The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-04 00:00:00

ANOTHER ATLANTIC TELEGRAPIL

We are enabled to announce to day that a com-
pany is in course of formation, to be called " The
British and Canadian Snbmarine Telegraph Com-
pany (Limited)," the object of which will be to con-
nect the most important British North American
colonies with Great Britain by electric telegraph,
commencing with that portion of the line between
Galway and Quebec, and extending it onwards to
the pacific, as soon as may be deemed expedient.
The company propose that the first section shall
commence here, cross the Atlantic to the Straits of
Belle Isle, and follow the course of the river St.
Lawrence to Quebec. The wire to be used will be
of , a totally different nature and construction
from any hitherto employed, and the whole
arrangements will be such as to secure
its being successfully laid. The advantages that
must attend the establishment of the line, being, as
it will, independent of any foreign power in the
event of war, cannot be too highly rated, and the
communication with New York and other parts of
the United States via Quebec, will make but a few
seconds difference between this and the unfortunate
line now lying inert in the Atlantic, supposing it
were in operation. It is also to be borne in mind
that Quebec is already in telegraphic communica-
tion with the whole of our North American colo-
nies as well as the States. From improvements al-
ready made known in the mode of constructing and
laying submarine telegraphs, together with most im-
portant ones introduced by the company's engineer
(whose experience has- extended over many years,
both in this countev and -America), it is estimated
that, with a capital of £750,000, a telegraph, con-
taining six to nine conductors, can be constructed
and laid down front Galway to Quebec, including
all expenses. The probable return upon this outlay
of £750,000 may be calculated as follows :—At the
present known rate of transmission (which, it is
believed, may be greatly increased on the lines of
this company), six wires only will convey sixty
messages of ten words each per hour, and in twenty
hours 1,200, which for 300 days only, gives
360,000 ; and allowing £20,000 for working ex-
penses, and £50,000 towards a relaying fund, there
would remain £llO,OOO for a dividend, or nearly 15
p©r cent. upon the capitaL-1-Galway Vindicator.

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SINGULAR .4.1741R.--,BEATING TO
QUA.RTERS AT QUEE2irSTOWN. .

CORK, MONDAY EVENING.

Last night, between 10 and 11, the whole neigh-
bourhood, including Monkston, Passage, and Cork,
were aroused from their slumbers by a heavy
cannonade, coming from, as it turned out, her
Majesty's ship Hawk 9, 60, Coast-guard ship, Capt.
Crispin, which lies at anchor above the guard ship,
her Majesty's ship Nile, about midway between
Haulbowline Island and Whitepoint. This firing
continued for nearly three-quarters of an hour,
some imagining that the French had tried to force
their way up the harbour, others that the Channel
fleet had arrived, and others again that the Eur 3--
alus, M, Captain Tarleton, C. 8., with his Royal
Highness Prince Alfred on board, had cone in; but
none guessed the right reason. Many of the inha-
bitants of Queenstown thought the Hawke was on
fire, and, from fear of the magazine blowing up,
left the town. At Cork the firing was distinctly
heard by ninny, and amongst others by Major
Stewart, staff officer of pensioners, who reported the
circumstsnces -to Major-General Eden, C. 8., the
Assistant Adjutant-General, Lieut.• Col. Smith, and
some other of the military authorities ; but, owing
to the firing shortly ceasing, the general ordered no
further steps to be taken. At Queenstown the
first lieutenant of the flag-ship Nile, Lieutenant Fox
sent off a boat with Lieutenant Boger (third lieu-
tenant) on board, to the Hawke, to inquire the
cause of the firing, but on arrival he was warned
off. On returnin., to the Nile, Lieutenant Fox,
sent off the same officer to the Admiral, Sir Henry
Chads, K.C.8., and to Captain Chads. In the
mean time the firing ceacel, orders having come
through the first lieutenant of the Hawke, Lieu-
tenant Pickard, who was on shore at the time, to
stop it. On inquiry it appears that Captain Crispin
is absent on duty round the coast. The first and
second lieutenants were on shore, and a junior
officer, who, rumour says, had been dining out, on
finding himself in command, was so impressed with
the idea that for a naval port of such importance
the ships were never sufficiently on the alert, or
prepared for an emergency, that he thought it
would be a good mpportunity to beat to night
quarters, and to see, for hi self if the crew of the
Hawke, about four- hundred strong, were on the
"alert. Of 'course a strict inquiry will be made.
No officer has a right to fire in harbour without the
permission of the senior officers. Many of the
sailor's ashore thought the firing was in conse-
quence of the Hawkehaving received its orders that
morning to winter at Bantry ; and several of the
Roman Catholics thought it was to commemorate
" All Hallow Eve," Captain Crispin being a Roman
Catholic. It may be well to mention that some say
the second lieutenant was on board, and not ashore
at the time. If so, this would exonerate the junior
officer.

TILE HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND SUS-
PICIOUS DEATH NEAR HALIFAX.

On Tuesday, an official inquiry into the cause of
the death of Dan Beverley was opened by Mr.
Dyson, the district coroner, at the New Delight Inn,
Warley, near Halifax. rom the evidence of the
witnesses it appeared that the prisoners Farrer and
Drake were seen in the neighbourhood of the
White Bear Inn, Halifax, a few minutes before the
deceased left the house on Satuadav night. On
leaving, between seven and eight o'clock, the de-
ceased-was much the worse for liquor. Some time
afterwards a witness, named Thomas Greenwood,
saw the deceased in Pellon-lane, with the prisoner
Farrer and another man. Farrer was driving the
cart, but the other man (whom Greenwood could
not identify) was in the cart, and the deceased was
there also, kneeling upon the potato( s, with his
head between the legs of his companion. The
man in the cart with the deceased then said
he would give Farrer Is. to drive to Moor-
end. [The deceased is supposed to have been
robbed at this time, while in the cart.] Farrer
drove the cart on till he passed the new church
at Pellon, making two or three stoppages on the
road. With the assistance of the man riding
with him the deceased then got off the cart,
and, taking hold of the shaft, went to the horse's
head for the purpose of driving home. The wit-
ness Greenwood, who followed the cart, remon-
strated with the two men for leaving the deceased,
when the one he could not identify observed, " He
has scratched my eyes oUtilearly, in corning with him
as far as I have done." -The prisoner Farrar- and
his companion then walked towards Halifax by the
same road they had come. In about a quarter of
an hour afterwards Greenwood found the de-
ceased lying upon the seats in the middle of
the road, near Sand Beds Lane End, the horse
having gone forward without a driver. The deceased
said nothing, except that he had not fallen off
the cart, and had not been run over. He was then
quite helpless, and could neither walk nor stand.
The clothes of the deceased were in a disordered
state. As early as possible he was conveyed home,
where he expired at two o'clock next morning.
Mr. Crowther, surgeon, said he had made a post
mortem examination of the body of the deceased,
assisted by Mr. Peacock, of Halifax. A wound
had been inflicted upon the back of the deceased's
head, but it was a superficial one. There was great
congestion of the brain, and the heart was much
diseased. Witness attributed deceased's death to a
chronic affection of the heart, inducing congestion
of the brain. Rough treatment, a fall, or drinking
intoxicating liquors, might have accelerated the
death of the deceased. The jury returned a verdict
in accordance with the medical testimony.
The prisoners were taken back to the lock-up at
Halifax on the charge of highway robbery.