The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

6.011.1 lti Tim Auctic ItEtillONS.

MR. HENRY MARSHiI.f., of Thorpe hall (in a letter
to the Morning ►lerald), has fttruished an interesting
statement in the form of a return of the quantity of
game, &-c., killed in the Arctic reg. by Captain
\l•t'lnre, Lieut. Cromwell, and a portion of the crew
of her Majesty's ship the Investigator, when disco-
vering the north-west passage, in searelt of sir .10ha
Franklin. 'Fite return extends from the Ist of Oc-
tober, Isso, to the nth of April, 15:53, although the
principal part was killed during the spring of this
year :
Numer Linea. Avorsge weight ew.•i.
Munk Ox
1 leer
!Isms
Wombs
1 bias lOO

l‘t.r.r
IN* i4ves
lieors

l'otal bead killed .... 1,003

•
0111 informed (says Mr. Marshall) by eaptain Ha-
milton that the size of the musk to s varied consider.
ably, but the deer that were killed did not vary in
size so much. The deer were found to be very fat,
although their principal food merely consisted of the
herbage which was obtained trout a small tree called
the dwarf willow. As the crew only kept as it were
on the rides of the sea, no other food was observable,
but there is no doubt the deer found an abundance
of food further up the country. They were very
wild, mid the gunner.' haul to display great precau-
tion in shooting them. The manner in which the
crew got within gunshot was this. They seemed
themselves in various parts of the ravines, or behind
the sandbills, and listened with breatlibsoi silence
until they heard the deer tap the snow otf the willow
with their feet in order to eat the herbage. When
the air was frosty and the weather calm, this tapping
could be heard at a distance or about, WO yards, and,
by listening and observing minutely, the gunner
easily detected the position in which lain prey was
located. As /WM as this was correctly aseertanitsl Is
tenant was sent a considerable distance round the
deer, and a slight noise having been made at their
back they immediately ran otf—probably !past the
gunner. It was in such instances where the chances
of "a kill" occurred. One hundred anal ten ulcer
were thus killed, and, as they will run long distances
after receiving wounds, it is fair to impress that
many more would have been secured if the crew had
been accompanied with a brace or more of deer
hounds.

The grouse, 1 was informed, were not no wild as
might have been expected; hut the wild fowl wen/
somewhat wilder than tl►ose usually found in Ireland
and Scotland.
The musk ox was found IA) ho a very ferocious ani-
mal, and great danger necessarily atten►!ed the at.
tacks. They were easily approached, and when
wounded they ran headlong at the gunner. One of
the crew had a very narrow escape from being torn
to piece.. Ile had fired one charge without it*
taking etlect, and, having no sere atumuniuou with
him, lie luckily fired his iron ramrod at the infuriated
beast, and dropped him lifeless just as the animal
was als►ut to make the avack.

lithe expedition had bad an opportunity of going
further up the country, away from the sea, there is
no doubt but thousands of game would have been
kilk.l.
If Sir.lohn Franklin has ever reached this distant
port of the globe grunt hopes nay reasonably be en-
tertained of his safety, as it is not very probable that
mankind could ever wa►t in so rich a law', evidently
possessing everything that nature can desire.

1.4.004E14% ATI% E. LAND St wIETY.—The beautiful es.
tate on the banks of the Thames, near Ificlimmid
bridge, comprising the noble mansion built by
Clibitt for the Earl of Kihnorey, and tile picturesque
park of seventy five acres, has just been purchased
from the noble lord for the Conservative Land
Society. The estate has a magnificent river
frontage, affording most picturesque and extensi‘e
views: it is immediately opposite Itiehmond-gardenri
and within a short distance of three stations on the
South-Western Railway. It is proposed to ensure,
as far as possible, the erection of tirst-class houses
upon this newly-organised domain of the society.

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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
PARIS, November 3.
Tun Emperor and Empress continue to reside at St.
Cloud. On the sth of next month their Majesties
will proceed to Fontainebleau.
A Council of Ministers was held at St. Cloud on
Monday. General Baraguay d'Hillient received his
parting instructions front the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. He is enjoined to avoid affording any pre-
text to Austria for breaking away from the neutrality
in which she is circumscribed. A great liberty of
action is left to the general, within the sphere of
cordial co-operation with England. This appoint-
ment ix considered to have a warlike tendency ; and
it is affirmed that England also will appoint a mili-
tary man as her Ambassador at Constantinorle.
General d'Hilliers quilted Paris on Tuesday, at seven
o'clock in the evening, for Constantinople. lie is
accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Dieu, of the
Imperial Staff Corps, by Captains Foy and Melin, of
the same corps, by the Major of Artillery, Beeman'',
and the Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers, Jourjon,

who are attached to his Embassy.
The Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris from
his visit to the King of Wurtemburg. His Majesty
William 1., having invited his Imperial Highness to
his Court, gave him a splendid reception. At a ball
offered him by the King, the Prince Royal, accom-
panied by his wife, the Grand Duchess of Olga,
&toasted. This latter is a daughter of the Emperor
of Russia. A ball was also given at the French
Embassy by the Count de Beam, Minister of
France.
General Narvaez is to be appointed by the Spanish
Government Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary charged with a mission to the
northern Courts, with choice of his residence at
Vienna, Brussels, Paris, or any other place he may
choose except London, where the presence of M.
Inturitz is considered of paramount importance ut
this moment.
The Spanish Minister at War, General Blamer, is
accomplishing many necessary reforms in his depart-
ment. He has planed the commissariat under the
military administration, and has done away with the
" contratistas," or contractors, whose enormous gains
bad excited public animadversion.
Much has been said lately of a manifesto received
or expected from the Emperor of Russia. The
document in question is not a 44101046 C note in the
ordinary acceptation of the word, but a simple cir-
cular addressed to foreign agents, and declares in
substance that this Emperor Nicolas is still animated
by the most pacific intentions, and that he will leave
no efforts untried to bring the Sultan to make the
rtil4oll6ollo 41011t*OtiSiOnd required. The information
given in your postscript of last week is fully- cue
robtirated.
Yesterday was celebrated the fife of the dead.
From the earliest dawn the church bells were tolling,
and crowds of people were racking to the cemeteries
with garlands of immortellex in their hands, to place
ou the tombs of their deceased relatives or friends.
Nothing could he more decorous than the conduct of
this vast multitude, pressing but not pushing on to
the performance of their pious pilgrimage. The
cemeteries of Wire la Chaise and Montmartre pre-
sented the appearance of moving gardens—in sneh
quantities were flowers brought there, and held over-
heat' to avoid being crushed.
Arrests still continue, and new domiciliary pet qui
salons are being made. Dr. Watteau of Lille, the
charges against whom were ignored by the Court of
Accusations, has not been liberal...it from Mazes, lint.
is detained on minor charges, to undergo trial before
the Correctional Court, Three persons arrested at
N antes—M essrs. Itoeher, 31avelin, and Davitl—hme
been sent to Paris, and imprisoned at the Con-

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element!.
M. le Comte de Lesser:, director of consular and
commercial attains, has been promoted to the rank of
Minister Plenipotentiary of the first clam. A sister
of the Countess Nlonteio, mother of the Ealpiess,
Married a M. lA`SSeIN, a alereitald of Bordeaux.
Many changes have taken place in the magistra-
ture of Paris and the departments.
The farmers have been exclusively occupied in the
labours of their farms, awl have not yet found time
t bring their corn to market. Another cause of the
continued rise in corn is, that the quality of the
gain is inferior to that of last year, that it has been
purchased for sowing up to this time, and that there
was not enough on hand to induce the cultivators
tu make any concessions.
The vintage has been very unequal in its produce
as to quantity and quality. In some places the
wino is abundant and meagre, in others scanty but
superior in quality. The champagne wines arc very
tine and plentiful this year.