§ MR. WADDYasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether, as the Eddystone Rock has been partially washed down by the sea, and it has become necessary to remove the lighthouse, the opinion of competent engineers had been taken as to the practicability of blowing up and removing the rock altogether instead of re-building the lighthouse; and whether he would lay on the Table any Correspondence on the subject?
§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYSir, in the opinion of the advisers of the Trinity House, the cost of blowing up the Eddy-stone Rocks, and another reef which would necessarily have to be blown up also on the landward side of them, would be 10 times the cost of building a new lighthouse, and the lighthouse standing out from a long recess of the shore from the Lizard to the Start is so useful for the navigation of the Channel that, if there were no rocks there, it would still be necessary to place a light in that position. The rock selected for the new site is so formed and protected that there is no danger of its being similarly damaged by the sea, as the present site has been. I will lay on the Table to-night a report from the Trinity House on the subject.