The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-18 00:00:00

THEATRE .RON AL, DRURY-LANE.nder
-I- the Management of 3lisg Louisa l'yne and Mr. W

Harrison.
THIS EVENING, MARITANA. Characters by Miss
Louisa ryne, Miss Susan l'yne, Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Ferdi-
nlnd Glover, Mr. George Honey, Mr. J. G. ratey, Mr. Bar-
Hli eum, Mr. Kirby, and Mr. W. Harrison.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mcllon.
To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR
D'A HOUR : Meadlles. L. Michelet, Uorlacchi, and Pasquale.

1.4.,-.)YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
J-tinder the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
TIJIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of
KING JOHN.
King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, lira. C. Kean.
Preceded by the Farce of
AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.

riV-lEATRE-ROYAI„ HAYMARKET.
1. Les Ace, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
T lIS EVENING, USED UP: Mr. C. Mathews.
A ter which, 'f HE HANDSOME HUSBAND : Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Mathews.
m y MOTHER'S MAID.
Aild JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON.
''''..,/ Commence at 7.
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p OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
It) Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
VIES EVENING, WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING
IN EARNEST : ;Messrs. Selby, Parselle, and Miss Swan-
boro4l.
After which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Followed by THE LAST OF THE PIGTAILS : Messrs.
C. Selby, J. Bland, J. Clarke, &c.
And THE BONNIE Fish' WIFE.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

A'TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.
Solo Lessee, Mr. William Cooke.
Astounding and Expensive Parisian Engagement.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, will be presented
T Il PI WOODMAN'S HORSE, introducing a treble company
of equestrians and the finest Stud of Horses in the world.
characters by Messrs. Holloway, W. Cooke, AllBOll, Francis,
Mark Howard, Anderson.
Followed by the inimitable SCE.ZES OF THE ARENA,
in which Mr. W. Cooke, Mr. Runnels, Miss Kate Cooke, and
Madlle. Blanche will appear.
A t'ter which, Madame Amile Maurice, from Paris, will make
her Terrific Ascent from the Stage to the back of the Galleries.
Mons. Maurice will also have the honour to introduce his
ex traordittary Dogs. •
To conclude with A MISTAKEN STORY.
Dress Circle, 3s. ; Upper Boxes 2s. ; Pit, ls. • Galleries, 6d.
Private Boxes from Li la., to ,r 2 2s. and upwards.
Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
proprietor—C. MORTON.
The public is most respectfully informed that the FINE
ARTS (It, r.eur, in connection with the above Hall, IS NOW
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT, from 11 o'clock a.m. until 12
o'clock p.m. The New Gallery contains an extensive Collec-
tion of Pictures, by Ancient and Modern Masters and is also
devoted to Art productions generally. The Proprietor feels
he may confidently assert that, viewed altogether, the exist-
ing Music hall, the New Fine Arts Gallery, and the recently
added Ante-Hall, will present 'an attraction which, whether
as regards the architectural beauty of the structures them-
selves, or the varied and hitherto unattempted combinations
within, will be found to be wholly without parallel in the
E ingdom.
The Mrs-tcAL ENTERTAINMENT commences as usual at
Seven o'clock.

THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, Nov. 18.

TIIERMOMETEIt, IN TU SHADE.

48—highest since noon yesterday.
42—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.
:BAnomrrEit-29.70.
WIND, Easterly ; moderate, with heavy weather in the
morning and forenoon—now fine sunshine.

One simple alternative apppears now to present
itself in regard to the sub-Atlantic Telegraph
Cable between Valentia and Newfoundland. Either

the project must be set aside for an inde-
finite period altogether—or another and stronger
cable must be laid down with yet more precaution

than its predecessor.
It is hopeless, apparently, to dream of turning
the present faulty channel of communication.
between the two hemispheres to any practical use
—certainly not to any permanent advantage. The
flaw, wherever it may be, is obviously too serious
to be vanquished as it is ; and it is evidently so
wholly invincible as to defy reparation. Days,
weeks, months have now elapsed, and the inter-

course between Europe and America has remained
all the while wholly, absolutely sundered. The
needles every now and then quiver and vibrate
upon the dial—but nothing can be made out of their
movements. If anything at all is meant by the
oscillations, the significance of them it is as en-
tirely impossible even to guess at as at the sense
of the incoherent guttural sounds emitted
from the lips of one born deaf and dumb.
So distractingly tantalising and completely value-
less are these intermittent and incoherent indications
of the passage of the electric current along the sub-
merged wire that the establishment at Valentia
has lately been broken up entirely, and the pre-
mises closed as useless by the Company. It is idle
to suppose that a mere misunderstanding between
the chiefs of the Company and Mr. WHITEHOUSE,
the electrician, could alone have brought the labours
of the former thus wholly and abruptly to a close.
The Company might regard the band of clerks at
Valentia with jealousy—as a cluster of the personal
adherents of the dismissed electrician—and, incited
by that feeling, might have dismissed the clerks
also in the wake of Mr. WHITEHOUSE. But unless
the Company regarded further observations at
Vttlentia as really useless they would, unquestion-
ably, at once have replaced the recently employed
corps of clerks by another corps entirely devoted to
the general interests of the company, and wholly
unbiassed by any individual partialities or predi-
lections. Instead of doing which they have acted
as we have seen ; and, we believe, with a rational
regard to the just expenditure of the funds
placed at their disposal. For a blind
persistence in the operations inaugurated at Valentia
at. the period of the original completion of the en-
terprise would be (we rest assured in our own
mind) nothing less than a foolish and profligate
outlay of additional money without one shadowy
hope of any ulterior compensation in the way of its
reimbursement.

The undertaking in itself is altogether so ines
timable in value, so immense in importance, so
magnificent in design, that we cannot conceive that
its happy realisation, sooner or later, will have been
dearly purchased by the loss of a single cable—
nay, not even by the loss of half-a-dozen cables.
'Triumphantly establish at last=as we believe
renewed efforts will eventually establish—a secure,
regular, permanent electro-telegraphic communica-
tion between the British Islands and America, and
a few millions more or less will be comparatively as
nothing when weighed in the balance against the
obvious, and superb, and sublime advantages.
Nevertheless, it is but reasonable that the re-
sult being altogether one of a manifestly imperial
character—affecting the interests, not of a class,
but of the nation itself, of the whole empire, of the
two continents, of both hemispheres—the brunt
of the original expenditure ought not to be borne
by a Company. This assuredly is precisely one of
those very enterprises which not merely justify but
demand the support and interposition of the Go-
vernment. A distinct guarantee from Govern-
ment would place almost any amount forthwith at
the command of the now temporarily baffled and
bewildered Company. That guarantee might be
accorded to the project upon certain safe and rea-
sonable conditions. Another cable•might then
immediately be got in readiness, and in due season
paid out along the basin of the Atlantic Ocean side
by side with that ever-famous cable first trailed
along the ocean bottom—a bond of union between
the New World and the Old—rnot altogether use-

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1858.