The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1858, Page 1

THE — — WHOLE NO. 8026. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA AT HALIFAX THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. PROGRESS OF THE CABLE EXCITEMENT, Karrative ef the Voyage of the Agamemnon. THE CHERBOURG FETES. News of the Success ef the Cable Sent to Victeria, COMPLETION OF THE GREAT FRENCH ARSENAL. COTTON AND BREADSTUFFS DEPRESSED, Rey Bee ae ‘Sho steamahip Canada, Capt. Lang, from Liverpool at ‘nena on the 14th inat., arrived at Helifax a’ palf put nine @’alosk Inst evening. Her dates are three dava later than these alversy a: hand. ‘among ber passengers 1s Ws jor Genera! Sir W. Fenwick ‘Witiaws, K © B, on a vielt to bis naive provines, Nova Beodn He wee reeoived with the greatest demcnstre- Hone of delight, the wharves and streets being crowded ‘with people, cheering emthusiestioslly and cager to ebiain ‘9 sight of the world renowned hero of Kars. ‘ihe mails of the Anglo-Saxon reached this city from Quedee yeater dey. ‘Tre Matta Pres sayy— Arecert bas reached this iland to the effect that an gteowpt bed bern made on the life of the Vicerey of Egypt vy one of the favatical party, who was disovvered fe Bie Pgheess’s chamber, uncer bis bed. No expiant tos 630 0 be got from-sne would be assassio, farther than test Gos hac sent him there. He was immediately taken @atan’ decepitated Four thousead stasd of arins, with & large quantity of gunpowder, te said to have been dis- eovered in one of the mosques at Csiro. ‘The Capada reports om the 15th iwst.,at 10 P.M , pnesed 10} al mail steamship A wertca, from New York. The screw steamer Alps sailed em the same day as the Cavads, from Liverpool for New York dtrect. On tbe departure of tne steamer Aog'o 3:x0m the Kan- parce was errenecusly reported off Liverpool. She did net arrive there until ten o’clece on the morning of the ‘108d teat ‘The steams)ip Nerth Btar, from New York, arrived at Sovtham ptoe on the forenoon of the 13th inet. Tae Capa‘a sailed from Halifax at one o’clock this morab g for Boston, where she will be due om fhursday foreneen. GREAT BRITAIN. Politics were very dull. Toe London Times, ims lorder on the defeat of the Cana @an ministry, tays—“A great crisis should not have owe question invelving an obvious violation of the fath of :be colony as pledged te her Majesty, and we enly test thet some means may '@ found wnich will save the e@veny from the imputation of bed faieh, and prevent a @isruption of the unien effected by the act of 1840. May Bot that means be profitably found im a federation of all the British colon ‘es in the northeast of America?” A memorial to the Colonial office, on the necessity for es Australian mail, by the Panama route, is in the course @i cignature among the lending houses interested in Aus- walle. ‘The half yearly railway meetings were progressing in Bag and, and the reduccd dividends apd genera) misman- fagoments of the roads had called forth the severe stric- bares of the press. The Lord Mayor of Londo had determine! to give a graed banquet on the fret of September, to the principal ofsin's sontecied with the Atlantic telegraph. Tho Lord Léeutonant of Ireland had promised to aseu1. A Dobtte deapateh ssys that serions ricis have broken @ut ie Kilteeny, aad infuriated mobs are traversing he eruntry smashing reeping snd other agricultural ma- @hnes, and availing their ewners. The magistrates held © meotipg and 1ee0lved to petition the government for an eddunonal police and military force. 8.Hiers were subse- quently sent to Kukenpy, amd at the latest dates traa- qabity prevailed, Favorable reports as to the telegraph cabie continued te be received from Vaieniis, and i was presumed that the Americas people were equally wel) posted ia ragard to ite puecees. . ‘The Queen's meesage to Mr. Buchanan was expected to ‘be forwarded the day before she Oanmade sailed. ‘The London Times’ city articie af the 13th says thet you Verday the arrangements for ibe bal! mouthly sotilement fm the foreiga and share markets cassed am increased de- mand for money, and loans on goverument seourition ‘were in request at 2 per cent or j per cent above the wales of the 12th inst, Thore wes agin a total absence of foreign news, asd although «il parting now seem te have betome converts to the belicf that the military Preparations at Cberbourg aud generally throughout Franoe bavo @ pericas vignificance yes this cireomatance fad the sesarence that it gives that adequate precsations will be taken, haa increased the feellogs of security en gendered by ihe Festern news of the inet three mals, so that tnere ia more copfitenoe in the public mind thas hes ven entertaised at any previout period of the year. ‘Tne firm appearance of the forsiva exchanges and the Prospect that tbe various gold arrivels which may take Pisce darirg the next fow weeks wi! be taken to the Bauk of Logiand, likew'ne operate (evo aod check aay aiverre influsnce that might be orb by Lis ap. preaching India loan, Bamborg levers mention the failure of 0. F. Ovrorwog & e., said to de for rather a large amount India sed Obian lettors per tho Calcutta matl of July 4, rereded London op the morning of the 14th The Lonaon Timer is ooadie to stele that Sir John Law renee will not leave hia post tn Iodia uotil the iranquility @f tee country @ restored FRANCE. ‘The Emperor was continuing his tour (n rittany, moot. ing ft ie said with considerable entnas asm. ‘The Paris Conference was to have taken up the question @f the navigation of the Danube, ‘The monthiy return of the Bank of France shows an tn” erease tn cash in band at Paris of 32,000,000 france, and im the branch banks of 1,400,000 francs. Am accredited agort bas arrived in Paris to negotiate in The Paris correspondent of the London Eepress nays that the Paris conference sat Thursday for the sixtesnth time, and it is given out thet Monday will really be the Inst day. Whenever jon of the navigation of the Darabde may come upon the tapis, !t is understood there ‘Will be ao adjournment to enable the Austrian pienipten- Wary to refer to bie KA wos carrently reported that Marahal Randon has re Dimer, on of the mont important districts of Senezal, have prayed t be the protection of Frenct authorities teat duringsibe voyage fron Cherbour Deafonses rignalied from ibe mas’ bea of the Bretagne that he had, at we reques of tos Em | sy Amnesty for all ofeoces in th Emperor signed the decree on board toe Bre 6 the pay of several classes of warrant BELGIUM. Moniteur says that a weaty of commerce and navi Pye Sates sol Belgiuz was oo aly, and that it 4 Chambore at the next seasion. i ee SPAIN. at Dijom * oortain that on the rotarn will be dissolved, and Will De raised in ail the proviacw Toe same jruroai aye ine Mi in. is sy | several imporunt reforms Regotiations between the raprenfoter ee of Spain ard Mexion, for the rettirine tof the long ve: depute, sere expected to commence very ebo- Almonte, Mexican Min'eter to Fng'aed and Fr potted Bpa'n thet be was nemed “lent ooiantiary « London Daily News oxyr that Gen Almonte ro His [onton mesa on acconet of (1 hen! ton. ove & reprevent Mexioo at Paria, AUSTRIA. ‘The Augsburr Cassie eontraciots the centration of aiditieca' treops en the Delmation frontier. \erition woul’, staiesmen at Cherbourg, and that 1 of ae of na ‘iesirablo, provided the King of Naples relaxed the obstinacy with which be has to reject good advice. fhe feeling ts that diplomatic imtercourse is likely ere we that the revolutionary committee in London bes eat ‘means ef the poet in the Grand Doeny ef Posen numerous cireulars iacit:ng to ineurression. PRUSSIA. Queen Victoria had reached Potsdam on a visit to her ‘Very unsaiitfactery accounts hed been received st Ber- In frome Togernze ef the health of the King of Pransia. RUSSIA. was reported that on the 26th of July, a band of early 1000 of tice, were unarmed. The Details of the Calcutta mails of Jaly 8, 1000 strong, eesailed Kolnschia, killing te habitants, who, conGding in the armis- Moptenegrins burnt masy houses, and carried aeey women and children into captivity. INDINIA AND the telegrapbio dispatch CO le were preceeding at Tient-sin and an interview was to take ace on the 7th of June. which would decide whether the oese government would yield to the demande of Jand and France or force them to The London Post's Paris cial despatches had we é, ey oo Foun, representing a ket caused panie in mar! ry jUspensien of trade. Do. dovds, Alabama 5's, bonds: Kentocky 6's, 1868~' Maryland 5’s, 7 reached Parts, from cluded that the Chinese government desires: tbe that Steet concn ed ramme & Presenting Kogland and CHINA. 4 add nothing to Dem rites that off which continue COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. 822132 Ese SESSSUSSSSSRSVSRetsesea Pepeeeseee cl HRETER The advices from Manchester were favorable, aed there WAS & g000 demand for goods and yaros at firm prices. had been good aod the*orop prospeote The harvest wae well advanced, and the yield of wheat wee cord Fiour very dul: and’ prices , POOL BARADSTUPFS MARKET. non. Spence & Co tate that the weather were favorable. thougd not qacebty lower; Philadelphia and Baltimore, 2ie. 64. a Ohio, 2a. a 2s. Wertorn canal, 20¢. 0 2t8, Wohea: very dull, and 1d. 24. lower; red Wortern bs. 64. 2 6s 24 ; do, Bouthera, 5+. 10d. a 64 24; white Wortorn end Canadian, fa a Gn. 2d ; do, Southern, 6a, 94 Core very ¢u'l and quotations nominal; yellow ‘S4e., wb te Northern, S4e. « 34s. an improved demand, 6d a 64. ; do. Now Urieans, LIVE@POOL PROVISTONS MARKET. Merrre. Richerdeon, Spence & Jo., Bigland, Aibsya &O>., James Meflenry and others, quote beef dull but ematy. Pork qu et, market bare of American. Bacon steaty, with Tard buoyant asd all qualition Om. sligbtiy bigher; pales a) 68a. a 60n., but holders saked at ube close. American, 508. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. The brokers’ acd other ciroulars quote pot ashes dull --4 slightly lower; sales at Sin a 388 6d. Pearls dull at qu boyers than sellers. Rosin steady; common, 49. 24. 34.; medium 7s. 6d. a 10s. oll, Tallow anohanged; butchers’ and North Tes firm, with more a da, dark quiet at Oa, Linseed oti slow of rale, but prices unaitered. Spirite turpentine steady at 400, eb le Amerisah, 430. 9 460; ‘bile foreign Ted, 428. « 438, Eng. wee firm; white Flour, 908. a 240 Weirb rail iron steady at £6 6s.; bars not mentioned; opened activo, with an ad- venee of "io. ste, €4., but closea of ol, steady; Petersburg, 40" HAVRE MAB For the woek ending firm, an: e a; New York, £19 ibn at 348. Sd.; sperm leaoe tree ordineire, 107 Ld Rreadstoffe O-m porary short supplies, nominal a Rice dull and quiet, Whalebone quiet but frm. LaTRSr WARKRTS, Mesere. Richardron, qaiet and unchanged. Livmaroot, Al & Oo, estimated sales of cotton are 6,000 Dace. Console opened at last nig! Mr Be Co vie W K inte x Wr Hawes and ms od indy, Mr Atwater, wife and d Warden M. y Ly Lown Nd, My 4 mat Mr vonner, wife ra Burgoyne Wie Bag aroner, White, Kr *. Roston 10 watt £80 8 £80 6a. Tallow \KRT. 10th inetant inclusive: Cotton qualities sigbtly bigher, owing to vory un iota; sales ; New Or- her rates, owing to tom firm. Coffee buoyant. Oats nominal, Sugar firm. lard won, August 14—Noon, Prices, ERS PER STEAMBHT * 12 ond body, Spe Lageate, bien Joes cao hepey abd Indy, Mise Linesin, Capt Mey and lady, Capt . 1 Mi and gle Mr ight 1 Bolom, Hitherg Hare ong, Rabo, Rutberfors, Despatehes from Vaeleutia—Cemmunication Wrtnm Newfeusdiand-—G:ashic Geport of the Crulsc of the Agamemnea—Landing the Inteh Bnd of the Cabie— fhe News dent He peelally to Queen Vieterin at Cacrbourg— Scientific Speoulatians—The Stvek ta Eag- land, dic,, die. de, Our files by the Anglo Saxen contain the latest reports from England concerning the werkivg ef the Atlantic tele- gr ph cable atthe Irish station, with notices of the pro- gress ef the joyous feeling which pervaded the public maind in Great Buitain om the seceresfal achievement of Jay ing the wire. ‘ Burgeon MineSeld, R. N., furnishes a highly interesting detail of the trip of the Agamempon, when in performance @f ber portion of the great wort, which we pa pimnt. oay ‘Toe same feveriah anxiety as to Gnal success which pre- vailed on board the Niagara, was experienced by every pereon in the Agamemnon. A Queen’s messenger took the ne vs to Victoria at Cher- ‘Deus, and it was snoounced to her Mejerty aod Napoleon an trey eat Danqueting on board the shipofwr Bretagne. # TRE LATEST DBGPATOHES FROM VALENTIA. [Valentia (Aug. 8, —, © Dadlia Freeman’s Jour- J ‘The signals still continue to be perfently made. Sbevld apy event of importance take piace | wil immediately velegraph the fact to you. The fol! Wipe fy ion ton 3 telegraph lowing messege bas Pecei at the offices of the atiaatic Telegraph Company :— Newfoundland conuaues to send us sbip siguals as di- rected until their inatruzents for speaking can be go} ready. Communication has thus been to this hoar mano- tamed regularly. , From the London Star (City A rticle) Aug 9} The tottowing doepaich was received at the offices of the y yesterday moroing — New'oundlana etill avewere voltaic currents only; not being ready, apparently, to commusicate otverwise. Vaunetia, Aagast 10-6 a. M. Newfoundland has commenced the use and atjussment of their spect) ins‘roments for spemcir g Last pight, at 12:16 P, M, we received coll carrents from them at the rate of forty per minute por ectly Pher usual leters for adjas'ment of inatru- have received from them the wefis ‘'re lease,” and ‘please send siower for prosect,’” spelt in full. They have also seus the sigaale for “repeat fre que! ,”’ proviog that the rece'ving tes.rumente are Bot Je Jjasted with sufficient wocuracy fer them to g% y. I forward by this post the slip of siguals first transmit ted and received across the Atlantic by the company’s in- straments. ‘The speed at which the letters come out seems faster ‘ban those at Keybam, and currents are apparenily as strong. THE AGAMBMNON LAYING MEK END OF THE CABLE. No qetsicd account of the vo; ege of the Aganemoon baving as yet appeared, the following letter trom a modi cal officer on board of her daring tne operation of lsy- img the cable, will be read with interest:— As the task led, the excitemont of those init fater se, apd as the least negligence or error woul caused apother failure, the egtnecr-in chief ‘watebed the ‘eas of things with a perseverance which can appreciated by any one not prosent If ao socident bad taken pisre it would have be emrreparanie, eines there was nota sufficient suppry of cable to make another attompt possible. Perbaps it was the knowledge of sbis ‘act tbat rendered every hand empioyed in paying out the line additionally cantious Tt ts obvious from the communication of Mr Mansfield, ich extracted from the Cork Examiner, thet Mr ip meamnon. the trip you pro- Dedly oid of wo g> you will, doubtless, be- fore many on the it’ &. corgen and Valorous left Queenstown in the aul ear 6 Of Sa uroay, 17tb Jaly ult. Oh > ly gone | ‘the rendezvous, lat. 62 deg. 5 min. N., lovg. 82 deg. 42min W., on the 24in. The Niagara, and ‘25th, 26ch and respectively. [he Niagara havivg fathoms of . M. on the 24 inst, lat. 62 deg. 27 min. N., lon. 16 deg. min. W.. and at noon pemy (Wednesday, sth,) wo were in 41 inthows, 86% miles distant from Valentin. Laat night at nine o'clock, being less than forty miles tbe Agamemnon, proceeding no as to make the morting. We made it soon, and the coming up at aochored in Doulne Bay, outside Valentia harbor, ard tbe cable was lended by our boats, aader the com- mand of Lieutevant Richmond Moore (senior Levtenant of ber Majesty's thio Valorous), at Waite Strand Pay, off Dou y, in the forenoon, amidst the grectiogs aod welcumen of ail who were assembied to recelva it. There ‘were not, however, very many presen could not. of courve, bave been anticip 5 Thus, the end of an unparalleled undertaking bas « last i: cp A many & combat with storm ad rea, ond bard strug, inst apparently !osurmouute bie'obeteclen. Bomever, this fatisfactory reen t well ro = a greatest expenditure of euergy im ‘ta achieve- meat The cable bas boon laid down at tho seeron reoom- mended by Lieutenant Maury, LI. 1)., though the weather at the end of June, when the last attempts were mite, waa decidedly the most favorable, and # evidently woud dave fed had there not been mechaaical defects in rh tothe centage of cable laid out over ditance gone—the Free amount was 45. bit this was on'y op one cocasion during the hesvy Sist of July, im 2,2°0 fathoms seundings, and with half » le from &8E. "The general Das The greatest angle that the cable has been observed to make with the water, 268—the least 14 deg. 90 min , and the strain yp ge 2.80018. ; ever than joe., being inversely as tae ‘Bot im direct ratio, « facta quicky put down from some hurried ows, et arranged, I to be mainly cerrect; bat not y: |, 1 believe should you find any slight difference between them and those which will be duly and officially publianad, and con- sequently with mere minuteness, you will, | ammweure, kipoly make allowance. by the simple act of mar are bi together—ibe Old World now materially united to the New, and this commonion ia effected through the extra ordipary medium of a siender thread laid beneath the al but unfathomable depths of the great Atlantic! Hoping, then, that that material union, with our social and poiivical ones ‘also, lowg continve firm snd unstrained, and wae every rare suceens to on undaunted aed CF prising company , g hase eamuitigatea perveversace menidany it has bees catebliabes, om, PIBROE MANSFIELD, B.A. MR. 0.8, ‘Aseintant Surgeon, R.'N LANDING THE END OF THE ATLANTIC CADLE. [From the Liverpool Albion, August 7.) At dawn cn the morning of the 6th the anxiously expected Agamemnon and her consort, the Valorous, were sighted, standing in towards Valeptia, and at 6 A. M, they were anchored ja Doulas Bay bound dle box ofetes tn the Valorous iy after dearetched to the Agamemnon, one to reoetve the largo Davieli's ootteries and electrical }, the other to take ip sufficient o# tho shore at Ko! wn, where the company’s #tation has been established. The soil at the time rendered the process of coiling the re- of cabie into the boat @ work of some dif in better trim and ine m tequently, able to await apprehension or inconvenience. At half past one the train of boste started, two cutier® towing the partie box boat Garry ing (he cable, and Deing preceded, afer pus. ny Choreb Isiand, where they beoame mo-s ex to the ide, hy the other petdio box boat, which bad disctarced te cere of gaivanis batterion ppseatos 6 end was eavely landed by wr. C T. Ariedt, the er of the company, on the strant at Koignte he enhariaatic oheers of & pot rary ‘arg gathering of the patives, and tne cchces of aaslute fred ‘NEW YORK HERALD. MORNING EDITION—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1858. Dy the Va'orous. Notbing oonld suow more privtedly tax jet er diabel:ef in the suo ees of tha easervrid» worn jealy Jeenelles ate whe former felares, ose pce in the capoourss of spectelors wara tos fee OFe#ADE wt AhA OCSEFIOT No thege oe the conrum ma toa of one of Whe 1a 9s arijous achiove ments tba’ ave world as large elad of alate, iaisndat "Yao ”? wbich ben been promtagnt'y raanad above the eptrence to the slate works, was taken dowo apd half bidden bebind a pile of stones. Alter @ lavas of cable bad been coiled on the baach rate 69 reach ing the telegrach cfiixe, the orate retary: hat osivanr the Agawembon por the Valorous quitted thar ag tha 8x9 aurivg the pight, though the weather made sbei7 preition within an exposed ond iron bouod bay a very anenvisbl> one. . ‘The electrical teste wero teen applied to the »ani9, aot signals were again interchanged with tho Niagere in ‘Trmny Bey, Newfound/and, but that veseol having '0!axd ber end tad to @ioontinue the trasemiesion of currests for a whil to's bewg resumed ali was foucd rignt Lere tepte #11 De cont'naed for a few days, by whioo enemy siendards of electrics! status will be 9 matruments which are now boing fitted up im the stations at Knignt.town and at the head 0” Trinity Bay, will theo be pat into operation After these iy beep usted and practhed for a while, and all land, every part where + with toe mens of instantly g with ev Portion of tne world. Wi! jer Orcorme the mea who have achieved this g'gartic undertsking, or are such honors only for miil- = and nava! heroes? ¢ London Evening Herald of Any 10 conta'ne a long and grephic seccunt of the sucorasful voyege of the Age. Mmempon. Great crodit ie given to the offis*rs for he sdmiradle manner in which the ebip was navigated in the Bove! service of cable Laying; anid the writer adds:— vere can be but one feeling of uptversel admiration for the courege and perreversncs which have been displayed by Mr Prigbt sno those who 20'ed under bis orders. in en countering the multipliéd diflicul:ies which arrested their path st every step THE NEWS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRGLAND. [Valeatia (August 6,+vening, Corres; of Dual Freemen’s Journal. ‘The cable js Jaid from the abore of Valentia to thet of Trivtty Bey, Newfour d'and, and @ free currant of olsscri- city Is being consiant'y me'ntatned throngh the wirer; pny ae yet, and for some time to come, no menage ean be waremitted from America. To's arises from the fact thet the inrtramente at Newfoun tiand hay» not yet bee spged in work'pg order Me Milomea White. us hotriciaa of great eminence, bas charge of apgements in Valeotie, end for some weeks be hes orlantly engaged in the erection of the arparatns It 18 now tp per’ect order, and he is able to trans. mi. merseges to Trinity Bay, to which be has received in. tel ig) Die vignais ip reply. The apparatos intended to be used in the working cf the Atlantic telegraph is a new tovention, and said t> pos. seas some importan: improvements its novel y, of Course, renders it at first more (ifloult to erect and fo ‘and until {thas been fully arravged at the other of the Atlantic no ind pendent message can be trans. ‘ed from therce Enough, however, oes been done tosbow teat “tant telegraph te un fait acsomplt The messages sent by Mr. Whisehoure to his co'leagues Sas Oey seroma Ngoy ag and answered by way . Viz., signals, repeated for = greater or a shorter spaoe of time, according to the Teqnert cor veyed by the mentaga ible to say whi rfeot com if Under these circumstances it is | ‘we sball be in s position to bave full and Bication between Valentia and New’oundlind; but Rno: ing the difficulties to be evovntered, and the time re- quired for the arrangement of the tnetraments, | am in. clined to be ieve that a: least a fortnignt must ciapse be- destrad' effected pe - mation if enen {ne bem ° Cor of the Lon rrespontence of the 7 Post. Dews reached Dublio ; snterdsy evening re] the Atlantic cable bad been succersfally with emezivg rapidity, and Mr. Mr. Senger, superintendent of Compeny, ab onor stared to the Lodge to com mur’ to his Exvellescy the gratifying intelligence. Hie tordsbip, however, was not at the lodge. He is the guest at preseptof Wr Lawbart,of Beaapare; but the nows ‘was immediately expressed to him vie Drogheda. [From the London Star, Anguat 7} A despatch of yesterday morning ‘alentia con- veyed the satisfactory assurance that tbe signaia o.ntimned to pass freely between the Agamemnon 08 the sours of i oat ne the Niagara in tne Bay of Tricity, Now- The English end of the cable has been landed mfely, astistacwry horas wee to go om in Wwe most wey. If all ie well, the public may have the re,uli Benefit of the cable is three wee! Pe agog for final completion of the great enterpriee, when they cen learn the prices of corn and cvtion in ad- vanee of time itself 1 at great work will sun be compl: 0 commun cat ca 9 matpiained ” Detwoen the Old aad New World Ip other words, a result perbaps ouly seoued in the influence wi it will exert ia the of the hu- 0 talped. On ow side the end of the canie was sa‘ely landed oa Ceareeny ere. cna 6 sigular operation bas take Pisce In Newfoundland. "3 ce , thew, we are entitled to suppose the prodlem has been practically solved. It is, of course, poesibic that et eome future time an interruption of oostinuiiy may take place at the bottom of the Atlantic. Sash an occur resce might bappen to morrow, or six mon'lis vence, aad is would no doutt be unwelcome. We muct cwvalder, Dowever, that it would only prove thas the perticvia= ring of line or cable which be used had no! 7e deen devieed. Thus much js clear—that an electric de laid between the Old and the New World, vot “ov ter bodings Sh i ev! el upon that have been praoil- cally refuted. [tia not within Bee resieac four pre- sumption that apy imposition would be atwapted in eocn aS matter. [wo points, we say, thea, are dooidec—ihe cable bea been iaid; electric communwatiza bw boon malntained. Of course, this is but the commencement of a nsw sys- tem. The directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Cowpany, for the sake of their own tntererte, and ‘or the saxo of pablic convenience, must Fecensarly Proceed freab cables. It will not do to aweke some mors find that electric communication betwoan Ani Buope hes been iuterrapted. Ag wou!d have large profite, they must hay ano a large business in teleg rato of charge will Cotermine tne amouss of veo ¥@ch will be made of the line, and there cin only by cioap rates where there aro pumerous meses7 ¢ We would gindly peo the syatem so fauly © that New York aed Londun should be bron. bi ety Communication as “oadoe and Pare of thie new company will no Conbt woo that ihfy tf» tho true view of their own interests for, tutepo considerations we bave named, i he ° petlore, potwitbetanding their moovup.iy of covmonrica on vis Newf undiand. ‘Ibe problem baving once been soire!, other ge o Borope cn the one band, and of America on ‘he “her, ‘will certainly be connected ~witein tbe cvurse of « inw years. Our Frepeh seighbors are quile quick tigbted enough and quite speculative enough % emoark in euch & vewture, eves if Englighmen should bold wor hands. It ‘s, however, as yet premature to discuss these conside rationsat acy lepgth. For the preseut ict as rejoe at the reeclte yd, and express our hearty satmfaction ‘at the success of the AUantio Telegraph Oompany. THE LAYING OF THE CABLE ANNOUNCED TO VICTORIA tino a fhe Oimclors Cherbourg (Augusi 6) Correspeedence of Leadon Post, rl om t During the royal Saceacses Ceara the Bremgne (irensh ‘war ship), it was announced to their Majeatics, through « p met hnoy ny he PN Wg me antic Telegraph bad been successfully [From the London Port, August 7.) Now that the capability of in; down a telegraphic cable screes tbe bed of the atlantic i demonstrated ber eclotion at 3 3 iy i i it u 3 = 3 ihe U ! that any comers materially incr, tages t future s ntuvers in have abundant for ‘pot amine at this to direct attention of oure, tecdered eo far back as the close that op} ‘a transatiantic electri deposited, people must not too literally tations of it on the i #if int ut i i ge H fs oy a i i ba electricity travels wite at least doable phat fr i‘ forward. thats few words of ox plan will make it pervect com prahenaible, ‘act (9 simply this: el y (eneteres hoon agent mey be) not Amy taken tine to tre DR requires ares-rpsce to travel im. Proportionainty as the area of odveting body is narrow, so ir the ragiaity of Jeet teal ore. Tn thie reepect the con Aition ta the sowing Of water jo « pipe, Within limite, and aseuming the proesure force quel, the greater the ciameter of tare the mre rast toe weter low ; ap? Cuaverse'y, tbo diameter of th» ‘b> mey b: $0 une ap in cil avhle praso, a1 wend provecies foergatall, Execty tua it win eleorricty Jone of (De Gowmoneet ydenomena of souuderetorme Il as arate the fart, If lightmg atr'ke an oloctrisal coda nor ergs evonab in rector al area to carry it away, well and zoe Prapqoilly it Gows bke waer through a @nennel suiticiently cepacious. If pat, the pent up, oF, 0 reprat aloreer yp creo, Sirangu ated electr city, reods the copdneting body, snd works ts devastation ‘Ia rea ect of sbe smailer flow of el-ctrioal agency, euch as i4 m= Vo veo ip the working of short telegravbic | nes, ebe inar- ¥ID OF Polar’ atOo ie 89 ev rmOUE, tne disteoces to De ore versed ec comparatively ipconsderable, ant ths phys'csl power to be got opt of the electrics! carrent ao trivial, wat the smoont ef Bravgolation nan bern, ia a manner, nil Ip the @ of the present enormously dong line, ano otbers destined to follow, thie fanotion of retardation #11 deve to be more narrowly scrutwize) Practically, as regarcs tbe velocity of ejectrical travelliag, it comes t» thw: Professor Wheataton»), im bis co-ebrated exseriaen devined fer the purpore of illustrating the ravidity o eleotrical transit, merely showed that elovtricty travelled ‘with at Joast double the velectty of hight through a sp» conc usting meterial (copper wire), of special aud defiai area, and woen surr uoded by a special or ted! mediam—vz., atmospheric air. Hed the wire been of smeller diameter, the pamege of el-ctri city would bave suffered retarcation: hed i; been of larger diamecr (proviced the maximum of area bao not been supplied) then the curren would bave travelled with grester velocity lostead, \oen, of aiming at the mauufeccare of more rleoder nies trical conductors for subseqvent trapatiantic cables, in order to gain vliabi ity, os have recent/y see0 pro- |, Day it Dot be fund more desirable to iacresse the wire ip th cioens, to the end of furnishing greater #2020 for rapidity of eleetrical travelling? We have bees “arefnl to avold bringing |o question the curious and recondite function of electrical induction, retisfied that the few words we could devote to it bere would Sees ratoer than otherwise. A practi cal illustration of it, bowever, may be given in the ‘axt that electricity, even Laretell agent along @ wire covered with noo-conduc!ipg material -sush, for example, as gatte perche—does nct traverse with equal rapidity, whetber toe cable be surrounded with water or with air. A morniog contemporary has mistekenly attributed electrice) ret. r dation to enormous water pressure, which has reaily nothing whetever to do with it. Aposber point of interesting speculation is thie :—What amount of durability may be reasonably expso'ed for puta percha when subjected te oceanic indaences’? Ut ts now a well known fict that guita percha, (hmugh unacted upen by most common influences, is disiniryrated, ant brought to the condition of , by some years’ contact with the roots of certain trees. Wha) effect may see vege tation bave apon is? e These remarks arent advacced by way of obecking the ardor of Jovg sea telegraph specu ators; indeou, were fe Do cause for it; but every fect connected with a project 89 peculiar and 8) Dovel, deserves to be contemplated, and borne in memory for future application QUOTATIONS OF THE STOCK ON 'CHANGR—PINAN- CIAL PROSPRCTS OF THE COMPAYY. [From tbe London Siar (City Article), Aagast 7 } ‘The great event of the layirg of the cadie of the A‘lan tic telegraph ia still the gevers! topic, and from the ac coun's received to-day i appears that the inte!! gnc of the operatinn baviog proved sacerasful, bas diffased in tense ratisfection al] over the cftmvy. Thers is now the Teatest avxiety to see the |'ne in fali practical use. Tots, owever. capn% be cflected for some time yet; but meanwhile the company have recaived advices from Va lentia, tha: are published tp aootber ocolama, $) the effet that electric communication is perfectiy maintained with the Ni in frivity Bay, Newfoundland. Atlantic Telegraph stock was ‘at the close this — August) at 880 to Red Telegreph abares left off at 5; to % prem. {From the London Star, (Editoria!,) August 7.) The sbares sre now quoted at £80 to £960. Their magpitade, bowever, prevents avy dealiogs io them, otherwiee adventurous speculators might have made—vr dity Article,) August 10.] 900 Joat— fortapes om Thursday morning. [From the Losdon Star, ( Aliant'c Telegraph shares were negoimiod at and 970. Red Sea Telegraph shares remain ata premium of 5¢ to %; and cccationally there are ooasiderable transac- Hone ip them. From the Manchester Guardian (City Article) Aug. 11.) Atlantic Telegraph shares cont vue quoted in London, 8E0 to 900, Sea Telegraph were }¢ higher, at % to 1 pre. Article,) Aug. 11} tar poe Rony tg M See Se sentences At present theso are mainly directions for working the Ine; but a few days, 3 Joagth merged line seems to produce no effect on the strengih of the electric current. r THE CHANNEL ISLANDS TELEGRAPH LAID- ‘The submarine Telegraph to the Cheanel islanie has been successfully laid, aed commanications are now guipg om betwesn Southampton, Eagland, and Alderney. THE FETSS 4T CHERBOURG. Napoleon, Eugente, and the Imperial Prince Iaave Parts— Description ef the Royal Train—Weyside Recegnitions—Daveing at Caen—The United Fleets in Cherveourg Har- ber—Grand Display ef Eugitsh Yachu— Royal Landing, Reception, and Promenade — ‘The lhnpertal Dinner, Toasts and Speeches— Raval Fireworke—Queen Victoria Leaves for Home, and Napoleon Completes the Ar eenal— Grand Ball in the City—Scatue of the great Napeleon Inaugurated, ae., de, ‘The Arabia which arrived at this port from Liverpool Jest Friday morping, brought us fall telegraphic notices, with some written accounts, of the progress of the Cher. bourg ites, from the moment of the arrival of the Emperor Napoleon at tho Afnenal, to that at which he received her Msjeaty, the Queen of Enginad. Our European files, by the Anglo Saxon, reesived yes. terday from Quebec, contain the detalis of the imperial diap’ays each day, which will be found highly taterseting, as published this morning. THE BMPBROB AND BMPARSS LEAVE PAxI®. Caen (August 8) correspondence of Loodon Pmt | Al ten o'cloce this morning the imperial train tee uned Sone Se Emperor, Empress, and imperial ¢.\.9 arrived at St. Cloud from the Paris etation of the Havre Tho weather was moss favorable, & brigh) summer's sun and Cvvl breeze exeme! | ‘ovite the Coa) neva of the sity to vy Whe syivan « rections of the country, which just cow im Franco have scarce!y com. menoed’ to assume the varied hues of cbacging At the tad bour two a Cova lo the first was bis wajomy the Ee perur, acoompanind by Marebe! Vaillact, Mintever of War; tbe Generals Niel nod Ficary, sides ae-camp, Marshal dag pan; M. Mocquard, secretary of tho Kaperor; and 4. Reine, deputy, Ac Shortly alter the carriage of the Emprese Her Majesty was ecompapied by \ac Deckers a’ hee tog; de . ke. 5: draper, may = re of salon wer placed @ maguifoso: table, on wh! bouquet of choloe flowers rested This wre communicated with ap open wag talon decorated in wBiteand goié. Nothing could be more elegant and commodionn than carriages, whist’ were designed . and Looxe, Ss gineers and contractors of the Cherbourg railway, aiso ‘There were Of the press, I should ob- ferve, acoommodated w seats in the imperial train SCENBS BY BXCITEMENT OF TICE ‘The first station at which tne imperial train halted was Evreux. Here the department, ‘and the . Barodie at their bead, awaited Fiowors and flags, tri- arches, greeted the impe- = mation, and deoo- rat ( w'th imperial embieme, was upled by a group of this the reader with a tition of the mperor nad Empress received perial train drew ap for some half hour or ten min an the case, might be, the same scape on such tonk place, we SGswehsean Wilne sage of every conceivable ‘waiting for tions, Corn fields, meadow: vues by edges as in Roglind Rareseeriation of the scenery to Caen, in the immediate vici- pity of the iron distance you ooasion- preaees Coap, ‘idemt, from the WS I. ¢ 9 | An wi re oona of the crowd of and ecclesination who ber. She now wore & pearl gray ‘ress, trimmed win bisck lace, and & white bonnet rated with roses wuring some portiope of tne journey the Empress war of travelling iaaies of Kog land, who thus often provokingly hide their pretty facse, SCENES IN THE STREETS OF CARN. fhe wtreeta of Caen were crowded with women [> pretty white caps, and men in couutry comanes Th town, universai'y iilum nates, presented @ most pious reeque appearany®. fhe houver ar sirrecnerly vail an | n the old arto! the city make ap a broke gadis eat » Of ole etree: Boer ery OCD af OD Artiet Wound Nee to maw wit, You also continual y come apan old Gotb'onharew and buildings, witteh ook dark aud mysterious acd ro ied op wh 3 colored lenterne avd decorated wish flags or A. of flowers festoong about the sma | quswt wntows of some of tbe avciemt dwejliogs, wbich rem'ni6d os of old for im the faery 4 ROYAL DaNOk--THE LADINS OF CABN MORE LOVE- ‘The Wa = THeOss OF PARIS. OF o 1D poneonses: tion for Pen aad gone Do énd uf fatgu'pg ceremonies, to comprehend Tue fe- aks of Cato, jadging from the disoiay of lant night, are more beanutul than the fair creatures who mako as bap- eraple in Paris. Chetr features are more rega- Dave @ fravk ana peeing exoression—with ver endis.g am le—uniees 0.1 those caarms and hag ay fe adn |e pated vint. Woes I and fat jenvemen, in court y uni'orms, and fall dress mili ary, were crowding roond abont their dejesties ia devse and anxious g Palufu) to look upop, even at a dietavce Yoor readers ‘must imegine the reat, for | came BO ne @8)]y to write thie lntter, more toadd about the events of the aay. CARN AS IT WAS—?HE Caen I need bardly remo ite regidence for the Exglieh Br tow i movgs' ihe #hie Norman beadoresses of the we Wheu tho Cherbourg rai'way bas double fines and steam Comm: bi sion with the English coast biy oy ga 24, | have no soubt Bonareds of Bri ish tavellers wit visit Caen on their wey Ww Paris. te Distorioal reool- lectiout are re narkadiy interesting ‘o Eoghabmen, Tbe Ucnquercr’s grave, inthe church of 8} lienne, which buJolog rem nde us of so many twelfth eatery Gotbio fregments of our own country ; the qaaist and pic- turesqne arobiiecture of the town generally; the caste, fates wee nose porcene (1460); whe xino, which suggeate: ae “Syoseliziy;’ the charming, fserb, green scenery of Normandy—wiil assa- realy aseracs our country men. THE ALLIBD FLBETS AT CBERDOURG. {Oberbourg (Acqua 6) Correepoadeoce of {London Post.) at, yg f.} oced Mr ag Aya wd ‘ail those evi- jencen joys) atiachment to Eaperor Napoleon which the = avepicions visit of ‘he sovereign of Gng- ‘and has beep ro eminently calcu aed to bring mk, Precieely at Doom salutes reverberating upon roupeed the embarkation of the Queen ant tbe illusti members of ber famiy, in the Fairy tender, for the perial dockyard, where the E speror and Empress were in wuiting 10 weleome her Majesty. Teo scene which the barbor presented at this time was one of mato lere Lege @ Along the outer side of the barbor, anc persliel with the breakwater, lay the Freeeh equacron, consisting of the Bretague, 180 guns ana 1,200 bores power, boartng the flee of admiral Hawelip; the Donawertb, #0 gape ac boree power, witn tbe Rear Acmiral’s Msg, the Nepoteos, 90 the Arcole, 90; the es’ erlitz, 84; the Ulm, 82; the Alexaadre wie, 80; toe w'éam trigato Tay, 84; and of me 6] '@ Turville, the Jommappes, the Oa- Wy pao, the Poursutvante, the Furte, and the fvalieg bat- be La Foudroy fe erly oj porive o the Bretague was the Royal Albert, 180; and paval officers drew comparisoas very ‘ons’ smart and trim beavy Albers bes aigher out 1 tere of Fresch Ad- Vines sink imoresson bull of the There +as, moreover, a degree of smaztnces and bout ove khip which wae Lot apparent iv the other. the Roya! Alvert wes the Renown, 91; the Dia- dem, 32; Buryaius, 61; 81; Racoon, 21° the Os- dorne, the admiralty yeeht, the Riscs Fagie, tne Vivid, repre- the Fairy, the Fire Queen aad the fri vessel, i YAOHT FLPET AND ITS AP 7 x ” View UImpera- trice,”’ apd‘ Vine la Reine d’ Angleterre.” Hor Mejoety wer attired woite dress, rimmed with green, and light bonnet; the Km press's dress was white, reheved with bina. The Emperor wore the aviform of a General of division ef the French army, with his riboon of the Legion of Flexor; the Prinee Consort the uniform of « Seld marshal, And the Duko ef Cambridge was alro ie uniform. The Prine of Water had the Highiand comume, and ex- cited po ama!) am ourt of interes. Alter Dav icg mole the promenade of the town and the priveipal quays, the Viet ious Party, proceeded to the rite sbrapaly wee! rommit of the Montagne An Rovle, @ from the sea to & bes ht of ie gained [rom the laut cide by roads winding up a steep aoclivity The'r Mejcrtien, an they proceeded ap the reck, bed & magnificent eee of the tows ant fea Done, #00 EF)’ ved ior Rome (me the aprivalled paporamio: Tiew of the coun¥y obtained from the summit, The Reck 6 Roule # crowoed by sa immense fort, now in Won, which duly inepeoted. Om Pr way station whe vext visited, the Emperor expdinet.ng ber Mayeaty OveF the state carriages in whioh ireveiled from Paris. These carringoe consint rand saloon, sralle a staire, where the Queen re end bawing taken leave of yr imperial period, steamed out to the Victoria and Albert, under another deafeniny #aiate ite mode of constraction, His Royal Hienness also wens board the ) and wee eee ~ conducted over every IMPRRIAL NAVAL RANQURE TO TIT OREN. ‘The eveving of yesterday wae devoted to the banquet on hoerd the Bretagne—the most impertans feo bare of the proteedings connected with me present royal ortmeo a Hal party rounded the shipr of the be Tanned yards and cheered ineuly. The Kero” sent 9 SPailor to the truck of exch wast, Where the ga laut fol lo ened fag a8 kBe Hoos hing of thas Rind ajtompe at indeed, “manning yards” ym od at premeDt by une +f it owa Jolly Vacs? bis baz irdous duty nd Fmpreet were accompanieg by hit oo aneme to he only 1am French eaters, # he Emperor Excetien: » Count Wale veils beiliiawt eatte abe iti oe fhe Imperial party Cropped siowly pat . athert, where they were Mel Sy Ber Try eeort, wih the Prince of We r ge. ib the Dare @ royal ya Here the seperia: aud royal party wore reodired by