The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-20 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

LIVERPOOL, StritlMT NIGHT.

The steam ship City of Baltimore, which left
New York on the 9th of this month, arrived this
evening, after an extraordinary ran of ten days,
bringing 251 passengers, and 97,340 dollars specie.
Her news is generally anticipated by telegraph
via Halifax.

The New York Herald publishes the following
letter concerning the cable :
"I have received from Newfoundland a despatch,
informing me that although the insulation of the
ocean cable remains perfect, no message has come
over it for several days. The last telegraphic de-
spatch that I received from England was dated
Sept. I. What may be the cause of cessation Ido
not know, but I conjecture that it is the change of
shore end at Valentia, which I was informed was
about to be made. " CYRUS W. FIELD.

"New York, Sept. 8."
On the Bth, affairs at Quarantine were remark-
ably quiet; the military had not made their appear-
ance, and the people at Staten Island thought
that Governor King's proclamation was issued
merely for effect, and was connected with political
motives.

QUARANTINE RIOT AT STATEN ISLAND.

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NEW YORK. SIFT. 4.

There has been a prodigious sensation created by a
piece of Lynch law, or rather mob violence, perpe-
trated on Staten Island, three or four miles down
the bay, within the last two days. The quarantine
buildings, including the hospital, the doctors' and
callous houses, stores, &c., were attacked by a mob,
containing large numbers of the wealthiest and most
respectable residents on the island, and burnt to the
ground, the furniture and the patients having
previously been removed, the latter laid on the
grass outside and exposed to wind and weather in
the night. This is the second attempt of the kind
which has been made, and the place was garrisoned
for two months last winter by a forte of armed
police, who were unluckily withdrawn.
The causes of this extraordinary ebullition of po-
paler feeling are well known. Staten Island is one of
the pleasant suburbs of the city. It is within half an
hour of New York, and contains every variety of the
most charming scenery. Large numbers of persons
have accordingly taken up their abode on it, either
for the sake of pare air, or from motives of economy.
The quarantine station has been on it for fifty years,
but when it was fleet placed there the island was
almost a wilderness, and the foreign trade of New
York was oomparatively insignificant, and the
inconvenience of quarantine accordingly comparo-
tively trifling. Since then the island has become
thickly peopled, and the arrivals of yellow fever
' patients from the South every summer very nume-
ous. In spite of the remonstrances of the inhabitants,
the health establishment was last year extended
farther along the shore, so that property on all
' points of the island has depreciated enormously in
value, and many people have been obliged to fly
from their homes to save their families from sea-
breezes tainted with yellow fever. There are several
other points in the bay on which a quarantine may
be established without danger or inconvenience to
any one, but they are all same distance from the
city, and whenever the subject has been brought
before the city legislature, all attempts to remove it
have been defeated by the exertions of the wealthy
New York shipowners, who want to have
their vessels quarantined in a place that suits
their own convenience. Finding it impossible to get
redress by legal means, or to have their grievances
discussed on their merits, the residents on the island
have taken the law into their own hands, and in
obedience to a vote of their own board of health de-
claring the quarantine a nuisance, have demolished
it. One hundred police and a piece of artillery were
sent down last night, and if this should prove insuf-
ficient, there is talk of calling out the militia.
A later account says: " The Staten Island rebel-
lion begins to assume a very important aspect. The
rebel, have taken a bold stand, and declare they
will not permit any one to leave the quarantine
grounds to mingle with the residents of the island.
The Police Commissioners and Quarantine autho-
rities are actively preparing for war, and from pre-
sent appearances there is every probability of an
immediate collision between the belligerent forces.
Police-superintendent Talhnadge has been suspended
from duty in consequence of his action in the pre-
mien. Several of the rebels appeared before Justice
Welsh at the City Hall yesterday (ths 6th), and en-
tered into recognisance., for their appearance at the
Court of Sessions. One of the number was com-
mitted to the Tombs, but was subsequently released
upon a writ of babes corpus."
On the 7th instant, the Hon. John A. King. Go-
vernor of the State of New York, issued the follow-
ing proclamation :

The deliberate and 'Penton destruction on the nights of the
Ist end 2nd of September, by a large mob of armed men, of
the buildings, dwellings, houses, and hoepttan at the qua-
rantine station in the county of Richmond, the property of
the people of this State; the cruel and inhuman dragging
forth of the sick and disabled patients from the hospitals,
respected always even In war—their berbarotts exposure
without shelter throughout an Inclement night ; the
concurrence in and approval of these violent sots re.
people of the county of Richmond, end especially by those
who reside in the neighbourhood of the quareatine grounds—
the undisguised and determined manner in which all these
outrages were committed, evincing a total disregard and con-
tempt of the laws and of all of their obligations and duties as
citizens and men—all combined, present, to mytudgment, a
case which, standing alone in its enormity and violence.,
appeals directly to the chief magistrate of the State, whose
duty it le to see that the laws are faithfully executed, to
assert and maintain the dignity of the state, and of the
authority of those laws so contemptuously and barbarously
deSed and trodden under foot —Now, therefore. sating upon
the responsibility of my office, and desirous to vindicate the
supremacy of the laws, I desonnoe these eats of arms and
outrage as crimes of the highest infamy ; and for the purpose
of bringtag the people of the county of Richmond to a tun
some of the enormity of these crimes which they have per-
mitted to be perpetrated without any attempt at interference
with, or to punish the well-known actors to all these terrible
scenes of violence, burning.. and bloodshed, and to and
wand the threat. which are yet made, that the chips lying
at quarantine shell be fired, and the buildings for the accom-
modation of the sick who are now bouaelees, as well as for
those who may arrive from infected southern ports, would
he destroyed se some as erected, and, for the security of
the dries of New York and Brooklyn from contagion
ash psitilenoe. issue this proclamation, and call on
the civil method** of the county of Richmond, and upon
seek sad all of its inhabitants, Instantly and zealously to -
apwaße restoring the outraged pesos and order of the
and in bringing to pttniahnient the well-known bold
and principal actors and abettors In these acts of arson and
murder. And I declare that, by reason of the sots and pro-
ceedings herein referred to, and the shied of the sheriff of
the county of Richmond (although repeatedly notified that
threats bad been made to destroy the public property at the
quarantine) to take any steps to prevent the consummation of
those threats, and the absolute necessity for an adequate force
to protect the buildings to be erected for the sick en the very
It. where they stood until provision shell be made by law
foe their removal to some other place; and to release the
police force withdrawn from the genera service of the sides
of New York and Brooklyn, and now stationed at quaran-
tine, that the county of Richmond is In a state of in-
eurrietion, and in order to amidst in
and to protect the property of the Sirareter.
tie limed the sick, that a military force of sufficient strength
shall be demised and @tattooed at the quarantine till the re-
taming seam of the people of Richmond County to their
duties and obligations es useful citizens shall render in pro-
Banos nemeosseary, or until the legislature shall otherwise
direst. In wines@ whereof, I have hereunto seized my
name and the privy seal of the state, this 7th day of Sep-
tember, in the year of cor Lord 1858.
(Signed) " JOHN A. IC too."
Five hundred of the 7th Regiment, National Guard, have
been ordered to quarantine. The work of erecting temporary
hospitals was progressing rapidly.

LONDON AIM NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—We
leant that Mr. Cawkwell, trafil:cimger of tM Lanouhire
and Yorkshire Railway, has the put of general
monster on the London and lf Western, redgnad by
Captain Heigh. Abnat six months ago Mr. Cawkwell wu
offered a similar position on the Midland line. bat was Mooed
to remain where he was by the liberality of hie own board.
It I. geld the Lancashire end Yorkshire directors hays offered
Dim 1,6001. • year whet than love hie services. Rumour
Gus the ralary on the London end North Western at 2,0001.
• year, with • per ventage on the lan es'. of traffic.

THE HEAVY INDIA MAIL

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's stews
packet Pere, Captain T. Jamieson ; Admiralty agent,
Lieut. Thos. Tickell, R.N., arrived at Sonthamptse
yesterday with the heavy portion of the India mails,
Her dates were from Alexandria, Sept. 7; Malu,
Sept. 11; Gibraltar, Sept. 16.

She brought 162 passengers, amongst whom were--
Captains Brown, Barker, and Moore, and Lieutenant
Twyforcl, from Calcutta; Captain Swindlay, from
Madras ; Dr. Raltray, Lieutenant Thompson, Me.
Leech, R.N., and Captain Dha, R N., from
Hong-Bong ; Messrs. Collins, Morgan, and Mar.
phew, from Point de Galls ; Drs. Acheson and Prater
from Alexandria; Colonel Yout ghtisband, Mrs,
Kinleside, and Major Bolton, from Bombay; tad
Captains Grant and Bown, from Mauritius.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

Prefacer Whitehouse, the electrician, pea pub.
lished • detailed account of the origin and history of tho
Atlantic Telegraph project, with a statement of his own
claims and eerricem in that work. He concludes with the
following remarks upon the aceldrat by which the telegrapli
is now interrupted:

The arrival of the Agamemnon and Niagara at Valenti&
and Trinity Bays respectively look place within a few hods
of each other. Within a few miles the same length of cable
had been expended by each ; communication had bees mak-
mined, with one or two temporary interruptions, by ream of
he pre-arranged ship-signals until the time of WA*,
Them interruptions had given rise at the time of their comb
ranee to the greatest anxiety ; but, whatever had been mik
origin, they bad been remedied or passed away, and by
reseed to produce any serious inconvenience. The ands d
the cable were now landed, the distant one in en almost wil-
derness at the head of Trinity Bay, our own on Wade
Island. Communication, at first maintained by the Alp.
signals only, was shortly attempted by use of our special in-
struments far speaking. Newfoundland answered our coil
currents by giving us the pre-arranged landing eignel as
need on ship-board, and this was repeated frequently daring
the day. We therefore waited patiently till time should ad.
mit of their making the necaisary arrangements, rotundas,
meanwhile, to exchange signals with them, their epode' la-
ointments for speaking of course not yet being prepared or
adjusted.

By midnight on the fourth day after the landing of the
and, the speaking instruments at Newfoundland were suffi-
ciently adjusted for them to work. We received from them
words at good speed and with perfect accuracy, which wee
recorded at times by the use of my own instruments alona,
at other times received also upon Thomson's galvanometer
and recorded in the manner already described at /intim,
and sweelimes by both systems simultaneously. Sentences
and menages followed, and the facility with which these
were received, led me to believe at first theta diffiesky which
they experienced in reading our signals was to be attributed
to the injury, or still imperfect adjustment of the delicate ye.
airing instruments carried out in the Niagara and Gorgoa.
The gradually decreasing strength of oar current as re-
ceived at Newfoundland, and reported by them, soon made it
evident, however, that alight, but gradually increasing injury
to our cable at this end was the caws of this embarraaamsnt.
This continued to increase till they were reduced to reading
our signal/ by barely visible movement of their most seaside
detector—half a degree—while we rewired wore than a
hundred times this amount of force from them. Oar mode
of working was then modified to suit the altered condition of
the conductor—voltaic currents of low intensity being OW
played, and the signals being sent, at their ragmen, muck
more slowly than before.
goon they ceased to receive even this feeble tram of
oommtunoation from us, while yet their signals as received
by us were of ample strength. After a time these elm began
to diminish very considerably in force, and it berme evident
that the injury was gradually increasing, and would shortly
interrupt all communication either way.

The;peculiar mode in which this difficulty manifested
Welt, pointed unmistakely to the Valentin end as the seat c
injury. Our troperintendents at Newfoundland themselves
detected it, and twice telegraphed to us to test for it. I
had satisfied myself, by most oonclusive tests, that It was
close at hand.

The shore end, intended for protection of our cable, wee
lying at Bighorn, and our slight and fragile cable, pretend
only for the tranquil ocean depths, was exposed to the fall
swell of the Atlantic on the Irish coast, and to the swaying
to and fro with every tide.
I believed, from my testing, and from the gradual mode
which the injury had manifested itself, that the fault would
be found slight in degree, but extended probably over that
portion of our fragile cable between high water mark and the
deep and tranquil sea, for which it we. alone intended, what
ft wee exposed—end allowed to remain exposed, I cannot bed
may negligently—almost wantonly—to an amount of strain

and attrition for which it was known to be matted.

I will not here offer an opinion as to whether It wag the
duty of the board or their engineer to have guarded spirt
the occurrence of injury from such well-known cause wide
the mesas were at band provided by themselves: sake k
that up to the fourteenth day, I was left, surrounded by these
Madan in responsible charge of the station without sop-
Port.

I therefore took "upon myself the onus of directing the
cable to be raised and examined by Mr. Canning. The
weather prevented the completion of this till the day M
whiclKl left for town by order of the directors. Otitis* MM.
ing of that day I was informed by telegraph at one of as
staking en my journey that our superintendent had dies.
mired end out out a faulty part, which by testing had given
46 degrees of toes. And the following morning, en my ar-
rival at the telegraph station at Dablia, I found Mat the
President's menage, which had been waiting a king then
was at Wet coming through the cable.
The submersion of the shore end—always await is
=—and which ought to have been mall em Oho
the ships, has bn,een, in my splehm,
delaed. It is now agai I , uselpsamttirmil"4lll
spoken of by some of those uomdhear
kedy Vit Me
company as the proper JIM for essioniedm eguniono
Meantime, no staps that lea amswftle low Iss Wm
since I left Valenti' to prove the validity et etheirellee du,
opinion, further than multiplied appeals M a mebd=
demonstrably uncertain In Its application to Me
OfOf the oircutnarsecee attending my tessiglatioa
the public will become aware through other channels; I MI
not, therefore, now enter upon them. If the opinice whisk
I had then formed and a:premed as to the nature and list d
the injury should prove to be (torrent (and I hare Mead
nothing also. my resignation which leads me to think tar
wise), the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph ColePdf
stand in a remarkable position. Having a emcees which Me
startled the whole world laid at their feet, they k"..°l
how to use it, but by apathy and incompetence) seder it to
elude their gram, and the grand enterprise of the thy to fall
into collapse,
While peening these lines, I am informed that ems-
munication from Valenti' bland to the mainland, hitherto
established by means of a spare mile-length of the Atlantis
deep-sea cable, has been for sons days entirely interrupted
in consequence of Injury occurring within the harbour.

OUR SOLDIERS IN INDIA.—WS (EditobenTh Ex-
prose) have just received the following letter fres a eolith,
serving in India. Its date is July 31:—. Ber,—l nest your
kindness will excuse the liberty I have takes is
tm
tea your valuable time. My object in we delerVg
aic
Oman) Peel stated in the House of Commas that the
European soldier serving in India was supplied Melton
Indian kit at the expense of the Indian 'ornament Me
I bog to contradict, fur every snide co
Lilian kit we have to pay for. Now, aril
give you en instance of the way mow is 'mewled
from the soldier's pocket. We embarked et Pate-
month last August for this country, end wen arra eat
with what is termed a • ma kit,' for which we re a lie.
This sea kit was composed of article* of the seed MAW
description, and of no use whatever to us. roserferaT.
oar snivel in this country, we were thro'ss isb 41612,,
few days after our arrival we were supplied let*
!adieu kit, which, with our in=kife wei
affair at Cawnpore, under
east
far which we have received no peso"
camWl easel; ead
hone that time we have bees Nerved out with Maar eetl'
I ales of neceesarim at an exorbitant prim;
sequence wee this—whoa on the march ham ww.^••
to Annarlanr a great number of the zees rem
footed, and without socks, &o. ; and in this Nee we nes
to marsh from 20 to 30 miles per der, ander • boildAZ
Tide eztortioa still continues. One pair of sell
welts see being issued to us, for which we lie"
2s. 61.; they are of an inferior quality and of so me
ever bo no ; and for that amount we could °bins a elekil_e
boots, We have been entitled to • pair of We HMO NH
lei of April leak which have been at Cobalt. el WIZ
but, instead of booing them to us, the eathoritieskere_...
each era with a pair for which we paid id. tgra
sir, you will insert thiii in your valuable columns. e
tiottsf
wish of many of my comrades, I roans, dee.—A
811 TING Ilea 13111,1."
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL POE Did:
THI einem Vlcroata-reax.—The mars/
relieved at this isetitution during lest week was
12$ were sew arse.