The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-16 00:00:00

ANOTHER NEW OCEAN CABLE,

The latest accounts from Heart's Content describe the
weather there as of the most boisterous character, and
that all attempts to grapple with the broken cables had
up to that time proved unsuccessful. It was hoped that,
should the weather become less tempestuous, the endea-
vours to raise both cables will be attended with more
success. Another cable is to be laid, this time commencing
from the western shores of America, across the Pacific, to
the eastern coast of Asia. The New York Chamber of
Commerce has taken the matter in hand, and with every
appearance of speedily carrying out the grand project.
Herepath's Journal,

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Army and Navy Gazette says : There is no truth in
the rumour that Captain Hardinge, of the Valorous, will
supersede Captain May on board the Northumberland.—
It is announced at Chatham that the iron-clad vessels
composing the Channel Squadron were ordered to rendez-
vous at Portland, previously to their being dispatched on
a lengthened cruise.—lt is generally believed that we
shall not for the present construct any more large
large armour-plated ships, but content ourselves with
adding to the Navy another batch of the Cyclops class,
and one of the Blanche kind. We want the former
for coast defences, and the latter for cruisers.—
The Lords of the Admiralty, having arrived at the
determination of superseding all officers who have been in
command of any of her Majesty's ships for a period of
three years, have intimated to Captain Charles May,
now serving in the Northumberland, and Captain
Armytage of the Prince Consort, that they must shortly
go on half pay. Captain May has only been two
years in his present ship, but he was in the Defence pre-
viously for one year, and will thus come under the new
rule.
The claims of the 54th Regiment'to the Indian Mutiny
medal have at length been recognised, and the issue will
be made as soon as the medals can be prepared. All are
entitled to it who were with the regiment from November,
1857, to November, 1858.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Morrison, Royal Engineers,
has been appointed to examine the officers of the Engineer
Volunteer Corps who may desire to obtain field officer's
and captains' certificates of proficiency, as laid down in
Reserve Forces Circular, dated 30th August, 1870.
The Turkish Government have ordered a large armour-
plated ship of the Sultan class to be built in this country.
This formidable vessel will be nearly 6,000 tons, and her
engines will probably be of 1,200 horse power nominal.
The Broad Arvow says the Channel Squadron will not
be sent from England until the Conference is concludeds
and that a reward for distinguished service will be shortly
conferred on Brevet-Colonel R. H. Taylor, C. 8., one of
the Assistant Adjutant-Generals of the Home District.

It is stated that the Lord Chancellor is engaged
in preparing a Bill for the reform of the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council.
THE MARRIAGE OF BANKERS' CLERKS.—At the
half-yearly general meeting of the Union Bank of London
the chairman (Mr. P. N. Laurie) said he wished to say a
few words upon a matter which had occasioned some com-
ments lately—(ldughter)—but with regard to which some
misapprehension had prevailed. He alluded to the regula-
tion recently issued by the directors with a view of pre-
venting imprudent marriages amongst their junior
clerks before they were in receipt of such a salary
as would enable 'them to support the position into
which they might otherwise enter. (Cheers.) He
thought the shareholders would give them credit,
as men of business and married men, connected,
as they had been, with the bank for thirty years, for not
having come to this resolution without having had severe
and painful experience of its necessity. The Union Bank
was not the only establishment in the city in which such
a regulation prevailed, and the salaries and chances of
promotion were such as to enable all the junior clerks to
attain a position in which they could afford to maintain a
family after five or six years' Lservice in the bank. What
had been done had been clone in the interests of the clerks
themselves, and he felt sure that any father who sent his
son as a junior into the bank would be thankful that
there Was a bar placed by the directors to his being
perhaps inveigled into undesirable connections, and
hampering himself at the outset of life with the Irish
I fortune of a mathertin-law.