The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.

The project of connecting Europe and America,
and bringing England and the United States
within speaking distance' by means of a telegraph
cable across the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the
grandeat enterprises of Modern 'times. The cahle
is already manufactured, and it is decided that the
experiment of laying it shall be made diming the
pre-ent- summer, at a cost of several millions of
dollars. Two of our largest Government steam-
ships are already on the way to aid in 'he great
work. As the time approaches for this experiment
to be made, doubts of its success seem to incremie.
Should the-first a,tempt, however, prove a fai-ure,
he'ieve the genius and scienc - of the age will be
ftund sufficient to surmount all obstacles, and the
s'up:ndous work will at no distant day be accom-
plish?d.

- Professor Hall, of this city, we believe was the
first to predict, on scientific priticipt s, that the
plan ptouosed for the telegraph would be a failure,
and we have already published his views, with an
engraving presenting his Van of intertnedia.e tele-
graph stations. Some Objected to the piacica-
bait.) of his plan, deeming it impossible to secure
these stations by anchorage, in a stormy ocean of
two or three miles iu depth. But it is kn..wri that
it is only the Surface of the ocean, to a short depth,
that is affected by storms. Pi ofessor Hall has now
made an important uniclitication of his plan, which
seems to render it More feasible, as wilt be seen by
an:Aber corn ruuni cat ion from Professor Hall, in a
oth r part of -this paper, which We regret contains,
some'errors not detected tail after the first side of
the paper was. priteted. We trust the reader will
be st)le to make.the proper corrections. We give,.
also, an interesting article on tho same subject
from the London Times, in .-whieh it will be seen
that
_paper .expresses very stiong doubts of the
stivess of the draiid experiment about to be made.,
—United States Journal.

FE .4 RFOL ACCIDENT AT THE LEGHORN

THEATItE.

As we noticed On Saturday, a terrible catastrophe'
occurred at L-ghorn on Snuday evening, the 7th
instant. Upwards of three thousard persons were.
4se.Lubled in the Theatre degli. A quidotti t.) witness
titll renreset,tation of the taking-of Sebastopol,
14- ituldenly one of the rockets let off to imitate
,6 b liabardurent set fire to the. side-scenes. A•
sildeu lallie seized the public • the people in the
pit
rustled to the • '
doers, and many of those who.
wee© in the hoz, and ' '
s galleries attempted to save
then6elve-s b3' dumping into the pit.' The car-
hineers. vainlYyp'ilouttelaiiited. to stem the elm ent by
assuring the':
i.Ol 4. to
go
0,,e
(/'.‘iLtthat there was sufficient time ,
Me(ny, bPing frightetred out . of. their sensea-tilY,,:''
out of the
windows ; and it _ik bet. themselves
Genoa) ,h7,7ed (says the' Corriere
Mercanti'e of
a hundred persons I
'-lie-1 and that lir --4 t
poll' '., - °I. thm d nble that numb-r
;vete injure.. • The bespit,ls tvi jib "
i er the wound° l'
were taken were soon besieged h
such crowds that':'
ete.public functionaries were ohlig,dto
lace them-_
selves at ti Th-,-Grand Duke bilemediatelv,e doors., .
came over to Leghorn, and personally visited flit,
hospitals:: Some Of the letters received from 1.4;,,,._
horn assert that the carbineers, thiiik, _
1,
thinking at first
that :a .political orteute , was intended, be ~n
ty
closing the doors of the theatre, which ,ad"eiued
the catastrophe-more fatal. The English con.lll,
Mr. Macbean, placed several ladders at the win..
doves with his own hand, but the terrified crowd
still persisttd in throwing themselves out. One
poor Woman was prematurely delivered in the
th, atre, with loss of life both to herself and infant.
The official Monitore Toscano' of the Sth rays
that, accut.4ing to the laSt accoimts, the killed were
4; and; the wounded 134. "The fire never got
beyond the scenes, and did no damage to the other
part of the theatre. No person of consequence bad •
as: et been found among the victims of th;s deplor-
able event." - - .

EAST INDIA-I:IOUS/C.—The candidates for aßsistant snr-
geoncies in the East India Company's service, are re
quired to'4ttend for tbe first examination at the' East
India-houce on Monday mimic g, the 13th Juls, at ten
o'clock Irteige/y.--Eaet India-house, Jute 13.