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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 18C5.

The sudden stoppage of all communication from
the Great Eastern has naturally occasioned very

great anxiety. The records of the progress of the
great ship have been so eagerly watched, and the

early success of the expedition was received with

such universal gratification, that the mortifying in-
telligence of an apparent failure could hardly be

otherwise than depressing and dispiriting. There
had been, it is true, two temporary stoppages pre-
vious to the present disaster, but these were so
accurately localised and so quickly repaired that

they almost increased the confidence felt in the
ultimate success of the expedition. The delay in

the . communications has now, however, continued

so long as to give rise to serious uneasiness, and to
well-founded apprehensions that the cable may

haVe been severed from the ship, and that, conse

quently, the 1,250 miles known to have been payed
out.are lying idle at the bottom of th© Atlantic.
There are, however, several points to be taken into
consideration, and arguments, of course, are not

wanting on both sides of the question. The signals
on Wednesday last became confused and indistinct
at about 10 a.m., and since a few hours after that
time no single signal has been received. Those who
believe in the severance of the cable, therefore,

argue that more than sufficient time has elapsed
for• the Great Eastern to have hauled
in the line and to have repaired the fault, so that
if the cable had not broken signals ought to have
bee.n received yesterday evening at furthest. But

allowing that the failure of the communications was
due to a local error, and that the iship would have
to wind the cable in again, it is impossible to cal-

culate within a narrow space the time such a process
would occupy. Twelve or even twenty-four hours
are not enough margin to leave, while we are un-
certain as to the nature and extent of the injury to
the cable, or to the difficulties which wind or weather
might oppose to the winding in. But there is a
strong argument in favour of the conjecture that
the stoppage of the signals is due to the general
disturbance produced by the magnetic storm -which
bated from Wednesday to Friday, and was again
renewed on Saturday. It should be remembered
tlitt the violence of this storm has produced a sen-
sible effect on the telegraphic wires on land, so that

it is impossible to estimate the effect on the Atlantic
submarine cable. The opinion of Mr. GLAISHER

and Mr. AIRY, derived from their observations at
the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, is that
no communication could have been expected

during so great a magnetic disturbance. Mr.
AIRY, writing on Saturday, says that the sponta-
neous earth currents have been so violent that the

telegrams on :the Croydon wire were interrupted
and, he adds, " It is scarcely in possibility that a
telegraph current can have passed along the Atlantic
cable in a legible state during any part of this time."
M. GLAISIIER writing, Aug. 6, informs us that the
mnnetic disturbance was again very active from
111 p.m. on Saturday till 3 a.m. yesterday, and that
since that time it had continued in a lesser degree
uP 10 the date of his letter. The Dartford
and Croydon
wires showed forcible traces of dis-
turbance, and the traces were frequedEly lost*
.Mr.
CiLAISIIER naturally draws the inference that
with a continuance of such strong and
active. earth current, on
the short wires it
is
,quite possible that through the great length of the
Atlantic cable, even if perfect, "the far-arranged
f64le currents to be sent would not be at all intelli-
gible." Of course, all conjectures must remain
mere conjecture until the matter is finally set at rest
either by a return of one of the ships or a renewal
of the signals. But it is wise, at all events, to sus-
pend our judgments, for the very uncertainty and
delicacy of the undertaking which forbids us to be
over-confident warns us also not to despair. The
coincidence of the magnetic storm with the suspen-
sion of the signals certainly points to the conclusion
that it has had something to do with the stoppage ;
bid whether the cable has during that period re-
dived 'any further injury, it is impossible to say;
at all events, while " there is life there is hope,"
and, until we have absolute information of the
failure of the expedition, we may cherish the convic-
tion that a favourable solution of the problem is at
any rate possible.

The Prussian lawyers, it appears, have come to a
decision at last upon the vexed question of succes-
sion in the Duchies, and the result of their delibera-
tions can take no one by surprise, for it exactly
follows out the notion previously entertained of
their conduct. In the first place, they declare that
the Duke of ALTGUSTENBERG has no right of succes-
SlOnto the whole or part of the D uchies, because his