72 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. I am associated, for the kindness and cordiality with which you have greeted this toast, and on my own part for the pleasure I have had this evening in being present at so deeply interesting a meeting as this. I feel, however, somewhat in the position of an apprentice called upon to speak in the presence of his master and foreman, for Mr. Cooke, as you know, introduced the electric telegraph in a practical form to the world, and Mr. Walker had been a laborious worker in the field of electrical development for some years anterior to 1847, when I first became connected with telegraphic progress. If there could be in the mind of any person present at this banquet an alloy to the satisfaction of witnessing the infant steps of this great enterprise, and of wishing good speed to Captain Allen Young and his distinguished associates, I might perhaps be pardoned for such a feeling, for after labouring for years to carry a wire across the Atlantic, I now find myself at the inauguration of another line, which some appear to consider opposed to the route by which I laid a line two years ago. I am, however, free from any such disturbing reflections (hear and cheers). My greatest desire is to see a telegraph at work again between this country and America, and should it not fall to my own lot to land the end of another and more lasting cable, I shall be the first to throw up my hat and rejoice at the success of others, whether the line is carried by the northern, the central, or the southern route (loud cheers). I hope to see several lines of telegraphic communi- cation with America, and I trust that the result of this survey will be such as entirely to clear up any questions as to supposed obstacles in the neighbourhood of those northern shores where the cables by this route are to be carried, and thus to remove the only doubt which has been suggested as to the value of its advantages. Wishing the line every success, and an early realisation of its important objects, I thank you again, Mr. Mayor, for the privilege of being here this evening (loud cheers). Mr. Walker :—It is highly gratifying to me, Mr. Mayor, to see that the South-Eastern Railway Company’s telegraph system, which has grown up under my care, is thought worthy of being associated (in the toast that has just been proposed), with the two great telegraph Companies—the Electric, represented by Mr. Cooke, and the Magnetic, represented by Sir Charles Bright; and it affords me no small pleasure to hear my old friend and patron, Mr. Cooke, give so good a character to our system, which, although as distinct from the two great telegraph Companies as they are each from the other, yet holds friendly relations with them both. We are a quasi-telegraph company. Our scientific resources are not great; in my proper person, the functions of several of their offices are discharged. I claim not to rank with Mr. Cooke in the

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