TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 245, 14 May 1868, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA.

(feom THE TIMES, FEB. 26.) There is now good reason to believe that before the summer of 1869 a continuous connected line of telegraphs will be established between England and our Indian possessions. The route will be as follows:—It will commence

at Nordeney, an island in the Germau Ocean,on the Prussian Coast, and will thence proceed through Hamburg and Berlin to Thorn, on the Prusso-Russian frontier, through Russia via Warsaw, Odessa, Kertch, Poti, to Tiflis, and thence through Persia and Teheran. At Teheran the proposed line will join the system now in connection with the Persian Gulf Cable. The company by which the scheme is being carried out has obtainedfrom the Prussian Government the concession of landing its own cable on the North German coast.

Provisional arrangements are we understand, being made meanwhile with the Electric and International Telegraph Company and Eeuter's Companies, securing to the promoters of the new object the use of two wires I between London and the Prussian Coast. By the Prussian concession 1 the Government of that country undertakes to complete a special double' line connecting Nordeney and the Russian frontier of Thorn, and to reserve it for the exclusive use of the company in good working condition on payment of a message royalty. By a concession of the Russian Government the company are authorised to construct a, ; double line from the frontier at Thorn to the Persian frontier at Tiflis with stations at Warsaw, Odessa, Kortch, and Poti ; and by Persian concession the right of constructing a similar line from the Russian frontier to Teheran is conceded. It will then be brought in connexion with the Indian system. The proposed amount of capital is L 450,000, and the cost of a message to India will be about L 3 10s. The advantage of the proposed line may be thus briefly summarised:—The expenditure will be moderate, the security of the line will be secured by convention, and above all, the working of it will be in the handsof the company. At present, from the time a message leaves England it is entirely freed from our control until it reaches the Persian Gulf During that time it passes through places governed by various administrations, and it is transmitted through the hands of clerks, speaking different languages. The new scheme promises to obviate the difficulties which have hitherto existed in the way of a message passing intact and intelligible from England to the East, or from the East to England. If it fulfils what it promises, an invaluable addition will be made to our agencies of telegraphic communication.