AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 636, 11 December 1858, Page 4

AMERICA.

Intelligence from New York to the 9th September had been received in England.

CELEBRATION OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE

" The cable celebration," writes the New York correspondent of the 'Daily News ' on the 4th September, " has just passed off with great eclat, and was certainly as much of a success as those things ever are. All the Volunteer Military Corps, two regiments of which are fully equal in drill and appearance to any troops of the line I ever saw, all the public bodies and all the trades were fully represented in the line. The crew of the Niagara rolled along 'the street in the usual sailor fashion, amidst the yells of the by-standers. A portion of the cable was drawn by ten horses. Sewing machines, printing machines, and almost every other kind of machine, whose owners were desirous of publicity, followed in wagons, some of them in full operation. Lord Napier occupied a carriage with Archbishop Hughes, the prophet and guide of the Anti-British party, and it is said they conversed amicably. Cyrus Field was of course the cynosure of all eyes and the great feature of the ceremony. Wherever he appeared the crowd exerted their lungs to the utmost. The scene in Broadway, along which the procession passed, for three miles, was one of the most curious I ever witnessed. The whole population of New York, in their Sunday clothes, seemed to be tightly packed along the side walk, in the windows, over the housetops, while every available spot bore a banner, device, or motto, the last always setting forth the imperishable nature of the alliance now inaugurated between Great Britain and America. Fireworks at the public expense followed in the evening on a grand scai'e, the whole concluding with a torchlight procession of firemen. The concourse whom the occasion brought together proved so great that, despite the enormous capacities of the New York Hotels, great numbers of persons passed the night in the streets.