The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH

INDIA.

The East India Company and Board of Control
have determined to carry out the promise given in
June, 1855, and to give such pecuniary assistance
to the company that then proposed and now pro-
pose to construct a telegraph to India via the Red
Sea as will ensure the success of the undertaking.
The Treasury no more stand in the way. A
little public agitation of the question has shaken
down and broken up the very foundations of that
fortress erected in the path of the Red Sea line by
the influence of private interests, rendered effective
by ignorance of the regions proposed to be traversed
by the two competing lines, by the apathy of the
public first roused into attention by the Indian
outbreak, and by the most potent of all powers in
this busy age, accessibility t those in power, and
the command over their attention. _ _

True it is that the feasible project is adopted, and
that which is impracticable left to be overcome by
the insuperable objections against it which have
already sealed its fate ; but this resolution has been
come to af,er a needless delay of tw• years, and
after exposure to all the dangers of such a delay—
a delay which may contribute to lose us an empire,
and which does occasion incalculable inconvenience
and diminishes our power to an extraordinary
degree.
We had hoped that the result of intrigue and pre-
judice would partly have been obviated by the Atp
lantic cable being immediately available, to esta'
blish telegraphic communication from Suez to Aden.
It is said, however, that unother attempt to lay the
line across the Atlantic is likely to be made in
October. We know nothing of the truth of the
report. Without for a moment undervaluing the
great importance to our commerce of speedy tele-
graphic intercourse with our cousins over the water,
we cannot help feeling the greater political import-
ance at this crisis of being able to converse with
India instantaneously.
We trust that great efforts will be made to secure
that cable for Indian purposes, and that the owners
of it, a large majority of whom are British subjects,
will be influenced by such considerations as we
have expressed.
There seems to be no objection to the cable. It
is well suited for paying out in great depths (and
the central channel of the Red Sea is of consider-
able depth) ; it will transmit messages through 500
miles, the longest stretch of the Red Sea line, with
the same speed and accuracy as the wires convey a
message from London to Liverpool. The present
crisis is urgent, and if more must be paid for the
convenience, the country can well afford it.
The best authorities agree that in great depths no
currents exist to disturb the cable, and the slow
action of the,. water continued through geological
periods has smoothed the bottom and created a
deposit of sand and mud. In the Red Sea there
are no tides and no currents but such as are pro-
duced by winds, and therefore confined to the sur-
face. That circumstance alone eminently fits it t•
receive a submarine cable.
Our object is to invite public atEention to the
subject, in the hope that public discussion maY
smooth away difficulties and enable the
great
tion of telegraphic communication with India to
solved.—Daily News.
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