The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-25 00:00:00

TO THE DIRECTORS OP THE ATLLETIC TELFARAFR

COMPANY.

GENTLEMEN,—On arriving at Valentia on the
morning of the 6th inst., I forwarded to yon by tele-
graph a brief report of the success which has
attended the company's endeavours to place New-
foundland in electrical communication with Ireland,
and I have now the honour to lay before yon fuller
particulars of the operations carried out on board
H. M. 8. Agamemnon, which I have been unable to
do wooer, owing to the pressure consequent upon
the return of the expedition.
After oar departure from Queenstown at 2 a.m.
on the 18th ult., we proceeded towards the rendez-
vous, which we reached on the night of the 28th,
having been delayed by contrary winds and a head
swell. We found the Niagara, Valorous, and Gor-
gon, which had left Queenstown on the 17th, waiting
for us; End on the morning of the 29th, the sea
being smooth and the barometer standing 30.15,
the Agamemnon and Niagara were connected toge-
ther by a hiwser, stern to stern; the end of the cable on
board the latter ship was then brought by the boated
the Valorous to the Agamemnon, where the splice
was finished by 1 o'clock, local time, our position
then being lat. 62.8 N., long. 32.27 W., distant
938 2-10 statute, or 815 nautical miles from the
White Strand Bay at Valentia.

Having veered out a sufficient length to bring the
splice into the centre of the curve formed by the
cable hanging between the ships, the hawser was
released, and we proceeded on our course slowly,
paying out slack freely for the first three hours,
after which the speed of the ship increased to four,
and at 7 p. m. to five knots per hour.

All went on well until 7.45 p.m., when, imme-
diately after passing from the outside to the centre
of the coil in the main hold, the beginning of the first
turn of the flake next below that in promo of deli-
very was seen (on being exposed by the uncoiling
of the cable above it) to be squeezed between the
side of the cone in the eye of the coil and the end of
the piece of wood by which the leading in part of
the coil was defended.

This injury occurred through the extent to which
the coil was distributed during the gales enooantered
in our previous voyage. Although the whole of the
upper part of the coil, which had been displaced to
such an extent as to promise difficulty in paying
oat, was removed, and coiled on the upper deck abaft
the foremast, it would appear that all the new cable
which had been lately placed on the top of the main
coil had shifted somewhat in the heavy weather,
for it was necessary to rectify another defect arising
front the wine cease at a similar part of the coil soon
after.

The old cable, which had been coiled for a longer
time, and was more thickly mated with the mixture
of tax and pitch, was not in the least degree dis-
turbed.

When the defective piece bad been paired under
some of the turns of the Rake then paying oat to the
outside, in order to allow of more narrow examina-
tion than could be made in the centre of the ooil
where the cable was passing out of the hold, Pro-
fessor Thomson reported that continuity had owed.
On the cessation of signals I requested Captain
Preedy to stop the ship, baring placed Mr. Clifford
to superintend the machine, so that as little cable
might be payed out as was consistent with safety,
Mr. Canning taking charge of the reinstatement of
the injury, while Mr. Hoar attended to the dyna-
mometer.

It is in great measure owing to the care of these
gentlemen that no ill resulted from this critical
mischance.

At 9.16 the fault wu repaired, and shortly after-
wards signals were again reported from the Niagara.
We had at this time payed oat 46 nautical mass of
cable from the Agamemnon.

The depth of water at the time of this stoppage
was 2,030 fathoms, according to the nearest sounding.

By noon on the 30th we had payed out 133.8
nautical miles, being then in lat. 62.24, long.
29.50 by observation. and 718 miles distant from
Wanda; the Niagara having laid 130 miles of
cable.
After this the wind freshened, and a heavy swell
got up, increasing the motion of the ship very mack,
and at midnight it was blowing hard from BILL ;
the ormsumption of coal required to keep op the speed
which I desired to maintain being so great thsit
some apprehension was felt in regard to the 141-1
ciency of our supply of fueL

At noon on th-o-fist the Agamemnon had papal
out 280 miles, and the Niagara 285.
The weather did not allow of any observation, but
*sr run by dead reekosizg made us about 805 miles
from Valentin, and in the locality when the depth
of 1,400 fathoms (the greatest in our rests) was ob-
tained by Captain Damao, in her Majesty's *Hp
eYelort last Yaw- _ .

-Dukes ti; day the wind ovation* to blew
heavily, the esa running very hill& t by=
the barometer had Men be 29.60, and
indioated a change ibr worse rather than flar bmlpe
weather. We had then payed oat 363 aiib *
cable, the Niagara 366.
At nom, on Sunday, Avast 1, we mire 4120.1
mike from Valenti', ear pinkies by aloWnslies
being lat. 62 deg. 26 min. 30 am, lamp W at. 16
min. 34 we., 434 miles haviag bees mid mil hem
the Agamemnon and 440 by the Magas ; ' •
Dar* the meeing.the nisi lad obtain! Or tie
8.W., sad the mean* gam sips et amsamst,
bat showy semi n'aia'd, mat is Ile Mown
the beam hastened ; spells Whim* eadrellatla
vapid euesesene, sad the nip piteislam Mak M
befre. - • .in 'mod.
By nem en the 2a4 we were iv lab.=
19.48, 361.6 wiles Iran Yalimilai
having been laid heal the Aummildleml mid OS

ham tise Niagara. >xi 11. .
Li the afbasooa tits !wee atibridol theressed,
sad the sestina sf lir ship wee Rusk osier. At
pm. Ira bad to alter ose mom fora dor ssinatee,
to avoid a thromasstad asissonar) 'ebbe pawed wan
the pore beer so slangy as to nabs it a rabies& ler
aaoratalatka that sin diarist ems ear re, eaters.
Tin cable pow oat very numb to tie dellAoll,l side
during the change, bat I awed sea additional amount
of slack to be payed eat at the time, so that no nada,
strain own 'pm it.

[TWOPENCE.

v Daring the evening the weather was squally, and
by 4 in the morning of the 3rd the wind had got
round to the N.W., and a long slow swell from the
B.W. caused the ship to pitch and roll as much as
before. At this time some excitement was created
by a barque bearing down upon our starboard beam;
we increased speed to clear her, but she hove to on
being intercepted by the Valorous.
At noon on the 3rd we had paid out 776 miles of
cable, being then in let. 62.28, long. 18.7.40, 21.22
miles from Vaientia, the Niagara having laid 780
miles.

After this the depth of water, which had averaged
2,000 :fathoms since the lst inst., began to lessen,
and at 5 p.m., the greatest variation in our track
(from 1,760 to 660 fathoms within about 10 miles)
occurred, an extra per tentage of slack being laid to
provide for any irregularities which might there
exist in the bottom ; by midnight the depth had
further decreased to 218 fathoms.

At 4 am cm the morning of the 4th the large coil
in the main hold was exhausted, and we commenced
paying out from the upper deck coil.

By noon the water had deepened again to 400
fathoms. We were then in lat. 62.11, long. 12.40,
only 89} miles from Valenti', having laid 924 miles
of cable while the Niagara had laid 925.
During the day the wind and sea dropped, and at
8 p.m., having rednoed our distance from Valenti& to
60 miles, the Valorous steamed ahead to make out
the land.

The water now shoaled gradually ; at 8.30 p.m.,
haring finished the second coil, a change wee effected
to the cable on the orlop deck.
At midnight we were in company with the Valor-
ous, in sight of the Upper fikellig light, and at dawn
in the morning of the 6th abreut of the Blasqneto
steaming slowly towards Valentin.
At six a.m. we anchored in Doulu Bay, 2,022
nautical miles having been payed out between tke
two ships, and proceeded to coil a sufficient length of
cable to reach the shore into one of the paddle-box
boats of thi Valorous.
The wind freshened in the course of the morning,
by which the landing of the end wu somewhat de-
layed, the swell becoming so great that Captain
Preedy got up steam in the Agamemnon, ready to
put out to sea at any moment.

At 3 p.m. the end of the cable wu safely brought
to the beech, and posed into the company's station
at Knightatown.
The strain upon the cable varied during the pay-
ing out under different circumstances of weather,
depth of water, and speed of ship, as will be seen by
the accompanying tabular log which furnishes de-
tails recorded several times in each hour of the in-
dicated strain, weight on brakes, angle of cable, rate
of paying out, rate of ship, revelations of screw, dis-
tance run according to Massey's log, distance made
good by observations, and a journal of all the events
worthy of note in each watch ; an entry is also made
of Greenwich time, so that the Electricians' diary,
and the log kept on board the Niagara may be more
readily compered with it.
Some

experienced by the great

accumulation of pitch and tae, a second coating of
which was laid on the cable when coiled away at
Keybam for the winter, to prevent it from rusting,
but this had also its advantage in keeping down the
cable leading from the coil, which had, if too dry in
any place, a tendency to 4 out when running at a
high speed.

The paying out machinery (consisting of the ad-
dition of Mr. Appold's brake to one of the two ma-
chines fitted on board each ship lad year as recom-
mended by your committee, with the dynamometer
for indicating the strain) has worked exceedingly
well, in a manner which reflects the highest credit
apon the manufacturers, Messrs. Easton and Amoe.

The hand wheel for lifting the weights when re-
quired, designed by Mr. Amos, was of considerable
service during the unfavourable weather which pre-
vailed for the chief part of the voyage.
The amount of slack payed out amounted to 22
per cent. upon the distance run. Lem might have
been laid, but I considered it desirable to ensure the
cable laying everywhere on the bottom, that ample
sleek should be used to oover any irregularities
within the bounds of probability.
I must not conclude this report without again ex-
pressing my deep 11011110 and appreciation of the la-
boners seal and untiring patience exhibited by
Captain Preedy and the officers and company of the
Agamemnon, nor can I too strongly express my
obligation to Mr. Canning and Mr. Clifford, who
so ably took part with me in the general superin-
tendence of the work, and to Mr. Hoar and Mr.
Moore, whose supervision of the dynamometer and
machinery was of the utmost value to us ; and it
must not be forgotten that Captain Hudson and the
officers and orew of the Hume, with Mr. Everett
and Mr. Woodhouse, who had charge of the opals-
lion of paying out from the Niagara, with the as-
*stenos of Mr. Kell, have also performed their share
of the labour equally with those who have returned
.to Ireland in the Agameasnort.--I hays the bower
to rentals your most obedient servant,
(Signed) CHARLES T. BRIGHT,
Engineer.
Atlantic Telegraph Company,
22, Old Broad-street,
Hegineers' Dope:tamest, August 19.

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