The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-22 00:00:00

MARKET AA' Li CITY NB IT S. CITY, Two o'CLoox. b The general inquiry for discount accommodation 411 in Lomb ar d- s t ree t an d a t th e B an k of Eng ird continues m o d era t e , but the rates show very ttle alteration, and, as gold is flowing into the national establishment, it is concluded that the eseet°ls will not be called upon to modify the i ` s ting regulations for some time to come. th iLeed, very little attention is now paid to sk ° weekly meetings of the directors, because "I° stock of bullion continues at a high P o int, and th e ot h er secur iti es s h o w scarcely any in crease, notwithstanding the loans now ob tenined en stock until th© transfer books are re- Jened—viz., on the 19th proximo. The Railway Me returns and other statistics indicate that the la te of th e country i s slowly recover i ng f rom it s : 0 inacti v it y, b ut t h e i mprovemen t, a lth oug h ii4etory, has not been sufficiently extensive to pert ~.an important influence upon the tendency of M an 148 oney Market. Instances are still recorded of t - class paper being negotiated at rates as low as 4• Per cent., an d at t h e S toc k E xc h ange , w h ere ? i nquiry is eq ua lly limited, advances are obtain le at very moderate quotations. utetters from Liverpool state that the Cotton ,7 t ket yesterday closed heavily, and 8,000 bales Mare sold at the previous decline. In the Railway motive, Market business continued moderately , i7 e , and prices firm. trit 4 nieetine of the Chartered Bank of India, Aus k li n , and China has been held to-day, at which h it r. M.P,, presided. The meeting was an bet one, and no accounts were presented, wethe chairman signified that as their profits could w e ta ken at up war d s o f £16,500 the di rec tors f e lt the i n propos i ng a di v id en d o f £2 10 s . f or " half -year, which having been agreed to the `"er,,ting adjourned. ,2, 4 ere has been rather more animation in the 1 7 8.8 1 ket for Public Securities, and increased buoyancy n if , be en apparent, owing to further purchases for improved and on speculation. Consols at one time vi r°Yed to 951 -1, but they are now rather flatter, •' at I, the rise having led to a few sales in lil isati un of profits. The Government Broker itbought £5,000 stock for the Savings Banks. tt 8 ( I , 3e cial transf er i s recor d e d i n New 3 per Cents. 4 ' s i. The N ew I n di an St oc k is 1001 being r , and the Scrip has advanced to 100:. The uequer Bills a re 23 5 . to 265. prem. 1 , 0 : 11 Foreign Securities a fair amount of business is ° deed, and prices in most instances show in firmness. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 83 to li t d itto New, 69 to 70; and the 4 per Cents. 72'tie advanced to 1021 ; Peruvian 3 per Cents. to 4634 1 Grenada to 17: ; Spanish 3 per Cents. to ; and Venezulean 22 per Cents. to 281 ; ditto j 3 . , et Cents. are steady at 15 ; Mexican at 221 d ; Brazilian 41 per Cents. at 95z The 114 week's Railway receipts, ascertained to this day, are in round numbers as under : gtea o tW estern 1859. 1858. . £37,451 £32,931 114 11. 13 ;Wester n ' 83,417 79,302 kidi„„ ° , 7l 40,173 37,852 'L-Eastern ............ 27,236 26,024 eat x ortiiern 28,057 26,799 )3ri st ",ire and Yorkshire liorth ° 7 l . (l , Exeter 7,965 7,537 as oxt 01.4,-15rth 6,063 6,870 sh . % ( 11 415 ° , Worc ester, and Wolver h ampton 6 , 148 4,748 lale,".„ u rgil and Glasgow 7,003 6,614 f kotiL;i', 7 and South-Western gram N orth-Eastern Qrsat l lk o Canada " 11 western of Canada 7,553 8,770 I) Z i le abov e ' receipts on most of the principal lines rdcontinued increase—that on the London Nor th - Western amounts to £4,115 (but this hithuden the L ancaster an d C ar li s l e , w hi c h h as no t o r e been ever added to the return), on the ea t West ern t h e i mprovement amoun t s t o £1,520, on ' 4 el3 righton to £1,541, on the Midland to £2,341, Isi o - the South -Eastern to £1,212, on the Great ttli ern to £1,258 , on th e L ancas hi re an d Y or k. kite to th e £2,265, on the North-Eastern to £262, on -r-dinburgh and Glasgow to £389, and on the Trunk of Canada to £374 ; on the Great T ern of C ana d a there i s a d ec li ne o f £ 1,2 17 . $h Tore activity has been apparent in the Railway P tt e Mark e t, an d severa l o f th e pr i nc i pa l li nes 1 811 0Wn an upward movement. Edinburgh, 8 0 1 4, and Dundee, North-Eastern (Berwick), and '''" . Eastern have advanced ss. ; Great Western, 1;4'44111re and Yorkshire, Brighton and South ;stern improved 10s.; and Caledonian, 15s. 6, 11 tile Foreign and Colonial Markets the deal -I\-°e Were moderately active. Lombardo-Venetian t r : Shares advanced to 121 ; Groat Luxembourg k E 4 ,,a l lt 7 1; Paris and Lyons, 351; Sambre and T in e ' ; East Indian were 991 1001; Grand " 4 - of Canada 36 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 97i ; 44 G reat We s t ern of Canada, 136 To be l e olut.stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have 6 .. 11 in fair demand. Bank of Australia improved to lo s. ; London and Westminster, 10s.; Berlin t2 itter works, ss. ; and Electric Telegraph, £1 to Peninsula and Oriental Steam declined about 3 Ill tiTlSll FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 1111.4 ent. Consols Annuities hid in Per Cent. Annuities Oi ‘ tt Steck Ditto 1 859, 5 per Cent. Il itt . (") . " °at iScilp, 5 per cent Debentures 1858 — 11 Ditto, .. ' 1859 I astock for Account 219 :.ens o , w x c h ' 8 Ler Account (Oct. 11) Ditt o guar Rills, Ll,OOO, I±d.. ' 'mall, lid. trazit )R ElGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Dfa' all , 5 Per Cent. Ci l b a ° o 'ti - per Cent. 1858 (1r ail ' u per Cent. lOO M exica n NO W Active, '3i per Cent. i. bActao2l.3 per Cent. orb, : 4 ceennt - • ,s tr , A D itto 3 -”' per Cent Cent — P bittel).kerr. 72i i , ..i.ecount ATinese, 1 853, 3 per Cent. 46/ b --,,tt() se, a iSt . ''' Dittol):'4n, 1 822 £ St., 5 per Cent 99_1 tto 41 per,Cent. 67.1 Ditto Seer Cent., 1859 par fiarcilt? criP) Ditto n' 5 per Cent 86k i&,1‘10 Account 46/ i;. i sli 3 Per Cent 46k Ditto Account 31/ t'To New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 34i 'T„ l l ,`° Account Ditty 1 6 per Cent 83/ 4/ i I I A ce Ditto xe.:ll-Lotan. „,,bitto Ac count 691 70 i Lu!tt o r_. D ,Auaanteed 4 pz.r Cent. 102/ A., itto Account ' vfanezuela 21. per Cent. Ditt o A _co 28i bi 'Le lint 15 tto 1 Per Cent Dividends on the above payable in THREE O'CLOCK. London. Coneols, Aloney 952 1 I Ditto Account (Oct.) .... • • 95 MIS DA 1"S SHIPPING. 10 .4..0 thn " ' 1„ r ig ) Sept. 22.—Wind this day at noon, South ; strong breeze, and fine weather. trramotru, Sept.' 21.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— ett.dale A 9 -eom Sunderland for Madras. tctotir Qn a 11 ) Sept. 20.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Gitana, rob°. Sept. 21.—Wind F ix, fr 04 1 ' -, Ste amer, from Havre, an d l e ft f or N ew York. oirrs !do un i , Sept. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Quebe A.retic Regions. s°L, c Sept. 21.—Wind W.—Arrived—Resolute, 14 44 8 8 . ePt. 20.—Wind W.—Sailed—Glammise, for (BY ELECTRIC TELEGR4EII.) t:ounumrToN, Thursday Morning. 'Wi nd 4 tlived eap atch Eugenie, steamer, from Liverpool ; Sail B .,t.?amer, from Jersey ; L'Etoile, from Carentan. ultont steamer, for New York ; Courier, v 4 :Et o ii: for Je rsey ; A lli ance, s t eamer , for Havre ; 4 40i idori t, for Carentan; Empress Eugenie, steamer, for (BY S UBMARINE AND BRITISH TEL7GRArm.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. IV, tide first hou r ' s e bb ; wea ther fine. trotnrlT ` v " • Ydney. (1 Scpt. 21—U n i on , f rom H avanna h ; Hornet, 8 . s t v( =d, Sept. 22—Lib er t y, f rom S ev i l l e; Agnes, from ephens. 01; WA ) ) for ept. 22-3. P. Chapman, for New Orleans; Alelbourne. r,Pasass(E both for by N. ; st ro n g . umrner London from Kurrachee ; Comet, from New DEAL, Thursday Morning. &HARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) , RDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Paid • Closing Price. Amber„., Notting. Bost. and Eastern Junction 6 6i gelfalt and Ballymena Bir., Wol., and 6tr. Val Bir. La., and Ch. June Blackburn Myth and Tyne Bost.Slefd.& Mid. Coun Bristol and Exeter 8 8i 76 78 lli 12,E 6 8 97 99 Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cork, Blkrock,&Pas sage Cornwall' Do. A A rcves. no div Do. B until6p. c. per an hasbeen pd.toß Dublin an d Belt as t Juno Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc i East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union A Stock Do. do. B Stock. Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) l East Lancashire East Suffolk 871 88 q bi 71 8i 14 15 55. 58} 36 40 25 27 Do Edinburg and Glasgow & Dundee. Fora. & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South Westn Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. do. A Stock Do. do. B Stock Gt. Sonth.& Wstn.(lreld) Great Western Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gna.Stk Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall. Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast Loud. Chat. and Dover London & North Westn Do. Eighths London& South-Westn L'derry & Coleraine L'derry &Enniskillen. Man., Shef., & Lincoln Metropolitan Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) Do. Shares Neweastle and Carlisle New., Aber., & Herefd Newry & Armagh (del.) Newry, Warpt., & Itos Norfolk North. Counties Union North British Nor. Dev. Rail. &Dk. Stk I Do.A Stk.— Arec. no div 74 75 269 27 96 98 100 i 1011 84 S 6 130 132 106 108 64 61 55 60 194 198 15 16p 15 16p 951 06 63 66 110 112 134 14i 931 94i 1 d 92 63 7 8 35 86 105 104 83 85 Pi 10} 56 58 3 8 d 591 591 _ untilep.c.hasbeenpdß Do. 2 Stock North-il;.ltn.—Berwick Do. do. G.N.E. Purchase Do. Leeds Do. York North London North Staffordshire 881 891 11 11 44 45 71 72t. 103 105 Ofd North-Western No. & Sou. W. Junction Oxford, Wor.,& WoFirer Peebles 7i S 30 32 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymnev Stock Scottish - Central Stock Scott. N.E., Aber. Stock Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock Stock Shropshire Union 10 Sitting bourne & Sheer Stock South Devon Stock South-Eastern Stock South Wales Stock SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun 20 Staines, Wok., & Wok 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 Do. do. 1855 Do. do. 1858 Stockton & darticing)] Stock Taff Vale Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 25 ThamesHavenDlcdatall Stock Vale of Neath 10 Victoria Station & Pim Stock Waterford Sr, Kilkenny 50 Waterford & Limerick 20 West Cornwall . 10 W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal. 6 Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to B 5 Do. B 20 West London 10 Do. Ist Class 20 Do. 2d Class . 1 Share 12.:0 13.14 Stod- Stock Stock 50 20 20 10 10 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock] Stock Stock Sib& Stook Stock Stock, Stock' Stock Stock Stock 16y, 1613 4 Stock Stock Stock Stock' 1 5t,0 2 ot Stock] Stock Stock Busineas 13 15 111 113 24 25 81 63 31 21 d 43 (4 754 76 62 63 60 65 8 11 351 36i 57 03 til 61 3 3! 7 71 :ARES. Closing Business Price. Done. 49 51 95 97 LOO • 102 5 61 90 101 [lO 113 [O5 103 [ll 113 [lO 112 [26 128 82 84 90 92 71 73 [l2 114 118 120 110 111 104 106 84 86 97 99 E 8 00 S 9 91 S:10 102 9i 10i 17 .18 t 101 73 75 19 20 91 10 14 151 139 141 Si 9i 120 123 T Gt) 68 [4O 142 [O3 104 a aP I 93 95 V,l PI 11 In [69 111 [O6 ICB 90 92 96 97 1 1 id 122 124 122 124 412 113 443 ICO 74 75 120 124 118 122 101 10] 23i 24 iO2 104 102 104 28 29 33 34 32i 3.3 47 53 1114 9k 96 }d Stock Stock Stock St6•k Stock Stock 25 Stock, Stock) Stock 20 20 10 Stock 10 100 7i 100 all all all all all all all all PREFERENCE S Railways. Blythe and Tyne lf pet c. pref. (issued at. £5O) Bris. & Exet4p.ctStock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 41. per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwal, 5 per cant. Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun. E.Angn. Class A 7& spc Do. do. Class B 6 pc Do. do. Class C 7 pc E. Coun. Ex. 5 p et. No.l Do. do N 0.2 Do. New 6 per et. Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares Do. 4 p.c. gua. S. & D. Eclin.Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas. &S West (i• a. 5 pc. Great Northern, 5 p. ct. Do. 5 poßedm.,lop.c.prn Do. 41 p. c. do. do. Do.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm '34.1.Th. of Scotld, Ist p 1 ( Gt.Sn.ez W (Ireland) 4 p. et pref. Stock Great West, (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct Do. Redeemable, 41 p et. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. sp. cf. Redcem.Pref. Do. Binn. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf shares Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birming. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Do.Barnsl.St.Cs 3sl'Apc Lon.&Brig - .spc.gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ~.No. 2 0 Do. New g - ua., 6 . ct... Do. do. 5 p. c. No. Do. do. 41 per c. shares Lon. & N.W .Cov. &Nun eaton, 5 p. ct. Lon. &S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares Londondy & Cole, / ohs. Londondr & Ennis / sh. & Lin., 6p. ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. Maryport & Car., 4 p.c Do. 4 per cent !Do. Con. 6 p. c. Stock . Do.Con.Bris./tßir.6p.et. Do. 4i p. c. pref. stock Do. with Option till 1860 Do. Leic. Ffit.pref. st. Newport,Aber,&o. pret. 5 p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c.!) in Do. Perpet, 6 p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 pc. shares Do. 5 p. c. Ext.Stock,lB4C Do. 51,p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way. Val. Ex. Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, gna. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.Sz N-East. irred. 4 p. c. Deb. Do. Cunsol. Pref. 4 p. c. Do. Beiwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. . ' Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1. Do. do. Quarters,lB46 York, H.& S. Purch. North Staffordshire .... Ox. wr. & Wol. 6 pc. Ist g Do. Redeem., 2d gua. Do. Irredeein., 21 gua. Do. 44 p.c. Db. stkin perp Inymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 31 per c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen.gua. 6pc. bO":7 - p. c. pr?. stock, South Devon; Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 4t percent. South Eastern (Reading Ann.o.o 6) Do .4i per cent Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Ist is South Wales, gua- 4 p.c Do. 4i per cent S.-Yerkshire, 4 p.c. gua Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.e Do. B 6 per cent Do. C 6 per coat . Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 percent.- LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. paid. ! Leasing Closing Business Railwys. Co.' s. Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley Buckinghamshire ...., Chester & Do. do. 5i p:ot 1 Do. di 5 p. et. ClydesdaleJunetion i Colchester, Stour Val E.Lincolnshire,g.sp.o E truion,lP...rwichShs Do. Woodbridge Cls.Barr.&Nella,Drot Do. New Gloster& Dean Foreat Flartlpool.Pck.&ll Ilull anilSelby Do. Sharei Do. .1 Shr.res London&Greenwich Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend Lowestoft, gua. 4 p. et Do. 6 per cent 31.7.nc.,8uxtn.& Matk Mid. Brad ford Prefer ence St o3k Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.e Do. Fixed 5 percent cent., Preston and Wybs. Do. Shares A. Itoystn,lfiteb.,& Sher Shmswebry& Tioreford South Statrordithire Wilts and Somerset.. Wimbledon& Croydn. Share l Stock Commercial lOO ... SI ock Do4porCent.Pref . 51in lOO ... S oek East and West India, lOO -- S:.ock London lOO -- S.ock St. Katharine Bock Southampton - Stock Victoria 'W Do liew:..o gimp Lew. - 2 23 ,Ln & N.W' & N.W Do. Do. I Do 'Caledonia E.U.&E C Gt. North. lE.Counts. 100 100 ;Caledonia 100 iDo. all 'Gt. West all Yk.N.&llr all Yk.N.Ald. all Do. all Do. 100 S. East I 100 Do. 100 Peto &Co. Norfolk ILN wkm 21 2Z' 03 98 * h) 56 58 lAticrland . !E.Counts, Do. Do. 'Do. !RA N I/. Do. t.North.. T Brassoy IVl‘Clean Qt. West L.&Brgtn. 438 142 Si 10 If.l 10 92 94 DOCKS. Dooke: Closing llusiness I(Paid Price. Done. 96 98 49 50 1123 127 1 113 115 102 104 16 17 143 145 110 112 04 CO 1115 120 c 2 04 gtocl, 12.10 Stook St ocl - Stock Stool: Stock S fod 11} 20 Stock Stork Stock Stock Stock Stock Stool; Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock Stock 81 Stock Stock Stock Stock, los. 1.0.8. all 1® 3i 100 100 100 5. 5.6. THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1859. T D EDIT lON. SUN OFFICE, Seren o' Ci ock. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. ARRIVAL OF THE FOX. Captain M'Clintock landed yesterday at Ports mouth from the Alarm pilot-boat, which vessel had brought him ashore from the Fox screw discovery vessel, arrived off the Isle of Wight from the Arctic Regions. _ _ On landing Captain M'Cliutock at once proceeded by train for London, taking with him two cases containing relics of the long missing expedition of Sir John Franklin. Captain M'Clintock stated that he was in posses sion of papers that would fully elucidate the mystery which has so long hung over the fate of these brave men. The Fox proceeded up Channel. The Secretary of the Admiralty presents his compliments to the Editor of The Sun, and for wards the accompanying letter for insertion. Sept. 22, 1859, 10 30 a.m. " To THE SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY. " YACHT FOX, R.Y.S. " Sir, —I beg you will inform the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty of the safe return to this country of Lady Franklin's Final Searching Expe dition, which I have had the honour to conduct. " Their Lordships will rejoice to hear that our endeavours to ascertain the fate of the ' Franklin Expedition' have met with complete success. " At Point Victory, upon the northwest coast of King William's Island, a record his been found dated the 25th of April, 1848, and signed by Cap tains Crozier and Fitzjames. By it we were in formed that her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror were abandoned on the 22d of April, 1848, in the ice, five leagues to the N.N.W., and that the sur vivors—in all amounting to 105 souls, under the command of Captain Crozier—were proceeding to the Great Fish River. Sir John Franklin had died on the 11th of June, 1847. " Many deeply interesting relics of our lost coun trymen have been picked up upon the western shore of King William's Island, and others ob tained from the Esquimaux, by whom we were in formed that subsequent to their abandonment one ship was crushed and sunk by the ice, and the other forced on shore, where she has ever since been, affording them an almost inexhaustible mine of wealth. " Being unable to penetrate beyond Bellot Strait, the Fox wintered in Brentford Bay and the Search, including the estuary of the Great Fish River and the discovery of 800 miles of coast line, by which we have united the explorations of the former searching expeditions to the north and west of our position with those of James Ross, Dease, and Simpson, and Rae to the south, has been performed by sledge journeys this spring, conducted by Lieu tenant Hobson, R.N., Captain Allen Young, and myself. " As a somewhat detailed report of our proceed ings will doubtless be interesting to their lordships, it is herewith enclosed, together with a chart of our discoveries and explorations, and at the earliest op portunity I will present myself at the Admiralty to afford further information, and lay before their lordships the record found at Port Victory.—l have the honour, to be, &c., " F. L. M'CLINTOCK, Captain, R.N." PROCEEDINGS OF THE YACHT FOX, CONTINUED FROM MAY, 1858. It will be remembered that tho Fox effected her escape out of the main pack in Davis' Straits, in lat. 63k dog. N., on 25th April, 1858, after a winter's ice drift of 1,194 geo graphical miles. The small settlement of Holsteinborg was reached on the 28th, and such very scanty supplies obtained as the place afforded. On May 8 our voyage was recommenced ; Godhaven and Uppernivik visited, Melville Bay entered early in Juno, and crossed to Cape York by the 26th. Here some natives were communicated with. They immediately recognised Mr. Petersen, our interpreter, formerly known to thorn in the Grinnell expedition under Dr. Kane. In reply to our inquiries for the Esquimaux dog-driver " Hans," left be hind from the Advance in 1858, they told us he was resid ing at Whale Sound. Had he been there I would most gladly have embarked him, as his longing to return to South Greenland continues unabated. On the 12th July communicated with the Capo War render natives, near Cape Horsburgh ; they had not seen any ships since the visit of the Phoenix in 1851, nor have any wrecks ever drifted upon their shores. It was not until 27th July that we reached Points Inlet owing to a most unusual prevalence of ice in the northern portion of Baffin's Bay, and which rendered our progress since leaving Holsteinborg one of increasing struggle. Without steam power we could have done nothing. Here only one old woman and a boy were found, but they served to pilot us up the inlet for 25 miles, when we arrived at their village. For about a week we were in constant and most interesting communication with these friendly people. Briefly, the information obtained from them was, that nothing whatever respecting the Franklin expedition had come to their knowledge, nor had any wrecks within the last 20 or 30 years reached their shores. The remains of three wrecked ships are known to them ; two of these appear to have been the whalers Dexterity and Aurora, wrecked in August, 1821, same 70 or 80 miles southward of Pond's Inlet. The third vessel, now almost buried in the sand, lies a few miles east of Cape Hay. This people communicate overland every winter with the tribes at Igloolik ; they all knew of Parry's ships having wintered there in 1822-3, and had heard of late years of Dr. Rae's visit to Repulse Bay, describing his boats as similar to our whale boat, and his party as living in tents, within snow houses, smoking pipes, shooting reindeer, &c. None died. They remained there only one winter. No rumour of the lost expedition has reached them. Within Pond's Inlet, the natives told us the ice decays away every year, but so long as any remains whales abound. Several large whales were seen by us, and we found amongst the natives a considerable quantity of whalebone and many norwhals' horns, which they were anxious to barter for knives, files, saws, rifles, and wool ; they drew us some.rude charts of the inlet, showing that it expands into an extensive channel looking westward into Prince Regent's Inlet. We could not but regret that none of our own whaling friends—from whom we had recently received so much kindness—were here to profit by so favourable an opportu nity. Leaving Pond's Inlet on the 6th Aug. we reacha Beechy Island on 11th, and landed a handsome marble tablet, sent on board for this purpose by Lady Franklin, bearing on appropriate inscription, to the memory of our lost countrymen in the Erebus and Terror. The provisions and stones seemed in perfect order, but a small boat was much damaged from having beon turned over and rolled along the beach by a storm. The roof of the house received some necessary repairs. Having em- barked some coals and stores we stood in need of, and touched at Cape Hotham on the 16th, we sailed down Peel Strait for 25 miles on 17th, but finding the remainder of this channel covered by unbroken ice I determined to make for Bellot Strait on Aug. 19, examined supplies remaining at Port Leopold, and left there a whale-boat, which we brought away from Cape Hotham for the purpose, so as to aid us in our retreat, should we be obliged eventually to abandon the Fox. The steam launch had been forced higher up on the beach, and somewhat damaged by the ice: Prince Regent's Inlet was unusually free from ice, but very little was seen during our run down to Brentford Bay, which we reached on the 20th August. Bellot Strait, which communicates with the Western sea, averages one mile in width by seventeen or eighteen miles in length. At this time it was filled with drift ice, but as the season advanced be came perfectly clear ; its shores are in many places faced with lofty granite cliffs, and some of the adjacent hills rise to 1,600 feet; the tides are very strong, running six or seven knots at the springs. On the Gth of Septem ber we passed through Bellot Strait without obstruction, and secured the ship to fixed ice across its western outlet. From here, until the 27th, when I deemed it necessary to retreat into winter quarters, we constantly watched the movements of the ice in the western sea or channel. In mid-channel it was broken up and d: ifting about; gradu ally the proportion of water increased, until at length the ice which intervened was reduced to three or four miles in width. But this was firmly held fast by numerous islets, and withstood the violence of the autumn gales. It was tantalising beyond description thus to watch from day to day the free water which we could not reach, and which washed the rocky shore a few miles to the southward of us! During the autumn attempts were made to carry out depots of provisions towards the magnetic pole, but these almost entirely failed in consequence of the disruption of the ice to the southward. Lieut. Hobson returned with his sledge party in November, after much suffering from severe weather, and imminent peril on one occasion, when the ice upon which they were encamped, became detached from the shore, and drifted off to leeward with them. Our wintering position was at the cast entrance to Belloi, Strait, in a snug harbour, which I have named Port Ken nedy, after my predecessor in these waters, the commander of one of Lady Franklin's former searching expeditions. Although vegetation was abundant, and ow two Esqui maux hunters, Mr. Peterson, and several sportsmen con stantly on the alert, yet the resources of the country dur ing eleven months and a half only yielded us 8 reindeer, 2 bears, 18 seals, and a few water fowl and ptarmigan. The winter Nies unusually cold and stormy. Arrange ments were completed during the winter for carrying out our intended plan of search. I felt it to be my duty per sonally to visit Marshal Island, and in so doing proposed to complete the circuit of King William's Island To Lieut. Hobson I allotted the starch of the western shore of Boothia to the magnetic pole, and from Gateshead Island westward to Wyniatt's furthest. Captain Allen Young, our sailing master, was to trace the shore of Prince of Wales' Land, from Lieut. Browne's furthest; and also to examine the coast from Bellot Strait southward, to Sir James Ross's furthest. Early aping - journeys were commenced on the 17th Feb., 1859, by Captain Young and myself. Captain Young carrying his depot across to Prince of Wales' Land, whilst I went southward towards the magnetic pole in the hope of communicating with the Esquimaux, and obtaining as much information as might lead us at once to the object of our search. I was accompanied by Mr. Petersen, our interpreter, and Alexander Thompson, quartermaster. We had with us two sledges drawn by dogs. On 28th February, when near Cape Victoria, we had the geod fortune to meet a small party of natives, and were subsequently visited by about 45 individuals. For four days we remained in communication with them, obtaining many relics, and the information that several years ago a ship was crushed by the ice off the north shore, off King William's Island, but that all her people landed safely, and went away to the Great Fish River, wheze they died. This tribe was well supplied with wood, obtained, they said, from a boat left by the white men on the great river. We reached our vessel after 25 days' absence, in good health, but somewhat reduced by sharp marching, and the unusually severe weather to which we had been exposed. For several days after starting the mercury continued frozen. On 2d April our long projected spring journeys were com menced. Lieut. Hobson accompanied me as far as Cape Victoria ; each of us had a sledge drawn by four men, and an auxiliary sledge drawn by six dogs. This was all the force we could muster. Before separating we saw two Esquimaux families living out upon the ice in snow huts; from them we learned that a second ship had been seen off King William's Island, and that she drifted ashore on the fall of the same year. From this ship they had obtained a vast deal of wood and iron. I now gave Lieut. Hobson directions to search for the wreck, and follow up any traces he might find upon King William's Island. Accompanied by my own party and Mr. Peterson, I marched along the east shore of King William's Island, occasionally passing deserted snow huts, but without meeting natives till the Bth of May, when off Cape Norton, we arrived at a snow village containing about 30 inhabi tants. They gathered about us without the slightest ap pearance of fear or shyness, although none had ever seen living white people before. They were most willing to communicate all their knowledge, and barter all their goods, but would have stolen everything had they not been very closely watched. Many more relics of our country men were obtained—we could not carry away all we might have purchased. They pointed to the inlet wo had crossed the day before, and told us that one day's march up it, and from thence four days overland, brought them to the wreck. None of thesa people had been there since 18574, at which time they said but little remained, their countrymen hav ing carried away almost everything. Most of our information was received from an intelli gent old woman; she said it was in the fall of the year that the ship was forced ashore ; many of the white men dropped by the way, as they went towards the Great River; but this was only known to them in the winter following, when their bodies were discovered. They all assured us that we would find natives upon the South shore, at the Great Ricer, and some few at the wreck; but unfortunately this was not the case. Only one family was met with off Point Booth, and none at Montreal Island or any place subse quently visited. Point Ogle, Montreal Island, and Barrow Island, were searched without finding anything except a few scraps of copper and iron in an Esquimaux hiding place. Recrossing the strait to King William's Island, we continued the examination of its southern shore without success till the 24th of May, when about 10 miles eastward of Cape Herschel a bleached skeleton was found, around which lay fragments of European clothing. Upon carefully removing the snow, a small pocket-book was found, con taining a few letters—these, although much decayed, may yet be deciphered. Judging from the remains of his dress this unfortunate young man was a steward or officer's ser vant, and his position exactly verified the Esquimaux's as sertion that '• they dropped as they walked along." On reaching Cape Herschel next day, he examined Simpson's Cairn, or rather what remains of it, which is only four feet high, and the central stores have been re• moved, as if by men seeking something within it. My im pression at the time, and which I still retain, is that records were deposited there by the retreating crews, and subse quently removed by the natives. After parting from me at Cape Victoria on the 28th April, Lieutenant Hobson made for Cape Felix ; at a short distance westward of it he found a very large cairn, and close to it three small tents, with blankets, old clothes, and other relics of a shooting or a magnetic station ; but although the cairn was dug under, and a trench dug round it at a distance of 10 feet, no record was discovered. A piece of blank paper folded up was found in the cairn, and two broken bottles, which may perhaps have contained records, lay beside it amongst some stones which had fallen from ofl the top. The most interesting of the articles discovered here, includ ing a boat's ensign, were brought away by Mr. Hobson. About two miles further to the S.W. a small cairn was found, but neither records nor relics obtained. About three miles north of Point Victory a second small cairn was examined, but only a broken pickaxe aid empty canister found. On 6th May Lieut. Hobson pitched his tent beside a large cairn upon PoinyVictory. Lying amongst some loose stones which had fayen from the top of this cairn was found a small tin case containing a record, the substance of which was briefly as follows :—This cairn was built by the Frank lin Expedition upon the assumed site of James Ross's pil lar, which had not been found. The Erebus and Terror spent their first white/ at Beechy Island, and after having ascended Wellington Channel to let. 77 deg. N., and re turnbd by the west side of Cornwallis Island, on the 12th of September, 1846, they were beset in let. 70.05 N., and lon. 98.23 W. Sir J. Franklin died on the 11th June, 1847. On the 22d April, 1818, the ships were abandoned five leagues to the N.N.W. of Pt. Victory, and the survivors,'los in num ber, landed hero under the command of Capt. Crozier. This paper was dated 25th April, 1848, and upon the following day they intended to start for the Groat Fish River. The total loss by deaths in the expedition up to this date was nine officers and fifteen men. A vast quantity of clothing and stores of all sorts lay strewed about, as if here every article was thrown aw2y which could possibly be dispensed with; pickaxes, shovels, boats, cooking utensils, ironwork, rope, blocks, canvas, a dip circle, a sextant engraved " Fre deric liornby," R.N., a small medicine chest, oars, &c. A few miles southward, across Back Bay, a second re cord was found, having been deposited by Lieutenant Gore and M. des Vceux in May, 1817. It afforded no additional information. Lieut. Hobson continued his search until within a few days' march of Cape Herschel, without finding any trace of tho wreck or of natives. He left full information of his important discoveries for me ; therefore, when returning northward by the west shore of King William Island, 1 had the advantage of knowing what had already been found. Soon after leaving Cape Herschell the traces of natives became less numerous and less recent, and after rounding the west point of the island they ceased altogether. This shore is extremely low, and almost utterly destitute of vege- tation. Numerous banks of shingle and low islets lie off it, and beyond these Victoria Strait is covered with heavy and impenetrable packed ice. When in let. 69, deg. 09 N., and long. £9 deg. 27 W., we came to a large boat, discovered by Lieutenant Hobson a few days previously, as his notice informed me. It ap pears that this boat had been intended for the ascent of the Fish River, but was abandoned apparently upon a return journey to the ships, the sledge upon which she was mounted being pointed in that direction. She measured 28 feet in length, by 71 feet wide, was most carefully fitted, and made as light as possible, but the sledge was of solid oak, and almost as heavy as the boat. A large quantity of clothing was found within her, also two human skeletons. One of those lay in the after part of the boat, under a pile of c'othing ; the other, which was much more disturbed, probably by animals, was found in tho bow. Five pocket watches, a quantity of silver spoons and folks, and a few religious books, were also found, but no journals, pocket-books, or even names upon any article of clothing. Two bouble-barrelled guns stood up right against the boat's side precisely as they had been placed 11 years before. One barrel in each was loaded and cocked ; there was ammunition in abundance ; also 301 b. or 401 b. of chocolate, and some tea and tobacco. Fuel was not wanting ; a drift tree lay within 100 yards of the boat. Many very interesting relics were brought away by Lieutenant Hobson, and some few by myself. On the sth of June I reached Point Victory without having found anything further. The clothing, &c., was again examined for documents, &e., without success, a record placed in the cairn, and =Other buried ten feet north of it. Nothing worthy of remark occurred upon my return journey to the ship, which wo reached on 10th Juue, five days after Lieutenant Dobson. The shore of King William Island between its north and west extremes, Captain Felix and Crozier, has been visited by Esqutmaux since the abandonment of the Erebus and Terror, as the. cairns and articles lying strewed about, which are in their eyes of priceless value, remain un touched. If the wreck still remains visible it is probable sho lies upon some of the off-lying islets to the southward betkireen Capes Crozier and Herschel. On the 23th June Capt. Young and his party returned, having completed their portion of the search, by which the insularity of Prince of Wales' Land was determined, and tho coast line intervening between the extreme points reached by Lints, Osborne and Browne discovered; also between Bell 4 Strait and. Sir James Ross's furthest in 1849, at Four RiVer Bay. Fearing that his provisions might not last out the re quisite period, Captain Young sent back four of his men, and for 40 days journeyed on through fogs and gales with but one man and the dogs, building a snow hut each night ; but few men could stand so long a continuaneo of labour and privation, and its effect upon Captain Young was pain fully evident. Lieutenant Hobson was unable to stand without assist ance upon his return on board; he was not in good health when he commenced his long journey, and the sudden se vere exposure brought on a serious attack of scurvy; yet he also most ably completed his work; and such facts will more clearly evince the unflinching spirit with which the object of our voyage has been pursued in three detached duties, than any praise of mine. We were now at length all on board again. As there were some slight cases of scurvy, all our treasured resources of Burton ale, lemon juice, and fresh animal food were put into requisition, so that in a comparatively short time all were restored to sound health. During our sojourn in Port Kennedy we were twice called upon to follow a shipmate to the grave, .Mr. George Brands, engineer, died of apoplexy, on the 6th of November, 1858 ; he had been out deer-shooting for several hours that day, and apyeared in excellent health. " On 14th June, 1859, Thomas Blackwell, ship's steward, died of scurvy; this man had served in two of the former searching expeditions. The summer proved a warm one; wo were able to start upon our homeward voyage on the 9th of August, and although the deaths of the engine driver in 1857, and of the engineer in 1858, left us with only two stokers, yet with their assistance I was able to control the engines and steam the ship up to Fury Point. " For six days we lay there closely beset, when a change of wind removing the ice, our voyage was continued almost without further interruption, to Godhaven, in Disco, where we arrived on the 27th August, and were received with great kindness by Mr. Olick, Inspector of North Green land, and the local authorities, who obligingly supplied our few wants. "The two Esquimaux dog drivers were now discharged, and on the Ist September we sailed for England. " From all that can be gleaned frcm the record paper, and the evidence afforded by the boat, and various articles of clothing and equipment discovered, it appears that- the abandonment of the Erebus and Terror had been deliberately arranged, and every e vi the third winter to render the travelling equipments complete. " It is much to be apprehended that disease had greatly reduced the strength of all on board—far more, perhaps, than they themselves were aware of. " The distance by sledge•route, from the position of the ships when abandoned, to the boat is 65 geographical miles ; and from the ships to Montreal Island, 220 miles. " The most perfect order seems to have existed through out. " In order to extend as much as possible the public uti lity of this voyage, magnetical, meteorological, and other observations, subservient to scientific purposes, and for which instruments were supplied tfirough the libe rality of the Royal Society, have been continually and carefully taken, and every opportunity has been embraced by the surgeon, D. Walker, MD , of forming complete collections in all the various branches of Natural History. " This report would be incomplete, did I not mention the obligations I have been laid under to the companions of my voyage, both officers and men, by their zealous and unvarying support throughout. "A feeling of entire devotion to the cause, which Lady Franklin has so nobly sustained, and a firm determination to effect all that men could do, seems to have supported them through every difficulty. With less of this enthusiastic spirit, and cheerful obedience to every command, our small number-23 in all—would not have sufficed for the success ful performance of so great a work. "F. L. 11.1‘CLINTOCK, Captain, R.N., Commanding the Final Searching Expedition. " The Yacht Fox, R.Y.S., off the 161 e of Wight, Sept. 21, 1859." RELICS BROUGHT FROM TILT'. BOAT FOUND IN LAT. 69 08.43 N., LONG. 99 24.42 W., upory TICS WEST COAST OP KING WILLIAM ISLAND, MAY 30, 1859. Two double-barrelled guns—one barrel in each is loaded. Found standing up against the side in the after part of the boat. In One Parcel—A small Prayer Book, cover of a small book of " Family Prayers," " Christian Melodies," an in scription within the cover to " G. G." (Graham Gore ?), " Vicar of Wakefield," a small Bible, interlined in many places, and with numerous references written in the mar gin, a New Testammt in the French language. Tied together—Two table knives with white handles— one is marked " W. R. ;" a gimlet, an awl, two iron stan cheons, nine inches long, for supporting a weather cloth, which was round the boat. Tied together-26 pieces of silver plate, 11 spoons, 11 forks, and 4 teaspoons, 3 pieces of thin elm board (tingles) for repairing the boat, and measuring 11 by 6 inches, and 3-10ths inch thick. All wrapped up in a piece of canvass—Bristles for shoe maker's use, bullets, short clay pipe, roll of waxed twine, a wooden button, small piece of a port fire, 2 charges of shot tied up in the finger of a kid glove, tied up in a fragment of a seaman's blue serge frock, cover of a small Testament and Prayer-book, part of a brass cigar case, frag ment of a silk handkerchief, thread case, piece of scented soap, 3 shot charges in kid glove fingers, a belted bullet (tied together in a piece of silk pocket kerchief). Two pair of golles, made of stout leather and wire gauze, instead of glass ; a sailmaker's palm, 2 small brass pocket compasses, a snooding lino rolled up in a piece of leather, a needle and thread case, a bayonet scabbard altered into a sheath for a knife, tin water bottle for the pocket, 2 short pouches (full of shot). In Canvas—Three spring hooks of sword belts, a gold lace band, a piece of thin gold twist or cord, a pair of leather goggles, with crape instead of glass; a small green crape veil. Wrapped Together in Canvas—Two small packets of blank cartridge in green paper, part of a cherry stick pipe stem, piece of a port fire, a few copper nails, a leather bootlace, a seaman's clasp knife, 2 small glass stoppered bottles (full) placed in medicine chest, 3 glasses of spec tacles, part of a broken pair of silver spectacles, German silver pencil case,. pair of silver (?) forceps, such as a na turalist might use for holding or seizing small insects, &c., a small pair of scissors rolled up in blank paper to which adheres a printed Government paper such as an officer's warrant or appointment, a spring hook of a sword belt, a brass charger far holding two charges of shot. Wrapped together in canvass.—A small bead purse, piece of red sealing wax, stopper of a pocket flask, German silver top and ring, brass match box, one of the glasses of a telescope, a small tin cylinder, probably made to hold lucifer matches, some of the loose grains of shot have been rut into it ; a linen bag of percussion caps'of three sizes : a very large and old fashioned kind, stamped " Smith's patent" ; a cap with a flange similar to the present musket caps used by Government, but smaller; and ordinary sporting caps of the smallest size. Five watches in a paper packet. A pair of blue glass sp . ectacles, or goggles, with steel fyame, and wire gauze encirclinc , the glasses, in a tin case. A pemmican tin ; painted lead colour, and marked "E" (Erebus) in black; from its size it must have contained 20 or 221bs. Two yellow glass beads, a glass seal with symbol of Free masonry. A 4-inch block strapped, with copper hook and thimble, probably for the boat's sheet. RELICS SEEN IN LAT. 99 deg. 09 N., Lon. 99 deg. 24 W. NOT BROUGHT AWAY. 30TH MAY, 1359. A large boat, measuring 23 ft. in extreme length, 37 ft. 3 in. in breadth, 2 ft. 4 in. in depth. The markings on her stern were—XXll. W. Con. N 61., APr. 184. It'appears that the fore pia of the stem has been cut away. probably to reduce weight, and part of the letters and figures re moved. An oak sleAge under the boat, 23 ft. 4 in. long, and 2 ft. wide; six pa4dles, about 60 fathoms of deep sea lead line, ammunition, four cakes of navy chocolate, shoemaker's box with implaments complete, a small quan tity . of tobacco, a small pair of very stout shooting boots, a pair of very heavy iron. shod knee boots, carpet boots, sea boots and shoes—in all 7 or 8 pairs, two rolls of sheet lead, elm tingles for repairing the boat," nails of various sizes for boat, and sledge irons, a broken saw, leather cover of sextant case, a chain-cable punch, silk handkerchief (black, white, and coloured), towels, sponge, toothbrush, hair comb, a mackintosh, gun cover (marked in paint "A. 12"), twine, tiles ' knives, a small worsted work slipper, lined with calfskin, bound with red ribbon ; a great quantity of clothing, and a woolskin robe ; part of a boat's sail of No. 8 canvas, whale line rope with yellow mark, and white line with red mark; 24 iron stancheons, 91 inches high, for supporting a weather cloth round the boat; a stancheon for supporting a ridge pole at height of three feet nine inches above the gunwale. RELICS FOUND ABOUT Ross' CAIRN, POINT VICTORY, MAY AND JUNE, 1859, BROUGHT AWAY. A six-inch disc circle, by Robinson, marked 122. A case of medicines consisting of 25 small bottles, a cannister of pills, ointment, plaster, oiled silk, &c. A two foot rule, two joints of the cleaning rod of a gun, and a small copper spindle, probably for dog-vanes of boats. The circular brass plate broke out of a wooden gun case, and engraved C. H. Ormer, R.N. The field glass and German silver top of a two-foot telescope, a coffee cannister, a piece of a brass curtain rod. The record tin—the record, dated 25th April, 1843, has been taken out. A six-inch double frame sex tant, on which the owner's name is engraved, Frederick Herlihy, R.N: 'OUND LN A SMALL CAIRN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF BACK BAY. A tin record case and record. The latter has been taken out. SEEN ABOUT Ross CAIRN, POINT VICTORY, BROUGHT AWAY. Four sets of boat cooking apparatus comphte, iron hoops, 4 feet of a copper lightninc , conductor. hollow brass cur tain rod, three-quarters of an inch diameter. 3 pickaxes, 1 shovel, o'd canvass, a pile of warm clothing blankets, 2 feet high, 2 tin canteens stamped 89 Co., William Heather, and a third one not marked. A small pannikin made on board out of a 21bs. preserved meat tin (and marked W. Mark), a small deal box for guA wadding. The heavy iron work of a large boat, part of a canvass tent, part of an oar lanced longitudinally, and a blanket nailed to its flat side, three boat hook staves, strips of copper, a 9 inch single block strap, a piece of rope and spun yarn. Amongst the cloth ing was found a stocking marked " W. Orren," and a fragment of one marked " RELICS OBTAINED AT THE NORTHERN CAIRN, NEAR, CAPE FELIX, MAY 1859. Fragments of a boat's ensign in a bag, metal lid of a pow der flask, two eya pieces of sextant tubes, brass button (in a small duck bag), worsted glove, colours, red, white, and blue, bung-stay of a marine's water keg or bottle, brass or 'lament to a marine's shako, brass screw for screwing clown lid ; also a copper hinge of the lid of powder ease, a few patent wire cartridges containing large shot, part of a pair of steel spectacles, glass being replace by wood, hav ing a narrow slit in it ; two small rib bones, probably out of salt pork, six or eight packets of needles, small flannel cartridge containing- an ounce of damaged powder, these articles are in a small duck bag ; a small, roughly made copper apparatus for cooking, some brimstone matches. All the articles included in this line are packed together in a copper cooking apparatus, and secured in a bag. Piece of white paper foded up found in the North Cairn, two pike heads, narrow strip of white paper, found under one of the Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley passed through town early in the week, from Cowes, to visit the Earl and Countess of Dcrby at Knowsley Park, Lanca shire. Lora Bellew and the Hon. Miss Bellew have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. A VESSEL ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—A telegram from Deal announces that the ship G. F. Yates, Captain Horner, from Cardiff for London, with a cargo of coals, had ,'gone ashore on the off part of the Goodwin Sands, but had taken assistance, and, in the event of the weather continu ing fine, would probably bo got off next tide. A later de spatch fulls that she was afloat and being towed to the Downs, after diseharging her cargo. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN lIOXTON. Yesterday morning, at four o'clock, a serious fire broke out in the pre mises of Mr. S. Solomon, walking stick maker, No. SD, Heaton-square. The discovery was made by a policeman, who at once gave an alarm, and sent off for escapes and. engines. The parish engine and two of the London Bri gade having been procured, the firemen went to work in an admirable manner, but wera unable to conquer the flames until the workshops and all they contained were destroyed, and the adjoining premises very seriously damaged. THE LAST OF THE CUMBERLAND BARDS.—We regret, says the Cnniberl4nd Paequet, to record the death of Mr. John Rayson, of Fenrith, a the last of the Cumber land bards." For some time he has been suffering fro nt disease of the heart, and on Tuesday last a severe but sud den attack proved fatal. Mr. Rayson's name has long been associated with our local literature, his last effort being the translating of the Songs of Solomon into the Cumberland dialect for Prince Lucien Bonaparte. He was 56 year s of age. PRUSSIAN OPINION. ON THE ITALIAN QUESTION. —The National Gazette of Berlin thus concludes an articie on the Italian Duchies :—" The neutral Powers now have to say whether they intend that Frr.nce alone shall decide the fate of Italy, or whether they will take pact in the crea tion of a new state of things, the old having become abso lutely inadmissible. If they had been inclined to support legitimr.cy before everything, they ought to have taken their measures six months ago. Meanwhile couple sts hav been made in Italy, and if at the close of the wars of the empirethe powers did not hesitate to make what territorial changes they thought necessary in Italy, they cannot r efuse to acknowledge th a t th e war o f ISs9litis modified the situa tion. In satisfying the wishes of the Duchies, none of the neutral Powers would injure their own interests. By con tinuing to remain passive they would only serve those of France," 88 71 81 8 551 I 100/ 11 85 6144 P 94 6 51 1111 9 : 1I 4 8 r 92i 3 35 1 i 105 41 51 59 iiii 89i 9 I d 4 41 10 ; 14 111 i 43 7 _ 5 1 I 921 31 tent places ; their tent places were within a few yards of the cairn. Beside a small cairn, about three miles north of Point Victory, a pickaxe with broken handle brought away, an empty tea or coffee canister. ARTICLE 3 NOTICED ABOUT THE NORTH CAIRN, NOT BROUGHT AWAY. Fragments of two broken bottles, several pieces of broken basins or cups, blue and white delf ware, hoops of mariner's water bottle, small iron hoops, fragments of white line, spun yarn, canvas and twine, three small canvas tents, under which lay bearskin, blankets, and fragments of blan kets, two blanket frocks, several old mite, stocking, gloves, pilot cloths, and box of cloth jackets, a trowser, large shot, piece of tobacco and broken pipe, metal part of powder care, top of tin canister, marked cheese, preserved potato tin, feathers of ptarmigan, and salt meat bones. _ . SEEN NEAR CAPE MARIA LOUISA Part of a drift tree, white spruce fir, 18 iCet long, 10 inches in diameter; it appeared to have but recently (1 e., since thrown on the coast) been sawed longitudinally down the centre, and one-half of it removed. RELICS OBTAINED PROM TILE BOOTRIAN ESQUIMAUX, NEAR THE MAGNETIC POLE, IN MARCH AND APRIL, 1859. Seven knives made by the natives out of materials ob tained from the last expedition, 1 knife without a handle, 1 spearhead and staff (the latter has broken off), 2 files, a large spoon or scoop, the handle of pine or bone, the bowl of musk oxhorne, 6.silver spoons and forks, the property of Sir John Franklin, Lieuts. H. de Voscomte and Fairholme, A. M'Donald, Assistant-Surgeon and Lieut. E. Couch (supposed from the initial letter T and crest a lion's head), a small portion of a gold watch chain, a broken piece of ornamental work apparently silver guilt, a few small naval and other metal buttons, a silver medal, obtained by Mr. M'Donald as a prize for superior attainments at a medical examination in Edinburgh, April, 1838, some bows and arrows in which wood, iron, or copper has been u3ed in the construction—of no other interest. REMARKS UPON THESE ARTICLES.— The spear staff measures 6 feet 3 inches in length, and appears to have been part of a light boat's sail, it measured (before being partially rounded to adapt it to its present use) about 12 and 1 inches, is made of English oak, and upon the hide has been painted white over yellow. The spear head is of steel, nvettecl to two pieces of hoop, with bone between and lashed on to the staff. The rivets are of copper nails. The native who sold it said he himself got it from the boat in the Fish River. Another spear of the same kind was seen. The knives are made either of iron or steel rivetted to two strips of hoop, between which the handle of wood is inserted, and rivets passed through, securing them together. The rivets are almost all made of copper nails, such as would be found in a copper-fastened boat, but those which have been exa mined elo not bear the Government mark. It is probable that most of the boats of the Erebus and Terror were built bycon tract, and therefore would not have the broad arrow stamped upon their iron and copper work. One small knife appears to have been a surgical instrument. A large knife obtained in April, bears some marking, such as a sword or a cutlass might have. The man who sold it said he bought it from another, who picked it up on the land where the ship was driven ashore by the ice, and where the white people had thrown it away; it was then about as long as his arm. This was the first information he received of ono of the ships having drifted on shorn. One knife and outfile are stamped with the broad arrow. The handles are variously composed of oak, ash, pine, mahogany, elm, and bone. The spoons and forks were readily sold for a few needles each; also the buttons they wore as ornaments on their dresses. Bows 'and arrows were readily exchanged for knives. Previously to the stranding on the neighbourinc , shore of the ea s t expe dition these people must have been almost destitute of wood or iron. Some of them had even got only bone knives, spear points. Some of their shdges wore seen consisting of two rolls of seal skin flattened and frozen, to serve as runners, and connected together by cross bars of bones. Many more knives, bone, and buttons, similar to those brought away, might have been obtained, but no personal or important relics. SEEN IN A SNOW lIUT IN LAT. 71 DEO. N., 20TH APRIL, 1859, NOT BROUGHT AWAY. Two wooden shovels, ono of them made of mahogany board, some spear handles, and a bow of English wood, a deal case which might have served for a telescope or-baro meter. Its external dimensions were :—length, 3 ft. 1 in. ; depth 31 in. ; width, 9 in. ; two brass hinges remained at tached to it. RELICS OBTAINED }mom TUE ESQUIMAUX NEAR CAPE NORTON, UPON THE EAST COAST OP KING WILLIAM ISLAND, in'May, 1859. 2 table spoons, upon one is scratched W W, on thz other W G, these bear the Franklin crest ; 2 table fork's, one bearing the Franklin crest, p, obably Captain Crozier's, silversmith's name is I. West; 2 teaspoons, one engraved A.M.D. (A. M'l)ouald), the other bears the Fairholme crest and motto ; handle of a dessert knife,. into which had been inserted a razor (since broken off) by illikin, Strand; buttons, wood, and iron were here in abundance, but as enough of these had .already been obtained no more were purchased. Taken out of some deserted huts (snow) near hore, some scraps of different kinds of wood, such as could not be ob tained from a boat, teak or African oak. Found lying about the skeleton, nine miles eastward of Cape Hcrschell, May, 18.59.—The tie of a black silk hand kerchief, fragments of a double-breasted blue cloth waist coat, with covered silk buttons, and edged with braid ; a scrap of a coloured cotton shirt, silk covered buttons of blue, cloth great coat, a small clothes brush, a horn pocket comb, a leather pocket-book, which fell to pieces when thawed and dried ; it contained nine or ten letters, a few leaves apparently blank. A sixpence, date 1831, and a half sovereign, date 1844. From beside an Esquimaux stone-mark, on the east side of Montreal Island—Part of a preserved-meat tin, painted red ; part of the rim of some strong copper case or vessel pieces of iron hoop, two pieces of flat iron, an iron crook bolt, a piece of sheet copper. Articles seen amongst the natives at Cape Norton, not purchased—Bows made of wood, knives, uniform, and plain buttons, a sledge made of two long pieces of hard wood. Articles seen about a snow hut, near Point Booth, not purchased—Eight or ten fir poles, varying from 5 feet to 10 feet in length, the shortest being 21 inches in diameter. Two woodensnow shovels about 31 feet long, and made of pieces of plank painted yellow ; it occurred to me that the pieces of plank might have been the bottom boards of a boat. Thore was abundance of wood fashioned into smaller articles. CONTENTS OF BOAT MEDICINE CHEST. One bottle labelled zinzib R. pulo, full; do. spirit hect., empty ; do. mur. hydrary, seven-eights full ; do. 01. caryphyll, one fifth full; do. ipZ:c. P. co., full; do. 01. menth. pip., empty • do. lig. amnion fort, three-quarters full; do. 01. olivac, full; do. tinct. opii. camph., three quarters full; do. vin. sem. colch, full; do. do., quarter full ; do. calomel, full (broken) ; do. hydrarg. hit. oxyd., full; do. pulo. gregor, full (broken) ; do. Magnes Carb., full; do. camphor, full; two bottles tine.. tolut. (each quarter full); one bottle ipec. R. pulvr., full; do. jalap R. pulvr., do. (not labelled) find. opii, three-quarter full ; one box (apparently) purgative pills, full ; do. ointment, shrunk ; do. emp. adhesiv., full; one prolleing, one pen wrapped up in lint, one load pencil, one pewter syringe, two small tubes (test) wrapped up in lint, one faithing, bandages, oil, silk, lint, thread. (Signed) DAVID WALKER., M.D., Surgeon to Expedition. Fox, Port Kennedy, June, 1659. LEICESTER RACES-(THIS DAY). [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Ferndale .. Wanderer Katherine Logic .... Six ran. SCURRY HANDICAP. The Rover Marmalade Lady Peel Five ran. NURSERY HANDICAP. Simple Simon 1 Mixture .. Narcissus. 3 Twelve ran. INNKEEPERS' PLATE. Little Poll Katherine Logic Kate Four ran. QUEEN'S PLATE. Archduchess King-at-Arms The Dane Four ran. ARRIVALS AT MANCHESTER. The Slave, Charlotte, Caliph, Punch, Libellous, Maid of the Mist, Bourgeois, Brandy Ball,•Miss Julia, The Squire, Maid of Lyne, Alfred, Tormentor, and Sp ringwell. WRECK OP THE JERSEY MAIL STEAM PACKET EXPRESS. On Tuesday last the Express left Jersey at a quar ter to 7 o'clock a in. for Guernsey and Weymouth, having on board nearly 200 passengers and three horses. The latter, with most of the passengers, were bound for Guernsey, Tuesday being the first day of the races. The vessel was under the com mand of Mr. Mabb, chief mate, the usual captain, Mr. Harvey, being at the time too unwell to take his accustomed place in the ship. As before stated, the Express left at a quarter to seven o'clock, under the most cheering auspices for a fine run across, the weather being very fine. When off the Corbiere the ship was hugging the land so closely that a few of the passengers made remarks to the bystanders, but no notice was taken of their obser vations. However, Mr. Hamson, a Jerseyman, and deputy-harbour-master of St. Helier's, observed that he had often made the trip by steamer, and had never known any vessel attempt the cut they were then making. These words had scarcely been spoken when the Express struck on a rock called the " Grunes Houillieres." Consternation and terror seized all parties, but Mabb endeavoured to calm their fears by stating that " it was nothing, and all would be right." A second shock was now felt, and Mabb for the first time seemed to understand that the ship was in danger. To extricate the ship from her position he endea voured to get her into deep water again, and to run her on the sandy beach of St. Brelade's Bay. Fortunately, the Express is built in compart ments, and, having struck on her port bow, the water had not reached her engines, which were still manageable. Mr. Hamson, assisted by Mr. Brett, a boatman of St. Helier's, who took the helm, drove the ship into a snug berth on some rocks a very short distance from the mainland. The next thing was to see to the safe landing of the passengers, whi c h was accomplished by kr. Hamson, ably assisted by the second mate of the Express, who throughout exhibited great coolness, activity, and judgment. Three lives, however, at least have been lost. Their loss is attributable to the persons themselves, who endeavoured to descend into a boat which had been lowered shortly after the disaster. The rest of the passengers were landed from their perilous position by means of the steamer's boats ply in ,* between the rock and the shore. The three horses were also saved by swimming to the rocks. The mail bags for England were conveyed to Southampton yesterday by the com pany's steamer Despatch. The bag of letters for Guernsey being in the fore part of the vessel could not be got at, and it may be considered lost. During the evening of the day of the disaster, the three bodies were found and brought on shore. The Ex press lies in such a position that she may yet pos sibly be got off, unless a southerly wind should spring up, and then she must become a perfect wreck. Mr. Green, the manager of the steamship department of the London and South Western Rail way Company, arrived at Guernsey yesterday morn ing on his way to Jersey, having left Southampton immediately on the news of the sad event reaching the latter place by telegraph. Mabb was to have been arrested yesterday after noon by order of the Queen's Procureur. An investigation will take placeassoon as , pos sible, and the real truth, no doubt, will come out as to the reason why Mabb should have selected a passage never before attempted by any steamer, or indeed any other vcssel. Three bodies have been found ; those of a woman and two men—Philippe Coudray, of the Star Hotel, St. Peter's, Jersey, and that of an English gentle man, who had his wife and daughter on board. He imagined that a boat had been lowered, and let himself down by a rope, and fell into the water. The woman whose body has been found is not known. It is feared that other persons have been drowned. Immediately on the arrival of the Despatch at Jersey on Tuesday morning Capt. Babot, her com mander, visited the wreck, to render any assistance his nautical skill might suggest, and sent his vessel, the Despatch, to Guernsey, to convey the intelli gence, as the electric wire between the islands was out of order. LANDSLIP 47' WARDEN POINT, SIIEPPI'. A writer in a contemporary says :—From Sit tingbourne, on Sunday morning, I walked over to Warden Point, and inspected the landslip noticed in your columns last week. The whole northern seaboard of the Isle of Sheppy, from near Mile Town, east of Sheerness, to Warden Point (from whence eastward the land rapidly falls, and the cliffs terminate towards Shell ness Point at the west entrance of the Swale), is composed of London clay, of undulating form, moderate height, and intersected by a few main gullies or chines, carrying off the surface water. The whole of this cliff is constantly falling, acted on by atmospheric agencies, the influence of the tide and waves, with gales from north-east, and from land drainage, forming a sloping undercliff below ; the same remark applies to the tertiary cliffs eastward, past Whitstable, Herne-bay, and Reculvcrs ; until the chalk rises and crops out in the promontory forming the Isle of Thanet. This is well described in the works of Lyell and others. There are, however, some exceptional circum stances about this fall, which the agencies above referred to can apparently hardly account for, and the following slight sketch may possibly draw towards it the attention of others who have made such subjects their more especial study, and may not be wholly uninteresting to the general reader. About three years back a similar fall or slip took place to the westward, which the present one in effect appears a continuation or prolongation of to the eastward. The present fall is immediately adjoining the church, extending an equal distance east and west of it, including about two and a half acres of land, the former fall apparently about three times that amount ; in all there are some 10 acres of land affected, and in each case the results are similar. The recent fall took place on Sunday, the 11th inst., about 9 p.m., and occupied some hours —i.e., it was a gradual, and not a sudden, move ment or subsidence. The results presented are these—a broad belt of land moves seaward (not a mere abrasion or under mining of the cliff), settles vertically downwards, or spreads out, and slides seaward, presenting a new cliff landward at the last parallel fissure ; and the moving mass obtain a state of rest in the form of an undercliff. This latter presents the followin,,o. appearances :—The mass in moving appears to fall forward towards the sea into regularly defined parallel belts of, say, ten feet in thickness ; these laminve, as it were, obtains a state of rest at an angle inclining forward of about 45 deg., so that the fallen mass now presents in the valley of the fall a series of parallel terraces rising and falling in steps, the faces composed of the fresh section of the natural clay, the tops dipping towards the sea, the turf and vegetation undisturbed. The mass in subsiding or falling forwards is split into layers presenting angular sectional edges, the same as those of an inclined pack of cards, of an open book, or leaning stack of tiles cr slates. The mass is more broken up, and rises into a huge mound seaward, so that the fall assumes a concave or valley form be neath the cliff, falling from it and then rising again seaward. Au extraordinary result of this fall is that it has, by its superincumbent moving weight, driven the old foreshore and superimposed shingle up about ten feet above its fortier level, rounded in form. My attention was specially directed to this result, which is apparent when standing on the shore. The fall is, in fact, a complete avalanche of earth intersected by parallel fissures or crevices, scooping up and causing the saturated material forming the foreshore to rise up en masse. The singularity, as many observed looking on, was that this great slip should have occurred after so dry a season. The edge of the altered cliff is now only 18 yards from the chan cel of the church, in a line with the west side of the nave, and portions of the row of trees and fence adjoining have settled down bodily, and arc now standing on the undercliff some 50 feet lower than they were when in situ, at a slight inclinati on, corres p on ding with that of the detached pieces of cliff on which they stand, plainly denoting how gradual and vertical has been the 'subsidence. It is difficult to account for this phenomenon ; a question arises, viz,. to what extent are the bases of cliffs in the tertiary formations saturated or affected by percolation through fissures by tidal agency , and how far ma y thi s be the first cause P There are no appearances of land springs from the cliff-face, the whole appears to have squeezed down into a saturated or partly fluid base, or this apparent effect may be the resultant merely of the spreading of the dislocated mass. A similar fall took place at Axmouth, in Devon, some 10 or 15 years back. Ia that case, however, it was mainly on e parallel belt of la n d th a t s lid or , fell away in a sinniar wo inner, possibly from like ca uses. Without knowing th e exac t con di t i on o f the cliff before the fall, it appears difficult to explain the cause ; the slip may in rea;ity be merely the result of the cliff having become gradually too steep to remain in repose, the same as a slip occurs in an artificial cutting which has been excavated to too steep a slope ; the appearances presented hardly, however, warrant the, conclusion that this is the cause alone. TROUT FISIIING.—A:feW days since John Bird, fisherman to the laic Captain Woodhouse, of Armathwaite Castle, Cumberland, caught in the Castle fishery, in the river Eden, a grey trout, which measured 16 inches in length, 34 inches in circumference, and weighed 71b, 15Ioz. 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