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such fun in Greece, bad landed on Friday last week
at the Piraeus, End come up to Athens, he might
have wearied himself with walking about during
the whole of this week, and, unless told beforehand,
he would never have found out for himself that the
Athenians were busy electing, not only t heir repre-
sentatives for the National Assembly but likewise
their future Sovereign. There was not a trace of
any of those outward signs with which we associate
elections—no appearance in public of the candi-
dates, no mustering of forces, no rival committees,
sitting at the rival public-houses, no huge placards
covering the walls or carried about in the streets,
no flags, no colours, no party
signs, no noisy elated
crowds, or carriages busy in taking electors to the
poll, no excitement or shouts, no rows, no quarrels,
no practical jokes, nothing, in one word, which
could indicate even from afar that something un-
common was passing in the town, except perhaps
from time to time a small patrol of municipal guards
with their muskets in every imaginable position
flaming about, looking at the shops, and conversing
languidly with each other'or the passers-by.
As 1 told you before there are no political parties
in Greece with fixed principles. There are only
more or less prominent atoms standing out like
pebbles in a sea of sand, and round which the loose
mass, chased by the wind, has a tendency to aggre-
gate. The great object of the late dynasty was to
prevent by all possible means such aggregation,
which, if not dispersed in time, might grow up into
an obstacle. The pebbles were therefore carefully
picked out, handled, shaken against other pebbles,
and played with until they were so smooth, or
had become so small that they could be kept
or thrown away without any danger. There is
scarcely a single political notability in the country
who has not passed once or several times through
such handling. While the game lasted there was a
natural tendency among those who had been taken
up, used up, and then thrown away, to unite in a
common feeling of indignation and revenge, but
now that the game is over the scattered atoms lie
about like the stones in the bed of the Ilyssus after
the waters have rushed by, all about the same size
and of the same shape.
Had there been any opposition to the late revo-
lution, or a difference of opinion in the choice of
the future Sovereign, it might have led to the forma-
tion of parties, but such has been the unanimity in
both respects all over the country that no one had
the remotest chance of success who did not in-
scribe on his flag the deposition of the late dynasty
and the election of Prince Alfred as King of Greece.
Every one who was not too hopelessly lost in the
eyes of the people, has turned round on the spot,
so that a publication of the electoral addresses, with
a short biographical resume of the individual who
has issued them, would form a curious volume of
sudden conversions.

Under these circumstances there could be no
party struggle in the elections, but so much the more
was a fierce contest of individual interests and influ-
ences to be dreaded. It was, as it were, a new start
in political life, and every one was anxious to secure
the best place in the future race. The Greek patriot
who has shown himself lately in so favourable a
light was shelved for the time, and the individual
Greek, with all his shrewd, cunning, and lax notions
reappeared.
At the head of the two rival combinations were
two men who had both been "strongly handled"
by the late dynasty. One of them Kalifournas,
began his career as the tribune of Athens, and made
himself so unpleasant by his influence over the lower
classes that the Court was induced to take him up
and put him forward as the candidate for the presi-
dency of the Chamber in 1859. The Chamber
proved intractable, and chose the candidate of the
Opposition, Zaimi, at present Minister of the In-
terior, on which the King dissolved the Chamber.
All the 62 members wh) had voted against the can-
didate of the Court were excluded from the new
Chamber, but the triumph cost King Otho his
throne, for it was the frauds and violence of that
last election and the consequent servility of the
Chamber which drove the nation into revolution.
The tribune of Athens, the immediate cause of the
dissolution of the Chamber, was wise enough to
withdraw in time, and played his cards so well that
he was taken into the combination of the 23d of
October last, and is now Minister of Marine.
His adversary Scarlet° SJutzo has always passed
for one of the most reliable men of the Court, he has
been in several Ministerial combinations, and was
nominally Minister of War in 1854,in which quality
ho was instrumental in preparing the expeditions
into Epirus and Thessaly. Fortunately for him he
has not been much before the public of late, and
consequently was not debarred from trying his luck
as the leader of a combination against Kalifournas.
Both combinations were chiefly based on the sup-
port of the six communes of Eleusis, Menidi,
Phyla), Marathon, Kralata, and Crogia, which with
the capital and the Piraeus form the electoral dis-
trict of Attica. The capital and the Piraeus are too
eclectic to be depended upon in a combination.
From the beginning it seemed almost hopeless for
either side to make up a combination of eight men,
which is the number of members for the district of
Attica in this instance, and for some time the idea
was that only four should form the combination,
and the other four places be left open to competi-
tion; but as this would have given a chance, at
least, of the other party coming in, the Kalifournas
party, who felt strongest, decided in the end to
stick to the old practice, and make a combination
for all the eight members. And now began a secret
war of all against all, every man in the combination
distrusting his neighbour, and working for himself;
every day the combinations changed, one or another
man being cast out and replaced by a new man,
while the agents who were sent about canvassing
did a little business on their own account, substi-
tuting one name for another in the list, in some
cases their own, until all was confused and uncer-
tain.

In the midst of this struggle appeared three new
candidates, the men of the day threatening to carry
everything before them by their popularity, and to
make a hole in the combinations. They were Koroneo,
one of the heroes of Nauplia, who was wounded
there and taken prisoner, and who since the revolu-
tion has been appointed Commander of the National
Guard of Athens and of the Pireaus. The second
Artemis, another officer who commanded one of the
battalions at Nauplia, and who has just returned
from his exile abroad. The third Papadiamandopulo,
the officer of artillery whose joining on the 23d of
October decided the revolution. An attempt was
made to take in these men at the last moment into
the Kalifournas combination, but it succeeded only
partially.
alone joined, while the two
others went i(
wirthn
thee
party. The result
was that all kind of sinister prognostications were
made—that both sides were determined to push
matters to an extreme ; that the soldiers were opposing
dis-
posed to join in the quarrel ; that they asked to be
allowed to vote, and a hundred other t ales, calculated
to frighten the timid, but which might have be-
come true had it not been that the beginning of the
elections for the Sovereign fell on the same day as
that for the election of the representatives. The
interest felt in the first destroyed all interest in the
latter, and the paltry individual squabbles were
shamed into silence by the grand national manifes-
tation.
About midway np the street of Hermes, which
leads to the Royal Palace, stands, isolated on all
sides, the old parish church of Athens. It is a
small quaint Byzantine building, supposed to be
one of those 13 with w hich the Empress Irene
adorned the town of Athens. Among the many

members of the Synod, with all their suite of clerks
and secretaries, came in a body to the Dimarchy,
and one by one they all gave their vote to Prince
Alfred. Then followed the crowd which had waited,
and before another hour passed several hundred had
signed, and all, without one single exception,
for Prince Alfred. The process was expeditious
enough. Ascending two flights of steps you arrived
at the entrance of the Council-room, guarded by a
National Guard sentry, to keep order. In the room
were two tables. On that at the further end lay the
great book, the book—about the size of a large
ledger, in which, before the day was over, all those
who are most prominent in Greece had signed their
names, the Synod, the Ministeis, political, scientific,
and military notabilities, besides a host of other
people. At the other table, the priest forming one
of the commission was writing the names and votes
of those who could not do so for themselves ; and a
hard task he had from morning to four in the after-
noon. The first idea was to have registers only at
the Dimarchy, but this was changed, and others
were opened in the large new parish church, and in
all the other churches which had been assigned as
polling places for the election of the representatives
for the Assembly. Before the first evening had
closed it was known that above 2,089 names had
been inscribed; among them one for a republic, two
for Prince Alfred or a republic, and all the rest pure
and simple for Prince Alfred. Nine days more re-
mained for voting.
After the first rush was over, all went off so
quietly as to show that it was a calm determination
and not an impulse of the moment, which carried
the people there. It was the most curious instance
of the power of a popular sentiment to see those
numbers of illiterate peasants, labouring men,
and soldiers, whom you would never have supposed
capable of a political idea of any kind, go there to
take part. No one had tutored them, no one had
urged them on ; it was the vox populi, if ever there
was an instance of it.

And what were the other elections doing in the
meantime ? Few knew, and scarcely any one cared.
Five of the churches had been set aside as polling
places—those of the Transfiguration, of St. Georges
of St. Dimitri, and of St. Philip, and for the vil-
lages that of the Virgin of Zoodoiqui. Among the
first four was distributed the catalogue of the con-
stituency of Athens in alphabetical order, each of
them having a certain number of letters.
Let us go into one of these churches, no matter
which, for the process is everywhere the same.
That of St. George is the nearest, so let us take that
one. It is on the slope above the Ministry of the
Interior, and its bastard, half Byzantine style, alto-
gether out of proportion, has often shocked our eyes.
It is not quite finished, and the approaches towards
the entrance or half blocked up by uncut slabs of
marble. Our first idea on approaching is that we
have made a mistake in the place, or else that the
elections are over, for all we see outside are two
gamins, who indulge in the favourite pastime of the
rising generation of Athens, that is, throwing stones
from slings. Could it be tho advanced guard of one
of the rival factions which has taken forcible posses-
sion of this polling place, determined to hold it
against all comers No, for the civil sentry of the
National Guard, standing before the church door,
having seen us approach, fixes his bayonet to drive
away the self-constituted defenders of the place.
We thank him and go in. Immediately to the left
is a long table on which are the registers with the
name of the voters whose initials are M, X, E, Z.
Two young men cast a scrutinising look at us; they
are the agents of the rival factions, but they soon
turn away, seeing that we are foreigners. The civil
functionary who stands behind the taitle is not so
quick-sighted, for he offers us the large register
open for the election of the King, which we
naturally decline, satisfied to study the word
" AXybireaor," in every variety of handwriting.
Then we go to the centre of the church, where
the voting urn stands on a table, before which a
Natior.al Guard sentry paces up and down. The
box is of tin, with a small slit on the top. While we
are examinin git one of the Demos comes in. The
two young men sidle up to him, but one leaves
almost immediately, for the new comer has drawn
out a rose-coloured piece of paper, a sign that he is
for the Kalifournas combination. The agent of this
party scans over his ticket, and makes some remarks
in an under tone of voice ; but the voter will not be
convinced ; he takes the ticket, it is true, but goes
to the table, strikes out some names, and puts in
others he fancies better. The vote is supposed to
be secret, but every one is at liberty to see that the
names scratched out are Psylas and Smolensk, and
those put in are those of the popular heroes Arte-
mis and Papadiamandopulos. The voter gives his
name, it is sought for in the catalogue, and when
found, the civil gentleman who offered me the re-
gister to sign, and who happens to be the president
of the election committee, signs the ticket, which
the voter takes and throws into the urn. We re-
main there for a quarter of an hour. About a
dozen come to sign their names in the register for
Alfred, but not one elector for the representatives,
so go off, and don't wonder to hear that only about
300 votes have been given in all Athens on that
first day. At 4 p.m. the committee leave the
church, the door is shut, and a guard of National
Guards takes care that no one enters till the next
morning.

But the first day was a Saturday, when most
people are busier than on any other day, so the rush
for the elections and the row and fuss will be next
day. Deception. We walk about, morning and
afternoon, until we are tired, without seeing any-
thing more. The votes for the representatives come
in by driblets, while the list for Alfred swell in grand
proportion ; 5,000 is the result on Sunday evening,
some more for the alternative of Alfred or a re-
public, but the great mass for Alfred alone. The
number of votes given for the election of the repre-.
sentatives is scarcely 1,200 in all. We see some of
the candidates ; they complain at the most inex-
plicable apathy of electors who run off to vote for
Prince Alfred, and won't take the trouble to vote
for their representatives in the Assembly; and
even those who do come are obstinate; they take
the tickets from one or the other party, but change
the names as they please. That is, again the good
sense of the population has set aside any danger
that individual recklessness might have created.

Thus passes Monday and Tuesday, and on Wed-
nesday morning you are called to your window by
the beat of drums, and you see one after another
the urns carried in carriages, accompanied by a
body of National Guards, to the Nomarchy or pre-
fecture of Attica. Very little above 2,000 is the
Lumber of votes given, while 8,000 have signed
for Prince Alfred, and there are six days more
remaining.
•

The urns from the outlying communes have come
in likewise, but the result is as yet unknown
except for the pull at the Piraeus. Kali fournas is
at the head ; then come Korroneo, Artemis, Papa-

There is another feature which begins to show
itself, and which augurs well. It is, that even in
the places where Government influence might have
been supposed most powerful, it was checked by
the people. Thus at Hydra, the President's native
place, he alone of the whole combination was
returned by an overwhelming majority of 1,028
votes out of 1,330, while the five other members
elected were those of his adversary.
But it is not about representatives in the National
Assembly, or, indeed, about the National Assembly
itself, that Athens and Greece are just now troubling
themselves. It is about Prince Alfred, and nothing
else but Prince Alfred. Bad was the news which
the steamers brought this week from Europe, and
every one is downcast. Already, from the begin-
ning of the week, sinister rumours were flying
about. The French and Russian Legations had re-
ceived telegrams in cipher, and of course it was
known instantly, as it always is, together with the
contents, which were that the three powers had
made a new protocol, on the basis of that of

1832, excluding the scions of their reigning families.
It was too bad news to be believed, even when, after
the arrival of the French mail, the French men-of-
war in the Piraaus got up steam to go all along the
coast of Greece to publish the news, and thus
prevent the voting for Prince Alfred. The last
news received by the Government itself does not in-
deed mention the new protocol, but does not sound
any the more hopeful for that. The declarations of
both Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell amount to
a refusal, confirming thus the unfavourable tele-
gram which a fortnight ago led to the universal
suffrage.
Only those who have witnessed the wonderful
rapidity with which the idea of Prince Alfred was
taken up by the whole country can really judge of
the effect of this news. The Greeks had, as it were,
staked their future fate on this single chance, and
this has become a poor one now. It may have been
folly, ignorance, anything you like, but it was as
genuine and as involuntary as ever a popular idea
was. Once started, it was impossible to stop it.
Everything else sank into the background ; no one
listened to anything else. Downcast the Greeks are,
but don't imagine theyhave given in. They are more
decided than ever, as you may see from what fol-
lows. The first effect of the news was, not to stop
the signatures for Prince Alfred or a Republic, and
you may depend upon it those votes re-echo the
general feeling. With those who think as well as
feel, it has taken another more practical shape. The
votes are given and about 120,000 signatures will be
brought before t he Assembly, which, elected under
the colours and name of Alfred, will confirm and
proclaim King Alfred I. of Greece ; it will appoint
a Lieutenancy to carry on the business until the
existing obstacle to his acceptance can be removed,
while a deputation will go toEurope to plead for the
removal of these obstacles.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR MAW-

CHES2ER.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 21.

The express train from London to Manchester
last night was nearly annihilated when within about
four an-I a half miles of its destination. It left the
Euston station as usual at 5 o'clock p.m., and was
due at Manchester at 10.10 p.m. It was nearly 20
minutes behind time on passing Heaton Norris
(Stockport), and had only proceeded a short dis-
tance beyond that station when the engines and
carriages left the metals. From what cause the
train went off the rails is not known, but it went
off on the out or westerly side. It is believed that
the points were at fault at the junction of the line
to Guide Bridge. 0 wing to the line being ballasted
at this part with sand, the train was brought to a
stand without much damage either to the carriages
or passengers, and the guard, whose van was next
to the engine,ran towards the rear of the train with
his red (danger) lamp. Almost before he could get
there, however, an engine came up behind and ran
into the train with great force, almost smashing the
entire of it to atoms. The train consisted of two
first-class and a second •class carriage, besides the
van, and one of the first class was broken through
the middle, the wheels were knocked off, and the
body knocked almost into splinters. The second-
class carricge was also a complete wreck, the only
portion of it left above the bed of the carriage being
one single partition (the central one). All the car-
riages were thrown into or across a deep trench by
the side of the line, intended to drain it. The en-
gine which completed this catastrophe was a pilot
engine, following the express,and it is said that the
driver states thet,seeing the tail light of the express
train had suddenly disappeared in front of him, he
concluded that the express was further in advance
than he had supposed,and had gone round the curve
at Levenshulme, a mile ahead. He then put on
steam, and consequently the collison was the more
severe. It was a dark and stormy night,and it is sup-
posed that when the express got off the line,either its
lights were extinguished by the jumping of the train
or were hidden from the driver of the following en-
gine by the abutments of a bridge. Both en-
gines were damaged, but that of the express not so
badly as the other one. The passengers (of whom
there were fortunately but few) escaped bettor than
might have been expeeted. So far as we can learn
none were killed, but several were badly injured.
The railway officials lost no time in obtaining as-
sistance for the passengers injured, or in getting
conveyances to send them forward. A gentleman
who escaped with his forehead slightly cut said he
got out through the roof of the carriage, which had
been ripped off, and through this he also dragged a
lady who was little injured. The whole of the night
and the greater part of to-day have been taken up in
repairing the line and removing the debris of the
train.

MORE GUNS.—We are glad to learn that the
Admiralty havo made a requisition upon the War Depart-
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Americans have already set us an example, and shown that
guns of 15-inch bore, of similar weight, viz., 22 tons, can
be worked and be fired on board ship ; and whether heavy
ordnance can be used to greater advantage in the cupola
invented by Captain Coles, or at the broadside as proposed
by Commander Scott, it is obvious that we ought not to be
behind our transatlantic cousins in powerful naval arma-
menta,—Artny and Navy (lautif.

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The following circular has been issuedsig- a s
Poor-law Board, Whitehall, Dec. 15.
Sir,---The Poor-law Board desire me to bring
under the notice of the guardians certain provisions
contained in "Lunacy Acts Amends ent Act, 1862,"
25 and 26 Vic., c. 111, which relate to pauper
lunatics, and affect the guardians in the discharge
of their duties. Section 19 directs so much of the
statute 16 and 17 Vic., c. 97, section 67, as requires
the relieving officer, and overseers when there is no
relieving officer, who shall haa e knowledge t bat any
pauper, resident in a parish, is or is deemed to ty- a
h2r.atic. and a proper person to be sent to an asylum,
to give Itotice i hereot to a justice of the peahe, to be
construed as :it the words in italics had been omitted.
Henceforth it wti I suffice for the relieving officer, or
overseer, to have knowledge that there is a pauper
resident in the parish who is a lunatic; and it will
not be necessary that he should have knowledge
that the lunatic is a proper person to he cent to an
asylum. The same cteuse in the statute 16 and 17
Vic., c. 97, requires the justices to be satisfies; that
the lunatic is a proper person to be sent to the
asylum; and this provision remains unaltereo:.•
Section 20 of the new act prohibits the detention in.
a workhouse of any lunatic, or alleged lunatic, be-
yond the period of fourteen days, unless in the
opinion of the medical officer such person is a
proper person to be kept in a workhouse, and
the accommodation therein is sufficient for his re-
ception ; and any person detained in a . _skhouse
in contravention of this section (that is, without
such opinion, or where the accommodation is in-
sufficient), shall be deemed to be a proper person to
be sent to an asylum, within the meaning of 16
and 17 Vic., c. Vi, section 67. The section also de-
clares that the medical oiTacer shall, for all the pur-
poses of that act, be deemed to ha 7e knowledge that a
pauper resident within his district is' a lunatic, and
a proper person to be sent to an asylum,
.:Ind that it
shall be his duty to act accordingly, and furl her to
sign such certificate, as is contained in schedule F,
No. 3, to the above statute 16 and 17 Vic., c. 97.
Section 21 makes an addition to the form for the
quarterly list of lunatic paupers made out by the
medical officers, by providing for a return of those
who may be in the workhouse, as to whom the
medical officer is to certify whether the workhouse
is or is not sufficient for the accommodation of the
lunatics detained therein, and whether or not the
lunatics detained therein are proper persons to be
kept in a workhouse. Section 25 requires that in
the order of admission of a lunatic into an asylums
registered hospital, or licensed house, the name and
address of one or more of the relations of such luna-
tic shall, wherever it is possible, be inserted, to
whom notice of his death shall be sent in a prepaid
letter. The 31st section gives power to two or more
commissioners in lunacy where upon their visita-
tion of any workhouse it appears to them that any
lunatic, or alleged lunatic, therein is not a proper
person to be kept in a workhouse, to direct by an
order under their hands such lunatic to be received
into an asylum, and their order is to have the same
effect as that of a justice under the 16 and 17 Vic.,
c. 97, sec. 67. An appeal to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department against such order is
given to the guardians, and his order shall be bind-
ing on all parties concerned. By the 32d section a
similar power is given to such commissioners to
visit any pauper lunatic not in the workhouse, and
after the same examination as is required to be made
by a justice, to direct such lunatic to be received
into an asylum. According to section 33 their order
may authorise the admission into an asylum other
than that of the county or borough in which the
parish is situate from which the lunatic is sent, and
into any registered hospital or licensed house under
the same circumstances, and subject to the same con-
dition as are provided for in statute 16 and 17 Vie.,
c, 97, sec. 72. Section 34 requires the superinten-
dent of every asylum, once at the least in each half
year, to transmit to the guardians of every union
and parish a statement of the condition of every
pauper lunatic chargeable to such union or parish
This return will enable the guardians to determine
whether they should exercise the power given to
them by the statute 16 and 17 Vic., c. 97, sec. 65,
of sending a physician or other medical practitioner,
or a committee of themselves, to visit and examine
any or all the pauper lunatics chargeable to the
union in the asylum. In the event of a committee
being sent, the board recommend that only a limited
number should be appointed for the purpose, so that
there be no unnecessary expense incurred in visit-
ing. Considerable discussion has arisen between the
guardians and the auditors in the several unions,
where the latter have objected to the number of
guardians sent on such visits and the amount of the
expenses incurred in their visits. The board think
that, as a general rule, a committee of three or at
most five guardians would be sufficient for the pur-
poses of the contemplated examination. The atten-
tion of the guardians is particularly directed to
section 37, which requires the visiting committee
of every union and of every parish under a board
of guardians, once at least in each quarter of a year,
to enter in a book, to be provided and kept by the
master of the workhouse, such observations as they
may think fit to make respecting the dietary, ac-
commodation and treatment of the lunatics, or
alleged lunatics, for the time being in the work-
house, and farther requires that the book containing
the observations made in pursuance of this section
by the visiting guardians shall be laid by the master
before commissioners on their next visit. The board
recommend the board of guardians to provide this
book for their workhouse as soon as they conveni-
ently can do so. Section 38 contains the following
provisions in reference to the pauper lunatics under
confinement :—Two of the commissioners in lunacy,
as regards any hospital or licensed house, and two
of the committee of governors of any hospital, and
two of the visitors of any licensed house as regards
any licensed house in their jurisdiction, may per-
mit any pauper patient therein to be absent therefrom
upon trial, for such period as they may think fit, and
may make, or order to be made, an allowance to
him not exceeding his charge in such hospital or
house which shall be charged for him, and be pay-
able as if he were actually therein, but shall be paid
to him or for his benefit as they may direct. If he
do not return at the expiration of the time, and a
medical certificate that his detention as a lunatic is
no longer necessary be not sent to the proprietor or
superintendent, he may at any time within 14 days
after the expiration of the period be retaken. This
corresponds with the provision c intained in the 16
and 17 Vic., c. 97, sec. 79, in regard to pauper
lunatics in asylums. Section 45 contains a special
provision as to the chargeability of pauper lunatics
whose settlement cannot be ascertained in certain
boroughs, but as its application is very limited, the
board do not consider it necessary to enter into any
detail in regard to it. The board will refer to one
other section. The Bth section empowers the visi-
tors of any asylum, and the guardians of any parish
or union within the district for which the asylum
has been provided, if they shall see fit, to make ar-
rangements subject to the approval of the commis-
sioners in lunacy, and the President of the Poor-
lawparishofthe
union,asylum, Board, for the reception and care of a limited
number of chronic lunatics in the workhouse of such
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proper so to be removed. The board are at present
not aware of any workhouse in which any such
rangements could conveniently be made; but they
will be ready to consider any proposals on the sub-
ject when the visitors and the board of guardians
of any union shall fled it convenient or practicable
to act upon this clause.—l am, &c.,
W. G. LUMLEY, Assistant Secretary.
To the Clerk of the Guardians.

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The steamer Brandon has arrived at Mahon and
will immediately proceed to drag for the electric cable
broken between France and Algeria during the late
tem-
pestuous weather. The Montteur de l' Algerm, 'in alluding
to this subject, states that the Minister of the Interior has
informed the Governor-'3reneral that should the present at-
tempt to repair the old cable prove unsuccessful, immediate
steps will be taken for laying down a new one, n order to
reestablish coramunications as soon as possible.