"Such is the startling intelligence which reaches us just as we are going to press. We find it difficult to believe the report, for recent events have prepared us for a very different result, and yet the despatch comes to us through our regular agent, who would not deceive us. He may have been imposed upon, but that is quite unlikely. If the few coming hours shall confirm the inspiring tidings and the cable is landed and in working condition, all other events that may happen through the world on this day will be trifles. "To-morrow the hearts of the civilized world will beat to a single pulse, and from that time forth forevermore the continental divisions of the earth will in a measure lose those conditions of time and distance which now mark their relations one to the other. But such an event, like a dispensation of Providence, should be first contemplated in silence." The message for the Associated Press was: "TRINITY BAY, _August 5, 1858_. "The Atlantic telegraph fleet sailed from Queenstown on Saturday, July 17th. "They met in mid-ocean on Wednesday, the 28th, and made the splice at 1 P.M. on Thursday, the 29th. They then separated, the _Agamemnon_ and _Valorous_ bound to Valentia, Ireland, and the _Niagara_ and _Gorgon_ for this place, where they arrived yesterday. "This morning the end of the cable will be landed. "It is sixteen hundred and ninety-eight nautical or nineteen hundred and fifty statute miles from the telegraph-house at the head of Valentia Harbor to the telegraph-house, Bay of Bull's Arms, Trinity Bay. "For more than two-thirds of the distance the water is over two miles in depth. "The cable has been paid out from the _Agamemnon_ at about the same speed as from the _Niagara_. The electrical signals sent and received through the whole cable are perfect. The machinery for paying out the cable worked in the most satisfactory manner, and was not stopped for a single moment from the time the splice was made until we arrived here. "Captain Hudson, Messrs. Everett and Woodhouse, the engineers, the electricians and officers of the ships, and in fact every man on board the telegraph fleet has exerted himself to the utmost to make the expedition successful. By the blessing of Divine Providence it has succeeded. "After the end of the cable is landed and connected with the land line of telegraph, and the _Niagara_ has discharged some cargo belonging to the telegraph company, she will go to St. John's for coals, and then proceed at once to New York. CYRUS W. FIELD." Next in order were the message to President Buchanan and his reply: "U.S.S.F. 'NIAGARA,' "TRINITY BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND, _August 5, 1858_. "To the President of the United States, Washington, D.C.: