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gentlemen, left us. And here I would offer a word 

 of advice. If you wish your friend to retain a 

 lively impression of you, don't get up early to see 

 him depart. A more miserable set of unwashed, 

 uncombed, unrefreshed, half - awakened, and break- 

 fast-craving mortals I never beheld, than the gen- 

 tlemen who crowded the paddle-boxes to give a 

 parting cheer to those who then left the ship. 



Beaching Lizard Point on Friday morning, we 

 steamed up the Channel, which was as smooth as 

 glass, and hove-to, at 9 A.M. on Saturday, about two 

 miles from Brighton, where many of the passengers 

 landed ; and on Sunday at noon the Great Eastern 

 was anchored at her old moorings, having been ab- 

 sent five weeks and one day. 



And thus, with the fairest prospect of success 

 in spite of arrangements made with the utmost liber- 

 ality, and in spite of the great skill and care bestowed 

 in carrying them out either through accident or 

 design (let us hope the former), one of the noblest 

 enterprises ever undertaken by man has for the mo- 

 ment failed. But it is not in the nature of the 

 Anglo-Saxon to accept defeat as final, but rather to 

 look on each failure as a step nearer to success. 

 Let all honour be paid to those who have worked 

 so bravely to obtain a satisfactory result. It is from 

 the knowledge of their great abilities the belief is 

 encouraged that time alone is wanted to ensure com- 

 plete success. With such a ship as the Great East- 



