The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-26
GREAT BRITAIN.
vransn,laHtic TeIegraphYs

GREAT BRITAIN.
Yransaslantic Geography
The New York HeraIGS London correspon-
dent, writing on Aug. IL says:-
"Do-day the prospectus OF the new Atiantlc
Telegraph Company, from Brest to New York,
has peen issued, and | enclose copy. The
managers ask for 81 OO0,0 600 capital, In shares OF
92O each, and propose TO lay cable, from the
Great Eastern steamship, with one extremity at
Brest, France and the other at the French
island of ST. Pierre, near Newfoundland, with a
counC citing line to some point on the Atlantic
coast OF the United States-probably Plymouth
Mass. MIR. Robert Lowe, nj. F., Is the CHAIRMAN
OF the London Board OF Directors, and SIR james
Anderson is the general superintendent Tue
French concession has been granted to Mr..
dErla1 ger the Paris banker, we'll known from
his connection with the Rebel loan, and MIR,
julius Reuter-, who supplies the Lohdon press
with their news telegIams. Thomson, Varley,
Clark, Forde, and Fleming jenkins undertake
the practical electrician department. There is
no doubt that the cable Will be laid; but
whether the company will succeed or not Is a
mater o opinion.
In order to prevent the new company from
obtaining any English messages the present
company has made a contract with the Brltlsh
Govtrnment by which the Government agrees
to give it all the TRANSATLANTIC messages that
come over the lines in England, ireland, Scot
land and Wales so soon as the pending measures
10 transfer these lines to the Government are
completed. At first sight this is an important
concess on; but the French company will have
an office in London, at which all the mes
SageS can be received, ana almost all the
cable messages now come from London and
Liverpool On the whole, the probability is
that the contract with the English government
will amount to very little, and that the
public en- both sides ot the Atlantic will benefit
by the competition. 1t has just been announced
here that the cable of 1856 has stopped working,
and the fact that the present company Is now
dependent upon the old cable alone Will give
the stock OF the new company an impetus.
What is really needed Is an American cable
company to beat both the English aud French
in lowness of tariff and rapidity OF commqnica-
tion. direct cable from New York to Liver
pool or Falmouth would defy competition, and
ought to be laid, either by private enterprise or
th5 American Government
English Opinion of Thaddeus Stsvsnss
The London Times of August IA contains the
folio llowing:-"America has lost one of her fore
most men. In his seventy-siXth year Mr..
Thaddcus Stevens has been taken away from
can lake no one by surprise. Those who have
seen MIR. Stevens Of late years have come
away with the impression that they have seen
body kept alive only by the intense volition
Mr.. Stevens hie may have shortened his days,
yet it seemed at the last to have brought some
compensation with itself; for the man who
spent all his vital power IN enforcing the ooJects
he had at heart was apparently able by the
same energy of determination to keep death at
bay after he had grasped his Victlm. 1t Is
perhaps true that the death or Mr. stevens
at thus iuncture will not be regarded IN the
United States as public loss. 1t Is certain
that in the prosecution OF the impeachment
he inflicted grleyous wound on MS own party
The financial dishonesty of which he had be-
come the Champion, might have spread under
his influence, but will langush wnen deprived
of his countenance aud constant support. But
while denouucing in the plalnest terms, we
must do the memory of Mr.. stevens the justice
OF distinguishing between the motives which
impelled him and General Butler to adopt the
same concu.ions. We have already explained
that Mr. Stevens advocacy of the repay
ment of the dvetwenty bonds in currency was
an instance of his fanatical devotion to mis-
conceived dogma. The adoption OF the same
policy by General Butler, like all the other
public acts Of the Ex-Governor OF New Orleans,
betrays the chicanery of his trst profession.
Mr.. Stevens was iauatical. self ~led, and most
bitter in his auImosties; but there was neither
meanr ess nor deceit IN his nature. Aud it must
b. remembered OF him that he was almost the
last OF a class of Americans who have lett no
followers. While everything con'pires TO ettace
the individuality OF each member OF the younger
generation, and they resign themSelves without
resistance to the limits prescribed by party dis
cipliDe, Mr.. Stevens preserved his own opinions
and enforced his own will, yielding neither to
caucus Eor to convention whea they vio'
lated the law of his own conscience"
The London Neors OF the same date remarks
MIR, Stevens was more a revolutionary leader
than a states sman. He had that firm grasp of
great principles, aud that enthusiastic conf.
dence IN their application, which leaders OF
great national movements always possess; put
he had none of that power to understand and
appreciate policy other than his own, whlchls
so necessary to statesman. He could never
see that there might be two opinions on great
national questions-those who were with him
were tor their country; those who were against
him we're against their country. tie could
never see that legislation must sometimes take
a course which results from the action of anita
gODistc forces, aud which feels the effect OF
each while obeying neither. Compromise was
his detestation. Toe doctrine that half a loaf
is better than no bread was TO him the deadli-
est heresy of political creeds."
The London Telegraph says:-"Charies sum
ner was a man OF tar higher culture, but he
lacked the fire of his less well kno IN colleague,
and his influence was weakened by constant
eXh bitons OF a feminine irrtaolity and vanity.
Butler commanded no personal respect and
was reg arded even by his friends as a - and
jobber Wade was deemed, rightly or wrongly,
TO be personally greedy OF power. But at cynl-
cal Stevens none OF these charges couli be
level ed, There was something grand IN the
very ierOcity of his anger"
DiarasII's POIiticsl Position.
We quote the following from the London Pos
OF August l3th:-The confessed mistake which
Mr.. Disraelt made in attaching himself to the
conservative party is making itself more anC
more manifest every day. On the other hand
il must be confessed that few men would have
conce we'd his peculiar mode OF correcting tha
mistake, much less have been rewarded VIII
partial success. Instead of crossing the House
OF Commons and taking his seat by the side o
Mr.. Br ght, Mr.. Disraeli formed the bold idea o
educat ng his followers TO such point mat Mr.
Bright miah ht, with the most perfect consistency
have taken his seat among them; ana were !
not for this most UnluckY question or th'
Irsh Church, the success OF the eXperl
ment would have been unequlVocal. VI
inat subject it was possible for Mr.. Dlsraeli, no
only without Inconsistency, but with the mos
perfect parent good falth, TO nave denounced
the establishment ami proposed its abolition
Had be not years before spoke OF the 'alleT
Church, as one OF the most prominent OF Irist