The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-26 00:00:00

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STRAITS OF DOVER, THURSDAY.—The actual sub-
mersion of the great cable telegraph, now attracting
S 9 much international attention, and which arrived

here by her Majesty's ship Blazer, was commenced
this morning at six o'clock, at which hour Capt. Bul-
lock, R.N., was ready, with the steam-ship Fearless
and a picked crew, to pilot the convoy across
the channel. The morning was calm and
sea-bright, and the crews of both vessels ap-
peared animated with that feeling of adven-
ture which is naturally enough evoked by an experi-
ment of such enterprise and novelty as that of
underlaying some 20 miles of deep sea with the elec-
tric link of intelligence between the European coati-
pent and the capital of the world. The first thing
done, there not being sufficient depth of water for
the Blazer to be brought near enough shore, was to
convey the extremity of the cable to the South Fore-
land coast, where it will be buried deep in the beach,
and carried up the cliff. The Fearless then steamed
ahead, having made fast her towing tackle to the hull
of the Blazer, at the rate of two miles an hour, out to
sea, the men on board the latter vessel paying out
continuously the cable over her stern, from whence,
by the action of its own weight, it sank into the sub-
marine sand and valley. The track. between the
South Foreland and Sandgate, the corresponding
point on the French coast, and which has been se-
lected as presenting, from soundings and surveys, the
fewest obstacles and probable disturbances, was marked
out by pilot buoys, and is chosen as the best site
for the subtherging of the wire that could be adopted
by those having the best knowledge of naval and ma-
rine dynamics. The depth of the sea line at starting
point is from 20 to 30 feet, and its maximum depth
180 feet, or 30 fathoms. There being a surplus of 4
miles of wire over the 21 required, the slackening pro
cess was well sustained, and the experience gathered
from the experiment of last year ren lered the opera.
tion the more facile. The route adopted differs ad-
vantageously from the one laid down last year, which
was in the neighbourhood of shifting sands. Messrs.
Crampton and Wollaston, the engineers, were in
charge of the engineering arrangemente, and some
30 men and the necessary batteries being on board,
complimentary messages and notifications of progress
were sent over the progressively paid out cable
through the waveless depths to Dover. Fusees were
also, at intervals of miles, fired through it on the
foreshore.

At half-past one the gratifying intelligence was
conveyed through the cable that it was then half-way
across the channel, 10 miles; but at this stage of the
voyage it began to blow fresh, and the ripple at the
bows of the vessel at starting now assumed more of
the rolling sea, which occasioned a pitching of the
vessel that, for perfect facility of operation, had been
better dispensed with. At about half-past five o'clock
the time at which the last train left Dover for Lon-
don, about 16 miles of cable had been successfully
steamed off and submerged, and as, consequently,
nothing further in the shape of a written dispatch
could be conveyed to town, the only medium for com-
municating the subsequent progress of submersion
would be

[BY SUB-SEA AND LAND TELEGRAPH.]
" COAST OF FRANCE, TWILIGHT.
" The cable is securely anchored two-and-a-half
miles off the French coast."

It will thus be seen that the great cable, after an
arduous expedition, was all but successfully landed
on the French frontier, and this is to be completely
accomplished on the renewal of operations to-morrow
morning (Friday).—Chronicle.

THE BLACHWALL DOCKS AND THE EAST ANI. WEST
INDIA DOCK RAILWAY.—Within the last few days the ex-
tensive dock formed by the East and West India Dock Junc-
tion Railway at Blackwell, contiguous to the eastern entrance
of the West India Docks, has been opened for the admission
of shipping. It covers a space of nearly seven acres, and
its depth of water amounts to upwards of twenty-four feet.
The eastern side of the dock is devoted to the coal traffic.
Tramways are laid along the whole length of the quay, and
by several powerful cranes or lifts the coal is very expe-
ditiously raised from the colliers and deposited in the trucks.
In addition to the dock, and the company's works in the
immediate neighbourhood, a double line of rails has been
formed along the entire frontage of the eastern warehouses
of the West India Export Dock, so that the different bales
and packages of East and West India and other produce
may be lowered from the loopholes of the warehouses into
the trains, and, if necessary, may be conveyed to Aberdeen
via the London and North-Western Railway without break
of carriage.
" ALARMING SACRIFICE."—One of our tradesmen
last week issued a number of handbills, announcing that
bonnets were to be given away at his establishment to all
were soon besieged by a
whom coaprried off one, two, three, and
motley comers.
crowd, Tli e doors
some
oo
ff
in sonic cases, five bonnets each, which they obtained at the
extremely low price of—nothing ! This fun went on until
some of the neighbours, with more sense than himself, in-
duced him to give over the losing trade; and then the mul-
titude, who did not at all relish this stoppage of the sup-
plies, displayed their gratitude in a strong inclination to
"smash the windows of the liberal bonnet-bailder.—Chelten-
ham Examiner.

A coach has been running for some time between
Brighton and London, taking the Horsham, Dorking, and
Richmond road; and on Monday another four-horse coach,
taking the alternate days, was put on. It is called the
" Recherche," and appears to be well horsed. The starting
of another coach iu these railroad times attracted no little
curiosity, on Tuesday, in Castle-square, from 'whence the
ReeherchO" started,--Brighton Gazette.