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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 52, 4 May 1866, Page 3

The Ovkrland Telegraph to Sctssia. — Mr. Collins, the projecter of the overland telegraph to Russia, delivered a lecture on the subject in New York on the 14th of December, and in the course of it said that between the City of New York and Paris but 39 miles of water intervened, and that the remainder of the distance is a practicable kind route. Between Cape Clear in Ireland, and the Great Amoor River, in Asia, there is an unbroken line of communication ; also between Fraser's River, iv British Columbia, and New York. These lines are about 14,000 miles in length, IsaviGST a gap in the belt of communication around the world of about 6500 rniiec. The Emperor of Russia has agreed to complete the line through Asiatic-Russia to Behring's Straits, and it remained for die North-western Union Telegraph Company to complete the line to that point. Although many obstacles would be met with, still the route was practicable. On the Russian side there is only one tribe of natives not subject to Russian authority. Repeating instruments will be introduced every 300 or 500 miles,aiul,without the aid of human touch, will transmit a message to London. The new. batteries give the original force to a message to carry it along. During the past year, 400 miles of telegraph lines have been laid on the American continent, aud it is expected that 500 or 600 miles additional will be completed in the current year, Mr. Collins read a letter which he had just received from the Minister of Post Telegraphs iv Eussia, stating that a vessel had beeii placed at the disposal of the Company for the purpose of making surveys on the Pacific Coast. The Hues, he said, will be completed iv 1867. ,'"'■ Canadian Cheese. —The chief feature of .'the New York State Agricultural Show, was the monster cheese from Canada. They fancy that they know something about cheese in the state of New York; but Canada carried away t< palm. Mr. Smith, of Norwich, exhibited a cheese of just a little over 4,0001b5. iv weight, which laid the New Yorkers as fiat as pan-cakes. At first our Yankee cousins were not inclined to succumb, nod were clear that the cheese was not so good as it was great. They did not succeed in picking that hole in the Canadian grey coat of Mr. Smith however. The cheese was carefully examined by the judges and pronounced fully up to the mark. The great cheese which has won such honor is to be shown at the provincial exhibition in London, Canada West. Afterwards it will be shipped to England, and there also it will spread the name and fame of Canadian daries. —Toronto Globe.