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The Atlantic telegraph.

The Atlantic Telegraph.
The fourvesseis comprising the Atlantic Tel.
cgraph Expedition left <eueenstown at six
o'clock Msnday evening, of the Sd Of August
season to cbIbmencc operations on the follow
-ing morning. The Lord Eicutcnant Of ireland
Had arrived ut tile starting point of the tele
graph in 63aersto witncss stre; proceedings. A
letter in tho LONDON Times, dated Queensto own,
july so; Gays:
The entire squadron, consisting of i've mag
nifceSt ships Of war, now about 10 proceed 70
tho consummasfon of this great enterprise are
at this tinio anchored in the harbor Of Queens
towns Ehsyf CONSIST Of t'tile Niagara, Capt
IIuds6hS 4he SusquehdHnahs Capt. Joshua
sands ke JAgamemnon, Masters6 s6ohnnan'lcr
Neddal; the ,OSelogs, Capt Dayman and tic
lsfess @ sssa'Hss sss.u this morning on,v
having been .efgagea during the, trip from
Ersehyseh - The very valuable service Of test
inB ESsctscdfty TIC furm end suitability of the
nsehipefYto be used for paying out the cable,
Mr.. g. IT. bright engineer in:chief to tic
Auantie Telegram Co., haying @ joined js her at At
'33o.olqck, on Monday morning.
Tosbfr bright is committed the entire con-
troll and .sesponsibifity of dcpositing safely in
its ocean bed hisAwondrous example of tho
0nlsee powsfo of seie5es and industry.
ADhringthe. progreG OF the Agame,nnon to
ulelng, the delivery Of tho cable into. the sea
wera kept Continually in motion bys4he small
enginesoir board which is connected with them:
the sheaves aud gearing worRed"with great
facility and decision and so .apietly that at a
eierf distance from them thSE motion could
seafcely. be heard. .8Es,a @
Tic strength df Che gir1ers which carry the
bearing Of the entire apparatus and which to
the eye of q person unskilled in the practical
working of this description of machinery may
sseem at first to be unduly ponderous was found
70 contribute greatly to the easy motion and
satisfactory steadiGess of this most Important
agent in tho success of the undertaking.
70 soon as the Agamcmnon had passed the
track of the Submarine Companys cable be-
tween Dover and Calais, in order to avoid the
possibility of its being injured by the laying or
Hauling mp of another line at right angles to it,
tl>s- experiments commenced. A l3 iHch shell
was attdche6to the end of aepare coil of the
Ntlnetier eah1e, for'the. purpose of sinking it
raIidly.wit strain upon it to. the bottom
und ssaS then Spst into Tie sea, drawing after
if asnf6eisnt dt1Gntisy.of slack to enable it to
I take shela asaf e alnek, and 80 set the machiu.
HfpayiAg bit theS commenced at the rate
tiysly. Ehe ship :was sestoppsd end tho cable
Ias hggle3 tp .ifomths bottom Of the sea with
GreH 43lty by'conncctihg thSzsmall engine
TO hsarvipg pinion gcared to tile sheaves. :"
When this end was brought up to the sur
-faes, it %as found that tho shell hnd broken
'away from, the loop by which il had been fast
ened1fer TIE pmp9se of lowering it
Ibsssblsr when Ese0ysEed' was found to
which Have been 30 freely distributed among
the friends Of the mterprize, and which are so
generally known. -
. The exterior coating of tar had been COINS
Pletcly rubbed oE6y being drawn through the
~saalfly bottom of the sen, and attaehea. to the
itohpoating Of the cable were some weeds and
several 1Inall sfAha which CAME up with it to
On, the foilowjaa day length of cable was
run tand teAled in with perfect success, op-
pGsi.o posi-. thss lslsof Wight attached to an an
Tlsspeea yas inereassd, in this case. to five
Dufsngkfs afternoon Of tho same day. "a
le1gthsYas run. ont, having fastened to tho end
Oft Ri6Hof timbey, and after having been
to@ed With a mile and half Of cable, wns
coilea in again With 4nccAsa
On WsdgeedaN about Halfway between the
Land End andiihe ssast Of Ireland; another
length was Sun oqt, at the rate Of six and O
iuss4 TIE Agamennon then steered for Cork, and
sEeRthsd Queenstown, Harbor at o'clock on
Thusdhy thdfning all on board being more than
eyer fhtls6ed at theBpccess of The enterprise
Cank Hudson, of the Niagara, writes to
Washington that it was expected tho paying
outpfthe cable would. commence on tho Sd
ipsts and adde:
.1tEwillbe Almost singular coincidence, rs Co.
-lnHfRl8 lett these parts on his voyage of dscoy-
cry our Western world, on tLe Sd day of
August, jastr865 years ago.