The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-15 00:00:00

During our stay at Fort Clarence I received an urgent
reluest, a copy of which I have the honour to enclose
(No. 6), from the master of the English schooner, Elise,
of Hobart Town, of which Mr. John Johnson, of New-
wharf, Hobart Town, is owner, to remove John Thomas,
second mate, from his vessel, and having personally augured
myself of the truth of his statement, I have received him on
board this ship, to be sent ashore at the first oonvenient
opportunity.
From what I was able to collect from the different
whaling ships we tell in with, I imagine that the past
season has proved so unfavourable that not many will be
tempted to try Behring's Straits next year. Very few
whales have been taken, and in addition to extensive injury
from the ice, which, owing to its b,ing so far south, many
attempted to force their way through, but unsuccessfully,
several have been totally lost.
I enclose a list of such as I heard of, but I believe there
are one or two others._

We found Port Clarence a most excellent harbour ;
abundance of water and wood, easily procured, and our
seine net, usod once a week, provided enough for the day
for the whole ship's company.
_The winds were generally moderate, the holding ground
excellent, and had it been necessary for the ship to remain
for the winter, although it is very doubtful if we could get
her into Onuttley Harbour, there is a position near Cape
Riley where she would no doubt have been perfectly
secure. Brantley Harbour has proved quite secure as a
winter quarter for the Plover, and the shore abounds in
summer with wild onions and berries—excellent anti-scor-
buties.

In the belief that Commander Moore has transmitted to
you a report of proceedings during the past winter, as also
an account of the distressing murder of Lieutenant Barnard
of the Enterprise, at Derabin„ Ido not allude to these
subjects.
lam sorry to say that an unfortunate affray between
some natives, somewhere hear Cape Chaplain, and the crew,
of some whalers, has occurred this summer.
The dispute seems to hero originated in the endeavour of
the natives to obtain possession by force of some property
on board a whaler which was wrecked there, and ended in
the loss of some lives on hoe sides.

The arrangements with regard to the Plover were com-
pleted before tho last week in September ; but as it was
probable that in the event of the Enterprise not finding it
practicable to reach Point Barrow she would be obliged to
return to Port Clarence, in which ease she might be ex-
pected to arrive before the end of September, 1 delayed our
departure till the Ist of October, when we put to sea with
a flue northerly wind, which carried us past St. Lawrence
Island ; and on the 7th we passed through the Straits of
Amouckta, thence we steered a direct course, and arrived at
this port on the 22nd Mat.
After a few days' stay I shall proceed to sea for the pur-
pose ofcarrying out the remainder of your orders, ea route
to Valparaiso. I have, &e,
(Signed) OEO. 0. WELLESLEY, Captain.

MINES.
THIS DAY.
Two o'Cioca.
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business offering, but all descriptions aro remarkably
firm, and the tendency of prices is upward.

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CASUALTIES BY Ilastrt, in the armies of India
since the departure of the mail on the 3rd Dec. Madras :
Lieut. B. O. Hart, 23rd N.L.1., at Sanger, on the 19th Nov.
Ma. BeNscrr.—The following is tho reply of the
Bishop of Bath and Wells to a protest addressed to hint
against Mr. Bennett's presentation to the living of From° :
Brighton, Jan. 12, I&s2.—Rev. and dear Sir,-1 have
read and given my beat attention to the memorial signed by
yourself and some of the clergy and other persons, for-
warded to me from Frame, upon the recent appointment of
Mr. Bennett to that living by the Marchioness of Bath.
1 can assure you, had I not been satisfied that Mr. Ben-
nett woo not attached to or likely to be iulluenceal by, the
doctrines of the Church of Rome, or likely to influence
in that direction others of any congregation committed to
his care, I should have declined instituting him, from
whatever quarter his nomination might bare come; but
as I am fully satisfiPd that Mr. Bennett has a firm
and deep-rooted attachment to our own church, and to
all the doctrines of the church of England, repudiating all
Romish doctrines, I feel that I should be acting unjustly by
him, and uncourteously as well as unfairly by the Mar-
chiooess of Bath (whose Arm attachment to our church is
so well known), if I were to refuse him admission into my
diocese. I shall, therefore, adhere as firmly to my inten-
tion of instituting Mr. Bennett (however respectable the
signatures to any protest may be), as 1 should have objected
to have dune had my opinion of his attachment to the
church been otherwise. I will only add, in conclusion, that
as you, end all those wit° have signed the protest, have
done nu more than they considered-to be their duty in thus
expressing their opinions to me, and I have myself u can-
didly stated my own feeling on the subject, which, I trust,
will have the effect of allaying any fears which they hove
entertained, it is my earnest hope that there will be no
unseemly opposition en the part of the clergy, or any
of those who have signed the protest, and that Mr. Bennett
will be received with kindly feeling.—l sin, rev. and dear
sir, your faithful servant, B. BATH AND Wataa—The
Bev. IL D. Wickham."