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under the bill, all the rights of a single woman, would
answer every purpose. The common law would be
able to vindicate its rights.
After some further disc ]scion, in which hon. mem
hers poi,te4 out :he difficulties th4t t,) arise
under the an)en,iP,l

7a4' ?1 itdWinavy inteillnaco.

The usual half-rarly change of quarters of the
Br'gade of Guards will take place on Ist Sept. as
follow{ :—Th-. ,ht n idler Guards, Ist l,attalii,n,
from Wellington Barr-inks toSt. George's Barracks ;
2d battalion, from Dublin to Welling-tin Barracks ;
3d battalion, from Windsor to the Tower of Lon-
don ; the Coldstreim GuArds, Ist battalion, from
Aldershott to Wellington Barracks ; 2d battalion,
from Wellington Barracks to Dublin ; Scots Fusi-
lier Guards, Ist battalion, from St. George's Bar-
racks to Portsmouth ; 2d battalion, from the Tower

Tne_ATTOKNE I-GENERAL withdrew it, and tho
la,,e as original'y proposed was agreed to.

Oa clause 23,

Sir D. NORREYS asked if on an application to the
new court by a woman who had obtained a div.xce
a thoro, she would be entitled to all the privileges to be
given by this bill I
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said she would.
Mr. STAPLETON moved an amendment in clause
25, by the omission of the words—" or of adultery
coupled with desertion, without reasonable excuse for
two years or upwards," and the insertion of—" or of
adultery committed within two years after she has ob-
tained a decree for the restitution of conjugal rights if
coupled with such continued or renewed denial of such
rights as entitles her either to take further proceedings
in pursuance of such decree, or to maintain a fresh suit
for restitution of such rights."

of London to Windsor.
By the last letters received from India we learn
that Lieut.-Col. W. H. Tottenham, of the 12th
Lancers, died at Bangalore on the 6th ult. from
fever. The gallant Col. entered the 12th Lancers
as cornet in Dec., 1833 ; he served with his regi-
ment in the Caifre war in 1851 and 1853, and for
his services on that occasion he was, in May, 1853,
promoted to the brevet rank of Lieut.-Col., and in
July following obtained the lieut.-coloneley of the
regiment.

Mr. HADFIELD eeoonde I the amendment.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the proposition
was one to extend the provisions of the bill beyond
what had been decided by the house, and be declined to
discuss the point. He objected to the amendment.
The amendment was immediately negatived without
a division.

Sir W. HEATHCOTE moved to add to section 25

—" And bigamy shall be taken to mean marriage of any
person, being married to any other person during the
life of the former husband or wife, whether the second
marriage shall have taken place within the dominions
of her Majesty or elsewhere."—Agreed to.
Mr. HENLEY moved an addition to clause 30, "And
the court may, if it think fit, order alimony to be paid to
the wife pendenk lik."—Agreed to.
Mr. BUTT moved an addition to clause 40, that the
court should not entertain any suit, or proceed against
any person resident in Scotland or Ireland if at the time
of the proceeding the petitioner had no fixad residence
within the jurisdiction of the court.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the amend-
ment. He had no objection to a general clause limiting
it to England.

After some discussion Mr. BUTT withdrew the
amendment, and moved a proviso, exempting Ireland
and Scotland from its operation.
The amendment was ultimately. negatived.
The bill, with other amendments, was thin agreed to,
and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

SALE OF OBSCENE BOOKS, &c., PREVENTION
BILL.

This bill was considered and agreed to, after the in.

troduotion of a clause that it should not extend to Scot-
land, because the common law of that country met the
evil, and the machinery of this bill could not be worked
there. ,

The other orders were disposed of, and the sitting was
impended at half•past 3 o'clock.

The house resumed at 6 o'clock, and was
[LAM SITTING.]

AQUATICS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ANTWERP REGATTA.
ANTWERP, AUG. 19.
0 ping to a number-of English crews having entered
to row at this regatta, an immense number of spectators
assembled to witness the varlons contests. There were
seven races in the programme, five of which came off.
The first was a pair-oared race amongst natives in their
own heavy boats. A. four-oared race, in Belgian-built
boats, followed, for , hick five crews started, viz.:—
The Lambeth, the Wandsworth, the London (mixed),
the Ostend, and Amsterdam. They came in as follows:
Wandsworth 1
Amsterdam
London (mixed)
Lambeth
Ostend
The London crew were given the second prize in conse-
quence of the Amsterdam boat touching a buoy.
After a sailing match and a race by boys in four-oared
boats, came the great race, for which there were six
crews stationed as Lllows :-
1. Lambeth (red) 14 Ostend
2, London (nsixed)...(white) I 5. Amsterdam (red and blue)
3. Wandsworth ...(red and 16. Rotterdam
white) yellow)
In consequence of coming to row in a different boat
than the one they entered, the o,,tend crew were not al-
lowed to start. The Lambeth crew got badly off. They
all rowed very close together, the London leading, but
not getting much advantage. The three London
crews were in advance at the first turn, previous to
which some fouling took place between the Lambeth and
London. On returning past the stand the Wandsworth
had a good lead, Lambeth second, and the London close
behind. They reached the winning post in the following
order :

Wandsworth'
Lambeth
London (mixed)
A.materdam 4
Rotterdam
The London crew objected to the Lambeth receiving
the second prize, in consequence of having taken the
wrong side of a vessel shortly after passing the stand ;
and, after hearing evidence, the umpire decided
against Lambeth—thus awarding the second prize to the
London (mixed) crew in this race also.

compartment waighing from 1 to 20 tons, and the
bed alone composed of solid e,ak work, weighing 10
tons. Each alternate division contains a pipe and
s which, when wl.l be overlaid with a
gr ‘oved ho',p or ring of coil- stii,st inc,l, and
seen! ed by singulaily c ntrtve I fix, d starl-s an 1
keys, ,o as to farm one sold whale, and said to be
capable of sustaining an equal amount of resistance
with any piece of ordnance hitherto invented. The
result will shortly transpire, as the preparations
for the proofs are completed, and it is expected
they will take place in Woolwich Marsh in a few
days. The second mortar of similar calibre, but of
much heavier metal, from the same manufactory, is
to be transmitted to Woolwich on Monday next.
Her Majesty's ship Galatea, under construction
in Woolwich Dockyard, is progressing rapidly.
About 80 ship-tviights are constantly employed on
her. Her sternpost was yesterday affixed, weighing
nearly 12 tons. The Board of Admiralty have given
directions to push the work forward with dispatch.
Lieut.-Col. Bingham, Royal Artillery, recently
promoted to be Assistant Adjutant-General at
Woolwich, vice Col. Palliser, resigned, has been or-
dered to hold himself in readiness to proceed to
Calcutta. The office of that department in Wool-
wich, of which Gen. Sir H. D. Ross is the principal
officer, is to be removed on Monday to London.
The military store-steamship Balaklava sailed yes-
terday from Woolwich laden with guns, ammuni-
tion, carriages, &c., for Portsmouth and Plymouth.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Captain Moorsom, to the Diadem, commissioned ;
the Rev. A. Le Brocq, chaplain to the Pylades, vice
the Rev. Mr. Stratton, resigned ; Jas. Moore, as-
sistant-paymaster to the Ganges ; C. A. Chanter,
clerk to the Cumberland ; E. W. Goldron, clerk
to the Southampton.

On Saturday the 16th Lancers received a tele-
graphic message to hold themselves in readiness to
proceed from Kilkenny, Waterford, Carlow, and
Atby to Edinburgh, instead of York, as had been
previously expected. The route, however, has not
yet arrived.
A general court-martial, of which Col. H. Jervis,
commandant of the Provisional Battalion, was the
president, assembled yesterday at Chatham Garri-
son, for the trial of Lieut.-Col. James Clarke, Ist
West India Regiment, on the following charges :-
1. For insubordinate conduct in having, at Tower-hill
Barracks, Sierra Leone, on the 6th day of March, 1857,
disobeyed the lawful commands of Lieut.-Col. Stephen
J. Hill, 2d West India Regiment, commanding the
troops at Sierra Leone and its dependencies, his
superior officer, in refusing to embark on board
1 her Majesty's ship Perseverance, 2, and pro-
' ceed with a detachment of his corps to Bat-
hurst, Gambia, although detailed in general orders, and
warned by the Brigade-Adjutant, Lieut. Jas. Watson,
3d West India Regiment. 2. For insubordinate con-
duct at Government-house, Sierra Leone, on the 6th of
March, 1857, during an interview with Lieut.-Colonel
S. J. Hill, 2d West India Regiment, commanding the
troops at Sierra Leone and its dependencies, in having
then and there stated " he would not embarkl on board
her Majesty's steamer Perseverance, nor would he obey
any orders given by Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Hill, as he
REPORT.
questioned the right of the said Lieut.-Colonel to com-
mand the troops at Sierra Leone, he being exclusively TO THE DIRECTORS or THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
the civil governor of the said colony of Sierra Leone," COMPANY.
or words to that effect. 3. For insubordinate conduct, London, Aug. 18, 1857.
at the time and place mentioned in the second charge, Gentlemsn,—l forwarded by the Leopard a brief
in having disputed the command of Lieut.-Colonel S. J. statement of the circumstances attending the frac-
Hill, 21 West India Regiment, commanding the troops ture of the cable on the morning of the 11th inst.,
at Sierra Leoneand its dependencies, his superior officer,
particu-
in having refused to allow himself to be placed in ar- expedition.
andiars
elenhahveeetne.dowwittohltayheb. before you the full
rest ; and, further, in having stated to Lieut.• Colonel S.
After leaving Valentin on the evening of the 7th
Hill, that he did not recognise the right of the Lieut.°
immediately
Colonel to place him in arrest, or exercise any military the cable from the Niagara
inst., the paying out of
authority or command over him, he being exclusively progressed most satisfactorily until
the civil governor of the colony of Sierra Leone," or before the midhap.
words to that effect. 4. For insubordinate conduct in At the junction between the shore end and the
having, at the time and place mentioned in the second smaller cable, about eight miles from the starting
charge, when placed under arrest, and told that the next point, it was necessary to stop to renew the splice.
senior officer would be placed in command of the corps, This was successfully effected, and the end of the
stated to Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Hill "that the officer heavier cable lowered by a hawser until it reached
would not take or assume the command of the corps,the bottom, buoys
ment would receive or obey orders given by the said
forjthat none of the officers of the let West India Re i- ottom, two being attached at a short
g distance apart, to mark the place of union.
position at that tune being in payed out 40 miles
Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Hill." 5. For beginning a mutiny, By noon of the Bth we had
in having when stationed at Tower-hill Barracks on o
about the 6th, 7th, or Btii of March, 1857, caused di position
cable, including the heavy shore end, our exact
lat. 51 deg. 59 min.
obedience and resistance to the lawful authority of the 36 sec. .N., log. 11 deg. 19 min. 15 sec. W. ; and
.
commanding officer by advi;ing and directing Captain J. the depth of water, according to the soundings
S. Macaulay and Captain C. W. Pearson, let West taken by the Cyclops, whose course we nearly
India Regiment, not to obey the command of Lieut,- followed, 90 fathoms.
Colonel S. J. Hill. -Up to 4 p.m. on that day the egress of the cable
Major H. D. Ellis, of the Provisional Battalion, had been suaiciently retarded by the power neces-
officiated as Judge Advocate. The charges having sary to keep the machinery in motion at a rate
been read over, the prisoner pleaded " Not Guilty" a little fester than the speed of the ship, but as
to the whole. The principal witness in support of the water deepened, it was necessary to place some
the prosecution examined yesterday, was Capt. J. further restraint than by applying pressure to the
D. Mends, 2d West India Regt., who deposed to friction drums in connexion with the paying-out
being present at Government-house, Sierra Leone, sheaves, and this was gradually and cautiously in-
on the 6th March last, when Lieut.-Col. Hill di- creased from time to time, as the speed of the cable
noted an officer to inform the prisoner that he was compared with that of the vessel and the depth of
to proceed to the Gambia in charge of a detachment the soundings, showed to be requisite.
of his corps—there being no field officer at that sta- By midnight 85 miles had been safely laid, the
tion in consequence of the absence of Col. L. S. depth of water being then a little more than 200
O'Connor, C. B. On the order being given to the fathoms.
prisoner, he stated that he would not obey it, and At eight in the morning of the 9th we had finished
at an interview with Col. Hill the same day he again the deck coil in tht afterpart of the ship, having
refused to obey the order, stating that he looked payed out 120 miles ; the change to the coil be-
upon Col. Hill exclusiuely in the light of a civil tween decks forward was safely made.
governor, in accordance with Earl Bathurst's letter By noon we had laid out 136 miles of cable, the
in the " Queen's Regulations," and a note of a later Niagara having reached lat. 22 deg. 11 niin. 40 sec.
date. The prisoner was then told he was placed N., long. 13 deg. 10 min. 20 sec. W. and the
under arrest, and that the command of his detach- depth of the water having increased to 410
ment would be given to the senior officer, on which fathoms.
he informed Cot. Hill that he would not be placed In the evening the speed. of the vessel was raised
under arrest by him, and that the other officers to five knots an hour ; I had. previously kept down
would.not obey any of his orders, as they would the rate at from three to four knots for the small
not recognise him. On the following day the pri- cable, and two for the heavy end next the shore,
soner, on discovering that Col. Hill had been ap- wishing to get the nten and machinery well at work
pointed to the command of the troops at Sierra prior to attaining the speed which I had anticipated
Leone and its dependencies, wrote a letter to Col. making. By midnight 189 miles had been laid.
Hill apologising for the course he had pursued, but At four o'clock in the morning of the 10th the
remonstrating against his being sent to Gambia. depth of water began to increase rapidly from 550
The trial is likely to occupy several da3 s. Another fathoms to 1,750 in a distance of eight miles. Up
officer of the same corps is also awaiting his trial by to this time 7 cwt. strain sufficed to keep the rate of
court-martial. the cable near enough to that of the ship, but as
On Tuesday night the Lords of the Admiralty, at the water deepened the proportionate speed of the
Portsmouth, patronised with their presence a ball cable advanced, and it was necessary to augment
given in the hall of the Seamen and Marines' Or- the pressure by degrees, until, in the depth of
Phan Schools, in aid of the funds of that praise-. 1,700 fathoms the indicator showed a strain of
worthy charity, which was numerously attended. 15 cwt., while the cable and ship were running
Yesterday morning the Board embarked from the five-and-a-half and five knots respectively.
Black Eagle in their barge; and went to inspect the At noon on the 10th we had paid out 255 miles
Excellent gunnery ship, Capt. Hewlett, C. 8., where of cable, the vessel having made 214 miles from
shot and shell firing and other services were exhi- shore, being they in lat. 52 deg. 27 min. 50 sec. N.,
bited ; thence their lordships went to the dockyard, long. 16 deg. 00 min. 11 sec. W. At this tine we
where Sir C. Wood, the First Lord, held his levee, experienced an increasing swell, followed later in
and received the following officers at the Royal the day by a strong breeze.
Naval College : From this period, having reached 2,000 fathoms'
Captains—lt. H. Hewlett, W. H. Jervis, W. 3: Pal- water, it was necessary to increase the strain to a
len, J. 0. Johnson, P. G. rhymes, T. H. Mason, G. ton, by which the rate of thocabte was maintained '
Bowysar, R. Sharpe, R. Fogen, S. Hope, and It, Purvis. in due proportion to that of the ship. I
Colonels—W. Parke, Royal Marine Artillery, and A. At six in the evening some difficulty arose through
Alexander, Royal Marine Light Infantry. the cable getting out of the sheaves of the paying
Lieutenant-Colonels—T. A. Campbell and G. Alex- out machine, owing to the tar and pitch hardening
This was rectified by fixing midi-
.and a splice of leree di '
ander, Rlyal Marine Light Infantry.
Commanders—J. 0. Bathurst, J. E. Bin ham J.
and softening the tar with oil.
a , mensions pass-
Thi
Braley, C. Wise, Lord Ed ward Cecil, C. Stirling R
Studdart, E. Hardinge, J. H. Furneaux, and Lye. tii nni
ogn theoaiv
guards,
rti groves,atriidesm
Inspector of Hospital and Fleets—Dr. M.Kechnie. It was necessary to bring up the ship, holding the
Deputy Medical Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets— cableby stoppers until it was again properly dispo'ed
Dr. P. Leonard, of the Royal Navy Hospital, Haslar• around the pulleys. Some 'mportance is due to this
Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry—W. Pengelley. event, as sheaving that it is possible to lay to in
Lieutenants—A. R. B. Carter, R. Poole, C. A. Lod deep water without continuing to pay out the cable
der, G. W. Strong, L. Barstow, T. B. Lethbridge, G.have been expressed.
Durbin, J. W. Webb, C. H. Young, W. H. Gould, H. —asiimtl
Rogers, G. T. Bey, G. Morrell, M. Lowther, G. Y. 'ieutheo7attheaotfothf theelatter
point v uponater whichthi
s t
he doubts
speed
of the cable gained
ship, and up to nine
considerablyi. p
Paterson, H. T. Boyer, W. T. Ruxton, C. P. Palmer,
H. J. Challis, W. C. Grierson, W. H. R. Lee, T. E. o'c.ock, while was ab mt 3 knots
by the log, the cable was running out from 53/4 to 51
Smith, G. C. Nelson, T. Macnamara, J. Carnegie, and
T. S. Hall, knots per hour ; the strain was then raised to 25
Staff-Surgeon—Dr. Irvine, Royal Marine Light In- cwt,, but the wind and sea increasing, and a current
fantry. at the same time carrying the cable at an angle from
Master—J. W. Wheeler. the direct line of the ships course, it was not sufli-
Paymaster—J. Nott. cient to check the cable, which was at midnight
Chymist—W. J. Ray. making 2i knots above the speed of the ship, and
Chaplain—The Rev. E. S. Phelps.' smetitnesimperilling the safe uncoiling in the hold.
Second Master—J. S. Watts. The retarding force was thereforce increased at 2
Whilst the First Lord bed his levee the other o'clock to an amount equivalent to 30 cwt.; and
members of the Board transacted business in the then again, in consequence of the speed continuing
Dockyard and at the Gun-wharf. At about 3 they to be more than it would have been prudent
went on board the Blenheim, 60, Captain the Hon. to permit, to 35 cwt.
F. T. Pelham, and mustered the officers and men of By this the rate of the cable was brought to a
the steam fleet in reserve, and were entertained by little short of 5 knots, at which it continued steadi-
Capt. Pelham at luncheon on board. The First Lord' ly until 3.45, when it parted, the length payed out
having finished his levee rode out with Admiral at that time being 335 miles. I had up to this
Sir G. Seymour, the Commander-in-Chief, to make time attended personally to the regulation of the
further inspections, we believe, at Fort Cumber- breaks, but finding that all was going on well, and
land. Their Lordships yesterday ordered the now that it being necessary that I should be tempera-
corvette Diadem, of 32 guns and 800-horse power, rily away from the machine to ascertain the rate of
to be commissioned at Portsmouth by Capt. Moor- the ship, and to see how the cable was coming out
som, C. B. This is the most powerful corvette yet of the hold, and also to visit the electricians, the
added to the British navy, of enormous tonnage machine was for the moment left in charge of a
and unprecedented power. Her armament will mechanic who had Leon engaged from the first in
have no parallel in the fleet for a hull of her class. its construction and fitting, and was acquainted
The Admiralty terminated their labours at Ports- with its operation.
mouth last night by giving their annual official I was proceeding to the fore part of the ship
banquet at the Portland Hotel, Southsea, to all the when I heard the machine stop. I immediately
representat-ves of the Government in the port and called out to ease the brake and reverse the engine
garrison, the civic chief, and the senior officers of of the ship, but when I reached the spot the cable
the fleet, to the number of about 40. was broken. -
The Hensilia clipper ship, 700 tons, Capt. Sadler, On examining the machine, which was other-
one of the squadron of Ellis, Son, and Fickling, of wise in perfect order, I found that the breaks had
London, has arrived alongside of Portsmouth not been releaeed, and to this or to the hand-wheel
Dockyard-jetty, to fit for the reception of troops of the brake being turned the wrong way, rnsy be
for India, who, we believe, will consist of officers attributed the stoppage, and the consequent frac-
and men of the 72d Highlanders. She is a beauti- ture of the cable ; when the rate of the wheels
fully-built new ship, and this is her first employ- grew slower as the ship dropped her stern in the
ment since leaving the stocks. Her height between swell the brake should have been eased ; this hal
decks is upwards of 7 feet, and scuttles and venti- been done regularly before whenever an unusually
lators abound everywhere fore and aft ;it would be sudden descent of the ship temporarily withdrew
impossible to air a ship better ; the officer,' guar- the pressure from the cable in the sea, but owing,
ter; in the state cabin will be cool and capacious. to .our entering the deep water the previous mor-
She will (Debark her passengers in a few days. Ding,
that might occur there, the chief part of my
and having all bands ready for any emer-
The steam transport Rhadatuanthus, Commander gency
W. L. Browne, sailed from Plymouth on Monday staff had been compelled t a give in at night through
with stores for Portsmouth.
sheer exhaustion, and hence been short-handed.
The steam gunboat Skipjack was taken out of I was obliged for the time to leave the machine,
dock at Devonport on Saturday, and the screw without, as it proves, euflicient intelligence to
steamship Nile, 90, was taken out of dock at Key- control it.
harp on Monday. I perceive that on the next occasion it will be
Orders have been sent to Davenport to prepare needful, from the wearing and anxious nature of
for receiving the United States' steam frigate Nia- the work, to have three separate relays of staff,
gars, Capt. Hudson, into the Key ham basin, and to employ for attention to the breaks a high
should it be found necessary. Capt. Hudson and degree of mechanical skill.
Capt. Sands, of the Susquehanna, have left Ply- The origin of the accident was no doubt the
mouth for London for the purpose of being present amount of retarding strain put upon the cable, but
lOfel tili place.e
failure
It
h
at the meeting of the directors of the Atlantic Te- ' had the machinery been properly manipulated at
legraph Company to be held this day.
One of the monster mortars manufactured by the time,
has been
it
aibslYacause
hase
ta
Messrs. Monet, of Blackwell, and designed, under that the machinery is too massive and ponderous ;
the special directionof Lorapahoerston,to carry the my experience of its action teaches me otherwise ;
36-inch-shell, was yesterday landed on the Arsenal i for three days in shallow and deep water, as well as
wharf, Woolwich. This experimental piece of ord- ;in rapid transition from one to the other nothing
nance is manufactured of wrought iron in five die- could be more perfect than its working, and since
toet segments, for the facility of transport, the en- it performed its duty so smoothly and efficiently in
tire i -eas amounting to the weight of 414 tons, each the smaller depths where the weight of the cable
es

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE.

had less ability to overcome its friction and resist- 7
ance, it c in scarcely be said to be too heavy for deep
water, where it was necesary for the increased
weight of cable to restrain its ia.:id in: lion, by ap-
plying to i a consi,lenble (1-,,r,Je of p.ddi-ional
friction ; it i action was most complete, and all p irts
worked well ti.ge,her. I see how i. can bo improved
by a modification in the form of sheaves, by an ad-
dition to the air ingement for adjusting the brakes,
and.some other slight alterations ; but with propa.
management, without any change whatever, I am
confident that the whole length of cable might have
been safely laid by it, and it must be rememberel,
as a test of the work which it has done, that unfor-
tunate as this termination to the expedition is, the
longest length of cable ever laid has been paid out
by it, and that in the deepest water yet Passed over.
After the accident had occurred soundings were
taken by Lieutenant Dayman, and the depth found
to be 2,000 fathoms.
It will he remembered that some importance was
attached to the cables in the Niagara and Agamem-
non being manufactured In opposite lays. I thought
this a f tvourable opportunity to show practically
the difference was not of consequence i t effecting
the junction in mid-ocean ; we therefore made a
splice between the two vessels, and several males
were then paid out without difficulty.
I requested the commanders of the vessels to pro-
ceed to Plymouth, as the docks there afford better
facilities than any port for landing the cable, should
it be necessary to do so.
The whole of the cable on board has been care-
fully tested and inspected, and found to be in as
perfect condition as when it left the works at Green-
wich and Birkenhead.

southward, was a natural and providential opera-
tion. The African slave trade, which gave value !
and vitality to those discoveries, was also of natural
origin and growth. No mau, no set of men, no
nation pr,con(•eivocl, predetermined, or plan no _1
any m ghty cha7 ges iu e c mmon
and subsistence of the .word c ins -que4t ou the dis-
coveries of which we have spoken. Ail has been
natural, all providential. But just when the world
has accommodated itself to this new state of things
—just when its 'subsistence and existence had
become dependent on it —a narrow-sighted,
intermeddling, sickly " rose water' philan-
thropy steps in to disturb the scene, and
to mar the work of time, of nature, and of Pro-
vidence. The infidels of France and the fanatics
of England have by West Indian emancipation
rendered famine the normal condifon of a large
portion of Christendom, and made savages and
pagans of the liberated negroes. It required cen-
turies of continuous and laborious industry and en-
terprise to reduce the tropical regions of America to
the uses of civilised man, but these sentimental
charlatans have-destroyed this great work in less
than an age. The momentous consequences likely
to ensue from the rebellion in India can only be
justly appreciated when viewed in connection with
the de.cient supply of slave products which now
" perplexes nations." Should England, as we be-
lieve she will, succeed in suppressing the outbreak,
she will have no spare capital, or energy, or indus-
try, while the war lasts, with which to increase her
supplies of cotton and sugar, and to ward off that
famine with which she is imminently threatened
from a deficit of those articles. Even after the re-
bellion is suppressed, she will have her hands full
in keeping up a force sufficient to prevent its recur
rence, and will have little time, capital, or labour
to devote to the purpose of raising increased quan-
tities of sugar and cotton. Years will probably
elapse ere industry in India will return to its
wonted channels ; so that instead of an increased
production of these articles, she has reason to ap-
prehend a diminished one.

One important point presses for your considera-
tion at an early period ; a large portion of the cable
already laid may be recovered at a comparatively
small expense. I append an estimate of the cost,
and shall be glad to receive your authority to pro-
ceed with this work.
I do not perceive, in our present position, any
reason for discouragement ; but I have, on the
contrary, a greater confidence than ever in the
' undertaking. It has been proved beyond a doubt
that no obstacle exists to prevent our ultimate suc-
cess ; and I see clearly how every difficulty which
has presented itself iu this voyage can be effectively
dealt with in the next. The cable has been laid at
the expected rate in the great depth ; its electrical
working through the entire length has been most
satisfactorily accomplished, while the portion laid
actually improved in efficiency by being submerged,
from the low temperature of the water and the close
compression of the texture of the gutta percha.
The structure of the cable has answered every
expectation that I have formed of it • and if it were
now necessary to construct another line, I should
not recommend any alteration from the present
cable, which in its working has confirmed my be-
lief that it is expressly adapted to our requirements.
Its weight in the water is so adjusted to the depth,
that the strain is within a manageable scope, while
the effect of undercurrents upon its surface proves
how dangerous it would be to attempt to lay a
much lighter rope, which would, by the greater
time occupied in sinking, expose an increased sur-
face to their power.
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,
Yours very faithfully,
(Signed) CHARLES T. BRIGHT.

(From, the New York Herald.)

A very full meeting of the directors of the At
lantic Telegraph Company was held at their offices
this day (Wednesday). •
The fullest investigation into the events which
have led to the present pause in the undertaking,
into the sufficiency of the appliances fur paying out
the cable,and into the additional arrangements and
precautions which the valuab'e knowledge and ex-
perience gained by the late attempt will dictate in
respect to future operations, has been committed to
the charge of sub-committees appointed for the pur-
pose to report to the general board.
The directors will sit in permanence till their
future plans have been fully discussed and deter
mined on.

The appeal of the directors to the commanders
of the several ships composing the Atlantic Tele-
graph squadron to come forward and aid the un-
dertaking at this juncture with their advice and
experience bas been cordially resporattd to, and the
following officers have arrived in town, and will be
in consultation with the directors to-morrow :
Captain Wainwright, H.M.S. Leopard ; Captain
Sands, U.S. frigate Niagara ; Master-Commander
Noddall, H.M.S. Agamemnon ; and Lieutenant-
Commander Dayman, H.M.S. Cyclops.
Sufficient information has already been obtained
to show clearly that the present check to the pro-
gress of the work, however mortifying, has been
purely the result of an accident, and is in no way
due to any obstacle in the form of the cable, nor of
any nautical difficulty, ner of any experience that
will in the future affect in the slightest degree the
entire success of the enterprise. The only sudden
declivity of any serious magnitude (from 140
fathoms to 1,700 fathom:) had been safoly over-
come ; thellbeautiful flexibility of the cable having
rendered it capable of adapting itself without strain
to circumstances which would probably have been
its ruin had it been more rigidly constructed. The
combined influences of the low temperature of
the water and the compression of the pores of the
insulating medium had practically shown that the
action of a telegraphic cable, so far from being im-
paired, is materially improved by being sunk in
deep water. The only difficulty worth of conside-
ration which remained was to demonstrate the
practicability of making the splice in mid-ocean.
This was put to experimental test by the engineer,
in a Leavy sea, subsequent to the accident, and
before the return home of the ships. The two ends
on board the Agamemnon and Niagara were joined
together, and the splice let down to the bottom,
into soundings of 2,000 fathoms, during a heavy
sea.
The experiment was perfectly successful, and
all other circumstances which have been brought
out by the recent expedition have made more and
more cheering and certain the prospects of complete
success on the next occasion.

There is one point of view in which the Indian
mutiny has not yet been considered by our people,
Admitting that the English' have pursued an un-
principled course of Fillibusterism in the acqui-
sition of territory, and a very oppressive and
tyrannical policy in their method of retaining it, it
cannot nevertheless ba denied that they have con-
ferred some benefits on India by their rule. Of
late years especially honest and well-meant efforts
have been made to introduce European civilisation
into the country ; works of irrigation have been
undertaken on a large scale ; railroads and tele-
graphs have been established ; roads for the con-
veyance of produce fiom the interior to the sea-
board have been projected and even commenced ;
an administration of justice—faulty and corrup,,
no doubt, but yet far superior to the native courts
—has been solidly planted ; large and beneficial
improvements have been made in the Hindoo laws
concerning land tenures, marriages, and wills.
Under ordinary circumstances the effect of these
and the other similar improvements which are
going on would in 50 years make of India a far
greater country than she has ever been. If, how-
ever, the present insurrection is to succeed, and the
English are to be driven out, these works of civili-
sation cease, all internal improvements are stopped,
and India relapses first into anarchy, next into a
desolate barbarism. Again, the possession of India
and the invincibility of the British army cannot be
sacrificed by England without an awful loss of
prestige and credit. She could not raise her head
again in Europe if she suffered the Hindoos to
drive her out, nor could she assume the attitude of
au equal in dealing with this conntry if she were
smarting from so humiliating and irreparable a de-
feat. Indeed, we have no hesitation in saying that
in general terms the power and prosperity of Eng-
land depend upon the prosperity and maintenance
of the Indian empire. If the latter be lost, England
will, like Portugal,.sink to the rate of-a fourth-rate
Power, and will cease to fill any place in the world's
eye. The question for the practical American mind is
therefore how would this country be affected by a
relapse of India into barbarism. And how by a
decline of England from a first to a fourth rate
Power The answer to both queries is the same :
The United States would in both cases be affected
injuriously. Time need not be spent in argument
to show that we should be losers by the relapse of
Hindostan into barbarism. Our trade with East
India is not large, though it is large enough for its
withdrawal to be felt. But every year, as our
capacity to produce and the capacity of the Hin-
doos to consume increases, it would swell and be-
come more important. Moreover, as a leading
nation of the world, we are to ,a certain extent
partners of every other race. and sharers in their
prosperity and their reverses. The relapse of Hin-
dostan into barbarism would affect us as injuriously
as, for instance, a commercial convulsion in Eng-
land, and with more permanent results. But the
decline and fall of England would be a far more
serious matter. Besides being our best customer
and our closest commercial ally, England stands in
a position that is peculiarly interesting to us, as the
head and home of liberty in Europe. England is
the only country in Europe where speech, thought,
the press, and notion are free ; the only home f
patriots exiled by despotisms. Were England de-
stroyed there would be no refuge on that side of
the water for such men as Victor Hugo, Kossuth,
and Mazzini ; no dam or breakwater against the
ferocious tyranny of the royalhouses aid oligarchies.
There would not be a foot of soil in Europe where
an honest man could safely speak his mind on poli-
tical matters. From the Frozen Sea to the Mediter-
ranean, Europe—freed from England—would be
sealed to despots; and in their exultation at beingre-
leased from their terrible antagonists—the great
free press and the bold free mind of England—
there is no saying to what lengths these despots
might proceed. The fall of England might quench
European liberty for a whole century. To an
event which might possibly lead to such an end
this country could not by any possibility remain
indifferent. It is claimed by our statesmen and
our poets that our mission in this world is to disse-
minate and plant the roots of pure liberty ; a part
of that mission is evidently the maintaining and
succouring of liberty wherever it is planted. For
fear, therefore, on the one hand, that a successful
mutiny of the Hindoos should rophingo Hiudostan
into barbarism, and lest, on the other, Indian dis-
asters should precipitate the fall of the only coun-
try whose face is not set against liberty, the only
country besides our own whose existence is a plea
for human dignity and capacity for self-govern-
ment the temper and feeling of this country
would, if properly handled, take a strong turn in
favour of England in the Indian matter. Nor need
such sympathy be barren. Were proper means
taken to place the contest in India in a true light
before the people of the United States, it is highly
probable that active aid could be obtained here for
the Indian Government. The United States con-
tain far more men who are ready to serve as troops
in actual warfare than Great Britain ; and as we
have no treaties with the nations or peoples with
whom the English are fighting in India none of
our laws would be broken by enlisting them. To
gain their good will it would, of course, be neces-
sary to satisfy this community that, in return for
our sympathy abroad, the English were willing to
cede to us the entire control of the affairs of
this continent and its dependencies ; and this
would not be an easy thing either for so unbend-
ing a politician as Palmerston to achieve, or for
so incredulous a people as ours to credit. But
were it accomplished there might doubtless be
awakened a strong feeling here in favour of the
British in India ; and very likely, with proper
measures and a suitable outlay; 50,000 men could
be enlisted in a few weeks.

AMERICAN VIEWS OP THE CRISIS IN
INDIA.

(Prom the Washington Union)
We do not believe that the rebellion in India
will eventuate iu successful revolution. Asiatic
nations have, with fuw exceptions, been easily
' conquered by Europeans, however great the dis-
parity in numbers. Indeed, from the -days of
Xerxes, large Asiatic armies have been as inefficient
as small ones. The 150,000,000 of population in
India can be retained in subjection by such an
army as England can readily command. The Sepoye
alone are to be apprehended, and they, however
well disciplined as common soldiers, will have no
officers qualified to carry on a long and
regular warfare against the English forces.
England never was so powerful as she now is,
and never so well prepared to carry on war
in a distant theatre. Her immense steam navy,
aided by rapid communications by mail and the
telegraph, makes it less difficult for her to conduct
a war now in India than to have carried on one in
America 40 years ago. Yet, with all these advan-
tages, the struggle may be protracted; and even
when the rebellion is suppressed consequences will
probably ensue seriously affecting the weal of Chris-
tendom. Instead of exerting herself, as she has
just proposed, to increase the supply of sugar and
cotton, which have become alarmingly deficient,
the fact stares us in the face that this deficiency
must increase, and the suffering consequent on it
be aggravated. But England is not alone con-
cerned in this matter. All Christendom, except
the slaveholders of America, will suffer alike. Since
Columbus and Vasco de Gamaopened up the south
to European conquest, enterprise, settlement, and
trade, many new and artificial wanes have been
created. Almost a third of the necessaries of
modern life were unknown or unused by our an-
cestors a few centuries since. Sugar, cotton, coffee,
tea, rice, tobacco, molasses, and many other slave
and tropical products, have not only come into
general use, but have become, even with the poor,
necessaries of life. It is true, they might be dis-
pensed with if other articles of food and clothing
could be produced at home to supply their place ;
but that is impossible. Southern colonies and trade
with the South have furnished Europe for three
centuries past largely increased supplies of food and
clothing. This has stimulated the increase of point-
laton. We have no accurate census extending so
far back ; but we may safely assert that the popu-
11tion of the larg-r portion of Europe has trebled
since the days of Columbus and Do Gama.
This population has been pinched by frequently-
recurring famine for more than half a century,
despite of its supplies of food from the south.
Emancipation in South America and the West In-
dies has bean annually diminishing these supplies,
while a continuing increase of population has all
the while been begetting greater demands. Eng-
land and France have for years past been engaged
in spasmodic but vain efforts to retrieve the error of
West India emancipation. They push their can-
quests south, and resort to coolies, apprent'cos, an I
African immigrants to supply the place of shyest,
and to furnish enough of cheap cotton and sugar to
ward off famine and prevent revolution. None of
their experiments have succeeded or promise to
succeed. The future looks more gloomy than the
past. And now this cloud of East Indian rebellion
passes athwart the face of that future to give it still
a darker and a more sombre hue. Mac has inter-
fered with nature, usurped the part of Providence,
arrogated the functions of Divinity, and he is just
reaping the bitter consequences. The spread of
discovery of conquest, of settlement and trade

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reasons asigned, are of opinion that it would not be
expedient to increase the height of the bridge. The
witnesses examined were Mr. Stephenson, M.P., Mr.
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