Part 13 (1/2)

On Saturday, the fourteenth of August, the steamshi+ps Arabia and Europa, the former bound for New York and the latter for Liverpool, came into collision off Cape Race The accident was not known in New York until Tuesday, the seventeenth, since it could not be telegraphed till the Arabia reached Halifax or the Europa St John's, into which port she put for repairs As soon as the news reached New York, the agent of the Coland), at once prepared a despatch to be sent to relieve immediate anxiety This was not forwarded to Newfoundland, as pereiven not to transh the cable until the line was fully open to the public But the next day Mr Field arrived in New York, and Mr Niency of the case, he ordered it to be forwarded It was accordingly sent, and arrived in London on the twentieth, giving the first news that was received of the accident This was repeatedly stated by the late Sir Samuel Cunard, of London, and confire was published in the London papers of the twenty-first, as follows:

”Arabia in collision with Europa, Cape Race, Saturday Arabia on her way Head slightly injured Europa lost bowsprit, cutwater ste Will remain in St John's ten days from sixteenth Persia calls at St John's for ers

No loss of life or lie was not only a very decisive one as to the fact of telegraphic coiven by speedy knowledge in dispelling doubt and fear Mr Williae, of New York, says: ”I was in Liverpool at the ti friends by the Europa Any delay in the arrival of the shi+p would have caused great anxiety But one e,posted up this despatch received the night before by the Atlantic Telegraph All then said, if the cable never did any thing more, it had fully repaid its cost” Well : ”It seemed as if Divine Providence had permitted the event, to furnish a testimony which could not be denied, to the reality and the benefit of this new means of co over all the ed between the operators at the stations, the congratulations of Queen and President, and of the Mayors of New York and London, we coust twenty-fifth, Newfoundland reports to Valentia:

”Persia takes Europa's passengers andeverywhere at success of cable Bonfires, fireworks, _feux de joie_, speeches, balls, etc _Mr Eddy, the first and best telegrapher in the States, died to-day_ Pray give some news for New York; they are mad for news”

This despatch the writer, as then in Europe, read first in the London Times The item which arrested his attention was the death of Mr Eddy, as he had soentleman

That the news must have come by cable, is clearly shown by an exaton, Verust twenty-third, 1858, at ten o'clock fifteen minutes AM The exact day and hour we learned from his ho after his death lived in Brooklyn The neas telegraphed to New York, and fro day, and from which it was forwarded to Valentia, and appeared in the London Tiht hours elapsed after he breathed his last, before it was published in England If any one wishes to see the despatch, he will find a file of The Tiht discrepancy, that, however, when exaust twenty-fifth, and says Mr Eddy died _to-day_, and yet it is published in the London Times of the same date! How is this? It was sent between nine and ten o'clock at night of the twenty-fourth, when the operator at Heart's Content would say _this day_ of a piece of news just received, but in affixing the date, he was governed _by Greenwich tily it was published in The Tiust twenty-fifth, fifty-three ued for the theory of collusion and deception, ence appearing in London, which could only be explained as a false report, unless (more wonderful still!) Mr Eddy had entered into the plot, and sent the e beforehand, and then offered himself as a sacrifice, to prove it correct!

To the demand for news in the above despatch, a reply was at once returned: ”Sent to London for news” And later the sa:

”North American with Canadian, and the Asia with direct Boston mails, leave Liverpool, and Fulton, Southa papers have long, interesting reports by Bright Indian news Virago arrived at Liverpool to-day; Bo rapidly quelled”

A despatch of the saust twenty-fifth, also announces peace with China The whole was received at Trinity Bay about nine o'clock PM, and would have been sent on at once to New York, but that the land lines in Nova Scotia were closed at that hour It was sent the nextpapers of the twenty-sixth

By referring again to the London Times, the reader will see that the news froust

It was there given as _unexpected news_, so that it could not have been a shrewd guess on the part of anybody either in England or America It took the public by surprise, both for the news itself and _for the way in which it came_--which was not by India and the Red Sea, but by St

Petersburg, where it arrived on the twenty-first, having been brought overland by a courier to Prince Gortchakoff Froraphed to the Government at Paris, and thence to London The Tience so iland Yet this news, so unlooked for, announced in London only on the ust, was published in New York on the twenty-sixth

August twenty-seventh, coive in full:

”George Saward, Secretary Atlantic Telegraph Company, to associated Press, New York News for America by Atlantic cable

E of Prussia too ill to visit Queen Victoria Her Majesty returns to England thirtieth of August--St Petersburg, twenty-first of August

Settlement of Chinese question Chinese en diploland and France--Alexandria, August ninth The Madras arrived at Suez seventh inst Dates Boent ar tranquil”

This despatch embodies about a dozen distinct iteraphic communication The whole was received in New York, and published in the evening papers _the sa news, the next day, Saturday, August twenty-eighth, Newfoundland thus replies to Valentia:

”To the Directors: Take news first, Saward Sir William Williams, of Kars, arrived Halifax Tuesday Enthusiastically received I reply

Held levee--large nuara sailed for Liverpool at one this ht Yellow fever in New Orleans, sixty to seventy deaths per day Also declared epidemic, Charleston Great preparations in New York and other places for celebration, to be held the first and second of Septeala-day ever known in this country

Herers

Prince Albert sailed yesterday for Galway Arabia and Ariel arrived New York; Anglo Saxon, Quebec; Canada, Boston Europa left St John's thisover eighty-five degrees of the horizon”