"The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest. "The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their common interests and reciprocal esteem. "The Queen has much pleasure in thus communicating with the President, and renewing to him her wishes for the prosperity of the United States." The reply of President Buchanan was as follows: "The President cordially reciprocates the congratulations of Her Majesty, the Queen, on the success of the great international enterprise accomplished by the science, skill and indomitable energy of the two countries. It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle. "May the Atlantic telegraph, under the blessing of Heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty and law throughout the world. In this view will not all nations of Christendom spontaneously unite in the declaration that it shall be forever neutral, and that its communications shall be held sacred in passing to their places of destination, even in the midst of hostilities?" The historian of the enterprise was Mr. John Mullaly, of New York, who was on the _Niagara_ as secretary to Prof. Morse and subsequently to Mr. Cyrus W. Field and correspondent of the _New York Herald_. He has published three interesting works on the subject: a _Trip to Newfoundland, with an account of the laying of the submarine Cable_ (between Port au Basque and North Sydney), 1855; _The Ocean Telegraph_, 1858; and _The first Atlantic Telegraph Cable_, a pamphlet of 28 pages, reprinted from the "Journal of the Franklin Institute," 1907. From it, we learn that Archbishop Hughes was one of the principal American subscribers to the capital of the Atlantic Cable Company.