The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-27 00:00:00

REAR -ADMIRAL SIR JOHN ROSS'S ARCTIC

EXPEDITION.

Sir Juhn ROBS arrived in town this mailing, from
Stranraer, having arrived at that port yesterday. Wo
understand that the information be Stings tends to con-
firm the report received from the Esquimaux,
last autumn, to the effect that Sir John Frank-
) in's ships had been loot somewhere at the
top of liaffitt's Bay, in the autumn of 1816, and that
a portiou of the crew had been murdered by a hostile
tribe of natives, said to be resident in those parts.
Sir John Bans is entirely of opinion that Sir John
Franklin never went up Wellington Channel, but
was returning home, and met with thin disa►ter. The
Esquimaux interpreter was sworn before a magis-
trate, at Goilhaven, when he reiterated his former
statement. The Esquituaux document, written by
him, has been brought Loose by Sir John Ross to be

trandated. Sir John Hon would not now have returned,
but havo renewed hi, search at the top of Boffins Bay, had
he hail provisions for another winter.—Naidical Standard
of this day.

TIIE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPII-MORE

CABLE WANTED.

DOTER, FRIDAY.
On arriving at Dover to-day, by the 2 o'clock express,
I ascertained from Captain Cartier, in charge of the Princess
Maud, who left Calais at 1 o'clock, that in consequence of the
great cable not being long enough the Blazer was abruptly
brought to anchor. This, after considerable trouble and in-
quiry, I have now hail confirmed to me on official authority
Several reasons other than the right .vcre as and cir.
culated to account for this sudden and certainly unintended
detention within reach of the promised shore; and it is a
pity that, even in spite of a result adverse to the adven-
tarot's expedition, anything like indirectness of statement
or a divergence from the fair I should, even by ►cciaent,
have occurred. Amongst other representations to account
for the anomaly, it was stated that it was deemed advisable
to anchor at the point in question on the convoy being over-
taken by nightfall, and as it would have to rough the remain-
der of the passage through a rolling and pitching sea. It was
also thought it would be difficult to carry the cable on
shore in consequence of the extended hats that front
Calais, and the possible want of a sufficient depth of
water to accommodate the draught of the Blazer. Do this
es it muy, the expedition came to a stand still, the Fearless
was unattached, and the Monkey and other towing craft
made their way into Calais harbour. It is difficult to what
cause to attribute the shortcoming iu the serving out of the
cable, since for all the purposes of slackening there was a
reserve or surplus of fall four miles over the twenty re-
quired fur casting out between coast and coast, and
although the line of sea to be navigate,' was marked out by
pilot buoys with flag staffs, and although well known to
Captain Bullock, it is not improbable that either by a
divergence from the given line under the influence of •
stronger head wind, which was W.N.W., or the rolling of t
stronger sea as the vessel entered the chops of the Channel,
Eight have required a longer allowance of surplus cable
than was originally calculated. Another point to bo coo-
sidi red is, that if accurate soundings of the sea valleys
and undulations did not enable the engineer to
allow for them, they may have tended materially
to swallow up far more than the assignable 'orphan.
Altogether, it now appears that little more than "a quarter
of a mile" of cable was required to have taken the tele.
graph clean home to the Calais coast, and this cannot now
be accomplished until so much of the cable is manufactured
and sent down, there being none of it left or ready nada
at Wapping. The distance of the cable out at sea with the
Blazer is variously reported: some say four miles, others
three and • Lar, others two and • half; and this latter is
believed to lie the case. As no further attempt can be
made until the additional cable arrives, the expedition may
be looked upon as "stm•ded," and great curiosity is evinced
to know how, during the necessary interval, the cable
will stand," and whether it may be considered as secure
in situ. The amount of slack, or surplus, allowed
in last year's experiment with the gutty percha coil
was more than double that of the cable, nough the
distance was a mile or two longer. To-day there was a
heavy surfing sea and • fresh W.N.W. wind, which would
probably have rendered it impracticable, even with the re-
quired amount of coil, to have compassed the remaining 2}
miles. Yesterday • large number of persons travelled from
Dover to the South Foreland, to inspect the cable and re-
ceive intelligence from the other side, and communications
were made through the cable at intervals. The coast of
France at 20 miles across could be seen from the English
shore when at fitful intervals its white cliffs became sun-

lighted. The misadventure is the more to be regretted a
next month the equinoctial gala set in.

TIM CAPE MAILS.—It will be recollected that
very considerable delay has occurred at the two last arrivals
of mails from the Cape of Good Hope in the delivery of the
letters and papers thereby arriving, in consequence of tint
retaining the mails in Plymouth some hours and afterwards
sending the whole on to London to be sorted. By this
course letters, &c., for Plymouth were not delivered until
they had been some 48 hours in England. In consequence
of this delay representations have been made to the Post-
office authorities, and the following reply has been received :
" General Post-oflice, Sept. 23, 1851.—Sir,—In reply to
your letter of the 11th inst. I bog to acquaint you that the
arrangements at present in force for disposing of the corre-
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spondence brought to this country from the Cape of Good
Hope by the line of mail packets recently established are
the best that can be adopted under present circumstances•
It is hoped that the necessity of forwarding the wholo mail
to London on its arrival at Plymouth will, in a short time,
be done away with, when all letters for London and its
vicinity will arrive in a separate bag.—l am, sir, your obe-
dient, humble servant, J. TILLY, Assistant Secretary."

•
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF
Tax Carer.—The quarterly meeting of the board of ma-
=gement of this institution, took place on Wednesday last
at the hospital, Liverpool-street, Henry Waite, Esq., in the
chair.
From the medical report it appears that 2,098 pa-
tients have been admitted to the benefits of the charity .
singe the 31st of December last, the weekly attendance at
the present time averaging 605, and the total number re-
loved since the first establishment of the hospital in 1848
amounting to 9,585. Great progress has been made in the
erection of the new hospital at the Victoria Park, the
foundation stone of which was laid in Juno by Prince Al-
I heft ; and the committee are now anxious to obtain fur-
ther funds, so that the building may be completed and
opened for the reception of in-patients as early as possiule.
The necessity for this is apparent from the fact of the charity
having relieved such a large number of the less severe
cases of pulmonary affection, while no relief whatever can
yet be afforded to those who are suffering from these com-
plaints in their more advanced stages, requiring the com-
forts and careful treatment which this hospital is designed
to afford. Other busineu was then disposed of, and the
meeting adjourned.
GRANITE DIJOUTERIE.—Besides the um made of
' the Aberdeen and Peterhead granite kr bollthei, paving,
and statuary purposes, it lonise. by do obi of the lapidary,
manufactured into a variety of melt Geddes, for which
its beautiful polish admirably ear* it. For instance, it
may be met with in the first shop of Edinburgh and else-
where, handsomely mounted in this=f •
pen-holders, bracelets, brooches, for
papereutters, and other knives, slnda, bottom, sod baulks,
paper-weights, etc. Comalarabio omploymem might be
obtained by working up the • bomilfol poillte of Devon
and Cornwall, Ca IN cially those of Dartmoor, tato similar
articles.—ne Builder.