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Show SELECTED. Submarine Cable. From an elaborate article in a late number of the Edinhurgh Rti ieic, oo ''r'ostal Tclegrapha," we condense the followins iiiteresting infurmatioD in re-frard re-frard to the submarine cab'es in operation opera-tion in the world on the 1st ot Jue. IsTu. Since then, the Panama and eEt ndian cable has been sncces-fully laid. giving us South American news from a week to ten days ear'ier than heretofore. There are two great cable compaDieB which maintain communication communica-tion between England and the Continent Conti-nent of Europe. Of these, the "Submarine "Sub-marine Telegraph Company7' ownsand works eleven cables, of an aggregate length of 1,100 nautical miles. Varying from 27 to 368 nautical miles each. Of these eleven cables, five connect Eneiand and Frnnce, two England and Belgium, two England and Holland, one England, the Island of Jersey and France, and one England and Xorth Germany. The ''Great Northern Company'' Com-pany'' works about 1,070 nautical miles of submarine cable, comprising several lines from England and Soot-land Soot-land to Russia, through Xorway, Sweden Swe-den and Denmark, including land lines in the countries mentioned. The latter I company commenced its operations in i September, 1S69. The first cable laid and operated be tween tngiana and the Continent was put down between Calais and Dover, iu 1851, and is only twenty-seven miles long. Ail the lines mentioned are worked in conjunction with the British land wires, aud on .joint aecount with the Pot Office, under the sanction of Parliament The British Government owns three cables, of an aggregate length of one hundred miles, extending between Great Britain and Ireland, Which have been in operation since 1S53. The French Government has laid a cable from Spezzia to Corsica, 90 miles in lungth, which has been in operation since loofj. Spain, in 1861, laid a cable 250 miles in length, from Barcelona to the Balearic Isles of Majorca, Minorca, Minor-ca, eic. The "Anglo-American Telegraph Company" has, as is well known, two cables from Valentia, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Xewfoundland.theuce communicating with all portions of the American Continent. The first of these was put in operation in July, 1866, and is 1,S52 nautioil miles in length. The second is 1,598 miles lonLf, and was laid by the -'Atlantic Telegraph Company," which has since consolidated with the "Anglo A men-can," men-can," both of which have entered into an arrangement for the joint control of the French cable, 3,0-17 nautical miles long, extending from Brest. France, to the Islind of St. Pierre, off Newfoundland, Newfound-land, Uienee to Duxhury, Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. The latter is now oursole means i h.' F.mbU.u. euDles being out of repair, isolating the connections with Ireland. There is an overland line to the East Indies through liussia to the Crimea, aud thence by a submarine cable 300 miles in leneth, along the Kussiau coast of the Black Sea to Poli, iu Cir-cassia, Cir-cassia, aud thence to Bu-hire, near the head of the Persian Gulf. This line, cajlel the "Indo-European," was opened eaiiy in 1870. The ''Indian Government" line in 1863 laid a cable of 1,200 miles in length, from the head of the Persian Gulf to Kurachee, at the mouth of the Indus, and this line was worked in connection with the Turkish lanl lines from Bussorah to Constantinople, and thence by Au-tria to England. Besides this, the "Falmouth, "Fal-mouth, Gibraltar and Malta Company'' Com-pany'' has laid a cable 2.456 nautical miles in length, from Penzance, Cornwall, Corn-wall, England, by way of Gibraltar, to Malta, which line was opened in June, 1870. This Company has working arrangements with the Anfflo-Mcditerraueau Anfflo-Mcditerraueau and the British Indian Submarine, forming the continuous line between Penzance, Encland, and Bombay, a distance of 7 076 miles, in eluding 120 miles of land wires between Alexandia and Suez. The "Anslo-Mediterranean" "Anslo-Mediterranean" Company has laid two cables from Malta to Alexandria, the one 900 nautical miles in lengtc on the direct route, and the other 1,160 miles long, via Tripoli. This line was completed com-pleted in October, 186S. The "British-Indian "British-Indian Submarine" his laid a cable 3.("00 miles in length from Suez to Botubav, and a land line of 120 miles from Alexandria to Suei. This entire line was put in operation in J une, ls70. In addition to the above there are two other lines in the Mediterranean Sea. The "Mediterranean Extension" runs from Malta to Sicily, thenco by land to Otranto. and across the Gulf of Utran-to Utran-to to Avlona. The sea cable is 110 miles long and was opened in November. Novem-ber. 1857. The "Marseilles, Algiers and Maiia" line, S62 miles iu length, extends between the points named and was opened 'his year to accommodate Freueh interests. A cable 70 milas iu length between the coat of India and (Ceylon has also been in operation since 1 St 3, and a cable 160 miles long has just l.een laid between Melbourne and Tasmania. There aic several other short lines ol cabie oo this aud the other side the Atlantic, which we have not t'.e space to enumerate here. 5. f. G'-I- I ! taken , at.a scattered iutniiia-.eiy through itte Soutc. so that thev e-ju.u not be found agin by the GoveitjmcCL Mnce the war a part o ig.s cot nv of negroes ks g-therei it M j-.r. formed a society t-j tLeujsrlTos. f te-serving te-serving their native lat.i!i.g5 ay-lug ay-lug apart irom the t'reeuoai aUut them. '1 hey are said to be iuauitrivn and thritty. Th-.-y des.re to te Sent back to their Dative country; but S,e-retary S,e-retary Cox. befjre wLotu the ques'iou first came, d;d not See his way clear to provide for their re'urn, under a iaw that never contemplated such a case, and Secretary De.auo is embairassea m the same way. Tue c.rcuuistauc s appeal to Congress, if tue law as it stands L ioaufficieot. The iitue baud is of a tribe cai.ed Toreubans. Kcv. A. D. Puiilips, a returned misioaary to AJ'rica, lu addressing a congregation congrega-tion of coiorefl people at MoOl.e, two years ago, happened to recite the Lord s pi aver in Vorcuban, in tn hearing ui'o..me of this company, wno hearing their native tongue," came around him and made known the circumstances cir-cumstances of their capture and subsequent subse-quent history. It ieeuis they were traders of lutiuence and high position in Yorcuha. They were captured by Dahomes and placed on the Wan ier-er, ier-er, near Porto Novo. It is also represented repre-sented that many other freed men ue-sire ue-sire to he returued to Africa. Ex. |