The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-08 00:00:00

The Atlan is Telegraph.

The Times holds that those who look upon Eng-
land's abnegation of continental influence as only a
proof that other interests are more important to her
may derive an argument or an illustration from the
Atlantic cable. It is our achievement of the year,
our contribution to the doings of the world, which
we may set against Prussian military glory or
French diplomatic influence as shown in the events
of the past summer. While the continental nations
are engaged in those discussions or struggles out of
which we may hope that a peaceful and permanent
settlement of European limits will arise, England
turning her back on the Old World, has performed
a w,ork as grand, as important, and as wonderful as
any that has been done elsewhere. And there are
few who-will fail to make the reflection that the
people whose genius, enterprise, and perseverance
have achieved such a work are able not only to hold
their own, but to assert their due influence when-
ever the occasion shall demand. The eminent and
courageous men who have done this service to their
country well deserve the compliment which the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, representing in
this matter the public at large; paid them by the
banquet on Monday evening. Never were honours
better deserved than those which her Majesty has
been advised to bestow on them. As to the work
itself, the Times scarcely dares to predicate its
magnificent effect upon the civilisation of the world
and the happiness of the human race. It may be
that at last the promised pacification of the world
will tend to be realised ; that patriotism will give
way to universal philanthropy, nationality to what
may be called internationality, and that the
magnitude of the interests created by immediate
and incessant intercourse will make war almost im-
possible. The Daily News finds that the speeches
delivered at the Liverpool banquet on Monday even-
ing in honour of the layers of the Atlantic cable
were creditably free from the exaggerated rhetori-
which the subject seems almost invariably to pro-
voke. We stand at the beginning of vast enter-
prises, the full scope of which it is impossible to
forsee, but which promise to bring into communion
the uttermost parts of the earth. One cannot, in-
deed, share the confidence which the American
Consul at Liverpool expressed on Monday, and to
which his audience responded enthusiastically, that
ocean telegraphy is destined to accomplish what
Christianity has not yet achieved, . and to bring
about the " peaceful time predicted 3,000 years ago,
when the wolf and the lamb shall dwell together,
and the earth learn war no more." At the same
time it would be erroneous to divest it of all moral
effects whatsoever. The printing-press is as neutral
between good and evil as the telegraph. Truth and
error, an honest and a malevolent purpose, use it
alike. Yet who can deny that it is a powerful
agent of morality and civilisation ? The Atlantic
telegraph will be of great value in the hands of
sagacious and right-minded statesmen ; and we
must hope that the majority of our public men de-
serve these epithets. In the hands of reckless poli-
ticians, or at those happily rare crises when party
or national feeling carries away men otherwise
sober-minded, the opportuflities which it offers may
be fraught with mischief. So with regard to com-
mercial enterprise. Upright and prudent merchants
will draw only good from it ; reckless speculators
will make it an instrument of evil. The enthusiasts
who anticipate a millennium from the Atlantic
cable, and the sceptics who say that it will leave
the balance of good and evil just as before, both
see only half or some smaller fraction of the truth.
The Post also cannot altogether agree with Mr.
Dudley. Recent events in Bohemia have shown
that the telegraph may be made quite as powerful
an agent in the promotion of war as it is of peace,
and those who have the best means of making
known their desires and opinions to each other have
not yet learned to do so in such a manner as to
preclude all chance of disagreement and quarrel
over them.

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