Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-12

example of the power OF man on THIS earth
that the world has ever witnessed. To ami
hiate SPACE, and to render subtle current
mediam of communicating thought, is an
achievement which eleyales him as an intel
lectual being. and endows him with Cod
like attribute, as it needs good philosophy %
keep in due check the feelings Of self-sutti
ciencY and vanity which may naturally arise
in contemplating what he has accomplished.
But what are the powers Of man in the pres
ence of the hurricane or the earthquake =
We are not, howe, er, about 20 write ser
mon, but to speak of the development OF cleo
trio agency as a medium ot intelligence on
grander scale than, until very lately, had been
conceived. The time is not far distant when
the newspaper at our breakfast table will ac.
quaint us with any event OF moment which
has occurred on The previous night at New
York, Calcutta, or Sidney. The sub maine
cable, within whose coil are enclosed the cleo
tr:c wires, will surely be put round the globe,
and, while reposng in the depths OF the sea,
they will be necessarily and instantly trans
hitting the wants and wishes Of men who are
separated from each other by vast oceans and
continents.
The submarine cable has hitherto been tried
only for comparatively short dstances-be-
tween England and France, England and
Holland, and across the channel from Eng.
land to Ireland. By this time next year, il
will be stretched acoss the Atlantic, and the
two great people which speak the language
of England, will be nearer to each other for
the purposes of mutual communication by
messages, than the inhabitants of London,
who live at its opposite extremes At the
Cutters Feast, at Sheffield, the Hon. MIR.
Dallas, the American Minister at the British
Court, stated with confidence that this great
artery of thought and sympathy would be laid
down between England and America within
the period above mentioned, and, in conclud-
ing his speech, he expressed a wish that it was
now in operation, and why
" Because, gentlemen," he replied "
would Instantly illustrate its most glorious
adaptation to the promotion of good will
among men, in distant places, by sending
your toast to my compatriots, and giving you
before you rose from this table full hearted
American response" The wish will be real.
lied by the time the Cutters Company of
Sheffield give their next annual entertain
ment.
In order to show the practical character of
the project and the progress which has al.
ready been made towards its realization, we
need only adduce lew facts. In 1854, an
act was pissed by the Legislature OF New
foundland to incorporate company, under
the title of the New York, Newfoundland and
London Telegraph Company. The capital is
fixed at E3I2, 800. We wall trace the course
of the electric lie from the New to the Old
World, beginning at New York. We may
observe that in the United States telegraphic
science has been carried to great Perfection
Messages are transmitted from New York to
Mobile, distance of eighteen hundred miles,
without the necessity of being rewritten at
intermediate stations. The news brought in
the morning by mail steamer from Europe
is telegraphed distance oftwo thousand miles
(by the wires) to the great cotton metropolis
of New Orleans, and by the time the New
York merchants commence business, the eff.
feet produced in the New Orleans market is
known in the great commercial metropolis of
the Union. Northward the electric wires run
from New York, distance of seven hundred
miles, to The hanks of the st. Lawrence. The
telegraph company to which we have referred,
took their first step in extending their line to
England, by laying sub marine cable, now
in full operation, across the Gulf of st. Law
renee to the Island of Newfoundland, which
is British possession. st. Johns, on the
eastern side of this island, is the nearest point
A6oht ote th6iisafidf lime f6rGindrea ana Tor.
ty miles OF the Atlantic ocean intervene be-
tween st. Johns and Valencia the most west
ern harbor of Ireland, and to stretch an cleo.
trio cable between the two points is the great
problem. 1t is required to be of the enor.
nous length Of nearly three thousand miles,
III order to allow for inequalities in the bed Of
the Atlantic. The survey of the ground has
just been completed, and the American gov
ernment took SO much interest in the enter
prise, that it placed ship of war at the dis
posal of the telegraph company. The engin-
GERS and surveyors have now an accurate
ground plan Of the bottom of the sea between
Newfoundland and Ireland, which is report
ed to be highly favorable. Mr.. Edward B.
Bright, the Secretary Of the Magnetic Tele-
graphic Company has Just visited the harbor
OF Valencia and its neighborhood, with view
of ascertaining the best point for the terminus
Of this monster sub marine cable. His broth
or, Mr.. Charles Bright, the engineer of the
same company, has also ben engaged in Sc
RES OF experiments, which test in the most
satisfactory manner the practcability Of OBJ
tanning perfect signals through a magnetic cir
cult OF three thousand miles in extent. Mr..
Cyrus w. Field, gentleman of great energy,
one of the directors of the American company.
is at present in London, with the object of
pushing forward the arrangements connected
with the project
The laying down of the cable is the next
step and when that is completed, New York
and London and even New Orleans and Lon
Two submarine cables have been lost in the
Mediterranean while they were being laid
down, and special precautions will be en-
ployed by the vessels, which will start in the
middle OF the Atlantic, each carrying half the
line, and uneoilng 1t as they start in oppo-
site directions, the one towards America and
the other towards Ireland.
We heartily wish complete success to an
undertaking which will be one Of the grand
est triurnphs OF human genius. 1t is impos-
slble 10 over estimate the social, political, and
commercial result Of thus bringing so closely
together the two greatest and freest people of
the world. 1t viii ar times be possible for
Prime Minister Of England to aay political
excitement in the United States by an imme.
date declaration of the concilatory policy OF
this country. Let shope that this duty may
be reciprocally performed A generous SEN
tlment uttered in the Capitol at Washington,
or in The Palace of st. Stephens, Westmin
ster, will reverheTate alike on the banks of
the Potomac and the Thames almost as soon
as the speaker has concluded his address. AS
to the commercial gain we believe that the
electric cable across the Atlantic will preserve
to England her present preponderence in the
great monetary and commercial affairs of the
world.
There is a difference of about four hours
and three quarters between London and New
York time. The Stock Exchange in London
viii have closed, and the last quotations be
known at New Y ork by the time business in
Wall street has commenced. An important
speech delivered in the English Parliament
will be reported in the New York papers Of
the same evening. a division on some great