The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-16 00:00:00

racliui of the treaty ports, and leaving any assist-
ance which the Imperial Government, the Futai, or
any other party may obtain from Englishmen to be
unofficial and a matter of individual arrangement.

Captain ADOLPHUS EDYE has written a letter
which contains some suggestions on the fate of the
Atlantic Telegraph Cable. It will be found well
worthy of perusal, and offers some valuable hints
to those who may have to exert themselves in this
great undertaking. The object here designed is
chiefly as relates to the future, for, as the writer
states, at presence all is uncertainty on the topic,
although he entertains a favourable opinion of the
result. There has, no doubt, been too much haste
in some quarters to declare that the expedition is a
failure, and that there is all to fear and nothing to
hope from the intelligence that is forthcoming.
Captain EDYE declares that in case of the cable being
cut and buoyed from an accident to the cable
or the ship he should have prepared a second
buoy, with at least 100 fathoms of rope, " with a
weight attached to the lower end proportioned to
the capacity of the float, and have set it adrift as
an indication of the course the telegraph cable
would be likely to take from the combined effect
of winds and tides." No doubt this would be an
admirable arrangement and provide for the exi-
gencies of the occasion. The " pioneer buoy" would
be more likely to stand out of the water from the
weight attached to it being lighter, and thus would
have more chance of being detected, and then some
notion would be gained of the whereabouts of the
other buoy. As for getting at the injured part of
the cable, Captain EDYE proposes a plan, of
which ho confesses he entertains great doubts,
on account of the depth of the waters. It is, how-
ever, worth considering, and certainly no better
suggestion has been made hitherto by the many
who have expressed their opinions on the subject
It is proposed, then, that use should be made of an
instrument similar to BURT'S buoy and nipper,
although modifications would of course be neces-
sary. The nipper is to be attached to a hundred
fathoms of hawser, and after sliding down the
" telegraph cable," to be checked, when it would
nip the cable, and " on power being applied render
that portion between it and the ship slack ; the
strain being always kept on the hawser, the wire
would be got in with little difficulty." The
object of this attempt is to lessen the
strain, which at all times affects the
" cable," more or less, in consequence of the
'notion of a ship at sea. The " electric cable has
little or no elasticity, but the hempen hawser pos-
sesses a great amount, and on a sudden strain
would give out many feet; and it would recover
itself after the strain. This would not be the case
with the wire, for if the strain be beyond its
strength it must part, and all will be lost." Of
course many dissentients will be found to this plan
as to all others put forward ; but it appears to pre-
sent a scheme to notice which is feasible, and which
on consideration gives a promise of success. No
valid reason exists to prevent the execution of the
grand idea of the Atlantic Telegraph, and on
another occasion it may be realised if the present
expedition should prove unsuccessful, which is as
yet by no means certain. The Peruvian, which
arrived in Liverpool on Monday night from Quebec,
reports heavy seas during four days of her passage,
which circumstance may account for the delay that
has taken place, and given rise to so many fears
and grave apprehensions.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

(From the Morning Herald.)
VALEXTIA, Saturday, Noon.

Up to this hour nothing has transpired to support any of
the numerous conjectures thrown out as to the cause of
the loss of insulation of the cable. Indeed, the mystery of
the non-receipts of information thickens daily, and gives
rice to grave forebodings as to the safety of the Great
Eastern. Even the officials themselves, who keep a look-
out night and day for tidings, reluctantly admit that " it is
very strange nothing has been heard of her," but agree,
nevertheless, that " she is all right, whatever may be the
state of the cable. The last telegram but one from the
great ship shows 1,150 knots paid out and the last tele-
gram 1,200 knots, which I pee one of your contemporaries
has been taking for miles, and speculating accordingly. I
may also observe here that Mr. May emphatically repudi-
ates ever having stated the result of the tests, and allow-
ing he had done so, his tests would not in the least show
that the cable had been " safely landed at the bottom," as
has been asserted. There is very little doubt as to the last
communication received on the 2d inst. being correct, but
since then nothing of a reliable nature has transpired. At
the time of the loss of insulation the cable had been laid in
2,000 fathoms, 2,100, 1,900, 2,400, 2,000, 2,080, 1,975, and
1,657, and the next deepest water she would have had to
encounter would have been some 200 miles to the west, in
latitude 41 north, and longitude 44 west, from which she
would have shoals all the way to Newfoundland.
It is now 11 days since the loss of insulation, and the
fact of there being no tidings of either the Great Eastern or
the other two vessels that accompanied her, astonishes the
most experienced men here, who shake their heads, but
say nothing. There are some, however, who are very
sanguine as to the arrival of news in the course of the next
24 hours, but that of course remains to be seen. A well-
organised staff of men stationed at Foilhammorrurn, are kept
on the 100k-out night and day, so that in the event of
the vessels being sighted, the fact will be instantly tele-
graphed to head-quarters.

VALENTIA, Tuesday, 1 p.m.
No news. Strong northerly wind. Yesterday Mr.
Glaishor examined the state of affairs at head-quarters.
Tho result is said to be satisfactory.

FORESTERS' DAY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-
Yesterday there was the annual gathering of the members
of the Foresters' Society at the Crystal Palace, and
although the day was wet and unpromising, upwards of
46,000 people, for the most part members of the order,
their wives and children,were present, and throughort the
earlier part of the day the railway companies whose lines
lead to the palace had enough to do in conveying the mul-
titude of people to their destination. A great many of the
Foresters cane by excursion trains from distant parts of
the country. In consequence of the wet which prevailed
yesterday the Foresters' tickets not used then will be ad-
mitted on Monday week, the 28th inst.

THE LATE MR. COBDEN.—It may be recorded
with something like pride that a private subscrip-
tion has been started, with a view to a memorial to Mrs
Cobden, which, without one single appeal .to the public or
to strangers, now exceeds £27,000. From this it will be
seen that the family were quite right in refusing the grant
proffered by Government. The gift would have been as
much a pension as the sums paid to inefficient incapables
and younger sons for services they never rendered. The
present is a spontaneous gift, marking the highest appre-
ciation in the subscribers, and reflecting as much credit
and honour on the recipients as on the donors. The
public may now see that honesty and virtue, even in these
degenerate times, are honoured, and that national grati-
tude may be more certainly counted on as a reward than
the recognition of the State.—Birmingham Post.
EARLY CONCERTS IN THE ClTY.—Nothing shows
more clearly the extraordinary changes, and, at the
same time, the almost total migration of residents from the
City proper of our own days, than the recorded anecdotes
connected with its early musical entertainments. It is
pleasant to turn over the pages of the anecdote-loving Sir
John Hawkins, who will accompany us through a variety
of now dingy, now palatial thoroughfares, of which all
associations have long since departed, save those con-
nected with limited liability companies or monetary invest-
ments. For instance, it is absolutely dfficult nowadays to
conceive a private concert periodically held in the shop-
keeping, unromantic Chiswell-street, and "so contrived as
to fall on that particular Thursday in the month nearest
the full moon, in order that visitors might walk home
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equablel melodies of Italian Corelli, much beloved by those
in whose minds, however, the probability of the insecure
walk home must have alternated disagreeably with the
calm inspired by such excellent performance. It is not so
very much more than 100 years since this picture of the
city and its suburbs would hold good--a period when the
"Devil" Tavern, near Temple-bar, the "Castle," Paternoster-
row, and Stationers'-hall, not to mention divers nooks and
corners eastward, such as Change-alley or Cornhill, each
possessed some concert-giving associations of their own,
since faded from the recollection even of the oldest inhabi-
tant. In the common but ostentatious modern public con-
cert is true music always or often the gainer ? Let the
ghosts of the departed residents in the nightly deserted
City houses tell us.-3fulkal Standard.