The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-24 00:00:00

zhe eroresso• Wel bow ars by no moans adequate inducemeum . 'The map* of the soil most be relieved altogether Ihm lability to county rats*, and his contributions to the offset of the poor most be limited within the bienis of a stringent merrimum. Even this is not Imsegli. Mr. Cacao has made aphis mind that there it at present a surplus labouring population of not lass Halo a quarter of a million ; and for these be proposes that Ike means of emigration should be forthwith fur nished by the state. He further hints that the repay ment of advances already made by the Treasury had better be abandoned; and that additional liana for bui di t nngg as well as drainage ought to be made by the Chasesllor of the Itzolwquer to the landed proprietor. After all these enthused operations in the way of exoneration sad depopulation at the national cost have been effected, than (according to Mr. CAIRO the field for investment may be considered fairly clear, and then, at lest, the long-promised tide of spontaneous immigration of English capital and Scotch enterprise into Connaught may be supposed likely to begin. Nothing of the sort. Our five-weeks tourist tells us: "The disproportion between popu lation and employment, is of such magnitude as to put it quite out of the question for the coun try to right itself unaided. Individual immi gration by capitalists or farmers, however excellent, is too slow a remedy for the disease ; nor can the ordinary action of government cope with such extraordinary circumstances. A comprehensive scheme, like that developed by Sir ROBERT PEEL in the last session of parliament, is absolutely necessary for the safety of the west of Ireland." This, then, is the grand panacea, without which all else must go for nothing. The people are to be de ported by wholesale—local taxation and its admi nistration are to be removed far above the heads of the farming class—poor relief is to be reduced to a minimum—the public revenue is to lend more freely than ever, and to be repaid less—and all to make room for the new plantation proposed by Sir R. PEEL. That the gentlemen adventurers who might have tae good luck to be made fee-simple proprietors of western estates, by the grate and favour of the mi nister of the day, and the obliging farmers who might be prevailed upon to take good grazing farms at nominal rents and taxes, beyond the Shannon, to say nothing of the tribe of deputy-Trevelyans who would be required to work the trea-ory sittlement— that all these characters would make a nice thing each of the plan, no man can possibly doubt. All minor jobbing would sink into insignificance coin pared with this truly imperial field of official and protege investment. Fortunes—aye, mar . y hundreds of fortunes—were made by like schemes of English plantations in Ireland in former days. Why should not the folly be perpetrated anew ? We trust that there is a spirit in the parliament of 1830 which will resolutely and promptly reject any attempt to resuscitate this m-st objectionable project. The fearful condition of the peasantry of the west of Ireland ws have incessantly striven to depict. The impossibility of their reaching a safe or wholesome position, socislly, without an effective reformation of the law of landlord and tenant, we have always in- 1 misted on. But that there is any surplus population in Ireland, we utterly deny; and it will require some thing more than Mr. CAIRD'B railroid views of the country, or shred-and-patch statistics, to shake our belief in the ample sufficiency of the soil of Ireland to employ remuneratively all her sons. OUTGOING MAILS. The mails yid Menstilles, to the Mediterraneas, Cerise, Judie, Hoes-Kam ha., will be made rep line seesaw Jan. 24. The mane for British North America sod the United States will be made up tomorrow:goosing. Jut. 26. The malls for Liabea, Speia, sad Gibraltar will be made up on lea. 27. The Meet ladle Mails. iatisdlet Bermuda, Havana'', Namara, Ilnidurea, New Orleans, mod Meuiee,aed them for Madeira, St. Jews.tie-Niserepus, New Granada, Chill, sad Peru, will be =Welly ea the marulag el Feb. 2. The gala. foe Medrrie, the Brasile, sad Busses Apree,will be made up ea the @rushee of Fete. 4. The meth tor Gibreher, Mahe, Greece, *sisal= Wands, 'apt. Ceylon, India, sail CMea, via Southampton, will be made sp oa the morals. et Feb. 20. II WM W&TRII AT 147NDON MILIO4II Tin Oat —l44ibleg. Mk 4s. Allserma. 411 b. 44.5. T.NenbeT—1fenimg.1114.11).......... 4 . 1110 • 4444 U L W. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. To form a judgment of the relative merits and prospects of protection and free trade, ore bay but to compare the simultaneous meetings at Sheffield and at 1011. The one is all confidence, the other all fil tering ; the one calm reasoning, the other ribald abuse. At York the Duke of CLIIVRIARD comes forward to declare that no relapse to protection is to be hoped from the present parliament. The House of Com mons would say that the distress was temporary, owing to other causes than free trade, and the expe riment not worked out. His grace's hope, therefore, was solely in the future. The duke's arguments on another important point were, indeed, identical with Mr. Convex. For he admitted that the distress as yet had only affected the tenant, without reaching the landlord. What did Mr. COMM( ray else, when he declared that it was a question of rent, and that it tenant and landlord would put their shoulders toge ther and there the burden between them bi a distil.- mutate of rent, neither would have need to come and ask the rest of the community to bear their bunkum. If the Duke of CLIVELAND, however, rptke the sense of protee:ioo, Mr. FERRAND was there to be the mouthpiece of its nonsense. Mr. FERRAND deelued that free trade in corn, as in all else, has never been advanced by argument : there had been no reasoning, no eloquence, no mind spent upon it. Free trade had been rendered triumphant, according to Mr.FERIIAND, by the Sludgeos and the bris:kbat, by aggression with daggers tnense.ng Sir R. Pew., and by Wide of Irish men, whom, it seems, the Manchester men had hired to cow and beat all England. Accordingly Mr. FRIIRAND dto take the field 'gained the physics' force n l e l ot n rchester, against the ferocious quakers of the League. And as every hero who fig hts his battle in imagination always wins it, Mr. /ERRAND pro ceeded to tell his audience what use he would make of his victory. He said that he would pardon BRIGHT, Oa condition that he should Vt the part of headman to the other free-traders. This is the nodal of arguments of which the Protectionists set the examp'e—this the kind of courtesy, practiEd in speech and threat, by people put forward as the champions of the gentlemen of England. If we turn to the meeting or the manufac•urera and artiness at Sheffield, we shall find a very different spirit preveil. We shall find as much courage, but much less ferocity. The audience is addressed u batty of intellect and reason, not animals who must be goaded in order to be driven. Mr. COBDEN merely followed the Duke of CLEI'LLAND in the assertion, that the distress was • question of rent, to be discussed between landlord and tenant, and not to be staved by promises of prices to be kept up by act of parliament. As to all the arguments adduced by the protectionists which admitted of being put to the proof of fade, records, and wits ern, all these were refuted on the fax of them. The repeorth that low prime begot low and scant wages was one that did not bear arguing at Sheffield. The assertion that the poor-rates are heavier since free-trade, has its refutation in each locality. The amount of crises lessened, of exports increased, of factories at work. poor-houses empty, excise consumption tell in favour of free trade. There was but one argument of the protectionists which it was difficult to get figures to answer, because there are neither statistics nor returns. And on this argument the tories have laid great stress. This is the home trade, assumed to be in decay, with every shilling abstracted from It that was paid to the foreigner fur corn. Into this cane. nient mystery, however, Mr. COBDR'e in troduced the light of his intelligence ; and he showed that in the book trade and the hosiery trade, of which there were no exports, and which were exclusively confined to the home market, that in these the activity and prosperity had been never more marked; and the same might be proved of the in all articles of the home trade, as well as the consumption of luxuries taxed by the excise. These remarks of Mr. COI3DEN were addressed as much to the fair sex of Sheffield, as to the husbands, brothers, and fathers, and rneritedly so. For nose are so deeply interested in that getters' cheapness which implies some portion of spare time and spare money, as the women, who should mostly profit, both in comforts and in intelli gence, by basing such at their disposal. MR. CAIRO has just given to the world 187 pages ; of his observations and researches in Ireland. He i visited that country in October last, spent five weeks at hotels and on the public roads, jotted down a large amount of correct, incorrect, and half-and-half information, copied three pages out cf ARTHUR YOUNG and four tables out of the Blue Books of last session, tied all together with a string of compliments to all the lords and great people who were civil to him, and seat it to Messrs. BLACKWOOD for publica tion. As he has had so much trouble and thrown away so mach time that might have doubtless been turned to good account in " high farming" in Wigtonsbire, we hops his pamphlet, though rather dull and dear, may sell ; and if there be any persons of ordinary information who can find in it anything they did not know before, we should hope they will be grateful. There is, indeed, a very neat map of Ireland with a red zigzag run ning somewhat capriciously over some perm of it, which is meant to denote accurately the course of Mr. (2 ilau's exploring expedition. Thu names of places, both in the map and the letter-press, are by no means servilely copied from any known chart or survey, but are given in an orthography quite original. In some instances, too, their locality is varied in a sportive manner. But as these novel characteristics of a volume of travels may have arisen from the author's obvious onacquaintance with the land and people generally, whine future fate be undertakes to decide, it were hard perhaps to hold him accountable for topographic blunder s any more than for those of social economy. The fact is, that when a gentleman of ordinary faculties of observation sets about doing a d.fficult country off-hand in a few weeks for the booksellers, there is no saying what notorious facts he may not jot down as notable, or what well known fgarcies ne may not "be struck with as well worthy of consideration." Fallacies and facts are alike fresh for him ; the only danger Is, that they will sound old and obsolete to his masts. We have waded through the present brochure in the hope of getting a morsel of informs or a stray sallsetion enissees of the vexed ques tions affecting Irenand,but we have not been success ful. Mr. Cull) assorts that the soil of Connaught is generally goA, thee the dimste la rather damp, ' hat there is in most *sea abenemee of limestone, and that the gram is very green. Some how or other we fancy we knew all thathefore. He then proceeds to hulked some conjeebene regarding what better firm ing might do under certain conditions. More produce of all descriptions might be raised, and more money made—always, however, under certain conditions. Disputed se all Irish comms an, we do not I remember having ever heard these propositions questioned. And, finally, Mr. Can give. it as his deliberate conviction that if farming capitalists in Greet Britain were sere of the certain conditions alluded to, they would not meth object to emigrate to Mayo and Care. When we inform our readers what the certain *iodides. are, we think they will be very much inclined to say—" not a doubt of it." Mr. CAIID gives several instances of cheap farms to let. Compared with Scotch and Beplish rents, he admits the yearly sum demanded is reasonable; and he antieipetes a favourable influence on rents on this side of the channel in coesequence of Irish abatements. But lowered rents and prof- PARIS. 7.n. 13. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1850, him in the arm. The oowardly assailant was soon afterwards arrested. IL Geary do Regan, first secretary of legation, has just been named first secretary of embassy. U. Geary is at the name time charged with an extraordinary mission to La Plata, for which place be L to start in a few days. The fo llowing communicated note appear, in the Patric:—" After the revolution of 1830 a ekes@ was issued prohibiting the granting of passports to Rus sian@ for France. This prohibition was renewed after the revolution of 1848. It has just been removed by order of the Emperor." The report of the committee on the budget will not, says the Patr;e, be presented to the National Assem bly until after a decision on a new communication from the minister of public works. The oommittee, on the proposition of If. Leon Faucher for reducing from 30 to 16 the number of members of the committee on the budget, have de cided against the proposition being taken into con sideration by the National Arembly. The club of representatives who meet at the Council of State have just renewed the appointment of the president and vice-presidents. M. Thiers remains president, and Count Mole and the Doke de Broglie vice-presidents. At tke last sitting it was resolved to establish a journal having for object to create union between the two great parties of order. It is reported that the new journal will be callea the Coneiliateur. BOUM& Tor Amount. Par Money. „mane iligbast. Lowest. Closing. --- 3 pa , Cents. SI U 37 30 37 63 67 30 07 61 3 pee Cents. I do. New Lone „ „ ss ss b 4 per Cuts. s2 23 e ” " sr 1 per Cants. ss 0 e ~ m nebula cc Landon : $0 da 23 41 ;90 days, 13 325. Belgian, 3, 1840 9l Mossy. Maples Rents' 93 23 Mosey . Do. 5, 160 ...... 90 „ Roman Loan SO ~ Do. 45 lb. 35 Piedmont 3 per Cents 87 75 0 Booms—Pub sad Orleans, 630; Paris and Besan„ 093; Rosen and Hamm 230; Avignon and Maresilke, 113; S tr aboorg and Basle, 113 ; Orisons and Viers" 330; Orliem sad Bor deaux, —; Northam 460; llontersen and Treys, 111 30; Paris and Strasbourg. 33873 ; Tears and Nantre„ 273 73 ; It. Ger main, Versailles (right bank), 10373; Verbalisms OM bank), 170; Diep; e a nd — Yeassm, In. FRANCE. PARIS, WED:can/ILT, 6 30 P.M. The debate on the law that was to determine the rate of the insurgentaof June, is only worth recording for i.s result. The Assembly has deci:;ed that these miogaided men should be transpoeted to Algeria. Of the debate which arose upon each a subject, it is hardly necessary . to say that it was personal and not leas disgraceful in the scenes which it gave rise to than many of its predecessors. The decision I have mentioned was resumed in the Ist clause of the bill, which paised. Other clauses were left for debate to day. As °Le of the scenes of the debase has given rise to a hostile meeting, I give you a report of it. After the close of the general deb.te, M. de Testelin proposed as an amendment," to have the insurgents sent before councils of war," and, in doing so, he took the opportunity, he said, to state that a member of the majority had on the previous day attired a threat to the minister of the interior against the President of the Republic, declaring "we will pais the bill, but if the Pr:sideut pardons any one of these men, as he has already done, let him beware!" (Agitation.) It was M. de Kerdrel who said sr. (Continued agitation.) M. F. Barrot, the minister of the interior, denied that anything in the shape of a threat bad been ut tered—be would not have allowed it. The President sTocild always be prepared to execute faithfully what ever laws were voted by the Assembly. M. de Kerdrel said that he was the person who had conversed with the minister et the interior the day before. (Cries of "Do not reply r) M. de Caylin—D.) not reply to such a shameful act of t spiocage. M. de :Sialleville—lt is before M. Carlier that such a ctarge ought to be replied to. M. de Kerdrel was about to proceed, when loud cries of " No, no!" met him as he ardse. He said— m too euirmiseive • mecebtr of the honour• party to which I belong to oppose their will. I con seqwntlymake the sacrifice of my own wishes to theirs. (Hear, hear.) A scene of g eat confusion here ensued, several members, and amongst the rest M. Testtlin and M. Beaune, attempting to make themselves heard by the Assembly. Loud exclamations proc-eled from every aide. M. de Herdrel again ascended the tribune, and said that, u his silence might be misinterpreted, he must ask permission to speak. He had the day before, when the sitting was virtually over, no more than 20 or 30 persons being in the Clamber waiticg for the result of the dtvi.ioo, been engaged with the minister of the interior in familiar conversation, and when so, he certainly never once supposed that any represen tative would act the eaves-dropper. (Sensation.) On the Right—lt is disgraceful. Oa the same side—They are a set of spies. M. de Kerdrel had to affirm that he had made no threat whatever. He had merely mimed ids re feitt that on a late occasion the Assembly had been ived of the credit of voting an amnesty, which, a ew day. after, had been granted from another qaarter. M. Testelin ascended the tribune, and was greeted with cries of " eaveedropper; listener at doors!" He was no eaves-dropper. The sitting was not over —he masidered that he was performing a duty. (A Voice. —"The duty of a spy.") He thought that he disco vered the indications of a system A Voice—Was that a reason to report falsely the words of M. de Kerdrel ? The amendment was then put to the vote and re jected. Two gentlemen on each side were deputed to ar range the terms of a hostile meeting between M. de Coylin and M. de Testelin. They determined that the sabre should be the weapn used, and this morning the opp nuts met. M. de Coylin received a sabre cut, which opened the scalp without pene trating the bone. Both the adversaries fought with their hats on. The hat of M. de Coylin probably saved his life. The debate on the law of transportation was re named to-day, and General d'Hautpiol intormed the Assembly that the place chosen for the penal colony of Algiers is Lambessa, situate on the declivity of the Ores mountains, Lot far from Banns. The place is well known for its salubrity, being protected from the sirocco and its bad influences. The debate upon I article second was ing at poet-hour. According to a tar ;t e llished by the administration of indirect taxes, 288 beetroot sugar manufactories were at the end of December at work in 17 depart mews. viz: 142 in the Nord, 69 in the Paa-de-Calais, 29 in the Aisne, 23 in the Somm , stc., being 5 more then in 1848. Eight otters had st peke of sugar, but wen not working. The quantity manufactured dar ing the season is 30,126,722 kilogramme, being 6,912,276 kilo,. more than in 1848, and the quantity in consampton is 12,713,939 kiln., or 1,785,919 kilos. more than in the previous year. A few nights since a band of individuals at Saint Ron 7, atter parading through the place singing "gib al enn4s, mingled with cries of " Vire la Ite rblique &cede and went into a café, usually fr t . treated by young men of known orderly habits, but wave soon after compelled to withdraw by the snivel of some gendarmes. One of them, however, essiesaled himself near the house, and on one yams mei coming out he fired a pistol at him, and wounded SPAIN. We hive letters from our Mdtdrid correspondent to January 17. The authorisation to levy taxes had been further discussed in the Chamber of Deputies, but no vote had been come to. MADRID. JAN. 17.—Thrta per Centa., 29 paper. TOW per Cent... 12 paper. Five per Centex, 124 paper. Coupons, 74 paper. Bank of M. FerlllllJ4 W. Exchange on London, 20.23. ITALY. ROMAN STATES.—Our correspondent writes : ROME, JAN. 14. The minister of finance has just announced the im portant tact that the government is ready to pay the dividends due for the second half of the year 1819, taking the precaution, however, of dividing the ear telle, or shares, into series, according to their progres sive numbers, and appointing successive days for their presentation, so that the payment will occupy a period extending from the 16th of the present month to the 29th of May, besides& further delay of a month for the convenience of such fundholders as may have neglected applying in their proper turn. The above regulation only applies to the nominal eartelle— those layable to the bearer may be presented at , any period subsequent to the 16:h current. At the last exchange on Friday, 11th current, the Roman Consols were at 981 ; but, as the minister's notification had not then made its appearance, we may expect to see some variation in the money market this week. It is needless to say that the pay ment* will be made in paper, of which we have still a redundant currency, and of which we have very little prospect of getting rid in the present unsatis factory state of the country. The Pope's return, which alone could induce capitslists to pour a little silver into the exhausted Roman treasury, appears as far as ever from being realised, for although Cardinal Ugoliei arrived punctually in this cite according to the information which, in • previons letter, I men tioned having received, and announced the owning of his holiness to be imminent, new delays have been since suggested and new obstacles raised to such a step. The approaching season of Carnival, with its unavoidable license and wild rrernment, has been considered as an unfitting, and possibly even dan gerous time for the re-establishment of the papal court in the capital, so that the more sober term of Lent is asserted by every one (but, entre-nous, be lieved by no one) to be the epoch really fired upon for that important event. The real motives for delay are probably two—the difficulty of effectiong a loan, and the reluctance of the French to allow of a mixed garrison in Rome. With respect to the first point the obstacles have been already sufficiently enlirged upon in my proceeding letters; it therefore only re mains for me to state that the confidence of money lenders has not been increased by the protest of the ex-triumvirate (the republican one, I mean) which, front its strong hold in Switzerland, has disavowed all intention of recognising a loan contracted with the Papal government, affirming that the republican regime, proceeding from the vote of the majority of the people cannot be considered to be legally at an ead, since it was only overthrown by the armed in tervention of foreign power. I presume you are aware that one of the triumviri, Armellini, has re signed his share in the supreme dignity, real or, Imaginary as it may appear, and that the two re maining members have elected Montecchi in his read. With respect to the second difficulty, that of the: mixed garrison, it is at generally expected that the French will have to knock under, as they have in every other question hitherto, in spite of the com mander-in-chiefs bluster and indignation. Dr. Achilli has undergone a third examination by' the fiscal inquisitor, Dr. Ilambozzi. wid, as far as I I can learn the result of such • strictly private tranese action, the questions put to him chi. fly turn on fri volous points, or upon subjects long since cleared up and now generally known, Dr. Achilli is kindly treated by the officials who surround him in the Castle of St. Angelo, and, al though the place of his confinement is still a solitary chamber, and be is debarred from all personal intercourse with his friends, he is now allowed to al'eviate the tedium of his imprisonment by taking daily exercise upon the Castle-terrace. Thia circumstar ce, and the comparatively unimport ant grounds of accusation brought against him in the course of his examinations, induce his friends and those interested in his fate, to hoes that the eccle siastical government intends to yield in fact, although not in appearance, to the vigorous remonstrances which have been made in Pane as well as here in favour of Dr. Acbilli. TURKEY. Advice. from Shaumla have reached us down to I the 17th of December. Kossuth was auffericg in health. The Turkish population behaved to the emi grants with the greatest kiodnet.s, but the obvious good-will of the Porte was crampt d by fear of Russia and distinct of British support in rfeistinN it. It was reported that an attempt had been discovered to aseasinate the late president governor. Letters of the 2nd of December from Constan• inop's state that Ahmed Effendi was about to ran f o r Shaumla to see Kossuth depart for his new destination. He was then to proceed to Bucharest to repkee Fuad Effendi. The attitude of the Burins was considered more and more warlike in Wallachia and Bestarrbia. CUXHAVEN, JAN. 19.—The hurbitir, as well u the mouth, is quite tromn, and there is no possibility for ships to enter the harbour, although the water in the ferry is not frozen, but it is filled with a quantity of drift ice, which will probably become solid in the coune 01 a de, or two.—Haes berg Borwithalle, Jaw. 19. TvaoL.—Public opinion in the Italian Tyrol is any thing but favourable to Austria. Oa the 6th instant, the patrol stopped before a coffee-house at Persia* (a market town not far from Tricnt,) it being pas 10, the hour up pointed' fur closing the dean. The leader of the pat•o, having desired a number of ycuog Men to quit the house an altercation ensued, and he was suddenly stabbed. The patrol seeing this advanced, but a shot brought a second soldier to the ground. lie expired soon after. The guard lindieg themselves too weak to oppose 20 armed men, retired, taking with them & third companion who had been severely wounded in the scuffle. Notice of wit had occurred baring been sent to Thant, half a coo palsy of infantry was immediately despatched to Parents and returned with ten of the niters, two or three of whom were severely wounded. FRESH DISCOVERIES IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. THE SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. The following report from Captain Kell*, of her Mujesty's ship Herald, to the Lords of the Admiralty, details the proceedings of the expedition under his command, and some important discoveries made in the Artie regions. The length of the document obliges us to keep back • portion till a future day. " Her Majesty's ship Herald, Nov. 22, 1849. ((Received Jan. 22.) On the 15th of :sly the ships reached the anchorage— off Chamisiolslaad—having run In 60 boon from the went end of Rt. Laurence Island. The Captain's report °patinae, :—Before my arrival two boats had bten despatched for the Mackenzie River under the command of Lieutenant Lee ; fortunately the 'Herald hove in sight before it was too late to signalise to them ; the beats saw the recall, and returned. We commenced immediately on our arrive se coal and provision the Plover, and by 9 a.m. she had on board all the bread she could stow, half her coals, and a proportion el . _ other provisions. " July 18.—We were occupied in stowing Plover's provi sions and outs, removing officers, discharging objectionable men, and filling up their vacancies from our own comple ment. While this war going en, I went with Commander Moore and his acting ice muter to exsmine the different bays on the out side of Cherie Peninsula for a wintering station for the Plover. We found very shoal with in all of them, sheeting gradually northerly towards the sandy penin sula. They were of opinion that if a vessel did winter there, she would be greatly expreed, and, probably, on the break ing up of the ios, be either carried into the straits or shoved up ,, on At to 9 th p. e m beaeh. boat ships were ready to sail, but our main cap having hem reported very rotten, I was detained the next day (17th) to shift it. " On each day of our stay we were visited by two baidus, carrying twelve men each, all of 'hem were particularly tall, well built, well armed, and without either their women Of dogs. "At first they were rather shy, but as soon as the inter preter began to speak to them in their language—that is, in a dialect which some of them understood—they appeared de lighted, came on board, looked all over the ship, and re turned (after I had made each of them some trifling present) without attempting to pilfer anything. " They belonged to 13parareif Inset, and expressed their delight at meeting with, said being recognised by, Lieuten ant Coo2er, and others who had visited them at their pace last iear, making presents to them without seeking a re turn. . . . "Commander Moors and myself accompanied them to Chsmiva Island, where, after hsuling up their baidsrs, canting them bottom to the wind, the weather gunwale resting on the sand, the other raised about three tee - , end support. d by paddles, the space and th covered with furs ' we partook of several pipes with them "Whilst we were engaged with our pipes Commander Moore employed hie boat's crew in digging for the flour left by Captain Beechey 23 years before, in a position indi cated by directions on a rock, which were as perfect as the day when cut. We found this rock last year, but, sup poling the flour to have been removed by the natives, did not dig for it. A considerable space was cleared round the cask, its chimes tread, only adhering to the sand by the two lower bilge stares, yet still it requ.red the united strength of two boats' crews, wits a parbuckle and a large spar as a lever, to free it altogether. The sand was frozen so hard that it emitted sparks with every blow of the pick axe. The cask itself wes perked, sound and the hoops good ; out of the 3361 b. Gf fins. which it contained, 175;b. was as sweet and well-tasted as any we had on beard. The tin of beads was also found ; those not of glass much de. Bayed ; the cotton stringing quite sound. . July 18.—At 6 a m. we weigbed, with a B.W. wiod, and stood out of the anchorage. "July 20.—At 5 p. to. we anchored in 13 fathoms, with Cap* Lisburne bearing N. 70 deg. 20 min. E. meg., distant 21 miles ; Plover and yacht is company. " From this position two whale boats were despatched to examine the coast northerly, under the orders of Lieutenant Pullen (Plover), and Mr. Persons, second muter (Herald). A boat was niso sat from the t'lover a short distance to the southward. The Plover's boat returned soon alter midnight, having landed in one or two places, and met with m.ny natives, who were friendly and well disposed. A beautiful deer night. At midnight the sun showed its sesaidiameter above the bowie's, and nearly every person in the ship remained up to witness this phenomenon for their first time. "July 21.—Weighed again at midnight, with a light northerly wind ; the boats hove in sight at 7 a.m. At 10 they were alongside. " Mr. Pullen had examined the inlet to the eastward of Cape without poems. He was informed by the natives through the interpreter that none of the inlets on the coast would admit of a ireful entering them ; that it was only a few of them, at the early spring, their baidan could enter ; and they were closed when the winds began to blow from the westward. " We experienced in the ship until 6 p.m. of the 23rd a tedious calm ; the current fortunately set us north, half a mile per hour. During this time we were visited by two baiden, with the same psrty of natives we had seen oft Cape Lianurne ; they come alongside fearlessly, and disposed of every article they had ; the women selling their fur dresses (even to their second pair of breeches) for tobacco and beads. " During the evening of the 23rd ant the morning of the 24th we were running to the N.E , with a moderate S.S.W. wind and a thick fog, g at intervals for a short time. , Walruses, whales, and flocks of the eider duck about. We were guided es to our approach to the ice by the temperature of the sea. " July 25, a.m.—The wind shifted to the N.W. ; brought with it cold but fine and clear weath..r ; steering for Wain .. _ origin a Inlet, the vast numb,rs of walruses that sur rounded us keeping up a continual bellowing or grunting. The barking of the innumerable se alt, the small whiles, and the immense flocks of ducks confinu illy victor from the water as we neared them, warned us of our approach to the toe, although the temperature of the sea was sill high. We made the land a little before noon, 10 miles to the northward of Waiter:ghee Inlet. At two pm. we anchored in 11 fathoms, about three miles off its entrance. Toe Plover and yacht had done so about an hour before. " In running down along the coast a post was observed on the higher land, near the en'raace of the inlet ;slimily alter weeds a man was seen to hoot on it (what we most of us made out to be) a flag. The Plover soon afterwards dipped her ensign (-imply to clear it as we afterwards learned); this was answered by the person at the post doing the same, and entirely removing it. .• I immediately lowered • boat, and sent Lieutenant Cooper, of this ship, to toe shore. He walked up to the post, and found it t ) be nothing more than a native mark for a quantity of blubber and reindeer flesh he discovered buried there. The native had left. Lieutenant Cooper after re melting there some time returned on board without seeing atybody. My reasons for selecting this place to equip and de• spatch the beats from, instead of preceeding as far north as the ships should go, was, that I considered it of the greatest importance that tree Plover's wintering station should be known by the officer in command of the boat ex pedition. " Commenced immediately to hoist out the boats, equip, and provision them. While this was going on I despatched Mr. Hill, master of this ship, to sound the entrance of the inlet. He returned on hoard a little before midnight, and made to me the following report : " That the channel was very narrow and winding ; that nine feet was the most water that could with certainty be carried in, and that even to insure that depth the channel would require close buoying ; hat a lair wind, or a cam, so that • vessel might either rail or be towed in, was necessary, the channel being too narrow and intricate to warp through. Ones in, he reports that there is a sof- Ileiency et water and • convenient spot for the Plover to winter. " From this report I found that it was impossible for the Plover to eater this inlet with the wan r found there, but es the en-rance was encumbered with some heavy pieces of lee aground, wnich during our stay was breaking up het, I con ceived it very probable that alter they had disappeared the chatterl might become more direct and d, epee; I therefore determined to return, and make a closer examination of the inlet se soon as I rad seen the ho its as far north as we cm d reach in the ships. The IN ats were therefore directed to wit Wainwright 'a Inlet on their return, in case it should prove practicable for the Plover to enter, but that, under any edeumetaidies, she would be found at Chiusano Island. " Mr. Hill met there about 40 aatives, who were very friendly et first, but when they fount he was about to leave them they became annoying, pulling their bailers across his bows, and fouling his oars, rut with any hostile intentions, but simply to delay his departure, so that they might have time to bidder with him fur mime of his riches. " By midnight the boats were all ready, and shoved off under three hearty Che , fll Iro u toe shags, which were as h ear tily returned by the boats. " This 1611- expedition enisisted of 25 persons, and four beats, as follows:—Lieutenant Pullen, commanding the Herald's 30404 pinnate, fitted oar board with the greatest I care, thoroughly decked, 'A.m. r rigged, and called the Owen„' furnished wi h pump*, spue rudder, end astrength (slog piece of two inch plank shove her water line. Two 27 trot whsle boats, Hew hoes, brought out by her Meisoty's ship Aide, from England, covered in abaft as far as the backboard, but without either bozoes or eases, the pro visions being stowed, the bread in painted bags, and the pre served mute betw. e a tarpas li t s. The men's clotues were Is hay rucks, e.psble of remora in a moment. " Plover's pi nue, a half deekto b at, with cases for her provisions, etc, so placed se to resist pressure from the ice. " There was placed in the b seventy days' preserved Otalllfor the whole party, all the other articles of provisions, except bread, to the some extent, b. inef also soldered up hs tins In ad titian to t enie, the Owen had on board eight men's allowance of the regular ship's provisions Alter she was stowed well this proportion, every corner that would Ald • case of preserved meals was filled. The two larger irate carried in leek of them five case of pemmican for the special use of air John Franklin's party. o The ships weighed in c .mpaey with the boats, and ran aim the land within about three miles, with a moderate off shore wind. " July 26.—At 4 aim. the ice could be seen In heavy messes, extending from the shore near the Sea Horse Islands. At 6 we were obliged to heave to in consequence of • dense I fog, This cleared off at 11 30. The Plover was class to, but neitler the beats nor the yacht were in sight. " We both made sail, steering true north, and were at 1 p.m. in lat. 71 deg. 5 mla., where we made the heavily peeked ice, extending nearly as far as the eye could reach from N.W. by W. to N.I. At ibis time we bad soundlnp la 40 fathoms mud—the deepest water we have had slam leaving the Woad of Bt. Laurence. We matinued running along the pack until 8 p.m., when, a thick fog coming on, we ran two or three miles south, and hove to, wind blowing from N.N.8., and directly off the ice. We had run along it 30 aides tt The pack was composed of a dirty-coloured Ice, not MOM than flys or el: Net high, except some pinnacles deeply seated in the peek, which had no doubt been thrown up by the floes coming la contact. Every few miles the Its streamed off from the pack, through which the Plover sailed. - - - - " July 29.—At 1.30 the fog cleared off ; the pack from N.N.W. to N.N.11., distant abate six miles. Made sail during the forenoon, running through weenie of loose lea. At 10 passed some large and heavy floss. Commander Moore ounsidering them sufficiently heavy and extensive to obtain a suite of snagnetical observations, dropped the Plover through between them, and made fest with ice anchors under the lee of the largest in a most seamanlike manner. " I landed an the floe, with Lieutenant Trollop.. The latitude, time. and variation were obtained on it flat 71.30 N. ; long. 162 6 W.); but the other observations were vitiated by its motion i n azimuth, and by its constant break leg away, the level would sot stand. We had 28 fathoms mud alongside it and no current. " I found the is driving slowly to the southward, with the N.N.E. wind then blowing freak. Very few walrus and but a single diver seen. The general height of this floe was five feet, and about one mile is extent; on it were found pebbles and mud, which led Commander Moore to suppose that it tad been in contact with the land. I supposed the mud and pebbles to have been feed remains dropped there by some walrus. "At 3 p.m. the nova slipped from the ice, and both ships, with a N.B. wind, made sail westerly until 6 o'clock, when we hauled up true north, having no ice in sight in that direction, sad only from mast bead on weather beam. A fine clear night, running along six and seven knots; temperature of the water, 40 deg.; depth, 21 fathoms flacreasi . DIN At midnight the latitude was obtained by the inferior passage of the sun. At 5 cm. the temperature of the water had fallen to 36 deg., and almost at the same instant the ice was reported from the masthead. Between this time and 7 a.m. (when we hove to within half a mile of the pack) we ran 10 5, so that I consider 11 miles to be about the dis tance that packed ice in this part of the world can be seen in clear weather from a ship's masthead. " she peck was of dirty coloured ice, showing an outline without a break in it five or six feat high, with columns and Omelet much higher some distance in. Although the wind was off the pack, there was not a particle of lease or drift ice from it; our soundings had gradually increased to 35 fathoms, soft blue mud. The only living things seen were a pair of small divers, black with a white ball in the back, and two very remarkable birds very like the female of the tropo cal manolf-war bird—a dingy blaek colour with excessively Ir tag .ings, and the same flight when soaring. We could not succeed in shooting any of either species. We remained hove too off the pack for an hour. The temperature of the sea near the pack at every five fathoms was as shown in the margin. In the dredge we got muscles, and a few bivalves co-smon to these seas. " This was our most northern position, at 72 deg. 51 min. N., 118 deg. W. The ice, as far as it could be seen from the readtread, treaded away W.S.W. (compass), Commander Moore and the ici maeter reporting a water sky to the north of the pack, and a strong iceblink to the S.W. It was impossible to gain this reported open water, as the pack was perfectly impenetrable. The pack we had just treed for 40 leagues, made in a series of steps westerly and northerly—the westerly being about 10 or 12 miles, and the northerly 20. We made sail et 9 o'clock cm., stewing For the coast a little to the westward of our track up, wind N.B. gradually decreasing as we got southerly. " 5 e'clock a.m.—Fell • dead calm, the sea glassy smooth, and so transpati nt that a white plate was distinctly seen at a depth of 80 feet. This afforded me an opportunity of ascer taining the extent of damage the ship had received when n shore in Awataka-bay. The forefoot was untouched, the false keel gone for about ten feet—beyond this she had sustained no d .mege that we could see: the copper broken and excessively thin all over. As we approached the coast we again met numbers of whales, walrus, seals, and flights of ducks endue' birds. " July 39, 8 e'clock a.m.—Packed in shore is eight fathoms, close to the northward of Blossom's-shoals. Com mander Moore came on board and proposed that, during the time I was surveying Wainwright's islet, he should go along the cast during the fine weather as fur north as the ice would permit him, end endeavour to communicate with the larger boats, which we expected were somewhere ab .nt ftefuee Inlet. With this intention we both started with • fine but adverse wind from N.E . " I worked on short tacks, close along shore, the soundings in muddy bottom decreasing and increasing as we ap proached or receded from the land. Shortly after 6 o'clock a.m. we again anchored off the entrance of Wainwright's Inlet. " Not • particle of the ice seen on our termer visit re mained. We had not long anch-red when we observed the natives carrying their balder. across the narrow heck between the t and the sea and launching them. Wishing to get as many of them as I could off to the ship, so as to have f. see r to molest me on shore, I detained the boats until two of them came al loggide. Tries , aperoached us slowly, fre quently resting on their paddles, the bowman each time invariably holding up his hands over his head at an angle of 4.5 &gee• a, when lowering them passing them over his breast and stomach. I mule the boatswain do the same from the forecastle netting. They always waited for his answer before they recommenced paddling. " I made them each • present of some tobacco sad beads (which they could hardly understand that 1 intended to give without return). '• I left the ship with three boats, for the examination of the inlet, and gave permission to the ship's company to trade with the naives for whatever they had to disp.oe of, con sisting mostly of small figures and tools of ivory, bows. arrows, a few furs, sealskin boots, and pieces of reindeers' flesh. " I hod not been long on shore before these natives left the ship, and followed. Nothing could exceed their good humour. When about to commence my observations I or der-d all trading to cease, drew a large semicircle on the sand from water's-edge to waters's-edge, and placed the boats' noses between its points. They seemed perfectly to understand the meaning of this line ; not one of them at tempted to overstep it; they squatted down, and remained perfectly quiet and silent. Winn a stranger arrived they shouted to him, who no sooner understood them thar. he crept rather than walked to the boundary, and squatted amongst the rest. They danced and sang for our amuse ment, played football with the seamen (who had not a chatice with them), and displayed their skill in shooting at a mark. Plover anchored in company soon after noon. Calm. " Commander Moore went on shore, erected a mark, and buried a bottle, with information of the boats. I had satis fied myself before his arrival that 10 feet was the greatest depth that could be carried in ; I therefore called upon him to tutnish me with a report of what his vessel could be lighten. d to, a copy of which I have the honour to enclose. " By it their lordships will perceive that, short of taking the Plover's masts out, she could not be lightened sufficiently to enter the inlet. Could it have been dune with any partial lightening, 1 should have attempted it, being in every way so very desirable a position—in the first place from its high latitude, the •riendliness of the natives, the supply of rein deer's flesh we found could be obtained there, there being no other herb cur south of it nearer than Kotzebue Sewed, and lastly, the opinion of the icemsaters of the exposure to which a yewl wintering in the latter place would he subjected. Inside there is a good depth of water, and in one spot the Plover might have been placed alongside a bank, well sheltered. The natives gave me to understand that • considerable river runs into it; at least one that they can in thi it bsidars neeigete for many days, and that it ran to the S.E. ; that on its banks, and in the neighbourtood of the inlet, the rein deer collected in great numbers, in their progress northerly, and in their return south. " The naives began to leave us, as before, at 8 p.m., tracking their fielders with dogs to their tents in a little sandy hay, a mile north of us. By the time we were ready to go off there was not one with us. " I was sorry to find that, after all their good behaviour, they had been guilty of picking the pockets of two or three. One lost a handkerchief, another a glove, Commander Moore a hex of cape, and the naturalist a small glass bottle, con taining spirits and water. .• Weoeesday, Aug I.—During the night we bad a thick fog, which cleared off at 5 a.m. The boats left the ship to continue their r xeminseion; Commander Moore and myself to obtain a suite of magnetical and other observations. I re turned to the ship shortly after noon with the boats to put my work on paver. Commander Moore went up the inlet, and found tome bidders that had just arrived with several reindeer cut in quarters. They were stowing it with a e nsiderahle quantity they had already collected in a hole dug on the sand-spot off Point Collie, and appeared much annoyed at their stow-hole having been discovered. It was deep, and lined with legs of wood, having a roof formed also of logs about fire feet above the ground, and covered with moss. For a small quantity of tobacco they sold 8001 b.—as much as Commander Moore's boat could carry. Learning from him that they were willing to dispose of more, I sent Lieutenant Cooper, the naturalist, and the surgeon, in • light boat to purchase it; seeing the boat pulling in fast directly for them, they got alarmed, and at length, before the bust touched the beach, a woman walked to the water's *dee and held up the bottle the naturalist had lost the day before, making signs to him when he landed that it had been picked up on the beach. It was in the same state as when he lost it, the cork never having been removed They at least understand that stealing is an offence. At first they a; peered rather sulky, an-I unwilling to part with any of their meat; after • few presents they resumed their former good humour, and sold 14 quarters., ell of them of >oung animals—it was without a particle of fat, badly hided, but cull was owned by most on board to be very sweet and tender meat. " 9:11 of August.—ln the morning paned the carcase of a dead whale, and another in the altcrnoon. I sent • boat to this ene, stuck a flag in it, and buried a bottle, containing a current piper, a notice of my whereabouts, and of my in tention to go westerly, for •he information of the Plover, should she fell in with it. Many reports of land from the masthead—a Isudhird seen. Hayti g this favourable wind for examining the pack by t iheehwt westwar d , until atw the mco m utl o u rn u i e n d g of to steer the as 10th, h igh w as when it fell hewindawdoeumild permit en the 'ho ird tack. The wind continued to lcalm, " fhe sea wu literally covered in streams with particles of a pink colour, like wood uhes, or coarse rawduet from cedar, a tenth of an inch long, and 0 sin diameter, and round. On placing it under the microscope, no appearance of circulation could be detected. Mr. Goodridge, the surgeon of this ship, supposes it to have proceeded from the cameo of the whales he saw yesterday, the oil having been forced through the pores by the pressure if the water, gising the uniform size aced shape in which we found it. I endeavoured to dry some in blotting paper, but it was absorbed by the paper, and nothing lett but an oily stain. Tried the cur rent, and found it running to the westward, one-third of a mile an hour. Wolves grunting around in groups of eight and tan together ; quantities of small pieces of drift wood, all pier, which appeared to have been washed from some beach. The temperature of the water at the surface in 29 fathoms was 45 deg., and at the bottom 43 , leg. The dredge produced (in soft blue mud) a good many mussels, starfish (found in all parts of this sea), a few bivalves (got before), and some very small shrimps. " A light southerly wind sprang up, gradually increasing, and veering to the eastward. At 10.30, alter standing to toe S.W. for 15 miles, the loom of the land in the neigh bourhood of North Cape could be seen. I tacked to the N. 8., with the wind fresh from E. 5.8.; not wishing to run the risk of hang caught with a south-,aster between the land and the ice floe, which I considered could not be far off, front the extraordinary smoothness of the water, the numbers of walrus, and particularly a little black aid woke diver, which we never saw except in its vicinity. " August 11 —Steering until this day in very thick and bad weather to the N.B. ' rat which time we wer e i n l at. 70 deg. 1 min., long. 173 deg. 53 vain. B.re up north to endeavour to fall in with the back. By 6 p.m. a dense tog came on, we hauled to the wind on port tack under reduced sails, chip heading S.E., with a short Jumping sea. " August 12, a in.—The wind shifted suddenly to N.N.E., and afterwards N.N.W., blowing bard, re fined to treble reefed topsails and reefed foresail, our soundings having de creased t. , 17 fathoms, mud. No observations. Our rat kon ing placed us in 70 deg. 20 min., 171 deg. 23 min., in 18 fathoms acad. " ShOrtly after coon our depth decreased to 1G fathoms, the colour of the water Incoming lighter, with a h r ,,,k;„ g sea all round. Our sounding. decreased a fathom each cut until 1 30 p.m., when we wore in 11 fathom. shingle, get. ting in wearing 9 fathom. then 12, and when tri mme d to co back, as we went on, hied several casts of 8, aril one of 7 fathoms; then suddenly got into 14, which gradually increased. The sun came out veriling our noon position. Until midnight it brew a strong gale. " A4gust 13, cm.—Fine; wore, to stand hack to the shoal. Shoaled our water 13 fathoms, and at 10 1 I saw breakers ow the lee bow. Ship refused stay,; wore, but had no It se water at midnight; passed over the tail of the but in 8 fathoms, five miles N.W. of our termer poi- Con. Continued to steed to the eastward until I could weather the south end of the shoal; then tacked, yarii..g, in 16 fathom., three mike south of our first po.itiot:. u 1 bore up north to fix its western edge, a al.. ht east.rly cur rent took me rather further in that diretti •n thz.n I in tended. 1 have, however, confined it within a radius 01 rive o osl ur vy atte log hth:ibtbei , :, : ht Er eci7ma h .fa e fawciac: sehothreas closer fathoms; ougl h ise e :sa;h r isaoeflbrw uooiwo u ldan:tta gr a veletlsri tao. n eanda o nm t naohld • allow atones.lt :wt.e o finepti hf approachingmwa that ed n i p:ti c thoe h unu o tonad e anchoring a,l:k° boat,, exists then th t e s f ion which would bring a ship up. "August 14.—We experienced very strong, variable, and S E. bre. eta, with rain, until midnight of the 11th, whet the wind changed to the westward, and brought with is has weather. Cunttnued to stand to northward ante westward until noon on the 15 h, being in let. 71 deg. 12 min., and lung. 170 deg. 10 Lain.; bore up west half total, pas.. e g several pieces of drift wood. Our soundings increased aa we lett the b ink (wes•erly) to 25 fathoms, mud. " August 16.—Wind very variable in strength, ant direc tion SS.W . to S.E. leerge fl icks of phelaroeee, divers and gulls numerous. At midnight wind very fresh from S.S.E. steering W.S W. ; dep h decreasing to 10 fathoms. " At 3 a.m. the 17th August, the temperatur, of the sea suddeuiy tell from 40 to 36 deg. ; the wind hoc one lia: t and excessively cold. Shortened mil, supposing that I was very near the ice ; frequent scow showers. " A'. 5 a.m. wind shifted suddenly from the N.W. is a sharp squall with heavy snow. Shortly aft. r eiglet, when one of these scow-storms cleared off, 'he pecked i ewes seen from the most-head from S.S.W. to N N.W , five miles dis tant. The weather was so bed that I bore up for the ren dezvous. The weather, however, as suddenly eleareu up. I hauled my wind for the north-wean en ex'reme of the ice that had been sten. At 940 the extitine report of " Land ho :" was made from the mast-bead ; the y were bosh soon afterwards crowded. " In running a course along the pack towards our tint discovery, a small group of islands was rep cited on cur p,rt beam, a considerable distance within the outer margin of the ice. " The pack here was not so close as I found it before. Lanes of went could be seen reaching almost up to the I group, but too narrow to eater unless the ship had been safe ficiently fortified to force a hole for herself. " These small islands at intervals were very distinct, and were not considered at the time very distant. ' " Still more distant than this group (from the deck) a very extensive and high land was remitted, which I had been watching for some time, and anxiously awaited a report from some one else. There was a tine clear atmosphere (such a one as can .oily be seen is this climate), except in the direction of this extended land, where the c. ends relied in numerous immense es isses, occssimially leaving the very lofty peaks uneapp d, where could be distinctly s- en co:urnes, pillars, and very broken, which is characteristic of the higher headlands in this sea—East Cape and Cape Lisburne, for example. " With the exception of the N.E. and 9.E. extremes none of the lower lend could be seen, unless, indeed, what I took at first for a small poem of islands, within tee pack edge was a point of this great land. " This island or 'idea was distant 25 mile , from the ship's track, higher parts art the land seen not lees, 1 consider, than 60. When we hove to off the first land seen the northern xtreme of the great land showec out to the testicle,: for a moment, and so clear as to cause some who had doubts before to cry out, ' There, sir, is the land quite plain.' " From the time land was reported until we hove to under it, we ran 25 miles directly for it. At first we could not see that the pack joined it, but as we spprosche t the island w • found the peck to rest on the ialaed, and to el -1 tend from it as far as the eye could reach to the E.S E. " The weather, which had been fine all day, • ow changed suddenly to dense clouds and snow shower', blowing fresh from the south, with so much sea that I did not anchor as I intended. " I lett the ship with two bolts ; the Senior Lieuterent, Mr. Maguire; Mr. Seemann, naturalist ; out Mr. Collinson, mate, in one ; Mr. Goudridge, surgeon ; Mr. Pakenhem, mids Allman; and myself, in the other, almost de pairing of being able to reach the island. "The ship kept off end on outside the thickest part of the loose ice, through which the boats were obliged to be very careful in piekieg their way, on the B.E. side, where 1 thought I might have ascended. We rooched the island. I and found running on it a very heavy sea; the tint lieute nant, however, landed, having backed his boat in until he could get foothold (without swimming) and then jumped overboard. I followed his example; the others were sinuous to do the same, but the sea was so high that I could nut permit them. " hoisted the jack, and took possession of the island with the usual camel neje', in the name of Her Most Gra cious Majesty Queen Viceoria. "The extent we had to walk over was not mere than la feet. Fr em this space and a short distance that we scram bled up, we collected eireht species of plants; specimeus of the rock were also brought away. " With the time we could spare and our materials, the island was perteelly inaccessible to us. This was a great disappointment to us, an from its summit, which is elevated above the sea 1,400 feet, much c 'uld hove b en seen, and all doubt set aide, more particularly as I knee the mime t I got on board I should be onliged to carry sail to get the pack and out of the bight of it we were in ; neither c•oulit expect that at this late period of the season the weather would imerove. " The island on which I landed is four miler; and a halt in extent east and west, and about two and a halt north and south, in the shape of a triangle, the w Stern end being its apex. It is almost inaccessible on all sides, and a eoltd mass of granite. Innumerable black and whit, divers (common to this sea) here found a sate place to deposit their eggs and bring up their young; not a walrus or seal was seen ut shore, or on the ice en its vicinity. We observed here none of the small land birds that were so numerous about us before making the land. " It becomes a nervous thing to report a discovery of lined in these regions without actually landing on it, atter the un fortunate mistake to the southward; but, as tar as a man can be certain, who has 130 pair et eyes to assist hint, oriel all *growing, I am certain we have discovered en ext. wave land. I thick, also, it is more than probeele that these speeeanksbywetbsaew nativesarea co or nt c in j u pe atio j n a t th ( e co lin t g o e f of A iletr ni ta . i n ns . tannic by Baron Wrangell in his Polar voyages. 1 ri toreed to t"e ship at seven p.m , and very reluctantly made all the sail we could carry from this interesting neighbeurhood :a the south-east, the wind at the time allowing me to lie just clear of the Pack " Aueuit 18.—Towards the morning we had a very ionic; wind with constant snow storms and excessive co'd. 'Pee wind having changed to northward, left me no choice ea: to return to my rendezvous for the boats. " August '2o.—Sighted Cape Listural in a thick toe; hauled off to await clear weather; passed several c tea es of whales. " August 21.—At 2 p.m. Haiti made the Cape, found the high land heavily covered with snow, and the low land pan tially. Very threatening weather; remained off and on until noon of the 23rif,wnen we anchored in 14 tathons•ate art 25 miles to the southward of the Cape. Here I landed, moms pealed by the naturalist and several officers. 1 erected a mask and buried a bottle. A beautiful stream of water ran ice° the. bay. The naturalist had a good harvest on its banks, which were lit rally covered with. flowers, removed only a few wet from what I considered to be perpetual snow. Quentittes of coal were also found here. " There were ~bout 43 natives, all of whore we had ae n before, very poor and n Curable looking, bur were friendly. They all had their bows and quivers with them. "Finding a line drawn on the sand so useful as a boun dary for their approach at Wainwright's Inlet, I stton hs recounts to it, which they respected aa before. 1 tuat!e theta all presents, and returned to the ship in the evening before she was enveloped in a dense tug. "August '24.—Weighed, with a light air from the north-east, and Wear (h,d) weather; running for Post Hope, where I Intended to build another mask, Li the Player had not already dove it. BRAZILS.—Thuret are Wee in Liverpool front Ito de Janeiro to the 14. and Pernambuco to the 17th of De cember. From the metropolis there is no news. F.achangs ruled at 271 d. In the northern provinces disatrocuou to tac government was as rile as over ' and further disturbance' were anticipated. Eutaw, at P e rnambuco is quoted e from 271 to V.