The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-08 00:00:00

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reek at each thread, eh•l Wet Jon, the hne."

(Cheers.) And we may feel, gentlemen of Ireland, of Eng-
land, and of America, who may happen to be pr tint. that
we may take our wand here upon the extreme rorky ledge of
our beloved Ireland; we may, AA it were, leave in our rear
behind ea the HAM the strike, and the blond:shod of the
elder Europe, and I fear I may my of the elder Asia ;
and we may pledge ourselves, weak ea our agency may be—
imperfect a• our powers may be—inadequate in etrict diplo-
matic form ea one ere:but:ale may he et in the face of the
unmeshaled eircumstaneat of the place and of the hour—in
the immediate etighbourhned of the mighty veuele whooe
appoommos meg be beautiful on the waters, even as are the
let epos She maintains of them who preach the goepel of
pemo—oe a homage duo to that memo scienne which
eftsu affords higher and holier lemons of harmony and
swede/ill than the wayward paeslone of man are Always
Z utm.....seme--la the face and in the strength of ouch
hat to pledge ounelvee to eternal
between the world and the new. (Loud cheere.) peace
y,
what mews would there be for miamderetanil-
Jusilistien could there be for war, when the hie-
imam menus, trim the full explanation, when the genial
and healing mewl may be wafted even across: the mighty
Atlantic quicker dm the ounbesien'a pooh or the lightning's
LA. (Cheers.) I fkei, gentlemen, that I shall beat embody
the sentimente which I am cure pervade this entire meting
—the sentiments meet skin to this company and this hoar,
if, after having drunk the health of the gentle edema of the
British islands, 1 new :all upon you to drink with conge-
nial honours to the tooting fritnitsbip of the British islands
and of America, and to the health and welfare of the Presi-
dent of the l'iti*d States. (Loud and protracted cheering.)
The tome having ben duly honoured,
Dr. PA Ex rx, of the Niagru, having been loudly :idled on,
returned thanks for the manner in which the toast had been
drunk. Ile observed that the great work which they were
Inaugurating wall form a bend of union between this coun-
try and Ameeka, and he believed every American was most
almeently ambles that that union should Le firm and lasting.
Ssmf mango that mewed along the Atlantic telegreph
lane to cement the union between the two countries.
Ho emoid same them, on behalf of Captain Iluileon and the
names of Its
iiara,f that they to: the greetest intermit in
the hat nothing would be left undone on their
part to peomolo It, and that they wire eimerely anitioeui for
the emente and prosperity of the coinpany. (Hew.) De
treated be would la permitted to my, that nut the least in-
tensifier's:Mare in the day's proceedings to him woe the
Femme alas nobleman who now administered the Weirs
of helm& sad who. he might say, env the vrrn Bnt Englieb
gentleman who spoke and wrote of the United Stotts of
America with the tidelity of a philosopher and tbo benevo-
ewe de philanthropist. (Hear, hear.)
After mural other toasts hod been disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN again rem and mid that the neat toast
wee "Strews to the Cable." (Lud cheers.) lie would
,sittplei with that tomt the name of Mr. Brooking, one of the
directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and at the
Mlle time he must ropecsa the regret which they all felt at
the unavoidable absenee of Mr. Cyrus Field ltied other gentle-
men connected with the great work which they hod 'met to
inaugurate. (Cheers.) It wee at one liner not eo rimy to
drink sueives to the cable. Its friends not long ago were
hoping against hope, and labouring against enormous dill-
elation. Now.they were hippy to say Bog the task, though
they secepted the wire sentiment of hie Excelknery, that
they meet not be too mite of succers, was rapidly approach-
ing completion. Temporary dimppointitients might occur,
yet nobody who considered this question could doubt of its
ultimate sumer. (Hear.) When they remembered that for a
temporary puree—to fecilitete the operations of the war
with Rnad•—• submarine telcgreph wee laid from Verna e't
the Crimea, a distance about one-fourth of that which is now
bring attempted, could any one doubt, whin the magnitude
of the intermits now at Make were considered, that this pro-
ject too would be aucemsfully carried out ? It was itiquesible
to exaggerate the impirtaniv of ebb, great work, five:
whatever pint of view they regarded it and its value and
wonderful chore-ter were so, fully eppredoted that it wart
tinny...wry for hint to dwell at any length upon it. There
we, 4,, however, vi which he wicked to
allude. The gentlemen who had undertaken this work had