The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-02 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COM-
PANY.

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StePhenson, C,E., M.P., Professor Wheatstone,
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F.R.5.,; and Professor Thomson, LL.D
flop, with Mr. C. F. Varley (the mania, in connece-
trician of the Electric Telegraph Company, managing
Loth-
burp, and now the consulting electrician to the
Atlantic'Company), have agreed to form a com-
mittee to advise with the directors and to decide
for them, with the aid of such other scientific men 'as
the board may think proper to call in, as to all the
details of 'the next cable and as to the form of its
external coveiing., internal conductor, and extent
of insulation.: When these details are determined
on, and the cable most suited for Atlantic depths
shall have been settled 'by means of the valuable
data placed at, the board's disposal from the ar-
chives of the any, experiments as to submer-
sionn ,
will , takezp ic.e,; and any points not exactly.
cleared upaikthorpnesent moment will be most care-
fully decided bkikipe.ils to actual experimeht. ,
The gieitt upon which hung all the
heaviest weight of indecision as to the possibility of
this enterprise has been decided favourably. The
cable has been: laid, messages have been liaised'
day by day for a month between England and,
America. Itegitnents have been retained in
Halifax., and; .Montreal after orders had been sent
for , their return- to England—the Europa's col-
lision was_ announced to anxious men and
womenanticipating her arrival—the news of China's
submission .was heard in New York within nine
hours-after England had received it. These are
now facts-7which in August, 1857, would have
been dissipated as wild scientific dreams.
Every hour after the demonstration of such know-
ledge, which is wasted by the absence of its enjoy-
ment in a practical form, is in the present concen-
trated state. ofour.system of existence a robbery of
so much knowledge, so much human intercourse;
and so much 'chance of permanent peace and com-
mercial grandeur from the two great branches of,
the Angle-Saxon 'confraternity.
This waste;, however, would not seem- likely to
occur after the fact announced by the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, which we are glad to notice
as'a great feature 'in its developinent—we mean the
offer which they appear to have received froni con-
trader's, not only to make andlay the cable, but to
work at after it has. been laid at a risk to them=
selves, which a year ago would have been thought
a mad undertaking, but Which we are now informed
is likely to meet with; severe competition..

CHRYSTVP MINSTRELS. —An extra representation
will take place on Friday, July 8, for the benefit of Mr. W.
P. Collinsrprima donna, danscuse, and bones. During the
evening Mr. Collins will have the honour of introducing his
Wonderful "Talking and Performing Elephant," in addl.=
tion to several other attractive noNfelties.
We-refrigit t 6 `state that Mr. Seymonr Fitzgerald
has been, for some days,,suffering from severe indisposition;
which -hdiTreirented hii attendance to his Parliamentary
•
Six
Tames Graham is about to move for an in-
clifivy iatorthe adlninistration of the army and the relations
Qf the Horse Guards td the War department.
*STIUTCTION' OF WRITEBAIT.—The London
eorrevondent of the Birminghain Journal states that great
*indignation existed among 'the company who dined at the'
Lifargry band' bantinetvin consequence of the abseliWof
Alkifebs.l4sbitt T litlidlaiid!ig,txettsos.was ineWitrhelikisi
good one—there was no such fish. Unsavoury is the tale
pertaining to those particular fish. The Thames has killed
them all—a fad.