The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

LONDON, 3101VDAY, OCTOBER 13.

ON Thursday evening last a dinner wu given by a
number of gentlemen connected with the various
telegraphic comeauice, in honour of Professor MORSE
the r:ientific hero for 'Allow is reserved the glory of
bringing Englund and America within speaking
distance of each other. The fact is as honourable to
those who gave the entertainment as to him in whose
honour it was giro). Tne two thousand miles of
cable will have the practical effect of diminishing the
distance between Acre end America by more than one
thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine miles, as far
as the mere delivery of messages is concerned. And
bow much depends upon &message! A message from
Paris to Toulcuse, at the time of the end of the
Peninsular War, would have prevented the occur•
rence of one of the bloodiest battles fought during
the contest with NAPOLEON. A message sent at the
right time may perform functions of the most
important nature, from the prevention of a war to the
saving of a mercantile firms. Professor Mona, who
will have the glory of making the transmission
of such measeges possible across the Atlantic,
deserves that hie merits should be recognised.
Although the first actual realisation of the idea of the
electric telegraph took place in England, it is to
Professor MORSE that America is indebted for lays.
tem of telegraphs which covers the States with lines
40,000 miles long. He has conferred upon the
United States benefits greeter than any which they
have received from any other living citizen. The
distances between correspondents in that hugs
country, whether Government officials, merchants,
relations, or (times, are so enormous that the difficul-
ties of communication are greater than could be
imagined in the old country. It is no uncommon
thing for a New Yorker to depart from the whole of
his relations and settle • thousand miles away in the
far wee, without any hope of ever visiting them
agaio. Without the electric telegraph the commu-
nication between the severed relations would droop,
and, perhaps, in time be stopped. Families would be
sundered morally u well as materially, were it not for
a cheap and rapid mode of correspondence. The mu
who effects this is cue of the greatest besefactou to
his country. If he does it in spite of material
obstacles which require for long periods of time the
utmost tension of ell his bodily and intellectual can-
cities—in spite of morel obstacles from the opposition
of interested partite, or the indifference of lukewarm)
friends, his merit is the greater. Such merit is doe
to Professor Mona; and, if he only came amongst
us with this title to our respect, he would deserve
to be received with triumphal honours. Simply
because he has applied *duos to the purposes of
increasing the comfoes of millions of our brethren
in Amerios, it is a right thing that he should be
welcomed. But to there claims on our admiration he
brings others on our gratitude. Re is going to
bring us into the claret connexion with the other
great division of the Anglo-Saxon race, from which
some thousand miles of ocean yet sever us. He is
going to multiply the facilities of commerce,—to

ineriase • tboneandfold the possibilities of
conference between the two countries. The
more we know of each other, the leas
chases will there be of our quarrelling. Misun-
derstanding is another word for quarrelling, end be
who opens the way to a more complete understanding
between nations is • peace-maker of the highest ceder.
We treat more to the effects of Mr. Moan's cable
than to the inns of all the peace societies 011 both
aides of the Atlantic.

There is 'nether reason which induoss us to feel
pleasure in the tact of the celebration of Thursday
lest. It was a peace festival of the beet kind. It is
all very well to exclaim with MILTON, " How charm-
ing is divine Philosophy ;" but we ought to dos little
more for Philosophy then cautious calling her
divinity, and then leap lug her as destitute of eloth-
log as the most scantily dressed goddess in the
Pantheon. We all sly we love Philosophy, but we are
apt "to love sod to ride away." Not so with other
objects of our adoration—war, for example. We are
m tired of celebrating the glories of martial harem
When they visit our shores, the air is rent with the
thunders of our cannon; it is heavy with the
incense we burn on their altars, rich with
the perfume of the viands we offer up to them. We
overwhelm them with honours, and make them
blush—when they can blush—with oar fulsome
praise. We do not say that this excessive laudation
is always unmerited. Heroism, whether displayed in
war or in any other manner, is worthy of reward,
but too many are apt to think that martial heroism
is the only heroism. We do not often AO the per-
formers of any glorious deeds, except those dose on
the battle field. The dinner to Professor Monet is
a peat exception to our usual practice, and we are
only too glad to reeved our approbation of it. It was,
as we have said, a peace festival of the best kind.

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