The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

THE LATE EDIFICE IN HYDE PARK.

The whole of the materials of the old building have
now been removed from Hyde Park, the last column
having been carried away on Tuesday, and nothing now
remains but to level over the surface again, and eradi-
cate the last traces of the gorgeous crystal vision of 1852.
This is already in progress, and the Crystal Palace ha
et
left not even a trace behind. The removal of the mate-
rials to Sydenbam was contracted fur by Messrs. Young-
hepuesbraatnidenaanden the Son, 9' of New
gu 300 horses and carts in the work. They commenced
thA Gerseit.rd and
's Hall,he time who employed
empleyed
was 91 days, exclusive of Sundays, in the course of
which they conveyed to Sydenham, a quantity of glass,
timber, and iron, amounting in weight to between 17,000
and 18,000 tone.
It is understood that the offers of large sums made by
several parties for a monopoly of the "pickings" to be
found beneath the boards of the Crystal Palace, were all
refused by the contractors, Messrs. Fox and Henderson,
who generously gave permission to the labourers em-
ployed upon the spot to appropriate to themselves any
" treasure trove" which they might chance to light upon
in removing the planks of which the floor was composed,
and in turning up the turf below. The findings h aye
been quite a godsend to some of the men upon the works.
Coins of copper, silver, and gold; crotchet-purses, studs,
rings, ito., with siver and gold headed canes, have turned
up daily. and
the other day a poor man was fortunate
enough to stumble on a purse containing as much es 71.
or 81. It would seem from this that all the treasure lost
last year in the Great Exhibition did not fall into the
hands of the light fingered gentry, though many of them
doubtless made a harvest of the spoils, but that a largo
portion of it slipped through those Provoking board,,
which, as our readers will doubtless remember, stood'
just wide enough to swallow up any stray shillings or
wen,
unhappily, which might drop from their hands, but
unhappily, just too narrow to afford the l re,
oser a chance
of recovery.

THE MURDER OF M. MLNIEOLD.-1110 LeinSier
Express gins the following additional particulars rela-
tive to this most atrocious murder;. .. It appears that
Mr. Morris was the purchaser of the Mountpleasaut
property, under the Encumbered Estates Court, his bro•
thet'a wifa having been the previous owner. The pur-
chase-money not having been lodged till after November,
Mrs. Morris claimed the rent due up to that date, and
the cons( queue° was that the tenantry refused to ac-
knowledge her brother-in-law as their landlord. In p ir-
Ritmo, however, of an order of the Commissioners, the
land was forthwith cleared of the defaulters, and thus
delivered up to Mr. Morris. Mr. Manifold was the pel-
tion who carried the evictions into effect, and in that we
believe l es the chief cause of his unpopularity and aub
'
I sequeut melancholy death."

The Monileur publishes the following letter, ad-
dressed to the Minister of Marine by M. Bellot, the
French naval officer si ho accompanied the expedition
to the Arctic) Seas in search of Sir John Franklin :
P London, Oct. 13, 1852.
" Monsieur le Ministre,—l have the honour to in-
form you of the arrival at Aberdeen of the schooner
lea s
t ice t o did
give
iv
enot
a satisfactory
permit
tls Prince Albert, with 18 men, which was sent last year
in search of Sir John Franklin. Our exertions have
been fruitless, as might be foreseen from the result of
the expeditions undertaken in 1850 and 1851 by ni
vessels despetched from England and the United
States. The circumstances of our navigation through
the
accountuntil re
of
ceettlhyatsoe ascertain
in
in what direction and how far our predecessors had
advanced. If we have not found the solution of a
search so replete with interest, we are enabled at
left behind us engaged in so perilous an enterpriz
"Having encountered the ice on the 23d of June,
1851, we reached on the 10th of July the Danish es-
tablishment of Uppernavick, on the western coast of
Greenland, where we procured a sledge drawn by six
Esquimaux dogs. The whalers we met on the Bth
and 12th informed us that three tombs, bearing names
and dates, and other unequivocal proofs of a perma-
nent residency, indicated that Beechy Island, in Bar-
row's Straits, had been one of the winter quarters of
Sir John Franklin from 1545 to 1846. During more
than 20 days we endeavoured, in conjunction with the
American ships of war, to ascend northward along the
eastern coast of Baffin's Bay, opening for ourselves a
passage through the ice, sometimes by crowding sail
and directing the vessel as a wedge between the pieces
of ice, and at others by sawing the ice or blowing
open a passage with gunpowder.
"On several occasions the vessel was hemmed in
by immense fields of ice several leagues in extent, but
our light schooner, rising above it, escaped without
injury. Everything beside was ready, and provisions
constantly stored on the deck, in the event of the
vessel being broken to pieces by the ice. The wind,
which no doubt had not blown from the north as much
as usual, had left the extremity of Baffin's Bay en-
tirely blocked up. Numerous icebergs, or mountains
of ice, from 100 to 150 feet in height, surrounded
us on all sides, and it was with difficulty we extri-
cated ourselves from that dangerous neighbourhood.
Having left the 74 deg. 45' N. lat., we succeeded at
last in crossing the principal mass. More to the
south, on the 2d of September, we reached the
entrance of Barrow's Straits, endeavouring to pene-
trate westward, where we expected to meet the Eng;
lish squadron. Fresh obstacles obstructed our passage,
and the interval was employed in visiting the eastern
coast of Prince Regent's Inlet. It was also of the
highest importance to call in at Leopold's Harbour,
where we might obtain the information we required.
"In the evening of the Bth Mr. Kennedy, with a
boat and four men, left the vessel, then distant a few
miles from the coast. During the night northern
winds and the current drove us southward, and at
break of day we found ourselves 20 miles further,
forced along by the ice, which thus separated us
from the boat we had entirely lost sight of. We
were accordingly obliged to take refuge in Batty's
Bay. The next day I endeavoured to repair by land
with three men to Leopold Harbour, not knowing
whether Mr. Kennedy had been able to reach it; but
the quantity of snow compelled us to return on board
after three days' painfnl exertions, sometimes with
snow up to our knees, and having once employed
fourteen hours in walking five miles. It was quite
impossible to proceed thither by sea. The ice formed
every day a crust sufficiently thick to stop us, hut
not strong enough to allow us to quit our boats. Tbo
fate of our commander, moreover, was then decided,
for we knew that if he had reached Leopold Harbour
he had there found shelter, and an ample supply of
provisions, left by Sir Jams Ross in 1849. In the
first days of October I made a second attempt with a
sledge, but our impatience directed us more than our
prudence, and the lees giving way again baffled our
hopes. A third attempt was made with a boat, which
we drew 50 or 60 miles on the ice along the coast,
and on the 17th of October we had the good fortune
of again meeting our travelling companions in good
health, and having only suffered on our account, for
they did not know what had become of us.
" The rest of the year was employed in securing
the vessel in her winter quarters, surrounding it with
a thick snow wall, building on the ice with snow
workshops end stores for our provisions, and prepar-
ing for our winter excursions sledges, mocassins,
clothes, and snow shoes.

" A detachment of four men, of whom I was one,
under the orders of Mr. Kennedy, repaired on the sth
of January to the spot where the Fury was wrecked
in 1825. The sun disappeared from the 30th of
October to the 15th of February, and it was princi-
pally by moonlight that our short excursion was
accomplished. The result of the visit was the dis-
covery of a great quantity of provisions, carefully
landed there by Sir Edward Parry amid the perils of
a shipwreck. We also ascertained that nobody had
visited those shores since 1849. Towards the end
of February we again left the vessel for the same
coast, carrying our provisions by small quantities in
the direction we intended to traverse, and amidst
the incidents inseparable from a temperature which,
on the 14th of March, fell to 44 deg. (centigrade)
below the freezing point.
" The interminable delays of a journey along a coast
lined with ice, and where we were often obliged to open
a passage for our sledges with axes through the snow,
prevented us reaching Brentford Bay before the 6th
of April. Eight men, commanded by an officer, then
returned to the vessel, while Mr. Kennedy, four men,
and myself continued our journey in two Indian
sledges drawn by five horses. Having found a pas-
sage to the west at the bottom of that bay, we pro-
ceeded in the same direction to the 100th degree of
western longitude (from Greenwich), travelling over
plains of snow so uniform that it was only by digging
holes we knew that we were on land, and not on the
ice of the Polar Sea. We ascended then to the north
and east, in the direction of Cape Walker, to which
we attached the greater importance es we considered
it to have been the point of departure of Sir John
Franklin for the unknown regions of the north. It
had been for some time found impossible to travel by
day, on account of the reverberation of the light on
these eternal snows. After each of our marches
we built a hut with snow, which offers the surest
• and most comfortable shelter against ' the rigour of
the climate. Oa the 24th of April, the thermome-
arestswlaesiti
ter rose to the freezing point, and we. mere then
sufficiently inured to cold to sleep. in, open
air, which we repeated as often as possible in order
reached Leopold Harbour, having crossed Cape
Walker to the east. Scurvy had for some time shown
itself among us, and we stopped there to avail our.
selves of the means of combating the malady. The
on our return to the vessel, on the 31st of
ed.urinOgnoutrheablssentheeo, te.xl‘'almayin'edwCe
to save time.
May, we found that the scurvy had also attacked the
rest of our men. The doctor himself, and the noble ,
Hepburn, former companion of Sir John Franklin,
were among the sick.
doctorßay; and,

Thanks to the intelligent care of our surgeon, We
quickly recovered, and at the end of July we com-
menced sawing a passage through the ice for our vessel,
On the 6th of August shc was at last releaFei from her
prison, not having had an inch of water under her kcal
during the winter. On the J 8 ii of the same month
we met, in the Bay of the Erebus, the North Star, one
of the fine vessels sent by the English Government at
the beginning of this year. The commodore, Sir Ei_
ward Belcher, with a steamer, had four days before
ascended northwards to Wellington Channel, while two
others were proceeeing westward in the direction
of Melville Island. The superior fitting out of that
nanedw
nenxptehdeit2i3ond rwenedesraeidledourfocru-oEpnegralatinOdU unavailable
.
comparatively
mild, with continual gales, which prevent the forma-
tion of ice along the coast. The ice
in Lancaster Sound and in Baffi n'swe encountered
Bay shows, by its
unusual thickness, that it must have
several years in the numerous • remained for
inlets
emanated. Everything, in h ets from which it
8
brilliant success to that a short, seems to promise
q
names so celebrated f e
or squadron which reckons
nergy and ability in the
English navy.
" I shall have the honour, Monsieur le Ministre, if
you desire, to address to you a more detailed account
of our journey the
the notes I took d moment I have put in order
tions. Mr.i uring my incessant Kennedyoccupa-
was pleased, in the dispatch
to the Lords of the English
Admiralty, which has been pub-
lishedournals,to mention in the most
flattering terms the
part I took
iminpostshie eblelnpoetd
toon in
the name of our navy. It is
per-
ceive in the act the same feeling of kindness which
actuated him, as well as the officers and crew of the
Prince Albert, during the entire journey. May Ibe
permitted, M. le Ministre, to direct your attention to
that fact ? I could have easily forgotten that I was
the first and only representative of the French
nation in au arctic winter, but for the unremitting
attention, and the marked respect of my shipmates,
which I must attribute to my quality of French
officer.
" The reception I experienced from Lady Franklin,
and from the Lords of the Admiralty, will render me
ever proud of that period of my career ; and may I
add to thce e testimonials the certainty of having re-
sponded to your expectations, M. le Ministre, and
1 becomingly upheld by my conduct the honour of our
navy ?
(Signed)

" BELLOT.
Lieutenant de Vain( au?

THE DAUGHTER OF GENERAL ROSAS, es-dictator of
Buenos Ayres, was marred, to a Spanish gentleman at
the Roman Catholic chapel in Southampton on Saturday
last.