ELECTRICAL INTER COMMUNICATION.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 5, 18 November 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

ELECTRICAL INTER COMMUNICATION.

(From the Serald, Nov. 5.) Not the least interesting news brought l»y the last mail is the account of the electric cable; abbpt to be laid along the Persian Gulf, in order to connect England • ■^jrith her Indian possessions. 7 The failures of the Ked Sea cable, -and of that between ' Malta and Alexandria, have suggested the propriety of adoptin g another rdu te Jong; talked of, throughTersia, and by the celebrated* €iiy ,^bfp -Bagdad (a fable almost more raaryelloufl 1 than the famous fictions ofiwhiciji "Bagdad has been the scene): thence itwill pass to the head of the Persian at t&e estuary .which marks the . junction of. the -Tigris- and Euphrates, a inijseVable •eastern township called Hat-el-Arab/ As it may be dangerous ;t<r depend on tHisli^tvanother land line Is' Wb' ■ j ecied from Bagdad to Telieran and lspahan; v and so: oh by> S hiraz to the shores oosf s the . :Eersian Gulf^atßushire. -The janction'of ■'ra■cb^citie^:(pf4fie^'pl.d;■-.word'wit•h the more mjjdernj looks Vlike , * reunitioß scarce ■within our more cmlised, bustling^ and comrhercial present world notions. Nations /and people that Beem to be children of the ' desert, whose backward motions nave left . thenr scarce;withi«i the recollection of the acjive the simple/ iiitroduc\tidn, of ah electrical wife, "be brought > within the very; centre ofcqmniumcatipn. : . It isnoit generally known ; that iheslow- ' going Turks have a line <i telegraph already in us^,and:in.;{i4mir^bl>] order, from Co,nstantinople,<b^Scutari; to Bagdad"^ TJtius fari i: th"eref6reV the route 'is seemed and. under the (protection of-the Porte. Among /tKe marvels is the fact that ancient and ■ is on the line of an. velec^ic^^jegrapb. jv^.' ,z ; Some, portion of- the land line, on its waj' has^to pass through the-. "lArab^ desert, inhabited by jarious rival > is intended to subsidise the ~:ii|pst jx^erful oXiihfese^with sum of a , i atKiousaridii^ year for its care and protection. , .Expenence has vtaught the lesVoii at a' somewliat expensi^ie rate, that long linespf ' submarined cable I; must be, limited ijnvdisv^Mceivnqt to - hundred mjles ; a^ breaii.io^; as \i were, a rest ji thus^tbe Per^aii Guijf jinje'is'ip be ifftnre.e • longest being 44oiniles/Again; - a^mbsjfc^important poriion '. of the *«xp|-: ■:: has been obtained is tiieeaype4 ■■';; i^mt^ 6^Jbati(^;pp\^jx^s^tyfor use. :It;apr|eairß;; that, ; pf the ;greajb Atlantic^ ;^ble h^d-bpe^jperfict, tge} 'large; /i^ectr^aliA ;,;; would y ; hare th l^ most > ca^jeJ .The'deai^ughte ; (Various cables laid and>wKieh:?ha* erprov<?d; j^]^ccessf^l§K^;taught?iriectncians *tue' yrnakihg: the ißp ais to? \tlie 'actiipii:: pf^ '^iharine "animals; an^l 1 fatter, tOtprey^nt 'and alsio: thfitt

a much smaller amount of -battery power is necessary for the successful working of the submarine cable.. The whole account of the construction of the cabled which is to be laid in about February tiexl in the Persian Gulfjs most interesting and in structive. We see in* it the ' care which' has been taken, the information which has been obtained, and the large application of this knowledge. We.have every reason [ to sxpect from it the m,ost perfect success; a fact which will ensure a much ' earlier extension of telegrapliichic communication \with these colonies than we should otherwise have, > Lines of tetc- - graph through all part* of India, to . frontier of Burmah, mast shortly lead to a line to Australia." Again, however, the submifine portion must be the difficulty, and -it can only be by all the islands on the routp, and by taking' in the whole length of this continent that the expense can be borne. Happily the countries of the old world are n«t being brought to- < gether much faster than., the, wildernesses , of this, the newest portion of the globe, is becoming, settled. What three years ago i seemed a difficulty half a century would hardly overcome, is now a simple qnestion of sufficient stock to <;over the eastern portion _pf Australia, from the 1-38°. of fong, from south to north, with sheep. Very fortunately we did not acquiesce in Mr Gisborne's proposition, but haye t let t time ripen and perfect the plans for more closely uniting England and A ustralia by enabling each' to speak to the other within the duration of a very few days by meansof the electric wire.