The two companies connected with the Atlantic cable, the one
which is to make and the other which is to use it, have decided not to renew the attempt this year. The Great Eastern, as usual, wants too much repair to be ready before the winter gales. A new cable is, however, to be immediately commenced, and the Great Eastern will start again in spring to carry that, and if possible pick up the other. It has been suggested that the blame thrown on the grappling-tackle is unfair. -Nothing is so hard to move as a rope stretched out at length, and this cable could not yield enough to pull up two miles and a half into the air. If the tackle had held there must sooner or later have been a dead lock, and the cable, if raised at all, will have to be lifted by fastening it three miles from the fracture, and then pulling up the loose end. Instead, that is, of lugging at a cable a thousand miles long, we must tug at one three miles.
