The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

THE ANGLO-DANISH TELEGRAPH,

The Hortlu'rn Dally Ex I ras states that on Tuesday
morning, about eight o'clock, two steam-vessels arrived
off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea ; the names of the vessels
were the Archimedes and the Chevy Chase, and they
brought to our northern coast a submarine telegraph
cable that is to connect England and Denmark. The
cable belongs to the Danish, Norwegian, and English Tele-
graph Company, of Copenhagen. The cable has been
made by the well-known cable manufacturers of the
Teams, near Gateshead, Messrs. R. S. Newall and Co.
There is a particular feature in this cable, and that is, the
core made by Mr. W. Hooper, of London, is of an india-
rubber insulation. This is the first time indiarubber has
been applied to such a purpose for any long distance, and
E 0 far as tested it has workedavonderfUlly. It is coiled in
tanks on board both ships, on the principle of Messrs.
Newall's patent. The length of the cable from Sondervig,
near Rinkjobing, Denmark, to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, is
about 340 miles. The Archimedes and the Chevy Chase—
the former a vessel of 1,000 tons burthen, belonging to
Messrs. Watts, Milburn, and Co., Blyth, and the latter of
about 600 tons burthen, owned by the Tyne Steam Ship-
ping Company —left the River Tyne on Monday wcek,with
the cable on board. Mr. R. S., Newall (the mayor of
Gateshead) went with the cable for the purpose of
seeing it properly laid out, testing the insulation,
&c. He was assisted by his electrician, Mr. Buffieb.
They had a smooth passage, and by quick steaming
they arrived off the Danish coast on the following
Wednesday. On Saturday morning they left Christian-
sand, proceeded to the coast off Sondervig, and suc-
ceeded in landing successfully the shore end of the
cable. They were joined, on the Danish side, by Messrs.
Madsen and Lorenzen, gentlemen officially connected with
the telegraphic service of the Danish Government. They
then steamed direct towards the North Sea, laying out
and testing the cable. They steamed at full speed all the
way—a feat wonderful to perform when laying a cable at
the same time. In such cases half-speed is adopted, and
it is very rarely that this is gone beyond. The owners of
the vessels may well feel gratified at the result attained.
In returning, the weather was fine, and the cable
was paid out very successfully. While off Newbiggin on
Monday night the sea was so rough as to make it impos-
sible to splice the mid-cable to the shore end. They buoyed
it at a distance of ten miles from the shore, awaiting
favourable weather. Directly the cable is laid a message
of congrati ation will be transmitted to Denmark. Arrange.
ments have been made to commence business operations
at once. The company has arranged with the United
Kingdom Telegraph Company to work the traffic in this
district, and a wire will be immediately fixed from the
Newcastle station to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. The land
lines from Newbiggin to Newcastle belong to the Danish,
Norwegian, English Telegraph Company (Limited).
This company will work the traffic between Newbiggin
and Newcastle, and within a few days stations will be
opened at Cramlington, Bedlington, and in the course of
time, no doubt, at other places in the district.
Messages will be received in Newcastle at the post office,
Quay-side, and in the respective post offices at the other
places mentioned. The transmission from the cables will
be effected by means of Professor 'Wheatstone 's automatic
instruments. These instruments " consist principally in
the mechanical transmission of signals by means of con-
tacts given by series of perforations in bands of paper
previously prepared and drawn through the manipulator ;
the signals being printed by the recording instrument."
The speed in transmission, it is expected, will be great.

Sir Robert Phillimore has returned from abroad
in excellent health. It will he remembered that he met
with rather a eerious accident a short time ago.
SMALLPDX AMONGST SHEEP.—The Board of Cus-
toms have issued directions that sheep which are detained
for slaughter at the wharves at any pert under the provi-
sions of the Order in Council of the 20th August last, be
submitted to a daily inspection by the veterinary surgeons.
This order has been deemed necessary in consequence of
the report from the veterinary department of the Privy
Council, to the effect that where a number of animals are
collected together cases of smallpox appear day by day,
and that unless there is constant supervision the meat of
diseased animals will certainly be sent to market.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH RUSSIA.
AND THE EAST.—We have authority for stating that
arrangements are being made by the Danish, Norwegian,
English Telegraph Company, of Copenhagen, to extend
the telegraphic communication to the East, by laying a
cable from Denmark to Russia. By this means tele-
graphic communication with Russia can be had direct
from Newcastle-on-Tyne and the North, through the
cables of the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph
Company, instead of by the circuitous and necessarily
expensive route as at present. The advantages of such a
cable to the commercial and political world will be very
great, and it is to be hoped that success will attend the
efforts of this company. The cable will, in all probability,
be laid this year.—Northern Daily Express.
HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS. —A bazaar has been
held at Southport, in aid of the Southport and Lancashire
branches of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. Colonel Wilson Patten, 111. P., who had been
announced to take the chair, was unavoidably absent, and
much disappointment was also experienced that Mr.
Gladstone, one of the patrons of the society and a con-
tributor to the bazaar, and who is now the guest of Mr.
Weld Blundell, whose seat is in the neighbourhood, had
not found it ccnvenient to attend. It was stated in the
course of the proceedings that the sum of £30,000,
bequeathed by the late Mr. Brown for the purpose of
founding a hospital in London, specially for the treatment
of animals, was in the hands of the University of London,
and that the hospital was about to be erected.
THE COOLIE TRADE.—From Macao there are
details of another terrible tragedy, the natural result of
the accursed coolie trade. Free emigrants do not mutiny
on their way to the land of their choice. Free emigrants
never set fire to the ship in which they are cooped up,
never doomed themselves on the wide ocean to a certain
and most terrible death. Slaves alone do these things.
Men driven to desperation by their enforced removal from.
their families and homes—men tortured and driven, men
condemned to a life of labour, or to a speedy death in a
strange land—overworked, ill-fed, subject to punishment,
without pay or prospect of return- these are the men who
plunder, burn, and destroy, who, like those on board the
ill-fated Thdrbse, make twenty fruitless attempts W
mutiny before the one that brings with it a fatal success—
Who massacre at one blow three-fourths of the crew of
their prison, force the captain by blows and threats to bear
them back to their native land—who, utterly demoralised,
fight recklessly among themselves till one-half of their
number is gone, plunder the ship of all its wealth, and
leave it almost a wreck at the first friendly land they come
to.--China Overland Trade Report, July 24.

THE RATS IN THE MINE. A miner of the
Imperial Mine of Gold Hill, Nevada, publishes in a paper ,
of that locality the following rat story. He says : "It is
not generally known, except in mining localities, that rats
inhabit the mines, but such, however, is the fact. From
the top ground down to the lowest levels they are to be
found in our mines. Some time since the Imperial Com-
pany stopped work at the lowest level for several days to
repair the shaft just above it. After resuming work, the
carman, who was the first to go below, went do' n alone
to run out the ere from the chutes, and as coon as the
rats heard the old familiar sound of the csr rumbling
along the track,, they rushed out from behind the timbers
to welcome the presence of man once more. They ran up
to the carman in squads, climbed all over him, then down
to the station floor again, and scampered and gamboled
around in ecstasies of unmistakable delight. 'When he
started for the chute again with the car, they ran follow•
ing and playing around him, and when he had filled his car
with ore and started back again for the shaft, they (the rats),
sprang upon the car and ran all over it, and jumped and
leaped as if mad; The carman sat down a moment to seo
what they would do, when they all huddled around and
ranover him without the slightest apparent fear, and with•
out offering to bite him. He did not hurt any of them,
' as he sai,' if theysouldliv9 in such a place he felt in dutj
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