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      Enciand-sappose that , and the Cossacks might very S-be seen in London . Unite , on the ^ contrarythe Ban and English fleets , arid the junction would be SfeSv indifferent to us . With our army and our populatkm s o eminently warlike , we repel every attempt at landing . Therein lies our superiority we support our iavy bv an ^ rmy—tliab wliich England cannot do . ' As re g ards the admitted superiority of our merchant nav y and the maritime tastes prominent m . England , exemplified by her yachts , and by the habits of her aristocracy , the Siecle considers their importance diminished by the tendencies of Franca in the same direction : — . ¦ '

      ., ¥ **« i - - i-j t- _ !! . „ . »„« -.. rl ^ A Anaa nnt nOTftC ^ AVG HOW " iJlind would be the man who does not perceive now France is in every way tending towards the sea . Ten years back the families who visited , the sea in the fine season were some hundreds ; now they are counted by thousands . At present , the number of applicants for the naval schools is so great , that a considerable amount of interest is necessary in order to procure admission . Formerly the naval career was a sort of exception , andayoung man ought to be a native of some port to even think of it . Now it has attractions for every province , and the

      navy is no longer the exclusive appanage of any particular district . " The Siecle then talks gravely of the project of making the Seine navigable as far as Paris for vessels of large burden . The following is perhaps more practical than the suggestion of having men-of-war moored in front of the Tuilcries gardens : — " The English must make up their minds to the development of maritime ideas in France . Admiral Napier each consent

      has recommended an arrangement — power - ing to have a limited navy . ' We , on our side , advise the English to draw closer all the bonds which attach them to France , and to look with suspicion on those sentiments of jealousy which have so long animated them against France . It is not to diminish the French forces that they ought to endeavour , but to to manage that a war with us should become utterly impossible from the multiplicity of relations and friendships existing between the two countries . "

      Mr . Roebuck ' s speech has had the honour of eliciting the subjoined observations from the Union : — " In the midst of much exaggeration there is a groundwork of truth in the speech of Mr , Roebuck . England is an isolated nation , and she can only be so in the world . That circumstance is , at the same time , her strength and her danger . Her isolation keeps her clear of many agitations which periodically disturb the Continent , but , in placing her out of the reach of them , it also keeps her out of the way of that assistance which the continental nations can render to each other . England is a nation condemned to live aloiie . Let us not then disturb her in her solitude , but also let us not endeavour to seek from her an \' support . "

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      THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH . A misadventure , which may be considered truly national , has happened to this great undertaking . On Saturday last , official notice was issued by the Atlantic Telegraph Company " that , owing to some cause at present not ascertained , but believed to arise from a fault existing in the cable at a point hitherto undiscovered , there have been no intelligible signals from Newfoundland since one o ' clock on Friday morning , the 3 rd inst . The directors are at Valentin , aided by various scientific and practical electricians , investigating the cause of the stoppage , with a view to remedy the existing difficulty . " Wo regret to say that we are without any further news from Valentia respecting the cable , and this may be taken to mean that the directors , with their scientiiic assistants , have as yet been unable to restore intelligib l e

      which , however well adapted for undisturbed depths , is totally inadequate to resist the liability to accident on a rocky coast . Transactions in the shares took place on Thursday at 485 and 500 , the latter being ths closing quotation . " " ^ ii -I i i r i ii- i . ni-n-fl rimftn in

      signals . A very painful impression was created by the statement on the Stock Exchange ; the 1000 / . shares of the company fell ouo or two hundreds of pounds in value It is not supposed , from our present information , that tho cable has actually broken , but only that something has occurred to arrest tho natural progress of the electric current . Even if tho cable should break , the result of tho recent attempt will riot have been in vain , for it clearly establishes two facts—first , that a cable can actuall y bo laid , across such a largo bulk of water , and , second , that when laid , telegraphic communications can as certainly bo effected between ( ho old and now hemiephoroa . If tho worst should como of tho presont Attempt , those facts will form tljo basis of improved and resolute undertakings for tho future . Hut , in tho mean while , lot us hopo that tho present stoppage of communications through tho cable is but of a temporary nature .

      I ho accounts , up to Thursday , » ay that there is still communication through tho whole length of tho cable , but only of tho faintest and most uncertain kind . A prevalent opinion Booms to bo that tho dofuct ia not in . ¦ H . tUo . inst rnmontBr- 'SienWla- 'Vdiiiiliiub" ' tobe rocolvedl but thoy are too uncertain and faint to bo intelligible . Occasionally an entire word is given , but novor anything approach ng to a sentence . Tho experiments mado load to tho . boUef that tho injury is near tho coast—probably wnhln two or three miles . Tho Btrpng portion of cable manufactured expressly for the shore has boon shipped from Plymouth lor V « lontia . and will bo substituted immediately on Kb arrival In plnco of tho ordinary ^ Iro

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      THE CHANNEL ISLANDS TELEGRAPH . The inauguration of the Channel Islands Telegraph took place at Jersey on Tuesday , when the wire was found to work successfully . The following telegraphic message was forwarded by Mr . Aubih , Constable of the Island , through the Right Hon . Spencer Walpolc , to the Queen : — " The Directors of the Channel Islands Telegraph Company , on behalf of the people of the islands * solicit that you may be pleased to lay before her Most Gracious Majesty this " the first message conveyed by their telegraph . Though the establishment of this means of rapid communication with the mother country is an event of minor importance to the empire at large , it is one of heartfelt satisfaction to her Majesty ' s loyal and devoted subjects here , as tending to draw still closer the bonds which , for nearly 1000 years , have linked these islands to the Crown of England , and more firmly to secure that connexion , the foundation of their liberties , and their prosperity , and which , like their forefathers , thev would deem no sacrifice too great to preserve . "Jersey , Sept . 7 th . " The Queen returned the following answer by

      telegraph ' : — " Ilolyrood Palace , Tuesday night , " September 7 th , 1858 . " The Queen haa received , with the highest satisfaction , the announcement of the successful completion of a telegraphic communication with the Channel Islands , and while her Majesty congratulates the directors of the Channel Islands Telegraph Company upon their success , she rejoices in the more , rapid means of communication and the closer connexion thus happily established with a portion of her dominions , hitherto locally separated , but always united to her crown by a spirit of unswerving loyalty , unsurpassed in any part of them , and of which the message just transmitted on behalf of the . people of the islands contains a ver } r gratifying expression . "

      Her Majesty ' s reply caused great enthusiasm in the islands . Thestreets were crowded with people , and flag 3 flying in all directions , ashore and afloat . A procession , accompanied by military bands , paraded the town . The town was illuminated in the evening , and fireworks displayed in the ' . Royal-square and other places . The line was opened to the public ou Thursday . The cable , manufactured by Newall and Co ., is of the size of the shore end of the Mediterranean cable , but with ends in a proportionate degree thicker . It starts

      from Church Bay , Portland , and rests in depths of water varying from 35 to 40 fathoms , as far as the island o £ Aldcrriey , which has been fixed upon as the first station . From Alderney the cable stretches to a point on the north-west coast of Guernsey , and crosses that island to St . Peter ' s Port , where there is a station . It then runs to Cape Gros Nez , and is landed upon a Fandy beach , — a matter of importance in an island so begirt with rocks as Jersey . Between eight and nine miles of underground work brings the line to St . Helier ' s . The station is situate at the corner of the Grand-square .

      A considerable trade already exists between the Channel Islands and St . Malo , Granville , and other places on the French coast . An extension in that direction would afford to Normandy and Brittany the facilities of communication Avhich are now denied to them . A message of twenty words from England to any of the towns in those provinces is now charged from 12 s . 9 d . to 1-As . 6 d . The charge for a message of like length from London to Jersey is 5 s .

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      about three miles they put back , when their little craf carrying full sail , upset . The accident was seen froi the shore , and a boat was instantly put out , but o reaching the spot all had disappeared , a cap floatin b « ing all . that . ' was- to be seen . The bodies have bee recovered . . ¦ ¦ . '¦ ¦ Mr . James M ' Gregor , late chairman of the South Eastern . Railway Company , expired on Sunday morning under painfully sudden circumstances . Mr . M'Grego : on Fridav afternoon called at a shop in Bond-street t < niiniif thi-f » e miles thev nut back , when their little craf

      have his hair cut . He fell down in the shop , and ot being raised was found unconscious of what was passing , Medical assistance was promptly obtained , and the case pronounced to be paralysis . The unfortunate gentleman remained in the same state until Sunday morning , wheu he died . The deceased was intimately connected and well known to the leading commercial men of Liverpool and ths City of London . He was returned , after an unsuccessful contest in 1847 , for the borough of Sandwich in 1852 , on Conservative principles . Mr . M ' Gregor was born in 1808 , and was twice married . taken lace at th

      A frightful boiler explosion has p e mill of a woollen manufacturer , Mr . Almond , of Gilder-Bome , near Leeds . The catastrophe , which resulted in the instantaneous death of four persons and the serious injury of seven others , was occasioned by the ignorance and carelessness of the engineer , who paid the penalty by the losa of his own life . The adjourned inquest on fie unfortunate ] eople killed in the railway accident near Dudley was resumed on Tuesdav , butthe evidence presents few features of interest to the general public . The under-guard . in the train that separated was examined , and deposed that a shackle broke as the train started from Brettel-lane , but was immediately replaced by a strong goods chain . This whether the

      witness was examined at great length as to breakage machinery was sufficient for so heavy a train ; and replied in the affirmative , but added that the rails ivere greasy . The guard being examined , said that his break was a good one , but that the train was too heavy for it . It also appeared that there was an additional break in the eighteen carriages that ran down , but there was no one to work it . The guard added , that the compartment containing the second break ¦ was filled with children ; and that though it ought to have been in use according to the company ' s rules , those regulations did not apply to excursion trains . The coroner expressed a ¦ wish . to have the assistance of the Government inspector , Captain Tyler , and the inquiry was adjourned for a week . ¦ .

      The Aberdeen and Inverness Junction Railway , opened to th « public about three weeks ago , has already been the scene of a most deplorable accident . On Saturday afternoon , the last train which leaves Inverness southward , o : i arriving at the Orton Junction , eight miles from Keith , as usual had applied a _ break-engine , employed for taking the train up an incline there . In some way not explained , this break appears to have slipped off the rails , and as it could not be conveniently taken on again at the time , the oru'I ^ aiy engine and tender were affixed , and the train proceeded to its destination—lveith—reaching the station about the advertised time , eight o ' clock . Anxious to get the break righted . it seems the ongine-driver and fireman ,

      immediately on uutackjing from the newly-arrived train , turned their engine nnd tender , and , accompanied by four or five other mon , without any instructions , set off for the Orton Junction , where tho slip had occurred . To reach this , however , they had to jiass another station—¦ Mulbeu- —some five miles out of Keith , at which place there U a siding for goods trains , &c , being shunted into . The station-master at Mulben ^ -his duty over for the night when the last train had passed—had naturally loft , and , of course , there was no person to turn the points on tho main line , and as a consequence the unlooked-for engine ran at a rapid rate into tho siding , and struck against tho fixed buffers with so great a force that the louder , which was first , was fairly lifted "

      up and tumbled on tho engine . Whether or not tho driver and fireman saw their mistuke and jumped is not Hsyot known , but at . any rate thoy escaped with scarcely a bruisu , as alao did three of tho party who were standing on tho tender , who woro thrown off by the shock-Lumen tablo to say , however , tho other throe of tho party , who woro on the engine , mot a most shocking fate . They wore crushed so against tho fire-plate and box by the overtopping tondor that one pf thorn may bo said to havo boon literally roasted to death . All tho three poor follows only lived for a very short time . The enginedriver nnd fireman , it is reported , were not seen for tho niyht , but next day both woro apprehended and lodged in the gaol at I' . lgln .

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A most fearful accident occurred on tho Blyth and Tyno Railway , two miles and a half from Shields , on Saturday . An old woman named Frances Hails , with her grandson Matthew , a ljLttlo purulysed boy seven years of ngtywore coining down an incline towards Flatworth , when tho littlo boy suddenly ran on to tho lino betweeu the rails , and tho poor old grandmother immediately , observing tho train from Blyth approaching , run to his rescue . She could not lay hold of him in time , but she jumped beforo tho cngina and pushed him from between the mils . She sacrificed her own life in doing so . The wheels of the engine and carriages passed over hor , and she was literally severed in two , tho lower part of her body being

      carried about twenty yards from whero tho other was loft . Tho train was spoedily stopped , and two inodical men immediately assisted . The remains of tho old woman woro gathered together , and inquiry was made 4 ' ojp-tho « ohild , wwhoiv ^ iU > V (» a ~ foiind-b ) uib-8 lio-had'saorillced hor life in vain . Tlio poor boy had boon struck on tho head by the engine and was lying unconscious . Ho was attended by the surgeons , who entertain no hopes of his recovery , as ho is suffering from a very severe concussion of the brain . ; , Another boat acaideut has occurred near Holy wall , ( u North Wales . Mr . John Lloyd , a cement manufacturer , invited two young inon to accompany him lit a e « Ul , tho mix being rough , with a strong wind . . After Balling

      A terrible railway accidont has also ocourrod in . France , at tho Veslnet station of tho St . Germain line . ^ FlrenwiTrwirttJirli ^ descends tho incline from tho station ulong the atmospheric portion of the lino by its own gravity , did not stop nt tho accustomod spot , but dashed against tho onglno whiuh was in waiting to take It ou to Purld . TJia shook was violent . One carriage wad knocked to pieces ; tho onsmuov aiul two jmsBangors woro klllod ; several puusoiitforu woro woundoil , and somu of thorn very seriously , It is supposed that tho break atUohod to tho loading ourriago of the train imnst have glvon way

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1858, page 925, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2259/page/5/