The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

THE FATAL AFFRAY AT MONAGHAN.

In the Consolidated Chamber, at Dublin, counsel
has moved for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up David
Baird, now • prisoner in Monaghan gaol, under a charm
of murder. The object of the motion was to try
validity of the coroner's warrant under which David
Baird had been arrested and committed to gaol. He also
moved that the proceedings of the inquest might be forth-
with returned to the Court of Queen's Bench, in order
that they might be quashed. David Baird stated in an
affidavit—" I was knocked down by one Michael Gunn,
and one Duffy endeavoured to stab me. After great dif-
ficulty I got into my house, into which my companions
had gone before me. The mob then made an attack
upon the house with stones, bricks, and fire-
arms. I say that whatever was done by the parties
in the house after it was attacked was done in self-
defence, and in order to prevent the mob breaking into
the house. In the course of the disturbance which ensued
a person named Hughes was shot, but I weitively say
that I did not shoot the deceased. I say That from the
time myself and the party with which I was entered the
town of Monaghan until the entire affair was over, we
neither,. by word nor deed, gave any cause of offcnoe to
any person, unless what was done in self-defence. There
were no party tunes played, no party colours shown, and
no party expression used.' The coroner directed the
jury to retire and consider their verdict. The jury left
court without returning any verdict. The
coroner recalled the jury, got some of them to sign
the inquisition, and then signed a warrant for the arrest
of David Baird. Counsel contended that neither the ver-
dict nor the warrant could be sustained in point of law.
When a jury are once discharged they cannot be recalled,
and a coroner has no right totake theverdict of a majority
in the absence of the minority under any circumstances.
Judge George—lt from that affidavit that there
has been a very grorularity in the p at the
inquisition, in taking the verdict of the jury after had
be discharged. lam clearly of opinion, on the vit
you have read tome, that the proceedings in that coroner's
inquisition were irregular. That were a jury have been dis-
charged that the coroner should assume to himself the
power of re-assembling a portion of the jury, and without
re-swearing them, and without bearing any fresh evi-
deuce, that be should of his own authority take as the
verdict of the coroner's jury the endurg of a ordain
number of individuals Who had meos the jury
asgrooroding Ritmo to primi farm'sto be
beyond doubt irregular. My order will he to grant a
writ of habeas corpus to bring up the body_ of David
Baird on the next day this wart site, which wig be cm the
pa of this month. I will give a oesiebtieeel ceder ler a
writ of certiorari to bring into court the
taken Waco the waste, with a visor to =
speabed.
We Lint by telegram that when the lomat Baird
was removed yesterday from the potty salsas mitt
he wee attacked br the sae, mod called as orange
Inutdator. A mono of gnat ameitansast wood. The
aseallants were dispersed by the pollen and the =Nan
win called out to prevent a renewal of the rtotbg.

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FRENCH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Incorporated underthe Companies Acta of ISM and 1467. under the
title of
QM! ETE DU CABLE TRANSATLANTIQUE
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FRANCAIS (Limited).
With a Capital of £1.900,000. or 0.30,000,000, in 60,000 Shares of ZS%
or fr. 300,
Of which 10,000 are to be issued as fully paid Shares. according to
the Prompentus.
The UNION BANK of LONDON will roma.° SUBSCRI PTIONS
for £1,000.1100. in 3.000 shares of LSO each, of thud capitol, on the
following conditions
Deposit on application £1 per share.
On allotment V per share. On the ltith of February. 'IMO. £3.
on the 15th of October, Mot Et lOn the 13th of April. pots, Li.
On awl:allot December. lll6s. Li. On the 13th of May, 1819,
Subscriptions will be opened simultaiwously
At Paris—with tho Societe Generale de Credit Indostriel et Com-
morcial. and Moons. E. Erlanger and Co.
Berlin—with Mr. Joseph J•nues.
H•Mblirk—with Mr. Paul Mendelesohn Berthold,.
Bremen—with Messrs D. H. Witien and Co.
Prankiort—with Messrs von Erlanger and Sons.
Amsterdam— vnth Memo. 'Ammons% Rosenthal. and Co. ..
And in the Cnited States of Americo through the agency of
Moors. Duncan Sherman and Co.. of New York.
flokonA VMITIIII• IN /W 0...
Ills Excellency M. Drouyn de Limps
M. Elio de Bk•unikkk. MAW+.
Count Mallet.. Senator.
Vice-AdmiralDlß TrehoECTOnark Senator.
RS.
1.011005 00.III1D.
The Right Hon. ROBERT LO,XE, M.Y. Chstrissan.
Cornelius (:rino. 11, Leo. ,Messrs. Grinnell and Co.)
Eduard J. Itse-ey. Esq. ;Messrs. Feuer. Uhthoff. and Co., and
Posner and Ce.. Havana:.
•
Julius Rooter. £4l.
Witham Drury Schrisier, Pgq. IMcesre. J. H. Sobrikler and Co. l
PAH II NOAUD
Contr. Amaral LACAI'ELLE. President.
kikrtimal Phucul do Beaumont.
M. S. Kubik, Synkt.PUr.
Is, Baron Pk de 14ouru0ing
M. Clisrlov Crapelet MM. Rattier and 00.1
Le Baron Emile D'Erbmger.
06k LUAL SUP, k NTENDRIfT—Sir James Anderson.
CONSULTIIII/ OIL lICTIOCIAIira.
Sir William Thomson.
Cromwell P. Farley. Esq., M.I.C.E.
TNCIINICAL A tiv.sEst FRANn— M. Bertch. Member of the
Committee of TeleCgraphs in France.
tki..ikkkkg ANn 1,1.[CfrilICI•1111.
Latimer Clark. Esq., M.I.C.E.
Henry C. Fords. E M.I.C.E.
Fleentin,leitkin, Esq., P.R.:4.. M.I.C.E.
BANKPRI, 19 Lokook—TM' Union hank of LOll4Oll, Prinees-siceet.
1,1404 ks IN PAWS.
tic-ikt,lli.ni•tal,. do Credit Industriel ct Commercial.
r 1111,
BA:110.119 AND Au ENV, NEW yOItIC-46e6601. MUMS% Shen.

man end Co.
S$lL WIT. RS— Mt's, eholf. Core, and Dompam.
sr, es.T.ter —Frederiek J. Gratithn Esq._
°thee-. in London— itartholomew.house. E.C.
I (the,. ntri, —Hue Tagitbout.l,k
The oldest ,if the 'ompany to estublish and work a direct line
of tilegniph between the sent of Europe end the tfnitod
Stets,. of America. In Jie..othillet• with the concession granted by
the Imperial French ((overflew.' to Heron Emile D'Erlenger, of
Paris. and Mr. Julne Reuter of lan don.
Thic coneesseet, bears date eth .1 u ly, Nee, and confers the privi-
lege of Isyior and working .iit.marine telegraph. between France
and the Unit...l Suites The Frolic h Government binds itself not to
grant any otter rout-es. .1 for lines between Franco and North
America daring the period of twenty years from the let September,
1609.
A ooeressien granted fie the State Legislature of New York, for
landing and working rabies between that State and Franco, has
been secured.
Arrangements hare been made with the Submarine Telegraph
Company for the i•xel louse lee. of one of their wires between Eng,
land and Dieppe. from which piece the French Government will
construct a sips:lel wire to Brest direct for the tomppsnny. By this
means, the valuable co-operation of the Submarine Telegraph
Com/ any has been secured, and an uninterrupted route from Eng-
land to the United States will he established.
Tie French Government has promised its support and assistance
to the undertaking, and an honorary committee of the highest
positron has been formed in Paris.
The growth of telegraphy on the Continent in recent years haa
owing to greater frethtte. and a lower Witt been even more rapid
than in England. In England. the number of messages has been
annually inrreming at the rate of from 13 tom percent. In France,
the number of messages increased between 1813 and 1867, from
1,756,000 to 3,214,000, having nearly doubled in eve years. In
Freesia, the average annual increase has been 34 per oent. In
Austria the traffic increased nearly fourfold between 1661 and 1866.
It has been generally acknowledged that, both for political and
commercial ressone, the laying of a direct and independent cable
from the continent of Euro to the United States was only a
question of time, and considering the extraordinary Increase of
telegraphic messages wherever new facilities are afforded, it is to
be expected that the new undertaking will create fresh treffic.
independent of that of the old companis, sufficient to ensure
earnings of equal if not greater amount
The published report of the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company to their Annual Meeting, held in February last, contains
the following statement :—"The revenue from the cable is pro-
gressing satisfactorily, and the reduction in the rates, which com-
menced on December Ist (1867), has tended mutat° the derelopmeot
of business. The gross returns :of traffic made to this Company
since the 11th July, 1887, by the Anglo-American Company, show
the following daily average., namely (
" From July 27th. 1887, to Feb. Let, 1666. the average
£I.M6 day has been about £1,046

coin Div.mbo let. lee, to Feb. Ilut, 10E4
From January Ist, 1868, to Feb. flat, 1860
" The pose daily trathe for the month of February has been as
follows . .

Yeb. 1

.. £764 Feb. 12 £1,7911
.. 766 „ 13 l,lBO
„ 14 1.612
„ 15 1,470
.. 1,240 .. 16 768
„ 17 1,476
~ 18 1,590
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2,234"

0 431
„ 10 1,114
Ts
11 1,767 ,
Tins average of £1,300 elves an income of about 'AMMO • pear.
Prom their income, however, the existii2Companies have Wyey
one-third to the Newfoundland Comp • charge from which
the present Company will be hoe. It be the object of the
new Company_ to fix mob rates for massages as will seance the
largest possible traffic. The price to be charged is intended to be
It for a massage of 10 words, and it seems not too sanguine an ex-
pectation that at this rate the line will find constant employment.
Thepowerottraneenneionof the new cable nestimated. aooordins
to the report of the ening and electricians, at a minimum o
12 words per minute, w allowing 14 hours • day for waste time,
saw consequentiy on 10 is a day for actual work, and taking
200 woridng days in tshalyear, glees, at the rate of E 2 per message,
an annual Looms of 000. Practically, the proportion of dnye
and hours lost would, in probabibty, be less than is assumed in
this estimate. The working expenses of the new line may be
calculated to amount at the utmost to 00,000 per annum.
The proposed cable will be laid in two sections; the lira from
Brest in Frame, to the French island of St. Pierre, off Newfound-
land ; the second from St. Pierre either to New Rork direct, or to
a point between Boston and New York, with • special line to the
lest named city.
The length of the cable is as follows:
let section, from Breet to St. Pierre
section, from St. Pierre to the United
Staten, about 722 „

To this length an amply anflicient amount of alagoillbe added

A contract iris DemiAt:Owl into with the Telegenic do—ns—Gs—c-
tion and Maintenance COOlll43My to manufacture and y the cable
for the sum of £9r..000 of which £OlO,OOO is payable in cash by
agreed instalments during the manufacture and shipment of the
cable. The remaining £llO,OOO will be payable In the following
manner. viz., Loewe in fully paid-up share., after the section from
Brut to St. Pierre shall have been laid and tested satisfactorily
for thirty race wive dale; £lO,OOO in cash after the section trout
St. Pierre to the United States shall have been laid and tested for
thirty days, and the final payment of £lO.OOO in fully Dud-up
shares alter the entire cable shall have been six months in astir
factory operation.
Allowing £IOO,OOO for the constructional the land lines, engineers'
charges, munereudon,sind all expenees up to the opening of the line,
and deducting the consideration hereafter stated to be given for
the coneeesion upon snows s, there will remain a balance, by way of
prom, of MOW
The &treat Eastern will be employed in laying the deep befh por-
tion. Sir Samuel Canning with a competent staff will have charge
of the submersion of the stable. Sir James Anderson will act on
behalf of, and watch over the interests of the Company.
The nableffs oontracted to be shipped in June next, and the line
is expected to be open for traffic in the coarse of next
The cable will be of the beet eonstruction, and generally of the
same description as thaws =anal seared by the Telegraph Con-
*ruction Cossiany for the Atlantic sindAnglo-American Telegraph
Companies. The cable will be protected by tar;ike the 1e63 cable,
and advantage has been taken of all the experience since gained.
In accordance with the unanimous recommendation of the engi-
neers and electricians, the weight of copper in the conductor has
been increased from 90071 b. to 400 lb. per knot By tide means
greater rapidity of transmission is obtained.
In tracing the router deter:: has been made to avoid the risk of
Ire and anchorage on use banks of Newfoundland. It is on
thew that all aceicents o the existing cables have occurred.
Sir James Anderson has reeoided him opinion that the objeet
thus sought for will be fully attained; that in fact the new line will
be eat re 4 free from &oddest. br icebenrs, and does not cress any
anchorage resorted to by Islam? vessels, Nearly one-half the cable
win be in a depth of water when the subuiergencelwill be easy and
the recovery fax repairs inexpensive. The deep sea portion will be
in a depth similar to that in which the present cables are laid, and
from which the 1868 cable wee recovered. Under these Cirellltr,
steams, sod the company having secured the services and expe-
rience of all the eminent men who have contributed to the success
of the former expeditions, Use riak of the lament undertaking is
reduced to • sr4niptam,

/-reafigem ante have been Made with Sir William Thomeon, Mr.
Fieeming Jenkin. and Yr. Turley, for the use of their patented
instruments with any future improvements
The consuggfonaires, by an agreement dated 3rd Awnst, leel,
and scheduled to the articles of association, have agree usm
ler to the Company their concession from the Imperial Govern-
ment of France, together with all their right. under the concee.
Won from the State of New York, and the benefit of the uncles.
mentioned agreement.. and to defray all expense. up to the roe&
Mutton of the Company in coesideration of 3.000 fully paid Mares,
to To allotted to them whenever the cable shall have been moms&
fully laid, and shall have continued to work satisfactorily for 30
days. They will Mee be entitled to receive one-gf th part of the
surplus net profits in each year. after netting aMde a reserve fund
equal to 3 per cent. of the net progta, and after payment of a div•
dead of IC per oent. to the shareholders. These OODUZlfeloll's
will, fur convenience, be attached to a portion of the fully
charm It will be seen from this that the conoeseionaires CI!
only to the memos of the undertaking for t heir remuneration. and
for the t of the expenses they have already incurred.
Copies of Agreements and of the Memorandum and Articles
of Association, and of the Ooncemions, be for on at the
ontorn of the Soliatiors of the Company. ]Gore. Blsopo4 pane,
and Bump... 110. co Iraimeteest...

p,,./.7et.-Tase and ford of application for.hums may Do obtained
at the offices of the Om , BArtholonicw-locae, and at the
Union Hoak of Londoe, sad their notions binicalien
COPIER of REPORTS of Mr JAMES ANDERSON. Sir WEL.
LIAM THOMPAM, Macro PARLEY, CLARKE, PORDE pad

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Londo
Baron Emile dllki anger, Julius Reuter, ungnst 3, Inn
Deer ihre,—With reference to the route projeeted for the cable
between Brest and America. I have remaantended„it for the !Wien,-
reasons:
epi in the 300 fathom line upon Mane bank and around
the southern edge of the Grand bank, there is ne of Me,
nr ofizatzemother agesey that can lie espreeted ming the cable.
The edge of the Grand bank wee aro because it is
uneertain at what depth the icebergs ground. They are said, upon
good authority. to ground at tines in 10 fathoms.
It is not certain at what depth.the vends employed in the seal
trade may sometiamenbitehrem to dr:ipiza anchor twee. per,. of
kl= 1"Z trek
I are avoided by the tract ehosen for the propceed
floes
'sable, and I an Justified b 7 my own experience in saying that the
track from the southern edge of the Grand bank to St. Pierre, and
thence to the place of Medina in America. is entirely free from any
danger from ice, and doss not arose any anchorage resorted to by
Ulmof fishing yarns.
cable upon Milne bank and from the Grand beak to St.
Pierre, andthenee to America 'upwards of lAN will bland
in water of such easy depth that repairs wffi be a matter of cm-
talotr and we are ed item the eettetlittee which already
exist In allinring that the depth►of water along the deep see por-
tion ran be no greater than that in which the present Atiantio
cable* arelaid. . . _

I anticipate from the soundinp about to be taken by the
Fr..neh atop of war that a good deal of teem:amble ground will be
found from Milne bank to the (hand bank of Newfoundland.
I am, Dear Sin yontalaltkfuny.
JA.VVON ANDERSON.

London. August Diurrthezw.—At your request we have much pleasure in
on the cable recommended by us
tnedisartruc.27;s2 into W"lierre, and from fit. Pierre to the
coast of the United litates.
The deep sea cable adopted Is almost exactly similar to that
need In lath and lath The west merit of this form is strength,
both absolute and relative to the strains required while laying
the cable. The actual strength of this hemp and steel cable Ii
7 tons, while the strain required for submersion need nut ex-
seed 14 ow,. Even if it should be necessary to haul back an
nmtlac already laid, the strain need not exceed Ii ton in they std water. The strength is, therefore. 11.1111lY .UftlCibilt to
meet all contingencien, with • margin quite as =wit u Ie allowed
iti= twill,' engin reins construction or operation. We need
you of the experimental proof which haa been
given that this form of cable can, even it broken in the de„ pest
Tiviir,k9nc9Tatvilladrodslosi Dui ie into too UPPOtilinity of