Europe and America: Report of the Proceedings at an Inauguration Banquet, Given by Mr. Cyrus W. Field, of New York, at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate, on Friday, the 15th April, 1864 : in Commemoration of the Renewal by the Atlantic Telegraph Company ... of Their Efforts to Unite Ireland & Newfoundland, by Means of a Submarine Electric Telegraph Cable |
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Adams AMERICAN MINISTER annum Atlantic Cable Atlantic enterprise Atlantic Telegraph Company BIDDER CABOT SCIENCE LIBRARY capital Captain Aldham carried cent CHARLES CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS CHATTERTON Clarendon colonies commercial continent CROPPER Cyrus Field CYRUS W despatch Directors drink the health Eastern Ship Company Elliot English language Englishmen exertions feel Gentlemen George Peabody give Glass glory GOOCH Government guarantee Gutta Percha Company hear hear)—that honoured hope John Bright laid the cable LATIMER CLARK Laughter laying Loud cheers Maintenance Company Majesty's Govern Messrs millions monopoly Morgan nations Navy never Newfoundland NODDALL occasion Peabody and Company Pender present propose R.N. Captain race recollect Red Sea Telegraph regard regret rejoiced reply ROBERT GRIMSTON Robert Stephenson SAWARD shareholders sincere speak spoken submarine telegraph success successfully laid thing THOMAS BRASSEY tion to-night toast undertaking United VARLEY WILLIAM wire York
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Page 7 - Majesty, they would mentally include the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.
Page 25 - ... again ? General MYERS. Yes. Mr. ENGEL. And your other item is a main utility line running by the street ? General MYERS. Distribution line. Mr. ENGEL. Your cost will run approximately the same as the cost of the Army engineers at Okinawa ? General MYERS. That is correct. Mr. SHEPPARD. That is all. We thank you very much for the manner in which you have responded to the inquiries. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS MICHAEL J.
Page 25 - That statement that he lost his money is not strictly accurate. It is not lost. He knows where the cable is and can go and get it. The money has been sown, and the plant is already out of the ground, and is now growing up splendidly. ..It will soon be in flower—I mean at a premium, and then there will be in the office of Messrs.
Page 30 - ... me to thank you for the honor you have done me in drinking my health.
Page 14 - I may bo permitted to call an unoccupied wilderness, but this project is one to unite 30 millions of people to the 250 millions who inhabit this continent of Europe ; and passing from the days of Columbus, I know of no event in history comparable in...
Page 25 - America, and base, indeed, will be the man, to whatever country he may belong, that may dare, with an unhallowed tongue or venomous pen, to sow discord among those who speak the same language and profess the same religion, and who ought to be on terms of the completes! friendship.
Page 16 - When I was in Genoa, a year ago, looking upon that splendid statue of COLUMBUS, which is its chief monument, I noticed upon the base this inscription : "There was one world. He said, 'let there be two,
Page 25 - I shall leave in a few days for my native land, for I think it wrong on the part of any American to be away in the hour of peril to his country, unless it be on a mission of peace—his place is otherwise at home, at such a moment.
Page 26 - ... should not have to reply to any toast or make a speech. I will, therefore, give you a sentiment; which, remember, he is on no account to reply to...