The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-08-21

This cable laid In the latter part OF August 1850
between Dover and Calais Two mail steamers were EN-.
ployed In laying It, and the work acoomp from
six 70 hoars For the purpose of sinking the cable
chunks weights OF from fourteen TO twenty pounds
each were fastened ~ at diiances of sixteenth OF
mile apart This easy AFTER the greatest depth
not two hundred feet along the course of Inc
line In whole length not than twenty miles
Of cable paid out, which was only three than
the actual distance bet ween tho two points Il found
however, short time after 1t laid, that pot ton OF il
bad given way and the communication was Interrupted
Under these circumstances IL deemed advisable to
manufacture cable which would be abo resist all the
ssrainipg might be subjected to- and in comparatively
brief period II required article was produced and
cessfciy laid down between the points already named
This cable composer OF four copper wires conduc
tors each insulated with gutta percha, and afterwards
bound together with hemp s.eeped in solution of
talow In this condition had the appearance OF rope
about inch In diameter Outside Of the hemp tue
iron wire protector which the diameter nearly
inch ard halt Nine miles OF this cable were manu-
In the latter part Of Nay 1851 Great Britain and Ire
land were brought into Instant communication through
the wonderful agent, the submarine telegraph The
distance between the points Of connection and
Howthis .xty I'VE miles, and the greatest depth ave
cable with the Indispensable costpg Of gua perchs
which protected and strengthened by the iron
covering the outside laid the rate Of -four miles
per hour and fell so evenly that only three miles more
than the actual distance traversed was required
Scotland and Ireland connected by cable OF six
wires In May, 1853 The distance s about thirty miles
and was traver,ed By the in more than ten
hours The following Jane cable laid from Oxford
ness in England to the Hague In Holland dstnr oe or
pished In thirty -four hours, and only four and half
miles Of cable required In The paying out the
actual ef 9Th from point TO point making hardly hun
dIed snd twenty miles altogether Another cable
nects Dover with ostend, making the third between EGG
and and the continent
In the summer Of 1854 telesraphic union eested
between Cor sca and sardinia In sy the sandman gov
erpment having granted three vessels OF assist
the undertaking This work attended with much DIFF
1cuy, In consequence or the breaking OF part of the
wire The submergng ors Corsica aud the
Island OF Sardinia successfully accomplished shortly
after; but the ATTEMPT which subsequently, made 70
connect the island Of Sardinia and Algeria and thus cslab-
sh immediate communication between the continents OF
Europe and Africa unsuccessful and has not since
been attempted. That will be effected and at distant
day there to doubt the obstacles
Of an insurmounisble character.
The New York, Newfoundland and london Telegraph
Company made attem IN August OF 1855 70 unite tho
Islands OF Ne Sfoundand and Gaps Breton but the vessels
employed In the work caught In gale the cable
obliged 10 be Cut and the undertaking abandoned for that
time The cable, may he from the accompanying
engravings which show the sze hal three c5uduc
tors, protected In the manner by iron wire,
as thote already described -