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(Fi.orn the Times.)
• ' '1" ": 4- --,,E.N.),-31.04,4 kT
sus, ars . • :• flax iolitained, posses-47
sian of tin Isaias s, Wrilia of 'tlie
which were esteemed the most wonderful of tvLich. .
man had yet heard. There was a small telescope
which could assist the-sight of the observer to
penetrate thousands of miles from the'spot on which
he.stbod: There was a carpet whichqthnspoited
'any one•who took his station upon it siwift is a
wish to any place he desired' to go. There was an
rinhaled
ues zi
stivs,ar andth y
apple which healed all diseases if tim patient but
the fragrance of its sunny, rind:- Such were
the SUbjeCtS of the tales with which tbe-Arabs
soothed the monotony of their midnight encamp-
. audiEnce lunaddiearn storyteller rfaltahteedeittyo
gate in the short twilights of the East. The imagi-
nations of the most, imaginative 'rages had been
taxed to their utmost. stretch to conceive what
miracles could be nerfornied it the :supernatural
fanciful legends of the Eastern
world.
powers might be made favourable to man, and
such were the results. Science in these modern
times and human reason, acting, as we believe,
guidance of Providence, have
to imagine that a dweller in Damascus or Bagdad
could communicate his thoughts to the utmost
u outstrippedderT
the
limits of the habitable world instantaneously as
they were conceived in his own brain. Their
nations of physical geography were So limited that
the Essterns had no conception of the true form of
iie theseedi
s iat
anc nno Oriental poet who ventured
the planet which .we inhabit. Had they, how-
ever,--been" told that the world was a sphere,
and that the thought of man could be made to
encompass it like a girdle, rapidly as the flash which
rent the clouds asunder and passed away ere coke
could say that it had , lightened, how, poor in com-
parison with such a result would all the wonders
have appeared, which, as they supposed, lay hid-
den from human eye-41A -Fiertred for ages to coma
under the noted signet of Solomon ! The electric
telegraph is the miracle of modern times. As yet
this invention is but in its infancy, but already all
Europe is traversed by its wires, and the continent,
too, of "North America. In the course of the next
two or three years we trust to see resultSfar more
extensive. The wire is already coiled up which is
to be cast into the depths of the Atlantic. The
mountains and valleys of that great sea have been
fathomed to ascertain the most convenient course
for its deposit. In a brief spice the electric spark
which is generated in Loudon will pass as swiftly
as the exigencies of its own nature require to the
great cotton city on the delta of the Mississippi,
and to that rude town, whichever it may he, which
may then lie furthest westward in the domains of
the buffalo and the red man. Contemporaneously
with this gigantic result we have other labourers
in the same field at work, who are busily engaged
in fixing the tranaroad for the electric sparkbe-
tween the European continent and the northern
shores of Africa. This limit once obtained, the
lightning-thought can flash freely on its course
across the old land of the Egyptian, whether by
the Red Sea or across the plains of Mesopotamia,
to the cities of our Indian empire, and in due
time, no doubt, to the great centres of Chinese
commerce. Nor is this all. The wire which had
been laid down from London in ono direction will
soon be carried to the city of the Californian gold-
digger. The corresponding wire, on which we
have just marked a few stations, will then be
borne across the Chinese Seas and the Northern
Pacific—touching, it may be, on its way at the
mysterious empire of Japan, and will be linked
on at San Francisco to the western chain. Tien
it will happen that a man may generate a spark at
London, which, with one fiery leap will return
back under his hand and disappear, but in that
moment of time it will have encompassed the
planet on which we are whirling through space
into eternity. That spark will be a human
bought !

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[PRICE 4D. STAT,IPED SD.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING.

ATTACK ON THB ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

The agitatioiitarted Clonakilty a short time
since has been taken up in the midland counties by
the same class of agents,--to wit, the Roman Catho-
lic priesLs and their local servitors. A requisition,
we are told; is in course of signature, and already
numerously signed, convening a meeting of the
" Reformers" ono narrower a circle than the throe
exten,,ire counties of King's, Queen's, and Kildare,
to adopt measures in - support of e motion of
Mr. Miall, which is to be again brought forward in
the next session of Parliament. Some 1 • )ple here
are innocent enough to suppose that the Catholic
party is the one in the ascendant in the government
of Ireland. Certainly the way the patronage of the
country is dispensed goes to support the proposition.
For the bench or the various law offices at the dis-
posal of the Minister none other . need apply.
Seeing, then, that the Roman Catholics and ultra-
Radicals have it pretty nearly all their own way,
they may be asked seriously, are they acting wisely
in urging on this new onslaught on -the Established
Church ? They ought to know that the Protestant
party, although passive, is: not powerless. The
spirit of resistance once aroused may become some •
thing more. - Rome is not impregnable, and King
James's•advice to the residents in glass houses not
. . .

to throw stones, ought not to be lost sight of by
the movers in the present agitation: _

THE TIPPERARY SANK.

The guardians of the tenagh union have agreed
to adopt the suggestion for a compromise of their
claim, recently thrown out by other creditors.
Mr. Going has been appointed to represent the
board. The impression is becoming pretty general
that the whole available funds will be swallowed up
in law if an amicable arrangement be not adopted,
and that immediately. The unfortunate depositors
resident in the neighbourhood of Tipperary have
as strong grounds in pushing the law to the ut-
most as any other creditors, yet as they are now
satisfied to accept a reasonable compromise from
the equally unfortunate shareholders. in the face
of this we still hear of the preliminary steps being
prepared for some hundreds more of additional
actions, promising a goodly harvest to the ap-
proaching term.

Tice dinner which was given a day or two ago to
Professor Morse was highly creditable to all con-
cerned in it, and We are pleased to see that in the
spbech which the Professor delivered on the occa-
sion ho significantly took the more ennobling view
of the subject with which his name has been con-
nected. It is one thing to grub on from wheel to
cog, and cog to wheel, inserting a screw here and
adding an escapement there, but unless we raise
odr eyes every now and then from the tedium of
detail to reflect on how much has been gained, and
to take a long earnest gaze into faturitY, we shall
miss the greatest incentives to future exertion.
Now, man cannot afford to lose a whisper from
the unseen world. It is the spirit in which we
work that signifies, and that spirit. should swell
the prornptings of the Divine Being who thus
eives us - the earnest of our immortal destiny.
Professor Morse was speaking of that most certain
point in the history of inventions, that when the
time has arrived when the discovery is to be made
which is to exercise a great influence on the desti-
uies of man there occurs a remarkable coincidence
of disco Very and harmony of invention in many
minds far separated from each other, and with no
obvious knowledge of each other's thoughts. The
recollection of every man who is familiar with the
history of great scientific discoveries, and of the
heart-burnings and rivalties in the midst of which
they have been cradled, will confim this view.
Professor Morse is reported to have spoken thus*:—
" I am sure I may venture before a Christian British
audience to suggest as its proper solution that the Great
author of all Goad, the Giver of every great gift to the
world, intends when such a boon is bebtowed that He
first and prominently shall be recognised as the author ;
and so, in His 'wisdom, He first prepares the way—
Lie eliminates from hundreds of minds in various
parts of His creation the minor inventions and
lesser discoveries necessary to be made before the
greater and more striking invention is brought forth,
and then it is that the same thought, struck out at the
same time, or at least so near the same time that all
perceive the impossibility of any fntercommunication,
leads one to exclaim as by an irresistible impulse' ' What
bath God wrought I' And this impulse of theheart,is
true. So, too, when the historian has made his search,
and brought together the facts, if any one connected
with a great invention or discovery has attracted to
himself the more concentrated regard or honour of man-
kind, or of a particular nation, how significant is that
dme and more research bring out other minds and other
names to divide and share with him the hitherto exclu-
sive honours I"
He went on to quote the instances of Cabot,
Columbus, and of the 'northern adventurers in
connexion with the discovery of the American con-
tinent ; of Guttenberg, and Faust, and Caxton
in connexion with the art of printing ; of Watt
and Fulton in connexion with steam navigation ;
of Adams and Leverrier as discoverers of the
planet Neptune. The name of our own illustrious
countryman Wheatstone stands prominently for-
ward as one of the three or four which have been
chiefly mixed up with this wonderful discovery. So
has that of Oersted, the Dane. It is not for us to
say to whom the palm should be assigned. It may
be that one has been more concerned in evolving
the theory, the other in applying it in practice. To
do Professor Morse but simple justice, he spoke
with the utmost modesty of his own share in the
invention, which ho described as the application of
the discovery to the practical purposes of life. 'We
might, perhaps, have desired a few warmer words
of praise for the original discoverers than the fol-
lowing :—" Man is but an instrument of good, if
he will fulfil his mission ; He that uses the instru-
rommsvoetoarsttl
crhiiyoctaesiel
instru-
ment ought to have the chief honour;and He thus
indicates His purpose to have it. It is surely
sufficient honour for any man to be a co-labourer
in any secondary capacity to which he may be ap-
pointed by such a head in a great benefaction to the
world." But, though we miss the n Imes of Wheat-
stone and Oersted, we are quite aware of the merits
I.iawnmt
ee
int:.3 doubthot.
impatience
of Professor Morse) The guest at the Albion on Sa-
turday last has deserved wel lof the world, and in his,
generation has done much to advance the
i t
s applaud
energies
Weio
l this
ahf
discovery,
so.
Indian
ri generousanthlein e
ands cause of
human progress. We rejoice to see Englanod and
America united in a project so honourable t.
wenwahtiicohns,exapnednds
peace in the attempt, which wnaictoawilainteohfttei
observes that
be, successful, to link together twohecoo
agree with Professor Morse when _ .
and commercial
the effects of this marvellous
asepnpsleic,aatrieonin
3bat
aibnie.a political
tile completion of our own .
thf
cttele-
graph,houent
r y
British a. n d
Thelosfle
Isles
e anaclas with
ree xi oon_ with the
nor need we despair of ultimately seeing
ex-
tension of the system to_ cur. Australian colonies.
liliseecihrtri c
Then indeed the British dominions will be utecitili
t whole. The
concen-
trated into one vaA guiding thought
which has been conceived at the seat of empire will
pervade them all more swiftly than the red reflec-
tion of the beacons which bore across the lEgeaa
`the tardy intelligence of a captured Troy to the
weary watcher at Agamemnon's house.

COLLAPSE OP A. COLLIERY SHAFT.—Three men—
Joseph Crosland, James Wright, and John Botcon—lost
4 heir lives on Monday last in the Newton Colliery, nea
Ferryhridge, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. They
were descending the shaft of the coliitry, which is 426
feet deep, when the sides. of the shaft suddenly collap.ed,
and a large quantity of earth and other material fell upon
them. The three unfortunate men were killed, and
their bodies were not recovered till 12 hours after,
though great exertions were made to reach them. The
primary cause of the accident is supposed to have beeu
the late heavy rains. An inquest on the bodies of the
deceased has been opened by the coroner of the district
(Mr. Je.wisou), and stands adjourned till next Thurs.
day, to enable Mr. Moreton, Government Inspector of
Mines, to attend.