The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

Pi )RTLAND.

To ao, Editor

the Done C'ounly Erpress and
Agricultural Gazette.

ORTLAND, September 10th, 15L15.9.
Sin,—As the paragraph which appears in a
column of one of the local journals relative to the
recent visit of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to this island is not correct, I request you
will have the goodness to insert the following, and
in the event of any further correspondence being
necessary in reference to this subject, I beg to
enclose you my card.
I remain, Sir.
Your obedient servant,
A LOVER OF TRUTH.

On Tuesday last, the 6th instant, the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty arrived in Weymouth
by the 2.45 p.m. train, and shortly afterwards pro-
ceeded in the "Prince" steamer (('aptain Camas) to
Portland Roads, and on going on board the
"Osborne" (Admiralty Steam acht) the Edgar,
91. Admiral Erskine, saluted their Lordships with
19 guns. The official party, consisting of His Grace
the Duke of Somerset (first Lord), Admiral Sir
Richard S. Dundee, K.C.8., Admiral the Honble.
Thomas Pelham. CR., Admiral the Right Honble.
Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., General Sir John
Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.8., Admiral Sir Baldwin
Walker, Bart, K.C. 8., the Right Honble. Sidney
Herbert, M.P. (Secretary of State for War), and
Captain the Honble. George Wiottesley, A.D.C.
On landing they were received by Captain Manning
(Her Majesty's Lieutenant), John Goode, Esq., CE.,
and Engineerdn-Chief of the breakwater ; Major
I Nugent (commanding Royal Engineers of the dis-
trict), and J. T. Leather, Esq., the eminent con-
tractor for the works in progress, which the official
party proceeded to inspect, accompanied by R. B.
Sheridan, Esq., ALP., and other gentlemen. Their
Lordships returned or. board the " Osborne" at a late
hour in the afternoon, and on the following morning
left for Alderney.
On Thursday the Sth instant, the Defence COM-
n2i.sioners, accompanied by John Goode, }:sq., Major
Nugent, and many private friends, proceeded to
make an official inspection of the extensive fortifica-
tions in the course of construction on the Verne hill
and other parts of the island.
On Friday, the 9th instant, the Karl and t 'onntess
Vane, accompanied by Lady Edwards, His Grace
the Duke of Marlborough, General Alves, and
Captain Gosling honoured Captain Manning with a
visit at Portland Castle.
Tag LATE GUN ACCIDENT.— A contemporary
publishes a letter from a correspondent, in which he
say.: "Referring to the recent accident at Portland,
in tanuoquence of the firing from H.M.S. Blenheim,
I can testify that life is daily and without notice
endangered there from the same can's. During a
' short stay at Weymouth. I very naturally took a
boat for • row in Portland Bay; but had not long
been there before I found the balls from the same
ship flying in quick succession, comparatively near
me. Now I submit that, at a place of such numerous
resort as Weymouth, this esposure of the lives of
visitors and others is rer-kless in the extreme, and

fatal accidents moulting from it ought not to be
covered by the mild verdict of •' escuaable I 11111 l icitle."
If Hying is a water of daily necesaity, public notice
should be given that, at certain hours and parts of
the bay, boats would be endangered by it."