By dint of much contrivance and labour, the stages of
the undertaking having been daily noted throughout the week, the electric cable for com- pleting the telegraphic communication with the French coast has been removed from the manufactory at Wapping, and stretched between France and England : but after all—ludicrous mishap !—it is doubtful whether the rope has been made long enough. The old dismantled Go- vernment steamer Blazer was lent to transport the enormous coil, which is twenty-four miles long, and weighs about two hundred tons. Steam- tugs dragged the Blazer to the South Foreland; and at about half-past seven on Thursday the slow voyage across the Channel was commenced, the rope being "paid out" at about the rate of a mile and three-quarters an hour. At five in the afternoon, when the operations were suspended till next morning, there still remained about three miles of journey to Cape Griznez, and it was feared there were only two miles and two- thirds of rope to cover this space. Yesterday, the weather was too stormy to work well : the Blazer was dragged one mile nearer to France; and then, it being impossible to get further inland, a buoy was made fast to the electric cable, the whole of the remainder was thrown overboard, arallthitliketilireis ran tiff to Calals5 nvd and aoreltiett Messageo perfectly wtir tPto?Cirrithtlr Or not it can he stretched out to Frandi.tiq low ;to 0,1$
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