New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-13
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF OUR TELEGRAPH
JUBILEE IN ENGLAND.

We are in a fair way for another unplea santness
with cousins across the Atlantic. Tins time, too,
there can be no ameade; it's all come and gone, and
it's now matter of history, that when America was
all enthusiasm at the OF the Electric Telegraph
we all took it very easily indeed They have literally
"piped and We have not danced. tor England and
America have been married, and the former has
behaved if wholly unconscious of the ceremony.
New York and every other city to the furhes West,
went off into ecsasies 1t dozen Anniversaries
of independence rolled into There were as many
salutes as at Cherbourg; three hundred and thirty
three guns from the batteries; hundred guns here
hundred there; hundred monster rock blasts IN the
Central Park and some heavy salutes from the top of
the Astor Hotel. All the church bells rung.
Every house Illuminated in that exempore fashion
which tells better than brilliant uniformity.
All the world out in the streets There were the
banners of every nation and Of no nation, and
transparencies with sentiments, verses puns, aegO
res and devices, in which. if England had not quite
its due need of honor 1t not at least forgotten.
The AgamemnOn was the greatest of kings Cyrus.
the new made grander union than that of Mcdi and
Persia the cable had opened Field OF useful
ness; the Niagara and the Hudson had beaten the
Atlantic and the union of the two words reads al
most like a proianeness-was actually ranked with the
Declaration of Independence. The cable itself s de-
cared to be the wcddingring OF the two cousins the
strongest bond of amity the deed of eternal parnor
ship But il is vain to think of beating our neghbors
now hardly transatlan'c-at this sort OF description
To wind up the day, there were volcanoes OF fire
works chiefly it appears to us, from the tops OF the
large buildings concluding with the cOnagration and
destruction OF the City Hail. from the roof of which
the principal volcano had been discharged.
All this time did not ring bell. or let OIL squb,
or light kitchen dip. or even walk out into the
streets, or do anything whatever in honor Of the
event In all England We believe that not one man
congratulated his neighbor about 1t. We were all
pleased in our own quiet fashion ana somewhat sur
pr sed at SO complete a coming quickly On
The heels OF repeated failures OF course, those who
had shares IN the Company delighted to hnd the
quotation rising from $50 TO 9oO The Queen did her
duty though unfortunately, Il turns out only the
first sentence Of her message arrived IN tine ior
the first burst Of American jubilstion. The Lord
Mayor followed We cannot charge ourselves with
having sighted the occasion. We sent one of our
best aboard the AgamemuOn on her hrst attempt,
and he did as much as man could do to tell the
fearful tale. IL really would not have been common
humanity To risk his Ii = second time in enter
prise of apparently such remote When
came at last, proclaimed it in terms, thought,
sufficiently glowing. Had VT raised cur key note
higher, should have been thought proper inmates
for private lunatic asyulum The High Church pull
pits would have denounced exatation OF the mira
ces of science and worship OF progress, and the
poor cable would have been forthwith siigmatiled
an engine of Anti-Chrs,. The fault if fault there be
is In the British public. II is not intensely inter-
ested in this affair the Americans There must
be some reason for this are not an unreSsona-
bic people. Without the least wish TO show slight;
without being conscious OF H. We have betrayed
want OF national sympathy very little in accord with
great event. Among the future msryels of
neluIt, DdCOn pltulCtcl DN cfUi-
pathy.' The communication has surpassed even
Bacon's expectations, but it is not with the ex-
pected amount of sympathy. This is question
which concerns both the Americans snd ourselves.
In matter of fact, this is greater event IT,
the United States than to ourselves. They guu
thereby instant communication with the whole OF the
Old World. With them il is the " union OF the whole
world, as one of their ,ransparencies has it. We
gain only the United States and British Americs. The
information to BE- expected from these pisces will be
chiefly Interesting to merchants, who regard the
electric wire aconvenience a necessity, and not
as new source of pleasure In other respects Amer
lean intelligence is often startling, curious dismal and
interesting as a mster OF speculation but without the
sentimental Interest which attaches to the events of
most States in the Old World. Scarcely anything
ever happens on this side of the Atlantic which not
associated with our reading our travels. oar scquan
auce or our pursuits. livery novelty is the next step
OF train already deep in recollection. This
no, be SO much the case in new world, which few
Of us have seen, and which We do not read much
Of Bu, the Americans themselves are somewhat
to blame for the le.ses interest with which We resd
fresh news from that quarter os hal The prospect
of instantaneous intelligence. How many times
during the last teo years have the steamers br0cht