Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-09-06

and drank. Then, feeling that he could NOT
longer be of any service ne sailed for Trinoli
and, after passing seventeen days in the laza-
retto, was welcomed by his friends as one es-
capped from DEATH
LORD NAPGBR's SPEEcH.--The dinner at
the Metropolitan Hotel New Y ork, TN Thurs
day, in commemoration of the completion of
the Atlantic Telegraph, was a great affair."
The mayor presided, and about six hundred
persons were present. Speeches were made
by various individuals Lord Napier among
the number. We extract the following from
his address. The speaker said
" What encounter on the sea can be com
pared with that last meeting of the confeder-
ate ships, when the knot was knit which
shall never be rent asunder How anxiously
do we follow the Gorgon on her constant
course, and watch the Niagara threading the
lcebeTgs, and traversing the gloom upon her
consort's helpful track. We tremble for the
overburdened Agamemnon, still tormented
by the gale. We blend our aspirations with
the worthier prayer Of Hudson, when he
kneels, like Columbus on the shore, and in
Vokes the Divine protection on his accom-
phshed work. Nor is the moral aspect of
this great action marred by any mean inirmi-
ty. Here there is nothing to obliterate, moth
ing to deplore. The conduct of the agents
exempliies the purposes of the deed With
manly emulation, but inviolate concord,
they cast forth upon the waters the instru.
ment and the symbol of our future harmony.
This is not the place to demonstrate the
usefulness OF Geographic communication in
the practice of government and commerce,
anO It's numerous consultations in matters of
private affection. content myself with re-
mir ito ,i,,o
tons. Something may be detracted from the
functions OF diplomacy, but much will un-
doubtedly be gained for the peace Of nations.
By this means the highest intelligence and
authority on either side will be brought into
immediate contact, and whatever errors be.
long to the employment of subordinate and
delegated agencies, may be prevented or
promptly corrected. BY this means, many of
the evils incidental to uncertainty aud delay
may be cancelled, offences may be instantly
dlsaVowed, omissions may be remedied, mis-
apprehensions may be explained and in mat
tiers OF unavoidable controversy we may be
spared the eXasperating effects of discussion
proceeding on an imperfect knowledge of
facts and motives.
In addition to these specific safeguards, 1t
may be hoped that the mere habit of rapid
and intimate intercourse will greatly conduce
to the prevention OF misunderstanding. On
the one hand stands England, the most opu.
lent and vigorous of monarchles in whose
scant but incompatible soil lie compacted the
materials OF bOundless industry on the
other hand the republic of the United States,
founded by the same race, fired by the same
ambition, whose increase deties comparison,
and whose destines will battle production it.
self. We cannot doubt that these traternal
communities are fated to enjoy an immense
expansion of mutual life. the instant inter-
change OF opinion, intelligence, and commo.
dltles Will become a condition almost INSOFAR
able from existence aud whatever stimulates
this development will oppose a powerful OBJ
stace to rupture Of pacific relations. No
man Of common liberality and penetration
will question the position and certain merits
OF discovery which has connected England
with America, and America with the whole
civilized world besides.
would not darken the legitimate satisfac-
ton of the present moment by uttering re-
luctant or skeptical estimate of our new fac
ulty. Yet, even in this hour of careless and
cornwall ielicitation, we shall do well 10 re-
member that the magnetic telegraph forms no
exception to the category of inventions which,
however apt and proper, and willing to be the
vehicles OF benevolent designs, are also the
unresisting tools of every blind or Incorporate
impulse in our nature. The votaries of
queruous philosophy speciously assert the
unequal march of morality and mind and
even poet has affirmed, in foreboding verse,
TINT all the train of arts which have reduced
the material elements to be vassals of our will,
Heal not passion or a pang
En- tailed on human hearts
1t belongs to our respective countries and
to the present age to confound that specula-
ton which would divide knowledge from viz
tue and inquiry from improvement The la.
Dor will not be light, nor is the eventual VIC
tory everywhere apparent, yet there is one
province of affairs in which the task would be
easy and the triumph within our grasp. 1t
depends on us, on our will, on our choice, to
carry into perpetual effect the sentiment
which the honorable chairman has associated
with his toast; it depends on US to strike out
forever from the sum of publicSnd socol EN-.
barrassments all the contingencies of collis-
ion between England and Amenca.
If we should not employ our unprecedent-
ed powers in friendly spirit, if we should
hereafter offer unrenecting provocation and
conceive hasty resentment, if every transient
cloud which ascends on the political sky be
hailed as prognostic Of a destructive storm,
II we should make haste to unlock the well
OF bitter waters, and to raise the phantoms of
extinct pretensions and buried wrongs, then
would this memorable effort of ingenuity and
toll be partly cast away. Gentlemen, | am
confident that we shall pursue very different
course The Queen mas sent tidings of good.
Will to the President, and the President has
made corresponding answer to the Queen.
These messages must not be dead inscrip-
tons IN our archives; they must be fruitful
maxims in our own hearts. Let our govern
ments be consderate in their resolutions.
Let the orators of one country comment on
the institutions, the policy, and the tenden-
cies of the other in a canGid and gentle spirit.
Let the negoeiators of both approach the ad
Justment OF disputed questions, not with a
tenacious regard to paltry advantages, but
with a broad view of general and benfcial
results. Then, gentlemen, the subtle forces
OF nature will not have been employed in
vain, and we shall give a worthy Office to
those subjugated, and ministering powers
which, by Divine permission, fly and labor
at our command.
FoREIGN lTEMs.-The accounts from all
quarters of the United Kingdom, saws the
London Times, are good. Notwithstanding
the interruption from the violent thunder.
storms which visited many English counties
at the end OF last week, "a large breadth OF
land has been cleared" says the Mark Lane
Express, in its survey of the whole country.