The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-24 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA CABLE.

Accounts from the cable steamship Suffolk, off the
south coast of Cuba, on July 30th, state that Sir Charles
Bright had laid the West India cable from Batabano to
the Juan Ruiz Keys. Seventy - two miles of
telegraphic commuuication have now been com-
pleted, with only one slight fault, which Sir Charles
had returned to remedy. The great difficulties presented
to the cable layers by the shoal water of the West India
Islands has rendered the task a very arduous one. The
Suffolk grounded several times, and it was only
the patience and determination of Sir . Charles
Bright which carried the expedition safely through.
The Spanish pilots again and again declared the Suffolk
could not follow the course laid out, but there has been
no essential variation from the original design ; and now
the worst part of the undertaking is accomplished, and
the remaining part will, it is thought, be rapidly com-
pleted. Every one connected with the expedition is in
high spirits.'

The. Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., left town
early yesterday afternoon, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess Granville at Walmer Castle.
A meeting was held at Belfast on Monday to take
steps to obtain subscriptions for the relief of the wounded
of both armies.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is in
constant attendance at his office at headquarters, and will
not leave town till next month.

A. new organ, to which the Queen and the Princess
Louise liberally contributed, has been opened in Newport
Church, Canon Prothero preaching on the occasion.

Mr. William Johnston, has refused to be-
come a member of the Belfast Conservative Registration
Society or to be elected an honorary member.

The yacht Cambria continues to be an object of
great admiration in New York harbour. It is understood
that Mr. Ashbury will have a banquet tendered him
before he returns to England.

Mr. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Con-
federate States of America, has come to England. It is
said he will make a tour through Europe.
At a special meeting of the Windsor Town Coun-
cil, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, has been
elected Chief and High Steward of Windsor, in the place
of the late Prince Consort.

The works at Sandringham are being rapidly
pushed on, and it is confidently expected that the house
will be ready for the occupation of the Prince of Wales
by the Ist of November, on which day his Royal High-
ness intends to proceed to Norfolk.

The Archbishop of Paris has been requested by
the Papal Nuncio to have a contradiction given in all the
churches of his diocese to a report of a letter from the
Pope to congratulate the King of Prussia on his victories.
The Curd of the Madeleine on Sunday made the announce-
ment from the pulpit.
Some boys were on Sunday nlaying near a Volun-
teer target at Peterhead, when t'he target, weighing 15
cwt., fell forward upon four of them, and killed one, John.
Slater, aged eleven, on the spot. The others were dan-
gerously injured. The children were all sons of a Port-
nockie fisherman employed at Peterhead.
The Hon. Norman Grosvenor, M.P. for Chester,
on Monday laid the foundation stone of the New British
Schools, to be built in that city ; and, referring to the
Education Bill, he said that, if one or two points in it were
altered, the remainder of the bill provided machinery
which, in his opinion, was adapted to maintain
a thorough system of education throughout the
country.

Sir William Jackson, Bart., the founder of the
Albert Memorial Industrial Schools, Birkenhead, was on
Monday presented with his portrait, as a token of the
gratitude of the Birkenhead people for the great benefit
which he had conferred on the community by the founda-
tion of such an institution. Sir William evinced deep
emotion while returning thanks, and asked the trustees
of the Memorial Schools to accept back the portrait.

The Sheffield Independent reports that the branch
of the Midland Banking Company in that town was
visited a few days ago by a well-dressed gentlemanly-
looking man, who succeeded in obtaining some money by
means of a forged banker's order. The amount was not
considerable. Only a few days previously the same
person visited a London bank, and contrived to get
between £3OO and £4OO by a forged letter of credit. He
stated at one place that he was an American traveller.
Opposition is still offered to the procession of
choristers at St. Chad's Church, Rochdale. On Sunday,
as the procession was passing up the aisle, a lady, who has
an antipathy to such displays, placed herself in the way.
A churchwarden requested her to move, but she resolutely
refused. In an attempt to remove her, she is said to have
gone " black in the face." At length her father went to
her assistance, and calling her his " much persecuted
daughter," invited her to go into his arms. In an embrace
which followed they fell down, and shortly afterwards
they left the building.

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