BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2808, 26 July 1866, Page 5

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

Thb British Colonist thus rejoiceth (over the completion of telegraphic communication between the Atlantic Coast and Victoria :— "Vancouver Islaad is at length joined to the niainand. The telegraphic cable is laid. A veritable and tangible union nas now- taken place between this colony and British Columbia, more complete and more literal than any political union can possibly be. Like many political unions, however, it could only be accomplished by considerable wire-pulling, and if the success of the scheme has not been due in any respect to a cabal, it has been in no small degree assisted by a cable. It is not merely to the neighbouring colony the fraternal link connects us ; we are joined to the great republic as well. Wo are enabled almost to feel the mighty throb of the great Republic's heart in the present anxious condition of its existence. " His Excellency Governor Kennedy passed the usual compliments to the President of the United States, and the example was followed by lesser notables to less distinguished persons. The isolation which has been hitherto so irksome to us, and which during only last week was actually painful in its character, has now ceased. We are brought, thanks to the energy and enterprise of our American neighhours, into immediate contact with the telegraphic lines of the continent, and the benefit of the connection we can scarcely overrate. Let us hope that the spirit of the message which his Excellency forwarded to President Johnson, yesterday, will never be departed from in the communication between the two countries, and that the tiny link which now unites us to the Republic will prove a bond of good will and fraternal regard that time will never disrupt."