The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-18 00:00:00

SDBMAPINII TELLGRAPH.

A correspondent writing to a contemporary,
says :—"Sir,—Can you spare space in your columns
for a practical suggestion ? While Lord Ellen-
borough is exhibiting himself, night after night, as
being by implication the highest authority on
military matters ; while Mr. Disraeli is sneering at
Lord Dalhiusie under the comfortable conviction
that Lord Dalhousie's state of health prevents him
from undertaking any defence, orsfrom administer-
ing any castigation ; and while Sir C. Napier's
clever but somewhat irascible opinions are
quoted as oracles, and every other Napier holds him-
self in readiness to hurl any amount of vituperation
against the unfortunate sceptic who may venture
to doubt whether Sir Charles's dicta were al ways eon-
sistent, or urged in such a manner as to effect a
practical good, I would venture to ask whether the
country is more interested in the question of Lord
Ellenborough's self laudation, or Mr. Disraeli's po-
litical importance, or Sir C. Napier's personal mcrits,
than in bringing all its emergencies to bear practi-
cally on the present emergency, and in directing
their application to facilitating the task we have in
hand. Your correspondent at Hongkong in his
admirable letter in your paper of today, pointedly
alludes to the sulject of rapid communicAton. Can
any one doubt its value at such a moment It is
almost impossible to overrate it. The determina-
tion tion- which, taken a few we,ks earlier, might have
saved an incalculable amount of life or expenditure
may be rendered fruitless by the delay which under
ordinary circumstances could not be avoided. At
this very moment there is an oppeitunity for effect-
in,g the object which almost seems providential.
The magnificent project for c innecting the Old
World with the New seems destined for a tithe, and
I hope only fer a t'me, to remain in- abeyance.
During the approaching autumnal gales it will
kirrilybe posslo!e to lay the line across the Atlantic;
but the line is perfect and ready fur use ? Why
should not the Government at once purchase it,
and connect Alexandria with Malta by telegraph ?
T believe there is also sufficient line still further to
connect Aden with Suez. Here is a work worthy
of an intelligent and practical people. If the great
Carthaginian (and a greater than, Carthage is here !)
' found a chemical agent for clearing the difficulties
which opposed the advance of his army, why shall
not we put into immediate operation that wonder-
ful power upon which the safety and security not
only of our army but of an empire may depend
Is it to be a question of costs ? Why, millions may
be saved by the transmission of one message. We
have the oppoitunity of doing it to-day ; To-mor-
row it may he lost. lam not one of those who rail
at red-tapist demerits or Government circum-
locution. On the contrary, I believe the service of
the Government to bo generally better performed
than any other service. lam quite sure that if
Government departments hal been guilty of half
the misdeeds which have been perpetrated by almost
every board of railway directorsin the kingdom, to
say nothing of joint-stock companies, the Thames
would not be large enough to hold the drowning
officials.

If there is any one who would be likely at once
to adopt such a suggestion as I have made, it will
be our indefatigable Premier.—l have the honour
to be, N. M.
London, August 17.

fore Delhi, while in the command of his gallant
regiment, in an encounter with the mutineers. By
his death the Queen's army has lost a gallant and
valuable officer: Colonel Yule was in the prime of
life, and had seen considerable service in India with
the 16th Lancers and'the oth Lancers, into which VALENTIA HARBOUR, AUGUST 14.
regiment he exchanged. He entered the former The expedition for connecting the opposite shores
regiment as cornet in July/ 1835, and served in of the Atlantic has at length, in consideration of
that corps during the campaign in Affghanistan j the many chflicult'es which have beset the under-
under the late Lord Keane, and was present at the taking, and the lateness of the season, been finally
siege and capture of Ghuzuee, for which he received abandoned, at least for the present. It was in-
a medal ; also the campaign on the Sutlej in 1846, j tended, after the breaking of the cable, to lose no
and took part in the battles of Buddiwal, Ali wal, time in. endeavouring to underrun the portion el-
and Sobraon. During the later part of the Pun- ready laid down, to join the. fractured ends, and
jab campaign be served with distinction as Major of again push forward with the remaining amount of
Brigade to the second cavalry brigade, and was rope ; but the general opinion was decidedly
present at the passage of the Chenab, at Ramnug- against the probability of recovering the part sunk
gur, and the battles of Chillianwallah and Gooje- in anything over 1,000 fath ems. The total length
rat. He had received the medals and clasps for would be thus shortened by about 100 miles, if not
the campaigns of 1816 and for the Punjab. mere, and as 350 miles of rope hail been paid out
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Merli- in 260 direct miles of distance, and this to-) in fine
cal Department of the Army, composed of Cie Right weather, and in partially shallow water, the cable
Hon. Sidney Herbert, M. P. (chairman), Mr. A. would not he suffic'ently long to reach the opposite
Stafford, M.P. Colonel Sir Henry Storks, Sir shore. Taking the whe'e circumstances of t, e case
James Clark, Mr. J. R. Martin, Mr. T. Alexanchr, into consideration, it wag judged better to postpone
Sir Thomas Phillips, Dr. Andrew W. Smith, and the whole undertaking until next year. 'the Leo-
Dr. John Sutherland, have within the last few days pard and Cyclope parted compeny shortly after the
closed their bbours. accident. The Niagara, Agamemnon, and Sasque-
The Sarah Sands steamship left Spithead on Sun- hanna s'g/flailed that they would proceed direct to
day night for India with the following troops : .make arrangements for the second expedition next
Lieutenant-Colonel Moffat; Captains Brett, Thom- year; and if the two Governments shoul I require
son, and Gillum ; Lieutenants Galbraith, Hugh's, the use of either of the veresels of war, to land the
Schotel, and CromPe ; Ensign Wood, Lieutenant cable at Trinity Bay. The 350 !rules of wite already
and Adjutant Houston, Surgeon Grant, Assistant- laid d ,wn will he left in its present position until
Surgeon Donovon, Quartermaster Hipkin, Pay- nest year, when there will be an attempt to Iwo;
master Daniel, 21 sergeants, 11 drummers, 1.5 ver it by underrnunieg, which will be doubtle-sa
corporals, 306 privates, 8 women, 7 children, partially successful. The Cyclops, of er having
forming the head-quarters of the 54th regiment. communicated the disastreus intelligence,
got
The depot of the 71st Foot proceeded yesterday her s team in the evening and endeavoured to leave
by railway from Gosport to Chatham. the harbour, but having received some injury to
- The depot of the 88th Fobt proceeded yesterday i her unauhinery, she was obliged to postpone her
from Gosport to Colchester. departure until this morning when she 1, ft for
.
The Cyclops Steam-vessel, lately engaged in lay- Gravesend, there to await orders from the Adrni-
ing the Atlantic telegraph cable, returned to Spit- x alty; Soon afterthe arrival of th e Cycleps i he. officials
head on Sunday night. and employes of the comp ny had the whole of the
• His Prussian Majesty's corvette Amazone, Capt. powerful batteries and other valuable apparatus
Kuhn, last from Hor.eo, in Norway, arrived at used in signaling to the ships removed from the
Spitbead yesterday morning, and saluted the ' temporary hut and tents which had been erected
Governor and Port Admiral of Portsmouth, which at the landing beach, and shipped on board a small
compliments were duly ackuowle Iged by the garri- schooner for London. •
son battery. and Victory. The Captain was ! The land nee from Killarney, in direct communi-
cation with tho telegraph to London, is now Com-
presented by Chevalier Van Den Bergh, the
Prussian Yrce-Consul at Portsinouth, to the naval pleted t, within a few miles of the place where the
arid military chiefs. The corvette remains a few cable was landed, and will, by to-mi,rrow evening
days prior to proceeding to the Texele and acter- be entirely finished for working. The blame of
wards to the Baltic. the failure of the undertaking cannot with justice
The Pylades, 21, screw corvette, Captain De 'be fixed upon any particular individual. It must
Courcey was re-swung for the adjustment of her ' Le referred more to an accumulation of unfavour-
compasses. able circumstances, none of which, t iken separately,
The Adelaide steam transport touched at Ports- was 'sufficient to mar the plan, but which, coming
mouth on Sunday night from the ThalueP, and left together upon the engineers, induced them to
yesterday morning for'China, after taking in some abandon it for the present. Yet, at the same time,
Royal Marine Artillery. there is no hiding the plain fact, that had lighter
The Lords of the Admiralty commenced their and less complicated machinery I een used for paj -
annual oladal inspection of Portsmouth Dockyard ing.o-0 the cablei_tho nndertaking4 woulthhave had. f,
•

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

a very much better chance of success. The whole
of the officers connected with the compaiy will
leave f',.r Lond,,n on Tuesday next.

T 11,3 following letteeg have been addrzi,sed to a
contemp 1I itt y

Sin,--The late disaster but realises your own
sagacious predicion of April last, when inatituing
a comparison between the cable then making and
the submarine conductor proposed by Mr. Allan ;
but it it truly remarkable to find how that gentle-
man, long before the cable was even commenced,
fore old what would happen. In the prospectus
of Mr. Allan's cotrapany, published at Christmas,
the following wotds occur :
"The many failures of the submarine cables
hitherto consfructed are t•io notorious that it mAY
be safely predicted, It will be found impomible
to connect Europe with America by means of sub-
marine cables constructed on the principles of
those now in use.' There great weight (from two.
to six or eight tons -per mile) renders the c trriage
of them difficult, and the laying of them almost
impossible without consiant risk to the inte-
grity
of the conductor.. • For long distince
they are dtficient in the conducing power, while
from their peculiar coufoimation they are selt-
destructive on being submerged to great depths ;
moreover, their cost is enormons—tram 20U1. to
5001. per mile. The cost of the cable now making
for the Atlantic Teleg.aph Company is said to be
only 1801. per mile, and its weight abut a ton;
but the principles of its construe ion are the same
as the above, audit is even much weaker than any
yet made."

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
M. L.

Sir,—Let me recommend, in the next attempt to
lay this cable, the use of perforated tin buAys, which
would hold the cable of er it was paid out, prevent-
ing a strain, and gradually, as ttiey sank in their
order, tskitig it wAh them to the bottom.

A. MACKIE.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S—MoNDAy.

So many hones have of la'e been introduced into th
betting simply for money-getting purpose, that the
very little bueiness now-a-days transacted at the Corner
cscites no surprise. Backtrs aced iayt rs are t qually shy,
and "let I dare not wait upon I wont!, like the poor
eat i' the adan.' Tre movements relative to Moppet
for the Ehor Handicap, and Saunterer for the Great
Yorkshire Stakes, show that Lord Derby did not greatly
libel racing men when he stated in his memorable letter
to the Jockey Cl' b•that horses were used merely as the
instruments of gaining. About Mongrel; for the Ebor
Handicap, any price might have been obtained, whilst
100 to 6 and 100 to 5 were laid against Saunterer, p.p.,
for the Great Yorkshire.
Ignoramus was placed under considerable suspicion
for the St. L.ger. I t the City, during the morning,
4 to 1 Lad been taken about him, but early in the after-
noon, at the Corner, 6 and 7 to 1 were offered against
him. At last, however, be returned to sto I—taken.
About Blink Bonny 65 to 40, and 350 to 200 were
taken ; 800 to 100 was booked about Arsenal and Dee-
mour coupled.

The su►joined list comprises the only bets that came
under our /lotto+) :

EBOR HANDICAP.
sto I agst Warlock (taken)
sto 1 agst Tasmania (taken)
_ GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES.
6to 4 eget Vedette (taken)
5 to 1 aget Skirmisher (taken)
20 to 1 aget Saunterer (taken)
ST, LEGER.
65 to 40 agst Blink gamy (taken)
5 to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken)
8 to 1 agst Tournament (offered)
300 oven on Blink Bonny and Ignoramus, coupled
(taken)

ARRIVALS AT YORK.
Drumour, Strawberry, Amsterdam, Queenstown, Schie-
dam, Sedbury, Bride Cake, Blue Bell, Walmer, Prioresgr
Borderer, Tasmania, Night Ranger, Intercedona, Ditto,
Old Times, Conductor, Comquot, Bel Esperanza, Perfee.
tion, Coxwold, Syllabus, Skirmisher, Vedette, Rita,
Pioneer, Sir Colin, Fisherman, Lady Alice, and Proud
Preston Peg.
The course is rather heavy, and in two parts. About,
100 yards of it is covered with water, but it will be cleared
in time f r the races

A QUATI‘CS.

LONDON UNITY ROWING CLUB.

. A very spirited four-oared cutter race amongst the
members of the a,ove club took place yesterday after•
noon from Barnes-bridge to Putney, for five silver tan-
kards for the first boat, and five other pieces of plate for
the second, the whole generously presented by Mr. C.
Morton, the proprietor of Catiterbury Hall, at which
tavern the club holds its meetings. The weather was
fine, and the attendance of spectators considerable.

Black
Mr. G. Hurst I Mr. E. Tuttle
Mr. C. Bolen Mr. C. Jackson
T. Tomkins, Coxiwain.

Yellow
Mr. R, Jones Mr J Burrows
Mr. T. Day Mr. H. Dainton
T. Sheppard, Coxswain.

Blue..

Mr. W. Hazl..;wood I Mr. W. Mliills, sem
Mr. J, Amur Mr. F Knight
R. Miller, Cc•xiwain.

White
Mr. J. Benny I
Mr. W. Gobly
Mr. F. Cook Mr. C. Gardiner
B. Bann, C ociwain.

Red
Mr. G. Watson I
Mr, T. Selby
Mr. 'F. Squires Mr. R. Bennet
R. Green, Coxswain.
Mr. Morton was umpire. A very fine eta 't Wag
effected, which was succeeded by the whole of th boats
remaining nearly oar and oar fur a quarter of a mile at 11,
fine pace, the winners then gradually drew slightly in ad'
vt.nce, followed by Yt-llom, between whom and Blue there
was a most gallant race for second place. Black kept the
had and won by half a dozen lengths ; there was not
half that distance between the second and third.