The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-02 00:00:00

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

On Thursday morning, shortly after ten o'clock,
a special train left Charing-cross for Strood with a
party, by invitation, to see the last lengths of the
Atlantic Telegraph Cable received into the Great
Eastern, and to inspect the arrangements for laying
it across the Atlantic. The following were among
the guests :—The Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis
of Lorn, Lord Houghton, H. F. Barclay, Esq.,
Thomas Brassey, Esq., A. H. Campbell, Esq.
George Elliot, Esq., A. S. Finlay, Esq., M.P.,
R. A. Glass, Esq. (managing director), Daniel
Gooch, Esq., M.P., Lord John Hay, Wil-
liam Shuter, Esq. (secretary), Captain A. T.
Hamilton, W. H. Stephenson, Esq., Geo. Saward,
Esq., Wm. Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S., Professor W.
Thomson, F.R.S., Professor C. Wheatstone, F. R.S.,
Francis A. Bevan, Esq., Charles E. Stewart, Esq.,
T. H. Brooking, Esq., Matthew Lyon, Esq., General
Balfour, F; S. Head, Esq., Colonel Gleig, James
Horsfall, Esq., Cyrus W. Field, Esq., John
Penn, Esq., D. D. Heath, Esq., Richard Potter,
Esq., Capt. J. IL Richards, Mr. Adams, Sir C. T.
Bright, M.P., Lieutenant-Col. F. E. Macnaughton
and lady, Robert C. Bevan, Esq., John Chatterton,
Esq., Hon. John Bigelow, Hon. G. V. Fox
(Assistant-Secretary, American Navy), George W.
Weeks, Esq., L. Clark, Esq., Charles Webb, Esq.,
P. Cazenove, Esq., E. Payton Wright, Esq., Col.
D. D. Muter, Chas. Pomeroy, Esq., and daughter,
Mr. Kellogg, of Massachusetts ; C. Griswold, Esq.,
Edward Lawrence, Esq., and lady, C. Burt, Esq.,
Herbert Swift, Esq., Albert Brassey, Esq., J. B.
Martin, Esq., R. Collett, Esq., L. Wells, Esq., Sir
W. W. Wynne, Samuel Canning, Esq., and Henry
Clifford, Esq. The arrangements were perfect, the
luncheon sumptuous, the day fine, and the party
therefore a success. The cable—which looks like a
hempen rope not,so thick as a man's wrist—is coiled
in three iron tanks, one forward, one amid ships,
and one aft. The aftermast tank was receiving the
last lengths from the Iris, and the sailors below
were singing cheerily as they ran with the coil,
beautifully packed, round and round a central reel,
and forming what appeared a solid mass. The ap-
paratus for paying out and hauling in the cable ex-
cited great attention, and were considered fine
specimens of engineering skill. Mr. Pender, who
took the chair, proposed " The Health of the
Queen," then " The President of the United States,"
and finally, " Success to the Atlantic Telegraph,"
which was received with great enthusiasm. Mr.
Cyrus W. Field was then loudly called for, and
readily responded. He said his feelings were mixed
with pain as well as pleasure. He had pleasure in
the confidence with which he looked for success to
crown their present effort to unite the New and
the Old Worlds ; and, if it should please Providence
that they should be again disappointed, he would
renew his efforts with a firm determination of a
final success, and that they would achieve this re-
sult in the end. But in case of present success, he
would remain with his friends on the other side of
the Atlantic, and as he had the most complete con-
fidence in the result of the present voyage, he
felt he was bidding adieu perhaps for ever to the
dear friends here. He must say that while
he had been in England he had received nothing but
kindness, and although his friends on the other side
of the Atlantic were very dear to him, he could not,
without feelings of deep regret, bid adieu to those
here. All true Americans were proud of the fact
that they were descended from the English. Before
sitting down he would take the liberty of proposing
the health of a distinguished member of the House
of Lords, and amid loud cheers he named Lord
Houghton. The cries of " Lord Houghton" were
commingled with a name by which his lordship is
so well known, " Monckton Milnes." When that
nobleman arose, and bowing to the quarter whence
the cry proceeded, said, " I thank the gentlemen
who have called me by my name. Throughout his
career he had lost no opportunity of doing all he
could to cement the people of England and Ame-
rica. He had never been able to see the difference
between them, springing from the same stock,
speaking the same language, governed by laws
derived from the same source, and actuated by simi-
lar motives. These were the two leading nations
of the World, and together they could defy the uni-
verse. But they might accomplish, by acting in
friendly concert, a much higher and nobler purpose
I—they might instruct the universe." These re-