The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-03

tive of the most extraordinary results. While !
steam has achieved but partial victory over
space, electricity has annihilated time. The
most stupendous of the telegraphs conquests
was that involved in the success Of the project
oflaying the Atlantic cable, which has chained
America to Europe. The whole world, indeed
is fast becoming united by the spread OF tele-
graphic wires. Looking at what has been
done since 1888, we are at loss to compre-
hend what has been left for men to 90
hereafter; but, no doubt, there are still
"mighty secrets hid in Time and Nature"
for them to discover. Just now, their in
genuity is mainly directed to the promo
ton of agencies of destruction, as it has
been for years past 1t is OF the
nature of practical antithesis that the most
humane and enlightened of generations should
have contributed most to render weapons of
war effective; but it is argued that the ulti-
mate effect must be to render all war impOssi-
BILE. Be that as it may, science has done as
much for war as for peace in the generation
that closes with this day. At the same time,
the additions made to the means of promoting
human comfort are very great. The sewing
machine has been invented-and so has the
needle-gun, which is the sewing ng-machine of
war. Many eminent foreigners have died in
this generation, only few of whom have we
room to name:-Prince Albert, Wellington,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tom Moore Lord
Palmerston, Cavour, Lafayette, Gear Nicholas,
Louis Philippe, Southey, G. Lamb, Soult,
Qast survivor of Napoleon's Marshal's,) Pro-
fessor Wilson, Lord Eldon, Lord Macaulay,
Lord Lyndhurst William ", the Earl of
Carlisle, Sir r. Peel, Lord Melbourne, Miss
Bremen, Lord Dundonald Faraday, Mrs.
Jameson, Earl Grey, Lord Stowell, Bernadotte
(Charles XIV John, King of Sweden), Prince
Metternich, Count Nesselrode, Leopold l, N.
M. Rothsehild, Mehemet Ali, Mahmoud II,
Thomas Hood, Marshal RadetzEy, Charles X
(in exile), Douglas Jerrold, Lord Raglan,
Marshal Pelssier, Maria Edgeworth, Mrs.
Gore, Lord Lansdowne, Sam Rogers Cat 93),
Mrs. Gaskell, Lady Morgan, Chateaubriand,
Lord Clyde, the Archduke Charles, Mr.. Buckle,
Prince Paskevitch, Henri Boyle, Sydney Smith,
Lord jeffrey, DR.. Arnold, Mrs Browning, VIM.
Mure of Caldwell, Sir r. Adair Cat 93), j. W.
Croker the Archduke Maximilian, Lord
Elgin, Z. Arndt, Baron Won Stein, Doctor
Whewsll, Archbishop Whately, Lord Plum
kett, Mrs. Shelley, the Duke of Orleans and
his wife, Sir G. G. Lewis and his wife, Mary
Berry, Joanna Bailie, Charlotte BrontG and
her sisters, Madame d. 'Arblay (Fanny Burney),
Marshal st. Arnaud, Leigh Hunt R. L. Shiel,
Mrs. TroIope, w. S. Landor, Lady Dutferin,
Miss Landon, Hallam, James Montgomery, A.
Won Humboldt, Marshal Bertrand, Grouchy,
Robert Montgomery, Pushkin Prince Polignac,
Sir II. Lowe, Harriet Lee Cat 90), Ludwig
Tieck, A. w. Won Schlegel, Jane Porter, I.
Campbell, Branger, Lucy Aiken, Miss Milford,
G. Croley H. Heine, Michaud, M. de Barante,
Praed, John Sterling, VIM. Motherwell, Allan
Cunningham, R. Golden, Lockhart, Schelling
| Hogg, AIRY Schetfer, Cornelius, E. Sue, INLAND
Horace Vernet, Count Szechenyi, Augustin
| Theirs, Prince Felix xSchwartzenberg, and many
others not less distinguished than those
named. Our summary is necessarily brief and
bald, and it could not be made as complete as
it should be even had we ten times as much
space at our command as we have. What we
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than suggestive. Take it for all in all, this
generation is exceeded in the importance of its
events-consdered with reference to their pro-
bable consequences-only by three of its pre-
decessors. These exceptions are:-1. The
generation from the autumn of 1467 to the
close of 1900, in which occurred the fall of
the Burgundian house (Valois) and the rise
of Switzerland the establishment of the
Tudor dynasty in England; the discovery of
America, and the beginning of its colonial
tion the progress of Portuguese discovery,
including the doubling of the Cape of Good
Hope, and the beginning of that European
conquest of the East which since has been
carried so far; the spread of the art of print
ing, and other matters of high moment 2.
The generation that began with 1901 and ex-
tended to the spring of 1884, in which so
much of America was conquered and colonized
by the Spaniards when the House of Austria
became so powerful that the broad and solid
foundations OF universal rule appeared to
have been laid through successes in matri-
mony and in war; and when the Reformation
broke out. 3. The generation that began in
1767 and closed with the year 1800-in which
Napoleon was born, and which saw the rise of
Russia and the partition of Poland, the
American Revolution, the French Revo-
luton, the union of Great Britain and
Ireland, the formation of the Ameri-
can Constitution, and the extension of
Rriti ticb in md hoe
in our generation that can be classed with the
discovery of America, the Reformation, or the
French Revolution; but in secondary matters
this generation can claim superiority over any
and all the three exceptions named. The
greatest European event is the change in
Germany. Perhaps the abolition of slavery
in the United States may prove to have been
as great an event as the abolition of the old
monarchy in France; but the point can be
determined only by time, when all who are
now living shall be as dead as the self-emanci-
pated gladiators who served under the standard