THE ANGLO-INDIAN TELEGRAPH.
The great project of establishing electric telegraph communication between London and Calcutta is nearly matin c. The cable is all but ready, a woild of caro having been bestowed on its manufacture, and its sub-sequent preservation. As length after length was finished, it was taken up, examined, and handled as tendoily as a new-born child by a monthly nurse. The electric current is kept running through it constantly, so as to insure its perfect insulation. Next month the vessel, or vessels, bearing it will proceed on their way, and, if all goes well, by next spring Calcutta may communicate with London in five hours. The Arabs may interrupt the communication by one route, but to piovido against that contingency the company haw decided upon carrying the wire in another direction, where it will be little liable to injury. [Every ona must hope that the attempt will be successful. It would be asouiceof greater security to the Government than the capture of fifty Nana Sahib*— ffome NcKt,
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1955, 22 October 1863, Page 4
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169THE ANGLO-INDIAN TELEGRAPH. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1955, 22 October 1863, Page 4
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