His connection with Jellicoe was, of course, the ruin of Henry Cort. He had no means of re-establishing himself in business; he was robbed of all income from his patents; and he died ruined and broken-hearted ten years after, leaving a family of nine children, without a sixpence in the world. Four of these children now survive--old, infirm, and indigent--only saved from being dependent upon parish bounty by pensions, amounting in the aggregate to L90 per annum. Well may it be said, "There should be more gratitude in our Iron Age to the children of HENRY CORT." The Electric Telegraph. I.--MR. COOKE. II.--PROFESSOR WHEATSTONE. III.--THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. The Electric Telegraph. "Speak the word and think the thought, Quick 'tis as with lightning caught-- Over, under lands or seas, To the far antipodes; Here again, as soon as gone, Making all the earth as one; Moscow speaks at twelve o'clock,-- London reads ere noon the shock." I.--MR. COOKE. Of all the marvels of our time, the most marvellous is the subjugation of the electric fluid, that potent elemental force,--twin brother of the fatal lightning,--to be our submissive courier, to bear our messages from land to land, and "put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes." The Prospero that tamed this Ariel was no individual genius, but "two single gentlemen rolled into one." The idea of employing the electric current for the conveyance of signals between distant points, can be traced pretty far back in date; but to Mr. Cooke and Professor Wheatstone is undoubtedly due the credit of having made the electric telegraph an actual and accomplished fact, and rendered it practicable for everyday uses.