Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-28 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC CABLE AND THR I,EGRAPEE
TO INDIA.

The Times says—The Atlantic Telegraph Company in the
exercise of their discretion have decided on not immediately
renewing the attempt to connect England with the United
States, and their cable is disposable for a similar enter-
prise in another direction. The Times urges in the
strongest terms the purcha-e of the cable. If an Indian
telegraph had been in operation we should have been saved
all, or nearly all, our successive stages of misconception,
and should have done at first what we did at last. We
began with despatching four or five regiments to India,
whereas the demand has already absorbed between twenty
and thirty. The Indian mutinies have been estimated as
threatening a cost of some £20,000,000, aid could any
investment be more promising than the application of less
than a twentieth part of this sum to the establishment of
such a communication as might most materially modify the
expenditure of the whole. The restoration of order in a
single province of Bengal through the agency of this tele-
graph a month sooner than would otherwise have been the
case would go far towards a reimbursement of the whole
outlay.

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NAUTICAL FETE AT TEIGNMOUTII.—On Monday, on the
occasion of the usual regatta at Teignmouth, there was a
fete, the object of which was to assist the Rival National
Life-boat Institution which keeps at Teignmouth, and at
fifty or sixty other places on the coast a life-boat to render
assistance to a shipwrecked crew. Various ingenious con-
trivances for the preservation of life in cases of shipwreck
were successfully tested. Among other experiments made
was the following :—A vessel was exhibited in the offing
with her gear adrift, ensign reversed, and her minute guns
firing. On the signals being made, the life-boat, well
manned, was hunched, and proceeded to the ship. The
crew were taken on board the life-boat, and were brought
on shore amid the acclameions of a large number of spec-
tators. Successful experimen's were also made with
Captain Minby's apparatus, Mr. Offord's expanding
flute grapnel!, and various other contrivances for saving
life at sea.

BIG JUMP.—The biegest jump we have heard of re-
cently, was made a day or two since by a man who wanted
to stop at a station on the Central road that the express
train didn't break up at. Tee train was going at the rate
of 45 miles an hour—just as the station was passed, the
individual referred to rushed oat of the rear car, carpet-
bag in hand, and jumped. He struck on the ground some
little distance, of course, from the point a., which he left
the cars. One foot struck the ground first, and so heavily
did hs come down, that the heel of his boot was torn off.
His second foot struck twelve feet distant from his first
track, and the boot-heel was also ripped from his other
boot. The man continued his rapid movements, being
thrown into all sorts of positions—for some distance
beyond. "Ho finally " brought up" no less than seventy-
four feet from the spot where he left the rushing train.
On picking himself up, he was asked if he had been
hurt, when he answered he did not knovi, and immediately
picking up his watch and a number of his buttons, which
had been scattered by the shock, and seizing his carpet-hare,
he started off, with his dinner tolerably well settled.—New
Haven Register.
THE BERLIN CONFSRE•CCE —lt is arranged that the
conference at Berlin, for which arrangements were some
time since Glade at Lambeth Place, at a meeting presided
over by the Archbishop of Canterbury, shall commence on
Wednesday, September 9, with devotional exercises in the
German, French. and English languages. On the second
day there will be an address of salutation and welcome by
the Rev Dr. Krummaoher, a mrt chaplain, Potsdam. On
the third day there will be a discussion on the diversities
in Christendom, and reports will be presented on the re-
ligious and ecclesiastical condition of European and other
countries. On the fourth day reports will be presented in
rsference to the state of Protestantism in Roman Catholic
countries. The conference will last nine days ; and amongst
those who are expected to take part in it are the Bishop of
Down and Connor, Bishop Gobat, the Rev. Dr. Berkholz,
superintendent and consistoral assessor of Riga ; the Rev.
Dr. Meille, of Turin ; Professor Shankel, of Heidelberg ;
Dr. Merle d'Aubiene, of Geneva ; the Ray. G. Fisch,
of Paris ; Professor Kraffe of Bonn ; the Rev. Dr.
Nowsting, of Prague; Professor Don Herrero; de Mora,
of Madrid ; Dr. Sohaaf, of Pennsylvania, and several Eng-
lish clergymen.
LEIGH HUNT AND HIS MUSEUM OF POBTS HAIR.—
Buchan Read, who just come hither from Rome to fulfil
some painter's engagements, took me the other evening to
visit Leigh Hunt—the sole surviving star of that constel-
lation which dawned upon the literature of England with
the present century. The old poet lives in a neat little
cottage in Hammersmith, quite alone, since the recent
death of his wife. That dainty grace which is the charm
of his poetry, yet lives in his person and rimesters. He is
seventy-three years olde but the effects of age are only phy-
sical—they have not touched that buoyant joyous nature,
which survives in spite of sorrow and misfortune. His
deep set eyes still beam with soft cheerful light ; his voice
is gentle and musical, and his hair altho' white falls in
fine silky locks on both sides of his face. It was very
gratifying to me to press the same palm which Keats and
Shelly had so often clasped in friendly warmth and to
hear him, who knew them so well, speak of them as his
long lost companions. He has a curious collection of locks
of the hairs of poets, from Milton to Browning. That
thin tuft of brown silky fibers, could not really have been
shorn from Milton's head ?" I asked myself. " Touch
it," said Leigh Hunt, " and then you will have touched
Miltoa's self." " There is a life in hair, though it be
dead, said I as I did so repeating a line from Hunt's own
sonnet on this lock. Shelley's heir was golden, and very
soft ; }Coat's a bright brown, curling in large Bacchio
rings; Dr. Johnson's gray, with a harsh and wiry feel;
Dean Swift's both brown send gray, but finer, denoting a
more sensitive organization ; and Charles Lamb's reddish
brown, short and strienge I was delighted to hear Hunt
speak of poems '.7ihich he still designed to write, as if the
age of verse ttould never cease with one in whom the fa.
oult7 is bP:rn.—Bayard Taylor.

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