Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-02
EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH TIC
FRANCE, IRELAND, AND AMERICA.

FROM ENGLISH MECHANICS MAGAZINE.
The establishment of electro teegraphc communication
the straits between England and France has been for
considerable time foreseen Of the most natural in the
train of consequences resulting from the modern application
Of electricity the transmission Of intelligence between dis
tan parts line Of wire could convey the electric impulse
for thousands of miles the surface of the eahas has
done and is doingthee could be nothing in the Of
things to prevent it from being equally ecacious carried
under the eah under granted always what
one has been heard to dispute that is in the power Of
protect the wire from whatever antagonsc influences
may be exposed when laid down under earth or water
Trials of submerged lines Of wire had in fact been made with
perfect the Thames and the Hudson-both
eaby broad rivers and to be doubted that what
could be accomplished in this way for mile could be
compshed for thirty fifty, indeed any number Of miles,
but in any case make the line Of submerged wire
longer-to sink it. perhaps deeper and, DEEPER pro-
tec better The simplest of things however when carried
out large SCALE require oen this instance for the
doing of them, qualities of high order-great enterprise,
great perseverance, great executive powers of construction
and direction. great thing, assuredy, to undertake
to underlay of thirty miles wide with CONT
line of communication, single break haw in which
would be fatal to the whole there risk Of failure to be-
baved, and in any event much expenditure of money time
and trouble TO be adventured the issue and beyond all
doubt question: s great thing to have successfully
compished To all such honor belongs to the performing
Of great undertaking WELL Messrs Jacob and John Brett
the engineers Of the Dover and Calais line Of telegraph
richly entitled The newspapers say that they have obtained
the exclusive right Of electric communication between this
country and France for ten years. We do not welsec how
this be, looking the legal difficulties in the way but
that reward they have secured to them
selves will be great for the progous advantages which
they have secured by their individual exerons only
England and France but the world large for cleo
trio telegraph Calais not thing which will stop there
It is telegraph Vienna, Moscow, to Constantnople, to
spahan, to Delhi, Cacutta-o the remotest bounds In
short, of Europe and Asia.
few years ago people laughed when Lord Palmerston
predicted the Southampton meeting of the British Assoca
ton, that time might come when the minister of the day
cboJ
had broken in India would reply, Wait an instant
till telegraph the Governor General and will tell you
What thought but good joke in 1s43 is now in 1850
in the of being actually accomplished and ere few
years likely take its place among the sober reai
Of the age. Nor the Old World alone need our views
of the ultimate progress Of electro teegraphy be confined for
since the English Channel has been crossed the crossing Of
Irish must follow next as but matter of conrse ana
Ireland reached there lies but couple of thousand miles
of water between the Old World and the New. We
say bu for after all where the practical difficulty Not
producing the length Of wire requed for any length of
wire be spunnot in covering and insulating the wire
for thousands miles Of wire be covered and insulated ust
readily and surely yet in laying down. as the
Dover and Calais experiment has fully shown. The only
real difficulty in the apprehend will be to find ship
room for the coil of wire thai would be required
but this objection which vanshes before the recollection
Of such evahan structures the Canada and Great Ban
Besides may be found effect on board the laying
down vessel perfect junction Of different lengths Of wre
as to allow OF two, three reels being employed We
assume OF course that battery power sufficient ransmk
the electric impulse through wire of thousand of miles
long at our command but though Of any
experiments that would justify taking the pos
sibi Of this for granted know that the recently recev-
ing magnet Of Morse is founded the principle OF counting
Tor nothing the distance the electric message has to be
transmitted and all events the fact capable OF ten
tave determination land before single yard OF an Attain
TIC line need be laid down. The Old and New Worlds beng
thus united should then the dream Of the poet more
than realized; the earth "girdled round about in
forty in athousandh part Of thetimea sin
gle beat of the clock What would all other triumPhs OF
human genius be to this Time and distance literally ami
haed throughout the bounds Of the planet which we nhab
triumph only to be iranscended when the planets shall
themselves begin telegraph anohe-which is Of
the very few things which, in this Miracles would
venture without hesitation to say will never happen.
1I,H0MAs Platter, having qualified as Attorney and