The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

THE NEW ATLANTIC. TELEGRAPH,

At last the long pending question as to the pro-
bability of telegraphic communication being
established between this country and America
seems-in a fair way of being settled. While the old
Atlantic Telegraph Company has been wasting the
money of the shareholders and seeking preposterous
conditions from the Government, to guarantee
them from the evils of their own scientific mis-
management, a new company has been quietly
formed under the best auspices, and, without
troubling the Government about subsidies, or
anything el e; have carefully matured their plans
with such foresight and deliberation as to lead the
electrical world to look forward confidently to a
successful so.ut.on of this great submarine enter-
prise. The British Transatlantic Telegraph Com-
pany propose, within this year if possible, to lay
their cable from the Land's-end, in Cornwall, to

Blanc Sablon, an island in the Straits of Belle Isle,
at one of the entrances of the Gulf of St. Law-
rence, and a little to the north of Newfoundland.
A short wire, to be laid by a separate company,
takes the cable in from Blanc Sablon to the Island
of Anticosti, where it meets lines already open com-
municating with Quebec, Montreal, and, indeed, all
parts of Canada. Another short line from Anticosti
will be submerged to Cape Breton, where it will join
the network of lines which communicate with Hali-
fax, Nova Scotia, Boston, New York, &c. The advan-
tages which such a route presents over one starting
from the west coast of Ireland are immense, both in
point of economy and freedom from the submarine
dangers which beset the track from Valentia to
Newfoundland_ In the first place, the average depth
of the entire route is supposed to be less, while by
starting from Land's-end the steep range of subma-
rine mountains on the west coast of Ireland, on
which the Atlantic telegraph was so carelessly lost,
is entirely avoided. On the Atlantic side, the lines
not being hamperedwith such preposterousconditions
for messages as those which would check their trans-
mission over Newfoundland, the tariff for their re-
transmission would be less than one-half of what
would be charged if sent by the American Company
from St. John's, while the line, being all submerged,
is of course less exposed.to4njury than in crossing
the almost unexplored wilds of Newfoundland. On
this side of the water the advantages of having the,
terminus at Land's-end are almost greater. The
increased 'distance is very little over 150 miles ;
but a message arriving at Land's-end is
transmitted direct to its destination at a
small cost, while the cost from Valentia is
much greater, and the message itself has to be re-
transmitted always four times, and sometimes
oftener. If it merely avoided the necessity of mes-
sages coming from America to London being first
known at Liverpool, where by the Irish route they
must be transmitted, the gain to merchants by a
Land's-end terminus would be most important.
From the hour that the scheme for spanning the
Atlantic with a telegraph wire was first mooted we
have again and again advocated, in the strongest
terms, the necessity for using a light cable, and,
above all, for doing away with the outer covering
of spiral wire. How the old Atlantic tompany pro-
ceeded all the world now knows. They made a cable
which it was publicly known could not answer its
purpose, and, as if to take away even the theoretical
chances of its success, the two halves, by the neglect
of their engineer, were spirally coated with wire,
with the twist of each coil running in a different
direction. These wires, which were really only
additional weight, were supposed to give strength,
ind necessitated the costly and destructive appara•
tus of paying out machines, which were designed by
Sir C. Bright, and which, under that engineer's
management, eventually proved the ruin of the
whole plan. However, we must do the old company
the justice to say that, ha••ing now lost all their
money, they at last see their error, and that there
is as little chance •f another wire-covered rope
going to sea under their auspices as there is of its
submergence being again entrusted to any but regu-
lar contractors. The British Transatlantic Tele-
graph Company propose to use a cable of the very
lightest description. Its lightness, in fact, is made
its strength, and the outer covering of wire is en-
tirely done away with. The conductor is to be com-
posed of seven copper wires having about twice the
sectional area of that used by the old Atlantic
Company. It will be coated with a combination of
gutta percha, with manifold insulators, the outer
portion being wound round with a textile fabric in
a peculiar manner, so as to perfect and strengthen
the rope and its insulation to the utmost. The outer
covering of all will be hemp, interwoven longitudi-
nally, so as to be without either turn or stretch.
This outer covering before being used will no doubt
be passed through a solution of either indiarubber
or gutta percha; the rope afterwards being com-
pressed under a steel die will insure a uniform gauge
and, the solution penetrating to the very utmost.
The diameter of the gutta percha insulator will be
about double that used in the rope of the old com-
pany, and the diameter of the whole cable about
two-thirds of an inch. The weight is less than 8
cwt. per mile, the breaking strain about two tons,
or equal to supporting nearly six miles of its own
weight in air, and no less than 25 miles of its own
weight in sea water. The cost of the whole cable
will be about half of that which was lately lost by
the old company.
The cable is to be contracted for under a special
arrangement which guarantees the shareholders
against any risk of loss. The contract will not be
at so much per mile, but for a certain sum under
£350,000 the contractors undertake to make tho
wire, insure it, submerge it, and deliver it over
to the company in working order. During the
time of its manufacture the company are to
advance certain sums to the contractors not exceed-
ing in all 50 per cent. of the entire contract price.
For these advances, which bear interest to the coin-
' pup at the rate of 5 per cent. till the completion
of the contract, security is given by the contractors,
who, in case of the failure of the cable, are bound
to repay them within a certain time. When the
cable is completed and shipped the contractors are
further bound to insure it, and deliver the policy
to the company as a collateral security. Only
when the cable is laid in working order, and pos-
session formally given to the company, will the
contractors become entitled to receive the money
for it. It is not often that shareholders meet with
such a favourable arrangement, or one which so
completely guarantees them against loss of any
kind, and, of course, it is owing to this that a large
portion of the capital has already been subscribed
tor. In order to prevent the overcrowding of
messages the tariff of charges will be arranged
according to three scales—viz., one for ordinary
messages, one for express messages, and one for
special messages. The prices of these, it is sup-
, posed, will be Ll, £5, and £lO respectively. No
ordinary, message will be sent while an express
' message is on the Est, and no express message will
be despatched while a special message is on the
list, a regular printed return of the number (if any)
of both being kept at the station for the informa-
tion of, all persons wishing to send messages. By
means of such a tariff each message will be trans-
mitted, according to the scale which the sender
thinks its interest or importance to himself re-
quires. Any chance; also, of the wire being two
or three days in arrear of its' business will
be entirely obviated. Altogether, the whole
scheme of the British Transatlantic Company has
apparently been well and carefully planned, and
with the advantages which it possesses and the
facilities which it offers we have little doubt that it
will surmount in the most satisfactory manner the
few difficulties that yet remain in the way of elec-
trical communication between the New World and
I the Old.

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(From the ayittrar-Genep,
The mortality of London has
during the last six weeks, and in'
,the W4e{lk°tfhaair
-last Saturday, the total number of deaths
Ls 938. In the ten years-1849-1858 the average
number of deaths in the weeks reorresponding with
last week was NI; but as the deaths included in
the present return occurred in a population firth has
increased, they should be compared with the aver-
age raised in proportion to the increase, namely,
with 1,082. The comparison presents a highly
favourable result, for it appears that the deaths
that occurred last week were less by 144 than the
number that would have occurred if the average
rate of mortality- as ascertained' for the early part
of June had prevailed.
The births registered last week exceeded the
deaths in the same period by 730.
Scarlatina, which was fatal in 50 and 42 cases
respectively in the two previous weeks, was fatal
last week in 43. Eleven deaths were tensed by
diphtheria, and occurred as follows :—One at 3,
Windsor-place, Paddington, two in a family at 46,
William-street, Kensington, where a third child
died from scarlatina, one at 4, Cumberland-court,
St. Pancras, one at 14, Harrington-square, one at
2, Wellington-road, Hackney, one at 35, Great ,
Tower-street, two in the same fame family at 10,
Hungerford-street, St. George-in-the-East, one at •
46, Tiverton-street, Newington, and one at 4, York-
place, Greenwich.

Fifteen children and two adults died last week
from the smallpox, two infants from erysipelas,"
two persons from carbuncle, seven from syphilis,
two by murder or manslaughter. A man died at
the age of 92 years, and a woman at 95. Two
infants and two adults died from cholera ; they are
registered as follows :—" At 2, Bloomsbury•place a
girl, aged seven months, on June 9, infantine
cholera (20 hours), exhaustion." "On the 11th
June, at 2, Brother's-row, Lambeth, a boy, aged five
months, cholera infantum (three days)." On sth
June, at 24, North-street, Marylebone. a woman,
aged 73 years, diarrhoea. (threft nays), cholera (tsso
days) ;" and " On 9th June, at 15, Little George-
street, Bermondsey, a man, aged 55 years, choleraic
diarrhoea (three days)."
A boy aged six months, died at 5, Emma-place,
Kensington, from " spasmodic croup (seven days)."
Mr. Coopei Willis adds on his certificate, that the
child was poisoned by the exhalations from the road
in front of the house, which he states to be " in an
infamous condition." Two children died at 6,
Austin-street, Hackney-road, from scarlatina fol-
lowed by dropsy. The air of thtt house is impure
in consequence of the-bad state of the drainage. A.
silk winder, aged 74 years, died at 11, Winchester-
street, Bethnal-green, from eating fish that was
unfit for food.

Last week the births of 834 boys and the same
number of girls, in all 1,668 children, were, regis-
tered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks
of the years 1849-58,the average number was 1,533.

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THE TOBERMORT SEQUESTRATION

CASE.

On Friday judgment was given by the Second
Division of the Court of Session (Scotland), in the
case of " Gill. v. Joel," on the question of
.jurisdic-
tion in the matter of the sequestration of William
Gill, who, being an Englishman and his creditors
all in England, claimed the jurisdiction of the
Scotch courts after 40 days' residence in the island
of Mull. The sequestration was duly effected
under the Act 19th and 20th Victoria, cap. 79, but
one of his creditors, Air. Joel, subsequently peti-
tioned the Court of Session to recal the sequestra-
tion granted in the Sheriff Court, and Lord Ordi-
nary Kinloch last session issued an interlocutor
sustaining the petition and recalling the sequestra-
tion. The case was taken by reclaiming note to
the Second Division, and on Friday their lordship's
reversed Lord Kinloch's decision, on the grounds
stated by the Lord Justice Cleric in delivering the
unanimous judgment of the Court, which was
limited to the question of jurisdiction. The
Lord Justice Clerk said,—The Court hold that
the question for them to determine is whether
this case falls within the statute, and if
such be the case that they are bound to ad-
minister the law in disregard of all considerations
of alleged equity or expediency. The bankrupt in
the present case is not a trader. He is an English-
man and an English barrister. All his creditors,
with one exception, are in England. His sole con-
nexion with Scotland is a residence for 40 days
continuously at Tobermory, in the Island of Mull,
previous to the date of presenting his petition ; and
he admits that this residence was assumed for the
express purpose of qualifying him for sequestration.
It may seem, on general principles, very startling
and inexpedient that an insolvent person should be
entitled to make choice of a country for sequestra-
tion, and thus alter the rights of his creditors and
obtain immunities for himself. The Court must,
however, decide the case according to the statute,
no matter whether or not such a decision is in
opposition to the principles of international juris-
prudence. A decision if opposed to these principles
would not receive• effect in foreign countries but
must receive effect in England, as it proceeds upon
a statute of the Imperial Parliament. The only
question is what, in the sense of the Act, renders a
person subject to the jurisdiction of the supreme
courts. According to the former principles of
bankruptcy law, sequestration was confined to
traders. The great peculiarity of the statute pre-
sently in force is that it extends sequestration to all
parties who are debtors, without reference to their
being traders. It must, therefore, be construed
with regard to this fundamental alteration on the
law—its professed object. To satisfy the require-
ments of the clause of the Act it seems to me to be
sufficient if the debtor be at the time of presenting
his petition subject to the jurisdiction. The foun-
dations of general jurisdiction are domicile in refer-
ence to jurisdiction in personam, and property in
reference to jurisdiction in rem. The bankrupt
here having no property, the only question is—
Was he subject to the jurisdiction of the
supreme courts of Scotland ratione domicild ?
The general principle loping that residence, ac-
cording to the law of all countries founds
jurisdiction, it is for each country to fix by its
municipal law what period of residence is to be
held sufficient. Our law has fixed on 40 days'
continuous residence at one place as being sufficient
to found jurisdiction ratione donzicilii. It is here
admitted that the bankrupt resided in Tobermory
continuously for 40 days immediately before making
wasthen
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possessing no other house in England or elgewhere.
If such a period and kind of residence is not suffi-
cient to found jurisdiction, there is no other that
can be held to be so, except that which constitutes
the true domicile. The Court have been warned
that serious consequences may flow from such a
judgment as now pronounced; if so, they spring
solely from the Act and the innovations introduced
by it. The Court therefore altered the interlocutor
of the Lord Ordinary, and found that the bankrupt
was subject to the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Courts of Scotland, and remitted to the Lord
Ordinary to hear parties on the other grounds
alleged for recal of sequestration.

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pfttlE R 'EANB.,TANBIOLNDLAS RAILROAD
Notice is Hereby Given, that the following 140 Bonds of
£lOO each, having been drawn by lot for the Annual Redemp-
tion, the holders of them are requested to present the same
for_p_ayment at the counting-house of Messrs. J. HENRY
SCHRODER and CO., 145, Leadenhall-street, on and after
the 15th June instant, after which day all interest on them
will cease and determine. The Bonds must be left two clear
days for examination.
24 164 245 361 554 736 984 1139 1284 1511
26 165 247 366 563 743 985 1148 1289 1515
27 166 253 383 597 746 986 1169 1317 1517
42 180 256 385 604 776 987 1169 1353 1522
44 181 257 413 635 778 996 1197 1389 1539
46 196 287 427 637 810 1011 1129 1391 1580
51 204 293 450 651 812 1013 1207 1400 1581
54 208 304 466 653 834 1017 1218 1440 1617
62 209 311 520 669 931 1018 1231 1458 1622
80 211 331 523 693 937 1048 1233 1462 1702
96 221 343 526 695 943 1051 1234 1489 1776
106 231 347 542 697 957 1075 1235 1490 1846
144 2.1.4 351 544 724 967 1105 1263 1511 1847
157 243 357 546 73.5 969 1131 1266 1502 1928
J. HENRY SCRRODER & CO.
London, 13th June, 1859.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
under the nianagement of Mr. Charles Kean
THIS EVENING wil be
l presented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
King Henry V., Mr. C. Kean; Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FITS.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the perfovmances will commence with
EVERYBODY'S FRIEND. Messrs. Charles Mathews,
Compton, and Buckstone; Mesdames C. Mathews, Wilkins,
and Reynolds.
After which, MARRIED FOR MONEY.
To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS.

Commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. Mr.
J. L. Toole, Mr. C. Selby, Mr. Billington, Miss Woolgar, Miss
X. Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly.
Followed by THE HOUSE? or, THE HOME? hir. A.
C, Selby, Billington ; Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Miss H.
Simms. Miss Laidlaw.
After which, THE RIF LE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
elcy and Moreland ; Misses Woolgar and K. Kelly.
To conclude with ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, Billington ; Misses Keeley, Arden,
and Laid's*. and Mrs. Blllington.
_ Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.
Doors open at a quarter-past six—Commence at seven. Box
Office open from 10 to 5 -no charge for booking. No fees to
servants permitted. A registry kept of all articles found.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING will be produced a new Comedietta, by
J. M. Morton, Esq., entitled WHICH OF THE TWO ?
supported by the company.
After which, KENILWORTH.
Followed by CAUGHT BY THE EARS. Mr. J. Rogers
and Miss F. Hughes.