The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-04 00:00:00

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Asiatics so delight. He was in the &Bert' d S
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thirsting for the spring. Before him lay his scheme
—practical, he felt sure ; a mine of wealth to those
who would heartily engage in the undertaking, and
a boon to mankind. But where was the good
genius through whose magic power he could be
guided into the way of fulfilling his destiny ? It
was at this juncture that he was introduced to Mr.
THOMAS BI:ASSEY. "I went to see him," said Mr,
FIELD, " though with fear and trembling. He re-
" ceived me kindly, but put me through such an ex-
" arnination that I bad never had before. I thought
" I w.:s in the witness box. He asked every pos-
" sit& question, but my answers satieflA him, and
he ended by saying —‘ It wai an enterprise which
" ' ought to be carried our, and that he would be
" ' one of ten men to furnish the money to do it.' "
Encouraged by this noble offer, Cvatrs W. FIELD Sue-
cee,led in enlisting in the cause Mr. JouN VENDER,
of Alanclie.Aer, who undertook to bear an equal
share with slr. BrtassEr. The action of these
two gentlemen was a turning point in the
history of the undertaking, for it drew to-
wards it men of great wealth, such as Mr. GEORGE
ELLIOT, Mr. BARCLAY, and Mr. BEWLEY.
The result was the formation of the " Tele-
graph Construction and Maintenance Company."
Sir RICHARD GLASS was made managing director,
and he was admirably seconded by the secretary,
Mr. StitrrEn. The Great Eastern was purchased,
and with the Great Eastern came that able officer,
Captain Sir JAMES ANDERSON. Thus organised
the cable was prepared with infinite care by Mr.
CHATTERTON and Mr. WILLOUGHBY SMITH, and, as
fast as ready, taken on board the vessel and coiled
in three enormous tanks. On the 15th July, 1865,
the ship started on her memorable voyage, to end
in a disappointment sufficient to break the heart of
a man with less faith than that of CYRUS W. FIELD.
For a week all went well. Twelve hundred miles
of cable had been paid out, and but six hundred re-
mained, when, hauling in to remedy a fault, it
parted—anddisappeared in the depths of the Atlan-
tic. For days and nights the bottom of the ocean
was dragged, and though the lost treasure was
three times grappled, every effort failed to bring
it to the surface. Again Mr. CYRUS FIELD
returned to England defeated—yet full of hope and
resolution, for thoseon whose supp3rt he relied knew
that an accident only had stood between them and
success. Measures were at once taken to make a
second cable, and to fit out a new expedition, and
soothed by that knowledge he returned to his
family in America. But Mr. FIELD was destined
to endure another great disappointment before the
full sunshine of success burst on the enterprise. The
Attorney-General of England had given his written
opinion that, without a special Act of Parliament,
the company could not raise new capital by the
issue •of 12 per cent. shares. The works were
stopped, and the money received from subscribers
returned. Again Mr. BRASSEY stood in the gap,
declaring that, if required, he would put down
£60,000 more. But it was necessary to organise a
new company. Ten gentlemen met in London and
placed on the table £lO,OOO a-piece, and thus arose
the Anglo-American Telegraph Company. Tho
bonds were opened to the public through the
eminent American banking-house of Messrs. MOR-
GAN and Co., and in fourteen days the whole
£600,000 had been raised. It was the 2d day of
March when the Company was registered. Yet
such was the vigour and despatch, so great the
knowledge gained by the long spell of bitter expe-
rience, that in five months from that day the cable
had been manufactured, coiled in the Great Eastern,
stretched across the Atlantic, and was sending
messages, literally swift as lightning, from continent
to continent. " This was not a lucky hit," said the
teller of this story, " a fine run across the ocean in
" calm weather. It was the worst weather I ever
" knew at that season of the year. We had fogs
" and storms almost the whole way. Our success
" was the result of the highest science, combined
" with practical experience, everything being per-
" fectly organised to the minutest detail." In-
dee 1, nature had done her worst—and man had
triumphed. But the work was not over. The
new c ible had been stretched, still the old one re-
mained to be recovered.

We regret our spice is not sufficient to tell the
story of this wonderful achievemeut, which excited
even more surprise than the successful laying of
the cable. CYRUS FIELD aided in the task, and saw
in its success the bright reward of years, of anxiety,
and toil. It is thus that he sums up when standing
as the honoured guest of scores of the most cele-
brated of his fellow-citizens —" It has been," he said,
"a long, hard struggle—nearly,l3 years of anxious
watching and ceaseless toil. Often my heart has
been ready to sink. Many times, when wandering
in the forests of Newfoundland, in the pelting rain,
or on the deck of ships on stormy nights, alone, far
from home, I have almost accused myself of mad-
ness and fop)* to sacrifice the peace of my family
and all the hopes of life, for what might prove, after
all, bat a dream. I have seen my companions, one
and another, falling by my side, and feared that I,
too, might not live to see the end. And yet one
hope has led me on, and I have prayed that
I might not taste of death till this
great work was accomplished. That prayer is
answered, and now, beyond all acknow-
ledgments to men, is the feeling of gratitude to
ALMIGHTY GOD. Of the results of this enterprise,
I commercially and politically, it is for others to
speak ; to one effect only do I refer as the wish of
I my heart, that, as it brings us into closer relations
with England, it may produce a better understand-
speak against England, words of
ing between the two countries. Let thosewhomwiusltl
censure
Englishmen to joinin this
of their bread and
enterprise
words of cheer, which I shall
language. I have eaten
tooem me tftrcohmkindnessother
from than
mine. I have received
threiseei
them in the darkest hours
never forget. If any
drank of their cup, and I havelN,ords of mine can tend to peace and goodwill they
shall not be wanting. I beg my countrymen to re-
tnernh,r the ties of kindred. Blood is thicker than
water. America, with all her greatness, has come
out of the loins of England, arid though there have
been sometimes family quarrels—bitter, as family
quarrels are apt to be—still, in our hearts there is a
yearning for the old home, the land of our fathers ;
and he is an enemy of his country and of the human
race who would stir up strife between two countries
which are one in language, in race, and in religion."
Through this tale of intere,t there runs a vein of a
most generous appreciation of the labours of others.
Above all, comes that heartfelt sentiment of attach-
ment to the old mother country, which in the far
hereafter will be productive of great good. Cables
may cross and recros each other in the still depths
of the Atlantic; devices may be discovered by
which messages can be sent more speedily through
this or other agencies ; the wire of to-day may bear
to that of a century hence the proportion of the
galley which carried Columbus, to an ocean
steampacket of this day ; yet the name of
CYRUS W. FIELD will remain, and the story of his
success be told with pride in thousands of American
homes. . We hail then with pleasure the fact that
associated wit this story will be a warm and hearty
sympathy fur England, and a just appreciation of
the motives and objects which influence her people.

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MURDER AND SUICIDE.—Jane 1114Carthy, who
murdered her dau3hter Hannah last Tuesday afternoon in
Shoreditch, and then cut her own throat in four places,
died on Friday from the wounds she inflicted on herself.
Her recovery was. regarded as hopeless froth the first.
There is no doubt that she was insane. She had been de-
lirious during a greater portion of Tuesday morning, as
well as on Monday cv,!ning. She was an industrious
woman, and her health broke down from overwork, while
endeavouring to support her four children, of whom the girl
Hannah was the youngest.. The disgrace brought on her
family by the imprisonment of her husband for theft ap-
[ pears to have been the cause of her insanity.