The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

DENMARK.

In its secret sitting on the 7th inst., the Volk'.
thing resolved not to entertain the government bill,
for changing the special constitution of Denmark
Proper, before a fundamental law for the whole
monarchy should have been enacted.

CURFEW AT SANDWICH.—Some time back it WU
stated that the curfew at Sandwich had been discontinued.
It has been resumed in consequence of the opposition made
by the inhabitants. The sane maned about twenty yaws
ago.—Nate and (Mr*.

FRANCE.

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PARIS, MONDAY EVIINING.
The followieg is the Moniteur's account of the
battle of Oltenitza:

The government has received the following details of the
rencontre of the 4th between the Turks and Russians at
Oltenitea. It is In the triangle formed by the Argil, the
Danube, and the village of Oltenites, that the sangsinary
combat of the 4th took place. The Turks were only 9,000
strong, they occupied the quarantine building situated in
the plain near the Danube and the village. This budding
and au old redoubt were fortified with materials brought
from Tourtukai. The Turks made use of the batteries of
that forum with great suedes ; they threw acmes the
Danube, which is about 260 wises in width, shot and shells
which reached the Russians at the foot of the village
situated on an elevation. General Dannenherg, who
directed the operations, was at a short distance from the
village with his staff. The loss of the Russians
is estimated at 1,200 men killed or wounded.
Almost all the chefs-de-bataillon were wounded, as well as
several colonels; the great majority of the wounds were
made with conical bans. Prince Gortschakoff has left for
Oltenius. It is intended to attack the Turks with 24,000
men to-day or to-morrow.
I understand the despatch, as received by the go-
vernment, contained a which, fn obvious
reasons, has been omitted from the official journal.
It was stated—and, indeed, the fact is still plainly
to be inferred from the above paragraph—that the
Turks picked off the Russian officers with the Millie
rifle. It is known that several months ago
a considerable number of these arms were
supplied to Turkey by the French govern-
ment. It is satisfactory to find that the
Turks know how to make such good use
of this terrible weapon. The concluding statement
of the note in the Monacan shows that the reports of
the Turks having entered Bucharest were premature.
We may expect from one hour to another to hear the
result of the pitched battle alluded to as on the point
of taking place. In the mean time Paris is deluged
with false reports on the subject. I am given to
understand that government has received a despatch
this morning, according to which the Russian force
about to attack the Turks in their positions was
35,000 strong. The Turks were very strongly en-
trenched. They amounted to only 24,000, but were
expecting reinforcements. It is, I believe, calculated
that had the Russians obtained the victory the news
would have arrived ere this, sinoe the earliest intelli-
pace must necessarilypass through Russian hands.
M. Kiaseleff, it is said, will not go to Fontaine-
bleau, owing to "indisposition." The only answer I
have heard to the inquiry, " What is his illness P" is,
" The article in the Moniteur." Vely Pacha has
received a special invitation from the 20th to the
30th of the month. It is thought the Emperor will
sot return to Paris till the anniversary of the coup
dritat, Dec. 2. Nothing whatever is said about the
Empress's fete day, which was fixed for to-morrow.
It will doubtless he celebrated at Fontainebleau, but
I do not hear of any preparations in Paris.
A special correspondent of the Press., writing from
Trebizond on the 22nd October, says that Abdhi-
Pacha left Erzeroum for Kars on the 12th October,
at the head of 12,000 regular troops of all arms.
10,000 regulars had already arrived at head-quarters
from Kurdistan and Diarbekir. 16,000 redifs were
also encamped in the neighbourhood of Kars. The
government has called the bachi-bozong into active
service, and they were distributed along the
whole frontier. These are irregular volunteers, armed
with muskets without bayonets, pistols, and a kama
(a kind of poignard with a large blade). There
are nearly 30,000 of these troops between
Batoum and Kars. A Russian army of 30,000
men had been encamped for the last twenty
days at the foot of the mountain which commands the
town of Alexandropol, situated 12 hours' march from
Kan, on the Georgian territory. Another corps of
15,000 was at Akhalzikh, whose destination was to
take Batoum, marching over the mountains which
command it, while Russian ships would bombard the
town by sea. On the 21st four Turkish steam-frigates',
disembarked at Trebizoad 1,500 riflemen, armed as
the Chassenrs de Vincennes, and 6,000 infantry. All
these are excellent troops, well armed and equipped.
Twenty-two more steamers, with troops for Erie-
num and Kars, were expected. It was thought that
the Turkish government would in the next week
send four or five thousand good troops from Con-
stantinople to Batoum.
This evening's Patric says :
If we may believe the Gazette de Trieste an English
courier arrived at Bagdad on the 27th of September brought
intelligence from Teheran that the Shah of Persia was dis-
posed to declare against Turkey, and would send an army to
the Turkish frontier. This news coincides with the rumours
mentioned in the journals and correspondence from India
brought by the last mail. However this mil be, the danger
to the Ottoman empire does not lie in this direction, and the
Russian machinations in Turkey are of a nature to give
more uneasiness to England than to Turkey.
The Bourse continues in the same position. There
is an evident tendency to rise which nothing but
very decided bad news can resist The confident
feeling was encouraged to-day by a rise of I, in
Consols;posted at the commencement of business. The
Threes began at 73fr. 50c., rose to 73f. 70c., and closed
at 73fr. 550., being the last price of yesterday. The
Four-and-a-Halfs rose 23c. The Orleans railway rose
7L 50c.; Lyons, 5f.; and Rouen and Havre, SL; Paris
and Rouen fell 5f., and in the other lines there was
little variation. Bank of France shares, owing to the
late increase in the discount business, were in extra-
ordinary demand, and rose 50f. A telegraphic
despatch was spoken of, according to which a battle
had been fought in Russia between Schamyl'e army
and 15,000 Russians, in which the Russians had
been completely worsted.

SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.

(11T ZLZCTILIC TZLIORAPIL.)
(PION OUR OWN COREZIPONDINT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, TUZBDAT.
The Severn has arrived. Her dates are ;—Buenos
Apes, Oct. 2 ; Monte Video, Ook 6 ; Rio de Janeiro,
Oct. 16.

There had been an outrage upon British subjects
at Rio de Janeiro. Two Englishmen, one a mate of
a merchant ship, and the other a labourer at
the gas works at that place, were pressed as they
were walking is the streets on the morning of the
21st September, and sent on board the Cariacu, Bra-
zilian government transport. As the sailor was dis-
abled by an abscess and the labourer was useless
they were landed, without a word of explanation
or a shilling of wages, at Pernambuco on the 7th
October. The sailor's name is Thomas Willis. He
went to Rio as second mate of the Midas. The other,
Thomas Stephens, arrived at Rio as passenger in the
ship Calcutta, from Australia, and was employed in
the gas works.
At Buenos Ayres trade was brisk, and balls and
parties were the order of the day.
It is expected from the march of events at Monte
Video, that Urquiza will disappear from the public
scene.

The internal state of Buenos Ayres is satisfactory.
It is expected that, after the constitution of the pro-
vince and the appointment of the permanent go-
vernment have been attended to, commercial re-
forms will be adopted.
At Monte Video, President Giro bee returned, but
not resigned; he has been influenced by tho French
Legation. The capital of Monte Video is in an
afflicted state. _

The latest news from Uruguay was that all wai
Quiet in the capital,

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

(BY SLECTILIC TELEGRAPH.)
ARRIVAL OF THE FAITH.
FALMOUTH, TUESDAY.
Arrived, the Faith, Captain Parsons, with the
mails from the west coast of Africa. Her dates are :
Sierra Leone, Oct. 23 ; Teneriffe, Nov. 1; Madeira,
Nov. 3. The mails were landed and posted here
under the charge of Lieutenant Oak. Among the
passengers are the Don. David Fitzpatrick, Captains
Orotson and Brunell ; Messrs. Quill, Stubbs, Phy-
thian, and, Cheetham, and Mrs. Band. The Faith
brings gold-dust valued at 6,0001. After coaling
she will proceed to London.
' Her Majesty's ships at Lagos were the Alecto,
Polyphemus, and Waterwitch, At Sierra Leone :
The Myrmidon, Volcano, ar.d Britomart.

DEATH FROM EATING YEW BERRIES.--A few days
since Mr. Whitmarsh held an ingoe4 at tievenhampton, on
the body of a child, who had been poisoned by eating some
yew berries, which it had picked up in the churchyard
while playing there with some other children. The jury
found that the deceased had been nocidentally poisoned.—
' Salisbury Jame.

CAPT. INOLEFIELD ON THE ARCTIC

SEARCH.
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Last evening the Royal Geographical Society held
its ant meeting fee the session of 1853.54, at the rooms of
the Horticultural Society, 21, Regent•street. The an-

oouncement that Captain Ingleflel4 would upon this occa-
sion lay before the society the results of the late Arctic ez•
peditions, including the discovery of the north•weat pas'
sage by Captain 31'Clure, drew together en unusually
lugs audience. . .

The room was densely filled, amongst the company being
a considerable number of gentlemen connected with the
royal and mercantile nary, and also a large number of
ladies were present. Amongst the company were observed
Sir H. Holland, Sir R. H. Dukinfield, Bart. Colonel
Campbell, General Sandwich, Lieutenant-General Sir Chas.
Pasley, Colonel Pollock, Colonel Steele, Sir B. ()minim, Sir
\V. Parish, Sir Frederick Nicholson. Bart., Sir E. N. Bux-
ton, the Earl of Sheffield, Mr. B. Oliveira, M.P., Admiral
Bowles. Captain Bennett, Captain Fitzroy.

. _
Sir RODIRICIL J. Mnauntsow presided, in the absence
of the Earl of Ellesmere, who was unable to attend.

After the usual preliMinary business of electing new
members, of whom the CHAIMWAN amid a larger number
were to be beliotted for at that than at any previous
meeting, Sir Roderick remarked that it was a pleasing
coincidence that, in having to introduce to them the
distinguished Arctic navig.ater, Captain Inglefield, he did
se while occupying a choir which had once been the
property of one of the earliest of the Arctic voyagers,
viz., Sir Martin Frobisher, who had attempted the
discovery of the North-west Passage in the time of Queen
Elizabeth. The chair had been presented to the society
by Mt. C. R. Weld, of Somerset house, and bore the name
of Sir Martin Frobisher, and the date 1580. The Presi-
dent having read the letter of Mr. Weld in presenting the
chair, called upon
Captain INOLZFILLD, R. N., who read the following
paper :
" Sir,—The honour your society has done me during my
absence, in awarding the Victoria gold medal for my dis-
coveries in the Polar Seas, has made me eager to be the
first medium through which that society shall receive the
intelligence of the discovery of the North West Passage,
the news of which it has been my lot to bring to England in
' her Majesty's steam vessel Phoenix. The thousands that
have been lavished by the B • • h nation, with unsparing
hand, for the last two centuries and a half, to solve this
great geographical problem, were destined to be of little
avail to that immediate end, though large has doubtless bees
the addition to our knowledge of people and countries that
would otherwise have remained unknown. The last, and it
is too much to be feared, fatal effort of this country, which
Ins been the subject of general interest, and I may
my national anxiety, has called forth, in behalf
ter the safety of that expedition, squadrons of
ships to the rescue, some privately employed ; and
whilst all hay* proved equally unsuccessful in throwing
light upon the great subject of the fate of our missing cow-
trymea, still it has been the lot of one vessel of the search-
ing fleet (and one for which considerable anxiety had been
felt) to penetrate from the westward to a spot within 170
miles of the winter quarters of the first expedition that
spent a long Polar night at Melville Island, in 1821. The
Investigator, Captain M'Clure, reached that position in the
spring of 1830, and, after hopefully waiting two years to
complete the remainder of that distance, luckily
deposited, by means of a travelling party, a paper
that was found at Winter Harbour, by Captain
Kellett's people, last year. Early in the season a
hardy few were despatched from the Resolute, with the ther-
mometer at 30 to give to the ice-bound mariners hope of
rescue, and you, sir, will easily understand how words
must fail to convey one tithe the sentiments of joy felt by
the worn-out crew on beholding a stranger, their fellow
eountrymea, approaching them on the desert waste of ice
which surrounded the ship. Captain ?Minn describes it
as a moment to be telt but once in a man's life. The sick
crawled from their hammocks on deck to behold the stranger,
and looks, not words, could alone convey their welcome
and transports of joy at the knowledge that succour was at
hand. A few days later, and the crew of the Investigator
would have been dispersed to seek retreat by the Mackenzie
River and Leopold Harbour. Few would probably have
ever reached their destination, enervated and emaciated as
they were. It was soon determined to send a sarty of
invalids, under Lieut. Cresswell, to the Resolute (Captain
Kellett), and that officer loot no time in forwarding the
lieutenant on to Beechey Island with the despatches
of Captain M'Clure. On my arrival there I appointed him
to the Phenols, and he has been the bearer to this country
of those despatches, with the journals, charts, rte., of the
Captain of the Investigator, Lieutenant Cresswell and
Lieutenant Wyniatt being the first individuals wko have
ever passed round the great continent of America. The
journal of Captain M'Clure, which as senior officer at
Beschey Island I had the privilege of perusing be-
fore it was despatched to the Admiralty, is deeply
interesting, and contains such full and minute ac-
counts of their adventures and discoveries that I feel
I have little right to interfere with what has already ap-
peared in the public prints. A description that carries
with it truthfulness and grandeur, illustrating as it does
the perils and hardships of this lengthened voyage, cannot
be more entirely appreciated than it is by all those whose
experience in the Arctic Seas has given them the ability to
judge of the hair-breadth escapes Captain M'Clure and his
brave comrades have gone through. So much has been
written, and charts in thousands (illustrating the marvellous
voyage of the Investigator) have been so widely circulated
that It would be presumptuous in me to do more at this
late period than briefly to show upon the large chart which
hs before you (and which has been so ably prepared by
Mr. Arrowsniith), the route by which the North West
Passage may yet be accomplished, and the track by which
Lieut. Cresswell and Li• ut. Wyniatt completed the short
interval between the discoveries of the veteran Arctic navi-
gator, Parry, and those of the gallant M'Clure. Lieu-
tenant Cresswell has with mach inconvenience to
himself come to London for the purpose of attending
here this evening, and I therefore feel sure that you will
hold me excused in passing over the details of Captain
M'Clure's voyage, which will be so much more ably and
effectively detailed by one of that gallant band who shared
in the dangers and was witness Wall the perils that assailed
them. Without, therefore, encroaching on the interest of
the communication which you will receive from that officer,
I will only remind you that on the 6th of August,
1850, the Investigator was seen entering the ice
off Point Barrow, with studding-sails set, stand-
ing to the N.E., and until the return of the Phoenix,
nothiag had been heard of her from that date. Point
Barrow was rounded with mach difficulty, and at the
River Colville, in 150 degrees west longitude, the Investi-
gator was detained by the ice some days. A succession of
strong easterly winds and fogs obliged them then to beat
to windward. This, however, ally proved an advan-
tage, as the shallow water on the American coast, and the
broken ice off the Pack-edge, gave them warning of the
dangers they were approaching, whilst they had time to
pet about, which they were frequently obliged to do
every ten minutes. The mouth of the Mackenzie was
reached on the 23rd of August, and oddly enough, on that
very same day the boats of the Plover, under Lieut. (now
commander) Pullen, passed the Palley Islands, which lay
off its entrance, and thus the two expeditions crossed
each ether not far asunder, but unseen by either.
On the 30th the Investigator reached Cape Bathurst,
having failed in the attempt to stretch to the
northward, which Captain Maclure had tried on
finding the ice so distant from the land, as it appeared,
off the River Mackenzie. Coasting along, they reached
Cape Parry, in 123 deg. west, on the 6th of September.
Open water again tempted them to push to the northward,
in the direction of the land seen by Parry in 1821, and
named Bank's Land. On the 6th of September, about 60
miles in a N.E. direction from Cape Bathurst, they first
fell in with au unknown coast. f he headland
then sighted was called Nelson Head, and which
eventually proved to be the southern extremity of
an island, which was called Baring Wand, and
whose northern shores had been seen and named by Parry
after Sir Joseph B inks. Keeping to the eastward of this,
they passed up a narrow strait, formed by the shores of this
island and a coast that was named after his Royal Highness
Prince Albert ; and reaching lat. 73 deg., were suddenly
beset in the pack, and, drifting to the southward, were
finally frozen up in lat. 72.40 and lon. 117.30 West. In the
spring, travelling parties were sent out, but they discovered
no trans of the musing expedition, though much new land
was traversed, and previously unknown coasts explored.
On the 14th July, 1851, the ice broke up, and when the
ship got clear, an endeavour was made to push again to the
north-eastward, as the travelling parties had discovered
that in this direction a north-west passage could be effected
when the ice permitted. They could, however, only suc-
ceed in reaching a position 33 miles further to the north-
ward than they had attained on the preceding year; and
now an impenetrable pack defying their further progress,
an attempt was made, by rounding the island to
the southward, to pass up the western side, and thus reach
Melville Strait by the shores of Bank's Land. A latitude
of 74.6 and long. 117.12 was the farthest point they could
reach ere the chilling frosts of another winter set in, and
again froze them up on the 94th September, 1851, in a small
bight on the northern part of Bank's Land, and which
was named the Harbour of Mercy, barely 70 miles distant
from Melville Island, and little over 160 from the
winter quarters of Captain Kellett last year. As
they had experienced on the other side, so they
found this also hampered with heavy ice, which
totally p d their gaining the shores of Melville
Island in the vessel, and in Mercy Bay they were destined
to remain, until discovered by Lieutenant Pies, of the Rem-
lute. This officer (whose name will be familiar to this 1
society as one who planned the Siberian overland expedi-
tion) reached the Investigator on the 11th of April lasi, and
on the 15th Lieutenant Cresswell was despatched with
Lieutenant Wyniatt and a party of invalids to the
I winter quarters of the Resolute. From thenes
the officers were despatched by Captain Kellett to
Beechey Island, where they joined my ship, end
I thus completed the circuit of the great continent of Ame-
rica. It was fortunate that abundance of game was to be
found on the coasts near which the Investigator wintered,
otherwise the three years' provisions with which the vessel
was stored would have proved inadequate to support them ;
nevertheless, energy and strength for the chase were requi-
site; and when discovered by Captain Kellett's party, the
bald and enterprising hunter, who the first year would go
to seek for game, trusting to his success to allay the
cravings of hunger, was then found spiritless and unequal
i to the labour, which had been his former sport. 'thus it
was that Capt. M'Clure resolved to abandon hie ship in the
summer of 18-53, and which project was to Lave been partly
carried out on the 15th of April, • few days later than the
• opportune arrival of the officer from Capt. Kellett's vessel.
• Whether it will be now decided to forsake the ship
it may be laid is left in the hands of the crew to

decide, as Captain Kellett, very wisely (notwithstandine
Captsie M'Clurs's desire to get the ship through) had
ordered that unless 20 volunteers could be found smo,,ot
the crew to remain by the vessel, she was to be inimidi.
ately deserted, sod the people were to joie hie pendant.
Thus, sir, has been so.ved the problem of centuries; s
north-west passage to Cathie has been discovered, but sin,
to Haw avail, as that way has been found so blocked with
ice, so beset with dangers, and through such inclement es.
gions, as to leave no doubt as to is perfect inutility for
tracinqgu Wellington
sinting yon
the purposes of navigation. I will not encroach on the
matter Lieut. Cresawell may have to lay before you, but
now brifly state in connexion with the subject fir this ee 0.
tog's oonsiderstion, what have been the discoveries made
by Captain Sir Edward Belcher's expedition. Last year I
informed your society from this place of the progress of that
irtyenotfe
with the search mde by the Assistance and Pioneer
in that direction, and the result of their exploring out".
squadronChsnoer. upl have to
theno w time
a u opp of
o rtt hueni
With considerable difficulty Sir Edward Belcher reached a
spot inlet. 76.52 and lon. 97 W., which he called Northum-
berland Sound, and here he passed the winter of '52.3, ex-
ploring the adjacent coasts and islands to the notthvrard and
eastward, determining the continuation of a coast liae
trending towards Jones's Sound. About 30 miles to the
northward of his winter quarters, be discovered landoshieh
was named North Cornwall, and further still to the
northward a group of islands, named by bias the
Victoria Islands. With reference to the search fur the
missing expedition, nothing has beets discovered to throw
any light upon their track ; nothing that could be at all
said to convey the slightest hope of leading to their dis-
covery ; if we except some Esquimau' huts found on a
point to the northward of Northumberland Sound, and
which Sir Edward Belcher speaks of as hearing g
certain appearance of more civilised workmanship than
that of the untutored Esquimau:. Many bone' of
walrus, deer, and seals were found, and coal seen.
You will observe, sir, that the position of Wellington Chan-
nel is rather altered, as by Sir Edward Belcher's observe-
-401111 be makes it to run in a more northerly direction than
Captain Penny had supposed, the whole of the coast lint
having been laid down too much to the westward. The
western branch of the searching squadron, under Captain
Kellett, had reached Dealy Island, where they:wintered,
but as the extended travelling parties had not returned at
the time that the officers left the dissolute for Beechy
Island, we have no means of learning what they may
have accomplished. On the subject of geographical
discovery, I have nothing to add, and as my own voyage,
with the full particulars of the loss of one of the vessels of
my squadron, has already appeared before the public, I will
not take up more of your time, which will be more inte-
restingly occupied in the remarks of Lieuteusnt Cresswell,
and the discussion on this subject."
A vote of thanks was then passed to Capt. Inglefteld for
his raper.
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SOme conversation followed, and the meeting then broke
up.

PROPOSED ECCLESIASTICAL CHANGES IN
THE PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS.

Yesterday a special and crowded meeting of the
elected vestry of St. Pancras was held at the Parochial
Court House, Camden-town, for the purpose of considering
the proposal of the vicar to introduce a bill into parliament
in the ensuing session to subdivide the parish into separate
ecclesiastical districts.
The VICAR (the Rev. Thos. Dale) having taken the
chair, addressed the vestry in support of his plan, which,
he said, so far from having for its ohject a reimposition of
church-rates, would carry out a pledge he bad given in
1847—that so long as he was vicar of St. Pancras be would
be a party to any act which would lead to a reimposi-
tion of church•rates. (Hear, hear) The objects sought
to he carried out by the proposed bill were, first, to popu-
!seise and reform the board of church trustees, and make
them a body elected by the pew-renters of the various
churches, instead of!, self-elected body as they were at present.
The second object was to secure pastoral efficiency in cam
of the districts, which they did not now possess; and an-
other object was to enable the prebendal revenues and in-
comes derivable from the church lands in the parish to
be appropriated to the repairs and other requirements of the
church in the parish. The Rev. Vicar showed that in con-
sequence of the (misting church acts prohibiting marriages
at the various district churches, they had to be performed
at the mother church of St. Pancras, to the great impedi-
ment of Divine service. They had sometimes as many as
120 banns published on a Sunday, and as many as 30 mar-
riages at a time, thus preventing the due solemnity from
being observed. No less than 423 marriages had taken
place between Midsummer and Michaelmas la-t, or upwards
of 1,600 per annum. The bill would not in the slightest
degree interfere with the local or municipal rights of the
vestry ; it would not permit the clergy, as was apprehended,
to come and take their seats as e.r officio members of that
vestry, neither would it interfere with the rights or the
pockets of any dissenting body whatsoever. The Rev.
Chairman then explained the anomalies which existed in
the different constitutions of the present districts, and assured
the vestry that he would consent to such alterations and
ameudmente as the committee should propose, with a view
to secure to the churchwardens and vestry ail existing
rights, and protect the parish from the reimposition of
church rates. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. SMEETEN, as one of the requisitionists, moved a re-
solution, recommending the appointment of a committee to
consider the details of the bill, and repirt to the vestry if
any and what alterations are desirable therein, particularly
in order to secure the existing jurisdiction rights and prim
leges of the churchwardens and parishioners in vestry as-
sembled.
Mr. T. E. BAKER seconded the resolution.

Mr. COOPER moved that it be an imperative instruction
that provisions be made that no compulsory church rate
should be made fur any district or ether church, unless the
same be signed by the two churchwardens elected by the
vestry, and that the vicar and said churchwardens shall
alone be ex officio members of the vestry.
This was seconded, and having been appended to the
original resolution, was unanimously carried as an amend-
ment.
The vestry then separated.