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Show THE FRENCH cable has at last been opened, and the following messages, between M. Grevy, the French President, and Mr. Hayes of this country, were among the first transmitted. "The President of the French Republic inaugurates the new cable which unites France and America, by sending an expression of his most cordial sentiments to the President of the Republic of the United States." To this Mr. Hayes sent the following reply: "To the President of the French Republic, Paris-The President of the United States acknowledges, with great satisfaction, the agreeable communication by the President of the French Republic making known to him the completion and successful operation of the new trans-Atlantic cable, and hopes that it may never be a vehicle of any other kind of messages between the governments and people of the two countries than those of friendship and respect."i |