A FOURTH ATLANTIC CABLE.

Press, Volume XX, Issue 2921, 11 September 1872, Page 3

A FOURTH ATLANTIC CABLE.

[From the 2V. Y. Tribune, June 15.] The French Atlantic Cable Company, with the consent of the Anglo-American and New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Companies, are about to lay a fourth Atlantic cable from Land's End, England, to New York. The cable will touch at Halifax, Nova Scotia, en route, and be landed on the south shore of Long Island, immediately west of Hog Island Inlet. Thence it will be brought under-ground along the line of the South Side Railroad to the foot of Broadway, Brooklyn, E. D., across the East River to the foot of Grand street, and thence to the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s office on Broadway.

The route from the landing is of course subject to all the necessary permissions being obtained from the Aldermen of New York and Brooklyn, railway companies, and others interested, for which purpose Captain Mayne, managing director of the French Company, and Mr H. C. Forde, engineer, are now in New York.

Applications to lay the cable have been made to the United States authorities with the expectation of favorable replies. Secretary Fish and Governor Hoffman have already been applied to, and have cordially welcomed < 'aptain Mayne; the general benefit likely to accrue from the bringing of the cable to ihis city, being evident. The entire business of sending and receiving messages will be continued at the office of the Western Union Company as heretofore. As to the contract for laying the cable is made with the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, which has so sucessf ully laid all the great submarine lines, it is almost certain that the Great Eastern will be employed for the purpose. The new line is to be in working order in the Summer of 1873.

At present there are three Atlantic cables working; two belonging to the AngloAmerican Company, laid between Valencia (Ireland) and Heart's Content (Newfoundland), whence the messages come to this city by the air lines of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The French Company have one Atlantic cable from Breste, France, to St. Pierre, and from St. Pierre to Duxbury, Mass., whence the Western Union Company convey the messages here.

The French Company seek to put New York in direct'communication with England, and for this reason will place underground the line from Long Island into this city, preserving it from atmospheric electricity. The underground line, being in all essentials equal to a cable, admits of messages running through it from the cable ; whereas, if the new cable were connected with an air line, all messages would have to be retransmitted at the landing place, and have no practical advantage over a cable landing at Duxbury or elsewhere along the United States coast. The French Company pledge that the last step of taking off the ten-word limit will be followed up with a still more considerable reduction of the tariff when the new cable shall have been laid. The cost of the cable will be 3,500,000d01.