The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-28 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

VALENTIA, JULY V.

Shore end landed and splice completed at 8.43.

Messages of oongratuition passing rapidly be-
tween Ireland and Newfoundland. Insulation and
continuity perfect. Speed much increased since
surplus cable has been cut off.

VALENTLi, JOLT
_2B.

Following telegram received from Newfoundland
—Gooch to Glass :—" Our shore end has just been
laid, and a most perfect cable, under God's
blessing, completes telegraphic communication
between England and the continent of America. I
cannot find words to express my deep sense of the
untiring zeal and the earnest and cheerful manner
in which everyone on board, from the highest to
the lowest, has performed the anxious and
arduous duties they, in their several de-
partments, have had to perform. Their
untiring energy and watchful care night
and day for the period of two weeks required to
complete this work can only be fully understood
and appreciated by one who, like myself, has seen
it. All have faithfully-done their duty, and glory
in their success, and join with me in hearty con-
gratulations to our friends in England who have in
various ways laboured in carrying out this great
work."

The Houses of Parliament and the leading Lon-
don clubs were apprised of the successful landing
of the Atlantic cable at dinnertime last evening.
The telegraphic qfiche reporting the proceedings
in Parliament, and by means of which members are
kept informed every quarter of an hour as to what
is actually taking place in the house, contained
this postscript : The Atlantic cable is landed ; all
going well." The intelligence rapidly spread,
and before ten o'clock it was known all over
the town that the success of the expedition
is a substantial and incontrovertible fact.
In spite of special correspondence, frequent
comment, and elaborate explanations, the public
have been slow to believe in the approach-
ing fulfilment of the promises and prognoetications
of the last ten years. Hence, the news of last
evening occasioned almost as much excitement and
surprise as if it were not the rational sequence to
whet was already known. That the cable
was going on well, and that the Great Eastern
was performing her allotted task successfully
had been accepted readily enough ; but that com-
munication was actually established, and that to-
dais American news might be expected in a few
hours, seemed to strike all hearers as a startling and
unexpectednovelty. Indeed,solittleare they different
agencies connected with the cable-laying expedition
of this year understood that it may be useful to
briefly recapitulate information we have already
laid before the public. The Atlantic cable, about
to be thrown open to the public, is manufactured
by the Telegraph Construction Company, and
owned by the Anglo-American Company. It may,
perhaps, save some confusion of ideas if we again
state that the original Atlantic Telegraph Com-
pany hags comparatively remote interest in the
new cable, and that the words, "guaranteed
8 per cent." must not be taken too lite-
rally. The real Atlantic Telegraph preference
shares are the 101. ones of the Anglo-American
Company, and the holders of these are guaranteed
more than 20 per cent. before the Atlantic
Telegraph shareholders receive a penny. if it
should happen that the first year's earnings ef the
cable do not exceed 125,000/.—an improbable con-
tingency—the whole of that sum will be divided
among the holders of Anglo-American stock. The
'3
-up capital of the Anglo-American Company is
11,0001. A further sum of 100,0001. is to be
handed over to the Construction Company when
the line is opened ; and for this 600,0001., the
first 125,000/. earned each year by electrical com-
munication between Europe and the United States
is secured by charter to the shareholders of tho
Anglo-American Company. In other words, the
latter's shares are Atlantic Telegraph preference
ones with a guarantee of 20 per cent.
Another point upon which frequent questions
are asked is the rate at which messages will be con-
veyed between England and America. After
carefully estimating the probable demand, it has
been settled to fix the tariff at 11. per word, and to
send no messages of less than 20 words each. This
high rate has been decided on in the hope of
keeping the company's business within practicable
limits, and from the number of applications already
made the amount of this would not nom to be
over estimated. As communication is said to be
as rapid on a long submarine wire as on an over-
land electric line, the material reward of the pro-
moters of the Anglo-American Company bids fair
to equal the honour and repute which will be
cheerfully awarded them. The battle with difficul-
ties has been as long and gallant as the victory
appears to be certain and assured, and all England
will rejoice at the golden prize proving substantial
and increasing. The latest testa show the broken
cable of 1865 to be even more electrically perfect
than when laid—a sufficient testimony to the
durability of these long submarine lines.
Conversations and messages were carried on all
through yesterday, until word was sent to cease
signalling, as they were about to make the splice
with the shore end of Trinity Bay. This was
effected soon after dusk with us. Mr. Latimer
Clark then commenced testing the cable—these
tests, it was expected, would occupy all night. On
Monday, at the latest, it is expected that the wire
will be opened to the public, and the messages sent
exactly in the order of priority in which they are
received. Applications for messages are already
pouring in.
On Tuesday Mr. Glass and the Knight of Kerry
intend to entertain about 1,000 of the peasantry
at a rural fete in honour of the occasion.
The Railway News of to-day says :
Although completed to Trinity Bay, Newfound-
land, there is not at present, we believe, com-
plete communication with any portion of the
telegraphic system en the American continent, so
that New York and London are not really yet within
speak• distance. There is a link of about 70 miles required
to complete the New York and Newfoundland telegraph,
and of this a abort length will consist of submarine cable,
which will have to he scram the Northumberland
Straits. This short length of a few miles has been taken
out by the Great Eastern, and will, no doubt, be laid in
the course of a few days. Some few miles on either side
of the straits have to be put in order, if indeed that has
not already been done, in anticipation of the success of
the greater work. Until the telegraph connexion is com-
plete menages for the American continent will have to be
conveyed about 70 miles by steamer.

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4,290

The Rev. Charles Edward Shirley Woolmer,
M. A., hsabeen lioensed to the perpetual curacy of Bt. Andrew,
Deal, and the Rev. William Calder, 8.A., has been licensed
to the curacy of Bromley, both in the county of Kent and
diocese of Canterbury.
BIIILDZItB' Bra EvoLrxr Iwarrrrnow.—The 19th
annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of the shove
charity was held yeeterday at the London Tavern. The
secretary read the report, which showed that there had
been two elections during the past year when six pen-
sioners were added to the list—four year,
and two
Jemmies—and five death' had occurred within the same
period, making the number of jpensioners at the present
nine 41-20 males and 21 fasois. The purchased &amount
of stock, Three per Cent. Consols, during the pest year was
4471. Os. 334/. 14s. 6d. for the reef fund, and
1121. de. 11d. for the building fund, makiegli a total of
11,1691. 18e. bd. Stock divided as follows : for the =lief
fund, 8,4371. 12e. 14., and for the building
2,7321. 6s. 4d. The report having been approvedfuin
adopted, the balanoe•sheet was next read, which set forth
that from June to June the eabecriptns and donations
&mounted to 2,31581. 6s. 6d., and ettev defraying all
expenses, a balsam of 6401. 4e. W. was left in the bends
of the bankers. The above being approved, Mir. Benjamin
Hannan was elected president of the institution for the
ensuing year. The usual routine Unlaces was then pro.
osedsd with, seed the meeting closed with a vote of thanks
to the ebabanaa.

[TWOPENCE

THE CHOLBRd.

We reVet to state that the oholera appoint to
be cm the merges* in Liverpool The medial authorities,
too, stste that the eases themselves are of an increashigl7
bad type. Nine new ones have been admitted Aar the
workhouae wards since Thursday. one of these beige a
who had bees token from a house in which olteghaadd
broken out, and afterwards removed to the Bank-hell
warehouses, whisk have been fitted up for the receplian of
persons who wish 'to escape from infected bourns. Since
Thursday 4 additional deaths have occurred at the work-
house. It elbowed that a oonsiderable number of owes have
occurred in the town which have not been' reported, to the
polioa. The applications for assistance in cues of dim-
' sham made et the dispensary cm Thursday afternoon
reached 200 and the medical staff is ceaselessly
in dealing with premonitory cases. The weather yesterday
I was unfavourable, being close and humid. A fetal are of
cholera is reported out of the ordinary range, via., that of
Mr. Thomas, cotton broker, of the finn of C and
Thomas, who, it is said, °sly survived two hours Ace the
seism*.

We learn by a telegram from Win;fola that abate is
increasing. Eighteen deaths have taken piece this week
spinet fifteen lest week, and seven the previous week. A
public meeting has been celled to consider the desirability
of adopt/Log the Local Government Act.
Two fatal cases of cholera have occurred at HuIL '
In the course of yesterday and Thursday meetings were
held by the guardians of the unions in the City of
London for the purpose of making arrangements, in order
to preemie, as far as poesible, the spread of the charm, as
Wenn. previa, kw tam neessefary treatrainira par
Mina*. With the epidemic From the report cl Sir.
Buneessie, the medical allow of the workhouse at Bees, it
appeared that up to Thursday morning there bed been no
less than 36 cams of cholera in the house, of which 19 bad
proved fate/. The average ages of those who bad diet} was
Ito you%
' The chaplain of the London Hospital whs.
to the Bowed :—" As chaplain of this hospital I am
hying
.0 lie very foam of the cholera, and I should
he glad far it to be known what terrible scenes we
are gointzhrongh, if only to be assured of more earnest
prayers offered in our behalf. It is hardly a fortnight
since the fi ease was admitted, yet we have already had
120 brought in, of whom 64 have died. A more terrible
sight than our cholera wards prevent can hardly be
imagined. Listen to a single case. A poor woman was
brought in the other day, one of whose children itiVir t
died of cholera at home. She herself, while nearly
from the disease, was confined. Beth mother arid in ant
are now dead, as well ea another of her children. Yester-
day a whale family, father, mother, and three children,
were brought in. The conduct of the nurses and the star is
beyond all pease. Their devotion to duty is really
splendid."
A member of the house committee of the London Hon
pital says that several of the worst oases have given way
to treatment. The sight there is heartrending. Jest
Wore his visit a woman had died whose husband had pre-
ceded her by a few hours, and he saw their two children in
the agonies of thedisease. The whole family had come is
together! The hosMtal is bit both ways. The anniver-
sary by which 2,010. or 3,0001. is obtained ham been post-
poned, and heavy extra expenses incurred.