The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1858.

There were ugly phenomena, entitled retardations of
submarine currents. Could the electric wave move
freely through a wire little thicker, if any, &au
a lady's bodkin, without being stopped by
such gigantio pressure The was en nazions
question. It is now answered by the secossaful

ocsamunications between the Agamenui or. in Valenti*
Harbour and the Niagara in Trinity Bay, Newfound-
land.

It is not often we sympathise with any traallW
tion bearing the semblance of gambling, but we
must confess that we could not help wishing that the
adventurous individual who is said the other day to
have bought an Atlantic Telegraph share at 3001.
had bought a score of them. The Imo-
ems of the Atlantic Telegraph follows im-
mediately after the announcement of the
Red Sea Telegraph becoming a possibility.
Surely England, with her great Indian empire and
its thousand exigencies, will never rest till she has
carried her Indian Telegraph from the Land's End
to Gibraltar, from Gibraltar to Malta, from Malta
to Alexandria, thence by the lied Sea to Bombay.
The next step will be to connect Ceylon or Madras
with Singapore and the Australian Colonies by an
electric wire. England will thus as nearly as possi-
ble render herself independent of all foreign inter-
ference.

Deep aea Telegraphy is yet in its infancy, and the
Atlantic success is but the birth of a great power,
which must speedily bring Great Britain into imme
diate communication with all her dependencies.

Magma will record that the completion of the
first line of Atlantic Telegraph and the inauguration
of the Cherbourg Docks occurred almost on the
same day. The fetes which the Sovereigns of
FRANCE and ENGLAND are now celebrating ought to
be viewed in the light of this association. We
cannot look into the heart of man ; we cannot say I
to what schemes the Prince under whom the Cher-
bourg Docks were completed intended them to be
subservient ; but we know the uses to which the
tendencies of civilised society will compel them to
be put. Cherbourg, with its capacious ac-
commodation for shipping—and with the rapid
and regular communication which railways will
soon establish between it, the great centre of French
monetary operations in Paris, the industrial capitals
of Lille, Malhausen, and Lyons, and the Mediterra-
nean depot of Marseilles--is destined to be the seat
of a great Atlantic commerce. It is the certainty of
this coming event that haunts the dreams of the
inhabitants of the district, and of the financiers,
manufacturers, and merchants of all France. The
demands of the commerce which will find its way to
Cherbourg will render the regular, rapid, and
frequent intercourse of its merchants with
the harbours and manufacturing districts of
England of quite as much consequence to it
IPA its intercourse with the interior of France.
For some time at least the Electric Telegraph be-
tween England and America will be indispensable
to the traders of Cherbourg and their French cor-
respondents. Cherbourg, instead of being a " stand-
" ing menace" from France to England, is an addi-
tional guarantee for the permanence of pacific
relations between the two great nations which are
undeniably at the head of modern civilisation.

This our faith is noway' shaken by the prepon-
derance of military display in the inauguration of
the weeks at Cherbourg. " There's a divinity that
" shapes men's endo, rough-hew than how they
" will:' Society is now possessed by the spirit of pro-
ductive industry and scientific inquiry and experi-
ment, and the great ones of the earth, willingly or
unwillingly, must be contented to move in the same
direction as the crowd. Cherbourg Docks may have
been constructed for the reception of Men-
of-War, but Merchantmen will press into them
and au them up. Trade has crested the
capital which has enabled scientific engineers
to construct the Docks at Cherbourg, and
to lay the Atlantic Telegraphic Cable. Science has
invented the means by which the former were
excavated and the latter was buried in the depths of
otos'. The intellects sharpened by scientific
investigation, and great industrial combinationa,will
press on to further victories over material nature.
Such enterprises are the passion of the age.
Warriors of the sea and land are coming to be re-
garded in their true light—u the guards who
preserve peace, and leave rociety at large free
to pursue unmolested the course it is bent
upon following. They accept their position.
They have caught the contagious enthusiasm
of the time. There have been no more distin-
guished contributors to the progress of science than
are to be found among the Aims of the French and
English navies. The Polytechnic School has given
to France a large proportion of her boldest and most
original speculators in political and social science.
It is to the comprehensive and pervading phenomena
here enumerated that we ought to look, not to the
comparatively unimportant personal predilections of
princes, if we would read aright the future destinies
of society. Great issues for humanity—and good
as well as great—are to come of the simultaneous

oomph tion of the Cherbourg I)ocka and Railway, and
of the first line of Atlantic Electric Telegraph.
We do not grudge to soldiers and sailors the
honoured place they occupy in the ceremonial at
Cherbourg. Without them the three great elements
of modern civilisation would be inadequately repre-
sented. There is something grand in the colossal
combinations of the commerce of this age ;
but undivided devotion to them is apt to en-
gender a selfish and a tricky spirit ; man
dwindles amid greatness of his own creation.
There is something grander still in the achieve-
ments of modern science; but the exclusive
pursuit of science is apt to engender a dreamy,
Sybarite spirit, unready to contend with
the perils of active life. The pursuits of
the soldier— by sea or land tend to de-
velop qualities which trade and science may pos-
slbly leave uncultivated. Grandest, perhaps, of all
the phenomena of mind, is that self-possessionwhich.
amid the storm and mesh of battle, can watch es
calmly the progress of events, and meet as readily
every possible emergency,ss if no danger threatened.
The nations compcsed of industrious and intelligent
I manufacturers and traders, observant and far-
thoughted men of science, and gallant warriors.
require only one other influence to complete the
discipline of civilisation—that habit of constantly
viewing all things in their relations to each other
and to their First Came, and that courageous, trust-
ing sequisseenes in the Divon decrees which, whe-
ther we call it philosophy, or whether we eall it
religion, can alone impart to humanity that character
of power in repose which is its nearest approach to
perfection.

GMAT WISTLIN RAILMAT.--WO are authorised
to state that the amounts of the Great Western Rail-
way for the half-year to the 30th June chow that •
dividend of t per cent. per annum could be paid,
leaving a small balance over; but the directors will
recommend that no dividend be declared, and that
tie lsaleame of 37,0001. be carried over to the next
hallietar.

It is rammed that Mr. P. Talbot, who hu been
Last NAV* private wearaary for riven' yaws, aril' pro-
bably sasswel Ma lots Mr. tla roma as a Cloalsiosor of
Coolons.—Moarhater ONO. than.

VISIT OF lIBR !WIWI TO PAMNSI.d.

WOOLWICH, Mao. 6.
Tlag loyal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the
Ham, J. Disown, vrol take up hew moorings off Gravesend
Immedlrdelyan ht return from Charbourg, sod It is expected
that her Majesty mid his Royal iliablisse the Prince Consort
will embark et Gravesend on Tuesday next, on a visit to the
Prince and Prison. of Pt anis. On the order Whig **-
calved at Woolwich Dockyard to lay dews moorings .6
Gravesend for the royal yacht daring the 'present week, II
was ermaidered that her Majesty would dilsombark at Grayer
rad oa returning from Cherbourg, tat this Melermat is founded
to error. A numerous party et aldpwrlghle, *glee, &e., have
left Woolwich for Ontwwwwil, to maw ihotwoomory acreage-
menu for mooring the vessel, end oometruoting the brow,
for the embarkation.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE FETES AT CHERBOURG.

After the To Daum which was chanted on the
arrival of the Emperor and Empress at the Cher-
bourg station on Wednesday, their Majesties pro-
.osodsd to the reception-room, where they received
the civil, military, and naval authorities. The fol-
lowing is the text of the speeches addressed to their
Majesties by the mayor:
81re,—The inhabitants of Cherbourg have long wished for
in opportunity of laying at the feet of your Majesty the
homage of its respect, and of personally assuring
your Majesty of the gratitude which it fails for all
your limedte. It deifies above all things to thank
yea ea this occasion for the august kindness with
which, to compliance with our humble request, your Majesty
In 1862 cawieded the admirable railway which you this day
deign to inaugurate. We delight to sae in this a new proof
of year constant solioltude both for the welfare of this de-
partment and of France at large. We feel that in this
uniting Cherbourg with Paris your Intontion is to give a
stimulus to trade, to confer new life upon our fertile districts
which were for a time disinherited, and to render for ever
Impregnable. one of the most marvellous bulwarks of the
empire.

Madame,—The arrival of your Majesty amoupt
crowns all our wishes. Here, as everywhere else,
you will only meet with heart. grateful for your
braelte, and happy in the contemplation of the
features of the august mother of the Imutial Pt:uce, the
hope of Frame • wo are delighted to salute in you the a:vi-
cious Image of blinevoissoe repaired yet more attractive by
all the splesdour whit* surronads a throne.

filre,—Deign to receive the keys of this town. They
were presented in 1811 to the immortal founder of your ay-
=sty ; they belong, by more Utter than one, to the worthy
heir of his crown, the glorious manta, of his work ;
the somnign to whom Preece owes the re-rauthilshment

of order en-cl prosperity at home, and of Its dignity and
itlfillllllC4 abroed. "Vies rltrapereni" ! " Vire Hovers-
trios I" " Vive le Priam Imperial I"

The Emperor, in reply, said that he was "happy
to oomplete the work commenced by Louis XIV.,
and to inaugurate in time of peace a port the works
of which had so actively progressed during war."
Among the crowd which surrounded their Majes-
ties were a great number of ecclesiastics from all
parts of the department. On leaving the station,
their Majesties entered an open carriage, in which
Marshals Valliant and Baroque), d'Hilliers also took
their places. In other carriages followed Count and
Countess Walewski, M. Ronher, Minister of Public
Works, General Fleury, and the rest of the imperial
suite. During the passage of the cortege to the
Prefecture, the acclamations of the crowd were in-
cessant. Salvos of artillery proceeded at the same
time from the forte and vessels of war. On arriving
at the Maritime Prefecture, their Majesties received
the wives of the principal functionaries and visitors
to Cherbourg. Thirty young ladies presented the
Empress with a casket of flowers and lace. Her
Majesty received the deputation most graciously.
By this time the eldest of the young girls, who
presented the Empress with a bouquet, addressed
her as follows :

Madams,—Deign to accept these flowers. They are bat
poor emblems of the jny w.th which your august presence
agitates ore hearts. Our magistrates desired that with these
flowers we should offer you some lees, the prude*, of •
manufacte-e formdrd in a spirit of charity. It is on this
ground that we lest confident that you will readily accept
It. Oar mothers remember with pride that in 1811 the
Empress Marie Louise deign d to accept the earliest speci-
mans of this str ageing industry. Allow us ale', Madame,
to hops that your Majesty will not rel Use us the honour of
laying lb hnmLle offering at the feet of the Hmprt a.
Bogert*. Happy and proud in the samba wedded to us,
we beg your Majesty to accept the homage of our love and
the respect:o assurance that thin day will ever remain
engrave° on our memories as one of the happiest end most
glorious of our lives.

- Every house was illuminated, and every vessel in
the port lighted up. The appearance of the town
sad port was moat striking, and an immense and
joyous crowd thronged the streets.
Meanwhile the Queen of England bad arrived,
and the Emperor and Empress immediately paid her
a visit, without being accompanied by any escort.
The Queen accepted an invitation to a private break-
fast with their Majesties yesterday. The breakfast
was given 4 noon at the Maritime Prefecture; only
seven covers were laid. At 2 o'clock tko Queen en-
tered a carriage with their Majesties, in order to ob-
tain a view from the height. of the magnificent
spectacle presented by the roadstead of Cherbourg
dressed with flags, and upon which a brilliant sun
was shining.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

espital now intended to be raised to the small sum
that being the total to 600,0001, and which is aired
for the various stations, 63, that remain to be establ .
The colonial eonomelons of the company_ give them en m-
cleave right for 60 years as regards the Newtoundlend omit
and the shores of Labrador and Prince Edward Island, and
26 yaws as regards Breton Island. They have also a
privilege for 25 years from the State oil Maine.
From the respective goveinments of Great Britain end the
United States the terms obtained are a payment of 14,0001.
per annum from each for the transmission of their messages
for 60 year', until the dividends amount to Bpw cent. on the
original repital of 360,0001., after which each government is
to pay 10,0001. • year much payment to be dependent on the
eSkient working of the line.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The success of the Atlautio Telegraph was hailed
here with the greatest joy, but the cotton and produce mar-
kets were not sensibly affected. The flags at the Town-ball
and Exchange were hoisted in honour of the event, and the
stars and stripes were dying at the American consul's.
Atlantic Telegraph shares were quoted at 8001. to 1,0001., a
stale being quoted at 9001.