The Globe. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1876.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 631, 27 June 1876, Page 2

The Globe. TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1876.

The news which we published in yesterday’s issue brings most forcibly under our notice the necessity for a another cable. It appears that Europe a month ago was just on the point of war, and yet an important part of the British empire was in ignorance of the fact for more than a month. We have become so accustomed lately to have the news of the day from Europe presented to us every morning at our breakfast tables, that an interruption of this kind is most keenly felt. Apart from the commercial importance of rapid and certain means of communication with the centres of commerce at home, it is of the utmost importance that every branch of the British Empire should be in possession of the earliest intelligence of the events which affect so deeply their welfare. Some of our readers -;may remember the continued excitement which prevailed during the Russian war in the Australian Colonies, Had a cable been inexistence then much needless alarm might have been avoided. The possibility of an interruption of our commercial relations with the mother country, to say nothing of the injury which might be inflicted upon the Colonies themselves by a visit of a hostile fleet to these waters, is of such importance that it appears imperative that, at whatever cost, means should be taken to prevent our being for the space, even of one month, totally ignorant of the occurance of events which might so vitally affect us. In constructing a second line the chief aim of the colonies should be to carry it as much as possible through our own dominions. Already we are glad to notice that the Colonial Governments are bestirring themselves in this matter and it is to be hoped that the suggestion of Sir Julius Yogel for an Intercolonial Conference will be carried into effect. The delegates of the various colonies meeting in council would be able to decide, not only on the advisability of the establishment of a second cable, for that is admitted, but upon the route which should be taken. The subject is one of great importance; and as such we hope that, at the close of the present session, a meeting of delegates from the various colonies will be arranged.