The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

TIIS INDIAN TELEGRAPH COMPAN

We have received the following correspondence
relative to the European and Indian Junction Tele-
graph Company
"TO THE EDITOR Of THE SUN.
"Gresham house, Old Broad-street,
London, Nov. 17.
" SlR,—The Times having declined to insert the
accompanyingthe
el t4ttehr
nws
ti enclosure,lsha shall
feel
much addressedobghe
by your giving it a place. in your journal.-4 anio
sir, your obedient servant,
" W. P. ANDREW."

"TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
"Sir,—With reference to your leading article
to-day on the.sultject of telegraphic communication,
with India, in which you state that her Maisst):::
Government has adopted the Red Sea route, 1113'1
to request that, in justice to this company, you //Id
he good enough to insert the accompanying coPY,,-
a letter addressed to me as chairman of the COPI
pany, on the 11th instant, to Lord Shelburne.-"'
am, sir, your most obedient servant,
(Signed) "W. P. ANDREW, CliclirDaall„ :
".Gresham House, Old Broad-street, Nev. 14

"Gresham House, Old Bread-Street'
London, Nov. 11.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknoWleil,gc
the receipt of your lordship's letter of the 4th inell
to the effect that while her' Majesty's Governmenv
regretted the decision at which the Turkish Govern,
went had arrived regarding the application which
this company had made for a concession for a line
of telegraph from Seleucia to the Persian Gulf, ha
Majesty's Government could not hold themsolvee,
responsible for the expenses that had been incurreci,
by the company, as her Majesty's Government 110
given no assurance that the company's applicaticil
to the Porte would be successful.
"2. I have to state, for the information of the
Earl of Clarendon, that the directors did not c°o;
sider that her Majesty's Government were in l'l/,,'
way responsible for the expenses incurred by thera 'i"-
cation with India, and no such demand
their endeavours to establish telegraphic "Intaulld
to be made in my letter of the 14th October.
risell4,
board merely expressed their rearet and Barpnot
Mr. Under-Secretary Hammon6d.'s letter of 21st
September stating ' that her Majesty's Goveri?
iiiung
had reconsidered the whole question of eslabl'isto
telegraphic communication with India' ' %ity'o
W intenpo
were justified in taking,
which the directors did not think that her 01A.ideriog
Government CO with
the arrangements that bad been entered luot°loanf 9
the Austrian Government and with tnis 4°,41 t:°.,
and a proceeding so little in accordance a to till'
countenance and support hitherto extends
company by her Majesty's Government. bat thin
"3. As the board, however, cannot ir" emit
that i/
Mr. Hammond's letter was written laded to,
f
orgetfulness of the arrangement above alltla letter
the directors addressed, on the 16th just' of vibieb
to the Secretary to the Treasury,
a, coPY 1.,00, iir
is annexed, for Lord Clarendon 6 tO t-,e
timating their willingness t•pply
upon certo
inforMai: h
Turkish Government fora concession 11P
conditions specified therein. 'inn that el.
be
"4. In conclusion, I would Well"
, u;aff telegrOi,he
total estimated expense of establie'T.,,,i, and .--a
communicator' with India, via Sele:,--t- riquile
Persian Gulf, is little more than haleduase, vela
fpr the same object by way of the it, If! iv 013,0
the route via St leueia and the Persian "%fitio.ec-,
withdraw the line from the political I,s of tbit
which might prove adverse to the in tereein,b S'lll
country, were the line carried either threubbe, ttgies/
or Constantinople.—l have the honour to, too.
(Signed) "W. P. ANDREW, lr
"The Earl of Shelburne, &c."
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The Tower Hamlets Militia left Londc)" ' ,
day morning ea route for Newry. TT,/ On
THE LORD RECTORSHIP uP GLASGOW .-,-11. OP °
the 61e,ch pl°'
Lord Rector of our University, at 10 o'clock '-tibal•
—ll"daY being the day appointed for
fessois end students assembled' in the cOo,lll°°„idect•
Professor William Thomson, t Pre;erenct
After an impressive prayer in Latin by the Ue „ere
Professor Hill, the laws relative to such occasionts.. lea
read, and thereafter the several nations were dis
viontuing,
in the various class rooms for the purpose of . „so
After a short absence the general result was madnti;.''' to
by Mr. J. G. Fraser, 8.A., the oldest studs
.InTio
natio Loudoniana, favourable to Sir E. B. Lytton
unanimous voice of the alumn
the Caxtons to the office to which he was last 3''
appointed. i re-elected the autho_riotrf