Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

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TELEGRAPHIC COMAIIINICATION WITH INDIA,

The public of England and India are deeply
interested in this question. Its importance, great
even in ordinary times, has become vital at this
crisis, when instantaneous communication would
prove a most powerful arm to aid the military
arrangements upon which alone our hold over
India depends. Under these circumstances we
are all concerned in knowing at whose door is to
be laid the blame that a telegraph to India has not
been in operation at least since the beginning of
the year.

Prima facie one would imagine that a telegraph
to India would in the natural course of events pre-
cede a telegraph to Am9rica. Whether we regard
it in a political or a commercial point of view, the
Indian telegraph, connected as it is with the rapid
transmission of intelligence from Singapore, China,
and Australia, is at least equal in importance with
the American. Its construction is easier. The
American telegraph has to traverse 2,000 miles of
ocean, the Indian only 500 miles at one stretch ;
the feasibility of the latter was therefore known
several years back, and that again was a reason
why it should have had precedence. These are
the broad facts of the case. They suggest the
question, how it comes that the natural order of
events has bz..‘en reversed, that the Atlantic cable is
at this moment being laid, whilst the manufacture
of the Indian cabl is not begun ? We unhesi-
tatingly say the Treasury are alone in fault that we
have not for many months been in telegraphic com-
munication with India. More than two years ago the
India Company gave their adhesion to the Red
Sea telegraph project. With that support the Com-
danyapplied to the Treasury. The cold shoulder was
turned upon them ; they were, in short, snubbed,
and plainly told they must abandon all hope of
government aid. The Company then broke up,
or, to use the expression of the chairman, remained
in abeyance, after having despatched an agent to
Constantinople and Egypt to obtain the necessary
firmans. These he obtained with the support of
the Foreign-office and Lord Stratford de Redeliffe.
The Treasury, however, were not to be thus
foiled. During the agen:s absence the Euphrates
telegraph project was started, and was subsi-
dised by government, the East India Company
giving a reluctant assent. This was done on the
opinion of Sir W. O'Shaughnessey, who condemned
the Red Sea line, alleging that the coral reefs would
cut the cable. It must be observed that though
Sir W. O'Shaughnessey laid 4,000 miles of land
wires in India in the short space of two years, he
yet knew nothing whatever about submarine
cables; that an eminent firm of contractors for
submarine cables are, in spite of the coral, ready
to lay the Red Sea line at their own risk, and de-
liver it over in perfect working order to the com-
pany, at the ordinary rate of charge ; that the
Mediterranean line to Corsica has been in perma-
nent work for several years, though it crosses coral
in more than one place ; and that in tho Red Sea
the coral is confined to the shores, which the cable
need only approach twice, i.e , at Kosseir and
Jiddah, and by taking careful soundings, it is ex-
pected that it can be avoided even there.

- We have frequently compared the two projected
lines by the Red Sea and the Euphrates. We shall
only state now that the Turks, who may be.sup-
posed to know their own country and their own
power over the inhabitants, have refused to
sanction the construction of the Euphrates line, on
the ground that they have no power to protect it,
naturally also refusing to allow the company to do
so, and thus by degrees becoming masters of the
country. In fact, common sense at once points
out that isolated telegraph wires laid before the
completion of the proposed railway, and without
tha protection of any established transit route,
would never be safe, even in times of peace, and
would inevitably be destroyed the first war that
occurred between any two tribes, or between any
tribe and the Turks or Persians. The stations in
the Red Sea line only occur every 400 to 500 miles,
and will be at large garrisoned towns, and on the
sea shore, where they could be protected by a ship if
necessary.
The Treasury, however, having, against the
opinion of the East India Company, of the Foreign
Office, and Lord Stratford de Redeliffe, and
without giving the Red Sea Telegraph Company
any notice of the objections made to their route,
or any opportunity of answering them, hastily
subsidised the Euphrates telegraph line, and given
it the monopoly of government business, and two
years to make their arrangements and construct
their line, say that during those two years their
hands are tied, that they cannot subsidise a com-
peting line and promise it any portion of their
business. If the Treasury have made a mistake
it lies with them to remedy it as well as they can.
It cannot for a moment be tolerated that a feasible
project of this immense importance should be
suspended for two years longer by a project that
is impracticable, and to which the Potte has
refused its assent.

We trust the East India Company and Board
of Control will act independently of the Treasury,
and grant the pecuniary aid which will enable the
Red Bea line to be executed within twelve months.

4.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

PUBLIC NOTICE.
BARRY SULLIVAN begs to inform his Friends
and the Public generally, that his DENEFI r 13 POSTPONED
to WEDNESDAY NEXT, 19th instant,

riClje 4.l'itittittu (Tian

THURSDAY, AUGUSLI 13. 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

.The. first, and now important, item in the news
of this morning, is the receipt of iatelligence from
Trieste, announcing that the Overland Mail had
arrived there, and the last accounts from Delhi
state, that that city had not fallen up to the 277 h
of June. Several engagements had taken place
outside the walls of the forts, in which the rebels
were completely repulsed. We regret to say, that
from the tenor of the government despatch from
which these facts are gleaned, there seems to be
ato doubt of the spread of the mutiny, and that
ere all is over it will cost us a vast amount of blood
and treasure. The rebels have been put to flight
at Sirs* Accounts from the Punjaub state, that
that province remained quiet and without any
symptom of disaffection. We are also told that
the governora of the respective presilencies were
all at their posts. The first batch of the troops
sent to China had landed at Calcutta on the
2nd of July. The commercial accounts are un.
satisfactory, money was both scarce and dear, and
government securities had given way considerably.
Freights had. an advancing tendency, and Ex-
change on England was quoted at 2s. 011, at
Calcutta.

The House of Commons held its usual raid-.lay
sitting yesterday, but, like most other IVeduesciay
sittings, it was not of any importance. Lord
Campbell's Bill, for the suppression of obscene
books and prints, was considered in committee,
when Mr. Roebuck characterised the measure as
one of the most preposterous that had ever been
sent down from the Hous 3 of Lords; insisting that
if passed in its present state, every classical author
-would be liable to be seized by the police, although
they could not translate or construe a single sen-
tence which they containel. Another, Mr. White,
argued that, as the bill stood, it would sulrject Lord
Campbell himself to the pains and penalties
inflicted by his own enactment. Mr. White also
stated that he had been informed, if the bill became
law, Lord Campbell's " Lives of the Chancellors
and -Chief Justices" would be proseeWed. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the House going
into supply, moved his resolutions respecting the
Sugar Duties, which was agreei to ; and, after
some supply votes were agreed to, the House
adjourned at five o'clock.
Mr. Bright has issued an address to the electors
of Birmingham, thanking them fo: having unani-
mously elected him to be their representative.
He promises to be soon among his constituents,
and to thank them in person for the honour which
they have conferred upon him
Our local intelligence this morning is varied and
interesting. The West Derby Guardians have
held their usual w.?ekly meeting, and unanimously
condemned the Pike water as being unfit for
"human beings to use without being filtered. It
will be seen that the ruffians who made a
desperate attempt at murder and robly,:ry on Capt.
Inn:an, near Ctonmei, on the s:d inst., when on
his way to pay some pensioners resident in Tip-
perary, have been arrested at. Huddersfie!d and
sent over to Ireland to face the magistrates, end
subsequently the `• Lord Judge of Assize." The
proceedings in both Courts of Ass:ze yesterday
will be found in another column.

Our foreign and continental news is brief, but I
interesting. According to accounts from Paris,
the newspapers in that city are doing their best
to awaken the interest of the public to the crisis at
Constantinop,le, but their efforts are fruitless. The
majority of the public does not know, and cares
not to know, the exact position of the Principali-
ties, and the remainder are too well aware that no
serious results can possibly proc2el from a ques-
tion which is of third-rate importanec. The
Bourse has risen tc-Jay, and practical men
eonsider that the crisis will terminate with
a general conference, in which the destinies of
the Danubian Provinces will be decided without
further delay. The Gas man newspapers ara in the
meanwhile giving great annoyance to the sensitive
French jurnalists. A Berlin paper informs us
that in diplomatic circles in Vienna, M. de Thouve-
-nel isknown as " nephew of uncle INlenschikoff."
This double edgel sarcasm excites the rage of the
Paris gcvernmont pipers. A Vienna journal, the
Ost-Deutdc7 e Post,ia severe on .Sartlini a, and says :
" The microscopic demonvratioa of that state is
of about the same importance to Turkey as its
previous
participation in the Eastern war."
Oae of the leaping Para journals states that
there is n) new fact to be noticed touching the
Moldavian diffi.'ulty, but an impression prevails
that the Emperor has virtua'ly settled the question
at Osborne. The complieacion, ugly as it looks,
does not exciie, and it never has excited, the
slightest uneasiness in the public mind in Paris.
It would seem as if the Russians were gaining
great victories in Circassia. Lste lett:rs from St
Petersburg mention a report sent to the govern-
ment on the 8:1 ult., concerning a very b;iliiant
affair which took place on the 3rd at Glendschick,
on the coast of the Black S'A. The report has
been forwarded by Major-General Filipson, the
officer in common-a of the Russian troops in those
parts, and states that the filibustering troops, under
the orders of a certain Colonel Lepinsky, had been
surprised by the Russians landinr, troops under
Major Benaschow, who had succeeded in capturing
large quantity of powder, two rounds of grape,

shot, 500 grenades, and other valuable stores of
ammunition, which had been placed there in charge
of the garrison, and been thought quite secure from
any Russian attack. The Russians are said to
have had only eight men severely wounded and
two killed in storming the defensive works and
capturing the guns in position, The whole affair
appears to have taken place from the too great
confidence reposed in the courage of the garrison
to defend their position by Lepinsky, who had
otherwise used every precaution in fortifying the
point of danger as far as science was concerned.
We are also told that the Russian Government has
given orders for the construction of screw
machinery for nine ships of the line, two corvettes,
and ten galliots, besides four transport ships
There are at present in the camp of Peterhoff no
less than 4,000 cadets belonging to the army,
principally in the branch of artillery, and the
Grand Duke Nicholas is often employed in wit-
nessing their exercise in gunnery.
A Vienna letter in the Nord says that it was
rumoured at Jassy that M. de Basily, Russian
Commissioner in the Principalities, had not, like
most of his colleagues, suspended his relations
with the provisional government of Moldavia, but
was waiting for new instructions. The Nord
remarks that, without attaching more importance
to that circumstance than it merits, it would, if
true, be the best reply to those who accuse Russia
of being the cause of the existing crisis in the
Principalities The same Vienna letter states
that the English Commissioner in the Principali-
ties had refused to sign a counter-protest drawn
up by the Austrian Commissioner in reply to the
protest of the other Commissioners against the
validity of the Moldavian elections.

The letters received from Mexico represented
that M. de Tiajecla, the new Minister of Foreign
Affairs of that Republic, had written to M. Lafra-
,t-,Tua to take no further steps in the dissension with
Spair, in the event of the Spanish government not
being satisfied with the concessions that have been
made to it. This led to the apprehension that the
Anglo-French mediation had but small chances of
success,

The steam-ship North American arrived here
yesterday afternoon, bringing Quebec advises of
August 1. In a political point of view they are
not of any importance. We have given a full
resume of all the intelllgence'in another column.

ANOTHER most remarkable trial has terminated.
SPOLLEN, the man accused of murdering Mr.
LITTLE at the Railway Station, Dublin, has been
acquitted. This may be to many a matter of
extreme surprise, for although the evidence was
for the most part circumstantial, yet every link
in the chain was so complete and closely inter-
woven that one could not suppose that the jury
would have entertained doubts as to the guilt
or innocence of the accused. By these remarks
we do not intend to say that there were circum-
stances connected with this memorable investiza-
tion, whicta did not appar in the evidence
adduced, that rendered the verdict perfectly

compatible with law and justice. Be this as it
may, we are of opinion that a strong case of
presumptive guilt was made out against the
accused. We justify our belief upon the matter
from the facts which transpired at the trial, and
which we shall here briefly recapitulate.

The discovery of the murder of Mr. LITTLE
:ook place on the 14th of November. The last

time he was seen alive was on the evening of the
previous day, somewhere about five o'clock. At
half-past seven on the same evening, the female
who had the care of the office perceived a light
under the door, and made an attempt to get in,

but found that it was locked. The natural
in Icrcnuc Lima im LIM. Mr. L.iTTLE must have

been murdered between five and half-past seven

o'clock on the evening of the 13th of November.
Immediately after the discovery of the murder,
it was ascertained that a considerable quantity of
cash had been abstracted from the office. An
examination of the body showed that the murder
had been inflicted with two kinds of weapons.
The head had been battered in, and the throat

severed with a sharp-cutting instrument
Medical men gave it as their opinion that a
hammer and a razor ware the weapons used for

perpetrating this diabolical deed.
Oar readers are aware that every effort was
made to clear up the mystery and to secure the

capture of the murderer. Police vigilance upon

an unexampled scale was• called into requisition.
Every lane and alley of the Irish metropolis was

searched. The railway premises were ransacked
from one end to the other, and the canal adjoining
was dragged. In the latter a hammer and a
razor were found, but they were destitute
of any marks of ownership. The next
step in the history of the affair was the

discovery of a hamper stowed away in the
rafters of the railway painting shed. This
hamper contained a quantity of silver, which, of
course, was supposed to be a portion of the cash
abstracted on the night of the murder. This,
however, did not lead to anything definite as to
the supposed'culprit or his whereabouts. Weeks
and months passed on, the winter was over,
and spring came, but still there was no trace of
the guilty man, and all hopes were given up that
the culprit would ever be discovered.
Matters remained in this unsatisfactory posi-
tion until the summer set in, when circumstances
took place which aroused suspicions that JAMES
SPOLLEN was the murderer. His wife gave
information to the police as to the whereabouts
of the stolen money, and openly accused her
husband of the crime. This, of itself, would
not have been a matter of any great moment,
if unsupperted by corroborative evidence, for,
according to the humanity of the laws of
England, a wife cannot be evidence against her
husband. Every statement which Mrs. SPOLLEN
made as to the stolen money turned out to be
perfectly correct. Under these circumstances,
it became necessary to " fish" fresh evidence, in
order to put the matter in a train for judicial
investigation. Of course, the first point was to
connect SPOLLEN with secreted coin, which had
been found by additional and independent
evidence. And here there was a most singular
phase in the matter. A portion of the money
was found wrapped up in a piece of coloured
calico. This, two of the prisoner's children
identified, as formerly constituting a portion of a
"sun bonnet" belonging to SPOLLEN's daughter,