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Glass and Canning, the manager and engineer respectively of the 
Telegraph Maintenance Company, whose skill and experience 
have mainly contributed to the admirable construction and lay- 
ing of the cable. Her Majesty is further pleased to mark her ap- 
proval of the public spirit and energy of the two companies who 
have had successively the conduct of the undertaking, by offering 
the dignity of a baronetcy of the United Kingdom to Mr. Lamp- 
son, the Deputy Chairman of the original company, to whose 
resolute support of the project in spite of all discouragements it 
was in a great measure owing that it was not at one time aban- 
doned in despair; and to Mr. Gooch, M. P., the Chairman of the 
company which has finally completed the design. If among the 
names thus submitted to and approved by Her Majesty, that of 
Mr. Cyrus Field does not appear, the omission must not be attrib- 
uted to any disregard of the eminent services which, from the 
first, he has rendered to the cause of transatlantic telegraphy, and 
the zeal and resolution with which he has adhered to the prosecu- 
tion of his object, but to an apprehension lest it might appear to 
encroach on the province of his own Government, if Her Majesty 
were advised to offer a citizen of the United States, for a service 
rendered alike to both countries, British marks of honor, which, 
following the example of another highly distinguished citizen, he 
might feel himself unable to accept.” 
There have been claims that the British did practically all 
the work in laying the first cables. Something of the contem- 
porary feeling on the subject may be understood by noting the 
remarks at this dinner in Liverpool. There was a disposition 
to make Sir Charles Bright the hero of the occasion. Bright 
had been the chief engineer of the expeditions of 1857 and 
1858, although a very young man at the time. Later he had 
become a member of Parliament and a man of affairs. ‘The 
firm of Bright & Clark had acted also as consulting engineers 
to the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, but Bright had 
not been active in this later work. The English like to honor 
an “old timer” who has survived the early jealousies. 
At the dinner in Liverpool, there were many titled and 
political dignitaries. "The chairman proposed toasts to Her 
Majesty the Queen, the President of the United States, and 
