( 24 ) working are at all feasible; and that is the Northern Route. The total length is not greater than that from Yalentia to St. John’s, and yet it will he divided into four sections :— Miles. Scotland to the laroe Islands .. .. 225 Faroe Islands to Iceland .............. 300 Iceland to Greenland................... 600 Greenland to Labrador ................. 600 Total ...............1725 where it is joined on to the lines to Canada, and so on to New York; messages for Canada going direct to Canada, messages for the United States going direct to the United States, without the slightest fear of supervision on either side. There is not the slightest diffi- culty in the completion of this route. The Emperor of the French is about laying a cable from Toulon to Algiers: has any one declared it impossible for this to he carried out ? Certainly not. It is looked upon as an ordinary every-day occurrence, and a contract was taken to complete the line and maintain it in work- ing order for four years, and yet the route is quite as long, the water quite as deep, and the bottom considerably more dangerous for the existence of a submarine cable than the worst of the sections to America. Even the greatest objectors to the Northern Route freely admit that there will be no difficulty in completing the line and successfully submerging the cable (in fact, there would be no difficulty in getting a cable-manufacturer to make and lay the cable at his own risk); but the objections are that, the line, when completed, is liable to injuries from icebergs, and that is the only point at issue. The value of an opinion depends very much on the practical knowledge the individual has who proffers it. If Sir Edward Belcher, Captain Osborn, Sir Leo- pold McClintock, Captain Robinson, and numerous other eminent Arctic navigators who have spent the best portion of their lives in that part of the world where it is proposed to lay this cable, were asked what would be the best-sized conductor and insulator for the core of a cable for one of those sections, or what would be the best instruments to work the cables after they were laid, they

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