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BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 27.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Kertch, report-
ing that all vessels ar►iving from the ports of the North
Coast of Africa, and from Malta, will be required to per-
form quarantine at Theodosia, there being no quarantine
establishment at the port of Kertch.

The Right honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Syria,
reporting that all vessels arriving at that port from the un-
dermentioned places will be subjected to a quarantine as
follows :

Vessels and
Passngers. Cargo.
Tripoli (Barbary), Morocco, Ceuta,
15 days. 21 days.
Malta, and Gibraltar
Egypt 2O days. 31 days.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the . Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and- Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a Despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, enclos-
ing copy of a Portuguese Royal Decree, prolonging for
three years, the period during which machinery for the
manufacture of the products of the sugar cane may be im-
ported, free from duty, into the islands of Madeira and
Porto Santo.

The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
rivy Council-for Trade and Plantations, have received in-
formation, through the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, that an official Notification has been issued by the
Russian Government, warning masters of vessels visiting
the southern ports of Russia of the inconvenience to which
they may expose themselves by neglecting to be furnished
with proper Consular Certificates of Health.
The Right .Honourable. the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations • have received,
through the Secretark•of State for Foreign Affairs a copy
of a despatch iromhe?-INfaresty'k 'Consul at Lisbon, report-
ing that all vessels arriving from Brazil, and having had
' yellow fever on board, will be subjected to a_quarantine of
night• days, al id will be admitted into the port of Lisbon on
tAie oindition only that eight days shall have elapsed since
the cessation of the last case. • • •

WA:3-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Strr. 28.
Colilstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Andrew Spittall,
M.D., to )e Assistant-Surgeon,. vice Phipps, deceased.
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 14.
Corps of Royal Marines—Gentlenian Cadet Edward Ellice
Hill to be ,Sesond Lieutenant. ' '

COMMIt3SIONS BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
Ist Reoinw ut of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Ensign- John IVood Younghusband to be Lieutenant ; En-
sink John pan's Bradshaw to be Lieutenant.
En-
sign
Wiltsh ire Militia—lValter Long, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Sadler, resigned.
Royal Montgor.lery Rifles—Clement Arthur Thurston,
Gent., to be Ensig ti, vice Lloyd, appointed to the 2d West
India Regiment.
Galloway Rifle Regiment of Militia—James Wnr. Stuart,
Esq., to be Ensign.

had The advantage of the 'counsel and co-operation
of Mr. Bright, the engineer to the Mapetic Com-
pany, whose experience, previously gamed on the
subterranean system of wires under his care, em-
bracing a mileage more extended than that of any
other which the world affords, was, on all points,
of the utmost value to me." No doubt it would
have been better had he availed himself at a
later period of such practical advice as tele-
graphists of longer and more widely extended
knowledge could give him. The facts scarcely
require any. comment. He would have done well
to confine his cacoethes scribendi to the matter in
dispute between himself and the company with-
out seeking to make himself a character by de-
tracting from the merits of a work in which he has
borne no part.

The report of Mr. Varley, the electrician to the
Electric Telegraph Company (who has recently
been consulted by the Atlantic Cothpany, together
with Professor Thompson, Mr. Edward Bright,
Mr. Henley, and others practically versed in tele-
graphic matters), places the fault at about 270
statute miles distant in the cable, from which must
be deducted 22 per cent. for slack, to give the dis-
tance to be run by a steamer in reaching it.
He also states, from the data of testing prior to
the departure of the expedition to lay the cable,
that there was then a serious fault in it (which
must have escaped the notice of the late electrician
of the_company, in whose department the proper
electrical condition and insulation of the conductor
was), in addition to the 'defect abore-mentioned,
which has since supervened.
He further condemns the employment of such
intense currents as have been passed into the cable
since its submeFgence by Mr. Whitehouse's appa-
ratus, which he considers may not improbably have
injured its insulation.
If these opinions arc correct (and we believe that
the power of the currents used is held by those
who have the greatest experience in the testing
and working of telegraphic wires in this country
to be sufficient to account for the impaired insula-
tion of the line), it is of the utmost importance that
the greatest possible care should be exerted with all
future undertakings of the kind to seek for and ob-
tain the best possible advice of a practical kind from
the very outset of their operations.