The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-03 00:00:00

TILE ATLANTIC TBLEG.RLIPH.

•
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 30.
The entire squadron, consisting of five magnifi-
cent ships of war, now about to proceed to the con-
summation of this great enterprise are at this time
anchored in the harbour of Queenstown. They
consist of the Niagara, C.sptain Hudson ; the Sus-
quehann9, Capt. Joshua Sands ; the Agamemnon, •
Master-Commander Nodal ; the Cyclops, Captain
Darman ; and the Leopard, Captain Wainwright. .
The Agamemnon arrived this morning only, hav-
ing been engaged during the trip from Greenwich
in the very valuable service of testing practically
the form and suitability of the machinery to be
used for paying out the caW.e.
Mr. Charles Tilston Bright, the engineer-in-Chief „
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, having joined •
her at that place, she bore away for the Irish coast
at half-past 3 o'clock on Monday morning last. •
To Mr. C. T. Blight is committed the entire
control and responsibility of depositing safely in
its ocean bed this wondrous example of the united,
power of science and industry.
During the progress of the Agamemnon to the
Downs the mechanical appliances for regulating the
delivery of the c able into the sea were kept con-:
tinually in motion by the small engine on board
which is connected with them ; the sheaves and
gearing worked with great facility and prec'sion
and so quietly that at a short distance from them
their motion could scarcely be heard.
The strength of the girders which carry the bear-
ing of the entire apparatus, and which to the eye
of a person unskilled in the practical working of
this description of machinery may seem at first to
be unduly ponderous, was found to contribute
gr,atly to the easy motion and satisfactory steadi-
nesS of this most important agent in the success of
the undertaking.
So soon as the Agammemnon had passed the
track of the Submarine Company's cable between.
Dover and Calais, in order to avoid the possibility
of its being injured by the laying or hauling up of
ano,her line at right angles to it, the experiments
commenced. A 13-inch shell was attached to the
end of a spare coil of the Atlantic cable, for the
purpose of sinking it rapidly with a strain upon it
to the bottom, and
.vvits then cast into the sea,
drawing after it a sufficient quantity of slack to
enable it to take hold of the ground and to set the
machinery in motion.
The paying out then commenced at the rate of 2,
3, and 4 knots an hour respectively. The ship was
then stopped and the cable was hauled up from the
bottom of -the sea with great facility, by connect-
ing the small engine to the driving pinion geared
to the sheaves.

When the end was brought up to the surface it
was fowl(' that the shell had broken away from the
loop, by which it had been fastened for the pur-
pose of lowering it.
The cable, when recovered, was found to have '
been cleaned as bright as the specimens which have
been so freely distributed among the friends of the
enterprise, and which are so generally known.
The exterior coating of tar had been complete',"
rubbed off by being drawn through the sandy bot-
tom of the sea, and attached to the iron cowing of
the cable were some weeds and several small crane
which came up with it to the surface.
On the following day a length of cable was run
out arid hauled in with perfect success opposite the
Isle of Wight, attached to an anchor.
The speed was lucre Asad in this case to five knots.
During the of erooDn of the same day a length
was ruu out having fastened to the end of it a log
of timber, and after having been towed with a mile
and-a-half of cable was coiled in again with succeis•
On Wednesday about half-way between the
Land's End and the coast of [reland another length
was run out at the rate of s;x and a-half knots Per
hour and subsequenly hauled in. The Agament-
non then s'eeredfor Cork, and reached Queenstown
Harbour at four o'clock on Thursday morning, at`
on board being more than ever satisfied at the
success of the enterprise.
Some highly successful experiments were also at
the same time p,rformed with an electrical log in"
g
vented by Mr. Charles' Bright for the purpose'
continuously ascertaining with accuracy the rate a'
which the ships are sailing, and thereby of enabling
hies to give corresponding directions as to the r tits
of paying the cable so as to prevent the possibility
of any unnecessary strain being put upon it. The
log is suspended in the see from the ship's quarter
by a line, carrying within it a wire insulated;bi
gutta percha, welch is in connexion with a batter/
and electro magnet contained within an indicating
instrument on deck. This is so arranged that t'
each revolution of the wheel below an eiectrlc cur-
rent is broken, and by the deflection of a mar"
which forms part of the circuit a step by step move-
ment is communicated to a register which indicates
the distaece run and rate made by the vessel.
Tile following directors of the company, accolr
panied by Mr. G. Saward, the secretary, haete ,
vi ved at Queenstown to be present at the sailing
of the squadron :—Mr. T. Brooking, Mr. Sampson'
and Mr. J. W. Brett, of London ; Mr. Croehle
and Mr. Pickering, of Liverpool, and Mr. Logief
and Professor Thompson, of Glasgow.
The most kindly interest has been evinced feet
the success of the undertakings The chaiere!,.'"
and directors of the Southern and Western Pa'?
way have shown the greatest attention to the re,"
presentatives, and will accompany them from Col'
to Valentia.
A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of C 04,1
the High Sheriff, and authorities of the city, waits"
upon the directors on Wednesday to invite them°
a grand banquet, which the latter were, howevel
under the necessity of declining, in consequence c't
the pressure of important business requiring thei
constant attention until the sailing of the squaleron"
AIIGITSt 1.
The electrical experiments through the Atlantl;
cable will be completed to-day. The signals hag
passed through the 2,500 miles in the most setts'
factory manner. The expedition will sail for v r
lentia on Monday at the latest.

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BIRTHS.
OF A SON.

On the 31st July, at 25, South-street, the Hon.
Francis Stuart Wortley.
On the Ist inst., at 11, Lansdowne-crescent, Kensingt°-
park, the wifo of Henry M. Daniel, Egg,

OF A DAUGHTER,
On the 29th ult., at Westbourne-terrace, the wife o
P. Willoughby, Esq., M.P. to
On the 3,st July, at 3, Pembridge place, Bayswater, tl
wife of James M. Lockyer, Esq.

MARRIED.
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On the 28th ult., at St. Cuthbert's Wells, Henry
Jenkinson, Esq., banister, of Lincoln's-inn, only son of nu•
tio
Admiral Jenkinson, of Alveston, Warwickshire, to MarYtooo
second daughter the late Rev. R. HaLkness, vial. of J,
Brent, Somersetshire.

DIED
On Sunday, the 19th July, after a few hours' Dna°, 06
hal
Boulogne-sur-Alec, in the 28th year of his ago, John C.-,-,40G
Martin, Esq., formerly of Trinity 4, ollege, Cambridge, e.`," of
son of the late Rev. Charles Rudinge Martin, and neplo"
the Ven. the Archdeacon of Ardagh. • iSg
On the Ist inst , Alfred George Dowden, second WO/ or,
son of Mr. Joseph Dowden, of Upper Eaton-street, Grove°
place, aged 21.
On the 2 th July, 'Fielder Jenkins, Esq., 47, W°131.1111.
placeOn, il
aged 83. OW'
the 29th ult., George Kelk, Esq., of Braehead'
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, aged 74. ale°
On the 9th June, at Mirzaporo, E. 1., Eliza, wife of "3 of
Hunt, Esq., and daughter of James Lys Seagar, Esq''
South Lambeth. ar

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