The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-23 00:00:00

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDONteliew NEWS of TO-1110111011. leter. IL ye emetela ihe EZ:L4--resette. Ilmespee Illstek Oribea boo es relief May Bak Ustithemee. leleede—hpure bt the iselesbei Ileistee Oelams—limehee hew oh— atiose7e the Lsset: I. Us Lime; The DeMer4; e& lopes Sew : DejLealluthlbritill. ..... I. oeateleigg h. Tet4 ; fe M ir t i llie Mirth —Pew I=Ele t• Mee AM: "Items ken the Pear br i =dea lemb—lelsb Ter Senway Tomsk, • lel& Hamm ad ChM*" Issehluesek sad :11=6 Weelz--naktlß .awe rfill• 110, lie tree. the liiisreoo. OUTOOIII6 JIM& TM mile *le BMA Noah Manske sad the Tishri Mates be nein ip mai& Sm. 3s. The mils via to tie lielheetamm, XCP'. Ceyles, IsdiaMaeag lle.. till be mille hp Irma sew mak& Nee. TM sea ea t ark Ow Libels, made sad . oibisltar will be ap_ov. 21. The Welt N Isla Mei* imladlag Bermuda, ffetema, Noma. limitme. New Oilman, and Mesiee, sad e adedlag these lise lialake, It . Jemie.Niemaigaa, Ile New Goma* Chili. sad Tam. will sande sr ea Dm 2. X.d.lts. the ire w. sad Baum Ayres, will be as up ea Dee. 4. The mike Gibraltar, Malta, Orem, the Imam lope, Cayles, India, sad MISS. via heathmeptea, bill e a lvil M nab a. ea the ateraime et Des. 90. 1170 E WATIIIt AT LYNDON 171111001. Tsai Ilas—blemlol. lb. 41 ... AMP •7 b. Ilba. f►wr. Ilb. Hie. mow. I \ ft a, LONDON, FRIDAY; NOVEMBER 23. Tun hearty reception accorded at Edinburgh to Sir JOSHUA WALMILEY and Mr. 0101,01 THOMPSON, in their character of representatives of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform lamentation, is of had m aul a ry for anti- ref .rmere and sham reformers. Edinburgh was the last stronghold of a whiggery so very te as to be with diAndty distinguishable from English Wolof& An immense majority of the citizens pat themselves is the leading-strings of the Parliament House, and the learned pundits of that wart of Therm's jobbed them with impunity. Iv was at Edinburgh that the late Lord DURHAM (at the banquet given to Earl 011.1 Y) attacked Lied BROUGHAM, who, as IS his wont, bad been crowing most lustily on his own dunghill. The liberals from the rest of Scot end cheered Lord Duman, but the Edinburgh whiga outvoiced them as they outnumbered them. Matters continued much the same till at the last general election the defeat of Mr. MACAULAY bespoke Edinburgh whigoery on the wane. The revolt is now complete. The learned whige of Modern Athens have done all they could to burke its Financial Re form Association, in its infancy, bat in vain. They spired no insidious efforts to make the meeting called to receive the delegates of the National Association, a failure. The result has been that, in spite of bad weather, the spacious Music-hall, of Edinburgh, " was crowded to overflowing," by a "mating equal to any ever held in Edinburgh. and the resolutions approving of the principles and views of the National Association were carried onaahnocaly, and with en thusiasm." Such having been the reception of Sir Josnua and Mr. Tuomrsore in Auld Reekie, their triumph at Paisley and Glasgow cannot fad to be splendid. The ground taken up by Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY, at Edinburgh, is truly national. He and his col league threw themselves, withriat hesitation and reserve, upon the nation, in the widest and most literal acceptation of the term. They appeal not to party "faction or any individual," but to "every man in Britain." Tcey do not seek to pack a jury; they throw themselves on their country. "Tee Associa tion," said Sir 'mums, in his truly eloquent perora tion, which elicited math an enthusiastic response from the meeting, "would provide a fair field for the battle of opinion on all subjects, and would submit every question to the verdict of the public voice— whether free trade or protection, state church or se paration, direct or indirect taxation, paper or gold, war or peace, game laws or no gams laws, education by the state or voluntary popular initiation. They believe that all these questions would be best disposed of by being submitted to the judgment and deeision of the British people, when their flat can be ascer tained by a full, free, and honest representations." The citizens of Edinburgh have broken the bonds of I cal cliques and coterie,. They have desisted themselves " no-party men;" not in the seprivessl sense of some political adventurers, who have adopted the phrase to indicate that they are willing to take wages from either whig or tory ; but is the legitimate sense, that they act for the benefit of the whole not of a part—of the people not of a faction. Now that the men of Edinburgh have passed the Rubicon, and taken "pure and ae-fauld part" with the people we anticipate good service from them. There are long-headed and hard-headed fellows among them. They had previously started two orga nised agitations, which they cannot do better than follow up promptly and vigorously. Edinburgh was the birth-place and centre of action of the association for reform in the Excise. The papers we axe publish ing on the paralysing influence exercised by the Ex cise upon the manufacture of soap, ought to stimu late that body to renew its intermitted exertions. The Financial Reform Association of Edinburgh have published comprehensive and philosophical papers on the subject of finance in general. Let them enter the field as popular missionaries of the truths they have proclaimed, and perambulate their country, "free Maidenkirk to John o' Groats," explaining them in popular laneuage, and rousing men to struggle for their practical application. Tam Act imposing an Excise duty on soap would have been far more properly styled "An Act to im pose pains sad penalties spoa Bosp-boilers." It is said by the Excise to be "as little burdensome as an Excise law can be." In their estimation an act, every clause of which concludes with a penalty of from M. to 300 L, is a benevolent and in-no-degree-to-be- complained-of statute. The exciseman has been served with a regular notice of the intention of the manufacturer to "elegise," or clear out his copptrfoll of soap at a cer tain hoer of the day. At that hoar the Seer attends with his bunch of keys to unlock the copper. The manufacturer must thee proceed. If he is unable, or omits to do so, the law benevolently gives him two hours' grace. Yes; for two hours he is absolutely at liberty to proceed or not, as he plemet. Bat the mo ment the exciseman's watch tells him that the two hours have expired, the act requires him to shut down and fe-fseten the copper, and to demand of the manufacturer a fresh notate of 6 or 12 hours of his intention to clear out. Bet we will suppose the manafec•urer ready to proceed. The soap is obliged to be ladled out of the into pans, and the law provides that there copper be two such vessels ce pans, and no more. 111 , time the soap maker is allowed for this operation ladling, is strictly regulated, and he is subject to a penalty if he does not do his work in time. The EXO2IIIOIII stands by during the entire operation, making a note of the moment it commences and the moment it is eoncluded for the information of his mastics—the consmbrioners. The soap is emptied from the pans into the frames. These frames are sabjeet to the most rigid re,thlations. Every frame must be registered, cam bered, aad marked. They are obliged to be precisely 46 inches long by 16 broad. Their depth is regulated : their very thickness and the mode of fastening them together is the subject of a statute. No frame can be used, oader a penalty of 1001., unless it has been sarveyd, and sit its dimensions ascertained by the Racier ; and if any one dares to um a frame not sees teem& marked, numbered, surveyed, inspected, end of the proper length, breadth, depth-sad saes, 2001., and the forfeiture of all his map, is the moderate pea*, imposed upon him. Meet years have not elapsed shwa all the frames were made of bars of wood, like what are called the At tuottlitecap frames" now. Oae day it was die mvered that the promos of map making could be greatly improved end expedited by using metallic frames. this.. linwea had mow iron frames mad* of the dimeanione required - by the statute. The excise otacere objected to them. /dame. HAWES insisted upon adng them. Their soap wee Noised, and they were reported to the Board for penalties. A tremen dous row eusaed. But Messrs. Haves were Arm, and thle up*ot yea that the Excise were farad to re cognise metallic framer, which have since been farther recognised by act of parliament, and are now in com mon me. la trams the nap will cool in four wLLt is t voodoo boom it • b • .... 4, • . THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1849. will tab few immature • wooden her; d i ms=rang will benne - et soap amp= menu aa if excise restrictions all tending to expedite tare and sinsequatly to It le OW this essp k is the wan mud pressed le tee the duty. At petard he * dem this nummeemeet exclusively ; the aot pro 'VW did• IS cable inches when h*. and 27 14 eh* sold, *II be donned and taken to be a pound weight of bud soap.' Bat In addition to Ibis there is an excise regalatson intended to regulate the 9ua lily of soap, which operates in the most prejudicial manner cm the poor. The act provides that "if any hard map shall be found to be of a greater specific gravity than the gravity of 1.05 within forty eight hum after being oat up, each soap shall be subject to as increased rate of duty.' Now, in the cuss of the best card or mottled soap, it is Ins difficult to mime this standard ; bat in preparing the lower-priced soaps— yellow seep, and that lowest denotninatioa of soap called, from its colour, nigra soap !— it will very cites occur that the specifi c gravity is unintentionally ex ceeded. What is the effect of this P Nothing less than to impose an extra duty of 30s. a ton upon soap manufactured bar tt e poor--the soap which already, in peoportion to the oat of the raw material, has paid coed - dirably the largest amount of duty. It will naturally he said, " Why not re-manufacture any soap which exceeds the standard!" Nothing, certainly, would be more simple—if the excise gee milted it. But ones in the frame, the duty moat be paid. if you boil up i again, yon must pay the duty over again. Ot enrol this s impossible. The slight est error, therefore, in the manufacture—the produc tion of a soap with a specific gravity of 106 instead of I.o3—will render the manufacturer liable to the penalty of the extra duty. The smaller manufacturers are frequently liable to mishetenes in the course of manufacture. They have no chemists at their elbow to advise and direct them. Their own practical skill alone guides them in the composition of their soap. It consequently happens very often that they turn out a °upper full of soap into their frames which is very inferior in quality to that whisk they intended to prodnoe. The mistake, however, is irretrievable. They are not allowed to boil up their soap again, and endeavour to improve it. Soft soaps are often turned oat which are absolutely valueless. Nevertheless, the manufacturer must pay the duty, which is, in web ease. nothing mote than a panishasent for his misfortune. Within a specified number of days after the soap has been put into the frames, the act of parliament requires it to be cat up. The Excise regulate even this process. Soap must be cut into bars not ex eliding 16 inches long, and no piece of soap shall be mat out of lees than a pound in weight, under a i penalty of 1001. and forfeiture. If an ignorant work man happens to make a single bar a quarter of an inch longer than the standard, ever y atom of soap in the warehouse is forfeited, and instances have becal Mown where each a penalty has been enforced. All the "scraps and parings, and pieces of soap,' hand in the factory, are obliged, under a penalty at 601. and forfeiture, to be returned into the copper and boiled up again. The " scrape and parings, and pieces of soap," oonsequently . all pay duty a mend time, at thereto of fourteen gainer.. a ton ! Ostanali- My to meet this the Excise allow a deduction of ten per cent. for was'e upon the measurement of " mot tled soap only." But when you calculate the quantity which is spiL4d, the leakage of the frames, the m alleable map at the top, the refuse at the bottom et thee, sad the waits in cutting into bars, it is toler ably skim that this allowance is anything bat ex travagant. We have now, we believe, carried the reader through the process of manufacture, and have shown him, as far as it is possible to do so, the every-day impediments and obstructions which the excise law offers. There are, of course, a vast variety of is& dental points, the character of which may, perhaps, be best detailed by one or two i,lustrations. If a copper bursts, the Act pr:.vides that it shall be lawful to remove the soap it may contain on giving immediate notice to the exciseman. There was a case some time ago in which a copper burst and let some 20 tons of soap run rapidly away. It was at night. The exciseman had gone to bed with his keys in his pocket. The manufacturer took the natural canne— -1 wrenched off the copper lid, and began to ladle out his soap. When the Exciseman came, he declared a seizure of the who e; and it was not without diffi.tulty I that the manufacturer escaped the penalty. Some years ago, the floors of an old-established seaphoase gave way under the weight of the frames, et which there were ar unusual number full. As immense quantity of soap wee spoiled. The manures tears petitioned the excise for a return of the duty paid upon this soap, at that time 281. a ton. The Excise replied that they could not set a precedent by returning duty under any circumstances, and the amatecturers were obliged to bear the loss. Ithe obstructions offered to improvements are is senesivable. Since 1833 numerous patents have bees tikes oat for improvements in tlit manufacture of asp, not one of which it has been possible success filly to work. About the year 1839 the Messrs. HAwas took out a patent for making seep by a cold proems, The effect of this mode of manufacture would have been a great saving in the cost of pro &Woe, b y . saving all the fuel and labour used In boiling. The soap, however, when pro demi, wee a solid soap, and consequently it midi tot be run into the frames. The Beebe closes refused to gauge the soap except in frames, and the supervisor on being appealed to said, "Oh, this is not soap at all—this is a substitute." The tent war consequently obliged to be aban- N.B. A soap made by the French by this very peens is new selling at every west-end shop in Leak" and, although subject to a heavy Customs duty, is competing successfully in our own market with soap of English manufacture. Under such restrictions as these no one will think it wonderful that the soap trade is a failure : no one will be surprised that that large and spacious factory which for more than half a century may be said to have been the very seat of the manufacture, has been finally end completely abandoned and d ismantled. Thaw who remain in the trade have for the most part given themselves up to black despair. Weakened by the failure and seviision of 53 many of their brethren, they regard any renewed attempt to remove the evils order which they labour as absolutely hope. less. We have undertaken, however, to lay their came base the public ; and we trust the public will resolve that this enormity shall no longer be por e* Pts"- of --- - - A TIMDna MaIMEIA3II.—On Saturday evening last, a man, beam& like • derrar, called at the house of • poor imaustriees Rat, NM* is the et vitiate: Sutton Dominat es% elithe mate Tam, 'Miss • e could fled him and W eau ledgitp, as be beg bought a quantity of timber of 3. H. Chasaberiais, Req., of lEsgerorth, and they were =1:1.010 begin to fell Si et Monday morning. Altar a few be was tafermed that he could have lodgings for eimteM tad se the ma was not present, lodgings might be ebeidaed Ix him by Mods, . As he was very tired, he said be thvald watt to occupy his lodging that algid, sad he drew him chair towards the fire, sad mitred into familiar eionversation with his landlord, with the greatest froid, inform's( him that all that timber lying at the " ZoWs Mills" was 64, and that he had bought several large trees of Mr. Marshall After this ocaversatios, be messed to be supplied with a little =srltem his beet's week's beef informing him that hie sea seat, they should !nits a ditch of Incas, tad thee he would ropey him, Mille, him that, as he was short of potatoes, he would brit( him a rack, with some exceilset theses at barman* per posed ; and before he west away be elheuld make him a present of a small pig, pigsty at Imam These were flee promises for p i rar iali reasy, whets efreamstances are like nato many mere of his aloft set very flat rate and the timber mer. Mast hula/ tfted the panes of busier, retired to rest About onus ego& la the inertias, he got to, requested to be famished with a basket, to fetch some beef and ether pasehims is, and me was lest him. After which be thaseesael that his asse ey was all in t , notes," and wh etted kis lemillerd Mimi him " two *Wiliam I" till he got Meng& Tbs leight_presposta that bad been held oat to Tamp ever Malit, bad NM wild from his mind, and = es- Oa " better times were mating," be complied by Me ledgethalfa-erows, having arida, less by him —whim albs Wire started; end it is needless to my, he has sot rellaellth i dther with beilost, mom, Isom fira He is about yuin ef ege,ahli appeared to walk m lame. D lts r e emu, but Mated that he sum from Cud* • tam arrereriag the above daeuiption, a at Therm near Loughborough, a frlo g r a s ago. la t hatmes premised Is supply his host with a beg disalt.Dati Moors . . , nil Bersetdalle if , . boreal r allow that, at the o op:Knurls 162 47. The deis t & st whisk ,i 'delta 14. The nista sad i r l i t a = so at Powtersais. cad .as umber is bra. „ beim alto periciaipiriiiissisiwitla ONO splodkei ne tis hese& el tudoleylieeliumelioist. therefore. bt W sad the !bile la Weals there see lu sst refts WWI Missile _sileliso is 'restive, whisk esssloy w ee. 1,441 AMMO hie silo II awelise Ihsteries, is whidl sod IN bomb are implored. Is 1211111 s use two beers hesseies with 6,1•2 sad WS Moe (as zips wad Boesadel, 2 Vile& flip.). The reessieles 91 &stork= di ear/ man, sad employ slossetlese only 43,220 sad 40 heeds. The 41 isModes la the Miss peeving, imer NNW spindles and SASS bads. . mei swabs, of sylwebe is gierstm is the La vinia Is, seceedisi to Von Disterisi 816,000 1 of which Saxony °was 641" sad Prude 170;433; asking a total of 712,301 fee these two states aloes. The artiste is the Bereenholl• eon/ludo, by ashibitiog a genera view of the amber et spinals at weak ia various ports of die world Grist Britain...—. 1 ,li i rr eL ßOSO New 17=11ber•40631141Anaing 'Mint 2, 000 is len MEOW SPINNING IN zoos Cliviag a total at 2%96;000 mar fly. days to mi. aoaredisll to do STATISTICS OF COTTON ,of the weather. The rem oat of tti. PRUSSIA. is as from the solid soap . lionerser. a , .. 1• -.. .. - a : whilst the metallic hale be ea ar- ."" ex the . follOwlaf Rom . ; by loosing a single • • . ides . , : . I immediately detached. „„.• „„ , ' repels , _ statis4: en Lnt, mom There =- . . 'el the year , them hta lis this • ' ' '14. 1 .6. 1 . T .‘ . --.......-: estrietisas were removed • I • asp et 1i t • the proms. of the mama,. yrmisoss lAN "l e zoo is a u sir. m u p "st is l ig meopmatly to cheapen this Psis* of soap. aalakeirdag flaisdel gis Nana a SI MID ill IA the hams that the wide- the preitesse Sammy tit: A s slaty,. CONVICTS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The following is the official correspondence, rela tive to the transportation of military convicts from the But Indies to the Cape et Good Hope. Downing.'beet, Marsh 28, 1819. Sir,—l Sal directed by Earl Grey to revue% that you will state to the Consiniesionors for the Affairs of India, that her Majesty's government being desirous of making some gene ral regulations respecting the disposal of convicts sentenced to transportation by courtemartial in her foreign posses. skins, his lordship wishes to direct the attention of the Commis' rimers to the provisions of the Mutiny Act cm that subject, and the manner in which it is proposed that they should be carried into execution That act provides (sec. 24) that when such a sentence bee been pared by a court-martial in the Bast Indies, it.,. or when sentence of death by each mart has been commuted to transportation, the same is to be notified by the officer commanding her Majesty's troops at the presidency or station, or in his absence, by the Adjutant- General, to some judge of one of the supreme courts of judi cature, who shall make order for the transportation or inter. mediate custody of such offender, in like manner as for the transportation or intermediate custody of any other convict ; and upon such orJer being made, it shell be duly notified to the governor of the presidency, who, on reosipt of such notification, shall cause such offender to be removed to some colony or place, is obedience to the di rections for the removal of convicts, which shall from time to time be transmitted from her Majesty, through one of her principal Secretaries of State. Under the power thus conferred on her Mak sty, I am to request that you will move the Commissioners for the Affairs of India to direct that all soldiers of her Majesty's army, sentenced in above mentioned by courts-martial in the East Indies, shall be sent to the Cape of Good Hope by the first convenient opportunity, until further orders, there to be atilt with en cording to the other provisions of the act.—l have, site., (Signed) HEIMAN Mnaivaxn. To the Secretary, India Board. India Baud, March 30, 1849. Sir,-1 am directed by the Cosamissiosen for the Affairs of India to treenail to ycu a copy cf a letter from Mr. Mari sale, relative to the disposal of soldiers of her Majesty's army who may be sentenced to transportation by courts msreal in Lai& ; and lam to request that, in laying the same before the court of directors, you will move them to issue the necessary instructions to the governments of India upon the subject.—l am, &c , (Signed) J. E. Eu.ior. J. C. Melvill, E.g. [COPT OP COVET'S DESPATCH TO INDIA.] Ws transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter from Mr. Elliot, one of the secretaries to the board of commis eionrre for the affairs of India, with copy of a letter from the Colonial office, desiriag that all soldiers of her Majesty's army under sentence of transportation by courts-martial may, till further orders, be sent to the Cape of Good Hope ; ant we have to request that the necessary instructions may be given for carrying that are gement into effect. REFORM OP THE ROYAL COLLEGE Or SERGEONS. —A meeting of delegates from various medical bodies was held on Tuesday evening, at the rooms of the National In stitute, Hanover-rquare, to inmeider the position of the ventral practitioners of Basked and Wales in relation to the College of Senecas. Mr. Clifton, of Islington in the Asir. Dr. Hodgkin, Dr. W. H. Antall, Mr. Bird, Mr. Propert, Dr. Webster, of Dulwich, Dr. Martin, of Reigate, end many provincial gentlemen were present. Letters wire read from Dr. Kidd, Regius Professor of Physic at Oxford; from Dr. Hastier, President el the Provincial Association, and other gentlemen. The Chairman stated what bad been the attitude assumed by the college during the late con ferences at the College of Physicians. The failure of the cause of medical reform was due entirely to the exclu.iee nem of the college council. He warmly censured that body for having drawn beck from the engagements of its repre sentatives. A report had got abroad that the college itself had rest dyed to apply for an amendment of the charter, es as to make elligibte for the fellowship, under ort tain limitations, all its members of twenty yearn' ,standing. From what he knew of the subject he did not apprehend so meagre a concession would sati.fy that mea -1 jag; and it would be for them to determine what steps ought to be takes. It was remised—. That Moen. N. Cbfloa, J. Propert, 0. Bottomley, B. Southey, IL Aaosll, J. Bird, Dr. Webster, and 8. Smith, Esq., should form a deputation to the college council, to ascertain the extent of the contras dogs proposed to be granted by the college; also, to submit to the council the memoranda of this conference on a reform of the constitution of the college, and that they report the Hoak ' at an adjourned meeting." It was also resolved , on the motion of Dr. Webster, " That, should the answer of the council of the college be nisfavourable, the same deputation do wait ea Sir George Grey, to urge upon the government the import. ones of an immediate incorporation of the General Prat- lithium into a separate college, and the pausing en act oil tto settle the great question of medical reierm." Coesidsrabb dieeaughn followed the reeding of this pregssi. tiow, a feeling being prevalent that something mote sesta to be den, after the neglect with which government lei treated former representinices. A member suggested dis addition of a clause referring to an appeal to the shwas. The resehttion sebseqeently pissed, and the entborked to call a meting m soon as they skald be conatien to present a report. WANT or LONDON MARKETS. A quondam whisk we madder of vital importance in the sanitary km. trerrt of London, is not only the amendments but the a uden of our markets; we do not now merely awe le the Leedm plague spot, the monster Smithfield, whose kaell the Islingtee cattlemarket people are tolling, as manly se time is ringing oat the old year ; but we would draw attendee to the general state of markets, which, with two eimptims, Covent Garden and Hueprford, are in as emewleelemese a stets as any pestilence could pesibly fi nd them —dirty and ilLartangeri, overcrowded, without drmai or water for cleansing purpose, we feel the l sir i Zed as we approach them, and when we madder how very quickly an impure atmosphere taints provisions exposed to such pestilence, it needs bat little szoratent to prove that mush of what is here sold is unlit for human food, if it were not already a well established fact that such is truly the case; here, neverthe less, are largo quantities of food pnrchssed by the working theses. There is also anotaer subject immediately con nested with the sale of provisions —markets—and the pitiable condition of the dwelling, of the working people. This emotion involves the existence of numerous little provision irrppme,~ in the heated atmospheres of which, the most extra osdfaan ebsudeal combinations and decompositions are con dam* megonsing ; that these are unwholesome, any ap even at a respectable distance will very qui* ly C`islts us, by means of that rideable member—the nose. In the poorer localities we find these little bazaars, humble only in size, but not is the variety of articles re tailed, at every few doors; and if markets, ill-managed and over-crowded, are unwholesome, what can we my to these little shops, so thoroughly innocent of ventilation that fresh air is here unknown, and where every possible vs. shay of comestible is sold, from the tallow candle to the sweetmeat ? With the Weaned= of district markets all these little mug moieties of typhus and cholera would dis appear, booms the wonted trade would fail. 1J ex pease, will no doubt bs the ant cry, and the first ic tstion raised spied our suggestions • but we fancy we can see ear way through this, premising however, th at society really %- toads to endeavour preventi ng a return of the cholera, and that oar sanitary emmision dose mean something WPM of nothing ; fee without the aid of such commissions, for the existence et whisk we have paid so dearly, bat little ma be expected from the hanusaity and exertions of the indivi dual professional esan.—Arolidece end Building Optretim ATTEMPTED Rollahltr.—A violent assault, with attempted robbery, was mete late on Wedaesday night open the porno of Mr. Davis. lithe is known upon the " turf' se the " Leviathan " bookmaker. Mr. Davis had returned the same afternoon fres Limped, when a steeplechase had and about twelve o'clock at night, as he wee leg at a smart pace to his reddest* in the Gray's relread, upon reaching thoweeeMmet, be me set upon by three mu, and maim& a blow ea the heed from some heavy instrument. His hat, however, lmessed the intended severity of the blow, sad Mr. Davis eared a mot deter. mined natant* to Ws assailants, who, being suddenly paaleutrickes by the of what they thought to be a vehicle, took to their lemb, bat not before Mr. Devil had m. saved five severe eats on the h-ad, and lost a quantity of bloat. Mr. Davis wee, no clout, supposed by the fellows IS have had • an of money about him from Om lies et an" outsider " having won at Liverpool, but ble pile et the time coateinedela smell sus, and that Me Mew did not sussed ia getting . rgtot Court. • WINDSOR, Nov. 22. The Clown sod his Royal Highs Prins, Albert west this menial to this her Mebsty the Queen Dowager, at the Priory, Shisswit. The Viessentue Canning, CAL EOO. Cbtalee Grey, sad Unt-Col. Rea. A. Gordon were is anthem , on du Quest and his Royal Highness. Tae royal feallY took walking and Pony exudes this boning. The Duke and Durham of Bedford, Vieeount Canning, sad Sir Elbert, Lad', and Kin Peel left the Cable the E Rev Royal Hbhaess the Duluth et Kent will dins with the Rases tad Prises Albert in the evening. THE QUERN DOWAGER. " The Priory, Nev. 22, IK9. The Qswn Dosser has had • good deal of slap mad was very tranquil throughout the sight, hot there is so isprovrassat is her Majesty's eymptosts." " DAVID Dame, M.D." A deputation from the operatives of Lancashire, Yorkshire. and Cheshire hed en interview with Sir Grey yesterday, at the Hosurefilee, cm the subject ° erre Factory Bill. Mr. Hyaena bad an interview with Earl Grey yesterday. Mr. Scotland had also an interview with his ship yesterday, as the Colonial-offios. The Marchioness of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday from Bowood-park, Wilts. Sir Harry Verney had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Mr. J. !Peados bad also an inter- TiOW yesterday with the right hon. Baronet, at the Rome o/loc. Deputations were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonise Islands. Despatches were Moo received yesterday from the Governor of Sierra Lone. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL Yesterday a court Mae had foe the despatch of public business. It was the fast of the present mayoralty. The LORD MAYOR, upon taking his seat, intimated to the wort that he hoped, wale the assistance of the members, Is perform the duties of his aim in mule a manner as would meet the approbation of his fellow den= and the public. 1111 TRLISIII OP Till 00011 T TO TIM LATE LOAD IL&TOZ. Mr. Deputy BEDFORD said he had to perforce the ;dewing duty deeming &vote of thanks to Sir Junes D u ke, the late Lord Mayor. (Cheers.) He entertained no doubt se es the unanimity which that preposition would be carried, for during his long experience no man had sea dusted himself in the high office of Lord Mayor in a asemer mere entitled to public approbation. The deputy coededed *highly complimentary speech by moving the following vote of thanks : " Resolved,—That the cordial and sincere thaaks of this court are hereby presented to Sir James Duke, Knight and Baronet, M.P., late Lord Mayor, for the admirable manner in which he has sustained the dignity and upheld the cha racter of the high and responsible of of chief magistrate of this ancient City, fulfilling all its duties with credit to him self and satisfaction to the public ; for the munificent hospi tality displayed by him, not only to his fellow citizens, but also to the representatives of foreign courts, as well as to the distinguished public men of this country, without regard to political patty or religious opinion, while at the same time he has not been unmindful of that proper consideration so eminently due to art, science, and literature ; for his liberal patronage and advocacy of the many noble charities and public institutions which adorn this metropolis, more especially for his prompt exertion in aiding by hie official authority the measures adopted to arrest the ravages of the recent fatal visitation of cholera; for the able, impartial, and dignified manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of this court, and for the courtesy exhibited at all times to its members—That this court congratulates him upon the honours awarded to him during he mayoralty, entertaining • confident hope that he will long retain the approbation of this court and of his tellow-einzens, by the fsitaful discharge of his public duties, watching over their important shipping and com mercial interests, and upholding their rights and privileges, as one of the representatives of this City in the great council of the asthma." (Cheers.) Mr. Deputy OIIBARD wooded the resolution. Mr. It. L. JONES could not think of agreeing with the vote without being supplied with the written communica tions wheel Sir James Duke had received relates to her Maj esty's intended visit to the Coal Exchange. The late Lord Mayor bad admitted, upon being questioned on a for mer occasion, that he had received a letter intimating that the Queen was indisposed. It appeared that the letter to that elect had reached his lordship while presiding in that court, but nothing was said by him upon the subject. On the evening of the same day, however, a paragraph appeared in an castanet paper announcing the tact of the illness of her Majesty ; and on &subsequent day his lordship acknowledged the receipt of letters on the subject, sad promised to commu nicate their contents to the court. Not a word had since been discloted; and he apprehended that by the very fact of the con cealment the citizen* had been deprived of the honour of her Majesty's presence. (Loud cries of " No.") Upon • strict inquiry it would be touud that such was actually the me. It there ore became the duty of the court to insist upon the production of the letters, and he wished to know from Mr. Wood, the chairman of the committee, whither Sir James Duke had placed in his hands the communications alluded to ? and of arch were the case, he wished the chairman of the committee to read them to the court. (Cries of "hem, hear," and " no, no.") lir. ANDERTON said he hoped the chairman would de nothing of the kind. (Loud cheers.) If Bic James Duke had, upon the receipt of the information that her Majesty was indisposed, communicated that intelligence to the court, his oonduot would indeed have deserved blame. Could they not see the effect which such a statement would have had upon the whole country? The report would have been immediately circulated that the Queen's health was in a dangerous state. (" No, no," and loud cries of " yes.") Would not such • report be used for certain purposes on the Stock Exchange ? (dear, hear.) He altogether disapproved of any allusion to the subject, especially as it was a matter which had been entertained within closed doors. After some farther discussion, The resolution weal put sad carried, the only hand held no against it being that of Mr. Lott. Upon the motion of Mr. Deputy BPDPORD, seconded by Mr. Depute OBEARD, a copy of the r. solution of thanks to Sir James Duke was ordered to be written on vellum, and emblazoned and framed and glued, and presented to the hon. baronet. T+•e LORD MAYOR sail he had just received a neap from fiir James Duke intimating that the hon. baronet wished to make a confidential communication to the court. The court was then cleared of strangers, and Sir James en tered, amidst cheers. The communication related, we under stand, to Smithfield market. Some other bu•inen having been dispatched, The court proceeded to appoint four commissionen upon the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, in accordance with the mt. The following gentlemen were appointed:—Mr. Aldermen Lawrence, Mr. Deputy Peacock, Mr. Deputy Harrison and Mr. H. L. Tailor. Several rs porta were brought up from the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee, recommending that sums of money should be granted to charities. The court agreed to the reports, and the Chamberlain was ordered to pay the amounta.—Adjourned. NATAL COLONISATION. A dinner was given yeeterdsy evening at the London Tavern by Mr. J. C. Byrne, to a body of migrants who are about to Pail fir the colony of Natal in the !Sove reign. Abost 100 gentlemen were present, of whom the major part were persons who were on the em of sailing for the colony. Tee chair was taken by Kr. BTU'S himself, who was supported by a camber ofgentlemen who, either ei shipownen or as prints individuaL, tilt interested in the enterprise. THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINER'S BENSIVOLIUIT Soctirrr have received anonymously the hand some donation of 2001. from a person who signs himself E. B. Limos) OUT NEWSPAPERS.—On Tuesday, in the City of London County Court, Guildhall, in a cause Hol lingsworth v. Harradine, wherein a claim was made for hire of newspapers, the judge (Mr. Commissioner Bullock) de cided that, by the 246 of George 111., cap. 60, the letting oat of newspapers was illegal, and that any debt incurred for the biro of inch papers was not recoverable in any court of law ; and farther, the person so letting wee liable to a fine of 61. for every such offence. The claim was disallowed with costs. CALLS TO THE BAR, LINCOLN'S-INN.—Tbe Michael mas Term alb' to the bar of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's ten were made yesterday (November 22), and they comprise the aftermeationd gentlemen; H. T. J. Macoa-oara, Esq., G. P. Smith, 8.A., J. H. Palmer, Esq., W. Parker, Er., W. H. Tindall, Esq., J. G. D. Englebeart, M.A., H. R. Young, M.A , E. D. Rodeos, , E. R. J. Howe, Jun., M.A. ;and John Spaakie, THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S lIIW &MAN SHIP Tal SHINE, theist's& of which we lately reported, arrived from her first voyage yesterday morning, Is/Wring the Dutch mail from Rotterdam ; and, notwith standing she had to go round Helretelnys, owing to want of water at the Brill, she made the passage in 20 hours. While at Ritterdam the Seine attracted mach attention, from the beauty of her model and the neatness of her Steams. COUNTY Lours.—Chioes Otrreroa—Oa Saturday Eight last, about wen o'clock, as Mr. Patrick M'Donnell, a clerk in the employment of Nicholas Martin, Esq , was from hie residence In Stoney-park to that gentle roan' , he was attacked by four men d:eesed like navvies, who, without the slightest provocation, knocked him down, and kicked him In the tam several times, lacerating him in a frightful manner. The plain where the made this cowardly attack being lonely, the name sat is effecting their escape at the time. The police wen qakkly put in poem/aka of the matter, but they could not obtain any further ere to the whereabouts of the brutal assailants. About 12 o'clock on the same night due of the night wash, named Jordan, from a description given him by Mr.M•Draell, soreheaded a person at the quay, w h a ra s it o o n ne in his hart ; and on bringing him to the , where he was kept until next monies, he was at ease tilled by Mr. WDonnell as the paver who first stria him. He was remitted to the Dundalk gasl by Mit Tectule Esq., J.P. He county Tipperary. name as Jolla O'Beisey smil stat e s he is from the county Tipperary. We are led Se sodomised that in °torsion with this atrociate IMINIt some very strange semioticua may bs &Usuxposed, le width se precast ire moot more particalarly —Now* lithoiresr. • .—.--_ !ilia JOHN RICHARDSON'S REPORT TO THE lIZORZTARY OF THE ADMIRALTY. • • Sier•-•I Wore the halo= to acquaint you, for the of ley Lords Commaimioners of the Admiralty, r i tn ,ta r li etera *4reet AamMea to the royal mail steamer 7Eteg t es egusehosities awed, sent yen from time to seetuits of the of the Arstic search. miler my I beg now to submit, tee the onifleenles mite* , a connected summary of the whole pere elf the pert, up to this Moe, and also to report - the eilillos of a detachment under charge et Mr. Rae, is nom the esmpletioa of the satire minute of search meapreheaded in their lordship' Melamine to me. Oa the 4th ef Seas, 1849, fire issamen, fittest. uppers and miners, with her beats, 16,800 lbs. of pemicen, and other provides. and Mons, were embarked at Gravesend on board she Hudson's Bay Company ships Prince Rupert sad West minster. The (arrival of these ships at York Factory was later than usual, and some of the expedition stores still re. assined on hoard on the 10th of September; but chief trader Bell, of the Hudson's Bay Company, who now took charge of the party, censidered it imprudent to wait longer for their landing. At this date, therefore, he commenced his voyage into the interior, taking with him, is addition to the Reg lin boats and their crews, a large henget:a, with 16 Cana dna regagettre,.and the sioneneeemery for building a winter ruiden.o , prov i ding for the fisheries, and equipping and pa leg Indian hunters. Owing to the extreme dryness of the summer, the rivers were uncommonly low, and the boats being, therefore, un able to carry more than two-thirds of !heir ordinary load, it was neesseary to leave a considerable quantity of pemican at York Factory to he forwarded inland, with the additional supplies next amain. The diSculties which Mr. Bell encountered, as well from the lowness of the waters as front the very early setting in of winter, were groat, his pro gram consequently was slow, and he was finally arrested by the freezing of the lakes, six days' march short of his in tended winter quarters at Cumberland House. He immediately housed the boats, constructed a store beeee he the reception of the provisions and other packages, l eatablished fisheries, and as soon as sledges could be made, essibmpanied the bulk of the party on snow shoes through the woods to Cumberland House. At that place, and at Beaver Lake, abon sixty miles fur ther to the northward, the men wan supported through the winter by the fisheries bat at Ceder Lake, where the boats were laid up, the fishing was unproductive, and there was, sonsequently, an unforeseen consumption of pemican by the boat keepers, and the wives aid children of three of the who could not travel over the snow to Comber hod ease. Thiedeficit of penricaa was fu,ly made up during the mimes. by tte exertions of the Hudson's Bay Company's Moen on the upper portion of Saskatchewan. Mr. Bell made winter journeys to Cedar Lake, arid early in the spring seat carpenters down to put the boats in repair, so that eve thing was ready for the resumption of the voyage an the breaking up of the rivers, which took place in the begin ning of June, 1848. On the 25th of March, 1848, Mr. Rae and I left Liverpool in the North American mail steamer Hibernia, landed a fortnight afterwards at New York, and proceeded, by way of the Hudson and Lake Champlain, to Idientreai, where we found waiting fur us 16 Canadian voyageurs, forming the crews of two canoes provided by Sir George Simpson, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company's terntories. Our route lay through Lakes Ontario, Erie, St. Clair, and Huron, tt Batik Bt. Marie, where we were detained some days waiting ler the breaking up of the ice cn Lake Su perior. When the lake opened we resumed our voyage to Fort William, and from thence to Rainy Lake, the Lake of the Woods, and Leke Winipeg, where we were again stepped for some days by ice, but having at length lueseedel in breaking our way through, we entered the Sr katehewan River on the 9th of June, and on the 15th masked Cumberland House. Here we learned that Mr. Bell bad set out a fortnight previously, but had been detained by tee in Be Lake for four days. We followed him with diligence through Beaver Lake, Churchill River, Isle it la Crosse, Buffalo and Methy Lakes, to Meth' Portage, where we overtook him on the 20th June, 1848. With the assistance of the voyageurs from Montreal, the boats and stores were transported on the men's shoulders across the portage in eight dap, this laborious proceeding having been rendered netemary by the death of the whole of the horses usually employed there. The two canoes, with their crews, were sent back to Canada. On the 15th of July, having reached the last postage on Slave River, three boats were arranged for the sea voyage, with full loads of pemican and able crews, consisting in the aggregate of eighteen men. Mr. Rae anal I embarked isl them to proceed with all speed to the mouth of the Mack-' I enzie, leaving Mr. Bell with the remainder of the party and two boats containing the stores for winter use, with di rections to make the best of his way to Great Bear Lake, to establish a fishery at its west end, near the site of Fort Franklio, for the convenience of the sea party, in the event of its having to return up the Mackenzie ; and, lacly, having traversed the Isks to its northern extremity, to erect dwelling-houses and storehouses near the influx of Deese river, and to carry on fisheries at such sal able placesi as he should discover in the neigh bourhood. He was also instructed to despatch James Hops (a Cree Indian, belonging to his party, who had been formerly employed in the expedition, under Messy,. Dean and Simpson, and knew the country well), together with a native hunter of the district, to the banks of the Coppermine in the beginning of September, there to hunt till the 20th of the month, and look out diligently for the arrival of the boats. On my way to the sea I landed three bags of pemican at Fort Good Hope, the lowest of the company's posts on the Mackenzie, for the use of any party from Sir James Ross's ships or from the Plover, which might reach that establish ment, and I likewise deposited one case of the same article, with several memoranda and letters, at Point Separation, which forms the apex of the delta of the Mackenzie, marking the locality in the manner agreed upon. We reached the sea on the 4th of August, and had an in terview with about 300 Eiquimaux, who were collected to meet us, having been apprised of our coming by signal fires lighted by their hunting parties on the bills skirting the river. The distance from Point Encounter, where we met this party, to the mouth of the Coppennine river, including the larger inflexions of the coast line, is upwards of 800 miles; and as we had almost constantly head winds, we rowed along near the shore, landing at least twice a day to cook, occasionally to hunt, for the most part at night to sleep on shore, and often to look out from the high capes. Our cummunrcatione with parties of Esquimau: assembled on the headlands to hunt whales, or scattered in par ties of two or three along the coast in pursuit of rein deer and waterfowl, were frequent. They came off to us with confidence, and through the medium of our excellent Esqulmeux Albert, who spoke good English, we were able to converse with them readily. They invariably told us that no ships bad passed, and were rejoiced to learn tw our inqui ries that there was a prospect of their seeing more white men on their shores. Up to Cape Bathurst, or for about one third of the distance between the Mackenzie and Cop permine, the Regnante informed us that for six weeks of summer, or,. as they expressed it, fur the greater part of two moons, during which they were chiefly occupied in the pur suit of whales, they_never saw any ice. We found an Fuquimaux family encamped on the ex tremity of Cape Bathurst, but as near to that plate as we could effect a landing without observation, we erected a signal post and buried a ease of pent= • and we made a similar deposit, marked by a pile of paint ed stones, on the extremity of Caps Parry. After rounding the latter Cape we observed, for the first time on the voyage, flows of drift ice, which became more numerous as we approached Dolphin and Union S:ralt, and in this part of the coast we saw no Erquireaux, though we found a few recent trace of their hunting parties. On the 22d of August we had a strong gale of westerly wind, before which we ran under sail for some hours, bat U speedily augmented to a violent storm, and we were come pelted to provide for the safety of the boats by running among the ice, loosely packed on Point Cockburn. Denier the sight much ice drifted pasr,and in the morning we found ourselves hennaed in by dense puke, extending as far u the eye could reach. Up to this time the weather had been of the usual summer temperature of that region; but it now became very cold, and we had continual frosts, with frequent snow -storms, during the remainder of our stay on the coast. By keeping close to the beach in places where the shallowness of the water kept off the larger ;geese et ice, by cutting passages for the boats where the pecks abutted against the rocks, by dragging the boats over the smoother flail, and by making portages along the shore, au. cording to circumstances, with the aid of occasional spaces of open water, we sueoeeded, with much labour, in tasking our way to a bay between Capes Hearne and Kendall by the and of the month. I bad previously thought it advisable to abridge the labours et the crews, by leaving one boat, with its cargo of penitent, on the north aide of Cape Krusentern, and by the time that we came near Cape Kendall the two remaining boat, were scarcely seaworthy, having been much cut by the young ice which now bound the floes toge ther. The ground was covered with snow, no open water was visible front the highest capes, and the winter appeared to have set in with rigour. I found myself, therefore, reluc tantly compelled to abandon the boats, and toprosecute the lourney to our winter residence on Great B.or Lake, by and. The pakten and ammunition were carefully con cealed for future use, the boats were hauled up on the beach, and the party directed to prepare for the march. The baggage, consisting of thirteen days' provisions, cooking utensils, hatchets, astron:mical instruments, a few books, the ammunition, two nets with several setting lines, Hal kett's portable beat, a package of dried plants, my bedding, and a few unties of clothing, were distributed by lot. Each man carried, in addition to his assigned load, his own blanket, enocassins, and rush articles of clothing as he chose. All were furnished with now shoes. Mr. Rae carried the greatest da Pan y Wi n t se h t il e ou t o o r i s i ela is i i cs 3 in m r g d p an n of e d n fl s t e p p am o te f September, and th T e h f o o y ll e arls i g fully ferried us across the mouth of a wide river, which I named the Ras. We afterwards crossed the Richardson in Lieut. Heiken's host, and following the line of the Copper. mine, and of its tributary, the Kendall, we gained a branch destined quarters at Fort Confidence. paan of Damn River; and on the thirteenth day readied our ihtettegl y O c ur ne t il : k ght half-frozen swamp., or over hills covered with now, yes asottrarily toilsome ; but, by keeping m mach p ossible in the river valleys, we had to without firing, for the purposes of cookery. In a thick fog, dudes which we were able to proceed in the proper direction by compass, James Reps and his Indian companion, who lei been despatched by Yr. Bell to meet us, lost their way, and so mimed us • but, ea coming to our trail on the Headell, they perceiv ed that we had passed, and returned to Fort Confides.* two days eller ear wheal them. In °irefully thair l the yaw between Copp ermine Xeduseale and Copnnine I og~ laslntstions with respell. to the essatheetin of the NMI Ike, sod hues folly ma- EXPEDITION. 'laced that no ships had pared within view of th e m a rl It is, indeed, nearly thirtieth's that they could hav e d os . — •,_ unobserved by some of the numerous parties of Em maa .,..• oath* look out for whales. We were, moreover, ief r - e d the Esquimau: of Back's Inlet that the ice had b: er - 1 - 7....7 hog en th eir shore nearly the whole summer, and ha er .-- "e a y a peeked condition when we left it, on the 4th of Septeem. - ' . made it highly improbable that it would open for b .-1 s tp s patios later in the seethe. I regretted extremely_ that the state M the ice pree th w me frees crowing to Wollaston land, and thus ca ro l — el; Z in one season the whole scheme of thei r l ordshipsPa *tractions. The opening between Wollastoa and trya . , tenth lands has always appeared to me to great interest, for through it the flood tide eviZ4sida sets into Coronation Gulf, diverging to the westward ' the Dolphin and Union Streit, and to the eastward Cape Alexander. By the fifth clause of Sir John Prentet4 laureations he is directed to steer south westward e r , a ,, c . 2 • Walker, which would lead him nearly in the dueem og ; the strait in querion. If Sir John found Barrow's Ss ra i as open as when Sir Edward Parry passed it on fear peas vim's occasions, I am convineoi that (complyi ng u ea ., ) .- - ' as he could with his instructions, and without lookieg' Wellington Sound, or other openings either t o the soma north of Barrow's Strait), he pushed directly w est to t Walker, and from thence south-westwards. Hee, the 4 were probably shut up in some of the passages betw een I tons, Banks, and Wolleston's lands. This *plaint, whha I advocated in my former communications, is rescue 1 strengthened by the laborious journeys of Sir James Item e having disclosed no traces of the missing ships, Being apprehensive that the boats I left on the low 1 , would be broken up by the Esquimau:, and being, m enu over, of opinion that the examination of the opening in qu a don might be safely and efficiently performed i n the qua remaining boat I bad fit fur transport from Bear Lake toff s Cop_permine, I determined to entrust this imp merit levy% to Mr. Rae, who volunteetet, and whose ability and g .. 4 i • the cause I cannot too highly commend. He selected see s , , cellent crew, all of them experienced voyospeue s , and roadie of finding their way back to Bear Lake without gamm a should any unforeseen accident deprive them of their leemi In the month of March (1849) a sufficient supply of min i_ can and other necessary stores, with the equi ras j i — m ; of the boat, were transported over the m a y on dog sledges, to a navigable part of ni s Kendall river, and left there under the charge 1 1 1 two men. As soon as the Deane broke up in Jem. Mr. Rae would follow with the boat, the rest of them. ; and a party of Indian hunters, and would descend the Cez pertains river about the middle of July, at which time sea generally begins to break up. He would then, as wa n possible, cross from Cape Krusenatern to W-llaston h a d tad endeavour to penetrate to the northwerd,er e cii. g si s aa columns and making deposi.e on conspicuous headland., sad ' especially on the north shore of Bank's land, should he b e fertunate enough to attain that coast. He was further ft. strutted not to hazard the safety of his party by ?maid. / too long on the north side of Dolphin and Union-strait, sal to be guided in his movements by the season, the state of Ma ice, and such intelligence aa he might obtain from the Ses, • maul. He was, moreover, directed to report his proceed ism to their lordships immeoiately on his return, and should* despatches experience no delay ea the route, they may be expected in England in April or May next. Be was s r. quested to engage on- nr mt re families of Indian hunters m paw the summer of 1810 on the banks of the Copp / r a w river, to be ready to assist any party that may dire: liela course that way. With respect to the recommendation of additional nes. sures in furtherance of the humane views of their lordihige, it is necessary to take into account the time for whin the discovery ships were provisioned. D.er migrate over the ice in the apriog . frt.= the main shore to Victors sad Wollaston lands, In large herds, and return in the autana. These lands are also the breeding places of vest flecks of snow geese ; so that, with ordinary skill in butting, a large supply of food might be procured on their shores is the months of June, July, and August. Sells are she numerous in those seas and are easily shot, their curiosity rendering them a ready prey to a boat party. In these ways and by fishing, the stale of provisions might be ovally set mented. And we have the recent example of Mr. lie, who passed a severe winter on the very barren shores of Repels Boy, with no ether fuel than the withered tufts of a her* ceous Andromeda and maintained a numerous early la the spoils of the share alone tor a whole year. Such instances forbid us to lose hope. Snould Sir John Franklin's prod. eiona become so far reduced as to be inadequate to a ainues consumption, it is not likely that he would remain bags by his ships, but rather tort in one body, or in several, tle officers and crews, with boats cut down so u To be light man to drag over the ice, or built expressly for that purpose, 'odd endeavour to make their way eastward to Lancaster Sated, or seuthwards to the mainland, according to the longimdi in which the ships were arrested. I would here beg Imam suggest that the Hudson's B ey Company bc authorised sad requested to promise liberal rewards to Indians god Leal mum who may reli• we white men entering their lands. Sims parties of Esquimau: frequenting the start to the westward of the Mackenzie are in the habit of passing the winter is the vicinity of the Mariann's Bay Company's post ea the Rut river (a tributary of the Peel), and might be inter, sleds the calla by judicious promises The Russian Fur Compuy have a poet oa the Yucon or Colvil'e, waich fobs into the Arctic Sea about midway be.ween the Mackenzie tad Bess ring'a•straits, and through their officers similar offers might be made to ihe western Esqu maul. We know from the sureties of Sir John Fraokliee's discovery of the oust, ma also from the subsequent voyage of Messrs. Di am sad Sap. son, that the Esquimau: who frequent the estuary A the Mackenzie meet tho-e from Point Barrow, at an in•• mediae point, for the purposes of barter; and in this way , nttlliernce of any interesting occurrence is conveyed eloog the tout. The Russian p •st on the Colville receives ies stipples Isom a post in Norton Sound, where it would be easy for say vessel bound to Behriog's.straits*to land a communication. Mr. Rae, having been appointed to the charge of the Mae kensie river fur district, will give a proper direction to the efforts of Indian hunters in that quarter. As it is thought by some, whose opinion I highly s oles, that the discovery ships may have penetrated to the westerug in so high a latitude as not to come within sight .1 the maia land, I may further suggest the desirableness of the cued nation of the western coasts of Banks' and Parry's Imati, but as this would re quire a ship expedition by say of Bele ring's-straits, I must leave the discussion of the practicability of such a scheme to the shift executive officers who hen navigat d the northern seas. Having thus, sir, in a more diffuse manner than is total in an official letter, but in accordance with my sense Man deep interest felt en the subj. et, not only by my lords com missioners, but by the nation at large, and I may add by the whole civilised world, recanitulated the proceedings of the expedition, and detailed my opinions, I have only to !added after the return of Mr. Rae and myself from the coat k September, 1848, we devoted our leisure during the winter to observations on the magnetic intensity and firm, with the uniplar magnetometer, and Dr. Lloyd's inelinomene, and kept hourly registers for fourteen hours each day of Vhs declinometer, barometer, thermometer, and wind vane. In the beginning of May, 1849, Mr. Bell and I, taking with us all the Europeans of the party then remaining at the fort, and such of the Canadians as were not to be em ployed with Mr. Rae on his summer expedition, created Great Bear Lake ou the ice, and when the navigation opened in June, ascended the Mackenzie, and retraced my outward route. We were stopped by ice on Greet Slave Lake till the 11th of July. On reaching Ilsthy Portage, Mr. Bell resumed his duties in the Company's ser vice, and I proceeded with the party to Norway lions*, where I discharged the Canadians, whose term of engage ment had expired, and sent the seamen and sappers and miners to York Factory, there to embark in the Com pany's ship bound for England. I then continued my voyage to Canada in a canoe, and after puling two days el Montreal with Sir George Simpson, in cramming the charges for supplies furnished to the expedition, proceeded to Boston for embarkation in the mail steamer. I have the honour to be, sir, Your most obedient humble servant, JOHN RICHARDSON, M•-d. Insp., Commanding the Arctic Searching Expeditios. PROVINCIAL PIG SLAUGHTERINO.—At the Ipswich policedsourt, on Monday last, the following case was Wit and though not determined on its merits, is yet deservial of notice, from the conflicting nature of the evid,nce, ss u whether the wholesale slaughtering of pigs in • wefts& locality is or is not • nuisance which ought to be abated: — Mr. Samuel Herbert, perk butcher, St. Clement's, &upend to answer an information preferred by Mr. Chad, s Fisk, it ' spector of nuisances. It appeared that the defendant Its recently appropriated a certain premises in Salt Office 104 St. Clement's, to the purpose of slaughtering pigs. The daughter-house in question abuts closely upon the hack plc' raises of Mr. W. ?Sulky, who resides in Quay street, and flat gentleman complained that the stem and exhalations trash( from the slaughtering as many as from one to two hunting pigs in a week, o used a great nuisance, besides being dangle' oast to the health of himself and family. As many so frost sixty to seventy, it was alleged, had been killed there in ors day. Mr. Fisk spoke to the daughter-house of defendant Wier kept in a cleanly state, but he could not but think that tics killing of so many pigs, from three to four times a weak might be the means of producing en unpleasant smell. gr. Hammond, surgeon, had inspected the premises of Mx Herbert, at which time he saw that they were kept as ell!, as they well could be under the circumstances. In hr opinion, the steam and smell arising from the Wiling on many pigs was injurious to the health of the inbabitauts siding in that part. It was his opinion that such places 01 0 not to be permitted when surrounded by dwelling-houses Mr. W. Adams. medical officer of the district in wbieh the defendant's slaughter-house is situate, said he had impede* the plane complained of, and had seen the defendant's nel killing hogs there, and he must candidly say that the prat tics there carried on was not at all injurious to the health of the inhabitants. On the contrary, the inhabitants at that spot, nearly all of whom he professionally at., tided, were ie • better state of health than those in any other part otitis dn. triet. He had not had one ease of fever there —Mr. Pitches. surgeon, St. Clement's, said he had visited the spot that morning, and stated it to be his decided opinion that.the steam arising from the slaughtering of from tiity to nail pigs did not create a nuisance, neither did he think such e practice dangerous to the public health, consideriog the cleanly data in which the house was kept. —Mrs. DWI Hughes said she had lived in a house adjoining the slaughter house for nearly three years, and had not observe d =OA at all armies in the practice complained of.—Mr. Bud" Quay-et set, who lives within two doors of Mr W. Mullet 4 gave similar testimony, and added that, until ih iut few days, he did not know that a slaughter-house wa' so doss his premises. —At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Breae said the magistrates were of opinion that there wee an hike mality in the information.—Mr. Notoutt said if that was, the opinion of the magistrates, he would at once withdraw tt The information was accordingly withdrawn, but it is undo' stood soothes will be preferred. Au e bolders „wards; birlindt r" al P o , s 1 Coo Ugh 1.1111V 9 i 14. PI ta° fp (Mel went": Bowe THE E 3 1 1 ,