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An unpropitious season confirmed such unfavorable anticipations; so that ■when, on 

 the 5th of August, the Niagara and the Gorgon sent forth, through all Telegraphic 

 lines of the American Continent, the startling news that they had reached Trinity- 

 Bay with their portion of the cable intact, and that on the same memorable 5th 

 of August the Agamemnon communicated, by its means, her completion of her 

 moiety of the work, and the safe arrival of the other end of the cable in Valentia 

 Bay : the general feeling was one of doubt and incredibility. 



Time, however, has confirmed beyond all question, the certainty of the great 

 event; and rejoicings of a character scarcely parallelled in modern history have 

 testified to the feelings which it has awakened. The hardy seamen who carried 

 the cable to land, knelt together, and united their voices in prayerful recogni- 

 tion of a Divine and overruling Providence, without whose aid their labor must 

 have been in vain ; and the English Board of Directors of the Telegraph Com- 

 pany, — abandoning the wonted matter-of-fact coolness of a joint stock directory, — 

 despatched to the American Board this message, as novel in its form as in its 

 news: Europe and America are united by Telegraph. Glory to God in 



THE highest, on EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN. 



Since the completion of the work was announced, a sufficient number of messages 

 have flashed along the bed of the ocean to prove that the line is capable of being 

 worked with effective accuracy. Some delay must necessarily take place before 

 the communication can be thrown open to the public ; but a little impatience is 

 not unnaturally shown at the unavoidable delay ; nor does rumor fail, as usual, to 

 put its own construction on the silence. It has even been necessary to give ofiicial 

 contradiction to the report that the cable had br^iken. The possibility either of 

 laying the cable, or of transmitting the electrical current through its vast length 

 of wire, can no longer be discussed ; for both have been accomplished, But we 

 must be prepared for unexpected phenomena, such as may baffle all previous tele- 

 graphic experience. Twice during the progress of laying the cable, from some 

 hitherto unexplained cause, signals failed to pass between the ISTiagara and the 

 Agamemnon; viz: for an hour, from Y.SO, P.M., on July 29th, and again on 

 August 2nd, from 12.38, A.M., to 5.40, A. M., or for fully five hours. During 

 the whole of the latter period, the gravest apprehensions must have beset the 

 minds of the operators that their labor was once more in vain. 



The magneto-electrical cmTcnt originally proposed to be employed, — and from 

 which we are not aware of any intention to deviate, — is derived from a powerful 

 combination of inducing coils and soft iron magnets. Doubtless when the scien- 

 tific truths involved in the whole detailed history of this nnparallelled triumph of 

 science and persevering enterprise are fully revealed, many facts of singular 

 interest and value will be brought to light. 



Civic processions, feasts, and orations, have testified, alike in Britain and Ame- 

 rica, to the universal sympathy in the joy of those who have accomplished the 

 great feat. Already it has been abundantly, if not adequately celebrated in 

 verse as well as in prose. Among the poetic effusions to which it has given rise, 

 we insert the following, from the pen of a correspondent, whose lines compare 

 favorably with most of the published verse on the same prolific theme :— 



