The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

WooLwrcir, APRIL 10 —Toe Intrepid, screw steam
vessel, Commander M'Clintock, and the Pioneer,
acre w steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Osborne,
were taken out of the basin to-day, and are now at
moorings in the stream, in readiness to leave with the
Assistance, Captain Sir E. Belcher, C. 8., and the
Resolute, Captain Kellett, C. 8., when they are com-
pleted, which they will be in a day or two, and they
still expect to be able to leave Greenhithe on Thurs-
day next, the 15th inst., as originally named, on their
enterprising voyage. The Lords of the Admiralty
intend paying a visit of inspection to the vessels of
the Arctic Expedition at Greenbithe, on Thursday
next, previous to their departure for sea.
Captain Sir Edward 13 -Icher, Captain W. A. B.
Hamilton, R.N., second secretary at the Admiralty;
Colonel Colquhoun, R.A., inspector of the Royal
Carriage Department; and Captain Washington,
R.N., were present on the wharf wall at the landing-
place in the afternoor, with a number of officers, to
witness Mr. Hay, the lecturer on chemistry, instruct-
ing the bombardiers of the Royal Marine Artillery
attached to the expedition, in the model of discharging
gunpowder under water by means of the galvanic bat-
tery. The explosive charges consisted of half a
pound of gunpowder in ten canisters, which were
sufficient when discharged in the bottoin of the river
to show the principle and uses to which the galvanic
battery can be applied when explosions by means of
gunpowder are found necessary in the Arctic
regions.

Mr. George Shepherd, C.E., has received instruc-
tions from the Admiralty to examine and get repaired
all the gas apparatus connected with the balloons for
distributing messages in the Arctic regions, and also
to supply a number of new balloons, and the means
of inflating them with gas, to be used by the present
expedition. The balloons are made on this occasion
to neat on the water, should they come down at sea.
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of the vesselsien:ctibilL printed on both sides, leaving
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EXTENSIVII FIRE.—On Saturday night at a late
hour the inhabitants of the City and east end oft of
foilnadmone
were greatly alarmed in consequence of huge sheets
suddenly rising high into the air and lighting p eboth
of the river Thames. This being distinctly perceptible from
the various metropolitan bridges, no time was lost in giving
the necessary intelligence to the engine-stations. The fire
up s
sides
was raging at Mill-wall, Poplar. The firemen having arrived
at that point they found that the disaster had occurred in the
extensive premises of Messrs. Cassell and Co., pitch, tar,
varnish, and patent camphine manufacturers. The engines
were set to work from a good supply of water. The origin
of the fire is not precisely known, but from the fact of some
miscreant having cut the hose of one of the engines while it
was being set to work, strong suspicion is entertained that
the same party had some hand hi kindling the fire. Ttie
loss is very considerable, and unfortunately the firm was
not invared.