &UTZ PROUCTITIONS Or TaX
Illabserfetiate Min Wm anima Ws in illinnelistor in Add of
the deliadamte le does preeelatimee, awl thipoinatttee re-
port a tek meat of emeste, bath mew the middle and
waft dime. lOW wale( la the meneedelad towns
are oho said to have been teed vieraided to.
400TH K siietttoitoX Mosamt.—Daring the week
April 17 the visitors bay, lisea es
Tosedar, sad &tardily (free dope) 4,350; on
Monday end Tuesday (free everdap), 3,703; co the three
student,/ day, (admire= to the *the id.), 1,288; OM
etadeate' main (Widanday), lid ; total, 9,477.