The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-18 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC. CABLE.

A fall of about £BO per share took place yester-
day in the shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Com-
pany, the impression having strengthened that the
defective portion of the cable lies a great distance
out at sea. The closing quotation yesterday after-
noon was £330 to £370 per £l,OOO share, being
but little above the extreme point of the depression
which was -witnessed a few weeks ago, when doubts
as to the practicability of laying the cable were
generally entertained.
A correspondent of a contemporary says :
" Whilst the Americans are worshipping their net
and burning incense to their drag on one side of
the ocean, and whilst Mr. Bright has become be-
knighted on the other, the oracle, like those of old,
is suddenly dumb, or murmurs inarticulately, as if
in apoplexy,. The directors and electricians are
making quite sure that the cause of non-transmis-
sion of the current is abrasion ; -but there is another
contingency which may have happened to the wires,
and which I have not seen publicly suggested—that
of fusion. The galvanic charge requires to be very
heavy to overcome a partially perfect insulation.
Now, if at a given moment, unintentionally, the
wire be charged at both termini simultaneously, it
is quite possible that a fusion may be the result
somewhere along its length, not, it would seem, in
this instance so as quite to destroy continuity, but
partially, possibly reducing the continuous wire to a
string of beads kept in position by the outer cover
of the cable."
The Cork Reporter contains the following para-
graph The South-Western steamer, which left
our port yesterday evening, had on board a great
number of boxes of scientific instruments and appa-
ratus, intended for the prosecution of experiments
at Valentia, in the repair of the Atlantic telegraph
cable. Its partial failure has been discovered to
have arisen from an accident to it about 200 miles
from the shore at our side. The removal of this
injury is looked upon as a matter very easily ac-
complished."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING
THE HARVEST IN ULSTER.

It is not a week since complaints were rife in the
northern papers of apprehended mischief being
done to the crops by the then unfavourable state of
the weather, wet and stormy as if it had been
during the early part of September. Matters have
happily taken a better turn, and the Banner of
Ulster concludes a long review of the state and
prospects of the harvests in these terms :
" With such glorious weather as we have had
for the last few days there will be no cause of
complaint. Farmers are working double tides,
and the lands are being cleared with almost
magical rapidity. Reaping may be reported as
finally finished, except in rare cases, and on very
late lands. Stack-yards begin to assume the appear-
ance of later autumn, and old sites are often found
too small to contain the ample produce ready for
storing. We may safely predict that by the middle
of next month there will be safely stacked at the
farmsteads in the north of Ireland the largest quan-
tity of unthrashed grain ever seen in this country."
There are further reports from the north, equally
as favourable as the foregoing.