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London, England, 1858-05-29 00:00:00

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The final arfangetnents roe`.gee . : '1,1*.-, A.}.41- .44
tion which is to la the Atlentic Tele_ . .1. ytilet '
weigh are now all` but' -complitge-e-04A04.1.; S
probability, the ship will mit rreg. tbemorrew
(Saturday): The whole_ s'ef the OW' iv itht Cm e a xttla-
Con, of about 90. Miles not ietccrwrilittiil, has been.
coiled' -away- on- the-Aganienetifemic.:4arid •Niegera,
both of which ships, have lbeenrehioved from the ,
basin atAeyham' and'::Ufetriovi lylOg at anchor in
HamOaze until the Oeder for their depaitum e arrive
from the Admiralty. Several .alteiatious have been t-
made in the arrangem,its<for conducting the opera- '
tions eine° the attempt of last- ytar, The greatest
and Most important alter- tine 7 ' '-- :Ti cOm-
-I,:tl3,e_balf,
mencine from '' timid-oaf- ,e„ .may ~,414, ~ pie two
babes em7f the - wire at the .same ti time, 4o wards the.
opposite shores, ins+ ea dof commencingat Valenti t,
and carrying the wire direct zeros the beean to
Newfoundland. This arrangeirifett has not been
made without due ponsidtretion, and 'until -the
various merits of the two plans
.had been fu'elypedriae:
cussed. Its a ivaiitaiett are obivehriisn,,stp,'
tion of layiug will be reduced
and the risks from bad weither, of c arse, red need_
in proportion. In consideration also of the in-
crewed difficuliits which will have to be encoun-
tered by the Niagara in crossing the backs of New-
foundland ehe will be provided with ra her more
cable thanthe Agamenieon, end thejAtnit4g will he
made fifty inileti nearer Newfoundland than Eu-
rope, so as ' o give her thetemuch vantage ground.
The 'all era i ions which have been made in the pay-
ing-out
machinery are 'already well known to the
Public. It has been set' up en le mid bah the-ships,and after a preliminary trial has keen pronounced
be the engineers to-he peace, as far as can he judged
of at present. Of course it is needless to say that '
the machines have all been ' housed in to prevent
any of the running. rigging getting feul'of them
during the working of the ship. ' The expedition
will be accompanied throughout by the Valorous
and Gorgon steam frigates, which hive been set '
apart -by the -Admiralty for the purpose. Very
little remains now to be done but to complete the
electrical experiments-which are -being conducted
by Professor Thomion, and Mr. Whitehauser the
electrician -of the company. When the:s 'are
finished,' which will in all prOhAbility be to-rnorrovr'-
(S ;turday) evening, . the ,'.expeditiori will then
,set sail on the experimental trip._ .E.JclieShip
has beeii 'presided Witli i5:541'6'20 -ices'of e-en.-
demned cab!e, with which the experiments will be
tried. The ships when they leave the soend will ,
steer in a south-westerly direction out ,to the At-
lantic, for the distance of 400 or 500:miles,. so as to
get into s'eme 2, 500, fathoms water. Here the two
ends of the experimental cable will be joined up, .
and the splice lowered to the bottom. Each of
the ships will: then steer ,in an opposite course for
15 miles, depositing the cable 'after them,
and trying the effect of various, strains upon the
breaks. Tile 'Operation involvedlu cutting, buoy-
ing,. iiiid"-pielting. up the eiel, will then be gone
through, and fivally au attempt will be ma le to '
recover the laid portion- With the new hauling back
engine, though of the ultimate success of this ope-
refill' the engineers de not express :_themselves very
confident. I-UOing Concluded theee experiments,
the ssquadr3n will return to Plymouth Barbour,
and will then fill up with coal, and the Agamerneou
will take- on-boerd the remaining 90 miles -of her
compleinent oVrope, which will be sent round to
await her return hole e from the experimental cruise.
From the the time that the ve-sels leave PlYm eittk
until they again sail on the laying expedition from
Plythouth will be. about ten,cleysne a fortnight.
To reach the centre of-the-Atlantic will-probably
take the expedition a week, and should the weather
be tine, twelve days more-will • be amply sufficient
to complete the whole op: ration if laying. Thus,
if the weather should continue fine, they:
may- Itirly be expected at Valentia ab:mt the
25th of June or from that to the -beginning of
July. This division of the time, however, is en—
tirely contingent on fine we :they prevailing
threughout the whole voyage, for should a gale of
wind blow jest ab )ut the time they were going to
make the splice, the ships would lay to, and wait
till it had passed over. When the end of the cable,
has been once sunk there will be no opportunity of
laying to. SI-valid bad weather occur, it has been
contemplated, in such a case, to cut the cable, buoy
it up, and again resume operations when the
weather moderates,: and for this.purpose cols of
strung wire rope and large buoys have been sup-
plied to each vessel, though that the engineers
will ever resort to the use of them, even in cases
of emergency, is very tench to be doubted. The
buoys are so constructed that they will hardly rise
and Tall more than a few feet with the swell,
so that should their use become .necessary, the
motion of the waves will not tend to cut the cable
through where it is fastened to the ring. Both the
i Agamemnon and the Niagara have been strangely
altered in their trim aspect since they have been
pressed into the telegraphic service. Their spa-
cious 'tween-decks have been strangely cut about,
and the ward-room and gun-room considerably cur-
tailed of their fair proportions in order to find
adequate stowage room for the coils of the cable ;
their upper spar decks are so crowded with ma-
chinery and the various apparatus to be used dur-
ing the eperations, that it is difficult to imagine
how the sailors will be able td move about to work
the sails when the expedition is at sea. They both
have so much dead-weight on board that they are
down almost level with the sea. The Niagara with
her coals, cable, provisione, and stores on. board,
has little short Of 3,000 tons of dead weight in her
hold: -Though-she is 5,000 tons American register,
the weight brings the water up above her cabin floor
and to within seven or eight feet of the upper deck.
Iu fact, but for the great height of her bulwarks
she would look almost level with the Water. The
rumour is that she is far -too heavy to be in a fit
condition to go to 'sea, but those who know how
immensely
_strong the ship really is, and how she is
stayed both fore and :aft with massive tie rods of
wrought iron, can well understand that it would
indeed-be an extraordinary sea that could cause her
to strain, or leak. The Agamemnon is also laden as
deeply as she can possibly be, 3et her lower-deck
ports are several feet from the water-line ; indeed,
though the dead weight in her is not far short eef
thet in the Niagara, yet her trim is not-so deep but
that sle i might safely go to sea in any weather.
The paying-out machinery, 'which-was only com-
pletely finished on WedueSday, was set in motion
for several hours, to see whether everything
worked ' auto Ili to its bearings. Nothing
could hare be n more setisfactery than the .
result of the t. ial ; and there is every reason
to think, if the weather continues fine, that the
wwi tehathseure caetlSsd. onthe ,
P,Evri:eesrielynttthh :iasngti'esm
11)1 however,cwaisiel
depends.wbee crownedknow how uncertain the
re ults are. The Atlantic is proverbially a stormy
sea, and, though its surface is comparatively un-
rutfied during the summer months, yet there is a
certain liability to a gale at any period of the year.
Lieut. Maury, who li-is published the most accu- • '
rate and complete account of the winds and cur-
rents of the Atlatitic, has been-applied to by the
Company.to.ascertain the period of the year most
favourable for conducting the hying .operations.
In reply, Lieut. Maury sent to the cowpauy a num-
ber of charts and tables showing the average
amount of bad weather in every latitude of the
North Atlantic, and in 'each mouth of the' year.
From this it appears th .t in January, February,
an I March almost continual storms prevail ; in
April and May they are lose frequent; butiu the
three ktunmer months of ,Tope, Suly,,, eql August
aStill 'June
they are of less common oecurience. - , ~ "
is not the most favourable of thothree accotrhain.
to Lieut. Maury's return, as it is of all months of
the year the one during which thick folsopthreell
to the greatest extent. - During
or four sharp gales of
Yreturn of the
-North- Atlantic.: According
the
different latitudes,
windtenjuiiaell June,traverse the
weather of June, given for
portion of the route
it appears that the caste.
and ice, but several
is almost exempt from
which will have to be
ftraversedoe by the Agamemnon
almost
is entirely free from stones,
the route, however, . gales are to be expected. fogs
western portion of
enveloped in - fog
during icebergs,oin'ythand ,
though
the
is infested
banks. The advantages, however, of beginning
weather •
earlyare considered to balance
the disadvantages of the
in the season
, for, should
any unforeseen accident occur that would delay
the operation for a month or.so there would yet
be time to recommence tefore the close of the sea-
son. Tho Porcupine will accompany the Niagara
throughout the whole of her route, and as she ap-
proaches the shallow and dangerous coast of New-
foundland, she will steam about and take sound-
ings, and keep a bright look-out for ice, of the
proximity of which she is to give timely notice to
time Niagara. Even should the Niagara, through
stress of weather or in consequence of the ice, be
obliged to abandon the cabal when near the shore,
it could easily be picked up C gain, as all along the
coast the sea is not more than 100 fathoms deep.
Thus far everything looks imirosperous for' the
undertaking, and should the results of the experi-
ment in deep water prove as satisfactory as it is
anticipated they will, but little fears need be enter-
tained of the ultimate success of this, oneof,the
greatest scientifie enterprises of modern times.

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