The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-27
TIVE Farsf Flash from Eurcps-IDauSurasio
q. a ths Traxsasasn Period Throughout Sar
WOr10.

Tits good omen that tie first fash Of news
from Europe through the Atlantic cable briggs
tidings of peace. A treaty has been concluded
by the ambassadors of England and France
with the Emperor of China, by which the doors
OF that populous region are opened still wider
10 commerce, aud the diplomacy of civilization
has secured its establishment at the Court of
Pebin. The mutiuy in India, too, is being
rapidly quelled and peace-.be great promoter
OF the arts, sciences, commerce and civiliza'
tion-dawns in the East. The cable has demon.
etrated its own success, and has to-day given us
the first Iulsstion of o revolution in the mate
rial and intellectual world that has had no
equal since the laying Of the primary forma.
tion OF geology.
Man has msde for himself new starting
point in civilization, upon which new order of
things must grow up. As the earth itself grew
upon the primary formation, with its accre-
tons and dissolutions of matter, and all its sub
sequent layers of different periods Of time, 60 the
moral world must now change its whole face,
under the direction of the new master spirit
Of the age and Of universal power The
old relation Of man to space has been
annihilated. The span of human life has been
virtually extended and in receiving a power
to do what it could not do before, the duty and
the relations of humanity to each other and to
outward things have been elevated and cnnobled.
The separate systems of civilization, thought
and development, which have been hitherto
revolving each in its separate and limited
sphere, must now come together and form one
great and harmonious whole. The abysses of
the ocean have been annihilated, and the anti
podes have ceased to exist The thought of
man has become ubiquitous; for, mounting upon
the wings of the lightning, it can carry itself
in q moment TO the utmost confines Of the
earth. The great divisions Of the mighty army
of human progress, which hitherto have been
divided from each other by longer or shorter
spaces Of time, will soon be brought into in
Simultaneous communication-qu ickened by the
same thought, and guided by the same know
ledge, at the same moment of time-and the
future march Of the world will be FASTENED to
speed Of which we Of today can form no con-
cepion-
This revolution will not be instantaneous but
il VIII be silent and rapid one. The exist
ing forms Of intercourse, trade, and con-
tact between men and nations will crum-
BILE away, 10 be succeeded by others, as
the primary, secondary, and tertiary forma-
tons Of geology gave place to each other.
The moral world now enters upon its tran
-ition period All this Ia In the essence
Of things to be. Man will coon accustom him
self 10 use the new power at his command, aud
to apply IL 10 his benefit, and 10 increase his
happiness Practice viii beget confidence, and
confidence will coon contrive o thousand uses
for II Of which we today have no conception.
Commerce will, no doubt, be the first to avail
itself Of its advantages, for II Is quick to know
the springs Of profit See today the eject
Of the news from China Last night IL was
known from Moscow to New Orleans that peace
had been made there! Every merchant or
trader interested in tea or silk, knows that the
causes which interfered with his trade have
been removed The RnsriAn caravans across
the steppes Of Asia, the English fleets from the
British isles, and the swift messengers from the
shores of America, all start this morning for the
newly re-opened scene Of their traffic, animated
with the came idea, and impelled by the same
knowledgel
Under the new era which has been inaugu-
rated, nations lose their separate identity, and
become, in fact, but simple members of the great
human family. Cabinets must change their
policy, and diplomacy cease 10 be the art of
hiding thought The statesmen of the
world will find themselves impelled by
the knowledge of events which the telegraph
win spread everywhere, and forced to guide
their acts by the impulses which affect
the whole world. rather than by those
confined to their own limited locality. Great
wars will cease; for the faculty Of instantaneous
intelligence brings men nearer together, makes
them to know each other, and removes The pos
sIbility of those errors upon which war IL
founded. Among men new haHh will be
acquired, new practices grow up, new usages
supersede old ones, with the new era Of instan.