The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-16 00:00:00

TILE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
is not surprising that the directors of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company are " astonished'
at'the publication of my letter in The Sun of Se?
tember 6, containing, as it did, facts which they
did not wish should meet the public eye, and
which, from the tone of their secretary's letter
to-day, they will doubtless still do their best either

to distort or suppress.
Ina letter written to the directors after my dismissal
I use these words I therefore-claim, as a matt(
of justice at your hands, a full and complete hives'
tigation of all the circumstances which have occur
red since the laying of the cable, and upon which
the directors have thought right to found my sum"
mart' dismissal, and I claim that this investigation
shall take place at Valentia, where alone all the
facts connected with it can be properly elicited au'
appreciated."
'The neglect or incompetence of those at the hod
of so great an undertaking—a national enterPri°
with which the Government has so largely
fled itself—is too serious a matter to be entertained
on merely personal grounds, and hushed up in 3
board-room or got rid of by the more summary Po'
cess of dismissing an outspoken official.
I now therefore suggest that the investigation

above challenged, and not yet granted, shall take
place at the hands of the shareholders of the corn-
pany, to whom the directors themselves are imnle-
diately- responsible, and that every letter and evert
telegram upon the subject shall be published in fllll.
This, sir, is my answer to the unwarrantable lan-
guage contained in the letter from the Secrete*
which, after the lapse of so many days, has this
morning appeared—language which of itself rep'
ders evident the animus which dictated it, and will
perhaps satisfy the public that the investigation
should be entrusted to other hands.
A single expression in my published letter I Wort
find, from more recent information, has uninten-
tionally deprived a friend of credit due to him. The
President's reply to her Majesty's message, received
t
shortly after my departure from Valentia, it
was transmitted from Newfoundland (as all others
have been) solely by use of my instruments there,
was received and recorded at " Valentia" by the
combined use of instruments of Professor Thomsen
and my own.—l am, &c., •
EDWARD ORANGE WILDMAN WilinnotisE,
Electrician, Projector of the Atlanitic Telegrerll.
Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, Slept 15.

SAILING OF THE PRINCE ALFRED WITH E `I"
.n,
GRANTS FROM MILFORD HAVEN.—This vessel-0u
count of which the demonstrations recently described be
our columns took place—left the Neyland terminus ef.tagt
Sauth Wales Railway on Monday afternoon at 3.45, awl
ling and lasting acclamations of applause, even the tue-usle
war manning the rigging and joining in the cheers• th
took with her upwards of 50 cabin passengers, every' Zyrr,i,
being fully occupied. She only went as far as Mw°
where, on account of some certain custom-house routine;
she was detained until the following day—another proot,„e'
the inconvenience to the trade and commerce of FellibVt:
Dock from the want of a custom-house at that place. 1.14„
weather was such as to hold out every hope of her byvivileal
a good passage out of the Chaunel, which, as Milford gaazir
iaso far advanced into the Atlantic, will not take 13.1r-
houro,