[Cheers.] "I have been thinking during the last few days on what Professor Morse has done.

He stands alone in America as the originator and carrier out of a grand conception.

We know that America is an enormous country, and we know the value of the telegraph, but I think we have a right to quarrel with Professor Morse for not being content with giving the benefit of it to his own country, but that he extended it to Canada and Newfoundland, and, even beyond that, his system has been adopted all over Europe [cheers]--and the nuisance is that we in England are obliged to communicate by means of his system.

[Cheers and laughter.] "I as a director of an electric telegraph company, however, should be ashamed of myself if I did not acknowledge what we owe him.

But he threatens to go further still, and promises that, if we do not, he will carry out a communication between England and Newfoundland across the Atlantic.