The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-12 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

The special correspondent of the Freeman newspaper
continues his interesting narrative in this morning's impres-
sion
of that journal. The following portion of his com-
munication contains some particulars well worthy of
perusal :
" Mr. Whitehouse and Professor Thomson, the elec-
tricians,and an efficient staff of clerks, are engaged night and day
in communicating with the electricians at the other end of
theline, aided h
receivingy Mr.
fromßart them ,
Bartholomew,
ship
phse eigntiplse,riinnternedpelyn_t,
reply—
in fact, a current of electricity continues to Pass
without intermission along the wires. As I stated
in my first letter, I do not think it is possible
to have full communication with America before a fort-
night at least at the earliest; and, in all probability,
the delay will extend to three weeks. This should not
cast any doubt upon the success of the cable, or dis-
hearten the public, who have looked forward to its ac-
complishment with so much of interest and anxiety.
It must he remembered that the arrangement of the
batteries is one of great labour; that the electrical
instrument is extremely elaborate; and that it took Mr.
Whitehouse, aided as he was, and having every appliance at
his hand, three weeks of incessant labour to get matters
into working order here. At Newfoundland many of the
facilities which were found in Valentia do not exist. I un-
derstand that the instrument house was scarcely finished
when the Niagara anchored in Trinity Bay; and, under
these circumstances, the arrangement of the apparatus
will necessarily occupy a considerable time. The delay
which must ensue before a message can be transmitted from
America to Ireland was foreseen from the first by the ma-
nazer of the expedition. Through the courtesy of Mr.
Whitehouse, I have had an opportunity of seeing the instru-
ment at work. In addition to the prearranged signals, Mr.
Whitehouse has transmitted several messages to which he hast
received intelligible replies. Thus, he has sent a messagtea_no
this effect—' If you receive this message, replshowingbcer i
that
signals ;' and the reply has been accordingly,
ter an
his communication had been understood. Yes
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METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

THE MAIN DRAINAGEOF THE METROPOLIS.
A special meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works
was held yesterday at noon, in the Council-thamber;for
the purpose of further considering the main drainage of the
metropolis—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair.
The meeting was very fully attended.
The following report from the committee of the whole
board on the subject of the main drainage was presented :
"1, Greek-street, Soho, Aug. 11.
" Your committee have, in obedience to the reference of
the by and of the 3d instant, considered the plans for the
main drainage of the metropolis presented by the board to
the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works, &sc. Your
committee have also conferred with Messrs. Hawksley and
Bazaigette, Mr. Bidder being absent from London, on those
and other plans, and your committee have come to the con-
clusion that the principles of drainage recommended in the
report of Messrs. Bidder, Hawksley, and Bazatgette are
those most suited for the requirements of the metropolis.
" Your committee, therefore, recommend that the beard
should without delay instruct the engineer to report as to
the order in which the several parts of the works recom-
mended in the report of Messrs. Bidder, Hawksley, and
bay.algette may he most advantageously and conveniently
carried out.
" Your committee further recommend that the engineer
be iustrneted by the board to prepare specifications for car-
rying out the several works set forth in the report of Messrs.
Bidder, Ilea ksley, and Bazalg,ete, comenci with those
parts of the works which the engineer considers to be most
urgent.
" And your committee further recommend that the engi-
neer be instructed by the board to prepare plans for and to
report to the board as to what advantages may be derived
by having the outfall on the south side of the river Thames
on Greenwich marshes, providing in that case for deodoris-
ing the sewage continuously throughout the year.
"All which your committee have to submit.
" J. THWAITES.
" WILLIAM CARPMAEL.
" PHILIP CRELLIN."
Mr. CARP?fAEL moved the adoption of the report, and
adverted at some lsagth to what had been done for some years
for the removal of sewage from houses; but in doing so they
had largely contaminated the river Thames. That was the
only expedient then open to them; but now, In consequence
date increased powers conferred upon them byAct of Parlia-
ment, they were called upon to do away with that nuisance by
a system of intercepting sewers. That remedy was to be .
obtained by the plan proposed by Messrs. Bidder, Hawksley,
and Bazilgette, which was calculated to remove the sewage
to points on both the north and south sides of the Thames, so
far removed that the sewage should be no nuisance and not
come back again within the limits of the metropolis. He then
generally combated the objections which had been urged
against the plan, and particularly referred to one as to a pro-
vision only having been made for a population of three and
a-half millions. He said at any future time, if an extension
of the plan was required for an increased population, that
could be effected at a comparatively small expense, and con-
tended that it was not the duty of this board to make provision
for a state of things which might arise at some very distant
period. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report.
Mr. CRELLIN, although desirous of seeing the sewage of
the metropolis altogether abstracted from the river and ap-
plied to useful purposes, seconded the motion. His object
was to afford some remedy to the present state of the sewer-
age of the metropolis.
wherem etbay negative
Mr. LESLIE said he was anxious not to take up the time
leetrweas,
of the board, but still he was utterly unable today
what the
plan before them was. Indeed it was a series of plans with-
out any connection with each other. He contended that
erroneous, and urged them to delay the execution of these
works for a time, until they obtained further information,
the calculations which
uthrnauddcetbreedtehnienmmludoeneib:yi
and
dei
municipality
engineersohfa
dthgoneat wcity.
athsaat
servoirs, &c., were altogether unnecessary, and said that
fbaolsaerds.tepntheecnontateknednemd itghhatt
tbheefaptuaml tpointhgesetaxtilsotnezereof
working satisfactorily up to the present time. These wells
were
we a
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were also formed at the laystalls of M f
in
e Parisalluded t whole evil
eoednv
constructed
l hospital from a sewage B
although a number of ont aucon and
horses
were slaughtered in
that district, the whole of the ref
knackers' yards were passed down use'
fmin
the
hetowhasptohl
wells, got rid of, and thatnegative artesian
without any nuisance, to
the wells sunk in that ' neighbourhood for the purpose
of supplying the inhabitants with water. This plan :was
supported by Mr. Hyde Clarke, a civil engineer,- d _an he
was also supported by M. Duchatel and other eminent
ian
French engineers. If this plan was adopted in the metro-
polis, it would save a large amount of money, and would
also avoid the necessity of breaking up the public streets.
He concluded by moving as an amendment " That the
Metropolitan Board of Works come to no decision upon this
subject until the evidence upon the geological drainage of
the metropolis . be received by the board "—one important
fact being, that at an expense of £3330 a negative artesian
descent fur foul water has been made 234 feet in depth,
which has been discharging at least 2,700 cubic feet per
hour.

Mr. Alderman CIMITT hoped they would come to no ~catrt
conclusion upon this subject before the adjournment for the
holidays, and said that, as their officers bad been at work 3=lt
for years upon it, the public could well afford to wait for
two or three months to enable them to receive further in-
formation.
Mr. BENNETT did not think the board could be charged .
with precipitancy, as the scheme, with few exceptions, had '”Euril
been for two years before them, and during that time aa eLi
it had been well sifted, both by the board and also by the 4
1-"'"
engineers, to whom it had been submitted by the late Presi-
dent of the Board of Works, Sir Benjamin Hall. He hoped
the board would not adjourn until after the subject for the A
main drainage had been disposed of, or was in some pro-
gress.
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After a few words from Messrs. D'IFFANGER and OFFOR, -f ars
Mr. CARPM AEI. replied in a few brief remarks.
The CHAIRMAN put the motion, and on a division it was 3 rt:C3
carried by a majority of 19 to 1. daihia

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THE SUN.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1858.

A detailed narrative has now distinctly under-
taken to authenticate the flying rumours hitherto
alone conveying to us a vague idea of that frightful
massacre on the 24th of June, 1857, at Cawnpore.
It affects to be the record of the sufferings of a young
lady only sixteen years of age at the period of the
occurrence—a young English maiden who by some-
thing very little abort of a miraculous interposition
f Heaven in her behalf, represents herself as hav-
ing (unmaimed and untarnished) escaped through
all the hellish torture and turmoil of that deadly
catastrophe. The narrative comes before the
public authenticated by Dr. KNIGHTON, of The
College, at Ewell, in the county of Surrey.
It beers about it otherwise none of the appearances of
authenticity. Originally, Dr. KNIGHTON informs us
the MS. came from the dictation of the young lady
herself and passed-into his own hands through the
agency of a former pupil, one Mr. GEORGE STUART,
of the Suddur Courts Alipore, Calcutta.
If we could seriously induce ourselves:to believe in
the accuracy of this terrible narrative, it would be
scarcely possible to read it now, at the distance of
more than twelve months from the period to
which it refers, without tearful emotion : with-
out moreover occasionally some momentary terror
as to the fate of; the narrator—even though the in-
stant afterwards we remembered that that fate is so
far secured, seeing that the words we are reading pur-
port to have been dictated by her own lips as
deseriptive of a tragic incident in a precocious auto-
biography.
With the particulars of the massacre itself we are
long since only too painfully familiar. The ill-judged
treaty entered into on that fatal 24th of June, 1857,
between General WHEELER on the part of the Bri•
tish, and Naas SAHIB as the leader and representa-
tive of the Sepoy insurgents—the dastardly perjury
of the latter when he swore by his gods and upon
the Gunge that he would protect the women and
children, and see them safely conducted in boats to
Allahabad—the butchely effected immediately after-
wards by his ruthless mandate when the overladen
boats were riddled with shot discharged against
them when they were just in the mid-stream—the rob-
beries, the cruelties, the devilries, all the imaginable
and till then unimaginable horrors which followed,
we know alas ! as a nation long since, with only a too
dreadful distinctness. The knowledge has nerved
the arm of every soldier in our Anglo-Indian forces.
It has given a more truthful accuracy to the
aim of their rifles, a keener edge to their sword-
blades, a more resistless impetus to the
thrust of every bayonet. Wherever the
rebels since then have been encountered—no matter
in what numbers, in what apparently overwhelming
proportions—by the merest handful of our troops,
they have never failed to feel bitterly the recoil of that
atrocious massacre upon themselves. They have
long ago learned to curse the day when the NANA
dreamt of indulging his tiger-like thirst of
blood with this unparelleled act of perfidy and
cruelty. It is from this point that the narrative of
the assumed survivor would lead us on, rapt in at-
tention, breathless, watchful, listening as she bids us
track her from the foundering boat in which she
noted the perpetration of the deed of infamy—step
by step through all the torments of suspense, of
hair-breadth 'scapes, of brutal ill-treatment, of pre-
ternatural barbarity and inhumanity, on the part
of the Sepoys, until the day when she first re-
turned, under the shelter of the tattered ban-
ners and the strong arms of her conquering fellow-
countrymen. Buffetting with the waters, scrambling
ashore, crawling on hands and feet until effectually
bidden for the time under the trees and brush-
wood—the tells us bow she lay there thinking
of those dear to her struck down together in the
carnage, from which she describes herself as
having but just then, as by a miracle, alone
escaped. "My thoughts, oh Heavens! were
agonising: my sister, her husband, and children,
had, I bad not the slightest doubt, been ruthlessly
murdered." After lamenting and praying to Heaven
for aid in her wretchedness, she tells us of her
being startled by the unexpected apparition (like
Urger as a fugitive) of Miss WHEELER, the
General's daughter. And adds, that they have
scarcely communed together for an hour when
the rebels surprise them in their lair, and they are
separated. The story thenceforth becomes suf-
ficiently incoherent to pass for the vague and agonised
remembrances of one who has prematurely traversed
the Valley of the Shadow and returned to tell the
horrors there experienced.
B.eartily glad shall we be to learn that the cora-
inunication transmitted to Dr. KNIGHTON from one of
the former alumni of Ewell is from first to last a cruel
and harrowing fabrication. Better that a series of de-
liberate falsehoods should have been penned with the
met heartless affectation of truthfulnessby a morbid
dreamer of waking nightmares—than that the sicken-
big tale of horror should even partially be the re-
yard of the actual sufferings of one miserable
swig survivor. There are, at any rate, divers in-
les of detail, false dates, mistaken names, and
oo froth, that demand explanati▪
on. It signifies little
tether the explanation come to us from Surrey or
From Calcutta, from the princip▪
al of the College w
Ewell, or from his former pupil, the Judge of the Sud•

dur Court, at Alipore. Dr. KNIGHTON hating adven

tured boldly upon the course of giving his startling

paccinet of intelligence the advantage or disad.

vantage (such as it may prove to have been in the
end) of actual publication—it behoves him now
to employ every means within his reach
of proving or disproving its claims to authen-
ticity. It is no merely idle curiosity which
prompts this general eagerness for the discovery of
its worth. There are thousands cf the relatives of
the victims of that deplorable massacre at Cawn-
pore Still brooding in anguish over their fate, far
and wide through these fair and peaceful islands,
to
whose grief the evidence of the truth or falsehood
of the statement recently transmitted from Cal-
Cutta, would briDg either fresh anguish or my

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