The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

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(Stamped ld. AdditionaL) [TWOPENCE.

had most handsomely supplied my place during the expedi-
tion (which I was peremptorily forbidden by my physician
to joie), and also Mr. Bright, who had both landed there
from the Agammenoo, having left, the one very shortly
far London, the other a day or two afterwards for Glas-
gow.

The whole of the details connected with this subject will
probably ere long be laid by me before the public. Su/got it
here to say, that intimately connected as I have been
with the that and every electrical operation oe com-
munication night and day between the two countriee (as,
indeed, they bad been wholly under my direction), my name
seems to have been as all occasions studionely suppressed,
while my most earliest wishes for the welfare of the under-
taking have been misunderstood, and my actions condemned
without inquiry.
My duties u electrlcisn•projector of the Atlantic telegraph
(my medical adviser having, ea I have just stated, positively
prohibited my joining the expedition) had been fulfilled,
when I bad demonstrated to the world by the use of my

own lastrourata, after years of anxioue toil, in spite of mac
gravel doable entertained by some of the highest ocientifie
authorities of our day, the fort of the tranamiesion of Intel-
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under good management, to insure a brUltZt commercial
stamen to those who had hazarded their capital In the
enterptiae.

With tbie

I now looked for • well-eirnad

and bonouratle repose from the more pressing official de-
tails of my position, as indeed the terms of my agreement with
the company had allowed. Instead of this I reosived from
the bends of one of the directors an extract from the Warr
of a recent board, drawing my attention te the fact "that
my engagement as electrician of the company terminated
whet the cable was laid," and intimating to me that "my
authority as an °Blom of the company bad now ceased," this
being conveyed in such tenon and in such a manner as to
amount in fact to a summary dismissal.
A fortnight has elapsed since I claimed, as • matter of
justice, a fall sad complete investigation, towards which I
am not aware that say steps have yet been taken. The board,
having summoned me to London to dismiss ma, have now
found it necessary to adjourn te Valenti*.
The obstruction to the interchange of maestro to which I
have already alluded, and the recurrence of which the directors
had every reason, from my reports, to expect, has now, apps'
really, again manifested itself.
I think it rigir, therefore, towards the public and the
shareholders, no lass then es a duty to myself, to state that
the probability of thin recurrence of injury had bar antici-
pated sad predieted by ma with the utmost confiders, with
a vim to Ile poeventien. Thom is, I 'prebend, little real
are im muddy, nor to there, necessarily, so far am I am at
retent aware (far I know as details bat those which your
peeps offer), anything in this obstruction calculated to damp
the moat regains hopes of ultimate complete sumer. It is
apparently ao more than a repetition, from continued exposure
to the sates causes, of the fault or injury, already once re-
moved, and which ought by this time, so far as human rare
admit, to have been prevented or rendered impossible.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
EDWARD ORANOE WILDMAN WRITIROIIB2.
Electrician-Projector, and one of the Four Original
Promoters of the Atlantic Telegraph.
Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, Sept. 6.

HABBOUBS 07 BiIUOB OR THE BAST COAST.

On Saturday afternoon the commissioners tip.
*Mad to complete the inquiry rensouninded by the aslant
committeeon her bolus of Tempi held an inquiry at the Town-
ball, Leith, into the subject.
The commission comprised Rear-Admiral James Hope,
6.8.; Major-Oeneral Sir Frederick Smith, Knight, M.P.
Mr. W. 0. Lindsey, M.P.; Captain Washington, R.N..;
Os=Veitch, H.R. • and Mr. Coode, C.E.
-Adurral 1.1.4* presided, and after the commission
had bees reed, tnquired whether any deputadena from ports
were
YrWilliam Thompson, merchant, Leith, answered that
he attended to represent the district of Anatruther and
Collerdyks, where a harbour of refuge had been memo-
rialised for.
The Chairman then elated the purpose of the inquiry —the
primary object of which was to ascertain the meet Mewle
site for a harbour of refuge on the north-east oust of Scot-
land and the east coast of England.
The Provost having mentioned the name of Mr. John
Broadfoot, merchant, of Leith, as one who could sadist the
communion in the inquiry,
Mr. Broadfoot was examined accordingly. In answer.to
the queries pat to him, he stated that, in his opinion, Peter-
head wee the beet alto fora harbour of refuge. As to Peter-
head being • better point than Wick, be could not perhaps
form a correct opinion, not being practically acquainted
with W Ink. • Ile considered that If the government re-
solved to spend 300,0001. on the north-eaat west et
Scotland, the money would be better spent in making the
existing harbours accessible to vessels frequenting the
coast at full end low water than in oonstructiag simply
one great harbour on the coast, as reseals were frequently
caught in heavy gales of wind, and had not always the power
of making for one deed point. At Lath there was be present
access to the harbour at low-water spring tide. The
channel between the piers at low-water spring tide was 91
feet, and sometimes they had 23 feet in the channel at high
triter.
Mr. Douala Macgregor next volunteered evidence. The
losetty of a tartest of Mtge was, he said, a matter
Ida thought of then the question of getting one for the
north-seat coast. The beet ails, he thought, was either at
Wick or Peterhead; the latter for Battle and Archangel
vessels, sad the tenser for resent.osmoseted with the
Aisseitera Ueda Aa et the mode • of eapeedieg
300,0001. if granted, be speed with the bet witness; but
it was meek baler, if they could make the froth harbour,
to do so, rather than make two sr three bed Nisi. Un-
doubtedly, if there were two propedlierene le mete a
batonr in which ships of all slimi mull tehe al say thee of
die, or which could afford Menem la ley weelbee_ , sad the
ether to make four herboure sedlehle be reeds. Wen ships
el ASO ems and varier at helli-lide—he would prefer the
Marc Looking to the pretest Mara , he would prefer
the hue hothouse la them; but es this Mum the
Imietteeerse Midi be me/ Be though* a point
beiges the Fittla ed NOE sail the Robe ewe the Net
sits for a harbour off the asithmest toed th legiond—
perhaps about Whitby or therbanthgth A the above
propositions to this MO, his epithet wee fa thew et one
Urge harbour, es tber iliesedug Made were MA laereedeg
In etas. it. le itreff • Sops, as the semi of illeselsad, wee
not • safe sauna Meteor et With; it•mighe he loth dm la
da light.
Captain Dixon, a retired thipmeelm, _themeth did he bed
commanded vowels plying between Lmdan sad Lift. He
thought Hartlepool wee the best OM on the art asset of
England foe • herboar creek's, as at west - bay, and a
verseleanght shoat there wee mare Moly to dad the bottom
of the bay thee Amy other point. A harbour was very muck
wanted on the north-esst coast of inland. Flley Bay, clods
to Flemberough Head, would min make snot a good Ma es
Hartlepool. He had traded shag that meat for Meth mete,
sad MOW MA a Owes to roue to. Mom wrests Seek Mime at
Rrr then et No War point as the meet.
Mr. Neejessia Nana, shimmer, sad who had bed many
othatoseth tW ousbetwept sza4olth and Load=
Ftelqilthby IMi lsellithaaiii:a bathes' nilbedeposi senme parser amdlia. et
ay Elia pews am ere essei eitlegbaL. • Ts essignsta
the poem pesesetim afforded by nth Brig,a teselmeter,
iltemetbd, mess be • Meg mem !tees weft mmty meths
lab* 44,4 the Path el iamb. bet elidladel three to
=o beleyeadl atithethled Milt& e May r *phey. ed
time" th et emeace the gime er met
side. dm Medi If filthe led hem • latibses 4 en
threat eseet d Negleml be wish :bre limb is
emeisth them heat maim 4 math%
Petebbeeil as a Meths a harem smith, amtli-ememest
Poodaysk Ire meta en, b wee math*, hens lose then
Mr.
. tithed be sea-te this omenneolea that a
arreek.ef sr stip wee ulaunag lathe Firth of Fastk.
Omega Abmirther Imam dripmeatire, mil kw Arty years
atom, • degathi dith be bed he smith yeses esamended
wear gifts boom Leith wed Lowden. A barbeez
eMeNemmiseelt lb. 1.11141•014 steel 4&.18:11.4.
of
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A lobar these wadi ire mem to gem lib seed pommy
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weir Need. herd the vessels wrested Mit
IlartimeM
Robin Ca muse
tme&disrms sod path wee nest examiard.
He bed Mew 21 he and was solostmed with
the ffeellind whh &Mids. Thom wes very pest
nemesith _erberbeier at refuge Mums sass Firth or Forth
sad theNeetimd nohow there woo as ethos mews Coe-
tarty Jar Nab wwia moth et nut le meght
these them o Ne thet Petstiman wee die•
st eve&
, able pathos*, et the mei ~the • mo
ho hide
of reap. li hair mem of the &him Medea between
Leith Gad the Dentlewl Firth ; ram of away Oath!
man. be Omega the espenaleem el is lab mesa
weind be tilw maw emi IFELA AS
Newisren IMF mialat ear, ter
lebteiriersietameemil we herbed, asell. to she
mere et weft IA se hem a Muter at Newhaven. St.
lbsposegnited he the guiders el strangers.
tees to rid se • Matsu ef Wee&
;Lwow. rassiass, aurae soli ebithewate, Lath,

• was then called. He stated that there was great necessity
for a harbour of refuge at Anstruther for fishing-boats em-
ployed in that locality. Attetnither was second to Wick only
as a fishing-etation, end the present accommodation of the
harbour was quite insuftlient. In 1866 great damage
was caused to the 'hipping, and also some lose
of life occurred, through the want of accommoda-
tion. He produced a copy of a memorial signed
by 1,243 fishermen belocrng to the Firth of Forth,
asking for malatanos to construct a harbour for their
use. Maws. Stephenson, the engineers, had prepared plait
showing that such a harbour could be made at an expense
of 30,0001., and Anstrather would raise 12.0001. if they
could obtain a loan of 18,0001, and they would assign the
revenue of the Oohing. which amounts to 1,20 W. a year, in
security for payment of the interest and redemption of the
debt. Anetruther was not fitted for the construction of a
national harbour of refuge. On the north-east of Scotland
he did not think a harbour of refuge wee needed for foreign
vessels and coast-going vessels, but only for the fishing-
boats, but on the north-east of England one certainly war
wanted. He coincided in the view taken by other witnesses
as to the eligibility c 4 Hartlepool as a site for a harbour.
As a shipowner he would not be willing to pay a pan•
ing toll for a harbour of refuge at Peterhead, but he
would willingly • 101 l for the formation of a harbour
OIL "Mai 091111 There were some dangerous
rift ease sod hi a gale of wind shi =akin for •
liVeren 111: aisbist. WithM Mei
etailhmass at Ampirailimosti
would to a great extent prevent these occurrenoes.
Cleg:111; harbour at Anstruther was format by two piers
=Lout, and boats could not take it until half. tide.
a an set of parliament for the improvement of the
harbour, but work" were not yet commenced.
Mr. Charles Jackson ,
as
Cheatham Hall, West Hartle-
' mollzas the last wititesa called. He merely stated that
the oommiesion wee to attend tbenlhat day he
os7ne7geing in Leith on busines'. He had been endeavour-
lag to get the opinion' of nautical men as to the different
parts of the north-east coast of England, sad the aims-
sit, for a harbour of refuge, and he produced the evidence.
The Chairman suggested that anything Mr. Jackson
bad to offer respecting the making of a harbour on the
north-east coast of England could be more properly taken
when the comndasiemers visited the district of Hartlepool.

The essuideaketors than retired for a few minutes: arid,
as rseasbi, the eheirsea stated that they had resolved to
prettied so Sweat with the isqarry.
The precollege thee termhtsted.

TSB COLONI4L_SICIVTARPB 3LICTION

BEPINBBB.

A correspondent writes : Mr. Somas, of No. 8,
Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-hin, the sienna auditor for
Hertfordshire, has jest published his abstract of the expenses
attending the hat election for that manly, from which it
applies, though the denim was wecoatested, and was simply
t epos Si, B. B. Lytton's accepting the office of
ael=aSecretary, that the return of the right bon. gentle-
man hes coet him the modest sum of 1,1471. 17s. 3d. Between
the twin of the Speaker's warrant sad the day of election
nentetillag like a week would elapse ; there could have been
so occasion for a canvass and there was no poll ; and
.vet
far Ms purely formal proceeding, Sir B. B. Lytton has lir4 to
Mebane needy • fourth of hie annual salary of 6,0001. ea
Colonial Minista, hard enough under any cireamstenoes,
but much move so if the prospect or his party remaining in
cellos had bees act more flattering than it at first appeared.
Of this large sum about 8021. went in agency and =Taming
expenses ; 731. 10e. 4d. tor hosting*, which would be
wanted foe little more then ea hoar ; 1021. 18s. 9d. for
printing, stationery, end advertisements ; 141. 10s. for assis-
tants and messengers ; 121. ss. 3d. for mieoellansom ex-
penses ; 221. 3s. 6d. for committee moms ; and
291. 19s. for the election auditor's fee sad apeman.
}Ledford, Hemel Hempstead, Great Berkhampetead,
/Litchi'', Bishop Stanford, Stevenage, St. Al glen's,
Hoddesden, Bantingford, Watford, and Hatfield are
the chief places within the county, though many of them
are merely villages, and the 8001. odd for agency and can-
vassing expanses must have gone among the attorneys located
at them %Ts, thee' la Hertford and the two
Hempstead' noel respectively 1121. 7s. and 1021. 7s.
Again, hi Hertford, 1 . 16s. 84. was expended in printing
alone. Daring the lest ministerial interregnum it was often
said that Sir E. B. Lytton was content to forego • place la
the cabinet, last by accepting office and thereby vacating his
be seat he might not re-elected, the chance of his return being
alleged to be extmedingly precarious. May not other omit-
&ratio= have produmd this hesitation on his part I"'

TVANCI OP THE BARQUE ALMA 07 NORTE
BBLELDB.

BOMBAY, AUGUST 4.

•
The barque Alice, Captain Pearson, of North
Shields which WI Aden on the 4th of July for Bombay,
with a large consignment of ordnance stores for government,
consisting of wder and ammunition, got sground on the
meat, near the viSage of Coorla, about eight miles eolith of
Although, on the night of Thursday, July 15. The only
t=on board were Sergt. Maodunald, of the Ordnance
ett, with his wife and four children, and a foreigner,
a medical man by profession. The ship was approaching the
hrebear, and it appears that the captain mined' a landmark
on the coast for the Colaba Lighthouse, towards which
• socordiogl steered. The weather was mry hazy,
which tbs land quite invisible, and the captain
was not aware of his danger until the ship struck. On
loam how mottos stood he immediately secured the
ship and east ssehor, intending to move out to sea in
the morning. Oa the approach of dawn a furious gala
set in, which rentleted it impossible to extricate the ship
hem bar pagan position, and it was accordingly resolved
to lend the peensagers. A boat was prepared, sad the Bo•
roping pamingunt, with the native lamer* on board, were
phosdfa her, sad rowed on shore by lour of the crew. This
weed seesmaestriod without any misadventure, and Sergeant
having his family at the spot, nada the best of
his way to Bombay to mune assistance, and report the dr-
emastance to the authorities. After a wearisome journey to
Mandsra, on tM opposite aids of the harbour, when he ar-
rived Is a famished condition, be embarked to the severs.
meet boat that plies from there
i daily and reached Bombay
on the lath. Captain Pearson lad n the meantime, after
mearing the ship as touch as perelibis, acs on abort with
the despatishas for government, sad strived in Bombay late
the sane eveniag. The ship having goes to pieces, the
mow with Mrs. Macdonald and family, returned to Bombay
ca the 21st July, having lost all they possessed.