The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 23.

SPORTING

♦ SPECIAL EDITION of the " ILTPRESEL•
sesta/slag t►e malts of the day's Ramie, is pub-
lished "eery main duriag the Si Irting SWAIM, at
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Tns opening of the Atlantic Telegraph has been
iISORTStsd by the Queen of Enut.ann and the
President of the UNITED STATES. It has not been
inaugurated by wasteful andresemeleas burning of
gunpowder. The Chief Magistrates of the two
greatest free nations of the earth have with admirable
good taste reoognieed the importance of the occasion
by simply exchanging cordial end compli.
mentary messages foss their respective cabi-
nets. They have begun to use the new inatru-
ment for the accelerated interchange of thought
with business-hie simplicity, and with benevolent
greetings. There is, perhaps, more of simple dignity
in the Qualm's menage ; there iv a greater grasp of
thought in the PRESIDENT'S response, with perhaps
a dash of ambitious straiaing after effect. It would
have been better, too, had the concluding para-
graph of the PIZSIDENT'S massage been omitted.
In a mere interchange of courtesies it was somewhat
numinous to show that the possibility of the two
nations being hereafter less amiably disposed to
each other wee pr -ant to his mind. When
one gentleman says to another--end more
especially when a lady says to a gen-
tleman—" I am happy II meet you," it is
scarcely civil to reply, " And Ito meet you—sa long
"as we are friends." There is perhaps, too, the
least of the world of a Bans Blickish attempt to
make the most of her MAJESTY'S good humour in the
hint about keeping the Telegraph neutral. England
bas no with to go to wee with any country, least of
all with the United States. England, by accepting
the Resolutions of the Congress of Paris has
shown her readiness to adopt any name-
able modification of the Law of Nations that
can render war lees inhumane. But really
it is presuming rather too much on her good-natore
to imagine that, in the event of a war, she would
allow the hostile Power to use an Electric Telegraph,
both termini of which are within her territory, to
convey messages to itv Ambassador, CsenersJa or
Admirals. Bad not Mr. BUCHANAN better propose
at once that, in the event oft war between England
and the United States, the PAILSIDENT shall have
fall liberty to establish depots of provisions and
military stores in any pert of the British territory
and shall be allowed the eveivtanoe of the QUEEN'S
memengers to convey his mandates to his diplomatic
and military agents abroad?

The importance of the occasion, however, and the
cordial manner in which this triumph of English sail
American enterprise has been hailed by the people=
the other side of the Atlantic enables us to pain over
Mr. BCCHUIAII.6 etoarderm with a good-natured
smile. He need be under no fear of England's mo-
negating theolectrie ecesmuniestion between the
Old World and the New. The Cable between
Valet& Bay and Newfoundland will not long be
the only one that licks the opposite shores of
the ocean. Brasil, for example, will lose no
time in eseineeting herself in the same man-
ner With the Cape de Verde Islands and the nearest
pointof Europe an theme hand, and with the United
States on the other. The pregnant illustration of
the utility of the Ocean Electric Telegraph conveyed
by the rapid interchange of question and answer
relative to tabs collision of two steamers elf the mast
of Newfonsdhind, on Friday last, will lean no peace
teeny people or Government until its In possemits
of an sum instantaneous mode of commonication.

On Shtarday we published another piece of news
which ought to atieslate Englishmen to the im-
mediate extension of the Ocean Electric Telegraph
to all oar depesdescies, and to all countries wit►
which we have commercial relations. We learn, by
way sf St. Petersburg, that the Plenipotentieries
of glead, Frame, and Russia have concluded
treaties with China. The St. Petersburg date, from
Tien•Tsin are to the 27th of Ism; our own most
recent dates from the same place aro only to the 9th
of that month. If lines of electric telegraph
had eseseetod England with Hang Kong and
Shanghai, the sews would have roarlisdllngland loag
before it said reach St. Petersburg. The English
inemege would osly have had to be transmitted by
the slow old-fashioned means from Tien-Tsin to
Shanghai whereas the Russian message has had to
crawl at this (eompinstively speaking) soma's pees
arrow the immense elevated desert platean of Mon-
golia, mad half the breadth of Siberia. Now that
England, France, Rees* and Almeria" are all to
have diplomatic agents at Pekin, it will be news•
vary to provide as:selves with the most rapid means
of communication to and hose that capitaL

Ir Is desirable that the English public should
dispassionately make op their minds us to the merits
and moral of the attack on the Wesleyan Mission-
Homo at Madras, before the facts of the ease are dis-
torted by the antagonist exaggerations of the friends
and opponents of Foreign Missies& This Miesionary
Question is the great diMculty that the new Home
Government for India will have to contend with in
the Immediate (attire ; and it is theinfors of the