The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOP. OF THE SUN.

Sir,—l beg to forward, for the information of
your readers, the annexed copy of a telegram re-
ceived this (Sunday) morning, at 9 a.m., announc-
ing the success of the expedition for recovering
this company's telegraphic cable broken in August,

1865, the broken end being lost on that occasion in
a depth of 2,400 fathoms, after 1,040 miles had been
successfully payed out from Valentia.—Yours
faithfully,
G. SAWARD, Secretary and General
Superintendent.
Atlantic Telegraph Co., 12. St. Helen's-place,
Bishopsgate-street-within, Sept. 2.
" GRAVES, VALENTIA, TO SAWARD, LONDON.

" Sunday, 5 40 a.m.—Signals through 1865
cable ; which is all correct. Now splicing. Please
inform directors."

The following telegram has been received by
Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from Mr.
R. A. Glass :

" VALENTIA, Sept. 2.

" Ship spoken."

The following telegram has been received by
Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from Mr.
R. A. Glass :

" VALENTIA, Sept. 2.
" The following received from the Great Eastern
at 5 45 a.m. to-day :
" CANNING TO GLASS.

I have much pleasure in speaking to you
through the 1865 cable. Just going to make
splice.' "

The following telegram has been received by
Reuter's Telegraph Company (Limited), from Mr.
It A. Glass :

44 VALENTIA, Sept. 2.
The Albany, with the Terrible, reached the
position of the end of the cable of 1865 on August
10, and had grappled and buoyed the cable in
lat. 51 27 30 N., long. 38 50 W., but the chain
breaking, they lost the rope and the cable. On
the 12th the Great Eastern and Medway reached
the above position. At midnight on the 15th,
in lat. 51 26 N., long. 38 37 W., the
Great Eastern had raised the cable 500
fathoms, but in buoying it she lost the rope
and cable. On the 17th the Great Eastern grappled
the cable at 1 55 a.m., and raised the bight to the
bow sheave, in lat. 51 29 N., long. 38 48 W., when,
in attempting to bring it on board it parted, at 10
50 a.m., the sea being too rough for the boats to
operate. On the 19th the Great Eastern grappled
the cable in lat. 51, 31 30 N., long. 38 40 W., and
buoyed the bight at 9 30 p.m., the cable being
raised 86 fathoms from the bottom. On the same
day the Albany grappled the cable in lat. 51 29 30
N., long. 38 40 30 W., but cleared it again at 8
a.m. On the 26th the Medway grappled it in lat.
51 31 N., long. 38 40 W., close to the bight, but at
5 p.m. the cable parted, the Medway having raised
it to 1,000 fathoms. At 11 p.m. on the 26th the
Albany grappled it, about lat. 51 31 N., long. 38 40
40 W., raised it to the surface and buoyed it. On
the 27th the Great Eastern secured it about buoy
with the bight of the cable, and brought on board
two miles, attached to it in lat. 51 42 N., long. 38
24 W., being carried this distance by the draught.
On Aug. 29 changed grappling to lat. 51 52 30 N.,
long. 36 330 W. On Sept. 1 she grappled the
cable, raised it to 860 fathoms from the surface and
buoyed it. On the Ist the Great Eastern grappled
the cable again about three miles westward of the
buoy and the Medway, also two miles westward of
the Great Eastern, and brought the bight on board.
At 3 19 a.m. on the 2d the splice was completed
and the paying out commenced at 6.45 a.m. The
tests of the cable are most perfect. We hope to be
in Heart's Content on Saturday. Splice lat. 51 52
20, long. 36 5 20. Noon Sept. 2, 51 56 30 long.
36 42 lat. ; distance run, 23 miles ; cable paying
out, 28 96 miles ; slack per cent., 25.91. Tests
perfect. All going on well. Weather heavy ; rain,
with light wind."

NEW BUILDING FOlt THE QUEEN AT LOCH
MUIcK.—A very extensive lodge is soon to be erected at
the west end of Loch Muick, for the use of her Majesty.
The building will be of ashlar work, granite being the
stone employed. An excellent site has been chosen for the
lodge, from which a magnificent view of the surrounding
picturesque scenery will be obtained.—Dundee Advertiser.
SPECTRUM ANALYSIS.—One of the best papers of
the British Association was that of Mr. Huggins on " Spec-
trum Analysis" as a means of telling the constitution of
the stars. One very curious fact he seems to have brought
out, that the application of this analysis to the constitution
of the stars may not improbably be the means of enlarging
our own knowledge of chemistry. Thus there is a certain
nebula which, when analysed by its spectrum, exhibits a
dark line corresponding with one only of the group of
bright lines constituting the spectrum of nitrogen, and it
is thought that this may imply that nitrogen is after all a
compcund, and not a simple body—not an element, as we
have hitherto supposed—but is capable of analysis into
elements of which one only exists in this particular nebula.
Nothing would be more curious than if we were to learn
by gazing up at a distant nebula that there is an artful
join, so to say, which we have never yet discovered, in a
gaN that has p long been under our eyes.—Spectator.