The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-10 00:00:00

up must be made from the following list, 1. e.: —Ho-
mer, books 1,2, and 3 ; one Greek tragedy ; Herodo-
tus,
book 2, or any two other books; Thucydides ;
Xenophon's Cyropcelia, books 1,2, and 3, or his Ana-
basis, books 1,2, and 3; Cicero's de Officiis de Na-
ture. Deorum de Finibus ; Cwsari de Bello Gallico, 3
books ; Sallust ; Livy, 2 books • Tacitus, de Moribus
Garmanorurn, and Agricola ; Virgil, three books of
the 213 neid, or the Georgics ; Horace's Odes, Satires,
or Epistles.
Associates of King's College, London, and gra-
duates of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham, will be
admitted on producing testimonials From their re-
spective colleges ; and all other candidates must send
to the Principal, fourteen days previous to the exami-
nation, a written application for admission, accom-
panied by a certificate of good moral and religious
character from the clergyman of their parish, or of
the parish in which they have last resided. The form
of application may be obtained from the Secretary of
King's College.
Previously to matriculation each student must sub-
scribe
the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, as well as
a declaration that he will conform to all the rules and
regulations of the college.
All students are expected to attend the chapel ser-
vice morning and evening daily ; and in rotation to
give their services as teachers in the evening school
ter the indigent, which has been established in the
parish of St. Martin-in .the-Fields, in connexion with
King's- College.
Persons already in deacons' orders desirous of pre-
paring themselves as candidates for priests' orders,
as well as graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dur-
ham, are permitted to attend the theological course
for such length of time as they may desire ; but, in
the case of all students, the course of study must be
continued during at least six academical terms (two
years). At the close of this period a strict examination
takes place, and to all students who have merited such
a distinction by their attainments and by their good
character during the period of their studies in King's
College, the Principal is empowered by the council
to grant a certificate of attainments, which may be
exhibited for the satisfaction of the bishop to whom
any student may apply to be admitted as a candidate
for holy orders.

EXTENSION OF THE' ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPH to FRANCE, IRELAND, and AMERICA.

The establishment of an electro-telegraphic com-
munication across the Straits between England and
France has been for a considerable time foreseen, as
one of the most natural in the train of consequences
resulting from the modern application of electricity
to the transmission of intelligence between distant
parts. If a line of wire could convey the electric im-
pulse for thousands of miles over the surface of the
earth—as it has done and is doing—there could be
nothing in the nature of things to prevent it from
being equally efficacious if carried under the earth or
even under water ; granted always what no one has
been heard to dispute, that it is in the power of art to
protect the wire from whatever antagonistic influences
it may be exposed to when laid down under earth or
water. Trials of submerged lines of wire had, in
fact, been made with perfect success across the
Thames and the Hudson—both tolerably broad
rivers ; and it was not to be doubted that what could
be accomplished in this way for one mile, could be ac-
complished for thirty or fifty, or, indeed, any
number of miles. It was but, in any case, to make
the line of submerged wire longer—to sink it, per-
haps, deeper ; and, if deeper, to protect it better. The
simplest of ,things, however, when caaried out on a
large scale, require often, as in this instance, for the
doing of them, qualities of a high order—great enter-
prize,'great perseverance, great executive powers of
construction and direction. It was a great thing,
assuredly, to undertake to underlay a sea of some
thirty miles wide with one continuous line of com-
munication—a single break or flaw in which would
be fatal to the whole; there was a risk of failure to
be braved, and in any event much expenditure of
money, time, and trouble to be adventured on the
issue:; and beyond all doubt or question, it is a great
thing to have successfully accomplished. To all such
honour as belongs to the performing of a great under-
taking well Messrs. Jacob and John Brett, the engi-
neers of the Dover and Calais line of telegraph are
richly entitled. The newspapers say that they have
obtained '• the exclusive right of electric communica-
tion between this country and France for ten years."
We do not well see how this can be, looking at the
legal difficulties in the way ; but we are sure that no
reward they can have secured to themselves will be
too great for the prodigious advantages which they
have secured by their individual exertion., not only
to both England and France, but to the world
at large. For an electric telegraph to Calais, is
not a thing which will stop there. It is a tele-
graph to Vienna, to Moscow, to Constantinople,
to Ipahan, to Delhi, to Calcutta—to the remotest
bounds, in short, of Europe and Asia. A few years
ago people laughed when Lord Palmerston predicted
at the Southampton meeting of the British Associa-
tion that a time might come when the Minister of
the day being asked in Parliament, " Whether it was
true that a war had broken out in India ?" would
reply, " IV:lit an instant till I telegraph the Governor-
General, and I will tell you." What was thought
but a good joke in 1843, is now, in 1850, in the
course of being actually accomplished, and ere a few
years more is likely to take its place amongst the
sober realities of the age. Nor to the Old World
alone need our views of the ultimate progress of
electro telegraphy be confined ; for, since the Eng-
lish Channel has been crossed, the crossing of the
Irish must follow next, as but a matter of course;
and Ireland once reached, there lies but a couple of
thousand miles tf water or so between the Old World
and the New. We say, " but," for after all where
is the practical difficulty ? Not in producing the
length of-wire required ; for any length of wire can
be spun—not in covering and insulating the wire;
for thousands of miles of wire can be covered and in-
sulated just as readily and surely as one—nor yet in
laying down, as the Dover and Calais experiment has
fully shown. The only real difficulty in the case, we
apprehend, will be to find ship-room for the enormous
coil of is ire that would be required ; but this is an
objection which vanishes before the recollection of
such leviathan structures as the Canada and
Great Britain. Besides, means may be found to ef-
fect on board the laying-down vessel a perfect junc-
tion of different lengths of wire, so as to allow of
two, three, or more reels being employed. We as-
sume, of course, tht battery power sufficient to
transtnit the electric impulse through a wire of some
two thousand miles long is at our command ; but
though we are not aware of any recorded experi-
ments that would justify us in taking the possibility
of this for granted, we know that the recently re-
ceived magnet of Morse is founded on the principle
of counting fur nothing the mere distance the electric
message has to be transmitted ; and, at all events, the
tact is one capable of tentative determination on land
before a single yard of an Atlantic line need be laid
down. The Old sad New Worlds being thus united,
we should then see the dream of the poet even more
than realised, the earth "girdled /ound" about—not
in " forty minute s"—but in a thousandth part of
the time--in a single brat of the clock. What would
all the other triumphs of human genius be to this ?
Time and distance literally annihilated throughout
the bounds of the planet which we inhabit. A
triumph only to be transcended when the planets shall
themselves begin to telegraph one another—which is
one of the very few things which, in this age of art-
miracles, one would venture without hesitation to
say will never happen.—Mechanic's Magazine.