The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-08 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

,1113 KILLARNEY tRANIQUET tO SIR
CHARLES BRIGHT.
(lIT MIMSI MID 111111 **swim ruaciauna
EILLARIET, Totting 2•1111010.
This evening a grand entertainment wu given by
the gentry of the county Harry In honoar of the enowefol
baying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, to which, amongst
other dietiagalehed guest; hie Excellency the Lord-Lien-
taunt wee Invited. Tbs dinner was given In the principal
went M the magnificent Railway Hotel, erected at

ill/sway, and the company, tibia numbered over
one hundred, woe, for th. most part, of an
imtzemaly Baled and infineutial charaoter--ei result wtiloh was
In mute 011111RIZO attributable to the annanally high prioe
of the dinner tickets. The apartment sad line of tablas
were handeoMely decorated with !beam and behind the
principal mat • stand was famed of the English and Ame-
rican Bags wilted.

The chair was ample& by the Hight H. H. A. Ella-
MUM, ILP. Upon his tight Ma NOW his Etaallsaay the
Lord Ventaneat ; on his left being Mr. Horan the chair-
man of the ittlitatic Telegraph Company. The other guest'
at the principal table were the Duke of ilavihratar, the
Kredght of Harry, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Colossi F. Baize,
Professor Thompson, G. Hoe, W. C. Haw. Kr. ♦. B.
O'Coanor, Ac.

At a quarter to 10 ealeek the Cnatnarax, le propodag
the toast of "Thu Qum," set, upon an ocomion like the
remit, when they were asamablcd toils boom to the akar
tick triumph which had been stained, he might be parmitled
to allude to the fact that her reckon Majesty, identifying
bored( ea she had always doss with miwytbing that cost&
bated to the convenience as, the wants end 'dohs, el her
people, had been the first to embody the national baba& sad
to make use of the wonderfal Instrument that bed been Jost
succesefully ociaiplemd, by sending teenage' at peke and
good-will to our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic.

The Mad of the Priam Consort, Prince of Wales, sad the
net of the royal family haring bees likewise drank,

TM CitAILEAN told the next toad which b had the
bosom to proper was the health of the noblemen who had
that night honoured their festivities with their pennince, with
the matiment of "Prosperity to Ireland." (Cheers.) He
(the Chairmen) had the honour of serving under the Pee-
decessor of his Excellency the previous Lord-Lieu-
tenant, who won the hod te of all coenected with
him by his nobleness and &sloganeer:shim. H. glinted
Gar some moments at that remembrance, and he could
&mum hie Excellency that it did not in the slightest
degree detzect from the sincerity with which that day he had
bid him welcome to his house by the lake, and with which be
In the name of the gentlemen of !Cowry bid him welcome to
their what kingdom. Team was tees • time when it
would have seemed • mockery to del.* to the prosperity of
Ireland. Happily that Cote wee now at an end,
although he did not mean to say there wee
not much to be done towards developing the com-
mercial MOUTON of the country, by improving its
agrioulture, and promoting habits of prudence end
desedinees amongst their people ; those results,
however, *odd not bottle work of any goverment. (Cheers.)
It should be acomplished by the merchants and gentry, and
by the energy and industry of the people themselves; but he
did believe that so fir as it was posaible he • government to
encourage the agriculture of Ireland, it would be done by the
noble lord who now filled the °Moe of Lord Lieutenant. Dif-
fering M he had with the noble lord on many political points,
having been connected with the government of which his
lordship wee a chivalrous opponent, still hy the chairman,
believed that they never had • lord l'autenant more smartly
maxima for the prosperity of Ireland than the one they had
now the honour of entertaining. (Cheers.) The chairman
then proposed the health of Lord Eglintaa and the prosperity
of Irdend.

The meet was drank amidst loud applauds..
Rh EXCELLENCY, cm rising, was reesived with en-
thusiastic cheering. Ile mid—Mr. Charms sad Gentle-
mea, I thank you for tbs kind maim, Is wb'oh you hans
proposed and drank toy health. It Is always • plasma
thing to bare that honour paid tons by a body of gentlemen,
but I cm this maxim lid It emsetned with my predecemor.
There is nothing that gives me miner plemure then Pa
acknowledge the matte of a predrosmor. flare has hem no
00046011 on which I have spoken in public in which I bad s•
opportunity of doing so, and I bars now berm my testimony
to the great merits of my predecessor. (" Deer, hear," and
apphisse.) I h ire also rejoined that In preparing my health
it shodd be coupled with that of prosperity to Ireland.
(Hew, beer.) No sentiment sinks mere easily into my
Meet than that cm; nothing gave as so much bearthit
totems& when I was here before, and it is the Wall interest
now. I Snow some have been agreeably surprised at Boding
the degree of prosperity to which Ireland has now attained.
I muds, whin my ltsrath was couploi with that sentiment
when I wee bore before, I Ida semen tag like what Mr. Her-
bert Meribes, that it wee to a arta& degree--a myth. I feel
now It is • reality that Ireland is as proaperoui as she de-
sere.—(hear, heat)—but not so prosperous as she will be to
• few rem I am most grateful indeed for your
!Meg Om me en amain to assure you of
the bearthlt hatred which I take in the great
Mendes ant has Italy bum empisted, and to show you
het h eaudiset en • late combs in Dublin me not calmed
by mg hakeerennoses on my pert, er may mat of
desire to mounig• that Morphs by every mane
la my power, but simply by Medal noonday.
(ber, beer.) That I could have needlessly or wil-
fully abented myself at such an maim either from any
' pommel bereft or hem any seeterian *My, I treat
se am whe knows me will for • past Marina Ake
there ere meny who have net Inewr on, sod se Owes
public ocomieni ere the ortly way in which I ea able to
speak my Maw to the people of Indeed, I beg to same
then who have not hitherto known me that such is the feet.
(Obsere.) We bent at on this metrics to celebrate an
ere—the emphasis of on eaterprien not only of the
areas* powelhie Wrest te Ifsgiend, bet to Memel* general.
La hot, it is hardly peesfbte to ors.-alienate the impute-me
of the Mb vie width blabs us to the Wanes seatimat. I
tram we most oder eimmetemes deems diseeeregmaset.
It is true Oat the eessmeeloake, which was so per-
het end oomph's bat a little while ego, has
kw a liens—sed a tim. only—bow distont'uned. I
womb alba ray peel homier* be the slight die-
coesegement ender white we now Maar. I cannot but fed
that the ea having boom ass. &Mimi it sop sever again be
lest; awl if the present wire be oseetwertel In rosletaining
Its photo, which I trial In beim may eat be, the ensrgy
end ennwpries ef ttr people of this country wA set allow it to
die away. It is hipmfbie, ea I have mid beam Is erodes
a mere isapertant seMer. Maurine Moe eat, end pale
have wag el deeds of diem end enniennie bet lee Woo-
den. of mesh] mom hove Ms their MIMI" mg 4.638.01
to nide, woe bewellola t 3 the hum awe thew may el Vie
mad esseeedel victories Inspired by the WON. aelhors
. . . . _

pelmiethea—(sheire)—eed ifs meted time; there were the
impel eel pi/Am In metiers ems time are deem
sod the Isimpspit, all meet womisital, t•dmd, is that it le
dieselt to tweed the plea of Piny; bet tbe nmelepon-
darted at all it the telegraph, the peat triampltwe are and now
to celebrate —(ebeen)--med it le woaderfal that the farther
wo ge Ws the ewer of a dere, the mos Ware eppesre to
PM up he mysteries, and it is possible that even mom ex-
teessilbery asereeiss time this may Mew open te the
beers misiL Mercerise, hays teraled inliemitedspeee,
mid brought hikes us with endimpela preoleios
wells is camperisee with which ice 011111 pima,
seems be slab tato imignleleseoe. Astrologists la►s
rereled Mien smenes; seem his enabled es to defy
the Willi Old ware and slime itealhOshe ipaos. Of print-
ing. feel eat say s word. Precdeal miser ►as ambled se
to pews the most gigue& meehismy by the most simple
Meeker the hand of • child. Ant It hes bete reser►ed fur
dm pressed day, sad I may my for the present hoar, to terry
wards to the farthermost end of the earth with the rapidity of
theinght—to draw eitiotrieity from the rioted*, and bring it
Wong the depths of the ocean for our stories. (Cheers.)
Wham we resider the extraordinery anderbAtag that ►es
been emeemplished within the list for weeks; wire we ra-
iler that . sable of about 2,000 miles has been ereeded tr-
amith the ocean, • length which, If multiplied tea these, would
mesh am behest colonise sad nearly warerma. the earth;
whet vs etiaddev It is stretched along the bed of
shiner seat shells, which appeared &stied for
m a fordatiba by Pro►idenos, and derching
from the pints which helm imeteeptisse would
look to ; end w►rn we madder its great riselts that will
or from the enterprise, we meat a bee hen how mallielently
to admire the genies sad energy of those who planed it, or
bow to be mellakelly thankful to the Almighty thr Irving
lielesses. sash . pewee to the hewers rase he eters benelit
it is ee be 're in force. (Cheers.) Art Ist ne let et the
osier which this telegraph bee peened der it wee err Ito
mowed. At first It was rapidly laid o►er the land, unities
states, coratonalties, end (ranter—extending o►er hills end
►alleys, roads end milirsys ; but the use appeared to present