The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-27
From Europe.

From Europe.
The steamer Albemarle brings us
three days later news from Europe.
We extract the following:
A meeting has been held in London
of persons interested in submarine
telegraph cables, presided over by
Earl Shrewsbury. to consider the
merits of Mackintosh's system for
constructing cables, and procure it's
adoption, as it is claimed for Mackin-
tosh's system that its insulating
power is SO superior that eighty per
cent more signaling power can be OBJ
tanned than in the late Atlantic cable;
that the cable is strong enough to
sustain twenty miles of its length in
water, and that three cables, under
the new system, can be constructed
for the cost Of one like the Atlantic
Company's. The proposition was
mooted for laying the cable direct
from England to the United States,
via Falmouth and Cape Cod. The
meeting was adjourned to q future
day. ;-
The Austrian expedition to the
East is to sail in April, with the OBJ
iect of concluding treaties of COM
merce with Siam, China and Japan.
Mr.. Stansfeld (who was expelled
from power under Lord Pallnerston
for his sympathy with Mazzini) had
fully accepted the important post of
Secretary of State, for India, in Earl
sussell's Cabinet, rendered vacant
by the retirement Of Sir Charles
Wood.
The QUEEN's. SPEECH. Lon
don Times, of the 7th, says:
The Prince and Princess of Wales
the Prince in the full uniform of a
general officer, and the Princess taste
fully attired in a dress of white tulle,
trimmed with black lace, wearing n
tiara of diamonds and long flowing
veil of white gauze-entered side by
side. At 2 o'clock precisely, Black
Rod made a signal to the Lord Chan
cellor, at which the whole assembly
rose. In less than six minutes, the
door to the right of the throne was
flung open, and preceded by a long
train Of halberdiers, buffetiers and
other officials, entered the Majesty of
England. Her Majesty was attired
in half mourning, and walked with
slow steps to the throne, followed by
the great officers of State-the Mar
quis of Lansdowne, bearing the
Crown upon cushion; the Duke of
Argyll, holding the Sword of State;
the Marquis of Winchester, support
ing the Cap of Maintenance, and
several other mobiles performing their
appointed functions. Her Majesty
stopped for an instant at the foot of
the steps to shake hands with the
Princess of Wales, who, in common
with the whole assemblage, had risen
on her entrance. The Queen wore "a
blackstone said deep purple
velvet robe, which, whether it were
purple or black, looked intensely
black in the dim light of the chamber,
trimmed with white miniver, and
white lace cap la Marie Stuart, to
the portraits of which unfortunate
lady she bore in this attire remark
able similitude. Around her neck
she wore a collar of brilhants, and
over her breast the blue riband of the
Order of the Garter. Other orna-
ments she had none, and looked in
this simple and highly becoming cos
tune ''every inch Queen" and far
more picturesque and regal than if
she had worn the royal robes that had
become SO distasteful to her. During
the interval that elapsed between the
summons of the Commons and the
reply, the Queen sat silent and mo-
tlonless, with her eyes fixed upon the
ground. She seemed to take no heed
OF the brilliant assemblage around
her, but to be wholly absorbed in
melancholy meditation. Even when
the Commons rushed heller skelter,
like mob of school-boys, to the bar,
with pushings and strivings unseemly
to witness among gentlemen, but
which seem to be considered an es-
sential part of the days performances,
her Majesty took no notice of the
interruption, and never once lifted
her gaze from the ground.
The Lord Chancellor read the royal
speech, the more important passages
of which were as follows:
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN: It is
with great satisfaction that have re-
course to your assistance and advice.
My relations with foreign powers
are friendly and satisfactory, and I
see no cause to fear any disturbance
OF the general peace.
4 The meeting of the fleets of France
and England in the ports of the re-
spective countries has tended to ce-
ment the amity of the two nations,
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