The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-17 00:00:00

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Spa, Para I. and L u ll:BIO lad KOPP% A It e itt ai REPORT of Ws MOW ar CUEILISTET wd tha ALLIED CES tor ISO sad 11111. m. yam. M 410 Maus= LAI. Od. aWIA r ui tt AC I CTICAL PHARMY. Arraillomosto, Apparatus sod 11sWyslatIses of Se rboromoodsoi sop mg . Sy 141111=1111 Masa awl ammo. map WOOS WOW TIF 81013 AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. AA 1 / 1 0. 10a. Od. do*. L 1E811313 AN CHEMISTRY. Part 1 &Ad. LIE Bld on ANIMAL JUICES. sks.. eietb. TWA edittos, SI 11.. SSA, rican CHEMISTRY. By Boron LIEBIO and P ro dower Ossocer, NM alio la two Parts: Port I. , 101. Pagi IL Nsw Oaa l i:P.17442.6.111. Illial. GREGORY OUTLINES of CHEMISTRY; or is parts, 14a. wpara ll Wly : 1. IS01111•1110. I& 11. OMANI; IF 0 11,110011ealarrid aw, Soak_ pARNELL'S ELE (*. WadMENTS of CHEMICAL Alcuffliak y, and cointiuune. I el% se. or with YAW: as Lb" la., I WILLI 011 GOWN OUTLINES. of COMMA ini; ANALYSIS. Sow/ gauss, ars . D R. SHERIDAN MUsPHAT PLATTNER poop SLOWrIPE. ho, 111.. BASAND GARROIYS MATERIA WT.& COD.LIVER OIL.—DE JONGR'S TREATISE. With so Appatka east& BY M. Chan. Tit QUAIN'B e riglY By Proksoots Cceaskie, mill See, IL 6d. ELLIS'S DEMONSTRATIONS of ANATOMY. 1 rd.. lkeo. with Tllestrallaes, 11e, Id, HAND-BOOK of PRIMOLOGY. jl By Dr. KIWI sad Mr. nal?. Se% do*, Ss. Id„ with IRECIEMT ADVANCE'S sk thuravaummy of MOTION. the Iteuee• Geweration, rod Devilment. By Dr. Le wed Dr. Ewa Lim • Supplimdst to MOW, " Tug ology." Tel 11. two. with mums Illooketim. 7e. Id. letlered. MULLER'S EMBRYOLOGY. with the Pbyai droy ofGemestioe. From the Elemest• el Phydslogy.• Swe DR. MURPHY as NAWRAL sad DIFFICULT PARTUIUTIOW. With amemose liluetrodoss. DR. WAlbhE ON THE rorritooooes.—Tep. an t is. 6L, D R. WALt3HE es the PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS et DISEASES el THE LUNGS. See ; doh, Mk., with o D R. WALSHE os the NATURE and TREAT MENT at CANCEL MORTON'SSURGICAL ANATOMY. Royal Ire, with Plato awl Wciedosts. Perlawww, de., Oda ; 7e. esiour•L Orals, Se„ plain; 13e„ adoored. Rends, ke., obis ; lk„ Heed awl Reek ke 131„ phis ; 13e„ ogoond. Cheep k w QUAIN and WILSON'S COMPLETE SERIES et ANATOMICAL PLATES. Perim home Perrot Prevent Pries. Prim. Prise. Prior. PIMA. This. Coke% Cube & The Itsols• It h IS 0 11 IS 0 t 3 5 0 t 3 If 0 The Emele, MI l4 0 115 0 3IS 0 1 3 0 The New* a Ptesm The Them. SI Plebs 115 0 1 S 0 SlO 0 3 S The Dam* Ned lapoes•L SID FY= 3 0 0 1 6 0 113 0 1110 The Work, eemieSe is 2 re& re* Itio ; holf-boast moomeo, 6711 tem la. IS., Pita ; or tl4. wilwered. ghe eTprtoo. OUTGOING MAILS. The Ma! fee Gibraltar, Slaw, Grose*, the lonise lolanda, Egypt, Ceylon India , and China, via Southaraptaa, wiU be made up °Wale worming of Nov. 2D. The wi ll s for Britieb North America and On Mated elates will be wade up ea Nov. 23. The mills We Marseilles, to the Maditerraataa, Egypt. Ceylon India, Hong-Kosg, Ea., will be wade up ea die evenbag of Nov. 24. The mat nails for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be wade up na Nov. 27. The West India Mails, including Bermuda , Havana , Nassau. Hoidens, New Orleans. and Illezioo, sad swiwiing thwe tee Madeira, lit. Jran-de-Nicaraguanassis, Chili, sad Peru, will toe wads up es Dee. 2., New O MOW WATS* LONDON 11111D01. Ima P_ I &Mum. 1..140. ma. Altamma. 4 T LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17. Avrnouon Prussia has lowered the liberal flag, mad propitiated, as far as the want of its internal F%rimeat is cocooned, the triamphant and menac alliases of aboolatism. kneed between the courts sus and St. Peterabwg—although it has made was ea the pep der part , and keeps aloof even from the fie thou6 it bas redooed ita pre tends= Arm aiming at the diefdom of the German empires to asides priabsivia to set up a separate thedesbead—eithugh all the crowned he sea these wham it kept the crown, have and the leer, oppo sed to it, never theism psiseveres a kis of dodged, calcu lating, determined hostility to Austria and to the an tiquated regime which weighed upon Germany from 1816 to 1848. The kind of war between the two great powers of Central Europe is one of the signal advantages de rived from the events of 1848. The rivalry, indeed, may have existed before, and may have been briskly carried on behind the screens of court and diplomatic intrigue. The great improvement and advantage now, however, is that this mutual hostility is carried be fore the public, by discussion, by the pro!, by ap peals made to large, popular, and German interest., and consequently maU directly to the public, and not alarm to warts and cabinets. Pruats and Austria are in fact striving for wipe riority and mastery in Germany, not as in the duo Of FAILDFAICIL the GROAT and MAIM Tageur., by armies, nor, as in the days of Merriest= and ILaininssuo,hy merely occult intrigue; each power courts the Germans to adhere and rally it on the ground that, politically and commercially, it is bast calculated to be the chief, the guide, and the protector of German interests and of the German race. To prove this, both powers require the .id of the prone. Both are under the necessity of keeping up the show of a constitution and rerwntative govern meat. Both, indeed, appeal . also to conservative interests, keep up large armies, states of siege, and onetitutional ministers who have given guarantees to absolutism. But at the same time there is also an anxious appeal on both sides to public opinion, that great tribunal, the creation and recognition of which is after all the most important conquest of liberal Windlass, and the sure promise of greater and ulterior coo quests. The argumentation used by both parties in plead ing before this law of public, opinion is remarkable. It is foe the pretest moment confined, in a great measure, to considerations upon economical and own menial interests. The political, or three Kings' League, formed and persisted in by Prussia, even although two of the Keep have fallen off from it, is evidently destined at first to be a com mercial, even more thin a political salon. It is destined to supersede, it it cannot absorb, the old Zollverein, and to work is therms way, as that com bination did, by the ftift and progress of material interests, towards the of - Germany and the . . of Prussia . Tim trot ablest of Pros. in M i a the a.Y commercial annualise ef the north western states, hitherto forming_ a essemersial union apart. Already, indeed, thole new Mew is nearly broken I "Pt the adhesion of Bamberg sot Necklenberg to the ion° Sialli pn e st ase. us Pinerian government it, however, aware tbst it cannot suceeeil ismaereislly aliesebing the independent states of the myth west, without a very conaider.ble lower . • lag of its tariff, and a great concession to the princi •• • POW fess trade. The great data, in which prohi- Mee interests prevail, such as Bavaria and Wur ttemberg, having fallen off from Prussia, the latter power would break up the old Zollvoreia a nd substitute a mew, is which the north-western states would replace the soothers. difficulty is app Durieg the lilt largely told in ha theta for reveal 'ea tan of ieerearig fifis:may under . oontrest. If the. tie Three Kings' Leanne , it is that they loam. es a merit adjunct to the 91d Zoliverein, and a eansequent augmentation In the pries of every article of censmaption. Prussia therefore can only win the north-west by the full adoption of bee-bade mesamus. • Sae is bound, indeed, to the ,present Zallversin and its tariff up to 1851. But at that epoch all parties are free to choose. And we have little doubt that a sew commercial union, with a path more moderate tariff, excluding Bavaria and Wurtemberg, but including the rest of Germany, will be the result. Stich a we:summation on the part of Prussia would be a disruption and defeat of all the schemes of Austria. kor Ruch a Zollverein would not only at ones absorb the entire north of Germany, but would la time compel even the recalcitrant eta es of Bavaria and Wurtemberg to join. They could not remain alone. If they joined Anent' commercially, they would have to compete with Austrian manufactures, sad pay . on all articles of consumption the high Austrian tanff, by which the revenues of those state', as well as the private comfort of tie great mass of the inhabitants, would suffer. Prussia is well award of this, and has no objection to see Bavaria, War temberg, and Saxony exclude themselves from the northern commercial union for a time, sod make trial of the Austrian, in order that they may fatly feel the difference. To combat the completion of any each plan, Austria has entered tt.e field with the pets of some rather clever economists, and the Vienna journals are filled each day wi h their proposals, and ergs runts, and proofs. Through this medium of the press, Austria offers to the Germans. that if they, constituting the states of the Zollvereis, will but hold firm, not listen to any free-trade .argo moots, or adopt any diminution of costoms,Austna will in time modify its tariff, so as to come nearer to the present Zollverein level. In four yews, they near we will demand so much, in four years more, so much more, and so on. Thus in lime half ac re years, the level of the Austrian tariff being lowered, and that of the Kellverein augmented somewhat, Germany will make one with Anstalt in the principle of prohibition or protection. Over-burdened with debt as Austria is, and necessitated to keep up numerous armies, it cannot abate any of its heavy duties even for the sake of public amelioration, not being able to pay in the meantime for the experi ment. Prussia has at List the advantage of being I financially well off, and ab.e to make final sacrifices lee its political ascendancy or to the principle of free trade. Such being the cause, the standard, and the aim of oath belligerent, we stall merely for the present mark the position of their respective force*, and the line of their reign ctive frontier. Austria has matured Bavaria and Wurtemburg, forming with Bohemia a formidable and compact region on the southeast. Pruasia has, howei.er, secured Baden, at d with it a continuance of states Ours _the Rhine, Naseau, and the two Hewes, with Brunswick, Mecklenburg, and all the smaller states. Ihe Kings alone object, aLd it is singular that whilst Austria marshals all the crowned beads, Prussia has rallied all the ducal bonnets. The lists are open, the war has b gun, and we watch the struggle with very great interest. We are not in love with either party. But we must con fess that we Igoe to the free-trading, commercial, and protestant regime and intoner, rather than to the peotectiouist, the:bailed, sad the jesuitic. Tan feeling which appears to have been excited in London on the subject of improved dwellings fur the poor has found en echo in Peas. La Press* of Tues day phblithes what it justly styles a novel list of shareholder , . This list contains the names of up wards of eleven hundred persons of every rank and con dition of life who have tank shares of frum 25 to 1,000 francs eacn in a society celled " La &Mete des Cites Onvrieree," which has for its object to build improved lodging-houses far the poor not only in Paris but apparently in every large city of the republic. Toe capital of this society is to be six millions of francs, or 240,00 W. sterling. It is under the patronage of the President, who is said to take a lively interest in its success. Its aim, says La Prase, is to pro vide fur the residents of our cities wholesome, well sired lodgings, at pekes Iseeow thoe which they now pay for a single chamber in unwholesome hoses. The lodging. will consist of a small kitchen and two bed-chambers, ar.d also of a single room, to be heated by calovifieres, which in summer willowy. the purpose of ventiotors. The buildings will be of three stories, with emits end garden,. The ground floors will be arrenge i as wareroomr, shops, and work-meta Each building will be constructed to contain 40 or 50 fami lies, a lavatory, an establishment of baths, and an asylum hall to receive the children during the Deese eery absences of their mothers at their avocations. The iterwebed rooms will be let at 6,8, and 10fr. a month is the wolktnen and sorkwomen who may not have the means of purchasing furniture. Of this payment a portion will be appropriated to the rent of Vs apartment and a portion to pay ment for the furniture, which will, however, belong to tie occupant after a amain amount has been paid op. Toms will be a great ball in each budding, which will be used am a general warming place. It will a'so be used as a piece fn. holding meetings inthe district in *deli it is situated, if it be hired for that =Lt counexion ni h these edi fi ce 11, it is also to 'stab:led rEistries of servants and work pee*, so that those who want labourers may find item, end those who dome to be hired may inscribe *dr names. Already one of these lodging houses is In enure of construction in the second arrondissement, sad its exterior, though without luxu.y, is not want ing in a certain degree of elegance. It will be seen from th a account that the lodging house scheme of Paris surpasses in many particulars anything of the kind shell has been proposed in bland. The arrangem ter for work-rooms, and falba care of young c. ildren ; the plan of pro widfreg .decent and suitabo furniture, which each eileslamet may purehase in small weekly iustalments; thterrangemeet of a tall, or meeting-room, whereby goats and candles are raved to the tenant ; and the proposed registration of working men and servants; all these sae elements which have never entered into the plans of those who have started the lodging bums of our metropolis and manufacturing towns. It at first be thought that such arrangements rather apply to a higher class of Torking people than those whose merlon is contemplated in eve model lodgin g-h mese. Bluth, proposed rents of the en.. would appear to accedes this supproPioa. Igeight, and ten frt.; es a mouth is surely low Zltnr the accommodation proposed to be pro. , h and scarcely too high fur any workman in tole ' rebly constant employment. Ii The grewest difference, however, in the Paris pro f, from that which is is operation upon this side the Cnannel, consists in tne mode of its organimation. In Paris the scheme is entered upon sea speculative investment • in England, what we are doing is being done mainly by the &infirm' of the charit able. Tine difference in the titles of the institu tions indimee very forcibly the difference in the design. The " model lodging-house" met tainly sounds very humble by the side of " la Cite Ouvr.ere." The French, in truth, have gone a stop beyond us, even as regards the principle bf the pilli which we projected. The " model lodging-hew, of England wee designed to be what its name saW Mende imports—a model" to future builders sr dwellings toe the poor. It was designed to show those who ,onstrected hoses for the labouring men that it,waa quite visible to supply them with dwell ing* of a superior character and accommodation at rent. sot higher than they at present pay far unwholesome rooms, and with returns quite as great in proportion to the capital investe 1. It was said, and we b. lie., with jasnue, that no man was lodged more eapens vely than the poor man. Measuring the accommodaiim afforded by cubic feet it was found laud the inhabitant of the Rookery paid a far higher proportion ite prim for his miserable room in Bt. Giles, than the peer paid for , his magnificent palace in Belgravii. It woe dy ermined to show that the poor could be lodged not merely ate cheaper rate, but in a better way, for the money which they paid. But it was not, we believe, contemplated to do more than demonstrate this poeincei. Tne task' of working it out might, it was thought, be left to the natural public competition. working people who reside anthoat its walls. Adding to these 100,000 fee their children, and 5,000 for the unclaimed population, we have a total of nearly 270,000 mods who mug bp_plassed as the poor of the metropolis of Franc*. It cannot but be that, uut of such a population as this, well situated lodging bonus, armor d as La Presso proposes, must find Ossants. Probably, however, it will be found in Paris, as it , bas to some extent been found in London, th at the liessediate eau of the erection of these lodging beano is to raise the standard of accommodatwa is their immediate vicinity. It is a natural eons,- quake of offering a better article for the same price that thou who have been selling inferio: qualities; should raise the standard of their commodities. We could p .int to one or two instances in which the lodg ing-house keepers is the ceighbourhood of new model llodging-hooses have improved upon the accommoda don they provided very soon after o n e model lodging houses were opened. And in this, we think, the great advantage of model lodging-houses, in this ocuntry at least, will consist. To provide lodgings for all the working people of a metropolis would be impossi ble, bat by placing a lodging-house on the pew principle' in any quarter in which it may be possible and aivantageous so to do, en example will be set and an improved standard created, which, in the course of time, tenants will insist upon their landlords looking to. We may, therefore, take pis opportunity of ex pressing oar gratification at hearing that in such parishes as Paddington and Lambeth model lodeng-honsea are to be ererreci mainly from the resources of the localities, and under the superintendence of gentlemen who take active parts in the charitable concerns 'of their respective districts. We are persuaded that the Bishop of LoPrioN could not ;have done a wiser nor a better thing the, to have sugg ested tho appro priation of the thank - offerings of last Thursday to this purpose, in oases where such offerings were not otherwise required. To raise the standard of the poor min's ftel.ngs, the very first thing to be accom plished is to provide him with a better habitation. You may elevate his testis by presiding him with means of ineruction and amusement out of doers ; but no permsnent good effect ran be expected to be pro duced if you send him bsek fromow-door improvement to a dirty and a miserable Dome. The public ba'hs and washouses, by removing one great source of discom fort to the working man, are doubtless doing infinite service. But we may carry measures of amelioration still further; and one of the first means of practical improvement that presents itself is certainly to better the condition of the labourer in the abode in which he seeks repose alter his long day's toil is done. • - '-THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY B . ----:-----, -- '''- *I, - , -4. -0 - .- • thorn. and in which theiVetoold. lit '1 • .1.A,'% - • • ' is, l u ad ooo t ot sior agresiog aeon mtrarketierats that, "V •,,, of fac m 1 1 ing-homill Ms lit year, tutikfrio, esperie - seemed '. • iary ti f a come to favour 0 lv ie s, carry . •to op, non eatvemely extensive el can H. 'igen i pie- acale:t erbilieverillMtdrenmetiolesh of Pads MIT pe. merit! sad wealth, whilst warmest this. We have not at handl° tbb home Mad tang the Zillverran has shown a marked notice of that great city, but we %ow that them be lraloveilans at present object to are domiciled in it no less than 76,000 work- ed Learn.. it is that they looked on it moo and 60,000 warkweram, besides 30,000 ___,_:__ ........1- ...k......t.e.. wittinet its loin._ adding THE JEWS IN ABYSSINIA. The French traveller, Mona. D'Abbedie, has just returned from Abyssinia, where he has spent the last eleven years. A ourrespoodent elicited from him, daring his short stay in London, • few particulars conce rning the Jews of that country, whiao we deem interesting enough for pub- %mhos. The Halashahs (strangers) are held in abhorrence by the Abyssinians, and when their chiefs came to M. D'Atbedie the Abyssinians fled, being afraid of contracting an impurity by coming into contact with individuals of that hated race. In the conference which the French traveller held with them, he laid before them • letter addressed to him by the well known /tali n Hebrew scholar, 8. D. Luz sato, containing various questions bearing on Jewish mat ters. The letter, originally written in Frereh, had bees translate d by Mons. D'Abbadie into Ethiopic, The traveller carefully wrote down their replies, and inte.As to publish them in some French paper. Tn. II elashehs •pp-sr to entertai n . r is d i ni a7 unders too d religiousmotions, altnvetber the other Jews. Thi y hold celibacy in nighhonour ; and when asked in what part of the Bible that rare was reeomniended, they point to the example of the prophet Elijah, who, ac cording to their opinion, was n married, no allusion being made in his Het -I.y either to hie wile er children. The? also consider suicide from religious motives as highly meretoriors. Persons Oispued to merlin their lives repair to the brink of a river, end there solemnly inquire of GA whether their end has come or not. If the Egos taken as • reply be in the airmail'', suicide is committed ; but if the reply be in the negative, they wait for a twelvemonth, when the same inquiries are again made. They are totally unacquain!ed with Hebrew, and read the neripturee in their native language, into which, according to Moos. D'Ab.adie ' they were translated from the Arabic. Besides the books held by all Jews as authoritative. they also consider the Ap!crypha as sacred. These hocks, in as far as were examined by our traveller, perfectly area with the Vul i ote, except the book of the Maccabees, in which he discovered great •dbtrepisueies. They also passer a com mentary on seek of the tamed ho ka, except the book of lisekli 1, which has been lest. In addition to the five hooks of Maim they possess a six , h, which they call " Coolaclaw." The names of the other books agree with oars, and appear therefore to be Ethiopic translations of the Greek words, " Genesis, Exodus," &-. In their liturgy, IDOWSIOT, which is also in Ethiopic, Mons. D'Abbadie thought a good Hebrew scholar might trace many He brew words. Among others he remembered to bare teend is it the term " Pitanasl." Mons D'Abbadie hes brought with him copies of these books. He further learned from his informant, that, to the south of their oeuntry, in the (*entry of the 0.,500, Were was a Jewish k iit t= a statement cot firmed to our traveller b altogether independent of that of the Halashnht He also said that he met in Abyssinia a met igetnesting native Jewish youth, who was moot anxious to pto =gray". in ease* esquire there comet a' lions on Judaism, which, Oil Ids veto& to bit native country. might be prepagated mess Idstmelbees. This youth made Monelear D'Abbedie selemageewholhat Iso weeildemileavvur to interesauropeen Jews ler that aim, and brans him of the rusk within a twelvemonth. Tim traveller "wrested his wait of acquaint awe with Jews, which, he was arid, would render his exertions abortive.—Jemish C ArolVele. „ THE NAVIGATION Lawn . — The fouoteing reply has been mint by thy Board of Trade to en application from some shipowners t Cork on a point of importance to the shipping interest of the United Kingdom :—"Board of Trade, Nov. 5,1849:_' Sir: I am directed by the Lards of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th of October, addressed to the president of this board, inquiring whether Americas and other foreign-bent ships will be admitted to the pri vileges of British registry, after the Act for the Amendthent of the Navigation Law shall have come into operation ; and I am to acquaint you that from the 14 of Jemmy next all ships duly owned by British subjects will be admitted to re- Ristry without inquiry as to the place of their have, &c., D. LII blaseemer.—H. B. Carroll, B•ci , C.A.” CAMOSERVANCT OF THE TYNE.—SHIELDB, Nov. 9. It is understood the corporation of Newcastle, in their new bill purred to be submitted to parliament next series, will iskoduos a clause to set apart, at least, 15,0001. per annum, to be appropriated annually to river improvements • end the residue of the due to go, as usual, to the municipa l treasury of Newcastle. Preparations are already being made to as certain suitable foundation at the south side of the entrance to our harbour, for the propos^d new pier, which, when com pleted, must be of essential service and convenience to shipping, es wed as conducive to the saving of human life. THE LATE MURDER or MR. GRIFFITH.—Thu MED Banks, who hes been several times remanded, on suspicion of having a guilty knowledge of the louder at the late Mr. Griffith, underwent another private translated= on Wearier day atternue bases the magistrates, and was again remanded till io-merrow. As the examinations have taken place to the exclusion of reporters, we are not in possemion of all the fasts ; but we may state that Beaks has, more than once, attempted to prove an alibi, but has most signally failed, sad there is no doubt that be was in Brighton on the night of the murder. Other parties are suspected • and the police are on the alert to app (ahead them— B righton Gasette. HIGHWAY RonnekT. James Gray, his wife, Mary Ann, end Thome. Barker, were brought up at the Moot Hall, Newcastle on Wednesday befere Captain Potts and W. W. Burden; charged with robbing Mr. George Lowe, cattle dealer, a 1001. bank note on the night of Wednesday, the 24th ult., on the reed between Btagshaw Bank and Hexhant. The prosecutor was returning home from the fair on the night in querion. He distinctly swore to the person of James Gray as one of a party of men who assaulted and robbed him; and the day following, Gray bor rowed 101. on:the security of a 10 01 . note, whkh having been shown to a tradesmen of Newcastle, information was given to the police, and the note taken pmesetion of. It proved to be the identical note stolen from Mr. Loaves on the 'drat in gaieties. The prisoner, James Gray, was com mitted for trial at the mires. The other prisoners were CONVICTION OF THE CREW OP THE MART, Hmuoor.as Yesterday the four men belonging to this vessel, who were captured. as related last week in the Daily New, were brought to Portsmouth from Winchester gaol, and *barged with the offence before the county ma gistrates, by whom they were convicted. A previous con viction against W. Muggridge (one of the four) was put in in aggravation of punishment, and three were then sentenced to ela months' imprisonment with hard labour, and Mugg ridge to nine months sad hard labour. This last named smuggler will be called on in a few days to appear for judgment in the Queen's Bench on a conviction obtained against him at the last Hints Assizes for a felonious ass►ult, in which two revenue officers were nearly murdered at Portsmouth some months since. rk, NOVEMBER 17, 849• ExPEDITAON. DEPOILT OF THE PROCEEDIRITIS OF 11111 IiAIIOTVI*IIIIIPs INTSIFILIIN AND mvxsricti, von, MirWe= TIM 13TH OP JOLT, 1848, AND TIMID ABILITAM IN =OLAND ON TIM 8111 OF NOVZIONN, 1849. The following communication will be perused with profound interest, being a full report of the proceedings of her Majesty'. skips Enterprise and Investigator, nadir the command of Captain 'Sir James Bess, between the date of his last Myst& to the Secretary if the Admiralty, from Use:nava, in Judy, 1848, and the arrival ot the expedition of Scarborough, on the Srd of this present November : " Is sesase with the intentions expressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, in my letter et the 13th et July, 1848, her Majesty's ships Ecterprise sad Invest'. stater sailed on that day from the Danish settlement of Uprose*. "By nosing through an inkiest* archipelago of Islands, which lies off the main land, and seems to keep off the pressure of the main pack, we succeeded in passing the position in which the whale ships had bees sr long detaised, and wad* every day some advance to the northward until the 20th, when we made fast to a berg aground off Caps .~ &Athletes. • Hue we worn joined by the Lord Gambier (of Hull), Mr. R. Hill, sue•er, who informed me that, having run to the son hward with all the rest (Atha whirligig Mips, and hav ing carefully examiaect the peck edge for any opening that might lead them to the weetwasd, he bad come to the con. cluion there was nort the th esessmall chance, from the dose, cusped and heavy mature of ce, ter any ship g to the wen oust of Baffle Bay this season. He had, there fore, returned to the north, and expected that all the other ships would goon follow him, and eadeavoured to round the north sad of the pack ; ha spoke very confidently of being able to accomplish this by the first week of August, and promised at any rate to remain in company with us until the 3rd of August. We mat off from toe berg early the next man*, towing the ships through loose streams of ice towards some knee of water, which had opened out during the ., c our alm prog wb"l rese Pre w ni as, led how si e l v n er ig , ht s:ery slow during thin awl the next few days, and our situation often difficult sad sow barraming. " On the eaernieg of the 26th, when off the Three Islands of Riau, in lat. 74 deg N. we were surprised, on the log : siserbig cif, to me the Lor d Gambier, about eight miles distant, standing tinder all sail to the southward ; thus dig ' appointing uof the only remaining' means of to/warding , intonation of cur proceedings to their lordships—and this wee the more mauling as we had out the evening before pained within ammeter of a mile of her, when, upon any dried other lineation of going to the southward, we would have plaited ea Want of her all cur letters and despatches. Het enterprising commander deserves the highest praise for penevering alone so far beyond all his fellows, and, had it ispeadedem kite, T believe he would not have left us until we had get through the great difficulty of Melville Bay. " We panned our course to the northward under varying eirmaestenese at perplexity, anxiety, and success; for al though I wild not but feel assayed that we should eventu ally get through the Melville Bay barrier, yet calm& and light winds so gently impeded any movement in the pack, that day after day passed away • until the meson had so far advanced as to preclude every hope of accomplishieg much, if anything, before the setting in of winter. " No exertions, however, were spared to take advantage of every opportunity of pushing the ships forward until, en 20th August, during a heavy breeze from the north east, the slaps, under all the sail they could carry, bond through a pock of ice of but moderato thickset's, but having amongst it heavy manes mingled with the lighter ice that covered the larger surface, througn which is was necessary to drive the ships at all hazards. The shake they sustained during this severe trial were great, but fortunately without serious damage to them. " We gained the clear water at 4 p m. on 20th August, in Ist. 764 degrees N., and lon. 68 degrees W., and steered direct for Ponds Bay, where I felt assured of meeting with the whale ships, it any should have crossed to the west land, and might learn from them if the Erebus and Tenor, or their party in boats, had puled along that shore, and also eith a view to communicate with the Enuteasum, woo an. neatly vieic the coast, and fr tm whom w• might have derived information of our absent friends. "On the 23rd we made the land, about ten miles to the southward of Ponds Bay, and could trace the line of the main pack close in against the land, at a distant* of three or four miles to the southward, so closely pressed home as to leave no room for ships or boats to pass between it and the shore. We next stood into Ponds Bay sad hove to, within half a mile of those points upon which the &qui maul are known to rime their Butarner residencies, emir guns every half tone and with our glasses closely examining every part of the stare, without beam able to discern any human being. • " From Ponds Bay we tOmmenced a rigid examination of the coast to the nor award, keeping the ships close in along the land, so that neither people nor boats could have passed without oar erring them. Opposed by a strocg current, although going before the wind between two end three WIIO a through the water, we found by the result of all our obese vatione, as well ae by unerring marks on the land, that we were sometimes carried asteru against the wind. " Or the 26th we arrived ofi Possession Boy, and a party was seat ca shore to search for any traces of Sir John Frank lin's expedition having touch, d at this general point of ren dezvous. Nothing wee found but the paper lett there re cording tun visit of S.r Edward Parry in 1819. Tree toper was very much damaged, but by careful warn g and ilatug together, nearly every word was clearly deciphered. (It is preserved.) From this point we continued the examination of the coast with equal care, foe we fully imputed every hour to see those of whom we were in search, and the most vigilant look-out was kept 'lost and from the deck. " Oa the let of September we arrived off Cape York, and a party was sent on shorn to seek for our friends, and to tic a conspicuous mark at this remarkable point, in ',flitch was placed a parr tor the guidance of any party that might hill in with it. This service was performed by Lour mint M'Clintock, with much skill, under very difficult circum stances. " Every day we were in the practice of throwing over board a cask from each ship, containing papers with in fermetion of all our proceedings, guns were fired during fuggy weather, and blue lights and rockets during the hours of iarknou, the ships Wing kept under such easy sail, that any boat ening the signals might have reached them. The general tenor of the information thus distributed along the coast was to acquaint Sir John Franklin, or any of his party that, as the whale ships had not been able to cross to the west land of Baffin Bay, they could have no hope of assistance from them and recommending them to make for Port Leopold, where I intended to form a depot of povhiene, arid perhaps leave the Investigator to winter there ; they would, at any rate, with the provisions, 1101 a natio, of the position in which the nearer ship was peidag the winter. " It therefore became necessary to plash for Port Leopold to fulfil these promises, for had any of his party met with one of them notions they would assuredly have gone to that point. " We accordingly stood over from Cape York towards N.E. Cape, until we came in with the edge of the pack, too dense for us to pontrate, Wog between us and Leopold Island, ab tit 14 miles broad; bat as we could perceive' that it was stil in motion, we hoped that a few days might produce a favourable change, and, in the meantime, we stood over to the north shore of Barrow Strait to seek a har bour further to the westward, and to examine the numerous inlets of that shore. Maxwell Bay and several smaller in dentations were thoroughly explored, and although we got near the entrant* of Wellington Channel, the firm barrier of ice which stretched across it, and which had not broken away this WONG, convinced us all was impracticable in that direction. " We now stood to the south-west, to seek for a harbour near Cape Rennell, but found a heavy body of lee extending from the west end of Corawallis Woad, in a compact man, to Leopold Island. Coasting along this pack during stormy and foggy weather, we bad oifficulty in keeping the ships free dani.cthe nights, for I believe so great a quantity of ice was before seen in Barrow Strait at this period of the season. " With the thermometer at 16 degrees every night, young Ice formed rapidly, and became so thick as to frustrate all our exertion to pass through acme of the looser streams. Nevertheless, after some days of anxious and arduous work, we succeeded in getting through the pack which still lm gored about Leopold Island and N.B. Cape, and entered the harbour of Port Leopold on the 11th of September. Had we net got into port on that day it would have been impossible to have done so any day afterwards, the main pack & during the night, having closed the land and com pletely sealed the mouth of the harbour. " We had new, at any rate, accomplished one material poiat, end were rejoiced to find the anchorage, of which we had before been much id doubt, well adapted to our pur se*, and as it was desirable to secure a good position fur oast ship, I resolved that it should be the winter quarters of the Investigator. " I had much satisfaction the next morning to find how perfectly our steam launch fulfilled our expectations in an experiuental amiss about the harboar, before proceeding in her to the westward in search of a harbour for the Eater mit was now beyond probability, from the early set tins in of winter, and from the unbroken state of the ice, to fetich Melville Island this season. The pack anhe harbuur's mouth, howev,r, still prevented our immediate departure, and all our energies were devoted to landing a good supply of provisions upon Whaler Point In this service the "terain-launelt proved of infinite value conveying a large cargo handl, and towing two deeply - l aden cutters, at tee rate of four or five knots, through the sheet of ice which now covered the harbour, and through which no boat, unaided by steam, could have penetrated beyond her own Tie plea selected for the depot was upon the low S.E. point which forms the chief protection to the harbour, two miles distant from oar anchorage. This work was not only tedious, but sometimes hazardous, from the flows of thin ice folding over earth other, and thus forming an obstacle at times difficult to overcome. Indeed our operations were still incomplete when they were interupted by the ice in tie harbour tramming so thick as to require all our attention to the ships themselves. A prevelence of strong easterly were carried winds had ceased the pack to press so heavily against the hands of e ea° f w from u the p cateralllll them again into shallow 7w a u o : k yn : r t ha. a , l n o ow .t a f fh a ni : r e n tpaoth si: d i ss tahh uh i et hthwewe sho e.t er vehg eir ere ips s e e d f atet O harbour have recommenced,fortunatelyrs laidihorenartafiloftaroieutt that py r b er c ti the a towar ds. shielnAt7 agroundl in time , ices pro shanipsdall, at t r h tor e w taw in poo ter oz . tithr Lrh eos e t leompsrative safety, although with only a foot or two of water to spare at low spring tides; but the winter had now " The extreme high cape of the coast, however, was not more than 60 mites divant, will bearing nearly south,* the land thus trending fur Cepa Nicola', the northernmost point which I had reached during my journey from the Victory in 1831; and which I hoped to have attained on this occasion, as well as to have revisited the Magnetic Pole, in its immediate vicinity ; and had not so many of our party broken down, it might have been accomplished. We observed several small bey. and inlets between us and the southernmost capes, of whose continuity we could not be assured at so great a distance, yet they are marked on the chart which accompanies this account of our proceed ings, by which it will be perceived that a very narrow isthmus aspirates Prince Regent Inlet from the western sea at Cresswell and Brantford Bays. "Oa our return to the encampment I found they had all b. en well occupied duriog our absence. Lieut. M'Clintock had taken tome m genetic observations which will be of area; value from our being so near to the msenetic pole. Two of the party had cut through the ice, which they round to be eight fees thick, and Sand a pole by which the state of the tides was ascertained; and all the rest that c old work bad mewed a logical= of stones on a high knoll just above the to te, in which a copper cylinder was placed, 1 containing an account of our proceedings, end all neceseary information for the guidance of any of Sir John Franklin'. party that might be journeying along this coast. " Although our resources did not admit of any further pen severacce ea our part, we could not but feel some =Seim. time in the assurance, that it those of whom we were in a' arch had at any time been upon the north or west coast of North Somerset, we mast have met with some traces of them. The. season for travelling Ia them regions bad also passed away, the thaw having commenced, and ha+ they abandoned their shies at Melville 1-land, they must have arrived on either of these shores long before this time, where •they would have found us in the best possible position to render th. m assistance and conduct them to our Yawls. " We set forward on our homeward journey off the of the 6th of June ; and, after encountering a variety of difficulties, to which I need not now further allude, we reached the ship on the 23rd, the party so completely worn out by fatigue that every man was from some cause or other is the doctor's hands for two or three weeka, and I am sorry to say that two of them are not yet recovered. " 1 bad walked in advance of the party to *elect the beet road by which 'ito cross the isthmus, and as soon as I got eight of the ships I was met by Captain Bird and Lieut enant M'Clure. from whom I was greatly grieved to hear of the deems. of Mr. Minty Matthias, the assistent-surgeon of W Enterprise, of coneumption, which had been deeply raved in hie constitution before leaving England. He was a promising soling man, of great anal lit yof disposition, universally beloved aced regret ' ad. Several others of the mows of both ships were in a declining state, and the general report of =loth was by no means cheering. "During my absence Captain Bird tad delpat:hed parties in several directions. One, under the command of Lieu tenant Berman', to the north shore of Barrow Strait ; sisesti. commanded by Lieutenant Brown, to the east shore of Prince Regent Inlet; and a third, conducted by Lieutenant Robinson, along the western shore of that inlet. The labours of triere pinnies were of comparatively short dura• don; sill they, like oareAves, all suffered from snow blindness, sprained =cies, and debility, especially that under • utenant Robinson, who extended his examination of the mar for several miles to the eon .hward of Fury Beach. Altnough it was now but too evident, from no traces of the absent expedition having been met with by any of these rimier., that the ships could not have been detained any where in this part of the Arctic regions, yet I considered it proper to push forward to the westward as soon as our ships should be liberated from their winter harbour. My chief hope. now centred In the efforts of Sir John Richardson's paity, tor I felt fully persuaded that Sir Julia Franklin's et ipe must have penetrated so fax beyond Melville Island ea to induce him to prefer making fur the continent of Amen a rather than seek assistance from the whale ships in Baffiu Bey. " Our crews, weakened by imminent exertion, were in a very unfit state to undertake the heavy labour which they had yet to aceonanlish. The season at this place was so extremely back card that hardly a pool of water was to be seen on the surface of ice which covered the harbour, ex• ceps only Meng the lire of gravel which had been spread out towards the harbour's mouth during the winter, and there appeared but small prospect of any release this seen. "All hands that were able commenced with saws extend• ing the breadth of the canal—so much as to admit the ships to pass down it towards the point of the harbour, a distance of rather more than two mile.. the canal being nearly finished, the harbour i ce di " Them labours were continued natil the 15th August, when, vided along its line into two nearly equal puts, and thus two of • Vas beariop herein item are true. net he with so muelt severity it was impossible to keep the saved us • few days' wosk ; but the tee , to:ea d vra for people any longer employed at nth work without serious to all appearance as firmly fi xed as during the wyle "'mile._ Wary to their health and their suffering from severe frost we could perceive it was wasting away close alon g se„..__" l l Wine and it was not until the 28th August that "Oa the evening of the 12th of October the ships were getting clear of the harbour. we sese tt g ot hove into thole whiter 'elation, within 200 yards of each " Before leaving Port Leopold I bad awed a h at . t . L. other, built of out spare spars, and covered with such et o " "I was based moat anxious to have taken the Enterprise ing cloths as we could dispense with witch M some distance to the westward, but any attempt to leave could find a substitute, it needful, leave l alto 12 the ships, under the circumstances of their situation, would provisions, fuel, and other neessesries, Loge her wit► have Met highly injariose, and probably have led to some Invemigetor's steansengine and launch, which bad t ,..7. calamity, but the pack which sealed the harbour's mouth leng t h e n ed seven feet for the Purrs., a n d nog k the night after we entered It - never admieted a chasm of fine vessel, capable of conveying the whole of Si —Li! evens a boat saltier her way out; sad aeons the Isthmus, Franklin's party to tbe whsle ships, or our ee l.,, dlo -- a i as esei far as we mild damson' from the hills, the same cc Weir calamity betel our ships in eir progress to the w e et .,Z9 bsies u num of heavy, hummocky lee, which we had "We now proceeded towards the north shore of B — ' coasted aloe' in search of ea opening is the early part of Snit for the purpose of following up tie exam' 4 1 September, was still pressed closely home agatast the north Wellington Channel, and, if possiole, of extending o at shoes of North Somerset, and remained fixed there through- starches as fee as Melville island ; but when a b entl2 out the winter, so that if the Enterprise had been able to get from the shore, we came to the fixed !mad ice, wkiee — a out of the harbour, she could not save proceeded far, and not broken away this season, and nothing b ut an st ie.., - * would nest likely have been compelled either to pass the sheet rot heavy ice was to be seen to the westward. winter in the peek, or to Dave returned to England, and thus "We kept the ships near that which appeared to he ec ' have defeated all prospective measures for the assistance of most probable spot, watching for any optniag ru t our long absent friends. present itself, when a strong wind suddenly arising t r„„ " And although I could not but feel extreme disappoint- Ist of September, brought the loose pack, through 741V 1 .. went at the small advance we had been able to make during bad been straggling, down upon, and closely beset Ikeda; our first season, yet we had much to be thankful fee in At times, during two or three days, they sest e i ttet t ;zee having been permitted to gain secure winter quarters at Port pressure, and ridges of hummocks were thrown up eh areal Leopold, a position that of all others was the most desirable, us: but after that time, the tamp' ratere falli g to if any one spot had to be selected for that purpose. Being formed the whole body f ice into one solid also ye a - ; : i tt . at the junction of the four great channels of Barrow Strait, so circumstanced that tor some days we could not e Lancaster &mad, Prince Regent Inlet, and Wellington our folder, and when, by the laborious operation of so r e; Channel, it was barely possible for any party, after sham- and removing the hummocks from under the stern,* e.; cloning their ships. to pass along the shores of any of those able to do so, we found it twisted and damaged • cal tM inlets without finding indications of the proximity of our ex- ship was so much strained as to Lucerne the lea pedition. three inches in a fortnight to fourteen inches dady, v kg. " The winter was pegged as are all winters in this climate, though of but trifling importance at present, u se d 1 . -- t it . L but long experienee and liberal means gave us many coin lance us that she was not, a. we had hitherto behaves, forts that DO other expedition had enjoyed ; yet it is remark- vuloerable. able that the health of the crew suffered more during this " The ice was stationary for a few days ; the proaershl winter than on say former occasion. Our want of success so folded the lighter pieces over each otter, and they lei might have tended a some measure to depress their spirits, so interlaced, as to form one entire sheet, ezteaceseek and, unfortunately, the cold of winter was prolonged mutate- shore to shore of B arrow Straits and as tar to the pa ally far into the spring before we could give them mere west as the rye could discern teem the masthead, 'm g % active employment extreme severity of the temperature bad cemented gi " During the winter a great many white foxes were taken whole so firmly together that at appeared highly alive in traps set for the purpose, and as it is well known bable that it could break up again tine season. i n te m how large a tract of country these creatures traverse in which bad bzen cleared away for unohipping the search of food, I caused copper collars, upon which a notice the newly formed ice was 15 inches thick, and I A f a of the position of the ships and depot+. of provinces was en- places along the ship's side the 13 feet saws were to gyith graved, to be clenched round *sit necks, and then set them woek. at liberty again with the hope the- some of these samisen- "We had now fully made up our minds that the gas might le t he means of conveying the iatelligenee to the were fixed to the winter; and, dismal as the enema ta . Breams and Terror, as the crews of those vessels would peered, it was far preferable to being carried along ie. spie assoredly be sager for their capture. coast of Baffin Bay, where the grounded bergs are is reo " After several short preliminary journeys, in April and otunhen upon the shallow banks off that abort as to rode the early part of the next month, to carry out small depots it next to impossible for ships involved in a peek to rep of provisions to the we at of Cape Clarence and to the south destruction. of Cape Seppings, I the ship. on the 15th of May with a "It was therefore with a mixture of hope and noe l party oensisting of Lieutenant M'Clinteck and 12 men, with that, on the wind shifting to tie westward, we perceived te, 40 days' provisions, which, together with tents, clothes, whole body of ice begin to drive to the eastward, at therm blankets, and other necessaries, were lashed upon two of eight to ten miles daily. Every effort on our part p o sledges. We were accompanied for the first five days of our totally unavailing, for no humeri power could hare Rind journey by Captain Bird, in command of a large fatigue either of the ships a mingle inch; they were thus coopacy party, which increased our numbers to 42. He would wil talon out of our hands, and, in the centre of a held dis tingly have extended his valuable assistance still further, had more than 50 miles in circumference, were carried Omen, I not felt that his presence at the shoo would be more bone- southern shore of Lanced, r Sound. fieial to the service, in sending forth such other parties and " Alter ;taming its entrance the ice drifted in a non completing such further measures as I proposed should be southerly direction along the west shore of Bain Bay, adopted during my absence. until we were abreast of l'ouds Bay, to the eouthwant "A detailed account of this journey may be found in my which we observed a great number of icebergs mod* journal; it may be sufficient here to mention, that the setae our path, and pie tontine/ the fearful prospect tit ca examination (Sall the inlets and smaller indentations of the worst seticipations. But when least expected by so, no coast, in which say ships might have found shelter, occupied release was aim st miraculously brought aleolt. The grea a large portion of our time, and cott us much labour, but it field of ice was rent into imeumerable fragments as it ly was necessary that every vision of the coast we passed some unseen power. along should be thoroughly exp l ore d. " Hope revived, and our people worked with energy ; el " The north shore of North Somerset trends slightly to call was made and warps ruu out from each quarter leap* tbe northward of west, until alter passing the extreme the ships past the heavy floe piece,. The Ineriteme north cape of America, a few miles beyond Cape Rennet!. reached an open space of water on the evening of the lid, From this point it tre nds slightly to the southward of west, but it was not until noon of the 25th of September that th %mil after rounding Cape Balmy, when it suddenly assumes Enterprise could clear the pack. It is impossible to cooly &nearly south direction, any idea of the sensation we elperieuced when we feud "From the high land in the neighbourhood of Cape Bunny ourselves once more at liberty, whilst many a grateful hut we obtained a very extensive view, and observed that the poured font its praises and thaniugiviug to Almighty Oil whole space between it and Cape Walker !to the west, and for this unlooked for deliverance. Wellington Chaunel to the north, • was occupied by very " The advance of winter had now closed all the harbors heavy, hummocky ice, whilst to the southward it appeared against us, and as it was impossible to penetrate to the vest. more favourable for travelling. I, therefore, determined ward through the pack trio= which we hadiust been theist mot to divide the party as I had originally intended I made the signal to the Invest gator of my lineation to to until we should find a more practicable point for their turn to England. exertions. " Standing to the SE., we came in with the middle is at "We therefore proceeded to the southward, tracing all the Boffin flay, within a few miles of the land, and were obliged, indentations of the coast, when our progress became much in order to make our retreat the mure sure, to omelets/ is delayed ray several of the party becoming useless from western edg. to the NE., until we reached the limeade lameness and debility, so that ft proved most fortunate N., where we °ended its n oth end, on the 4th Ortobeele that I bad not divi led the force, which could only, under sight of the coast of Greenland. such circumstances, have terminated in the complete failure Favoured by unusually fine weather as we proceeded to of both ; for although the lead of provisions was every say the southward, we passed without arty accident through tb becoming less. the necessity of careying two of the sufferer , great cluster of bergs which is always found in la , . 09Y, on the sledges, and the Wes of the services of three others, and on the 12th we re crossed the Arctic Circle, alten chid who had scarcely strength to walk behind, greatly increased time we saw no more ice. the labour of the few who were now able to work. " Strong westerly winds carried us past the meridian of " The examination of the coast was pursued until the sth Cape Fereertll on the 18th, and at one cm. of the 28th lei of June, when, having cowmen. d more than half our provi- struck soundings off Mould Head. At daylight we Lod *ions, a nd the strength of the petty being much reduced, I ourselves in the Fairway, between North Itoushlses ass was reluctantly compelled to abandon further operations, as it Fair Island, but southerly winds so impeded cur 'who was, moreover, necessary to give the men a day of rest. But progress, that it was Lite on Saturday night before we cola 111.4 the time might not be wholly lost, I proceeded with S, r- anchor off Szarborougb. gestic Hurditch and William Thompson, a seaman of greater " I arrived at the Admiralty early on Monday, the sth d endurance, to the extreme south point in sight from our ca- November. ampment, distant about eight or nine miles. From thin "I cannot conclude this report without winning my print tee hadito flue a view as fully to reward us for our addi- deep obligations to Carel. Bird for his cordie ducal labour , more especia ll y when we reflected that from and zealous support throughout this most ochre. sone, the nature of ice over which we, unencumbered, had tra- and my admiration of the conduct of the tellers and cron veiled with comparative ease, it could hardly have been ac- of both ship-, whose meri.orious exertions fully nude tha coinplished by the party in one day, whilst it would have to the most favourable consideration of the Lens Cowes "emend anotaer to have got back to their patent encamp Caners of the Admiralty. ment. JAMES C. ROSS, Captain, RI." "The extreme point of our 'operations is in latitude 72 deg. 33 N., and longitude 95 dee. 40 W. It is the west point of a smell high peninsula, and the state of the atmosphere being at the time peculiarly favourable for distinctness of , vise n, laud of any great elevation might have been seen at the distance of 100 miles. THE FUNERAL OP THE LATE MASTER OP Jeers COL LEGE, CLMIGLIDOIL—The remains of the Rev. Dr. Find were on Thumlay removed into the anti-chapel,snd fum ed there until yesterday moraine, the day fixed furtheirra movel to their final resting place in the parish duck d Brorkdiah, Norfolk. In consequence of the numerous apple. cations from parties anxious to pay • final tribute of meat to the virtues and acqueemente of the demised, it eta ranged by the gentle= n who hid been entracte! win Ito conduct of the ceremony that a procession should aeon eesl the funeral cortege pert of the way on its melanchely mei In coasequence of an intimation of this arrangement,' kap number of members of the uaivereity conaregated in der* lege yesterlay 'awning. Thu procession (which seabed about 130), passing km the ante-chapel, moved rend de cloisters, by the side of the hall, into the first cowl, sli having paraded round the same, passed up the averse, ed quitted the college by the front gate. The hearse ?mild the body at the obelisk on the Newmarket-road, and toe procession having debouched, the funeral corie'gr plena ( on its way to Brockdiah, when the represent/eon el Ze faintly of the deceased were in readiness to roc eve it. HON. AhTILLERT COMPANY.—" A della& I* received at the Armoury-house, Artillery-grow:a, oo 11 . 0 day evening, the Bth inst., addressed to the cemeasedst officer, Royal Artillery Company, superseding, by ceder d her Majesty, twelve captains aid nine lieutenaqtk unt * ducing all the sergeant. to the ranks." The abate 54 !, meat having appeared in a merning contempt's.* beieg wor ed in a manner likely to prejudice the pOnt mind egainst the very ancient corps of the Hon. Avenel Company of London, we feel it but just to place the fall before our readers. By warrant from successive en , rink each company in this regiment has, up to the present teak elected by ballot its own officer. and Lon-coma ssiosedst cer.. This election conferred the rank for twelve mood only, at the expiration of which time a fresh then* took place, and the officers were eligible to be IY elected. If fairly exercised, this privilege welli have rill remained to the corps; but it was Asia in many ways. Members who bed friends were, by the rase of these friends, created captains, ere they had half lean' l the duties of private soldiers. Non-commissioned officers's' subslteras in vein looked to the heads of their erapeen" companies fur instruc ion. They could not receive D° ledge where there was none; and th. men, in then, fitnini their senior officers unable to teach even them, leit ‘fi tending, so that the musters in time showed a proportioed officers ridiculously great fee the handful of men. Mental anxious to learn were disgusted at the inefficiency of rara appointed to instruct; and these who belonged to di regiment for the sake only of wearing the red cost cited this feeling still more, and would often his; that if an officer did this or that he would out be w elected. Thus the offi er most desirous of qualifyina himaUS ineruct, and most active in giving instru-tioo, bed EC * CUrity that his services would bee appreciated ; but he we more frequently led to believe that the slightest 'those would be remembered with a black ball. This sutra( things, so totally inconsistent with good diseip!ine sed elh ciency, was made known to his Royal Highness Prince rl l ' bert, the captain.general, who takes a great interest is tts corps, and is most anxious to under it fit for any service n may be called upon to perform ; and it was thought 0 4 ' able that the election of office es should no longer be eallo to the caprice of those who were to receive iietructiox their hands, and in order to confer a marked dietionion the corps, her Majesty has declared in the warrant IV ach haa recently . joined that the officers shell their commissions direct from the crown, ad that the non-commissioned °Sun shall owe tinar elevation entirely to their knowledge of their daty Won' ciency ; but it is not intended that any but member' of 111 wraps shall hold commissions, or any subordinwe rot will be seen by this, that very far from the corps beta', graced by the cage,a very high honour has been coet.T.- .T and it ia due t o t he active and able exertions of Lient.iks , the Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., the adjutant, that the en! puny has recently been so prominently brought %lode as, notice of his R: al Highoess. With such office's, s" barked, as they now will be, by the emulation of nest we have no doubt the corps will shortly arrive at a stras discipline and efficiency most gratifying to, the eon' d fir sonar at their head, and worthy of the distieernsh. d l; lion they are likely in future to occupy. A Despatch. recto' 'IRE ORIGINAL MANSION OF CLIEFDEN W as t by George Villiers, tad Duke of Buckingham, in the n d 7,,,a Charles the Second, where this nobleman reed 0 _ where he carried on his amour with the notorious Co of Shrewsbury. From the Hoke of Buckingham' eke ,'n - . "ion passed into the possession of Frederick Priam of :1"; who resided there many years, and greatly imP" T rte b„,sul place. On the 20th of May, 1795, the hou .e og its down, and the mansion now destroyed was built rtn ,, , site, about 23 years siace, by the late Sir George via who made it the receptacle of his valuable eolierut° of weeks of art and vertu. Many of these treasures w e YSit chased with the mansion by the Duke of Sutherised:.,,,„ George Warrender's executors, and it is to be feared portion of them is destroyed. It is understood the hum. was insured. Isr I.° TI Ear ... iiol , and TI