The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-11 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

Mr. erns W. Field, of New York, gave a dinner
last evening at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, at
which about 70 of the principal gentlemen in England
interested in telegraphy were assembled. By arrangement
with the telegraph companies Mr. Field was enabled to
have the telegraph wires brought into the dining-room of
the hotel, sad many interesting messages were despatched
to and replies received from New York, Washington,
Havaanah, Newfoundlaad, and Heart's Content. Among
thes• war may state at full the following me.sage. from
the President of the United States, and from the Hon.
W. H. Seward, Secretary of State. The President tele.
graphed se follows :
Express my congratulations to the telegraph festival
assembly. I wish them .11 possible success, and that their
wires may be multiplied through many seas, and their
stakes be attended through many lands."
And Mr. Seward said

"TtnliTt; the telegraph builders. Instead of
building a bridge for the tramp of hostile armies nevus
the ocean they have stretched a Wire beneath it which
effectually exchanges friendly sentiments, sympathies,
and affections."
Mr. Gladstone was expected. but being detained by the
Isiah debate, the following letter received from him by
Mr. Cyrus Field was read to the meeting :
House of Commons, March 10.
"My dear fir,—l had cherished to the last the hope of
coming to you, but unhappily it is now air fed that 'Lord
Mayo will not speak until after dinner, and I Wore fear
that my previews at the only time of the evening whoa it
could have been of use will be impossible. I should have
much enjoys 1, and I had greatly coveted, the opportunity
your kindness offered for speaking a word of good will to
your countri. But I am detained here by a yet higher
duty : for there is, in my judgment, no duty for public
en min England which at this junctue is so high ,so
snored, as that of studying the case of Ireland, ap-
plying the remedies which I believe it admits. We shall
be hen till past midnight, but not without thoughts of
your festival and of the greatness of the country with
which it L connected. You are called to encounter diffi-
culties, and to sustain straggles which some years ago I
should have add were beyond human strength. But I
have learnt to be mere cautious in taking the measure of
American possibilities, and looking to your past, there is
nothing which we may not hope of your future.—l am,
duo., W. E. GLADSTONI."

Her Hajeety the Empress ban, by a decision of
the 2nd inst., conferred upon the protestant infant schools
d Eltrsaburg the title of "approved," and appointed as
pseeMant the baroness de Maniere, and as vim-president
Madame Brackenhoffer.

A private letter from Grand Cairo, dated Feb.
El, nines that Mr. Gaze, of Southampton, and hie party
of Palestine excursionins, were there, end about to start
for the Holy Land. They had telegraphed; to Jerusalem
far • awnloade of looses to meet them at Joppa. They
kid had • magnifleent four days' voyage from• Brindisi to
TAleamadria. On proceeding to Cairo by rail they 'topped
at lise Par-el-Shaba station, and the Oriental station
'master came on the platform to make hie miasma to the
passengers he knew. He spoke English with • strong
Hampshire brogue, and he turned out to be a &calm:apt=
I gentleman named Tindal. The excursionists had seen all
the lions in Egypt. At the Grand Cairo Hotel they dined
with the niter visitors, 150 sat down to dinner. Among the
dinner party were the Doke and Duchess of St. Albin*
the Marquis of Sly, the Princes. de Croye, and several
Englith noblemen end gentlemen besides. Daring the
nay of the excursionists in Cairo they were alarmed with.
*.smart shack of an earthquake. A troop of donkeys
conveyed them to the pyramids—when on the top of one
them they sang " God eve the Queen " with such
knew thet the solemn Bedouin Arabs, who had woo-
them, seemed exited at the loyalty of the
&Man. The excenionists travelled on the !Imam
~.,20iiii a large number of Mahomedan pilgrims
Ikon.
77.4rohnrok of Attegrath, in Abyssinia, is orna-
gewithin by rude pictures of mints and ineidents in
history, executed without any ideas of peeves-
"lst lice is the absence of art redeemed by antiquity,
asillany have been finished little more than half • °gator,.
Anegyether errors of the artist critics have discovered •
, • eosin anaelizoniern in one design. The sebless is the
parse of the Bed Bs& Masse, deaths( ea the farther
'Mak, Se Making his rod with meek* Way ever Pharaoh,
eshess hares is rapidly balm seleserged, while the llsyp-
isiseley, *beady nearly cordjeed, ere Wow their
dank ~their bads.