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Show A new cable ship was launched at Newcastle, on tho river Tync, upon the 29th of AUrch. It is registered at 1 0,000 tons, and has a carrying capacity capa-city greater than any vessel afloat except ex-cept the Great Eastern. At a banquet given io honor of the occasion the chairman stated that the object of the telegraph oompany, for whoso services this ship was intended (and which he re presented, was to convey transatlantic messages at tho same rates as those for which letters are carried. "They hoDcd, indeed, to fix a tariff at as low a rate as a penny." A penny a word iB of course moant.bot this project has a very chimerical appearance just at present |