70 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. enterprise, but I can promise you that it shall tell the truth (great cheering). Dr. Rae : Every undertaking is composed of small particles ; and as one in the present, I thank you for the expression of your sympathies. I have had some acquaintance with Arctic travel, and, having heard Col. Shaffner’s statements of his recent surveying expedition for the proposed telegraph, I am satisfied that there is a chance for a success by this route and I have thus been led into this undertaking as a volunteer (hear, hear). This must not be considered as an Arctic voyage. I have readily volunteered to accompany Col. Shalfner, and do all I can to aid the undertaking and to promote science. Having accompanied four or five expe- ditions to the Arctic regions, and accustomed to travelling and doing different kinds of work common to such expeditions, I have a hope that my services will be of some use to the enterprise. And as I will be accompanied by Col. Shaffner, who is well known as a practical telegrapher, I hope to accomplish satisfactory results for the proposed telegraph (hear, and cheers). When we get on hoard I am sure we shall be as jolly a set of fellows as can be (laughter and cheers). One great and important object in all such undertakings should be to understand each other—all and* each should state freely from time to time their opinions and differences—and not return attacking each other (hear, hear). I feel sure that we on this enterprise shall act on this principle (loud cheers). Capt. Mangles proposed, “ The Electric Telegraph Companies, coupled with the names of Mr. W. Eothergill Cooke, Sir Charles Bright, and Mr. C. V. Walker, F.R.S.” Mr. Cooke had given up a noble service and devoted himself to the pursuits of tele- graphic science, and had been ably followed by Sir Charles Bright and Mr. Walker.—The toast was drank with loud cheering. Mr. W. Fothergill Cooke :—I always feel pleasure in rising to acknowledge this toast, and I trust that many years will pass away before the toast is forgotten (hear). I am the oldest director of the oldest Company ever formed for the furtherance of electric telegraphy, and I feel pride in the fact that I assisted in the first movement for its practical application in the world (hear, hear). It is now generally admitted that I was the first inventor of this great and now widely extended system (loud cheers). But I never feel pleasure in hearing my name connected with this subject unless it is associated with my scientific coadjutor, Mr. Wheatstone (applause). It is now twenty- four years since the electric telegraph was first brought practically before the world in the names of Cooke and Wheatstone. But that is a matter of history, and we have not met here to-night to celebrate the early days of the parent invention, which in a quarter of a century

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