The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-
TOURISTS' SEA-SIDE and FAMILY TICKETS,
available for a month, or longer by extra payment, are now
issued at Paddington
To WEYMOUTH, 355. First-class, and 255. Second-class
to parties taking not less than Four First or Six Second-class
tickets.
To DAWLISIL TEIGNMOUTIL TORQUAY, BIDE-
FORD, or BARNSTAPLE (for ILFRACOSIBE), 50s. First-
class, and' 355. Second-class to parties taking not less than
Three tickets.
To the ISLE of MAN, via Chester and Liverpool, 70s. First-
class and 50s. Second-class,
To BANGOR, BEAU3IARIS, and LLANDUDNO, 705.
First-class and 50s. Second-class.
To CA. aNARVON, via Llangollen-road, Capel Culp:, and
Llanleris —to BALA, via, Llangollen-roadCorwen—or
to NEWTOWN, via Oswestry, 70s. First-class and 50s.
Second-class.
To NARBERTH-ROAD and NEYLAND for TENBY
and MILFORD HAVEN, 70s. First-class and 50s. Second-
class.
To KILLARNEY and SOUTH of IRELAND via Milford
Haven and Waterford, £5 ss. First-class and £4 Second-
class.
To JERSEY and GUERNSEY, via Weymouth, 455. First-
class
and 355. Second-class.
Full particulars may be known on application at the Pad-
dington Station.

QOUTH WALES RAILWAY. The Directors
L 7 of this Company are prepared to receive TENDERS of
LOANS on DEBENTURE BONDS, .to meet Debentures
falling due.
?reposals to be a:ddressed td the undersigned.
By order, FRED. G: SAUNDERS, Secretary.
10, Eastbourne-terrace, Paddington, 9th July, 1859.

RED SEA AND • INDtA TELEGRAPH
COMPANY (Limited).
Notice is Hereby Given, That the Transfer Books of the
Red Sea and India Telegraph Company (Limited), will be
closed frnm th 23d to the 30th July, till lusive. preparatory to
the payment of a half-year's interest, guaranteed under the
contract with the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasury, the warrants for which (payable to the proprietors ,
of shares registered in the Books of the Company on the 23d.
instant) will be issued on the 15th of August next.
By order of the Board, • -
—•-• --- , C. L. PEEL, Secretary, .;
Dated this Bth day of July, 1859, ,
62, 'Moorgate-street. • I

sale house in Wood-street, Gresham-street, or the
surrounding districts;- and receive them with the
least possible delay ; or a person detained in the
City by unforeseen business can communicate to his
family not to -e ipeet him home at the usual hour;
or, indeed, the cases which may arise are so nume-
rous that we need not speculate upon them. This
company will have its instruments on the second
floor of the building, while the instruments of the •
Submarine and the Magnetic .Companies will be on
divisions' of the third floor—all the rooms above
the first floor being secured from the intrusion of
Strangers, who must confine their business to the
public office on the ground floor, and the secretaries'
and clerks' offices on the first.
Coupled with the great engineering and mecha-
nical advantages by which the S:;ubmarme Company
were the first to secure to the public the great boon
of telegraphic communication under the sea with
the Continent, it was the first to reduce the prices
of telegraphic messages to an extent that would
only two or three years since have 'been deemed as
fabulous, haviag in connection with the Inland
Company (the British and Irish Magnetic), not-
withstanding an exclusive concession in France
and other countries, and therefosie without the
pressure of competition, reduced the tariff for a
message between London and Paris from 19s. to
Bs. 6d., and between Liverpool and Paris from, la
11s. 6d.-- to the same sum of Bs. 6d.; and that these
reductions have not been unfavourable to the corn:
pany is shown by the fast that the dividend, which
ranged from 7 to 8 per cent. on the original capital
of £75,000, is still kept upon the increased capital,
the messages having increased in proportion to the
facilities and accommodation granted to the public.
The number of despatches tralkorit,ted is still aug-
menting month by month. ;IsTilther should it be
forgotten that, irrespective of the reduction of the
Continental rates, the directors and officers of the
Submarine Company were the first, in connection
with the Inland Company, to inaugurate and carry
out those reductions in the tariff for the trans-
mission of messages throughout the United King-
dom from which the public are at this moment so
largely benefiting.
As the weight and dimensions of the various
cables may prove interesting to the public, we sub-
join the following particulars, with which we have
been favoured by Messrs. Glass and Co., who have
manufactured the Hanoverian, Danish, and Folke-
stone cables of the Submarine Company :
The Folkestone and Boulogne cable is the finest
and strongest yet lai 1. It contains a large hempen
core, round which are wound six gutta percha
wires, No. 1 containing copper conductors. These
gutta percha wires are again served with a thick
covering of hemp, on wich rests the 12 No. 0
iron wires forming the outside covering. The dia-
meter of the whole is IL-- in., and the weight about
10 tons per mile. The length is 25 miles, thus
giving a total weight of 250 tons. The Hanoverian
cable contains two conducting wires, served with a
great quantity of hemp,- and with 10 No. 2 iron
wires for shore end, and a somewhat smaller wire
for the deep sea portions. The diameters are 1:4- in.
and -1 in. respectively. The weight is about 6 tons,
and 31 tons per mile. The total length is 280
miles, and the gross weight about 1,030 tons. The
Danish cable is provided with a hempen core and
three conducting wires, a thick serving of hemp,
and outside is 10 No. 2 iron wires for those ends,
and smaller wire for -the deep sea lengths. The
diameters are an inch and a quarter, and an inch and
a thirty-second; the weight about 61, tons, and 4
tons respectively per mile; the total length is 380
miles, and the gross weight about 1,710 tons. The
Ostend cable, we are informed, contains six conduc
tors wound outside the gutta percha with hemp,
and covered with 12 iron wires. The diameter., is
an inch and three-eighths nearly; the weight about
72-tons per mile ; the length 70 miles ; the total.
weight 525 tons. The Calais cable, the last men-
tioned here, but the first cable submerged, and the
model kir all submarine cables since successively
worked, contains a large hempen core, four con-
ductors in gutta percha, serving of hemp
outside these, and 10 iron wires, No. 1, over all.
The diameter is nearly an inch and three-eighths,
the length about 30. miles, and the weight 225 tons,
or about 72 tons per mile. The two latter cables
were constructed, we believe, by Messrs. Newall.
It will thus be seen that this company in a day or
two will be working with 21 wires and about 3,770
tons of submarine cable, or a grand. -total tonnage
which sinks the Atlantic into insignificance ; ar.d
with all these cables there has, up to;:hefte
is
cted moment,by
been absolutely no failure in the laying, and there
they lie as an example of what may be
the joint-stock system of this country, supported by
public enterprise and guided by public wants.