New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-20

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byd d4.Ssa tr Ir2 Faleatia report that no improvements
'a tea place 10 tue electrical condition 81 tFe
1AsaIs'E Cape. The fanl6 hOWever did nat aaTf
"gIs6t l9r occasionally considerable and disfHlEf
orI3 tefsls159 rom Newfoundland were diseerHabls
Inc opiFGn that the principal fagIf In me casIs Is
! near the shore, daily gained groHnd a4boTgb prE
! lessor Ihompsons opinion vas aIrsrtIv or1ossd (,
such superstition It vas supposed rat s6r1etbfIg
would be done towards UNDERMINING ami yssf
| the cable during October which " 5ssneI = ts
month on the Irish coast. Mr.. HeDlavis giSaa1ss
nagnetoele machine had arrived AZ VaieniIs
ana been pus 10 operation, and with She aid a sfg
instrument, hF. Henley hoped to be able II go.
through the cable during some part og eaeb iii
even if the fault should prove irrepagabie. =
10 was the unanimous opinion Of nearly alf Al IFa
lena that the laying Of ten or twelve miles Of dhe
thick shore end of the cable would tend permanently
70 obFiate great many Of the difficulties with which
the electrical department Of the undertaking las
\ been interrupted.
/ Beyond the continuance of experiments nothing
was to be done with the cable untf the pFec0Hceed
J experiments at both ternini Of the line had bseu
made. Tney had been fxed to take place earIJ Id
9etober, and would, il was expected, denoHstlate
the possibility or impossibility Of working the tue
4 IN its present detective condition
Mr; WhItehouse had published lengthy FepIH 10
the document recently issued by the atlantic Thla
| gFaph company 10 regard 10 his dismissal. He
speaks Of the directors Of the Company al being in
capable and insincere says that positive ueoecf has
heen one OF the least Of their SINS and urges tbt as
tne depostors Of trust their motives s6nnId hive
9een above suspicion He declares that he was zaer
hGea % private and personal considerations
Government is said 70 have resolved to foFtffv va
ieheia ndEgoE anu engineers had been surveying the
lOcallty with view to select the most eleibIe ses
for the forts 10 be erected m -
The vicinity Of Yaientia had suffered greatly by
the furious rain storm which was recently exbeTf-
enced IN Ireland. Houses were swept awav and
many lives lost.
The inquiry into the conduct of a Protestant eer.
gyrnau named West, at Boyn Hill, in resortng tb the
practice of confession among his parshoners t,ad rs
suited in verdict of proven and furtheH pro
ceedings were consequently stopped.
The Paris Pays states that $50 900 900 franeshaye
been aiocated for the defense OF the port Of Hagre
/ OF which the merchants Of Havre are to pr1vide
70000,000; 1900 900 francs are to be dev6tad to
the defense OF Dunkirk 100000 to Dieppa, and
100000 to Fecamp. Similar works are to be ex-
ecnted at Calais and Bonlogne.
America is said to have demanded permission for
United States rigate in the Mediterranean (tarry-
ing more guns than the Convention allows "a PASS
the Straitsl to go up to ConstantnopIe and Rhssia
under pretenee that an exception has been made in
favor OF the Austrian frgate which convened Erince
Adalbert of Bavaria to Turkey. likewise wishes Ia
have one OF her Hgates permitted to visit Conanti
nople.
a concession had been granted to some English
capitalists to establish General Bank at Constantf.
nople, upon the model of European banks, and under
the surveillance of the Government.
The Courier dH Dinanche publishes what ID states
to be the substance Of circular addressed by Count
Caynur to the different diplomatic agents of Sardinia
on the subject Of the Villa Franco affair. NJ. de Cav
our states that the ceSsion made to Russia is drau
tous, and reyocabie at will. 1t comprises an old
prison, and nothing more, which is to be deRdted TO
the purpose Of storing Goals and provisions. He COM
plains OF the unfriendIy remarks which have eman-
ated from the English press on the subject, aluding
particularly to the Globe, the Morning Post and the
Morning Advertiser which, he says, accused Sardinia
OF cedIng one of her best ports to Russia, to the
detriment of her own interests and thoseof Fucand
He recalls the fact that the Piedmontese Gazette has
already rectifed these erroneous impressions CON
yeyed by badly informed correspondents. He alades