The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1.

THE merchants of New York have been more
than six weeks behind the merchants of Liverpool
in celebrating the great enterprise which unites
the New World with the Old, but their enthusiasm
has not cooled with delay. In the speeches made
on both sides of the water the moral consequences
of a material union are very satisfactorily apparent.
We are not disposed to lay too much stress on the
ebullitions of festive sentiment. It would
be Quixotic to hope that the Atlantic Tele-
graph will never transmit the expression of feel-
ings less cordial and friendly than those
to which Lord STANLEY gave utterance at Liver-
pool, and which Mr. CYRUS FIELDILIS echoed in New
York. Still we may yet consider it of good omen
that the cables which unite England and America
have been laid down at a time when they serve
for the expression of returning respect and good
will. That they may be cords of affection to
draw the two nations together, lessening moral
alienation as they annihilate physical distance,
should be the hope and effort of every true patriot
mid philanthropist on either side of the Atlantic.
Science is reducing to literal fact the poet's image
of the " electric chain with which wo are darkly
" bound," and the effects of this vital inter-com-
munication cannot be confined to the material in-
terests of commerce or the arrangements of. diplo-
macy. Fur good or for evil the moral relations of Eng-
land and America will become more definite and
pronounced ; aml their reciprocal feelings keener
and intenser as the expression of them is more
rapidly interchanged. The obligation which this I
fact imposes not only upon the responsible states-
men, but upon the irresponsible talkers of both
countries, cannot be exaggerated. We are happy
to think that Lord DERBY and his colleagues at
length perceive it.
It would be invidious to compare, for the dis-
paragemant of either, the parts respectively per-
formed by the two great English nations in what is
the joint achievement of both. But as matter
of fact, it may be noted that, while the origination
of the projezt and the first of towards its accom-
plishment belong to the United States, its final
achievement is due mainly, but not entirely, to
England. The history of the adventure from its
inception to its close is contained in
the speech of Mr. Cr ars FIELD, at the
New York banquet, than whom no one has
a better title to tell the tale, and than
whom no one, within the same compass, has told
it better. For three years the Americans worked
alone. The telegraphic connexion between New
York and Newfoundland, the establishment of which
was the first condition of the larger scheme, as
the improvement of it seems now to be an essen-
tial condition of its satisfactory operation, was ac-
complished by them. American officers took and
re-took the soundings between Newfoundland and
Ireland without British aid, and discovered what
has since been known, from the purpose it has
served, as the Atlantic Telegraph Plateau. The
ground being made sure, British co-operation was
asked and obtained. This was in 1856. Hence-
forward the chief part iu the enterprise belongs to
England. The navies of both countries co-operated
in the completion of the surveys, and in the depositing
of the cables ; but three-fourths of the necessary
capital came from Great Britain, and with the ex-
ceptions—very considerable exceptions—of Mr.
PEABODY and Mr. CYRUS FIELD, the promoters
of the scheme were Englialunen. In 1858
the cable was laid, and spoke. But after four
weeks of stammering utterance it lay silent
at the bottom of the sea, irresponsive to every
stimulus. For five years the enterprise languished.
It took the promoters of the scheme all this time
to recover heart, and reorganize their resources.
In the meantime, the faith of the incredulous in
the practicability of ocean telegraphy had been
partially restored by the success of similar under-
takings in narrower seas, and at less profound
depths. The submarine cable from Suez to Kur-
!ache% laid down in 1859 and 1860, had, indeed,
failed, after a partial success ; but it had a longer
life than the Atlantic Cable of 1858, counting, if
we recollect, about as many months of existence