Year: 1865

on board including cable hands stan OF eiectrc,ans
engineers &c. little over three hundred Mr. Glasse
early next week This enormous solid portion
of the cable goes special vessel, and will DO sub
merged from vaentla 70 distance o o. M ~ miles @
will be buoyed to await the Great Easterns arrival that
shore will be put in communication with the wires Of
International and Magnetic Companies which already give
through communication to Vaenta When the Great
Eastern arrives and the splice is completed her voyage
will instantly commence fine steamer called the Hawk
accompanying her for distance of thirty forty
miles, In this steamer will be the directors of the
pany and few invited guests but absolutely none not
allowed board the Great Eastern Twice day in the
morning and In the evening, signals will be sent through
from the ship to Valentia stating where the vessel is
&c. and these will be regularly transmitted direct TO
London. Anything, therefore, occurring board the
ship will be instantly known in England, while on the
other hand anything going wrong with the cable itself
will be as quickly ascertancd not alone from the


on of signals but from the tests that be applied TO
the end at Valentia.


The paying machine is being fixed up on board the
ship and the leading trough has also been completed
along the deck This latter is plain timber frame sup-
porting semicircuar trough Of iron, down which the
cable is drawn to the paying out machine the friction
of it's passage suflcing to Keep it "taut and obviae
all chance of kinks entering the machine All three
tanks containing the cable have been completely
hiled with water and the wire fact is much SUBJ
merged now as il will be at the bottom of the Atlantic
with this difcren that the pressure OF the immense
depths Of the Will materially improve the condi


on of the cable by the compression of the gutta percha
In these three tanks the temperature and quantity Of
water are Kept precisely equal and series Of cleo
trca tests have been taken for the last three days,
and viii be continued for five days more in order
the results OF all, To obtain standard Of what the


ition OF the cable should be while paying out The
tents Of the three tankstha is the entire length of
thousand i've hundred miles OF cable-have been
coupled up, and signals sent through morning and
evening These signals show the insulation and conduc
tity Of the wrc TO be almost absolutely perfect
an electrical sense Thus, with the rough instru
ments, message Of four words sent through yeser
day in minute and a quarter. The company however,
believe they have succeeded in designing instruments
which can more than double this rate OF signalling But
pounds per word which believe is be the charge,
would be imeDse and allowing for repeats and service
signals, amount than million annually Ger
tanly all that and skill do has been done for
the cable, aud everything now depends on moderately
fair weather for the If that additional good for
tune should only he vouchsafed to the undertaking,
hourly communication with the most distant regions Of
North America mag be confidently looked for the 2Sth
Of July next


AT the last advces the f5 shares in the Company had
declin TO ~ a. "a premium.