The Marlborough Press. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24.

Marlborough Press, Volume XIII, Issue 811, 24 July 1872, Page 2

The Marlborough Press. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24.

For the future, the arrival of the English Mail, either via San Francisco or Suez, will have lost more than half of its interest, oil account of the telegraphic news usually brought those ways being anticipated, ilie British-Anstralian line of telegraph, connecting Europe and the East with the new lauds of the Pacific, was opened on the 25th June last, when congratulatory messages were sent to tier Majesty the Queen, and by the consuls to the Emperor of Germany and the President of the United States ; while, to follow the example, some of the municipal bodies in Victoria sent greetings to the Lord Mayor of London. These items are interesting only as showing that our immediate neighbors in the Australian colonies are in daily communication with the rest of the world ; and for this reason, the ship that brings our mails may be a day or two behind time, and little notice will be taken of the delay, except by those fortunate people who expect a remittance, or business meu anxious for fuller information about the price of different “lines.” We have already had an' instance of the change likely to be effected by the new line of telegraph, for the English news we published last week was two days later than that just received via San Francisco It seems almost incredible that we should be able to know here what happened in London a few days ago; yet so it is; and the latest news from England was published' in New Zealand papers some eighteen days after the events occurred. This is but an earnest of better things, and when proper arrangements are made, we shall be in receipt of English news iu less than half that time. Australian steamers will be the beavers of latest information for the future, and to them we must look lor intelligence instead of the mail steamers. The time will come, and it is not far distant, when to read at the breakfast table in the morning a narration of events that took place the previous evening iu Europe, will be looked on as a matter of course, and we shall wonder how tho people of the colonies ever managed to exist and remain satisfied with learning news six months old, while in the interval momentous things might he happening that would change tho whole course of their future life. Whether the peculiar speed at which we are living is an undivided

blessing, is an open question. There can be uo doubt that, what with electric telegraphs and railways, men live two lives in the time of one, and if the stamina is no better than it was in the olden time, our forefathers had a great deal of unexpended energy, or their descendants will allow the mind to wear out the body, and so become prematurely old. Another generation will decide this; now we must march with the world, and ns lightning communication has become a necessity, must keep pace with the time.