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      The Atlantic Telegraph. Aw Interesting A...

      rolled on towards the ship . With Sunday morning came no improvement in the weather . We had passed by the deepest sounding of 2400 fathoms , and over more than half of the deep water generally , while the amount of cable still remaining in the ship was more than sufficient to carry us to the Irish coast , even supposing the continuance of the had whether should oblige us to pay out the same amount of slack cable we had been hitherto wasting . Thus far , things looked very promising for our ultimate success . During the afternoon of Monday , an American three-masted barque , which afterwards proved to he the Chieftain , was seen standing from the eastward towards us . No notice was taken of her at first , but when she was within about half a mile of

      the Agamemnon , she altered her course , and bore right down across her hows . A collision which might prove fatal to the cable now seemed inevitable , or could only be avoided by the equally hazardous experiment of altering the Agamemnon ' s course . The Talorous steamed ahead , and fired a gun for Tier to heave-to , which , as she did not appear t « take much notice of , was quickly followed by another from the bows of the Agamemnon , and a second and third from the Valorous , hut still the vessel held on her course , and as the only resource left to avoid a collision , the course of the

      Agamemnon was altered just in tirne to pass within a few yards of her . It was evident that our proceedings were a source of the greatest possible astonishment to them , for all her crew crowded upon the deck and rigging . At length they evidently discovered who we were and what we were doing ; the crew manned the rigging , and dipping the ensign several times , they gave us three hearty cheers . About three o ' clock on Tuesday morning , all on board were startled from their beds by the loud booming of a gun ; everyone , without waiting for the performance of the most particular toilet , rushed on deck to ascertain the cause of the disturbance .

      Contrary to all expectation , the cable was safe , but just in the grey light could be seen the Valorous , rounded in the most warlike attitude , firing gun after guri in quick succession towards a large American barque , who , being quite unconscious of our proceedings , was standing right across our stern . Such loud and repeated remonstrances from a large steam-frigate were not to be despised , and evidently , without knowing the why or the wherefore , she quickly threw her sails aback , and remained hoveto . Tuesday was a much finer day than any we had experienced for nearly a week , Imt still there-was a considerable sea running , and our dangers were far from past . Yet the hopes of our ultimate success ran high . About five o ' clock in the evening , the steep submarine

      mountain which divides the telegraph platform from the Irish coast was reached , and the sudden shallowing of the water had a very marked effect upon the cable , causing the strain on and the speed of it to lessen every minute . A great deal of slack was payed out to allow for any greater inequalities which might exist , though not discovered by the sounding line . About ten o ' clock the shoal water of 250 fathoms was reached . The only remaining anxiety now Avas the changing from , the lower main coil to that upon the tipper deck , and this most difficult and dangerous operation was successfully performed between three and four o ' clock on Wednesday morning . Wednesday was a beautifully calm day , indeed , it was the first on which , any one would have

      thought of making a splice since the day we started from the rendezvous . We therefore congratulated ourselves on having saved a week by commencing operations on the Thursday previous . At noon we were in latitude 52 dog . 11 min ., Ion . 12 deg . 40 niin . 2 sec . W ., eighty nine miles distant from the telegraph station at Valentia . The water was shallow , so that there was no difficulty in paying out . We were almost without any loss by sluck , and all looked upon the undertaking aa virtually accomplished . At about one o ' clock in the morning , the second change from the upper deck coil to thnt upon the orlop deck was safely effected , and shortly after tho vessels exchanged signals that they were in 200 futhoms water . Aa the night advanced , the Bpeed of the ship was reduced , as it was known that we were only a short distance from the land , and there would

      be no advantnge in making it before daylight in the morning ; about twelve o ' clock , however , the Skelleys light was seen in the distance , and tho Valorous steamed on uhead to lead us into tho coast , firing rockets at intervals to direct us , which were answered from tho Aganwmuon j though , according to tho directions of Mr . Moriarty , the master , the ship , disregarding tho Valorous , kept her own course , . which proved to be tho right one in the end . By daylight in the morning of Thursday , the bold and rocky mountains which entirely surround the wild and picturesquo neighbourhood of Va-Jeatia , rose right before us at a few miles' distance . Novor , probably , was tho sight of land nioro welcome to U 8 ) aa it brought to a successful termination one of tho greatest , but , at tho same time , one of tho most difficult , enterprises which was ever undertaken . "

      Tho following nicssngo has been received by tho uirectors of tho Atlantic Tologrnph Company : — " Valentin , Tuesday , 5 a . m . Newfoundland has comineuci-d the use and adjuut"IT ° * th ° 'r sPocil 11 instruments for speaking . Last n 'g"U , at 11 . 15 , wo received coil currents from thorn at ine rate of forty per minute iierfcctly . They arc now

      sending the usual letters for adjustment of instruments , and we have received from them the words , ' Repeat , Please , 'and 'Please send slower for present , ' spelt in lull . They have also sent the signals for ' Repeat' frequently , proving that , though receiving ; , the instruments are not yet adjusted with sufficient accuracy for them to get distinctly . " I forward b y this post the slip of signals first transmitted and received across the Atlantic by the Company s instruments . The speed at which " the letters come out seems faster than that at Keyham , and tlie currents are apparently as strong . "

      No. 438, August 14, 1858.] The Leader. 7...

      No . 438 , August 14 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 700

      Ireland. Lord Palmerston: Arrived In Ire...

      IRELAND . Lord Palmerston : arrived in Ireland on Monday morning , on a visit to his estates in the county of Siigo . Attempted Assassination . —An attempt has been made in the county of Antrim to assassinate Mr . EdwaTd Benn , of Newtoncrommelin , a large landed proprietor . This gentleman had recently announced his intention to remodel the town-lands which form a portion of bis possessions , and to assign special enclosures to each tenant . A necessary result of this course would be to dispossess some of the occupants , and this appears to have led to ill feeling . About ten o ' clock on the evening of the 26 th ult ., while Mr . Benn was in the act of closing the inside window shutter of a room aa the front of the house , some miscreant fired at him ; but the ball , passing under his arm , lodged in the ceiling of the apartment . The would-be assassin was crouching at the time in an adjacent shrubbery ; and , immediately after firing , he rushed away .

      Riots at Kilkenny . —Some disgraceful riots have occurred during the week in Kilkenny . The rioters were reapers from the neighbouring fields , several men from Connaught , large bodies of peasantry from Tipperary and the King ' s and Queen's Counties , and a number of disbanded militiamen . These persona entered into a combination ( indicating some previous concert ) for the destruction of reaping machines and the prevention of the practice of mowing corn with the scythe . On Sunday and Monday the town was quite in their pos

      session , and , after holding a kind of council of war , they proceeded to the residences of various farmers , and broke all the reaping machines they found . A Mr . Howsou , a Scotchman , they seriously maltreated , though he was for some time heroically defended by his daughter , who wae also somewhat hurt . The rioters . again assembled in the town on Tuesday , but dispersed after a good deal of shouting and yelling . Two troops of dragoons were then telegraphed for to the Curragh Camp , and a meeting of magistrates was held at Stoneyford ;

      America. The Latest Intelligence Fxqin A...

      AMERICA . The latest intelligence fxqin America is that the Fraser River excitement was unabated . The reports from the new gold fields are described as " fabulous . " Victoria was crowded with Americans , who had run up building lots to enormous prices . The Hudson's Bay Company was buying dust . The Indians had begun to molest the emigrants on their way to the mines . It was feared the mining region would be overrun by these warriors , and that fighting would follow . The correspondence of the Nt-io York Tribune states " that the Washington Administration claims no legal right to interfere with the action of the Hudson ' s Hay Company , but expects , hy the performance of good offices

      with the British Government , to make arrangements which will prevent any collision ; and that General Cass ' s despatch to Mr . Dallas , in reply to Lord Malmesbury ' s suggestion for a plan to verify tlie nationality of vessels , is emphatic that the United States Government has none to propose , and it is certain that none from the other side will be adopted . " The President is reported to liavo appointed Mr . John Nugent , editor of the San Francisco Herald , who was iu Washington on the 28 th ult ., as agent to proceed to Fraser River to mnko proper representations to tho citizens of the United States , with a view to preventing collisions or outbreaks in that quarter , tho United States Government being satisfied that a liberal policy will bo pursued towards them l ) y the English authorities .

      Irom Oregon wo learn that the Indians of tlio Upper Columbia are collecting in largo numbers , tho object unknown . Tho commander of tho Pacific army is hurrying thither all the troops at his command . . Everything is quiet in tho territory of Utah , and the Mormons are returning to their homes . General Johnston had passed through Salt Lake City and encamped thirty miles boyond . Urigham Young wus anxious to be tried for treason , provided tho jury should consist of Mormons only . Advices from Kio Grande state that San Luis Potosi had been captured by the Constitutionalists under General Vidaurri , and it was rumoured that General Zulonga had abandoned the city of Mexico . The Liberals were about to unite against the city . It is stated at Washington that a considerable navul expedition is in preparation against Paraguay , to enforce satisfaction for an outrngo committed on a United States vessel while navigating tho Parana .

      or absconding debtors liable to detention in default of bail to double the amount of the debt , to appear to all processes of the court mada during the pendency , and all expenses to the close of the suit . His counsel moved for his discharge , on the ground that the British Secretary , the plaintiff in the case , was not the party interested , and had , therefore , no right to sue . The motion was refused on Monday , without prejudice to another , with the same object , on the defendant ' s own affidavit , denying the facts . Tina is not likely , however , to help him ; and , as he cannot procure bail , he remains for . the present in . durance . "

      which readers fraudulent ihe Canadian Ministry has been defeated on tho question respecting the seat of Government , and has resigned . Mr . Brown , the leader of the Opposition , and the proprietor of the Toronto Globe , will prolably be the new Premier . He is favourable to the abolition of the Hudson ' s Bay Company ' s monopoly , and to the extension of Canadian , rule over the whole of the unoccupied portions of British North America . The English defaulting ex-storekeeper at Weedon has been apprehended in the United States . ' He was arrested under a provision of the code of this State , " says the New York correspondent of the Daily News

      Continental Notes. France. The News From...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The news from France this week is almost entirely confined to the recent fetes at Cherbourg which we have related at full in another place . Every thing else appears going into its usual autumnal sleep . 141 have already alluded , " saj-s the Daily News Paris correspondent , " to the jealousy excited in France by the news that the OTder of Malta is about to be revived . It is now said that a meeting , at which several influential ecclesiastics will attend , is to be held this , week at the mansion of a wealthy inhabitant of the Faubourg St . Germain , to consider what means can be taken to associate Trance with the revival and prevent the order from falling altogether under Austrian influence . " On the occasion of the Emperor ' s fete , there will be a grand review on Saturday , August lith , in the Champ de Mars , hy Marshal Magnan , of the Imperial Guard and the army of Paris . The Emperor and Empress have arrived at Brest , from Cherbourg , ^ id the midst of the usnal demonstrations . They landed in the barge in which Napoleon T . visited the mouths of the Scheldt and the defences of Antwerp in . 1811 . The Emperor has decided on the cleansing of the port and roads of L'Orient , for which operation use will be made of the apparatus that served for the same purpose at Toulon , and -which belongs to the Department of Marine . ' The military commission appointed by the Emperor to proceed to > Teheran to remodel the Persian army sailed for Marseilles for Constantinople on Sunday . PRUSSIA . Very unsatisfactory accounts have been received at Berliu from Tegemsee of the health of the King of , Prussia . The attack of gout has been severe , and lias considerably weakened his Majesty . Dr . SchiVnlein has ; arrived at Tegernsee , and other physicians have beea sent for . DENMARK . "A letter of the 7 th from Hamburg , " says the Tinws Paris correspondent , " states that the minority of tho Federal Diet has just sent a circular note to the different Governments , in which it expresses its views on the question of the Duchies , criticising at the same time tho opinion of . the majority of the Assembly , and especially tho report of tho representative of Bavaria . A note 1 st also talked of , sent by the Cabinet of St . Petersburg to all tho German states , and expressing a wish to see tho concessions of Denmark favourably received . This intelligenco is conlirmcd by letters from Copenhagen , which say that the Russian Minister in Denmark has expressed the satisfaction of liis Government at learning that tho Danish Cabinot , -with the object of facilitating an arrangement , was disposed to suspend the action of tho constitution granted to tho Duchies . It is well known in Denmark , this correspondence adds , that it is the nobles and their friends in Holstein , Hanover , and Prussia who are conspiring to overthrow the constitution of tho Duchies . Tho masa of tho inhabitants o £ Holsticn aro said to bo very much opposed to such « consummation , and are far from desiring to lose the most liberal constitution they hnvo ever enjoyed . " SPAIN . Tho Spanish Government has just docidod , under tho reserve of tho approbation of tho French Government , thrtt tho railway between tho two countries shall pass by the valley of Gavarnio , tho routes by tlio valley of Anpo and tho Aldudcs being rejected . Tho Queen continues her " progresses , " and tho papers report the usual amount of " enthusiasm , " whether genuine or factitious . The opposition journals continue to urge upon tho Govorunient tho necessity of ameliorating the laws on tho press , although it appears thnt these laws ore not at present enforced , and that in fact tho liberty of tho press

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1858, page 799, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_14081858/page/7/