The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-07-17 00:00:00

NEWS FROM CAPTAIN FRANKLIN.

The following is enntaincil in a letter to the editor of the
Detroit GazPlie, from a gentleman at the Sauk St. Marie,
dared April 19:—
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" The ground is still covered with more than two feet of snow,
and the river fast held in the embraces of winter. During the win-
ter the weather has been incredible severe, though the extreme
cold (at indizatcd by spirits of wine) wan but 36 delfrees below zero.
Front a correct register of the depth of snow' taken as it fell, we
find an ageTegate of seventeen and a half feet, and it is now snow-
ing quite fast.
" One of Captain Franklin's party, who is the bearer of de.
snatrlitai from the Admiralty Office, passed this post on the 2d of
April. front whom we learn, through the agents of the Hudson
Bev Company, that Captain F. reached the shores of the Arctic
Sea on the 14th of August, without encountering any of the &qui-
maux in descending 3l•Kenzie's River, they having retired to their
ghteint habititions still nearer the magnetic pole. After remaining
two days on the coast the party returned to Bear hake, where ar-
rangements had been made for their winter residence by theHridson
Bay Compativ. at which place the bearer of the despatches left
them on the lith of September. Dr. Richard had in the mean time
been in search of the copper mountain alluded to in the printed
journal.
• it is to be hoped that the severity of the weather will not pre-
vent an early movement of the party this spring. We have reason
to baiter that the rigour of their winter hes been increased in ratio
corresponding to their latitude, from the number Orrin deer that
have been seen 'lli. quarter, which would have taken place only
in consequence of unusual difficulties in subsisting themselves in a
region still more inhospitable than this."

SHIPPING INTEI.LIGENCE.
FA t. MO VT H JULY 13.Artved the Thalia, Hammond, from
Messina—on the Gth inst., in lat. 41, long. 10, spoke a Colombian
privateer, c.uising against the Spaniards; the P'elortis, Goodwin,
from Catania; the Enterprise, Hoskin. from London; the Syren,
Locksay, from Handnirgh ; the Mary, Osborn, from Jersey ;
the ►fetsey., Johns, from Liverpool for Genoa, with her bow.
sprit sprung. OW the poet—the Isabella, Wildgoose, from LOT).
don for Dorneritra; the Jahn and Robert, Swinton, from Mira-
inichi, in twenty days; and the Albion, Hardy, from ditto.—
Wind W.
Poursatourts, Jur.r 14.—Arrived the Cleveland. Havelock,
from London for the Mauritius; the Highlander, Mitchell, front
ditto tbr New Providence; the Redman, Royce, from ditto, for
Barbadoes. Sailed the Comet Post-office steam packet, for Liver-
pool.—Wind W.
Dcrit., JULY 14.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Va-
liant. Bragg, from Grenada; the Salamanca, Boyd. from the
Mediterranean. Arrived front :lie River, and remain, the Princess
Amelia, Kellaway, for China; the Pliwnix, Anderson, for New
South Wales; the Oscar, Ilenderwell, for Gibraltar.

PRESTON Esecriorr.—True bills were found by the
Grand Jury against twenty-seven persons, charged with
assembling in a riotous and disorderly rianner, and by vio-
lence preventing divers persons from approaching the hust-
ings erected for taking the poll at the Preston election.
Eighteen of these men, who were taken into custody on
the spot, immediately after the arrival of the military, as
stated at the time, having traversed the indictments against
them to the next sessions, were brought into Court yester-
day to put in bail, when the sureties offered were taken for
fourteen out of the number. Nine of the persons charged
have not vet been apprehended. It is supposed that the
trials of these prisoners will be removed by writ of cer-
tiorari into the Assize Court at Lancaster, to come on at
the March Assizes. The following is a list of the nine
persons who have not yet been taken into custody :—Sam.
tVilson, Wm. Dauber, Jonas Frith, iirrn. Slater, Richard
Walmsley, John Grundy, Win. Butterworth, Edward
Riley, and John Cowell.
The intelligence of Mr. Bell's success at the Northum-
berland election was received at York with the greatest
enthusiasm. The news was received by the Iligliflyer
coach, which was drawn by six horses, a postilion in a blue
silk jacket riding the leader. A man in the front bore a
placard, on which was inscribed, " The Protestant Cause
triumphant—Bell for ever !" The Union Jack and a blue
flag were also displayed from the coach. In the evening a
number of gentlemen (clay belonging to Colonel Wilson's
election Committee) paraded the streets, with a band of
music and colours. They were attended by a large con-
course of people, which, when they arrived at the George
Inn, could not amount to less than eOOO in number. After
the band had played "God save the King," Mr. Bewley
Graham was loudly called for, and he addressed the crowd
from the window in an animated speech, at the conclusion
of which the populace gave three hearty cheers, and then
dispersed.—Dar/rani .4drirtiser of Saturday.
MAtetteAcTuitlNG DisTsicrs—The only new feature in
the accounts from the manufacturing districts is the fact,
that several emissaries have been detected proceeding from
one distressed town to another, whether for purposes of dis-
affection, or merely of communication, is not mentioned.
PENANCE.—On Sunday last, Isaac Gaskill, of Bolton-
le-Sands, near Lancaster, stood penance in a white sheet,
and without shoes and stockings, in the parish church of
that village, during the morning service, agreeably to an
order from the Ecclesiastical Court, for having married the
sister of his former wife, and under peculiarly aggravated
circumstances, soon after her decease. It is scarcely need-
ful to say that a great number of persons attended to wit-
ness the ceremony, which we understand is to be repeated
on the two following Sundays.