The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-26 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES.

Now that the milking of Gladiateur iZnd Fille de l'Air is
over, the betting on the Goodwood Cup has assumed a
more settled appearance. Eltham, having been knocked
about, is now restored to life again. The field will likely
comprise the following

PROBABLE STARTERS AND JOCKEYS.
Horse. Age st lb Rider.
General Peel
Ely
Cambuscan
Union Jack
Privateer...
Breeze ' 4 810
Hollyfox
Eltham
Breadalbano
Todlebeu
Friday -
Wild Charley

Union Jack holds all the four-yr-olds safe, and Eltham,
Wild Charley, and Breadalbane aro the best of the three-
yr-olds. Eltham can stay the distance, as was lately seen
at Ascot. Wild Charley has now quite recovered from
his illness, and no horso could be in finer condition. His
easy defeat of Ackworth at Northampton is enough to
stamp him one of the best horses in training. Cambuscan
holds both General Peel and Ely safe. Breeze and Eltham
ought to finish close together. The judge, I expect, will
place—

UNION JACK
WILD CHARLEY
CAMBUSCAN
Ilolyfox has the best outside chance.

A FRESH MAN.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JULY 25.

16th Regiment of Lancers—Captain James Goldie, from
the 17th Lancers, to be Captain, vice Battine, who ex-
changes.
17th Lancers—Captain William A. Bettina, from the 16th
Lancers, to be Captain, vice Goldie, who exchanges.
sth Regiment of Foot—Ensign Thomas Arthur Cooke to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice James Henry
Clutterbuck, deceased ; Gentleman Cadet Henry Aitkin
Cherry, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Cooke.
Bth Foot—Ensign Francis James Stuart to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice William W. Madden, who retires;
Gentleman Cadet Edmund Percival Wilford, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Stuart.
9th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Crighton Gray,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with-
out purchase, vice Martin, transferred to the 65th
Foot.
12th Foot—Lieutenant William Henry Crawhill to be
Captain, without purchase, vice Nesbitt, whose promo-
tion on the 15th of December, 1864, has been cancelled ;
Ensign John Albert Littlo to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Henry Nesbitt, who retires; Ensign Thomas
Francis Hobday from the 39th Foot, to be Ensign, vice
Little.
13th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Bryan Bristow Twyne, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Henry Hart, promoted.
26th Foot—Major Shurlock Henning to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Col. Francis Carey,
who retires upon half-pay ; Capt. Charles R. B. Calcott,
to be Major, by purchase, vice Henning; Lieut. George
Philip Fawkes to bo Captain, by purchase, vice Calcott ;
Ensign Vivian Devouport to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Fawkes.
33d Foot—Ensign Richard Mant Miller to, be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Henry G. Boyd, who retires Ensign
Howard Melliss, from the 34th Foot, to be Ensign, vice

Miller.
34th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Thomas Arthur Hill Lowe,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Melliss, transferred to the 33d Foot.
39th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Thomas Francis Hobday,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Henry O'Brien, deceased; Gentleman
Cadet Edward Hales Wilson, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thomas Francis
Hobday, transferred to the 12th Foot.
44th Foot—Lieutenant E. C. Pemberton Pigott to be Ad-
jutant, vice Lieutenant Augustus Richard Trimmer, who
resigns that appointment.
49th Foot— George Charles Todd Naylor, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Walter James Tweed, who
retires.

53d Foot—Lieutenant Henry John Beckwith to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Gustavus Lambert Basset, who
retires ; Ensign Frederick Bowyer Lane to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Beckwith ; Gentleman Cadet
Francis Prescod Gurney, from the Royal Military
College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lane.
65th Foot—Ensign Arthur Henry Heyland to be Lieuten-
ant, without purchase, vice Arthur Henry Lewis, de-
ceased ' • Ensign Charles Grosvenor Byam Martin, front
the 9th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Heyland.
85th Foot—Lieutenant Kennaway William Henry Noyes
to be Captain, by purchase, vice George Morland, who
retires ; Ensign Nathaniel Henry Ho gentleman
to be Lteu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Noyes ; tleman Cade
Windham George Conway Anstruther, from
.the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Hodgson.
88th Foot—Lieut. John James Davidson to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Lieut. Arthur Allen Owen, who has
resigned the appointment.
lOtith Foot—Ensign Frederick Mercer Hunter, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Arthur P. Hancock, who resigns ; Gentle-
man Cadet Henry Alexander Bruce Moorhouse, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Hunter.
4th West Inia Regiment—Ensign Patrick Kelly, from the
Ist West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Barrow,
promoted to a Lieutenancy, without purchase, on the
Half-pay List

BREVET.
second Captain Robert Murdoch Smith, Royal Engi-
neers, to have the local rank of Major while serving in
Persia.
The undermentioned officers having completed the qua-
lifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be
Colonels, under the Royal Warrant of 14th October, 1858:
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Freeland
Brett, Gist Foot.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Chauval Hodgson, 79th
Foot.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 20.
Commander Hervey George St. John Mildmay to be
Retired Captain, under Orders in Council of let August,
1860, and 9th July, 1864.

The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition

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VALENTIA, July 23

Before this reaches the public the Great Eastern, I
if all all go well, will already have laid some 300
miles of the Atlantic cable, will have passed over
the shoal known on the submarine maps as the
Irish Bank, and have steadily settled down to her
work in sonic 2,000 fathoms water. Nothing could
possibly have been more auspicious than all the cir-
cumstances attending her departure, both as regards
weather and the mechanical fitness of all the appa-
ratus connected with the process of submerging.
During her stay at Beerhaven all the machinery for
paying out, under-running, letting go the buoy
rope, &c., has been tested and found to answer on
board the ship as well as in the factory at Wool-
wich. The circular guards, called crinolines, to be
suspended over the cable tanks, and through the
centre of which the cable will be paid out, have
been fixed, and the contents of the three tanks,
which has, e hitherto been only temporarily joined,
carefully spliced together as they are to the rest at
the bottom of the Atlantic. As the cable is to be
paid out first from the after tank, and next from
the forward, the end of that in the tank astern has
to be joined with the first part of that ahead. For
this purpose it has to be taken along the whole
length of the Great Eastern's deck under a wooden
case, which is firmly screwed down, to protect it
alike from accidental or malicious injury, the latter,
strange to say, being generally considered the more
formidable of the two risks. When the cable is
paid out from the aftermost tank, the long " lead,"
as it is termed, to the forward coil will make this
part of the transmission comparatively easy and safe,
but passing from the forward to the midship section
is only a short distance, and this will be the greatest
danger of the undertaking. With a stiff wire rope
passing out at six knots, or nearly seven miles an
hour, its liability to kink in running from one coil to
another is something unpleasantly easy, while stop-
ping the speed of the vessel is almost even more
dangerous, as it suddenly checks some four or five
miles of heavy iron rope in its downward course to
the bottom. Almost every accident that has oc-
curred in laying. cables has arisen• either from pass-
ing from coil to coil at speed, or slowing the vessel
too much to reduce this danger. The composite
order of the machinery of the Great Eastern, which
enables her with her paddle wheel engines to turn at
once astern, reduces this danger, however, to as low
a risk as possible. During all the time that the vessel
has been at Beerhaven the cable has been regularly
tested through at least twice a day, and in every
instance the signals have been singularly clear and
perfect. Beyond all question the condition of the
wire is certain to improve, if successfully laid, under
the great compression and uniform temperature
which the depths of the Atlantic will afford it.
Thus, for instance, with the shore end, which was
laid on Saturday, the testing on board the Caroline
gave only 7,000,000 units, yet yesterday, when
it had scarcely been down some 30 hours, this rate
had risen from 7,000,000 to 13,000,000 units. The
average rate of perfection of the Atlantic cable for
the deep sea portion has been 11,000,000 units, so
that on being submerged 15,000,000 units may be
safely looked for, an improvement which ought to
make a difference of at least one and a half words a
minute in the rate of telegraphing, or, in other words,
a gain of £150,000 a year in the receipts of the com-
pany. The Great Eastern was warned on Saturday
to keep herself in readiness for an early start at
daybreak yesterday to join the Caroline, which had
the end of the shore line on board. It may be
mentioned that the shore end of the cable, though
commenced under the cliffs with what seems a pon-
derous bar of iron, gradually tapers into a smaller
and lighter rope as the depth of water and distance
from the shore increases. Under the rocks it is for
five miles out 21 inches in diameter ; at ten miles
distance only 2 inches ; at 15 miles it is reduced to
inches, at 20 miles to about 1 inch, and at 25
miles of its extreme length it merges into the ordi-
nary size of the deep sea wire, with which it has to
be joined. The Caroline laid this end,.as we have
already described., on Saturday, carefully buoying
the last portions of it, leaving some half-mile or so
on board her decks to form the splice. This opera-
tion was completed yesterday. The Great Eastern
was off Bray Head at 9 a.m., but at such a distance
from the dangerous shore that only those provided
with good glasses could make out from the land
where the huge vessel lay, under the cloud of smoke
which she poured forth, and which reached like a
fog-bank across the ocean. The party who started
to witness the making of the splice and the final
starting left Valeutia in the klawk, the Great
Eastern's rapid tender, soon after 9 in the morning.
Among those on board were Lord John Hay, Sir R.
Peel, M.P., the Knight of Kerry, with his daughters,
the Misses Fitzgerald, Capt. White, R.N., Captain
Hamilton, Mr. W. H. Russell, Mr. Edwards, Mrs.
Glass, &c. The western extremity of Ireland was
reached in about an hour, and soon afterwards the
magnificent rock that carries the Skellig Light, a
wild stupendous mass of cliff which, amid deep
water, rises from the ocean to a height of 800 feet,
and which the incessant beat of the Atlantic seems
to have worn into seams and angry gaps that
almost undermine its base. About 15 miles bey and
these rocks the Great Eastern was at rest, not
moving to the dull, easy swell, though her two
guards of honour, the Terrible and Sphinx, were
rolling slightly ; while the Caroline, with the end of
the shore cable on board, and looking uglier than
ever now that she was light and out of water, was
especially lively. It is difficult to describe in any
but the most matter-of-fact terms the routine
process which marked the commencement of this
enterprise. It had already begun when the Hawk
arrived and the paddle-box boats of the men-of-
war and the cutters of the Great Eastern were filled
with cable, which passing through the paying-out
machine astern was being slowly towed from the
great ship to the Caroline. The operation of splicing
was one of time and difficulty, for smooth as the
sea had seemed from land the regular heave of the
Atlantic was deep enough. Sir Robert Peel, Lord
John Hay, and Mr. Russell managed to get on
board the Great Eastern, but with such difficulty
that few others were induced to venture on the risk
of the undertaking, and still fewer to accomplish it.
Soon after one o'clock the coils of the deep sea
cable were safely wound on board the Caroline, and
the work of splicing them at once commenced.
This was done by stripping both ends of, hemp out-
side wires, and gutta percha for a short distance till
the copper conductor of the line was laid bare, and
pared down to a fine wedge-shaped point at either'
end. The connecting conductors were then over-
lapped_ in the form known as a " scarf " joint, and
firmly hound together with fine threads of copper
wire, till the junction was made even stronger than
the main portions of the line. The threads and
conductor were then soldered together thickly, and
strips of soft gutta pe'rcha, like bands of brown
tape, were wound layer over layer, and their edges
closely pressed, so as to form one homogeneous
mass, till a certain thickness was completed. Then
came a coating of insulating material called Chat-
terton's Compound, and then again another layer of
gutta percha tape, until the whole was inclosed in
four rings of the gutta percha and three of the
Compound. The joint was then immersed in
cold water for testing, and .the signals proving
perfect, the last protection of hemp and outside
wire was added, and the joint sunk again into
the sea, that its perfectness as to con-
ductivity 'and insulation might be ascertained from
the extreme end of the whole length of the cable on
board the Great Eastern. It was past 4 o'clock be-
fore the last of these tests was concluded, not that
it did not test well from the first, but simply because
it was intended to exhaust every trial known to elec-
tricians before the great journey was begun. All
the signals from end to end of the wire came
_won-
derfully distinct into the instrument room of the
Receiving-house at the head of Foilhommerum-bay,
and at 4.30 the flags on board the Caroline and
Great Eastern were hauled down to show that all
was ready. By that time the Great Eastern, which
had always kept moving her paddles at
intervals, had forged ahead of the Caroline some
two or three miles, paying out the cable slowly as
she went on, and leaving the latter vessel the only
float by which one portion of the wire was kept
above water. Thq instant, however, that the flags

}171147t, Gown the lastfastenings which held it to the
Caroline were cast adrift, and with a great splash '
the final joint of the Atlantic Telegraph and the first
30 miles of its length went down slowly into the
blue water and were out of sight. Long before this
Sir Robt. Peel and Lord John Hay hal returned on
board the Hawk, which at once steamed away, when
the splice was turned adrift, to overtake the Great
Eastern. This was very easily done, for while the
latter was barely steaming five knots an hour the
former was running fourteen. As the tender came
near the thin narrow rope of cable could be seen
passing over the last wheel astern, and sinking into
the foam without strain of any kind, as it seemed
for a moment or so to float slowly aft before it dis-
appeared under the swell that still kept rolling
deeply in. The after deck sponsons bridge and
paddle-boxes of the Great Eastern were crowded as
the Hawk came alongside, and it was easy from the
distance which the tender held to distinguish the
faces of those on board as they waved their hats and
cheered. In the midst of this the Great Eastern
fired two guns from her bows at 5.30 to mark the
commencement of her journey, and Sir Robert Peel,•
mounting to the little quarter-deck of the Hawk,
marked time, while three small but earnest cheers
were given by the select company on board to the
success of the great enterprise. In return came back
a swelling, hearty roar from all on the cable ship,
as with the last salute of waving hats and caps and
handkerchiefs the tender dropped astern, leaving the
Great Eastern dippling slowly but steadily ahead, at
the rate of about six knots an hour. Both the Ter-
rible and Sphynx were close at hand, contributing a
little, and but a little, to the huge volume of smoke
which their gigantic consort spreadfar and wide over
the sea, and which even appeared in the distance to
taint the blue mountains of Kerry on shore. As long
as signs could be made or hats waved the vessel was
anxiously watched, but she soon hid herself in her
own smoke, and when the Hawk neared the Irish
coast a mere brown cloud in the horizon was all that
showed where the greatest ship in the world was
steaming away to endeavour to accomplish the reali-
zation of an idea even more venturesome and infinitely
more important than that which she herself embodies.
May she be suceessf, I I
VALENTIA, July 25, 9.30 p.m.

Signals received from the Great Eastern at 9 a.m.
to-day report the discovery of a fault, and perfect
repair of the cable. The intelligence reached here in
time to prevent the sailing of the Caroline to pick up
the splice. The news, however, could not be sent to
London, as the land lines were down between this
and Killarney, and were not repaired till this evening.
The last signals from the Great Eastern at 4.30 p.m.
report that the paying out has been resumed and
that all is going well. Both signals and reverse
current are remarkably clear and strong.

The following telegram has been received by Reuter's
Telegraph Company (Limited) from Mr. A. R. Glass,
managing director of the Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Company (Limited) :
" VALENTIA 7 July 25.
" The Great Eastern telegraphs, in lat. 52, long.
12, that a small fault has been discovered and cut
out. She is now paying out again, and the signalling
is perfect. Weather very fine."