The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-14 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH

INDIA.

We have received the following communication
relative to telegraphic communication with India:—

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
" reference to statements which have ap-
peared in several of the public papers regarding the es-
tablishment of telegraphic communication with India,
via the Red Sea, I am in a condition to state that her
Majesty's Government and the Honourable East India
Company have decided on the route, via Selencia, on
the Mediterranean, to Kornah, at the confluence of the
Tigris and Euphrates and the Persian Gulf, and that
they have entered into a provisional agreement with this
company to that effect ; and further, that they have not
agreed to enter into any contract with any other parties
for establishing telegraphic lines to India.
" In a communication, under date the 221 Jan. last,
addressed to me as Chairman of the European and In-
dian Junction Telegraph Company, the Secretary to the
Treasury remarks that, lam commanded by the Lords
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you
that my lords have been in communication with the
Foreign-office and the East India Company respecting
the proposal to establish a telegraph from Selencia to
liornah, and that my lords are prepared to enter into a
contract with your company.'
"-With a view to insure to the Government that en-
pervision and control to which their stake in the enter-
wise justly entitles them, the Treasury shall have the
power of appointing one official director.—l am, sir,
your most obedient servant,

" W. P. ANDREWS,
" Chairman of the European and Indian
Junction Telegraph Company.
" P.S. —The correspondence with her Majesty's Go-
vernment and the East India Company on the subject to
-which this letter refers may be perused at the offices of
this company. " W. P. A.
"European and Indian Junction Telegraph
Company.—Limited. Gresham House,
Old Broad street, London, March 13,
1857."

MR. COMMLSSARY-GENER AL FILDER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIB,—In your paper of yesterday I read "that you
are authorised by Lord Panmure to state that the
:easertion made by Commissary-General Filder, in a
pamphlet recently published by him, that Colonel Tul-
loch, when sent out to the Crimea, carried with him a
commission to supersede Mr. Fdder as Commissary-
General of the army, is without foundation." I never
made the assertion here imputed to me. What I did
say was, that " when Colonel Tulloch left this coun-
try as one of the two Commissioners for the East,
he bad been named to succeed me as Commissary-
General, with the rank of Major-General, on my being
displaced and the Commissariat remodelled."

When you are authorised to deny that Colonel Tulloch
had been named by the Secretary for War, in a despatch
addressed to Lord Raglan, to succeed me as Commissary-
General with the rank of Major-General on my being
displaced, I may address you again. I svoul I have
written yesterday, but was prevented doing an by my
medical attendant.

I remain, air, your most obedient servant,

WILLIAM FILbER.
57, Eaton-square, March 13.

UNION OF THE ATLANTIC WITH THE
PACIFIC.

A communication from the Gulf of Mexico, in
the Moniteur de la Flotte, corroborates the state-
ment that General Comonfort had sold to an
American company a tract of laud in the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec, with the right to cut a canal to
unite the Atlantic with the Pacific. The plan
of canalising the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is
said to be very old, and has been frequently re-
vived within the last 50 years. The intention at-
tributed to the company is to unite the rivers
Huascualco and Chimalapilla by a canal which will
be about 35 miles long, and thus connect the two
oceans. The writer of the article asserts that com-
petent judges think it the most practicable and
least expensive plan yet suggested. It says :
"The province of Oaxaca, in which the land granted to the
American Company is situate, is one of the most fertile in
the Mexican Confederation. The climate is good, and it
contains much mineral wealth. The capital is in the rich
valley granted by Spain to the descendants of Hernan
Cortes, and from which they derive the title of Marquis
del Valle. The treaty now in question was signed at Mexico
on the 25th of January last, but it is not to be definitive
until it is ratified by the Government of the United
States. The price to be paid by the Company is
$25,000,000. The numerous enemies of General Comes-
fort attack this treaty. They asikort, not without some
show of reason, that it tends to a further annexation
with the United States, as it introduces the Americans
to the centre of Mexico."