Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-19 00:00:00

THE MEDITERRMAN AND ,INDIAN

TELFG3APHS.

To-day. the expedition for la, lug the submarine tele-
graph to connect England with Malta and Corfu via
Sardinia, will leave Liverp of for ttas Mediterranean, and
as the future of the entire syete-n of European submarine
telegraphic communication, including the ultimate exten-
sion of it to India, may be said to hang on the success or
otherwise of the enterprise, the latest in'elligence on the
subject eennot fail to be of in'erest.
The cable, which has been manufactured at the works of
Messrs. Newell, at Birkenhead is about 920 miles h: length,
and of the same diameter as that manufactured for the
Atlantic Telegraph Company. The first section of the line
between the coast of Sardinia and Malta, will require
350 miles of cable, and the second, between Malta and
Corfu, about the same ; the remaining 220 being re•
served for the purpose of what is called slack, and
to meet contingencies. The whole extent has been coiled
up into the hold of the Thenr, placed at the disposal of
the expedition by her Majesty's Government, and which
was the vessel engaged in layis g down the first submarine
telegraph between Dover and Calais. The engineers era
Messrs. Ne wall and Mr. Webb, who had the laying down
of the Orfordne s cable, and they will be joined at Cagliari
by the representaives of the French and Sardinian Govern-
ments, who also furnish vessels and other assistance. The
plateau of the Mediterranean between Sardinia, Malta, and
Corfu, presents far more favourable c snditisms for the sub-
mergence of the cable than that part between Sardinia and
Algiers, where the depths are between one and two miles.
The grea'est &pit. to be encountered between Sardinia,
Malta, and Corfu is but one mile, the average being
a dead level of not greater than half a mile, and the
physical configuration at the bottom being free from those
rocks and obstructions so opposed to the successful
operations of the telegraphic engineer. All the most
perfect appliances in the shape of machinery and
mechanical atilt have been secured for the occasion, and
are of a character consistent with the importance of the
enterprise. In the event of this great submarine link
being successfully completed be ween Sardinia and Corfu,
it will be the means of supplying the British Government
and the East India Comp any wide a direct route as far as
Corfu, towards India and Anstralie, besides affording to
the French and Stsed:nian Governments, and the other
southern counties of Europe a means of di. ect
communication with the East. Amongst its other
advantages is the instantaneous communication it witl
establish between Ragland and the important Govern-
ment station and port of Malta, at present touched
at by nearly all the vessels that navigate the Mediterranean,
and from which Government and other despatches are so
numerous and so important. Tae entire length of the line
will be 700 nautical miles. Her Majesty's Government
have contracted to pay for the transmission of their official
" telegrams," and those of the East India Company, an
annual sum of £7,200, for 25 years.
With a view to the extension of the line to Tndia, via
Alexandria, Selencia, the Persian Gulf, and Kurrechee,
through the medium of either of the prcjected Red Sea or
Euphrates Valley lines, a concession has been obtained from
the Austrian government for a submarine line from Regusa,
on •he shores of the Adriatic (forking out of the Corfu cable)
to Candia, and thence to Alexandria, whi di will bring B am-
bay within fifteen days of London, and when either the Red
Sea or Euphrates lines shall be carried out in continua-
tion, the juxta, position of the English and Indian capi-
tals, as regards the transmission of intelligence, will
be, so to speak, instantaneous Then will be realise I the
celebrated saying of Lord Palmerston in 1847, in the
House of Commons, when foreshadowing the advance of
the great submarine communication. "The day," said
his lordship, " would arrive when if the Minister were
asked in the House of Commons whether a war had
broken out in India, he would answer, Wait a moment,
and we'll telegraph to the Governor-General and tell

you,,, _
It is reported that the principal obstacle to the imme-
diate acion cf the Red Sea and Euphrates pr,;jecti, the
importance of which cannot be overrated, arises
from the want of an adeuste guarantee on the part of
the Government and .East India Company, and
not from any want of capital or alleged phy.ical
difficulties connected with the u•ldertAiug, still less any
apprehended want of security to it, arising from the law-
lessness of the tribes along its route. All parts of
India would ba brought into telegraphic communication
with Kurrachee by either of these pr,jects, and tte cable
from thence of the East India Company to the head of the
Persian Guiph, and other wires to be laid down, would
bring the East two thousand miles nearer England and
the Continent. When the British and C ,ntinental and
Indian Submarine Telegraph systems meet at Seleucia, the
east and west will be united. As regards the internal
telegraphic condition of India itself, nearly five thousand
miles of telegraph exist in that country, and measures will
be teksn to insure uniformity of design and management
throughout the sahola range of line from C ticatta, Madras,
and Bombay to Great Britain. In furtherance of this, a
coast line between Calcutta and Madras is now in vigorous
prosecution.

LONDON COURT OF sBiNKRUPTCY—SATIIADiT.

•THE SURREY GARDENS COMPANY.

Oa a former day an application was made to wind up
the affairs of this Company under the Joint Stock Com-
pany's Act (1836), and a postpenement took place to this
day to enable the parties interested to come to an arrange-
ment whic:l would render such proceedings unnecessary.
The following parties were re, resented : —The peti'ioning
creditor, Mr. H. Jones, architect, by Mr. Jones ; some
the shareholders by 3f of
r. Fleming; Mr. Julien and other
shareholders and cre litors, by Mr. Chappel ; Me Palmer,
a shareholder and creditor, and Madam CarrHori, a
creiitor, by Mr. Levi. Mr, Coppock and some
other persons interested were also in attendance.
Mr. Jones in imated that since the case was last
before the court, a meeting took place on the sth of
October, and a committee of twelve gentlemen was ap-
p )inted to investigate the of eirs of the company, and to
make a report to an adjourned meeting to ba held on the
2nd November, and he asked His Honour to permit the
petition to stand over to a period subsequent to that day.
Mr. Fleming did not object to the adjournment, but he
thought the cemmissioner should attach some conditions to
the order, in consequence of what had Lek m place between
the last meeting and the present time. A requisition was
signed by the requisite number of shareholders, requiring
the directors to call a meeting, in order that they might be
removed, and others appointed in their stead. A meeting
was accordingly held, at which a groat deal of discussion
to k place, and a committee of twelve was appointed to in-
vestige.e the subject before corning to a decision that the
directors should be removed. His complaint now was that
since the meeting the directors had appointed three direc-
tors, the effect whereof wait to supersede the obr,e3ts of the
meeting, and render the operations of the committee nuga-
tory. He subs'quently asked his Honour to attach to
the order for adjournment a coedition to the effect that
no active steps should b 3 taken by the directors in con -
travention 4.f the objects for which the committee was ap-
pointed. The Cemmiseioner did not thick he could make
the order required, which, in fact, would leave everything
open. Mr. Jones said he applied for the adjournment on
the understanding that Mr Fleming would support h:s
views, but if that gentleman wished to go on then with
the case, he (Mr. Jones) would go on. Mr. Fleming
Oh, no, that is not the thing. After much discussion, tee
..;outimithioner intimated these could not attach condi-
tions in the way required to 1N; order, and adjourned the
case to Saturday, 19th Decemt ,I•

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Seventy-six thousand m dais of the Meljidie are to be
sent from Constantinople far distribution to tie Engl'et
artily and navy.
M. Emile de Gr'rard'n is at Nap'es, end wou'd be dis-
posed to establish himself there, but for the impediment
in his way touching his library. Tee government would
contemplate with horror the crossing the frontier of a corps
of French volumes.
PROTICSrANTISX IN HERTS.— A correspondent gives us
the following account of a church built by Daniel O'Cin-
nell's protege :—" We are happy to hear that the church
built by the la'e Mr. Raphael, M.P., at St. Aiban's and
intended by him for a Roman Catholic Church, at a cost
of more than £B,OOO, has fallen by his death into better
hands. An excellent 1 idy, Mrs. Worley, residing at New
Barns, of ample fortune, a most determined supporter of
the orthodox Pio'es,ant charcb, h purchased it at about
one-third the original cost, and is now fitting up the interior
at an expense of £2,000, with a resi lance for the officiating
clergyman also. She will endow it and present it to St.
Arban's as a chapel of ease."— lire tern Times.
FLR3T, SECOND, CR TinteD PARSON ?—An amusing in-
terlu is took place in the course of the ape eh of the hon-
ourable gentleman who moved the reply to his excellency's
address in the ,Wouse of Assembly on Tuesday. This
gentleman, touching upon the subject of education, came to
this burst of oratory :—" Sir, we must educate oar child! en."
But instantly it flashed across his min 1 that he was ueblest
with babies, and he recalled himself with—" Sir, you must
educate your cl%ildren." Bat at this proposi ion the
chaitulan, whn was ad'ressed, began to shake his head and
grin. " Sir," continued the perplexed orator, as the
roar of the house, " Sir, you—'hey —we—they must edu-
cate their children."—Adelaide Paper.

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