The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

dock, ; St. Port: ti am nah ; Y.) N.W., 1303ZOITGE ELOP rerla TILIMEIT. Our Market is very scantily supplied with all good and fine new Hops, hence the d•-:wand for them is steady, at very tall prices. The sa.i.e for yearling and old parcels is in a very sluggish slate, at last week's quJ tations. New Mid and East Kent pockets, per cwt., 81 lOs to 12/ ; New Weald of Kent, ditto, 61 5s to Pl.; New Sussex ditto, 6/ to 7155; New Farnhams, 121 to 131; yearling Kents, 31 to 61 ss; Yearling. Sussex, 2/ 16s to 4/ 103; Old Hops, 1/ to 31 18s.. SUGAR.—There has been a fuller • supply of most de scriptions offering, and consequently less inclination to buy freely. In British Plantation, however, there has been a moderate business done. at prices somewhat in favour of buyers. Barbadoes fine yellow 41s, and low to good 36s 6d to 40s. Demerara chrystalized greyish 42s 6d to 445; and Trinidad ord soft yellow 35e. REFINED.—Brown Lumps have been at 478, and fair grocery at 48s, which are barely previous rates. Mauritius has been rather cheaper, but the operations have been confined to private pure bases. Bengal has realized le 6d to 44s for grainy good to fine, low yellow sorts 34s to 355, and fine and superior 38s 6d to 40s. Madras ord to good soft brown 29s 6d to 30s 6d. Ma nilla strong greyish brown 34s to 355. FOREIGN.—FuII prices have been paid generally. St. Croix 37s 6d to 40s for low to mid, and 493 61 to 4ss for good and fine. Maceio was taken an at 41s to 43s for ord to good white, and at 37s to 38s 6d for ord to mid brown. Bahia mid to fine taken in at 40s 6d to 44s for white, and at 36s to 38s 6d for low to good brown. COFFEE.—The market has not ruled. so firm, and there has been a disposition to press sales. Plantation Ceylon has been taken more cautiously at 60s to 70s for good and fine, 54s to 60s for low mid and mid, 368 6d to 49s 6d for triage, and 59s to Os for pea-berry. Native good ord has been at 46s to 46s 6d. Mocha has been firm at 60s to 64s for good greenish clean garbled, at 54s for low mid, and at 343 to 37s fur triage. Madras fine has realised 62s tp 63s 6d, and good ord 445. Manilla good ord pale 40 to 46s 6d, and some pea berry East India as high as 50s. Rio has been taken in at 43s 6d, and St. Domingo at 455. Singapore Java 43s 3d per cwt. Abroad the markets are generally firm for this article. COCOA. —Trinidad low and mid grey has been sold at 37 5 6d to 40s ; good at 41s to 425, and fine at 455; Grenada, 36s to 37s for grey, 38s to 39s for good. RlCE.—Bengal has been firm, but not in much request, and the same with Madras and other kinds. SPICES. —Black Pepper has been sold at 2id to 3icl per lb; Batavia white at 4d to 43-d, and Tellicherry at Sid to 9d; Pimento has been at full prices; mid and good 54d to sid; Nutmegs, ord and good mid brown 2s 6d to 33 2d ; Calicut Ginger, 50s to 77s ; Cloves, is 2d to le sd. TEA. —This article has been steady. SALTPETRE.—BengaI 7 to 124 lbs. refraction has been taken in at 24s 6d to 26s 6d per cwt. COTTON.—The demand has been good at full rates. TALLow.—A moderate business has been done at 373 3d to 37s 61 per cwt. on the spot. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert Walked this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The Royal Family took their usual airings. The Queen and Prince Albert and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household, attended Divine service in St. George's Chapel this morning. The prayers were read by the Hon. and Rev. H. Cust and the Rev. Mr. Neville. The sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. Edward Moore, Canon in resi dence. Divine service was performed at the private chapel in Windsor Castle in the morning and afternoon by the Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service at the parish church, Windsor, this Morning. The Chevalier Bunsen (Prussian Minister) is ex pected to arrive at Windsor Castle this day, and will have the honour of joining the royal party at dinner in the evening. The Hon. and Rev. Edward and Mrs. Moore will also have the honour of joining the royal dinner party. Messrs. Falcke had the honour of submitting to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, °n Wednesday, a highly interesting historical relic, bein g the marriage horn of Francis, the Dauphin of France, and Mary, Queen of Scotland, with the date 1568. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular.) The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was issued yesterday : "The Priory, Thursday, Nov. 15. " The Queen Dowager has passed a comfortable night, and her Majesty is considerably refreshed this morning. "DAVID DAVIES, M.D. " RICHARD BRIGHT, M.D." KINGSTON CATTLE FAIR, Nov. 13 AND 14. This extrisive two days fair terminated yesterday after noon, much to the satisfaction of a large class of sales men and breeders of stock, which is principally owing to the very great improvement in the turnip crop within the last two months. There were offered for sale up wards of 4,000 store beasts and 12,000 sheep, the former selling at rather better prices. The 4-years old and aged Devuns being most called for, making from 10/. to 12/. per head, Lincoln and Leicesters 81. to 101. ditto, some large Sussex beasts to go to work made 16/. per head, black Welsh 61. to 8/. ditto, some small younglings Were sold as low as 30s. each, milking cows, with calves by their side, 12/. to 16/. ditt in calf ditto 101. to 121. e ach, two-)ears old heifers forward with calf 6/. to 81. ditto. Sheep sold very freely, ewes making from 245. - t o 32i. each, wethers for turnip feeding were all sold the first day at 3s. per head more money than at Appl( shaw and other fairs. The best wether lambs realised high prices, 245. to 275. each being the current price. The horse fair was abundantly supplied, but nothing selling except cart colts at 30 to 40 guineas each. GREENWICH MARKET.—Among the statutes passed in the last session was one authorising thecommisEioners 0 1 Greenwich Ho.pital to make regulations with respect to Greenwich Market. It seems, that in the year 1700 William 111., by letters patent, granted to the Earl of Romney the market, and by subsequent Acts it was vested in the commissioners of the hospital. The pro- Perty now belongs to the hospital, and new regulations have been made. STARVING OUT A CLERGYMAN.—In a parish in Somersetshire, which may be viewed from the top of the Tor, the parishioners have contrived a curious conspiracy to get rid of a minister they did not like—namely, by refusing to sell him milk and butter ! The reverend gentleman still holds out, and the hostile garrison is Provisioned from a distance—though the chawbacons are looking out for a flag of distress.—Bath Gazette. APPREHENSION OF DESERTERS.—By an Act of the Present year, persons deserting from Portuguese vessels Can be apprehended in her Majesty's dominions; and all pers,o, harbouring tars an' liable t , , a penalty . Sty It is entitled " An Act for Giving Effect to the ipulations of a Treaty between her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal for the Apprehension of certain De genera." TUE DIA RKET NEWS.-;" COILN-EXCHANGE- -FRIDAY. The quantity of Dogfish wheat received up to our market this week coastwise has am °tinted to only 1,850 quarters, a large portion of which has gone direct into the hands of the millers. Scarcely limy samples of either red or white were on offer to-day, wad sulimited was the amount of business transacted, that Monday's prices were nominally unaltered. Only 2,290 quarters of foreign wheat have come to hand sir ce Saturday. The transacti,ns in this article were chiefly confined to im• mediate wants; neverthe!ess, the im porters were firm, and full currencies were obtained in every instance. We were very moderately supplied with both English and foreign barley. Grinding sorts sold freely; all other kinds slowly, at last week's quotations. The sale for malt was in a very inactive state, and, in some instances, prices were the turn in favour of the buyers. The large brewers still refrain from purchAsing. Good sound oats sold steadily at fully late rates. Damp parcels were a dull inquiry. Beans, peas, and Indian corn commanded very little attention. The best flour was firm, and prices were well supported. ARRIVALS THIS W EEK. Wheat. Barley. 0 ats, 1 31alt. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. 1,850 2,110 Qrs. Qrs. Sacks. 2,070 1,170 2,770 English • • •• • • Scotch• • • • • • • - Irish •••• • • • • Foreign .• • • • . 2,"270 I 2,970 I 6,750 szarrlicrx DIM. As no stock was conveyed yet terday to London by the various railway companies, toe . Ripply of Feasts on sale here to-day was chiefly the rtfi of . Monday's market, while its general quality was very inferior. The few prime breeds offering command a ready sale, at very lull prices, viz., from 3s 10d to 4s per 81bs.; and the value of all other kinds of I.3tef was steadily supported, Twi:h a good consumptive demand. With ;,ilieep we were scantily supplied. The inquiry for that di scripiio❑ of stock was somewhat brisk, owing to the lamurable change iu the weather, and late rates were well supported in every in stance. Very few Calves were on show. The Veal trade was firm at an advance in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. Melo was a better sale for Pig , at lully pre vious currencies. Much Cows wera dull at from 14/15s to 181 5 s each, including their small calf. For 81i>2. to sink tho 8. d. to s. Inferior Beasts— ... 2 8 2 10 Second quality •• 3 0 3 4 Prime large Oxe!i.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots • • • • • • 3 10 4 0 Large coarse Calves 3 4 3 6 Prime small ditto .. 3 8 4 0 Sucklire Calves —ls 0 28 0 Inferior Sheep • 1 0 3 2 s. tl. to s. d. e:ton(1 Taal. Sheep 3 4 3 fl Course-woolleddltto3 8 3 10 Southdown Wcther 310 4 C Ditto out ol the wool 0 0 0 0 Large Ilogs .3 4 .3 8 Small Porkers 3 10 4 2 Quartar old rigs la 0 22 0 Lambs • ... • 4 0 0 0 Beaits. 944 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Crave s. I }250 tr.v. 3,810 GO FOREIGN 617PPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. I Nits. 300 10 49 SCOTCU. She 9o ep. I Calves. 1 Pigs Beasts. 195 Beasts. NEWGIITE ANN:) LEA7,IINRALL. These markets were fairly supplied with each kind et Meat, yet the general demand was firm, at very ful prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. , e. d. o s. d. Beef,tnterlor— —•• 2 4 2 6 ! Hutton, interior .. 2 8 210 .-- middling .... 2 8 210 ! middling.. 3 0 3 4 -- primelarge .. 3 0 3 2 1 --- prime small .. 3 4 3 6 1 Pork, lar go ........ 3 4 3 8 Ve5i.............. 3 4 310 5r.2111.... •—• 310 4 4 it IS DAY•) ! LAW INTELLI CENCI: QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (sittings in Banco.) Mr. Justice Coleridge gave the judgment of the Court in the followilz eases:— THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK V. HAMMER. _ _ Mr. Justice COLERIDGE Said in this case, which was tried before Lord Denman, Sir Frederick Thesiger bad moved for a rule for a new trial on two grounds—first, that the Learned Judge who tried the case misdirected the jury; and secondly, because the damages were ex cessive. Sir Frederick Thesiger contended, in the first place, that Lord Denman should have told the jury that the plaintiff could not bring an action for is libel pub lished more than six years ago, as the rip,ht of doing so was barred by the statute of limitations, and that the publication relied upon was merely a repub lication to the plaintiff at his own instance. It appeared that the newspaper in question (the Mealy Dispatch of the 9th of August, 1830) was sold last year to a person sent to purchaze it by the plaintiff, to whom be atterwards carried it. It was contended that this was virtually a sale to the plaintiff himself; and therefore not sufficient to maintain a civil action. In some sense this rerght be true, but the Court thought it was also a pub lication to the agent, for a person to whom a libellous writing was delivered was just as capable of being affected by it, though the agent of the person libelled in it, as a stranger, and it was therefore a publication to him. That this was a publication to the plaintiff was no;, however, material to the question now under consi deration. Sir F. Thesiger said Lord Denman should have cautioned the jury that they should measure the da mages by the injury which they considered to have re sulted from the single libel proved. Now this would have separated the damages from the libels set forth in the other counts. This was impossible, as the counts, ia some sense, were incorporated the one with the other_ The Court saw no reason why the ordinary rule should not hove been pursued in this case. No doubt the jury were properly informed of the whole bearings of the case, and having a fair opportunity of considering the libel referred to, and the whole of the other matters involved in the case, would draw their conclusions_ The Court, therefore, saw no reason why a rule should be granted on the ground of misdirection. Lord Den man was satisfied with the damages. The Court could nut grant a rule except upon the affidavits. huh; granted accordingly. MACNAMARA V. O ' CONNOR. In this case, which was an action by the plaintiff, an. attorney, against Mr. O'Connor, M.P., to recover a sum of money fur defending the Chartist prisoners, tried. some time ago at the Old Bailey, the Court said Lord. mnan was not prepared to say that the jury was wrong in finding fur the plaintiff. The Court could not grant a rule for a new trial upon the affidavits used in, the case, and saw no reason to disturb the verdict. Rule refused. Rules were granted in the following cases:—Neale v. Radcliffe alai another, Normweod v. Steer, Baker v. Rust, Austin v. Speer, Smith v. Archibald, Cooper v. Bloxow, Peticroft v. Russell, Compton v. Stephen, Baylis v. Furniture. Rules were refused in the following cases:—Channel v. Harming, Westaway v. Frost, Whitley v. Woodhouse, Doe on the demise of Lord Petre v. Pryme and others, Williams v. Lord Bvresford, Wyre v. Hilron, Bayley u Abraham, Strutt v. Whiteombe, Hurst v. Hurst. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) The Court took the demurrer paper to-day, but no case of the slightest public interest was heard during the morning. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) NEWMARKET RAILWAY. Mr. IfewierNs applied on behalf of the Newmarket and Chestertord Railway Company for a rule calling upon the justices of the peace for the county of Cue bridge, and also the churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Bellingham, in the same county, to show cause why a mandamus should not issue requiring the justices to hear an appeal against two several rates, one made in July and the other in August this year. There were sixteen grounds of appeal comprised in the notice, but it was contended at the hearing that the 11th was bad. The company, however, were willing to forego that ground if the trustees would go into the case on the merits; but it was argued on the other side, that although the company had 15 good grounds of appeal in their notice, yet having inserted a bad one, the Court was nut at liberty to hear the rest, a piece of the primest nonsense that could possibly be in dulged in before a court of law. The justice, neverthe less, viewed it in a different light, and, holding this foolish objection to be founded in reason and law, they dismissed the appeal altogether. Mr. Justice PATTEsoN granted a rule to show cause. Rule nisi accordingly. COUNTY- COURTS. Mr. Sergeant JONES was instructed to move for a rule to show cause why a person named George Thomas, who is at present a prisoner in Cardiff Gaol, under a commitment of the County -court of Glamorgan, should not be discharged under the circumstances disclosed in the affidavits filed in support of the application. On the 25th June last the Judge of the County Court of Glamorgan, made an order upon the prisoner for the payment of a debt by certain instalments, some of which had not been paid, and on the 28th of August the County Court issued what was called a judgment summons, requiring the prisoner to show cause why, in de fault of payment according to the original order, he should not be committed to prison. There was a notice attached to the bottom of this sum mons intimating that if be did not appear he would be committed to the common gaol of Swansea. Consider ing that the Judge had no power to issue such a sum mons, the prisoner paid no attention to it and on the 20th October an order of comm i tment was made against hitt, by the Judge of the County Court to the Swansea gaol for a period of 28 days. On the 26th October he was arrested under that order, and taken in custody to the common gaol of Swansea, where he ascertained from the keeper that it had not been certified by the Secretary of State as a proper prison for the reception of county court debtors. An intimation to that eff!et was also made to the clerk of the County Court ; and at eleven o'clock the same evening, the prisoner having been in custody since four o'clock, the clerk appeared with a second warrant, committing the prisoner to the gaol at Cardiff instead of Swansea. The prisoner was then taken to a public-house in Swansea, and kept there till the next morning, when he was taken to the police-station, where ho remained till four o'clock in the afternoon, and then he was removed to the public-house for the night. On the succeding day, which was a Sunday, be was carried to Cardiff gaol, and there he now remained. Now the County Court Act, the fth and 10th Victoria, it was true, provided that county court prisoners should be committed for default, con tempt, or otherwise, to the c..mmon gaol of the district in which the court was situated, but the 12th Victoria, chap. 101, sec. 1, repealed that section, and provided that such prisoners should be committed to the debtor's prison of the district, or to some other prison, which should be certified as a proper place by the Secretary of State. It was, clear, therefore, that the County Court Judge had no power to issue the first summons, inasmuch as the gaol at Swansea had not been certified, and it might turn out that the prisoner was justified in disobeying the or ftr to appear, on the ground that it contained a notice which the Court had no power to put in force. Mr. Justice PATTESON—But he has got to the right place after al!, and there is no reason why I should dis turb him. Mr. Sergeant JONES submitted to his Lordship that the judge had no power to order the commitment at all. Mr. Justice PATTESON—Then he must bring an acticn for false imprisonment. It seems he is now in proper custody, and it is not usual for the Court to interfere by way of Habeas Corpus, except where a party is impro perly detained. Mr. Sergeant JONES put this case to his Lordship. Supposing, instead of under a bad order, he had been taken under an informal ca-sa, and while he was in custody the error was discovered; he apprehended the original arrest was wrong, and the second detainer must fall with it. Mr. Justice PATTESON would go that length. Mr. Sergeant JONES submitted to his Lordship, then, that this was an analogous case. Besides, when the judge bad issued the first warrant hi s juri s diction was entirely gone. Mr. Justice PATTESON—Why did not the prisoner appear to the original summons? Mr. Sergeant JONES said because he felt that it was informal. Probably, had the notice stated that his non ettcndance would render him liable to be committed to the CardifTgaol, he would have appeared. It was of the greatest importance to the public that there should be strict regularity in the proceedings of county courts. Mr. Justice PATTESON considered it of equal impor• tauce that fraudulent debtors should not be allowed to escape from the payment of their just debts. Mr. Sergeant JONES urged upon his Lordship that if this case were passed over a judge of a county court might commit a man to a wrong gaol for a long period, and then transfer him to the right prison for a further length of time, as in this instance the prisoner had been kept a prisoner for two days, and now he was under going a further imprisonment of twenty-eight days in Cardiff a PATTESON as k e d when the second warrant r. a s(t ) i l. e was dated ? Mr. Sergeant JONES replied, that it was dated on the same day us the first one, namely, the loth of October, and ordered the keeper of the gaol to imprison the de fendant for twenty-eight days after the day on which he obtained possession of his body. He doubted whether the judge of the court was aware of these proceedings, since the clerk only seemed to have moved in the matter. county court judges were great men, but county court clerks were far greater. Mr. Justice PATTESON inquired what the amount of the debt was. Sir. Sergeant JONES said it was 121., the costs were 41., and now 21. ss. was charged for taking the prisoner to Cardiff, a distance of forty-five miles. Mr. Justice PATTESON-There appears to be Some irregularity in the case. Let the prisoner, therefore, be brought up on habeas corpus. - Mr. Sergeant JONES would prefer taking a rule to show cause to save expense. Mr. Justice PATTESON said it was not usual to pro ceed in this way where the liberty of the subject was concerned. A writ was accordingly directed to be issued,addressed to the gaoler of Cardiff: POLICE CHANGES.—It is rumoured that Mr. Daniel Whittle Harve,y, Commissioner of the City Police, is to succeed Sir ClArles Rowan as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Uharles beteg about to retire, from the delicate state of his health. Do what you have to do just now, and leave it not for to-morrow.--,Eliza Cook's Journal. SUN LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER, 16 1849 MARLBORO -STREET—THIS DAY. William Roberts, a Irol about fourteen years of age, was placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having em bezzled the sum of 15s. belonging to his master, John ll ,, ruans, greengrocer, Wells- street, Oxford-street. It appeared that on Saturday last the prosecutor gave the prisoner 155., with directions to go to Covent-garden market and fetch two sacks of potatoes, which he (pro secutor) had purchased. Not returning with the potatoes, the prosecutor went into the market, and from inquiries made by him he learned that the prisoner had not been nigh the person of whom the potatoes had been pur chased, and that the truck which he had taken had been left in the market, where it was found by one of the constables, who took it to the G-reenyard. Nothing more was seen of the prisoner till this morning, when prosecutor met him in the street, and gave him in charge. The prisoner, in defence, said he lost part of the money and spent the rest. Mr. HARDWICK committed him for trial. THE LOVER TO HIS DEPARTING LOVED ONE . (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) Thou art leaving us all lore, and much may befit!, love, To warp and to wean thee from infancy's ties; Thou wilt tread fairer places, and see brighter faces, And freshness and beauty will dazzle thine eyes. Thou haat promised thine heart, love, but now, ere we part, love, Take back all the vows thou hast given to me; They were made in our joy, love, as girl and as boy,9ove, II hen moonlight was gilding the old hawthorn tree. We have grown up together like green moss and heather, Our hands were entwined ere our footsteps were sure; But the dreams of our youth, love,, too often, forsooth, love, Are painted in colours that will not endure. And now thou art going where life will be glowing With all the enchantment thou longest to see; And a rarer Elysian may shut from thy vision Our fairy romance and the old hawthorn tree. If thou findest another whose presence can smother Our earliest words and our latest adieu; Thou hadst better be breaking thy word than be taking An altar to serve wh , ..re thou couldst not be true. I'd have thee forget, love, if aught of regret, love, Should come with the thought that thy will is not free; Oh! I'd have thee forget, love, that ever we met, love, With promise and pledge 'neath the old hawthorn tree Think not I would gain thee if duty but chain thee, Think not that 1 deem thee unchangeably mine; Shouldst thou love one more dearly, oh ! tell me sincerely, And my hopes and my claims I will sadly resign. For my heart, while possessing its coveted blessing, Would bitterly bleed, if affection could see That thy young love had vanished, and feelings were banished, That gladdened my soul 'neath the old hawthorn tree. I see by thy smile, love, thou'rt thinking the while, love, That thou wilt return with thy spirit the same; And perchance I am wrong, love, in breathing a song, love, That shadows one moment thy well-cherished name. So, l'll tell thee no more, lore, but that I adore, love, With passion as fervent as passion can be; And that if thou wilt come, love, unchanged to thy home, love, We'll have orange-bloom twined with the old haw thorn tree. ELIZA CooK. PRETENDED ROBBERY AND ARREST OF A TRADESMAN. On Friday, the 2d instant, considerable excitement was created in Stourbridge by the report that the house occupied by Mr. Davis, grocer and collector of assessed taxes and of the market tolls, had been broken open during the night preceding, and upwards of 3001. in money, besides other property, carried off by the thieves. The account given by Mr. Davis of the robbery was that the thieves had first entered his back kitchen by opening the window; that they returned through the window into the court yard, bringing with them a bar of iron which lay in the kitchen, and with this they had burst open the back door and obtained admission to the sitting room and the other parts of the house. His money was kept in his children's bed-room, which was situated over his own, and the thieves discovered where this money was placed, and had got possession of it. They had also stolen a quantity of silver spoons, a silver watch, and other valuable ar ticles, and with all this property and about 251bs. of tea from the shop they had got clear away. Nobody in the house had heard their movements, and nothing was known of the burglary until the children came down in the morning. Mr. Davis then sent for Su perintendent Bevan, and informed him of his loss and went over to the Bewdley Bank in order to ascertain the numbers of some of the stolen notes, which he had previously received from that establishment. Of the money lest no less than 1701. had been received in the shape of taxes, and 140/. were hi s own , an d much pity was felt fur Mr. Davis, because it was known that so large a loss must prove very serious indeed to a man in his circumstances. When Superintendent Bevan and Mr. Grove, the parish constable, came to examine the premises, they found that there were no footmarks inside the house or outside. A brightly polished mahogany table, which stood immediately under the kitchen window referred to, had no traces of nails or dirt upon it. The kitchen window had apparently not been disturbed for a considerable time, as a quantity of dust had lodged in the groove in which it travelled. Then there was a dog in the house—an animal particularly remark able for its vigilance during the night, as every one in the habit of passing the shop at a late hour was well aware—and no alarm was given by it. After these discoveries the police did not trouble themselves about the matter, but Superintendent Bevan waited upon the magistrates at the Town-hall, on Wednesday, and in order to free the police from the blame which some people had visited upon them for not taking vigorous measures to discover the supposed thieves, related the facts above given, and declared emphatically that he did not believe that a burglary had taken place. On the same day Davis was arrested under a warrant from the Commissioners of Taxes, and his goods and stock were seized at the same time to assist in making good the account due by him to the revenue.— Worcester Chronicle. Yesterday the Lord Mayor, accompanied by Mr. Sheriff Nicoll ; and escorted by the Under-Sheriffs and the Mansion-house officials, attended divine service at St. Paul's, where a sermon was preached by the Bishop of London, adapted to the occasion of the general thanksgiving. The congregation was extremely nume rous. It will be recollected that the late Lord Mayor, at the Guildhall banquet on , the 9th instant, said " he was happy to add, that by the blessing of Divine Provi dence, he had bees enabled to hand over the government of the City to his successor with a clean bill of health." The prelent Lord Mayor has, in the opinion of his fellow-citizens, adopted the best means in his power of publicly acknowledging, at the opening of his mayoralty, that this, with every blessing which this vast city is favoured with, cometh from Him who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. BIRMINGHAM, T HURSDAY.—Yesterday the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, Lady Peel, and a distinguished party, visited Elkington's electro-plating manufactory in this town; after which they proceeded to inspect the grand exposition of arts and manufactures, which had been honoured on Monday last by a visit from Prince Albert. HANDSOME DONATION.—The Right Hon. the Earl of Onslow has forwarded the handsome donation of 100 guineas to the treasurer of the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, in aid of the funds of that use ful institution. There is a thread in our thoughts, as there is a pule in our hearts. He who can hold the one, knows how to think; and he who can move the other, knows how to fed.—Eliza Cook's Journal. Lady Anne Beckett left town on Wednesday for Downham•hall, Norfolk, on a visit to Lord and Lady Wm. Powlett. BOW - STREET.—(THis DAY.) REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS A resptctehly-attired middlnaged man, named Bedy, OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS ENTERPRIZE AND was charged with having assaulted Mr. Joseph INVESTIGATOR, BETWEEN THE 13TH OF JULY, Stopford, of N o . 8, Southatupton-buildings, Chancery- 1818, AND THEIR ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND ON lane ; who represented himselt to be the secretary to the ( THE 3RD OF NOVEAIBEI,, 1849. Artesian Water Company. [The following communication will be perused with The complainant stated that on 'Wednesday night h e pro f oun d i nterest, b e i ng a full report of the pro was passiog . along Wellingtoz.-street, in the Strand, when ceedings of her Majesty's ships Enterprize and the prisoner, whom he had known for some time, came up and struck him violently with a stick on the head and Investigator, under the command of Captain Sir face, which collected a crowd around them, and a po- James Ross, between the date of his last dispatch to licemen coming upon the scone of the assault, he felt it not only ti be his duty, but for his ow n p ro t ec ti on, l to give the Secretary of the Ad m i ra l ty, f rom U pernav ik , i n July, 1848, and the arrival of the expedition off him into custody. Mr. JARDINE asked him if he had given hlm any pro- Scarborough, on the 3d of this present November :ea] vocation?—The complainant said he was not aware that In accordance with the intentions expressed to the he had. Secretary of the Admiralty, in my letter of the 13th The police-constable, who arrested the prisoner, con- of July, 1848, her Majesty's ships Enterprise and firmed the statement as to the crowd being collected in Investigator sailed on that day from the Danish the street, sled the prisoner being given into custody. Mr. JARDINE asked th e p r i soner if h e h a d anything settlement of Upernavik. Bv running...through an intricate archipelago of to say in answer to the charge? The prisoner replied . islands, which lies off the main land, and seems to that he lasd much to say; the complainant, whom he stigmatised with language that the law of libel will not keep off the pressure of the main pack, we succeeded permit to be reporter?, had broken his peace of mind by in passing the position in which the whale ships had debauching his wife. He had long suspected that been so lung detained, and made every day some the complainant, notwithstanding that ho pro- advance to the northward, until the 20th, when we havingll Hull ), fl ) , run .11 ir. teased to entertain a mos t ar d en t f r i en d s hi p f or made fast to a berg aground off Cape Shackleton. himself, had a design u p on th e v i rtues o f hi s Here we were joined by the Lord G am bi er (of E lf the s, buuturet he of the connexion never could that o of lattain any e had rectexisted pro t•th H o .H e ill, southwardn res master, w , whoith a informed fo t r h i e e e restd m of et h t a he t, of between the two till the evening in question, when be whaling ships, and having carefully • examined the °been ed them come out of a brothel in Waterloo-road s . Lambeth, which was kept open to the public as a coffee- pack edge for a n y open i ng t h at might lead them shop. lie h a d a f r i en d w ith hi m at th e t i me, or h e to the westward, he had lere was not the smalle s t c h ance, come to the c,con would have chastised the f e ll o w th ere an d th en , b ut hi s lusion there friend restrained hi s v i o l ence t ill t h ey got across t h e from the close, compact, and heavy nature bridge into Wellington-street, whither he and his friend of the ice, for any ship crossing to the west coast of fellowed them. Perceiving that they were on the point Baffin Bay this reason. Be bad, therefore, return e d of parting, he could contain his feelings no longer, and to the north, end expected that all the other ships gave vent to them in the mann e r that had been would soon follow him, and endeavour to round the described. north end of the pack ; he spoke very confidently of Mr. JARDINE asked what became of the wife ?—The being able to accomplish b the firstweek of this y police-constable said there was a female taking part in August, an d promised at any rate to remain in the quarrel, but she ran away. Mr. JARDIN E , u n d er th e c i rcums t ances stated by the company with us u n til th e 3d o f August. We cast defendant, declined to adjudicate in the case summarily, off from the berg early the next morning, towing the but would leave it for the complainant to indict the de- ships through loose streams of ice towards some lanes fondant at the sessions. In the meantime he would take of water, which had opened out during the calm bail for the appearance of the defendant, which prevailed all night. The depositions were then taken, and the complainant Our progress was, however, very slow during this bound over to prosecute. After which the defendant was and the next few days, and our situation often difficult liberated on bail. and embarrassing. On the morning of the 26th, when off the Three : Islands of Baffin, in lat. 74 deg. N., we were surprised, on the fog clearing off, to see the Lord Gambier, about eight miles distant, standing under all sail to the southward; thus disappointing us of the only remaining means of forwarding information of our proceedings to their Lordships—and this was the more annoying as we had only the evening before passed within a quarter of a mile of her, when, upon any signal of her intention of going to the southward, we would have placed on board of her all our letters and dispatches. Her enterprizing commander deserves the highest praise for perse vering alone so far beyond all his fellows, and, had it depended on him, I believe he would not have left us until we had got through the great difficulty of Melville Bay. We pursued our course to the northward under varying circumstances of perplexity, anxiety, and success; for although I could not but feel assured that we should eventually get through the Melville Bay barrier, yet calms and light winds so greatly impeded any movement in the pack, that day after day passed away until the season had so far advanced as to preclude every hope of accomplishing much, it' anything, before the setting in of winter. NO exertions, however, were spared to take ad vantage of every opportunity of pushing the ships forward until on 20th August, during a heavy breeze from the north-east, the ships, under all the sail they could carry, bored through a pack of ice of but moderate thickness, but having amongst it heavy masses mingled with the lighter ice that covered the larger surface through which it was necessary to drive the ships at all hazards. The shocks they sustained during this severe trial were great, but fortunately without serious damage to them. We gained the clear water at four P.M., on 20th Au gust, in lat. 75- degrees N., and lon. 68 degrees W., and steered direct for Ponds Bay, where I felt assured of meeting with the whale-ships, if any should have crossed to the west land, and might learn from them if the Erebus and Terror, or their party in boats, had passed along that shore, and also with a view to communicate with the Esquimaux, who annually visit the coast, and from whom we might have derived information of our absent friends. On the 23d we made the land about ten miles to the southward of Ponds Bay, and could trace the line of the main pack close in against the land, at a distance of three or four miles to the southward, so closely pressed home as to leave no room for ships or boats to pass between it and the shore. We next stood into Ponds Bay and hove to, within half a mile of those points upon which the Esquimaux are known to place their summer residences, firing guns every half hour, and with our glasses closely examining every part of the shore without being able to discern any human being. From Ponds Bay we commenced a rigid examina tion of the coast to the northward, keeping theships close in along the land so that neither people nor boats could have passed without our seeing them. Opposed by a strong current, although going before the wind between two and three knots through the water, we found by the result of all our observations, as well as by unerring marks on the land, that we were sometimes carried astern against the wind. On the 26th we arrived off Possession Bay, and a party was sent on shore to search for any traces of Sir John Franklin's Expedition having touched at this general point of rendezvous. Nothing was found hut the paper left there recording the visit of Sir Edward Parry, in 1819. The paper was very much damaged, but by careful washing and fitting together, nearly every word was clearly deciphered. (It is preserved.) From this point we continued the examination of the coast with equal care, fbr we fully expected every hour to see those of whom we were in search, and the most vigilant look out was kept aloft and from the deck. On the let of September we arrived off Cape York, and a party was sent on shore to seek for our friends, and to fix a conspicuous mark at this remark able point, in which was placed a paper for the guid ance of any party that might fall in with it. This service was performed by Lieutent M'Clintock, with much skill, under very difficult circumstances. Every day we were in the practice of throwing overboard a cask from each ship, containing papers with information of all our proceedings, guns were fired during foggy weather, and blue lights and rockets during the hours of darkness, the ships being kept under such easy sail that any boat seeing the signals might have reached them. The general tenor of the information thus distri buted along the coast was to acquaint Sir J'ohn Franklin, or any of his party, that, as the whale ships had not been able to cross to the west land of Baffin Bay, they could have no hope of assistance from them, and recommending them to make for Port Leopold, where I intended to form a depot of provisions, and perhaps, leave the Investigator to winter there ; they would, at any rate, with the provisions find a notice of the position in which the nearer ship was passing the winter. It therefore became necessary to push for Port Leopold to fulfil these promises, for had any of his party met with one of these notices they would , assuredly have gone to that point. We accordingly stood over from Cape York to wards N.E. Cape, until we came in with the edge of a pack, too dense for us to penetrate, lying between us and Leopold Island, about fourteen miles broad; but as we could perceive that it was still in motion, we hoped that a few days might produce a favourable change, and in the mean time we stood over to the north shore of Barrow Strait, to seek a harbour fur ther to the westward and to examine the numerous inlets of that shore, Maxwell Bay and several smaller indentations were thoroughly explorked, and although we got near the entrance of Wellington Channel, the firm barrier of ice which stretched across it, and which had not broken away this season, convinced us all was impracticable in that direction. We now stood to the south-west to seek for a harbour near Cape Rennell, but found a heavy body of ice extending from the west end of Cornwallis Island, in a compact mass, to Leo pold Island. Coasting along this pack dur ing stormy and foggy weather, we had difficulty in keeping the ships free during the nights, for I believe so great a quantity of ice was never before seen in Barrow Strait at this period of the season. With the thermometer at 15 degrees every night, young ice formed rapidly and became so thick as to frustrate all our exertions to pass through some of the looser streams. Nevertheless, after some days of anxious and arduous work, we succeeded in getting through the pack which still lingered about Leopold Island and N.E. Cape, and entered the harbour of Port Leopold on the 11th September. Had we not got into port on that day it would have been impossible to have done so any day afterwards, the main pack, during the night, having closed the land and completely sealed the mouth of the harbour. We had now, at any rate, accomplished one ma terial point, and were rejoiced to find the anchorage, of which we had before been in much doubt, well adapted to our purpose, and as it was d es i ra bl e t o secure a good position for one ship, I resolved that it should be the winter quarters of the Investigator. I had much satisfaction the next morning to find how perfectly our steam launch fulfilled our expectations in an experimental cruize about the harbour, before proceeding in her to the westward in search of a harbour for the Enterprize, as it was now beyond probability from the early setting in of winter and from the unbroken state of the ice to reach Melville Island this season. The pack at the _harbour's mouth, however, still prevented our immediate departure, and all our energies were devoted to landing a good supply of provisions upon Whaler Point. In this service the steam-launch proved of infinite value, conveying a larger cargo herself and towing t wo d ee pl y -l a d en cutters, at the rate of four or five knots, through the sheet of ice which now covered the harbour, and through which no boat, unaided by steam, could have penetrated beyond her own length. The place selected for the depot was upon the low S.E. point which forms the chief protection to the harbour, two miles distant from our anchorage. This work was not only tedious, but sometimes hazardous, from the flows of thin ice folding over each other, and thus forming an obstacle at times difficult to overcome. Indeed our operations were still incom plete when they were interrupted by the ice in the harbour becoming so thick as to require all our atten tion to the ships themselves. A prevalence of strong easterly winds had caused the pack to press so heavily against the outer margin of the harbour ice, that the ships were carried away with their anchors so far up towards the head of the Bay that they grounded at low water. All hands from both ships were set to work to cut a canal and warp them cif the shore. This had scarcely been accomplished when another severe pressure drove them again into shallow water, and had we not fortunately hauled off in time, it is probable the ships must have laid aground all the winter. The work of sawing was recommenced, and, after two or three days, w e suc ceeded in getting our ships into a position of compa rative safety, although with only a foot or two of water to spare at low spring tides ; but the winter had now set in with so much keverity it was impossible to keep the people any longer employed at such work without serious injury to their health and their suf fering from severe frost bites. On the evening of the 12th of October the ships were hove into their winter position, within 200 yards of each other. I was indeed most anxious to have taken the En terprise to some distance to the westward, but any attempt to leave the ships, under the circumstances of their situation, would have been highly injurious and probably have led to some calamity, but the pack which sealed the harbour's mouth the night after we entered it never admitted a chance of even a boat making her way out ; and across the Isthmus, as far as we could discern from the hills, the same ex tensive mass of heavy, hummocky ice, which we had coasted along in search of an opening in the early part of September, was still pressed closely home against the north shore of North Somerset, and re mained fixed there throughout the winter, so that if the Enterprise had been able to get out of the harbour, she could not have proceeded far, and would most likely have been comp e ll e d e ith er to pass the winter in the pack, or to have returned to Eng land, and thus have defeated all prospective measures for the assistance of our long-absent friends. And although I could not but feel extreme disap pointment at the small advance we had been able to make during our first season, yet we had much to be thankful for in having been permitted to gain secure winter quarters at Port Leopold, a position that of all others was the most desirable, if any one spot had to be selected fin' that purpose : being at the junction of the four great channels of Barrow Strait, Lancaster Sound, Prince Regent Inlet, and Wellington Channel, it was hardly possible for any party, after abandon ing their ships, to pass along the shores of any of those inlets without finding indications of the proxi mity of our expedition. The winter was passed as are all winters in this climate, but long experience and liberal means gave us many comforts that no other expedition had en joyed ; yet it is remarkable that the health of the crew suffered more during this winter than on any former occasion. Our want of success might have tended in some measure to depress their spirits, and, unfortunately, the cold of winter was prolonged un usually far into the spring before we could give them more active employment. During the winter a great many white foxes were taken alive in traps set for the purpose, and as it is well known how large a tract of country these crea tures traverse in search of food, I caused copper collars, upon which a notice of the position of the ships and depots of provisions was engraved, to be clenched round their necks, and then set them at liberty again, with the hope that some of these mes sengers might be the means of conveying the intelli gence to the Erebus and Terror, as the crews of those vessels would assuredly be eager for their capture. After several short preliminary journeys, in April and the early part of the next month, to carry out small depots of provisions to the west of Cape Clarence and to the south of Cape Seppings, I left the ships on the 15th of May with a party consisting of Lieutenant M`Clintock and twelve men, with forty days' provisions, which, together with tents, clothes, blankets, and other necessaries, were lashed upon two sledges. We were accompanied for the first five days of our journey by Captain Bird, in command of a large fatigue party, which increased our numbers to forty-two. He would willingly have extended his valuable assistance still further, had I not felt that his presence at the ships would be more beneficial to the service in sending forth such other parties and completing such further measures as I proposed should be adopted during my absence. A detailed account of this journey may be found in my journal ; it may be sufficient here to mention, that the examination of all the inlets and smaller indenta tions of the coast, in which any ships might have found shelter, occupied a large portion of our time, and cost us much labour, but it was necessary that every portion of the coast we passed along should be thoroughly explored. The north shore of North Somerset trends slightly to the northward of west, until after passing the ex treme north cape of America, a few miles beyond Cape Itennell ; from this point it trends slightly to the southward of west, until after rounding Cape Bunny, when it suddenly assumes a nearly south direction. From the high land in the neighbourhood of Cape Bunny we obtained a very extensive view, and ob served that the whole space between it and Cape Walker to the west, and Wellington Channel to the north, was occupied by very heavy, hummocky ice, whilst to the southward it appeared more favourable for travelling ; I therefore determined not to divide the party as I had originally intended until we should find a more :practicable point for their exertions. We therefore proceeded to the southward, tracing all the indentations of the coast, when our progress be came much delayed by several of the party becoming useless from lameness and debility, so that it proved most fortunate that I had not divided the force, which could only under such circumstances have terminated in the complete failure of both ' • for although the load of provi s i ons was every day becoming less, the necessity of carrying two of the sufferers on the sledges, and the loss of the services of three others, who had scarcely strength to walk behind, greatly increased the labour of the few who were now able to work. The examination of the coast was pursued until the sth of June, when, having consumed more than half our provisions, and the strength of the party being much reduced, I was reluctantly compelled to aban don further operations, as it was, moreover, neces sary to give the men a day of rest. Butt that the time might not be wholly lost, I proceeded with Sergeant Hurditch and William Thompson, a seaman of greater endurance, to the extreme south point in sight from our encampment, distant about eight or nine miles. From this point we had s o fi ne a view as fully to reward us for our additional labour, more especially when we reflected that from the nature of the ice over which we, unencumbered, had travelled with comparative ease, could hardly have been ac complished by the party in one day, whilst it would have required another to have got back to their present encampment. The extreme point of our operations is in latitude 72 deg. 38 N., and longitude 95 deg. 40 W. It is the west point of a small high peninsula, and the state of the atmosphere being at the;time peculiarly favourable for distinctness of vision, land of any great elevation might have been seen at the distance of 100 miles. The extreme high cape of the coast, however, was not more than fifty miles distant, still bearing nearly south,* the land thus trending for Cape Nicolai, the northernmost point which I had reached during my journey from the Victory in 1832, and which I hoped to have attained on this occasion, as well as to have re-visited the Magnetic Pole, in its immediate vi cinity, and had not so many of our party broken down, it might have been accomplished. We observed several small bays and inlets between us and the southernmost cape, of whose continuity we could not be assured at so great a distance, yet they are marked on the chart which accompanies this account of our proceedings, by which it will be perceived that a very narrow isthmus separates Prince Regent Inlet from the western sea at Cresswell and Brentford Bays. On our return to the encampment I found they had all been well occupied during our absence. Lieutenant M'Clintock had taken some magnetic observations which will be of great value from our being so near to the Magnetic Pole. Two of the party had cut through the ice, which they found to be eight feet thick, and fixed a pole by which the state of the tides was ascertained ; and all the rest that could work had erected a large cairn of stones on a high knoll just above the tents, in which a copper cylinder was placed, containing an account of our proceedings, and all necessary information for the guidance of any of Sir John Franklin's party that might be journeying along this coast. Although our resources did not admit of any fur ther perseverance on our part, we could not but feel some satisfaction in the assurance, that if those of whom we were in search had at any time been upon the north or west coast of North Somerset, we must have met with some traces of them. The season for We had now fully made up our minds that the ships were fixed for the winter, and, dismal as the prospect appeared, it was far preferable to being car ried along the west coast of Baffin Bay, where the gronnded bergs are in such numbers upon the shallow banks off that shore, as to render it next to impossible for ships involved in a pack to escape destruction. It was therefore with a mixture of hope and anxiety that, on the wind shifting to the westward, we per ceived the whole body of ice begin to drive to the eastward, at the rate of eight to ten miles daily. Every effort on our part was totally unavailing, for no human power could have moved either of the ships a single inch • they were thus compl e t e l y t a k en out o f our hands, and, in the centre of a field of ice more than fifty miles in circumference, were carried along the southern shore of Lancaster Sound. After passing its entrance the ice drifted in a more southerly direction, along the west shore of Baffin Bay, until we were abreast of Ponds Bay, to the southward of which we' observed a great number of icebergs, stretching across our path and presenting the fearful prospect of our worst anticipations. But when least expected by us, our release was almost miraculously brought about. The great field of ice was rent into innumerable fragments as if by some unseen power. Hope revived, and our people worked with energy ; all sail was made and warps run out from each quarter to spring the ships past the heavy floe pieces. The Investigator reached an open space of water on the evening of the 24th, but it was not until noon of the 25th September that the Enterprise could clear the pack. It is impossible to convey any idea of the sensation we experienced when we found ourselves once more at liberty, whilst many a grateful heart poured forth its praises and thanksgiving to Almighty God for this unlooked-for deliverance. The advance of winter had now closed all the bar hours against us, and as it was impossible to penetrate to the westward, through the pack from which we had just been liberated, I made the signal to the Investi gator of my intention to return to England. Standing to the S.E., we came in with the middle ice of Baffin Bay, within a few miles of the land, and were obliged, in order to make our retreat the more sure, to run along its western edge to the N.E. until we reached the latitude 74i N., where we rounded its north end, on the 4th October, insight of the coast of Greenland. , Favoured by unusually fine weather as we pro ceeded to the southward, we passed without any accident through the great cluster of bergs which is always found in lat. 69 N., and on the 12th we re crossed the Arctic Circle, after which time we saw no more ice. Strong westerly winds carried us past the meridian of Cape Farewell on the 18th, and at one A.M. of the 28th we struck soundings off Mould Head. At day light we found ourselves in the Fairway, between North Roualdsha and Fair Island, but southerly winds so impeded our further progress that it was late on Saturday night before we could anchor off Scarborough. I arrived at the Admiralty early on Monday, the sth November. I cannot conclude this report without expressing my deep obligations to Captain Bird for his cordial co•operation and zealous support throughout this most arduous service, and my admiration of the con duct of the officers and crews of both ships, whose meritorious exertions fully entitle them to the most favourable consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. JAMES C. ROSS, Captain, R.N. JON MIGUEL DE BRAGANZA.—On Wednesday, the illustrious Prince, attended by Senhor Sarai va , th e Viscount de Queluz;General Gomez, General Arroyo, Colonel Sacanel, Major Quartin, Captain Lopez y Ca racuel, Captain Santa Maria, the Chevalier Cremmens, and Mr. Algernon Borthwick, went over the new Houses of Parliament. Mr. Barry, jun., pointed out the various parts of the building, of the design and gorgeous decorations of which the Prince expressed his high admiration. The bearings herein given are true. travelling in these regions had also passed away, the thaw having commenced, and had they abandoned their ships at Melville Island, they must have arrived on either of these shores long before this time, where they would have found us in the best possible position to render them assistance and conduct them to our vessels. We set forward on our homeward journey on the evening of the 6th June, and, after encountering a variety of difficulties to which I need not now further allude, we reached the ship on the 23d, the party so completely worn out by fatigue that every man was from some cause or other in the doctor's hands for two or three weeks, and I am sorry to say that two of them are not yet recovered. I had walked in advance of the party to select the best road by which to cross the isthmus, and as soon as I got sight of the ships I was met by Captain Bird and Lieutenant M‘Clure, from whom I was greatly grieved to hear of the decease of :Mr. Henry Matthias, the assistant-surgeon of the Enterprise, of consump tion, which had been deeply rooted in his constitution . before leaving England. Ile was a promising young man, of great amiability of disposition, universally beloved and regretted. Several others of the crews of both ships were in a declining state, and the general report of health was by no means cheering:. During my absence Captain Bird had dispatched parties in several directions. One, under the command of Lieutenant Barnard, to the north shore of Barrow Strait, a second commanded by Lieutenant Brown, to the east shore of Prince Regent Inlet, and a third conducted by Lieutenant Robinson, along the western shore of that inlet. The labours of these parties were of comparatively short duration, still they, like ourselves, all suffered from snow-blindness, sprained ancles, and debility, especially that under Lieutenant Robinson, who extended his examination of the coast for several miles to the southward of Fury Beach. Although it was now but too evident, from no traces of the absent expedition having been met with by eny of these parties, that the ships could not have been detained anywhere in this part of the Arctic regions, yet I considered it proper to push forward to the westward, as soon as our ships should be liberated from their winter harbour. My chief hopes now centered in the efforts of Sir John Richardson's party, for I felt fully persuaded that Sir John Franklin's ships must have penetrated so far beyond Melville Island as to induce him to prefer making for the con tinent of America, rather than seek assistance from the whale-ships in Baffin Bay. Our crews weakened by incessant exertion were in a very unfit state to undertake the heavy labour which they had yet to accomplish. The season at this place was so extremely backward that hardly a pool of water was to be seen on th e sur f ace of ice which covered the harbour, except only along the line of gravel which had been spread out towards the har bour's mouth during the winter, and there appeared but small prospect of any release this season. All hands that were able commenced with saws extending the breadth of the canal so much as to admit the ships to pass down it, towards the point of the harbour, a distance of rather more than two miles. These labours were continued until the 15th August, when, the canal being nearly finished, the harbour ice divided along its line into two nearly equal parts, and thus saved us a few days' work ; but the ice to seaward remained to all appearance as firmly fixed as during the winter, but we could perceive it was wasting away close along the shores, and it was not until the 28th August that we succeeded in get ting clear of the harbour. Before leaving Port Leopold I had caused a house to be built of our spare spars, and covered with such of our housing cloths as we could dispense with, and for which we could find a subsitute if needful, leaving also twelve months' provisions, fuel, and other neces saries, together with the Investigator's steam-engine and launch, which had been lengthened seven feet for the purpose, and now formed a fine vessel capable of conveying the whole of Sir John Franklin's party to the whale-ships, or :ourselves, should any calamity befal our ships in their progress to the westward. We now proceeded towards the north shore of Barrow Strait for the purpose of following up the examination of Wellington Channel, and, if possible, of extending our researches as far as Melville Island ; but when about twelve miles from the shore, we came to the fixed land ice, which had not broken away this season, and nothing but an uniform sheet of heavy ice was to be seen to the westward. IVe kept the ships near that which appeared to be the most probable spot, watchi ng f o r - any opening that might present itself; when a strong wind sud denly arising on the Ist September, brought the loose pack, through which we had been struggling, down upon, and closely beset the ships. At times, during two or three days, they sustained severe pressure and ridges of hummocks were thrown up all around us, but after that time, the temperature falling to near zero, formed the whole body of ice into one solid mass. We were so circumstanced that for some days we could not unship our rudder, and when, by tho laborious operation of sawing and removing the hummocks from under the stern, we were able to do so, we found it twisted and da maged, and the ship was so much strained as to increase the leakage from three inches in a fortnight to fourteen inches daily, which, though of but trifling importance at present, served to convince us that she was not, as we had hitherto believed, invulnerable. The ice was stationary for a few days ; the pressure had so folded the lighter pieces over each other, and they were so interlaced, as to form one entire sheet, extending from shore to shore of Barrow Strait, and as far to the east and west as the eye could discern from the masthead, whilst the extreme severity of the temperature had cemented the whole so firmly to• gether that it appeared highly improbable that it could break up again this season. In the space which had been cleared away for unshipping the rudder, the newly formed ice was fifteen inches thick, and in some places along the ship's side the thirteen feet saws were too short to work. LITERAT URE. ER NE S7'o DI RIPALTA : a Tale of the Italian Revolution. 3 Vols. By Hamilton Geale. Encouraged by the success of his previous work, the first of his literary productions, entitled " Notes of a Two Years' Residence in Italy," Mr. Hamilton Geale has adventured upon a new path as an author in aspiring to the rank of a novelist. To this end he has written "Ernesto di Ripalta"—selecting as the fittest theme for his maiden fiction the social and political fortunes (alas ! that we should have to day now the social and political misfortunes) of the Italian multitude. Seeing that the volumes before were penned at the period when the Roman penin sula was most sanguine of its liberation and of its ulterior consolidation into an independent nationality, it cannot be surprising that the author should evince in every page an enthusiasm cozemensurate with that of the then hopeful Italians. While inditing the effusion the atmosphere of Italy resounded with the battle-song of Carlo Alberto, and with the immortal - hymn of Pio Nono. It was, therefore, with an earnest belief in the nature of the Italians that Mr. Genie delineated the scenes, the incidents, and the imaginary characters introduced into the narrative. In regard to time the story goes no further down than the fatal morning when the star of the heroic but unfortunate monarch of Sardinia, Charles Albert the Magnanimous, began to set in the gloom of his memorable retreat before the soldiers of Radetzky. The narrator hints, in very comprehensible language, at the calamities which betel the three noblest princes of Italy, the three most earnest aspirants for her emancipation. It is impossible while reading the last two chapters not to coincide with the novelist in his opinion, that the misfortunes which have befallen the Roman peninsula are directly, if not exclusively, attributable to the treasonously inert attitude assumed by the Lombards when the Piedmontese were lavishing blood, money, and lives for the expul sion of the Austrians beyond the Carpathians. This miserable indolence on the part of the people of Lombardy led at once to the downfal of the Italian cause, and the sanguinary triumph of the German invader. Hence the miseries and disappointments of those who had been the first to raise the standard of Italian liberation :—the death by a broken heart, in exile, of the magnanimous Charles; the sorrows of the eloquent Gioberti ; the dejection of the ardent Ventura; the expulsion of the liberal-minded and large-hearted Ferdinand from Tuscany ; and—last and most melancholy spectacle of all—the bJinbard ment of Pio Nono in his Palace of the Quirinal. Strange indeed it is to remember, that of all the sove reigns of Italy, the only one who has been enabled to keep his throne unshaken is the one who butchered his subjects in the streets of his capital—th e ruthless and abhorred King of Naples. All the others, identified with the cause of the national rising, some of them its immediate originators, were rejected by the people who, when they should have been fighting under the Sardinian banner, were squabbling about precedents. The plot of the fiction before us is a mere skeleton on which the author has heaped together the events of a strange and stirring time. There is a young Italian (Ernesto di Ripalta) who marries a beautiful English girl (called alter nately by fits and starts by the author now Emma and now Emily Montague, as if the names were identical) ; there is the Italian's bosom friend, a young democrat of Switzerland (Gustave de Mont insure), who loves the sister of his companion (An gelica); there is the good Bishop of Albano; a conspiring nobleman (Prince Negroni); a religious devotee (the Marchese di Ripalta); a wily young nephew of Cardinal Lam bruschini (Casanova) . ; and that most hackneyed and intolerable of all romance horrors, a crafty and subtle Jesuit, the Padre Verrone. Out of the career of these most uninteresting personages the writer contrives to fabricate a most absurd and unin teresting narrative—one of the most absurd and uninteresting it has ever been our misfortune to wade through. The following is about the only fragmentary paragraph in the whole of the three volumes of suffi- cient merit to admit of quotation ; it will doubtless be read with some emotion, as affording a faint sketch of the personal appearance of the gallant and ill doomed CHARLES ALBERT. "Count Balbo, with his arm still in that of Negroni, left the ante-room, the crowd of co u rti ers ma ki ng way respectfully for them as they passed, and together entered the Cabinet of Charles Albert. Round a table, on which was strewed a quantity of papers with military charts and plans, were seated the Ministers of the King of Sardinia. The King himself sat in a gilded chtsu, ornamented.with the crown and the arms of Savoy, at the head of the table; but he was a man who would have been conspicuous and remarkable without any of these ensigns of royalty. His figure was lofty and attenuated; his cheeks hollow; his features strange and irregular, even if not decidedly ugly; but the look of intellectual power of his lofty forehead, and the largo and lustrous eyes of the King, relieved the heaviness of the counte nance, and excited the curiosity and interest, even if they did not gradually remove the first unfavourable impres sions of the beholder." Otherwise than containing this feeble pencilling of a brave king, the work is wholly without importance. W--- INDING•UP OF JOINT-STOC K COMPANIES. -- Amongst the joint-stock companies before the Masters in Chancery during the week, to have their affairs set tled and wound up under the provisions of the Act, bits been the India and Australia Mail Packet Company, projected with a capital of 100,0004, and the business of which was carried on from 1847 to April, 1849, until their affairs became greatly embarrassed. There were difficulties in the way of dissolution, the shareholders not having paid up their calls to constitute a legal meet ing for the purpose, and which was to be done whenever a loss of 75 per cent. on the capital for the time being was sustained. The list of contributories, with the ex ception of some adjourned cases, had been se ttl e d. I t appears that the d ee d was signed by shareholders to the extent of 1,080 shares; the amount of deposits and calls paid was 3,2401, the amount received, 2,3331. ; the amount still due, 9071; the number of shares on which the Parliamentary deposit of ss. was paid, but in respect of which the deed was not signed, was 2,430 ; amount paid, 7,2901.; received, 6434; and still due, 6,6471. The total number of allottees who paid up the Parliamentary deposit watt 4,685. Only 242 shares were taken in Ma dras; and 81 in Ceylon. The only assets are 3971. under a distringas, and a call has to be made on the share holders to pay off outstanding claims, which amount to between 2,0001. and 3,0001. The Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam and family are passing the autumn at Deal Castle, Kent. The Noble Earl has recently been appointed by the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (the Duke of Wellington) Captain of Deal Castle, in the room of the Marquis of Dalhousie, the Governor General of India. STAGE ACCIDENT.—DUTiIIg the performance of Romeo and Juliet at the Sheffield Theatre on Friday evening last Mr. Rolfe met with an accident which might have been of the most serious nature. In the third act, where Romeo has to disarm and kill Tybalt, Mrs. J. F. Saville, who enacted the part of Romeo, at tricked Mr. Rolfe (Tybalt) under such stage excitement, that she accidentally stabbed him in the side. A surgeon was called in, when, at first, it was feared that the wound was internally severe, but by proper treatm en t Mr. Rolfe is fast recovering rom the injury. It is need less to say that Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Saville have been unremitting in their attention to Mr. Rolfe since the accident.—.Nottinghom Journal. A FACT WHICH SPEAKS VOLUMEL—There is not at present a single ship building in the port of Liverpool. —Liverpool Courier of yesterday. ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENT. The Lord Bishop of Manchester, yesterday, at the Registry, St. James's-square, licensed the Rev. George Nightingale, M.A. (late senior curate of the parish church of Bury), to the perpetual curacy of Holcombe, vacant by the death of the Rev. William Holt, who held the living forty years. The licence was granted on the nomination of the Rev. Geoffrey Hornby, rector of Bury, who is the patron.—Manchester Gazette of yesterday. MULTIPLE BIRTH.—On Monday last, at Wall's Temperance Hotel, London-road, Derby, a female was safely delivered by Mr. A. Borman, surgeon-accoucher, of four perfect and healthy children, two male and two female, who with their mother aro doing well.—Derby Mercury. THE - HoN. A. H. VERNON.—The coming of age of this young nobleman is to be celebrated at Poynton, on the let of February next. Two immense oxen, feed ing for the purpose of the celebration, will be slaughtered and given away on that day, and as it may be interesting to the admirers of prize cattle to know something of their breed, weight, symmetry, &c., we will give them some information in reference to these extraordinary animals. They were bred by Mr. John Booth, of Louth ; are of the best breed of short - horns in the kingdom; and in point of beauty, symmetry, and aptitude to fatten, are equal to, if they do not already exceed, any thing of the kind seen in this part of England. Their present weight is—Sampson, 2,4871b5; Goliah , 2,4961b5. They have yet to be fed more than two months, and their feeding is under the direction of Thomas Ash worth, Esq., of Barlow Fold. A drawing has been made ofttessneiminaalm pointer, and w d animalseun der stand b y s yM n r.Davies, an emi nentder the portraits w i ll be lithographed for distribution amongst the tenantry of Lord Vernon, as soon as they can be conveniently exe cuted.—Macclesfield Courier. A .BU LL IN A CHINA SHOP.--A singular occur renc., fortunately not attended with loss of life or damage to limb, occurred in Snow-hill, on the evening of Thursday last. As a bull, said to belong to Mr. Jones, butcher, of Gloucester-street, was proceeding up the street, he suddenly rushed into the shop of Mr. Chew, confectioner, but was speedily driven out. He then went into Mr. Bent's shop, where he remained for some mi nutes bleeding from the nose, and after breaking some glass in the door in making his escape, he ran up the street and dashed into the shop of Mr. James Jones, china dealer, and destroyed property to the amount of 70/. Mr. Jones boldly seized the i nfur iated animal by the nostrils and one of his horns, but he broke away from him, left the premises, and fell exhausted on the steps leading into Mr. Thornley's shop, where he was killed by Mr. Lichfield, the butcher. The c arcass o f t h e beast bas not been claimed, Of course the owner is liable for the damage done by his beast.—Aris's Bir mingham Gazette. It implies a want of feeling, amounting almost to baseness, to deride any one on account of bodily defects. Every generous man avoids even the slightest allusion to such misfortunes.—Eliza Cook's Journal. 1104 1.... I mu. r- ) ) ..• ) ..... 1 .. ) .. 1....... 1 ...an ) ... ) - ) ,•-•• ) •-•- ) --.• ) - ) •••••• ) --• ) - ;- ) -. ) •-• ) -,..., ) .... I••-• I--.. ) •-• I ....... I --- ) ) ..-.. I--- I -.-. I ..... I ..... I .... I-.• 17% 15th, orey, from 15th, a for hard &rrd. iouth .eole, sden, ibeth Ser- Rio abee. ,and men, La son, t to !rev) ooncl ❑g 5 this the )rtu- I will