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as well as the ship. This will be more necessary, as
from the position of one of the cable coils over two of
the screw boilers it has been found necessary to
shut off the latter entirely from steam, thus re-
ducing the power of the screw engines by one-fifth—
namely, from 1,500 to 1,200 horse-power. Another
reason for the paddle engines being kept going is
the assistance they may be required to give in keep-
ing the vessel on her course against side winds. They
will be also used to reverse the ship at once in case
of any serious " kink" occurring in the cable tanks.
The experience of submarine telegraphy points
always to one danger•—that of stopping the paying
out simultaneously with the stoppage of the vessel.
The very rapid downward course of the wire being
suddenly arrested at its point of departure over the
paying-out wheel generally causes instant breakage
of the rope—an accident which is always es sudden
as it is irremediable. In case of any stoppage being
necessary, therefore, the Great Eastern will be at
once reversed, so as to back her slowly over the line
where the cable lies until it hangs almost vertically
from the stern. During the time the Great Eastern
has been anchored at the Nore the swell, and espe-
cially within the last few days, has often been so

great as to prevent the service tugs from Sheerness
coming alongside. On some days, indeed, the sea
has run very high, yet always without making the
slightest impression on the big ship, which, from
first to last, has remained as absolutely immovable
as if she were aground.
All the staff who are answerable to the Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance Company and to the
Atlantic Company for tile successful laying of the
wire are now on board. Messrs. Canning, Clifford,
and Temple have absolute charge of the engineering
details of the undertaking, and Mr. de Sautz of
the electrical. Mr. Varley represents the interests
of the Atlantic Company, and Professor Thomp-
son acts as scientific referee in case of difference
of opinion arising between Mr. Varley and Mr. de
Sautz. Mr. Varley brings with him a sealed mes-
sage from the directors of the Atlantic Company,
which is to be delivered to Mr. Canning on the suc-
cessful arrival of the Great Eastern at Newfound-
land, and by him at once transmitted back to Lon-
don. Another message in reply will be returned by
the directors, on the receipt of which at Newfound-
land and another reply thereto, the line will be con-
sidered as laid in working order and formally ac-
cepted as so by the Atlantic Company.
To-morrow Mr. Moore will navigate the vessel
from her present moorings to the Downs. Captain
Moriarty,. R.N., who was in the Agamemnon as
master in.charge of that vessel, also, by permission
of the Admiralty, accompanies the great ship on this
eventful cruise. It is expected that she will arrive at
Valentia on Wednesday noon next. The shore end
with which she is to connect the main cable has not
yet been laid, but it is confidently anticipated it will
be ready before her arrival off the west Coast of
Ireland. Making the splice with the shore end is
certain to occupy the greater part of a day, and on
Thursday evening next the Great Eastern steams to
sea, in company with the Terrible and the Sphinx,
and followed by the Hawk, with a party of visitors
on board, for some 30 or 40 miles.

Just now everything is in the bustle, excitement,
and preparation incident to so momentous a depart-
ture, and the decks, littered over with forges and
engines, pens of sheep and stalls of oxen, wear a
mingled nautical, agricultural, and manufacturing
aspect which is strangely anomalous. The annual
show of the Royal Agricultural Society, with its
puffing steam ploughs and pens of live stock, if
towed a few miles out to sea, might offer a tolerable
resemblance to the picture the Great Eastern's decks
now bear.

In creature comforts this "great city of the seas"
is well provided. Stacks of vegetables, whole rows of
hencoops filled with almost innumerable poultry,
100 sheep, 13 oxen, beside', much cows, and many
sties of the noisiest pigs that could be got in Hamp-
shire, occupy the fore part of the ♦essel, the after
portions being given up to paying-out machinery,
buoys, boats, and tar.

A large number of yachts are expected to-niglif%
see the. great vessel start, and several have, it is said,
gone round to meet her at Valentia. Unfortunately
this is one of those occasions on which, nOtwith-

standing its vital importance, there is little to repay
the curiosity of mere spectators.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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VALETTA, July. s.—Her Majesty's corvette Chan-
ticleer, 17, Commander J. E. F. Risk, arrived on
the Ist inst. from Rhodes and Budroum. The
Mecanec, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse, left on the 3d
for Greece. The Wizard gunboat, Lieut. G. H.
Lawson, arrived on the 4th from Tunis. The screw
troopship Orontes, Capt. Hire, embarked the bag-
gage of Vie 2d battalion 22d Regiment to-day.
The regiment will embark to-morrow morning on
board this ship for England. The 29th Regiment,
lately arrived in the Orontes, from Kingstown, has
been temporarily quartered in Fort Ricasoli and

other barracks in the Cotonera district. A portion
has been put under canvas for want of sufficient
accommodation. It is intended to remove it to
Pembroke barracks on these quarters being vacated
by the 2d battalion 22d Regiment. The squadron
which sailed on the Ist inst. for a cruise, as already
reported, left with sealed orders. It is reported
that Algiers is one of the first ports they will call at.
Her Majesty's corvette Racer, 11, is to proceed to
Barcelona with the mail expected for the squadron
on the 7th inst. The following mail will be taken

by the despatch-vessel Psyche, Commander R.
Sterne. The Norwegian corvette Nordsjernen,
which arrived a few days ago from Tunis, left on
the Ist inst. for Naples. Vessels continue to arrive
with fugitives from Alexandria. Their number
has, however, diminished since it has become
known that the lazaretto at Malta can only afford
accommodation for a limited number of per-
sons. The lonia arrived on the Ist inst. with
32 passengers, the Celia on the 2d with about
130, and the Dalmatian on the 3d with 13. The
Dalmatian lost the first and third engineers and
three of the crew from cholera, while lying
in the port of Alexandria, and another man
died on the day following her departure. She also
landed two men in the Lazaretto here, out of four
who had reported themselves sick. There are now,
it is said, upwards of 1,000 persons performing qua-
rantine here. Another building, known as the Plague
Hospital, is being prepared, in order to afford them
increased .accommodation. Notwithstanding that
clean bills of health continue to be issued by the Go-
vernment, the occurrence of some suspicious eases of
sickness among the military and civil population of
this island has induced the authorities in Sicily to
place a quarantine on arrivals from Malta. The
Grecian, English screw-steamer, and the Asie,
French, have just come in from Alexandria, but the .
early hour for closing the mail does not allow time
for ascertaining if they bring any news.

The 2d Regiment of Life Guards And the Royal
Regiment of Horse Guards (Blues) had a field day
yesterday morning at Wormwood Scrubs. The In-
spector-General of Cavalry, Lord George Paget,
C. 8., was present with the troops. The Duke of
Cambridge, attended by an aide-de-camp in wait-
ing, arrived shortly before 10 o'clock, and was re-
ceived with the customary salute. His royal high-
ness put the troops through their evolutions.
The Duke of Cambridge also inspected yesterday
morning, in Hyde Park, the 3d Battalion of the
Coldstrc
Grenadier Guards, commanded by Col. Prince Ed-
ward of
ea Smaxe Guards, Weimar,
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The officers of the Brigade of Guards lately in
Canada gave a banquet last evening at the London
Tavern to Lieut.-General Sir Fenwick Williams, of
Kars, on his return to England from the command,
of the British forces in Canada, as a recognition of
his hospitality during their service in North Ame-
rica. Covers were laid for 50 persons. The banquet
was served up in the principal dining-room of the
London Tavern. The band of the Scots Fusiliers,
under the direction of Mr: Charles Godfrey, the
bandmaster, were present.
The Duke of Somerset, K.G., First Lord of the
Admiralty, accompanied by other members of the
Board, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from Lon-
don, by the train due at the Landport station at
615 p.m. Their Lordships drove from the station
to the dockyard in the carriage of the Port-Admi-
ral, Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., which was in