The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-19

remnant Of tho cable. That would be avery
poor finale TO such magnificent enterprise, Snu
While circumstances appear TO indicate such rs
the retult. there will be one general, universal
burst of graduation it, instead of failure, the end
should DO q triHmphnnt one.
In the event Of the company abandoning the
enterprise, we should not be surprised to see the
British government undertaking il on their own
sole responsibility. There is no reason why they
should not The line is to connect the mother
country with her transatlantic possessions, now
rendered inestimable to her by the recent gold
discoveries on Frazer river. The projected Pa
ci6c Railroad through the British North Ameri-
can possessions, to which the gold discoveries
will add fresh stimulus, will also render this
telegraph line Invaluable, if not indispensable
to England. She can detacA dozen or q score
of her vessels of war to lay the cable. The whole
Channel feet could not be employed On work
of greater Importance. The vessels, however,
should not be 80 large as the Niagara or Aga
memDon, but the cable used should be three or
four times the thickness of that made use of in
the late attempts. The line being once estab-
lshed, there might be convention between the
two governments, fixing the terms ON which our
government and citizens could use it.
In the meantime, the prospects of having o
transatlantic telegraph are not to be limited by
the failure or success of this undertaking. II is
known that about twelvemonth since, an as
sociation WAS organized in England, under the
title of the European and American Telegraph
Company. This company is quite Independent
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and is, in
fact, rival organization. Their scheme is to
lay down cable from the south of England and
another from Bordeaux, or some adjacent point
in the south of France, to Cape Finisterre on
the northwestern coast of Spain; thence along
the Portuguese coast, either by land or sea, to
Cape Rocca; thence westerly to the Azores, and
from the Azores to Cape Cod, OF still nearer to
Boston. The approximate distances are as fol-
| lows -
| Nautical Miles.
Lizard Point, England, to Cape FInisterre ,... 450
| Ffom Bordeaux to the same point is $50 miles.)
Cape Iinsterre to Cape RoccA Portuga). ..... go
Cape Rocca 10 Flores (Azores). 1850
Flores TO Cape Cod, United States. .......... 1880
Total $500
Though the total distance of this line would
| he $500 miles from Cape Cod to Lizard Point,
near Plymouth, England, or 90 miles less to Bor-
deaux in France, yet, traversing as it would
France, Spain, Portugal and the Azores, it is
claimed that the greater business it would do
would compensate for the greater expense. Be-
Sides the line would have this advantage; that
its termini would rest in so many different ma
tions-England, France, Spain, Portugal and
the United States whereas the termini of the
Atlantic telegraph line would have been both
in the British possessions. To be sure the
ocean depths on this route extend even to ten
miles; but even with all that, the route cannot
be much less favorable than the so-called pla-
teau between valentia Bay and Newfoundland,
and its more southern locality would compen-
cate for that difference
Another route which has been proposed and
advocated with some persistency, is one starting
from the coast of Labrador, crossing over Davis
Strait to Greenland, thence to Iceland-taking
advantage Of the various intervening islands
and thence by the Farce, Shetland and Orkney
islands to the north coast OF Scotland. BY this
line the longest continuous piece of cable would
be that across Davis Strait-some six hundred
miles, but besides the objection that both ter
mini would be on British soil, there has been
this insuperable objection urged-that the
great icebergs coming down this strait from
Baffin's Bay would tear up the cable-it being
well known that their submerged portions very
often rub against the sea Bottom there.
Still another route that has been suggested in
the American Institute is one in connection
with railroad and telegraph line to the
PaciGc-to extend that telegraph line from
san Francisco up through Oregon and Washing
ton Territories, through the British possessions
(by Frazer rivcr) on through the Russian terri
tory and across Behring's Straits into Eastern
Siberia there to connect with a line which the
Car might in the meantime have constructed
to st. Petersburg That would he really carry
ing out Puck's idea of girdling the earth. II
would be connecting not two but three CONT
nents, and traversing the whole of Asia with
a telegraph. The scheme, however, is altogether
too magnificent for an initiative measure.
Looking at all these various propositions
and regarding the intense interest with which
transatlantic telegraph is universally viewed,
we think we are fully justified in saying that,
whether this enterprise--to the result Of which
the world is so anxiously ,~Nking-bc crowned
with success or meet with failure. telegraph
to Europe is among one of the certaintics Of the
future.
The WATERING PIACES.-Last summer the
proprietors Of watering place hotels had their
eyes somewhat opened 10 the bad policy they