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

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.

The rroject of connecting Europe and America,
and bringing England and the United States
ith;n speaking distance' by means of a telegraph
cane acroas the Atlantic Ocein, is one of the
Rrande-t enterprises of modern times. The caLle
is already manufactured, and it is decided th,t the
experiment of laying it shall be made during the
pre-ent rummer, at- a ccist of several millions of
dollars. Two of our largest Government steam-
ships are already on the way to aid in the peat
work. As the time approaches for this experiment
to be made' doubts of its.Bl.le,*si seem to increase.
Should the first a tempt, however, prove a failve,
we he'ieve the gsnius and scienc • of the age will be
found sufficient to surmount all obsta-les, and the
s,upPndous work will at no distant day be accoui-
plish. d.

Professor Hall, of this city, we believe was the
first to predic", on scientific principles, that the
plan proposed for the telegraph would bc a failure',
and we have already published his views, with an
engraving preseuriric his plan of interinedia.e tele-
airaph stAtons. Some objected to, the pracrica-
Mit.% of his plan, deeming it impossible to secure
thee stations by anchorage, in a stormy ocean of
two or three miles in depth. But it is kn •wn that
it is only the surface of the ocean, t, a short depth,
%hat is affected by storms, Professor Hall ha? now
made an important modification of his purn, which
seems to render it more feasittle, as will be seen by
an' rtier communication from Professor Hall. in an-
orh r part of this paper, which we regret contains
some erri"ns no detected till afer the first side of
the paper was pri,ted. We truest the reader will
be aide ro make the proper corrections. We give,
also, an interestinsz article on ttio same subject
from the London Times, in which it will be seen
that pap,r expresses very strong donuts .of the
success of the grand experiment about to be made.
—United States Journal.

FEJEFUL ACCIDENT AT THE LEGHORN

TIIIIATHE.

As we noticed on Saturday, a terrible catastrophe
occurred at L,ghorn on Sunday evening, the 7th
intint. Upwards or three thou-a, d persons wtre,
assembled iu the Theatre degli Aquidot i to witness
the repress' tat ion of the taking of Sebaetopol,
when su :denly one of the rostkets let off to imitate
ttie b mbardment set fire to the side-scenes. A
sudden ramie seized the public ; the people in the
pit rushed to the doors, and many of those who
were in the boxes and galle-ies attempted to save
'hemselves by jumping into the pit. The car-
hineers vainly attempted to stein the current by
assuring the people that there was sufficient time
for all to go out quietly. Many, b-itig frightened
out of their senses, threw themselves out of the
windows ; and it is believed (says the Corriere
Mercantile of Genoa) that a hundred persons
pet lilted, and that more than d 'able that number
were injui ed. The hospitals whither the wounde I
were taken were soon besieged by such crowds that
the public functionaries were obliged to place them-
selves at tt,e doors. Ths Grand Duke immediately
came over to Leghorn, and personally visited the
h spitatt. Some of the letters received from Leg-
horn assert that the carbineers, thinking at first
that a political emeute was intended, began by
closing the doors of the theatre, which rendered
the cat astrephe more fatal. Tne English Con-ul,
Mr. Maclean, placed several ladders at the win-
dows with his own hand, but the terrified crowd
still persistd 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 Bth says
that, according to the last accounts, the killed were
43, and the wounded 134. "The fire never got;
beyonil.the scenes, and did no damage tattle other
part of the theatre. No person of consequence bad
as yet been found among the victims of this deplor- '
able event."

EAST INDIA•HOUSIL—The candidates for fumigant sun, .11
ga ncics in toe East India Company's service, are re-1
qoired to attend for the first examination at the Eat"
India-boupe on Monday morning, the 13th July, at tea
o'clock precisely.--East India-house, June 13. ggp