New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-14
THE TELEGRAPHIC CIRCUIT or THE

property.
THE TELEGRAPHIC CIRCUIT or TIE
GLOBE.
We have had number of Cable dispatches
within the last few days from which we may
derive assurance that before very great
while We will be in Geographic communication
with China and Japan, as well as the East
Indies and other parts of the Oriental world.
Our readers are aware that the Great Eastern
is at this time engaged in the work of laying
a cable along the bed of the Arabian Sea and
the Red Sea, between Bombay and Suez,
distance which will require cable line OF the
length of 1000 statute miles, or as great
length as the cable between France and this
country. This line, in connection with the
| Alexandra and Malta line, already in exist
ence, will bring India into immediate com
munca;ion with EurOpe-while we IN this
country will ALSO of course, be able to receive
our daily dispatches of East India affairs.
Already preparations have been made for the
extension of this line to China. We had u
London dispatch last week announcing the
| formation of company there to lay sub
marine cable between Bombay and Hong Kong,
and we know that this is but the carrying out
of project for which preparations were made
some time ago. There is now no difficulty
about obtaining capital for cable companies in
London; and the English facilities for cable
making and cable-aying have become 80 great
that we may reasonably expect to see the
Bombay and Hong Kong line in full operation
before the close of the coming year. When,
| by this means, London is enabled to hold daily
communication with the Chinese Empire, New
York will of course enjoy the same privilege
and Koopmanschap in San Francisco will be
abe to telegraph to China for emigrauts, not
| i'm westerly direction, as ought to be the case,
| but by long easterly lines of wires and cables,
via New York, London, Malta, Suez, and
Bombay to Hong Kong. The English have
undoubtedly got the start of us, as well as of
the rest of the world, in this matter of tele-
graphic communication with China and the
countries of the Orient; and the English will
undoubtedly derive the greater part of the adj
vantages from the connection thus established.
| But we do not propose to worry over the mat
ter We ourselves will use the lines as much
rs we may need them in the meantime and
we are quite sure, in time, to have our own
cables across the Pacific, as the precursors OF
a commerce certain yet TO attain stupendOus
proportions.
We have, moreover, had the assurance, within
tho last few days, of the establishment Of
another cable line in another part of the world,
that may also brngus into Geographic commune
cation with the Chinese Empire. OurSt. Peters
burg dispatch of Wednesday last announced
that the Car of Russia had granted the author
ization to a company TO lay submarine cable
connecting some point on the coast of Aslatic
Russia with China and Jopau-touching the
| Chinese territory, We suppose, at shanghai,
whence connections with the other Chinese
ports will be formed by the lines OF the Amerl-
can Company which has already received the
necessary concessions from the Pckin Govern
mcnt This Russo Chinese cable will connect
with st. Petersburg by the great overland Rus
sian lines mot yet completely, and it will be
quite possible for us TO establish II connection
between it and our American telegraph system
| w, are now engaged in extending our wires
| in a nOrthery direction along the Pacific Coast
and there is not the slightest doubt that they
VIII advance till they have stretched across
British Columbia and reached Alaska. From
our telegraph stations there it will not be a
very difficult matter TO lay a cable across the
straits which separate our territory from that
of Asiatic Russia, thus forming connection
with the Russo-C Chinese line, and establishing
| hlegraphic communication round the globe.
To observe that this will be the case when
the projects now being prosecuted are COM
Ileted, let Us commence at any point OF the
circle Say we begin at New-lOrk, from
which we may move in either direction; but
let us pass westwardly to San Francisco,
northyardly to Alaska, across Behring's Straits
TO the Russo Asiatic cable which carries us to
China; thence to Bombay by the projected
English line; from there to Suez, Malta and
Lond,n, and onward to our point of departure
nc New-York by the Atlantic Gable. Or sup
pose we take another point at the opposite
side If the wOrld-let it be Hong Kong, for
example The merchant or correspondent
there can telegraph to New-YO by two lines
running in opposite directions. He can send
his Dispatch to us by way of Bombay, Sucz,
London and the Atlantic Cable; or he can
send to us by way of the Russo -Asiatic
| line, Alaska, San Francisco and the overland
wires We trust that this Russo Asiatic line, as
well Is the British Bombay line to China, will
be constructed and brought into successful Oper-
alton. Russia has great interests in China and
q vast commerce with China. The establish
ment II this line of Geographic communication
would be of incalculable advantage to Russia.
That would also be of great advantage to
| us Is tnQucstOnable.