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LONDON, MONDAY, JTJLY 5, 1858.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

It is with deep regret that we announce another
accident to the Atlantic Telegraph, which it was
fondly hoped would have been completed during
the present summer. From a telegraph just
received from Mr. CYRUS W. FIELD, who was at
Queenstown, Cork, Ireland, it appears that the
Agamemnon and Gorgon had arrived at the Cork
harbour this morning, and that "on Wed-
nesday, the 29th of June, when these vessels
had 1,42 miles of cable paid out, and all on
board. the Niagara was going on perfectly,
the signal from the Agamemnon suddenly ceased,
and from the tests the electricians say the table
must have parted at or near the Agamemnon."
Unden these circumstances no alternative remained
hut to return home with all convenient speed, in
order that the best course may be decided on. It
is to be hoped that the accident, whatever it
may have teen, will not stop the undertaking.
At present we have but little information
as to the cause of the contre temps. Doubtless
the Dikectors of the Company will take the best
advice, and act promptly and judiciously, as well
for the national interests as for those of their
immediate constituents. It is impossible to esti-
mate The advantages that would result from the
completion of the miraculous enterprise, which
would Make almost instantaneous communication
between the Cabinets of London and Washington,
and the merchants of the British metropolis and
their correspondents throughout the entire Union,
practicable. They can be readily appreciated by
every politician, and every one interested in
commercial affairs.

The full extent and nature of the accident
will, ,f ronrse, he strictly investigated, and
it will be asoortnned it was of
temporary character that might be averted by in-
creased precautions, or whether it was such as to
Prevent any well-founded hope of success, and
therefore lead to the relinquishment of the scheme.
A short time will tell, and we can only await the
report with deep interest and anxiety.

The Admiralty under Sir JOHN PAIIN6TON is
not whit the Admiralty was under Sir CHARLES
WOOD—when merit went unrewarded, and when
birth Qr interest might alone invariably look for
proinotior. Everybody bears this painfully

'enough in remembrance who is acquainted with
the particulars of the life and death of ROBERT
ROBERTS, late master of the Cyelope, who ought
to have lived to be an admiral, but who was
literally, if ever man was, done to death by the
denial to him of the recompense he had so richly
merited, namely, the rank of a Commander. In
contrasi,:to that melancholy narrative, upon which
we ourselves have deemed it our duly more than
once to comment, and that, moreover, upon oc-
casion, at considerable length, and with all the
fervour of unaffected indignation—the sorrowful
tale of the great services of Master ROBERTS, and
of the most low and cruel treatment by which
(thanks to men like Sir CHARLES WOOD and Sir
MAURICE BERKELEY) those great services were in-
famously doomed to expiation by death—there
are now visible abundant and most welcome evi-
dence that personal merit rather than powerful
interest, or high family connections, will hence-
forth secure recognition—i. e,, honorary reward
and rapid promotion at the Admiralty. This
under the regime (and honour to him for it) of
Sir JOHN PAKLNGTON.

The latest, but not by any means the least,
striking testimony of the happy change here par-
ticularised is that afforded in the instance of the
gallant young officer who succeeded the late
lamented Captain Sir WILLIAM PEEL, R.N.,
K.C.8., as the leader of the Naval Brigade, at
the seat of war in Hindostan. According to one
of the most recent notifications in the London
gaz,ite, this valiant young tar, Commander
VAUGMAZI, JAW Litt lieutenant of E.M.S. Shan-
non, has just been nominated Companion of the
Bath, in consideration of his distinguished ser-
vices in the Naval Brigade; and it is now intimated
he has succeeded to the command of the above
versel, upon the demise of the heroic PEEL, his
friend and comrade in the alternate repose and
turmoil of the bivouac and the battle-field. This
nomination is another and appreciable step in the
right direction. There is no tarrying here for
interest. There is no dawdling attention to the
idiotic and heart-breaking requirements of rou-
tine. The recompense is as promptly and spon-
taneously given and gracefully as judicioußly.
Other departments besides the Admiralty might
well act thus in obedience to the wise and humane
old axiom, bis dat qui ell() dat—an axiom espe-
cially worthy of remembrance during the time of
actual warfare, when the honours awarded by a
gracious SOVEREIGN and a grateful nation may
come too late—as it is bitter enough even now to
remember that they actually did in the instance
of the late dauntless and lamented HAVELOCK.

Happily, our naval heroes may Vow look for
prompt reward, and we doubt not also for speedy
promotion, now that the Admiralty has passed
from the malign influence of Sir CHARLES WOOD
to the genial and rational regime of Sir JOHN
PAKINGTON. The recipient of this doubly valuable,
because spontaneously proffered, badge of the C. 8.,
has won the distinction for himself on the battle-
fields of India—Commander VAUGHAN having
served in all the various actions fought under Sir
CoLIN CAMPBELL against the Bengal mutineers,
and, what is yet more, having on every occasion
received the warmest thanks of Sir Courr through
his despatches as Commander-in-Chief. Remem-
bering all which, the young leader of the Naval
Brigade may surely now entertain a confident
hope of his promotion to Post Rank, so soon as
he shall have served a sufficient time as Com-
mander. He has every reasonable chance of fair
play at any rate, now that the Admiralty is pre-
sided over by an administrator, endowed at once
with sagacity and magnanimity. Qualities, those
too, to which his immediate predecessor could make
assuredly but small pretension. Gladly, however,
should we recognise, in addition to his own acts
of grace, one or two signal acts of reparation
adventured upon by Sir JOHN PAXINGTON —re-
paration for the great wrongs inflicted by that
same predecessor of his during the existence of
Lord PALMERSTON'S Government. There is the
case, for example, of the widow of Master
ROBERTS, R.N., the humble hero already speci-
fied. Might not the relict of that true sailor—
we earnestly put this to you, Sir JOHN !—receive
the pension to which she would have been en-
titled had she been what she ought to be, the
widow of a Commander ?

There was a general hope that, before the close
of the present session, a private railway bill would
receive the legislative sanction, by which public
convenience would have been gre.tly promoted.
It was proposed to construct a terminus near
Lower Belgrave-place, Pimlico, from whence a
railway should be carried along the line of the
Grosvenor Canal, and thence across the river a
little below the lately opened suspension bridge to
Battersea-park; a junction would then be effected
with the New West-end and Crystal Palace line,
a little above the terminus thereof.

under notice. If the Crown had been interested,
the Right Honourable Gentleman by whom it had
been represented had given a wall-considered and
wise assent to the project, and the usual etiquette
should have rendered his successor very chary of
interfering therewith, if it had not absolutely
prohibited any movement on his part. But the
Crown was not concerned. There was not, as
Lord CIRLMSFORD declared, the slightest neces-
sity for obtaining the Royal assent to the preamble
of the bill. Why, then, should the House be
required to suspend its standing orders ? Why
should it lend itself, on what we cannot help desig-
nating as most frivolous and untenable grounds,
to an interested opposition ? The effect of the
resolution of Friday evening will be to materially
increase the expenses of the company, and pro-
bably to postpone their operations for another
year. But it is not of the injury to the share-
holders, although they have just grounds of com-
plaint, but to the community at large, that we com-
plain. They are deprived of a great convenience.
Every West-end traveller to the South-Eastern
districts or to the Continent, will have to waste
time and money at the very commencement of his
peregrinations. He will also be liable to lose his
train by the closing lip or stoppage of some of
the overcrowded thoroughfares, and experi-
ence the inconvenience and uncertainty of
travelling, at its very earliest stage, starting
with his disposition soured, and half the enjoy-
ment of his holiday taken away. Surely these
are no trifling annoyances, and some regard
should be exhibited by those who have handsome
privthie ;;plc time for their less for-
tunate fellow-subjects.
And what are the pleas on which this tardy op-
position, the right to which- was forfeited by the
lackes already exhibited, proceeds ? First, that
the toll on Battersea-bridge may be in some
degree diminished by the railway ; and, secondly,
that the view of the suspension-bridge may be
prejudiced ! Now, we fearlessly take issue on
both points, although asserting that, even if well-
founded they would not be sufficient, under the cir-
cumstances, to justify the opposition. In the first
place, the railway facilities would be more likely
to bring than to detract from the traffic of the
new bridge. Many persons tempted by a cheap
and rapid access to the Park would be disposed
to walk home, and we believe that the number
thus attracted would far more than compensate for
those drawn away by the railway. But certainly
a pound or two per diem, more or less, should not
affect a question in which no private rights
are concerned. The general convenience and the
railway passengers' tax which would be received,
although in another department, together with the
improved value of the lands, would more than
counterbalance any deficiency in the halfpenny
tolls.

As to the aesthetic part of the case, we can only
say that doctors differ in matters of art as
in every other vexed question. The tubular
bridge across the Menai—the great triumph
of engineering skill—has not spoiled the view
of the suspension bridge connecting Angles ea
with Carnarvon, and we really believe that
a far larger number will consider it an im-
provement than otherwise. On the whole we
trust that the opposition will not prevail, and the
bill which has already passed the Commons, will
receive the Legislative sanction before the close of
the session.

Great complaints are made in the City at the unne-
cessary de!ay experienced in the delivery by the Post
Office authorities of the foreign newspapers, merchants,
and others interested in the colonial and foreign trade
baing thereby debarred from the only source of informa-
tion open to them.
The report of the directors of the Australian Agricul-
tural Company, issued in anticipation of the annual
meeting, which is called. for the 13th inst., recommends
a dividend of 15a. per share, out of the funds in hand
here, amounting to 13,09/.
The fifth ordinary meeting of the shareholders of the
City Bank is called for the 20th inst. ; and the annual
meeting of the shareholders in the Western Bank of
London for the 29th inst.

LEGAL COSTUME IN CAPE COLONY.—The chief com•
missioner of Kaffraria has issued the following :—"No
Kaffirs will henceforth be allowed to enter or remain in
King William's Town unless they are decently dressed in
European clothing. The police have received instruc-
tions to remove from the town any native not complying
with this notice."
The announcement that the Lord Chief Baron is to
retire from the Bench, at the close of the present sit-
tings, is entirely without foundation. We are happy to
say that the learned judge is in the full enjoyment of
health, and that he has not the slightest intention of
abdicating his high judicial office in the Court of Exche
quer.

GOLD FROM NEW ZEALAND.—The Duchess of Leinster
has arrived from Nelson, Now Zealand, with 2,500 oz.
of gold, consigned to the Union Bank of Australia. This
is, we believe, the first shipment of the produce of the
newly-discovered gold-fields in that colony on any large
scale, although considerable quantities have from time
to time been forwarded to Sydney and Melbourne,
through which the bulk of the New Zealand gold must
come, as the opportunities for direct shipment are rare.
—Australian and Nor Zealand Gazette.

It is needless to expatiate on the many advantages
which would result from the completion of such
an undertaking. It would greatly relieve the
routes, now crowded by excessive traffic, afford
extraordinary facilities to every tourist to the
continent or South-Eastern counties, and add
materially to the value of the land reserved by
Government in the vicinity of Battersea-park. It
would be a great inducement, not merely to specu-
lative builders, but, to private individuals ready to
erect commodious dwelliug-houses in that rising
locality, if they could be certain of conveyance by
railway across the river and into Pimlico, from
whence they might proceed by omnibus or cab iu
any direction. The land would rise so much
in value as to justify the abolition of the pedes-
trian tolls across the suspension, and to make
Battersea a people's
park to all intents and pur-
poses. _ _

Everything looked fair and auspicious for this
important measure. The unqualified assent of
Sir BENJAMIN BALL had been obtained. The
purchase of the Grosvenor Canal Imd been con-
chided on very advantageous terms. The bill was
introduced and passed through all its stages in the
House of Commons with comparatively
trifling opposition—had gone to the Lords
and been read a second time. All " went
merry as a marriage bell." The share-
holders were congratulating themselves on
their excellent speculation—the general public on
the great facilities that would be afforded. But
" there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip." At
the eleventh hour, when all the expenses had been
incurred, and after large sums of money had been
invested on the faith of the official, and all but
legislative sanction that had been obtained for the
judicious project, a dark cloud appeared in the
horiz ni that threatened to blast all their rea-
sonable anticipations. Some influences
were in operation, which prevailed with the De-
partment of Woods and Forests ; and Lord JOHN
MANNERS, the First Commissioner, was induced to
enter a most unexpected opposition to the scheme.
But there was still ground for hope. The time
had passed by for so doing. A well-consi-
dered standing order, founded on justice and
equity,. prohibited any opposition, under such
circumstances, and if even there was a
case where the House should have abided by its

established rules and regulations, it was the one

THE LIFE GUARDS.—Cornetoies in the Life Guards
are at a discount. There are, we believe, six or seven
carnets' commissions for sale, and no one will purchase
in the regiment. Either the expensive style of living
operates as a bar to the ambition of poor men, or it is felt
that, in the dreary round of duty from Windsor to Lon-
don and back, varied with a fieldday at Wormwood
Scrubbs or Hounslow, there is not much scope for mili-
tary enterprise.— United Service Gazette.
THE WEATHER IN PARIS.--SATURDAY, July 3, 6 p.m.
—For the last four or five days the weather has under-
gone a very sensible and not gradual change from in-
tense heat to the coolness of early spring. Yesterday
and the day before the mornings and evenings were
actually cold. The fierce heat which prevailed the
greater part of June was mitigated by one or two abun-
dant and beneficent showers of rain, which, though the
parched earth soon drank it in, yet relieved us consider-
ably. But we had not, at least in Paris, any of those
violent thunderstorms which were experienced in some
of the departments. This day, however, it has been
otherwise. The morning was lowering, a heavy shower
fell at mid-day for nearly an hour. It then cleared up
fora space, but the sky soon again grew dark, and at
three o'clock the rain, mingled with large hailetonee,
came down like a cascade and deluged the streets, Loud
claps of thunder followed, and the lightning was fre-
quent and most vivid, and continued, with slight inter-
vals, till four o'clock. The rain, however, continued to
fall. It ceased at five, but the sky still looks menacing.
PROGRESS IN STEAM NAVIGATION.—Since 1850 the
time occupied by steamers crossing the Atlantic between
Liverpool and Now York is shortened by two days. The
amount of fuel consumed by the steam-ships which rer -
form the voyages so shortened is twice that which was
required by the steamers which ran between New York
and Liverpool previous to 1850.
MUMDIT POWDER —One of the oddest things ever iu.
troduced into Hateria .3.redica was the celebrated
Mummy Powder. Eel ptian mummies, being broken
up and ground into dust, were held of great value as
medicine both for external and internal application.
Boyle and Balm unite in commending its virtues : the
latter, indeed, venturing to suggest that " the mixture
of balms that are glatinoue" was the foundation of its
power, though common belief held that the virtue was
" more in the Egyptian than in the spice." Even in the
seventeenth century mummy was au important article
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of commerce, and was sold at a great price. One Eastern
commiseioa : the Jews collecting the bodies of
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executed criminals, filling them with common asphaltum
which cost little, and then drying them hi the sun, when
they became undistinguiehable from the genuine article.
And the maladies which mummy was held to cure are set
forth in a list which we commend to the notice of Pro-
fessor Holloway. It was "to be taken in decoctions of
marjoram, thyme, elder-flower, barley, roses, lentils,
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did not approve of the use of the mummy. The world
has come round to the great physician's way of:thinliing,
and A.ee. eie i tie led in the pharmacopoeia of
modern days.—Frasee's
A series of returns published by the Gardener's
Chronicle. of Saturday indicate a much earlier harvest
than has been witnessed for many years. Peas and
vetches, generally a very poor crop, are being already
cut in some places, and the earlier sown and Talavera
wheats will be ready in a fortnight or three weeks all
through the southern counties. Late sown oats and
barley have suffered from the unusual drought and heat,
and beans are generally reported as promising below an
average yield.
THE AMOUNT OF DUTY PAID AT THE BELFAST CUSTOM. I
HOBE, for the week ending June 26, wee 4,9731. 15s.
6d., against 6,9071. 53. 9d. the previous week, and
corresponding period of last year,
5,9G21. 7e, 4d, the corresp

THE SUN; LONDON MONDAY EVENING, JULY s,_ 1858,

I L &TEST NEWS.

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THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

857 ; Reading, Shares, 44 ; Missouri, Sixes, 874 ;
Michigan, Southern and Northern Indiaca, 43.
The money glut continued. Good tininess paper was
scarce and much sought after at 4 to 6 per cent,
The weekly statement of the New York city banks
showed a diminution in the specie reserve of nearly a
million dollars. The banks had extended their loans by
over 1,700,000 dollars.

A moderate buiness had been done in exchange.
Bankers had raised their rata to 9i per cent., and the
quotation for sterling was 109 to 1091.
In the produce markets ashes were steady at 6 dollars
for both sorts.

Coffee was firm, and in some cases ie. higher.
Cotton was buoyant at an advance of ie. per l b. ; the
demand, however, was moderate. The receipts of the
week at all the ports amounted to 27,000 bales.
Flour had declined 15c. for Western, but subsequently
a partial recovery took place. Wheat was in moderate
eemand, and for common red prices were in. lower.
Chicago spring was quoted at 80c. to 89c. Corn was
unsettled, and lc. to 2e. cheaper.
Iron was dull, and prices of Scotch pig wer a barely
maintained. Sales of the best brands at 24 doh:.

Spirits of turpentine were dull, and had declined
t 3 47e.

Pork had fallen 25c. to 50z. for both mess ar,d prime.
Beef was firm.

Sugars were firm for raw, but dull for refined. To-
bacco inactive, and quotations rather nominal.

Freights were without change in any directkm, and
business was to a moderate extent.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.

The steamship Tagus, of the Peilinsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Captain
Christian, with the usual Peninsular Mail, in charge
of Lieutenant Charleton, Admiralty agent, arrived
this morning.
The Tagus during the voyage experienced mode-
rate and fine weather to the Rock of Lisbon ; off
the Rosk, hard squalls from the northward; mode-
rate and fine to Cape Trafalgar, when the wind in-
creased to a strong gale from the east. Home-
wards, moderate and line ; across the bay, strong
winds from north-east, with head sea ; up Channul,
moderate and hazy.
Her dates of sailing were :—Gibraltar, June 25 ;
01,7iz. 26 Lisbon, 29 ; Oporto, 30 ; Vigo, 30.
6no knnugd socon.,l, and. 27 deck
Ipassengers.
The freight of the Tagus consists of 15 packages
of specie, value 5,1351., and one bag, 5981. 9s. 3d.,
82 casks of wine and one pipe, 48 half-boxes
lemons, 309 quarter boxes oranges, 425 cases
potatoes, 56 tierces of drugs, and 14 packages of
sundries.

At Gibraltar—Her Majesty's ship Royal Albert,
bearing the flag of Admiral Lord Lyons ; Curlew,
Vigilant, and Redpole. The Peninsular and
Oriental steam-ship Northam arrived, June 24th,
and sailed again same day.
At Lisbon—The usual Portuguese fleet.