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FALMOUTH., MAY 31. The screw steaDa-snip
Sarah Sands, of and for Liverpool, from New York, has put
here this morning for about sixty tons of coals, which will
be immediately supplied to her, and she will again proceed
This circumstance will no doubt be further
as one of refuge, and where
every facility and dispatch are given. Captain Isley reports
onher
evidence "
inage. favour of our port
a prevalence of strong easterly gales, but the wind having
veered to the northward the last two day
s, enabled him to
fetch our port. This ship's sailing from New York has been
announced. 64 has had a twenty-three clays' passage.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.—We have received from the Admiralty the
copy of a correspondence, which contains the fullest in-
formation with regard to the two ships seen by the Re-
novation off Newfoundland, in April, 1851. The result
of there documents would certainly appear to be in favour
of the correctness of the story. The only point raised in
opptejeion to this inference will be found in a suggestive
letter Irons the President of the Chamber of Commerce
at St. John, Newfoundland. From the nature of the
question it follows that mere presumptions cannot avail
to set aside positive testimony. When the whalers of the
Pacific bring us home some wonderful tale of sea ser-
pents or other monsters of the deep, there is so much
antecedent improbability about the whole case that even
the most positive testimony cannot but be regarded
with a certain degree of suspicion. On the whole it is
more likely that even a number of individuals who
were present at the same time, and who agree in
their story, should be mistaken, than that the ex-
perience of navigators for twenty centuries should
have made default. But in the present instance of the
two ships which were seen by the crew of the Renova-
tien upon the iceberg off Newfoundland, there is no such
violent antecedent improbability as should induce us to
discard the concurrent testimony of many competent
witnesses. Mr. Thomas, the President of the St. John's
Chamber of Commerce, contends that it is "almost im-
possible that an iceberg of the magnitude and descrip-
tion spoken of by the crew of the Renovation could have
passed along the coast from the north, and have reached
the latitude of Cape Race, without having been seen by
some of the numerons sailing vessels which constantly
intersect the field ice in the months of March and
April." This gentleman, furthermore, makes mention
of the many vessels which, at the time spoken of,
pee:sell over the water in question on their way to or
from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Nova Scotia, and
New Brunswick, and of the weekly steamers which
run between Halifax and Liverpool. Because the ice-
berg in which the two ships were embedded escaped
the notice of all these vessels, therefore he concludes that
the crew of the Renovation have been the victims of an
ocular deception, " occasioned by the appearance that
icebergs assume under some peculiar action of the at-
mosphered" The question remains, Is it, on the whole,
more probable that a ship's company, accustomed to the
sights and wonders of the frozen regions, should have
been so deceived; or that the iceberg should have I,
escaped the notice of so many vessels? We aro of
opinion that, when the whole of the correspondence is
carefully
weighed, any impartial reader must be con-
vinced thet the story brought home by the crew of the
Renovation must prevail. There is no conceivable
motive why half a dozen men should unite to palm such
a story upon the public. The love of notoriety could
scarcely supply an adequate reason, because the master
and crew of the Renovation by no means distinguished
coemselves throughout the whole transactions. We
may find a certain excuse for Captain Coward, drawn
from his weak state of health at the time, from his
iy underhanded, i
lalne
dd
the the
safetyl loss
ofa
anxiety to prosecute his voyage in the then state of the
weather,
as
his
mightsh ihpavweasseriu os
when we have said this we have said all.
hhjsra.ts'h'Liceprnecwhßutand the mate tell us that they were anxious
to send out a boat, or at any rate to approach nearer to
the ice. But nothing was done. The opportunity was
given to a ship's crew of solving a mystery which for
many years past occupied the attention of the civilized
world. They neglected that opportunity. No matter
from what cause their neglect arose, they certainly do
not come before their country in any very chivalric light.
Therefore the story comes with such presumptions in its
favour as may be drawn from the want of interest on the
part of the relators. Captain Coward, Mr. Lynch, and Mr.
Simpson the mate, have comported themselves since
the termination of the voyage exactly as might have
been anticipated from persons who had really seen the
sight which they professed to have seen. There can be
do great difficulty in ascertaining whether or no, imme•
diately on his arrival at Quebec, Mr. Lynch mentioned
the discovery of the ships as stated in his letter. It 'was
made a matter of notoriety. The strongest point, per-
haps, against the reality of the story—as derived from
intrinsic evidence—may be found in the absence of all
mention of the occurrence in the log of the Renovation
on the 17th of April, 1851. We find it recorded on the
day and about the hour in question that there was a
very
grow,.o current setting to the S.E."—nothing more.
This was the direction in which the iceberg was drifting
—according to the testimony of the witnesses. A few
hours before mention was made of several large ice-
bergs; but not a word of the two ships. Then, again,
there are various slight discrepancies in the accounts of
the three chief witnesses—hut not greater than might
have been expected from three persons—not being in col-
lusion—each of whom wished to place himself before the
public in as favourable a light as possible with regard to a
given transaction. If, however, testimony can support a
story at all, the account given by the three chief wit-
nesses on board the Renovation would appear entitled
to belief. More than this, we have recently obtained
additional confirmatory evidence from the master of a
Kecklenburgh brig—the Doctor Kneip—who, on his
arrival at New York, on the 4th of May, 1821, stated
that he had met with a great deal of ice on the Banks ;
be had also seen two vessels " abandoned and water-
logged." The evict date is not yet made out with suf-
ficient accuracy. I; remains to be seen whether or no
the Doctor Kneip was at the time—which should be
exactly ascertained—in the position to which the two
vessels would have drifted when released from the ice-
berg upon which they were seen by the crew of the Reno-
vation. Navigators inform us that the drift would have
o ttor K, the
them into the coarse
set exactly in such a direction
he as
Doc would have brought
arrival of this ship in New York on the 4th of May
would appear to indicate that she must, about the !T-
-ent
cessary time, have been crossing the track of the drift-
ingmom that the story sent
ships. Assuming for a
home by the people of the Renovation and the Doctor
Kneip is correct—and assuming furt
her that the ships
h dra
were really Sir John Franklin's, we mig t as an
inference from the position in which they were seen
from the deck of the Dieter lineip, that all the stores
Franklin's
and contents of the ships had been removed by human
agency, and presumptively so by the hands of
pony. It is certain that they would become water-
la for
they das soon as they were liberated from the ice,
_
they had been so long exposed to severe weather and to
drying winds. It is also clear that had they been
heavily laden they would, under these conditions, have
gone to the bottom at once. Upon the assumption that
everything had been cleared out of them that could be
taken away, they would not sink until the timber
ma
had become thoroughly saturated and had lost its
buoyancy. It iselncholy
enough to reflect that
during the four years that have elapsed since the dis-
patch of the Enterprise and Investigator under the
command of Sir James Ross, and o 2 the land expedi-
tion under Sir John Richardson, all the labour employed
in the search seems to have been wasted on a wrong
direction. The opinion of competent persons now ap-
pears to be that after wintering near Cape Riley
and on Beechey Island—at the entrance of tho Wel-
lington Channel—Sir John Franklin found that
it would be useless either to advance in a
northerly direction by Wellington Channel, or south-
erly and westerly by Cape Walker. It is now pre-
sumed that he turned his ship's head homewards some
time after breaking up from his winter quarters, but
that previously to giving up the objects of his voyage
he determined to make another attempt by way either
of Alderman Jones' Sound, or Smith's Sound, at the
head of Baffin Bey. Of course, the chief objection to
this theory is that in all probability Sir John Franklin
would have left some record of his intention, either at
Navy Board Inlet, or at some prominent point in Lan-
caster Sound, where the notice could not but have fallen
into the hands of one or other of the numerous searching
parties. If this be so, well-nigh all the pains we have
taken have been thrown away, and we are left with no
greater advantage than results from the knowledge of
where Sir John Franklin is not. Sir Edward Belcher
and his companions may possibly benefit by the errors
of their predecessors—and that is all that can be said.
seven years have now elapsed since Sir John Franklin
quitted England—it is difficult to admit the possibility
of his return in safety.

LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT LIVER'
POOL CORN EXCHANGE.
Yesterday an inquest was held before P. Finch Curry,
E“]... upon the bodies of Edmund Colehourn, lebonrer,
and John Steven:, joiner, who were killed on the pre-
ceding day by the falling in of the arches of the Corn
Exchange. The court was densely crowded, and the
deepest interest was manifested in the proceedings, in
c,mt,equencq of a statement that the mortar and work-
manship were both of an inferior quality, to which the
origin of the fatal occurrence was said to be mainly
attributable.
Mr. Lace, solicitor, appeared for the committee of the
Corn Exchange; and Mr. Blenkinsop on behalf of Mr.
Picton, the architect.
The CORONER called in the assistance of Mr. Edwin
Woods, civil engineer, and Mr. Weightmaa, the borough
surveyor, to report upon the rob cause of the aeci-
the bodies and to inspect the building,ied
might u
be
etrapruen
acci-
dent. These gentlemen- . .
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hnaetxtth,ein p
roorfde:srio thatn ai
gentlemen might have time of the Exchange, as it was before the falling in
'
their report. to investigate and prepare
Mr. J. R. Jeffery was chosen as foreman of the jury,
by whom a subscription was proposed for the families of
Cole bourn has left a widow and two chi
yens a widow and liva children, to d children, and:Ste-
, deplore their loss.
-......

ItVheALE
northerns.T hpeart of the
IN
Nus districtsNaT in NORTH
crops
throughout
C thelt° N ario s-
principality are most luxuriant. The wheats e
in a thriving condition, and the early potatoes
generally
far present
especially are
a very healthy appearance. The grain crops look
well, and notwithstanding the long drought and east
winds that have been experienced, there is every
likelihood
of an abundant hay harvest.
Foll.BlGti SPIRITS IN TRANSITIT.—The Lords of
the Treasury have directed the Commissioners of Customs to
authorise brandy, entered for immediate transhipment to a
foreign port, to be sampled under the following conditions—
viz., that duty is to be paid thereon when it exceeds one
shilling, and that the taking of samples be limited to the
casks or packages selected for examination by the officers of
. the reveutte.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
COMMANDER FREDERICK EDWYN FORBES.—NVe re-
gret to announce the death of this meritorious officer,
on the 25th of March, on board her Majesty's ship Tor-
toise, whilst on his passage to St. Helena for the re-
covery of his health. Commander Forbes was well
known as our envoy to the Court of Dahomey, in 1849,
of the manners and cuitoms of which nation his pub-
lished journals gave a most curious account. On his re-
turn to England from his mission he was promoted, and
in consequence of his intimate acquaintance with the
natives and their languages, sent out in the autumn of
last year as extra to the Penelope flag-ship, on special
service under the orders of the Foreign-office. On his
arrival at Sierra Leone, he was at once sent up to Abbeo-
kutah, to drill the native Christians, and organize them
in resisting the apprehended attack of the King of Daho-
mey, who had declared his determination to avenge the
defeat he suffered from them last year. The arduous du-
ties in which he was engaged were crowned with success,
and a powerful army raised to meet the ling of the slave-
hunters. His exertions, however, brought on an attack
of dysentery and fever, and though moved at once to
the coast and sent to sea, he died within two days of
leaving the land. Commander Forbes was only in his
34th year. He entered the navy
in 1833, served through
the war in China, and afterwards on the coast.of Africa,
in the Bonetta, where he captured several slavers. Dar-
ing his service in the Bonetta he discovered the written
negro language now known as the Vahie or Vye. He
was the third son of Captain J. Forbes, R.N., of Wink-
field-place, Berks.
The following gentlemen passed in
gunnery on board
her Majesty's ship Excellent on Wednesday last:—
Messrs. Parry, Fox, Bruce, Curti?, Crozier, Tucker,
Jenkins, Capel, Sterling, Everet, Staples, Ryder, Weld,
Collingwood. There are 36 mates going up to the col-
lege the next passing day. A very good order has just
been issued by the Admiraltyfto the effect thataittzfgn,q,
after passing gunnery, are not to be allowed any leave
from their respective ships until they have passed the
college examination. We have known instances where
mates have beep a year or more before passing college.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Dragon, steam-
frigate, Captain H. W. Giffard, that arrived yesterday
from Lisbon, was inspected to-day at Spithead by the
commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, and
Captain Chads. Her crew went through a course of
gunnery exercise, firing blank, shot, and shells. She will
come lute harbour, and her officers and crew will turn
over to the Tiger, steam-frigate.
The commander-in-chief, Admiral Briggs, and Captain
Chads, al.o inspected and exercised the crew of the
Gladiator at gunnery. The Gladiator will proceed to
the eastward.

The Sprightly took out the commander•in-chief and
Captain ChAds to Spithead this morning, and after the
inspection of the Gladiator and Dragon returned with
those officers again into harbour.

The Porcupine steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Jackson, went to Spithead this morning, and will pro-
ceed to her destination when the weather moderates.
The Conflict, 8, screw steam•frigatc, Commander Jen-
ner (acting), win be paid off at this port on Friday.
Tie Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord
A. Fitz.Aarence, has been unelocked to-day atter her re-
pairs, &c., and hauled into the old basin to receive her
masts. .

----
The Flying Fish, 12, and Pantaloon, 8, sloops, have
been brought down from the ordinary to-day to be
ptaakireendinantdhebrdooucgkhvt forward foraeatedbyt cohelmrnloyt yacht, to be ro-
sion.
The Gladiator, t 6, steam-frigate, Captain r. Adams,
has been inspected to-day by the Part Admiral, and her
crew exercised in gunnery by Captain Chads. She waits
orders at Spithead.
The Edinburgh, 58, steam gunnery ship, Captain Hew-
lett, has hauled off to the Malabar to complete coals and
finish painting, &c.; she will be ready for sea by the
15th inst.

SHEERNESS, JUNE 2.—Her Majesty's paddle-wheel
steam-vessel Adder, Mr. James Watt in charge, passed
down the Medway yesterday, with two dockyard lumps
in tow, and, the tide ebbing, anchored at the entrance of
the Thames.

The arrival in the Downs of the Superb, Captain E.
tion on Monday, the Cuckoo and African steamers were
dispatched forthwith, for the purpose of towing her to
Purcell, having been notified by telegraphic communica-
the Nore, where she arrived yesterday, at eleven A.M.,
and saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Josceline
Percy, C. 8., the commander-in-chief,
with seventeen
guns, which compliment was acknowledged with seven
guns by the Waterloo. Immediately after the Superb
dropped anchor, Captain Purcell embarked in the
Cuckoo, and landed at the dockyard to report his ar-
rival. The Superb will be inspected to-day (Wednes-
day), and having had her powder taken out will be
towed to Chatham, to be dismantled and paid off.
Her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, port-admiral's flag-
ship, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, has sent
down her jurymasts and yards, and is being fully rigged
with her proper spars and sear, as a seagoing ship. She
has pointed her topmasts, and crossed her topsail yards,
and is setting up her topmast rigging.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-sloop Barracoute,
having completed the adjuatra-at of her compasses, got
Grain, and took her powder on board.
Oa swinging her Mai
up her steam, proceeded to her
estY'a screw steam-frigate Ho-
ratio, 22, Captain the Hon. S. moorings off the Isle of
her
termed that the greatest deviation thereof was nearly
two and a half points. On removing
counpTn..3sOnsa,rn:_geie,bafloer
btheeenpuinr:
the binnacle com-
passes and applying Barlow's correcting plate to the
standard compass, this was reduced to one point which,
poso of re. as
as the ship's head approached the north or sotuh,be-
came gradually less. It is i
contemplaan, we hear,
top alter thecom reass.plative positions of the steering-wheel and
CHATHAM, JUNE I.—Suporb 80, Captain Purcell,
brought up near the Note Light this forenoon, and will
arrive here to be paid off without an of her internal
fittings or bulkheads being disturbed. y
The Admiralty
for e have awarded the gratuity of 501. to
Mr. W. Blsley, man of this yard.
WOOLWICH, JUNE The Agamemnon, 90, was
taken into the, inner basin yeaterday, and is now along-
side the factory to have her engines of 600-horse power,
by John Penn and Son, put on board.
A fatal accident occurred in the river to-day near the
Fisgard flag-ship, stationed opposite the
dockyard, by
the upsetting of a boat, in which were three persons
belonging to it brig, and one of them was drowned;
for-
tunately for the other two, ono of the Woolwich steam-
boats was passing at the time
and saved their liven. The
boat was run down by a schooner.

ported from the Committee that the Bill proposed to
create a debenture stock, for which the mortgagees and
bond creditors of the company ate at liberty to commute
their debts, and to grant to that stock a preference of
dividend or interest not exceeding five per cent. per an-
num, that priority taking precedence of the existing pre-
ference shares and stock of the company; and as this
arrangement will, according to the evidence, tend to
lower the rate of interest on the debts of the company,
the Committee were of opinion that this is not a case
in which the protection of the 128;h and 129 h standing
orders for existing preference shares or stock ought to
be required. The Committee had amended the pre-
amble of the Bill by striking out those parts thereof
which related to the extension to Birkenhead, and bad
found the same, as amended, to be true.
BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESHIRE JUNC-
TION (POWER TO LEASE. &C.)—Mr. Christopher re-
ported from the Committee that the allegations con-
tained in the preamble of this Bill had not been proved
to their satisfaction.
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND.—Sir J.
Duckworth reported from the Committee that the de-
viation and branch authorized by this Bill are to be exe-
cuted out of capital which the company aro already
authorized to raise. The length of the deviation is 18
miles, and the length of the branch is 24i miles. both of
which are to be constructed on a gauge of 5 feet 3 inches.
It is intended to cross fifteen roads on the level. The
quantity of land required for the deviation is 184}
acres, and for the branch 244 acres. The estimate of
the cost and other expenses to be incurred up to the
time of completion of the deviation and branch for a
single line of railway is 300,0001., and the committee
have authorised the application of an additional sum of
100,000/., with a view to the future completion of the
line as a double line of way. Mr. G. W. Ileums was
the engineer examined in support of the Bill. The
Committee were satisfied of the fitness in an engineering
peintepf :view of the proposed_dpviatiop eta branch
railway.
SHROPSHIRE UNION (BRANCH RAILWAYS). Mr.
Floyer reported from the Committee that the promoters
of the Bill had stated to them that it was not their in-
tention to proceed further with the measure.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. Mr. Christopher
reported from the Committee that the parties promoting
the Bill had stated to them that it was not their inten-
tion to proceed further with it.
DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTER•
SHIRE.—Mr. Corry reported from the Committee that
they had examined the allegations contained in the pre-
amble of the Bill, but that the same had not been proved
to their satisfaction.
KELLS AND CAVAN.—Sir J. Duckworth reported from
the Committee that the promoters of the Bill bad stated
that it was not their intention to proceed further with
the measure.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From May 13 to May 19 : Passengers,
340,1031.; goods, 266,354 f.; total, 606.462 f.
ROUEN.—From May 16 to May 22 : Passengers,
98,898 f.; goods, 98,192 f.; total, 197,090 f.
HA.VRE.—From May 16 to May 22 : Passengers,
36,996 f.; goods, 41.429 f. ; total 81,425 f.
ORLEANS AND VIERZON.—From May 17 to May 23:
Passengers, 140.9501.; goods, 176,198 f; total, 317,148 f.
BORDEAUX.—From May 11 to May 17: Passengers,
68,2701.; goods, 66,379 f.; total, 134,6391.
NANTES.—From May 13 to May 19 : Passengers,
38,4421.; goods, 36,085! total, 74,527 f.
STRASBURG.—From May 13 to May 19: Passengers,
155,8111; goods, 102,33814 total, 258,149 f.
BALE.—From May 10 to May 16 : Passengers,
23,768 f.; goods, 22,060 f.; total, 45,8281.
MONTEREAU.—From May 13 to May 19: Passengers,
13,539 f.; goods, 12,3811.; total, 25,9201.
MARSEILLES.—From May 7 to May 13: Passengers,
46,397 f.; goods, 35,391 f.; total, 81,788 f.
LYONS. --From May 16 to May 22 : Passengers,
225,370 f.; goods, 119,7561.; total, 345,1261.
WESTERN.—From May 17 to May 23: Passengers,
47,9041.; goods, 25,711 f.; total, 73,6151.

WARII/lING AND VENTILATION OF THE

:ROUSE OF COMMONS.
The second report of the Select Committee appointed
ho consider the best means of improving the ventilation
and lighting of the House and its appendages has been
printed. After describing the plan upon which the ven-
tilation of the House is at present conducted, by means
of fresh air conveyed from the clock tower (until the
completion of the Victoria Tower), through iron pipes
with other apparatus, the Committee are of opinion that
the condition of the ventilation of the House of Com-
mons and its appendages is still unsatisfactory, notwith-
standing the improvement which has been effected in
the House itself since the period when the Com-
mittee were appointed. The report then proceeds
to detail the improvements which have been in-
troduced since the commencement of the ses-
sion. The Committee are not prepared to approve of
the complicated plan of forcing air by mechanical power
combined with the extracting powers of a shaft with a
furnace or steam jet, and ascending and descending cur-
rents fur supplying fresh and abstracting vitiated air.
In conclusion, the Committee desire to give it as their
opinion that the failure of the ventilation of the House
of Commons, at the commencement of the session, can-
not fairly be imputed to any radical defect in Dr. Reid's
system, because the House was hastily occupied with an
infinity of arrangements incomplete; and the lighting,
from which the greatest amount of mischief arose, was
neither contrived by Dr. Reid nor under his control ;
and in surveying the whole of this scatter it is, perhaps,
only fair to that gentleman to bear in mind that his
original plan was a comprehensive scheme for the ven-
tilation of the entire building, of the superintendence
of the greater portion of which he was de-
prived when the works were more than half completed.
These difficulties and complications were further increased
by the fact that, is that portion of the New Palace
termed the finished portion, which has been delivered up
formally by the architect to the Board of Works, there
were still not less than three different and sometimes
conflicting authorities, namely, the architect, the venti-
lator, and the Board of Works; and until the whole is
placed under the absolute control and vigilant supervi-
sion of the Board of Works, it is vain to expect good
service or economy; and all attempts at inquiry will be
baffled by the all-gation of divided responsibility. Under
these circumstances, your Committee are of opinion
that, as regards future management, the entire re,poa..
sibility of ventilating and lighting the House and its ap-
pendages should be confided to one competent person,
under the direction and supervision of the Board of
Works; and with a view to secure proper attention to
any complaints that may hereafter arise, a Committee
should be named at the commencement f each session
to confer with the Board :of Works upon any measures
'hat may appear necessary to remove such complaints.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII COMPANIES.
Yesterday, on the meeting of the committee, Mr.
Ricardo M.P., was cross-examined. The Electric Tele-
graph Ricardo,
had paid large dividends, larger than
they would bo able probably to pay again; but for many
years they had paid no dividends at all. The company
had forty miles of underground telegraph
Mr. Hatcher had been engineer-in-chiefh to the Elec-
tric Telegraph Company from its formation, and was
now its consulting engineer. At the commencement of
operations sending five words a minute was
good, but now they could send from thirty to thirty-seven
words in a minute. There was a possibility, if duplicate
lines were established on a railway, of one telegraph, by
placing their wires in connexion with the other, stealing
the intelligence that went over them, but it was not
necessary that the two companies should have the same.
signals.
Mr. Edwin Clark, C.E., en lacer-in-chief to the g
Electric Telegraph Company, stated that he had within
the last twelve months put up 1,500 miles of telegraph,
and gave it as his opinion that the underground syt
and
stem
of telegraphs was perfectly practicable,
most perfect insulation fur the wires underground was
gotta percha, with which they were supplied by the
Gotta Percha Company, whose patent had also been
successfully applied for the submarine telegraphs.
Mr. GILPIN, contractor for the Irish Channel subma-
rine telegraph, now being carried out between Port-
patrick and Donaghadee, described the operations
ilea in
connexion with that undertaking. About sixty mof
the eighty-five of trench for the underground telegraph
on the Scottish coast was finished. The wire to be sunk
in the Channel would bo about twenty miles. Operations
were going on for carrying it underground from Do-
naghadeo to Dublin and Belfast. The cable was ready
totesunk on the first favourable tide. The total length
of this telegraph would he 250 miles. There would be
four wires, cased with grata perchs, and placed in tubes
underground. The Gotta Pereha Company
having supplied the
casing, and no ono else could, that company a
patent right for the purpose. The trenches were r
feet
deep. As they did not expect to get a
great beof
inest.ages from Ireland, they intend( d, if possible, so as
to do it cheaply, to make their stations at the various
post-offices in the towns, and pay the post people to
work the wires. Thought the unde
edr
rgouetter
than the aboveground system. H been well nd was
b received
in Ireland, and the only trouble they Tao Id had was
ChaEnel
that
of pleasing every body.—(Laughter.)lrish
Submarine Company only started last Februsry, and
daotr:nstbeye
xDpcted that in another fortnight their entire line would
be
the Admitted that Mr. Ricardo
lv.a.iads
of the cemPany. The telegraph was being
Mr. Griffin, the superintendent of the undertaking, and
the Government placed steamers at the companys dispo-
sal to assist in sinking the cable.
Beforo the committee adjourned en interesting € xpe
riment was made to show the rapidity, precision,and
perfection with which an express dispatch now
daily
passes between London and York. For this purpose,'
short notice, the telegraph wires
communicatingt irom athe
central office in the Strand with the lobby 0 the House
of Commons were brought up the winding staircase into
the committee-room, and there attached to an instrument
on the table. Notice was simultaneously
one hundred intermediate stations to
given to some
Leep the electric
e
line clear for a special dispatch. The
g r
achairman,
clerk
t ow
tellit h
the Times in hand, requested the tel
his colleague at York (290 miles) to send up the fourth
advertisement in the fourth column of that paper, Mr,

Baldoek, One of the members, with a repeater timing the
transit. In 15 seconds after the request was sent the
advertisement in question was forwarded from York and
read off without an error on the face of the instrument
in the committee-room, in two minutes and a fraction,
great grati6ction of all present,
to the
stating that had it not been for the hurried arrangements
it might have been accomp:ished in one minute, and at
a cost but slightly more than that paid for the advertise-
ment in the paper. the manipu:ator

OF TIIE
TELEG2d and :
tRe lleph
COM
APa
IPNI:EwT,E.IDONNE
between the coasts of England u bB.mUaßri Ile
A l\grrEa
Ireland is now an
accomplished fact, and an event pregnant
inte-
rest as regards the future welfareofth with
is country.
Yesterday morning, at four o'clock, the
Britannia
steamer started from Holyhead with the telegraph
cable on board, preceded by her Majesty's steamer
Prospero, a vessel furnished by the Admiralty, as a
pilot to the expedition. The steamers proceeded at a
low rate of speed, varying from four to six miles an
hour, paying out the wire with the greatest care and
precision as they receded from the English coast ; and
at length, after a passage of little more than sixteen
hours, and without the occurrence of any contretemps,
arrived at Howth Harbour amid the cheers of these
who had assembled to witness their approach.
The Freeman's Journal of this morning contains
the following particulars of t'ais gratifying and imvor-
tent event :
" We have the satisfaction to communicate the grati-
fying intelligence that the first message from Howth to
Holyhead was transmitted at half-past eight o'clock last
evening, and an answer instantaneously received. The
Irish public will at once anticipate that the message
was Hurrah for the Irish and American packet
ithetterara - - • -
" The telegraphic communication beirig now, we may
say, completed between London and Galway, the esta-
blishment of an American packet station on the west
coast of Ireland cannot be long delayed. The mercan-
tile necessities of the empire) will now force on what
every Government has hitherto denied for the advance-
ment of Irish interests.
" But wo must not to-day indulge in anticipations as
to results. Our present duty is to detail the latest facts
connected with the completion of the stupendous un-
dertaking.
The Britannia and Prospero made their second start
from Holyhead shortly after two o'clock, a ax., yester-
day morning, the Britannia paying out' the cable
steadily and constantly testing, by the indicators on
board and ashore, the perfection of the communication.
" The voyage was unmarked by any incident of im-
portance, and was, happily, tree from any accident. The
cable fell so straight, and sank so evenly; that only
three miles more than the straight line across the Channel
were mod out. This, in a course of sixty-five miles
was really extraordinary.
" A few minutes after three o'clock, P.M., the vessels
were sighted by our look-out, and at eight o'clock, P.m.,
the Prospero entered Heath Harbour, the Britannia
lying outside, near the itland of Ireland's Eye, through
the channel near which the cable was subsequently
brought to shore by boat.
" The moment the Britannia had arrived at her desti-
nation, and communicated the fact to Holyhead that the
Irish snore was reached, the final grand test was applied
to the telegraphic cable by connecting the wire with one
of the ship's loaded guns, and passing the word ' fire' to
Holyhead. The answer was the immediate discharge
of the gun on board the Britannia. The hour was then
just half-past eight o'clock. The works had been per-
formed in little more than 18 hours.
" Messages were now rapidly interchanged, and a
salute of the Britannia's guns fired from Holyhead. A
letter had arrived in Dublin, directed to a gentleman who
had left for Holyhead by the mid-day steamer, and whose
presence was immediately required in London. A mes-
sage was sent to seek him out. Within half an hour he
was discovered, and he responded, lam here.' You
are wanted in London.' I shall start by the next train.'
" Another hour and the cable was ashore, the con-
nexion completed with the land wires, and the indica-
tors at the Dublin terminus of the Drogheda Railway,
in Amiens-street, were conversing with those at the ter-
minus of the Chester and Holyhead Railway in Holy-
head. By this time all the parties connected with the
now happily successful enterprise were quite worn out
with fatigue, and further experiments were abandoned
for the night."
The cable which now forms the means of commu-
nication between Holyhead and Howth is not com-
posed of four wires, like the one from Dover to Calais,
but consists of a single copper wire, perfectly insu-
lated with gutta percha, and protected by an outer
covering of iron galvanised wires. In order to secure
the cable from injury by the tides and the sharp
rocks, it has a double covering of iron wires from
each shore for some considerable distance into the sea.
The double covering of the seventy miles of wire
with gutta percha was done by the Gutta Percha
Company, at their works, in Wharf-road, City-road,
and then shipped to Gateshead, where the task of
placing on the iron galvanised wires was performed
by Messrs. H. S. Newell and Co., the proprietors of
the cable. The laying down of the cable took place
on Tuesday, the Ist June, under the superintendence
of Mr. Newell and Mr. Statham, of the Gutta Percha
Company.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Sawaerow's celebrated epigrammatic dispatch was not
morn brief end painted than the first announcement
which another wonder of the age has just made of itself.
Our yesterday's impression contained our first telegra-
phic dispatch from the sister country—" The Irish Sub-
marine Telegraph is completed." This fact—the fact
and the record of it being identical—was launched from
Dublin at nine o'clock on Tuesday evening, and at 10.33
we welcomed it in the Strand. To announce its own
existence was a worthy inauguration of the telegraph.
The capitals of two islands, divided by a sea fierce and
wild as the hatreds which have too often separated Eng-
land and Ireland, are now not only on speaking terms,
but are within au hour and a half of what Dr. Johnson
would have called" conversational reciprocity." Dublin
and London can hold direct colloquy, with only ninety
minutes between question and answer; and, as telegra-
phic communication cannot be expected to form an ex-
ception to the law of progress which governs all material
and scientific inventions, we may anticipate that Puck's
period of " forty minutes" will shortly be the utmost
that will be required to waft a sigh or a command be-
tween Downing-street and the Pricenix- park. Are we
premature in regarding this event as auguring a better
future for Ireland? May we not hope that the mythic
device
iof
dependency to
which proposed to link a
to the parent state by the practi-
cal allegiance of a chain, is about to be exemplified under
happier auspices? Ireland has long been united to us
by an iron cable, stern as the adamantine fetters of
necessity or destiny herself. We trust, however, that
the reality will supersede the symbol. The telegraphic
wire is a better bond than physical force; the Union of
1800 may yet be merged in that of 1852; and the
" United Kingdom of Greet Britain and Ireland" may,
perhaps, take its real date from the electric band rather
than from an Act of Parliament. What if closer, truer,
more generous ties, larger sympathies, and a more cor-
dial recognition of common interests and mutual duties,
should one day be traced back to the first of June, 1852?
What if the silent rope of wire do that which neither
Henrys nor Cromwells, Elizsbeths nor Georges, Strong.
bows nor Straffords, Ormonds nor Pitts, have yet achieved
by links of irono,rdteharen,sdaenfdaerelielnodwtruis
nastbtree,y
towards cementing England and Ireland? It cannot but
bo of good omen that, if the two countries are to be con-
nected,
employedrather
than
ai in
spreading intelligence, knowledge, the arts of peace,
lessonstheofmlaills and consciences of our fellow-
subjects,
dhsagwraiym;
and the tho
shackling
wlikelt to be perpetual is
subjects, follow-Christians,
hopey that Ireland will
rhocen tounrliye s
materialo f ou riron
fetter rule
w hi
ch have,;
htheenceefleocrttrhicncehedainno; and
dhewr we may
than a galvanic one.
The ultimate cause of English and Irish misunderstand-
ingi is, probably, the fundamental difference of race.
Celt and Saxon—by an arrangement which it i
et
hgreat
cult to understand theoretically as it is to. find is
practical
exceptions exceptions to it—present a marked diversity of intellec-
tual, religious, and social development. Such is
wtbi
irresistible fact; and
e slightitaved ancoqusmai:altlance
eth-
nologyabwleoluelgdi,spl
aetrihoanpos,peech e s ,
ayistotoenable the
p r o tit
s it
eht cosi 'oewgvl Ione: 11.)°a171s o u
educational,ntdragoons,of tn
and polemics—Parliamentary,
harmonize
fiscal,such foarnmdidaebeloensersleimcaelLsTohfereopnulTs'
ftuwsoiorna,cetos
mtoakennit as a preliminary to
themea and
eachunderstandfase—aud,to
other; and, for
the promotion of such mutual
nothing like facilities for direct and understanding, there is
As communication advances, •
constant intercourse.
Roads are the great first pioneerscivilization spreads.
law, and political knowledge; of humanity, order,
.this ago are the most plwerful and
the iron highways of
Euro-
pean civilization. The electric agents of modern Euro.-
as the luirbinger of a new a,d telegraph may be saluted
because it premises to hri') ' brighter era for Reified,
usan and suspicion r over that gulf of prejudice,
us and our sister island.w which has been spread between
mush to unlearn, rill, We have much to learn at d
side. cankers and ilt each other. There are on each
one, alas 1 sores of too inveicrate a nature-
though
nof
our own is,inflicting—to worse
still, of recent date, an
few
years will uado the mall justify us in expecfti thatcnegnturies. Ii
would b® the bathos ygnant influence of
imagine that,
because we have got o sentimeutalisrud.
tance of Dublin,
the two countrieswithin. speaking, is.
sch other's
will rice rush into e
at once rush
.arms, and forgetanimosities in a wild hurrah
ancient
I upon the success All that we dare to
hope
- of the telegraph.
tim,
is, that this event ma be tho beginning of better
tan"' 11l one respect, the gain rbo palpable and
immediate. The administration of Ireland is now ren-
dered almost as oas as that of an English county; for
Dublin is not furtheyr from Whitehall than are tho Lan-
don Docks. The mistakes of local authorities will
henceforth be more than ever inexcusable. Much of Ire-
land's misgovernment has arisen from its anomalous and
exceptional Executive. Whether the electric telegraph will
not be a strong argument against retaining the Vice-Re-
geolty in its present shape we shall not here ingaire; but