1895.] OiO [Frazer. 



in whicli occur the names of over four hundred of the most distinguished 

 diplomats, noblemen, men of science and of affairs, barristers and repre- 

 sentatives of the army and navy of England and France, presided over by 

 the Duke of Argyle, R. T. The proceedings show the realization by the 

 participants of the immense importance of the success of the Atlantic 

 cable, and bear testimony in a very remarkable manner to the cordiality 

 of Englishmen of the better class towards the United States ; and in a 

 more remarkable degree still to the spirit of fairness and justice which we 

 are too apt to deny to our transatlantic cousins.* The incident is men- 

 tioned merely to call attention to these significant words used by the 

 Chairman, the Duke of Argyle, in giving the toast, "The Military and 

 Naval Service of the Tviro Countries, Great Britain and America" (sic). 



If variety in his experiences makes a highly cultivated man, certainly 

 there is no need to look far for the cause of this characteristic in the late 

 Rear Admiral Macauley. With a youth spent at the foot of the pyramids, 

 and a young manhood passed in opening to the world the most advanced 

 if hitherto unknown Oriental culture, he was now to experience what 

 the acme of Western civilization could accomplish in "anniliilatiug time 

 and space." 



From the contemplation of the mysterious shrines which even yet lock 

 up from our ken volumes of the contemplative wisdom of the far past, he 

 was to witness the instantaneous exchange of thought between men on 

 board of a ship rolling in the seas of the wide Atlantic and men in a little 

 station on tlie coast of Ireland ; between the respective officers of two 

 vessels on the ocean which were a thousand miles apart and constantly 

 increasing that distance. Western objective science and triumph over 

 matter was, in short, to build a superstructure to Eastern subjective 

 speculation and mastery of mind. 



What may have been the sensations through which this observant 

 young officer passed we can only imagine, but it is most probable that the 

 admiration for true science, which was noticeable in him, dates from this 

 time. Yet by one of those singular turns, which it is impossible to account 

 for, the science which from this time began to interest Macauley was not 

 physics, as one would naturally suppose, but geology. 



If there be a class of men who are debarred by their profession from 

 progress in this science, it would seem to be the seafaring class ; for, 

 although sailors visit various parts of the world where instructive geo- 

 logical phenomena are to be observed, they can seldom absent themselves 

 from the vessels sufficiently long to visit these localities, while the harbors 

 and seaports in which they might find time to observe are usually stamped 



*" My lords and gentlemen, I hope the American people will believe, and I think they 

 do believe that all Englishmen almost deplore the causes which ever led the two coun- 

 tries into collision. They deplore tbem the more as I think the conviction is now 

 fastened on the minds of all of us that in these contests from beginning to end, England was 

 in the wrong. (Cheers.) She was wrong in the quarrels with the colonists, and was hardly 

 ever in the right in regard to belligerent warfare," etc. The last allusion is to the conduct of 

 England toward the U. S. during the late war of secession. (P. F.) 



