The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

CYRUS W. FIELD.

We have often had occasion to make honourable
mention of this name in the columns of The Anglo-
American Times. It is a very gratifying circum-
stance that the high opinion we expressed of his
merits has been universally approved by our readers.
Our purpose has not been to flatter Mr. FIELD, or
to indulge in anything akin to a fulsome eulogy.
He is far above and beyond aught of this kind. As
faithful chroniclers of passing events, we have re-
corded the facts of his public career, being perfectly
content to leave our contemporaries and posterity
to do him justice.
Recent occurrences, especially in connection with
the Atlantic Cable Banquet, at Liverpool, have again
called attention to the name of Mr. FIELD. It will
be remembered that he was officially noticed in that
brilliant commemorative occasion by the noble lord
who presided. The regret was expressed by the
distinguished chairman that, it was not in the power
of her Majesty, Queen VICTORIA, to bestow the
well-earned honour of Knighthood on Mr. FIELD,
coupled with the avowed opinion that if it were
tendered to that gentleman it would probably be
declined.

We are not in the councils of Mr. FIELD, and
know nothing of his private convictions with regard
to regal honours. It is not for us, thqrefore, or, in-
deed, for any one but himself, to state how far he 11
may agree on that subject with Mr. GEORGE PEA-
BODY. Neither is it to be presumed that the titled
presiding officer of the banquet at Liverpool had
held any communication with Mr. FIELD touching
this matter, because, if he had done so, he would
undoubtedly have announced it to the guests at
that memorable board. No one could suppose. that
Mr. FIELD knew that any allusion would be made
to him, or, that, if he had a right to infer it, he
would offer any suggestions with reference to the
part he has taken, from the inception of the- idea
and commencement, to the successful close of this
world-wide enterprise. What Mr. FIELD has done
in the work of laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable
is before the nations ; and no patent of nobility can
add one jot or tittle to his hard-won honours. There
stand the facts on the fair pages of history; and
there they will stand as long as the ocean rolls its
waves, or the electric flash shall pass through its
wide and deep waters.
It cannot, and will not, be deniel that Mr. FIELD
was one of the first men, either in England or
America, to move in this matter. It was he who
drew up the first papers. He obtained the first
subscriptions. He persevered when almost all
ot4rs gave way. He crossed and recrossed the bil-
lows, beneath which the wire was to be laid, oftener
than any other man, for the sole purpose of per-
fecting those plans without which the work would
never have been done. He bore the scoffs and
sneers of unbelievers, the cold rebuffs of calculating
financiers, the callous indifference of the unthinking
mass, the jealousies of rival interests, the secret
and avowed hatreds of national animosities,
11 through winter and summer, through sunshine and
storm ; and, in the midst of all this, he never fal-
tered for a day—no, not for an hour.
In reviewing these facts, in the pages of The
Anglo-American Timer, we have no complaint to
make with regard to the course of British states-
men and publicists toward Mr. FIELD. It is for
them to decide as to the standard of duty in this
case. They are as well aware as we' are that. all
they and we may say and do in such a public con-
cern must be passed in review by posterity. If they
have done justice to Mr. FIELD, well. If not, pos-
terity will do it for him.—Anglo-American Times.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LosnoN, Oct. 15.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

CARDIFF, Oct. 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Top Gallant,
for Rio Janeiro.

OFF PENZANCE, Oct. 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Castor,
from Jamaica.

BRISTOL, Oct. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Florence,
from Trinidad.

FALMOUTH, Oct. 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Cassini,
crew steamer, from Liverpool for Brazil, vii.h machinery
damaged.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

PLYMOUTH, Monday, 11 a.m.
The paddle-wheel steam-frigate Gladiator arrived in the
Sound this morning, having in tow a frigate, supposed to
be the Bristol, 31, from the West Coast of Africa, last from
Spithead.

Three ships of war, from the eastward, are now entering
the Sound, supposed to be the Niobo, Mosquito, and Rover,
part of the Prussian squadron.

GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 14—Flecba, from Ghent ; Royal Consort
from Archangel ; Harfruehers, from Soderham ; Railway,
from Cahn ; Grace Darling, from Cronstadt ; A.ziadne,
from Dantsic; Morning Star and Esk, steamer, from
Guernsey ; Gazelle, from Archangel ; Maeso, from Cron-
stadt ; Victoria, from St. Petersburg ; Helen, from Caen ;
Locha we, from Archangel.

Arrived, Oct. 15.—Aurora, steamer, and Fyenoord,
steamer, from Rotterdam ; Dolphin, from Antwerp.
Sailed, Oct. 15.—Seine, steamer, for Bduiogne.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, Oct. 14.—Justitia, screw steamer, from London,
for Genoa; Catharine, Morrison, from London,_ for the
west; Result, of Guernsey, from the west, for tho north ;
Edeline, from Sunderland, for Caldera ; Theresa Tietjens,
from Sunderland, for Bombay.

Advices from Mobile, Alabama, state that on
September 2 an island was thrown up by volcanic force
on the- Florida coast, fifteen miles from laud, 90 feet above
the sea loyel, and 1,700 feet in circumference.