The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26.

Tnr. East India Company and Board of Cashel
have determined to carry out the promise given in
June, 1855, and to give such pecuniary eristaacis
to the company that then proposed and now propose
to c'nstrnct a telegraph to India vi► the Red Sea as
will ensure the success of the undertaking.
The Treasury no more stand in the way. A little
public agitation of the question has shaken down
and broken up the very foundations of that fortrms
erected in the path of the Red Sea line by the inna-
ewe of private intern'," rendered effective by igno-
rance of the regions proposed to be traversed by the
two competing lines, by the apathy of the public first
roused into attention by the Indian outbreak, and by
that most potent of all powers in this busy age,
acc,2s.Thiiity to those i t power, and the command
over their attention.

True it is that the feasible project is adopted, and
that which is impracticable left to be overcame by
the insuperable objections against it which have
alrt'uly sealed its fate ; but this resolution has been
cow" to after a needless delay of two years, and after
exposure to all the dangers of au& a delay—a delay
which may contribute to lose us an empire, and
which does occasion incalculable inconvenience, and
diminishes our power to an extraordinary degree.
We hail hoped that the results of intrigue and
prejudice would partly have been obviated by the
Atlantic cable being immediately available, to esta-
blish telegraphic communication from Suer to Ades.
It is said, however, that another attempt to lay the
line across the Atlantic is likely to be made in
October. We kuow nothing of the truth of the
report. Withoat for a moment undervaluing the
great importance to our commerce of speedy tele-
graphic intercourse with our cousins over the water,
we cannot help feeling the greater political hn-
portance at this crisis of being able to converse with
India instantaneously.
We trust that great efforts will be made to secure
that cable for Indian purposes, and that the owners

of it, a large majority of whom are British subjects,
will be influenced by each considerations u we have
expreseed.

;There seems to be no objection to the cable. It is
well suited for paying out in greet depths (and the
central channel of the Red Sea is of censidersble
depth); it will transmit messages through 600 miles,
the longest stretch of the Red Sea line, with the
same speed and accuracy as the wires convey a
mosaage from London to Liverpool. The preempt
crisis is urgent, and if more must be paid for the
convenience, the country can well afford it.
The best authorities agree that in great depths no
currents exist to disturb the cable, and the slow
action of the water continued through geological
periods he. smoothed the bottom and created a
deposit of sand and mud. In the Red Sea there are
no tides and no currents but such as are produced by
winds, and therefore confined to the surface. That
circumstance alone eminently fits it to receive a
submarine cable.

Our object is to invite public attention to the
subject, in the hope that public discussion may
smooth away difficulties and enable the great question
of telegraphic communication with India to be
solved.

No doubt some Blue-books contain bets
which ate more fitted to gratify carimity
than to supply useful information. We due my
many of the facts contained in the REOIMAR-

.Gre-ra ‘L's Report of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
may be of this character. Just look at these 226
pages, and the elaborate tables they contain. What
a system of torture, it may be asked, must be exec.
cieed over unoffendinc and modest people is order to
get at these facts? What right has any meddling
officer to question me whether my wife be. had •
child, or whether it is a boy or girl ? What right
have you to intrude into the edam privacy of a
British family in order to know whisk of them is
dead? Above all. what an be the seemaity of in-
sisting that two people when they marry shall not
only eater their names. but shell at the slum time
reveal hew old they are? What bat ma idle warioslty
eau be gratified by biliting that en old lady shall
write dews eighty in the Pagieber's book when she
unites her brans@ to lwr Imbued of sixty ? or by
knowing that eleven lively widows of seventy
pledged their troth with towheads varylag between
efts-8n and sweaty-Ave' or that in r 7.496 —the
somber of marriages in the year 1866—then were no
fewer then 100 bridegrooms of seventy yews of age
and sparerib? or that oat of 7964 eplaetwa, one
rows lady of seventy for tie grit doe armed a
heeboai P The answer to time questions is that
erne sammelise are instrestive ; and that ems of
dreg feats ere meal as well es estertabeleg. The
trek however, Is, that they we aa sweediel pert et

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