New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-19
FURTHER NEWS FROM EUROPE
ENGLAND.
The Submarine Telegraph bstwen Calais aAd

Dover.
DOVER, Wednesday. wire 80 suooessial-
" submerged last week has been cut asunder
among the rocks at Cape Grisnez, where the ply
sical CONFORMATION OF the French coast haa been
found unfaYorabe for it place OF hodast or fix"
tnre All communication between coast and coast
has CONF equently been suspended for the present.
The precise point where the brsakage took place
ia 200 wards out at sea- and juss where the twenty
miles OF electric line that had been streamed Qua
from Dover joins on TO q leaden suoe designed 20
protect from the surge beating against the beach,
and which serves the purpose of conveying it up
the front of the cliff to the telegraph station on the
ton The leaden conductor, II would appear, was
oftoo soft texture to resist the OSCILLATION OF che
sen. ard thersby became detached from the coil OF
gutta percha wire that was thought TO have been
safely encased in It.
The occurrence was, of course, quickly detected
by the sudden cessation of the series Of oommuni'
cations which have been sustained since the first
sinking of the electric table between here and the
Cape, though It was at fifss perPiexing polnt 10
discover at what precise spot the wire was broken
or at fault. This, however, was done ~ naoiing
up the lnes at intervals, process which disclosed
the gratifying fact that since its trst sinking 1t had
remained in stu at the bottom OF the sea, in con-
seoueLce of the Ieaden weights or elempR that
were strung to it at every sixteenth OF mile.
The operation was accomplished by Messfs
Brett Reid Violation and Edwards, who have
D66D w buO LII ohiOHsD' shO toio6t aPH
outintermsson, and who are now with their
stslf, removing the wire to a point nearer Calsis,
where, from soundingg, it haa been ascertained
thet there are no rocks, and where the contour oil
the COAST 10 favorable tis thought that for the
present leeden tubs tube Of iroh must be suosa.
luted, the present apparatus being conalaesoo ~V
fragile to be permanently answerabe.
The experiment, as far as 1t has gone, proves
the possibility Of the gutss percha wire resisting
the action of the salt water OF the fact OF ts being
a perfect water proof inIulator, and that the
weights on the wire are sufficient 70 prevent it
beicg drifted away by the currents, and Of sinking
it in the sanda During the period that the wire
WIS perfect, messages were daily printed by Bresss
Printing Telegraph, in legible Roman type on
long ssripa of paper in the presence Of numerous
French and English audience; bat it is not intend.
ed to make use Of the wire for commercial and
newspaper purposes until the connection Of it with
the telegraphs Of the South Eastern and that now
completed on ihe other side from Calais TO Paris %
effected. Should the one wire answer, it's intend.
ed eventually to run out twenty or thirty more 80
CD to have constant reserve, In the eyent u ~ -
accident in readiness This huge resic1'a as,~s NJ
electric re will represent four hundred a1b vil
telegraph submerged in the sea- and a. 20, sfO zs,er
be a considerable distance spath $50"
width Of ak or eigat miles in extent