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London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

THE ST. LiWRENCE.

Mr. HUME 9bsPrvert I.y th:-) orrliwary channels that
a dispute had arisen bmvveni this country and the
Uni4,d States relative to tile opening up of the river St.
Liwrence; and he should be glad to know whether
Government was prepared to lay the papers relating to
the dienute before the Howe.?

Sir JOHN PARINoTON FtiA the dispute related
not only to the opening of the St. Lawrence, but was
c innected with other crvadons. The fubject in dispute
was a delicate one, and he thtrc fore could not answer
the question without previous notice.—(lear.)
Mr. HUME would repeat the question on a future
day.

EMIGRATION.
Mr. P. HOWARD had been requested by the hand-
loom weavers of Carlisle to ask the Right Hon. the Se-
cretary for the Colonies to state who would end who
would not be open to accept the bounty of the Govern-
ment for the purpose of emigrating to Australh?
Sir JOHN PAKINGTON could only repeat the
answer he had given the other night, which was that
the subject was engaging the earnest attention of
the Government—(llear, bear.) The Emigration
Commissioners had already relaxed their regulations in
favour of the Highlanders of Scotland, and he bad no
doubt they would confer a similar favour on the hand-
loom weavers.--(Hear. hear.)
THE REV. MIL BENNETT.
Mr. HOUSMAN claim d the attention of the
House while he called epee the Government to give
bin a day to renew his mAion for an invirY into the
Vieeintineet of Mr. Bennett to the vicarege of Frome.
It would be remembered that some weeks ago, when the
'-`ro:',:ise was about to come to a decision upon such a
- ", the Government undertook to make such an in..
(Dairy thein_e,..
p 4.
to e 5 Ives, but it now appearei that they had no
same peaitiou h
he ie3istedn'thhaVttburn it, and under those circumstances
.o
,y aught to place the mote n in the
hear.) lie
rnt. at it stood some time ago.--(Hear,
asking the_ LeZilt, perhaps, take that opportunity of
given an eliblionestd Attorney-General whether be had
the Bishop or xre• ilhe effect ihn.t a prosecution against
Discipline Acs?-.(gear, would lie under the Church
The ATfOßNtElleor, hear.)
without
said he could not
Bnswer the question
Mr. WALPOLE sail ljtuht,,,EGQ‘tiive:_rornent were anxious
to give the Hot. Genuetaan a day to renew his
present state att-7ht.
but they we nder so nu" motion,
promises to other Hon.
Members that the
r.pablic business would
not admit of their
COLONIAL BlsRops ft7Let'' hear.)
On the order of the day being read for
adjourned debate upon this Bill, resuming the
Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought it
would be very
inconvenient to go on with a debate Which was
not
likely to be attended with any practical result. 1:1
hoped that when the Secretary of State for the Celoniees
had stated his views on the subject be W--"*.' mu
move the
adjournment of the debate.
Sir JOHN PAKINGICL4 said, after the course
taken by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the
University of Oxford (lir. Gladstone) he felt it his Jul.,
perative duty which
to explain to the House. the views
he entertained with respect to the Bill. Though at first
eight the Bill appeared to be very simple end straight.
forward, yet, on looking Into it more closely, it would
be found that it was the worst measure on ecclesiastical
matters which had for years been introduced into the
House. If passed in its present form it would be the
desired in
first step towards changes which might be
our ecclesiastical polity by a certain party, but which
were opposed to the wishes of the great body of the
people- both in this country and the colonies. While he
admitted that the Right Hon. Gentleman was actuated
by most pure and conscientious motives, he would not
yield to him in attachment to the Church, or in a desire
to hand down to their descendants in the possessions of
the British Crown all the blessings of the Church, with
its Protestant simplicity, purity, tol!ration, and charity.
—(Hear.) He wished our distant colonies, which in-
herited our language, laws, literature, and freedom,
to possess also the blessings that were to be derived
from the reformed Christian faith, which was
so closely associated with freedom. The wants
of the Colonial Church were chiefly threefold—
first, its inability to make regulations for its own
discipline ; second, its want of synodical action,
and lastly, its want of power to adopt Its
forms and liturgy to the requirements of a
uslisionary Church, which the Colonial Church to
a great extent was. Sir J. Pakington then alluded to
the agitation which took place in Australia respecting
the Gorham case, and to the resolution Come to by the
colonial bishops to exclude every one from the Church
r o dissented from the decision of the Privy Council
in thee case. Meetings of the clergy and laity were
held in the colony on the
subject, and addresses were
presented to the Crown against lof
bi4heps. Now, though he (sijp
ittie resolution
t the
be a party to narrow the broad and comprehensivelng on) wouldb never
.f
the Church, he agreed with hit
Rglituon..riiend sittaot
there ought to Le some change ut the law. Ia conse-
quence of the representations sent home, the attention
of the Archbishop -
of
flaute h
-tett?, waa drawn to the sub-
ject, and he felt it was time some legisle.tion should take-
place, in order to put the Colonial Church on a better
footing. He wrote to the Bishop of Ssdeey, and he re-
ceived a reply from him, silting that he would as-
semble the clergy and laity, and collect their 00' t

nions with the view of assisting towards the pre-
paration of some legislative measure. Now
did the Right Hon. Gentleman think it expedient to
press the Bill while this inquiry was pending? He
thought the much better course would be to withdraw it
for the present session. The Bill was drawn in erms so
indistinct, and in language so open to doubt that he ques-
tioned whether any two lawyers could be found who
would agree as to its real effect. He doubted whether
any colony would venture to adopt the Bill, or whether
any church would venture to regulate its proceedings
by it. If passed, the Bill would have a threefold
effect; first, instead of giving the Colonial Church that
e quality which had been mentioned, it wt uld place it in
a state of domination which it never before possessed;
secondly, it would tend to break up the Church of Eng-
land into a number of small separate churches,
and, thirdly, it would tend to destroy the supremacy of
the Crown. One part of the Bill provided that no
person should be confirmed, consecrated, ordained, or
presented to any living who had not previously taken
the oath of allegiance. This involved an idteration
of the service of the Church of England, because tee
oath of supremacy which was now required to be taken
had been dispensed with, and the oath of allegiance sub-
stituted for ie—(Loud cries of " Hear, bear.") This
was the first time of its being proposed to
appoint persons to ecclesiastical posts in the Church of
England without requiring them to tales the oath of
supremacy. It might be said, however, that the regula-
tion did not extend to the colonies; but as early as the
reign of Elizabeth, it was enacted that the supre-
macy of the Crcvsn in matters ecclesiastical extended
to all the realms and dependencies of the Crown.
tWbeimthserlerfeesr, heen fulcetloy the demend made by the colonies
agreed that from Canada, Australia,
and the Cape of Good Hope there had proceeded re•
uests for legislation in order to give them more
liberty
of self-government; but he did not know of any
request having proceeded from any one colony
praying to have this Bill passed as it now stood,
or of any desire having been manifested to separate
from the connexion of the Church of England, or to
reject the supremacy of the Crown. In fact, the desires
of the colonists were by no means directed to such a
separation or repudiation, their only object was to
obtain greater freedom of action, and he held in his
hand expressions of opinion from Melbourne, Adelaide,
Tasmania, and Cape Town, which entirely repudiated
any wish to separate from or to weaken the connexion
with the Church of England, but rather to strengthen
it. Being convinced, therefore, that this Bill
went to destroy the connexion—though he
thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman him-
self would be slow to do that if ho knew it—
he could have no other coarse but to oppose this Bill. lie
hoped that the Right Hon. Gentleman would test proceed
further with this Bill, seeing that negotiations were now
going on between the Archbishop of Canterbury and
the Metropolitan of Sydney, from whicb, no doubt,
some measure would result, and he would say this much,
that if the Honourable Gentlmean would consent not to
go further with this Bill it should not be his fault if in
another year some legislation did not take place. Agree-
ing to a considerable extent with the principle of the
Bill, he would not move that it be read a second time on
that day six months, but would propose that the House
should now pass to the other orders of the day.
Mr. ADDERLEY rose to move that the debate on
this Bill be postponed for three days.

The SPEAKER informed the lion. Gentleman that
there being already ono amendment before the House,
that must be disposed of before a second one could be
proposed.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that he would not now at-
tempt to reply to the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet,
for the reasons he had already given; but he had a pain-
ful duty to perform, that of noticing in the speech of the
Right Hon. Baronet one of the grossest misrepresenta-
tions he had ever heard. The main part of the Right
Honourable Gentleman's objections to the Bill
had rested on the assertion that there was
the first attempt to dispense with the supremacy of the
Crown in the colonies, and that in the ordination of
priests the oath of allegiance was only required to he
token, and not the mutt of supremacy. Nor was the
subseription of the 36sh canon. The Right Hon. Gen-
tleman, in reading the 7th clause, in which he said
the dispensation wai contained, had stopped short in the
middle of the sentence, and had forborne to tell the
House what was the real condition imposed on the can-
didates for ordination. The real condition was not that
it should be unlawful for any one to be ordained after
having taken merely the oath of allegiance, but the
clause went on to say that he should likewise subscribe
the Thirty-nine Articlee, and further declare
his ucfe:gned assent and consent to all that
was contained in the Book of Common Prayer.
Now, the 37th of the 39 Articles contained as full and
complete an acknowledgement of the supremacy of the
Crown, and a repudiation of the authority of the Pope
of Rome, as was contained in the oath of supremacy,
and the 36,h canon, and, to his view, the Bill, by re-
quiring a subscription of the 39 Articles—a fact which
had been kept back by the Right Hon. Gentleman—
quite as fully asserted the principle of the supremacy of
toe Crown as it could have done in any other manner.
With regard to the veto of the Crown, that he should
leave in the hands of the House entirely; if they chose
to retain it he thought it would be of considerable ser-
vice, but if not he should acquiesce in its rejection.
Sir J. PAKINGTON said he was sorry that his Right
Hon. Friend should have had occasion to think that he
had been misrepresented by him, sand he regretted that
he had not, for form's sake, read out the remainder of
the 7th clause. Notwithstanding the remainder of the
clause, he still believed, and still asserted, that this Bill
dispensed with the oath of supremacy and with the 36th
canon of the Church.

Mr. OSWALD said the Right Hon. Baronet the Se-
creftiry of State for the Colonies seemed strangely
ignorant of the Book of Common Prayer, or he would
have known that the service for the ordination of deacons
contained a subscription of the oath of supremacy and a
renunciation of Papal authority, and as this Bill required
the consent of all persons to be ordained to everything
contained in the book of Common Prayer it could
scarcely ba objected to it that it did away entirely with
the oath of supremacy. The Right lion. Baronet's
speech only showed that the Government had not been
able to make up their mind 3 on this as on every other
subject, political or ecclesiastical.
Mr. ADDERLEY said, it was with great pain that
he found himself compelled to cllil'Jr from those with
whom ho generally acted, but he could not consent to
submit to a delay of this measure, on grounds which he
considered so wholly futile as those which had been given
by the Right Hon. Bart. He felt that the two alternatives
which the House had to choose lx,,twren were the second
reading of this Bill or an interminable postponement of
a measure acknowledged on all aides to be necessary.
He therefore pressed upon the Right Hon. Gentleman
who had brought forward this Bill—who was the great
authority and support to whom as he knew, the colonies
chiefly looked—the responsibility of not consenting to
this delay, and he urged upon hi% tko necessity of great
consideration before acquiescing in the course suggested
by the Government. _ _

- _
Sir R. H. INGLIS disputed the position which the
Hon. Gentleman the Member for North Staffordshire
had taken up, while he denied the fundamental princi-
plep
re
euepeod. N. h
upon which t
tit e
rthec
was
of England t h i .3
end e
o u lthed
Church of Rome had everhtpermitted the existence of
the local tribunal which
in is
allß
al contemplated. There
of action was a unitychurches, and in the
th
heads of all was vested power of settling
disputes between is clergy aced members.—(Hear.)
That was the rule which prevailed inb27
to the Church of England and the ChuieclVeolteßenot obnuli
Jae in reference to the Wesleyan Church and roe*
F
Church of Scotland.--(Hear.) In all these churches,
"e
which had ministers in every part of the world, the' n
peal in cases of dispute was to the central head at home,
and it was an every-day occurrence to have such appeals
disposed of by the superior ecclesiastical authority of
England.—(Hear, hear.) Like the Right Hon. Baronet
the Secretary for the Colonies, he was one of thorn
who could not reconcile the various clauses of this Bill
with each other; for instance, under the provisions of
this Bill, men who were not members of the Church of
England in full communion might overpower those who
were, by their majorities, and thus be enabled to change
or alter the liturgy of the Church.—(Hear, hear.) And
yet another clause professed to give a dominant cha-
racter to the Church of England, but before such a
legislature as that which prevailed in Canada and
other colonies, the Church of England would be
powerless, and declared members of the Church would
have no difficulty in overriding, for sinister motives,
the feelings and wishes of those members of the Church
of England who were in full communion.—(Hear, near.)
Besides, if this Bill passed, the local synods would be
in a position to place the home authorities at defiance,
and he was sure the House would never consent to the
second reading of a Bill which sanctioned such a prin-
ciple as that.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") But it was said
agorae change in the existing law was absolutely neces-
aeknowl d
should be
it was suggested that a Royal Commission
Id be appointed to inquire into the matter in the
colonies themselves.—(Hear, hear.) He, however, did
the State, h
not
this ~.. w e ge such a necessity, nor did he think
haveiaZ
eatis demanded by the colonies, and as it would
et of separating the Colonial Church from
menn—rrz_e_
was to place the
rm.ust give his vote in favour of the amend-
Mr. A. DOPE
rE denied that the object of this Bill
auprenaaCchurch of England in the colonies in a
state of
a state of degradatioe
the Secretary for 'il as was alleged by the Right Hon.
Colonies, or to put the Church in
by the last speaker...t. as was declared would be its effect
Bill was to leave --Tear, hear.) The object of the
the Colonial th disputes which might arise in
local clergy in Churchconneaiontowiihhe
which was dear,
selettelaeldLegbytslatuthree
and as that was an object the
d by the cclo-
it would
the Church, he was at a 1
nista themselves, while •
elevate the character of
Souse should be called u 03S to understand why the
upon to
withhold
the motion for the second rradin its sanction to
The ATTORNEY.GENER g•—alear, hear.)
AL said there
or two points connected with this Bill were one
upon which
wished to say a few words. He he
that the Right Honourable fully admitted
his
Bill
had
made
..eGentleman who had
charge of t out his case that
the Colonial Church was in a moat unsatisfactory state.
It did not enjoy the laws which i a ned to the
appertained
mother Church, nor had it the same
powers and privi-
leges which existed at home. There we
ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the colonies, the c 3 no effficent
and ol '
were, in fact, without the institutions which mules
were known
at home as ecclesiastical court,.
The only
power which the colonial bishops e
d
was that of removal without appeal, but the clergymene
obtained his stipend from the local legielatnre,over
which the bishop had no control whatever. There was
absolutely no power of app?al or correction vested in
the bishop under the existing law, and as parts
of this Bill went upon the supposition that
there was, it must be clear to the House
ttOt it would prove wholly inorratiTe. Bus, they, ,

it might be said the Bill would do this good—it
would empower the Colonial Church, both clergy and
laity, to meet and make rules for their own internal
government in the manner authorised by the 25th of
Henry VIII.; but the House must be made acquainted
with the fact that, in a legal sense, the 25th of Henry
VIII. did not apply to the colonies, and was wholly
inapplicable to the circumstances in which the
colonies were at present placed.—(Hear.) It would,
therefore, be quite impossible to carry out the provi-
sions of this Bit! unless the Colonial Church were sepa-
rated from the State, and at once constituted a free and
independent church, which he was sure neither the
House nor the colonies wished to see accomplished.—
(Hear.) Of what use, then, would be the passing of
this Biti? I; would indeed be little less than a dead
letter, and he therefore hoped the House would refuse the
second reading —(Hear.)
Mr. BETHELL did not think that the Act of Henry
VIII. gave the right of synodical action to the
Church. Mr. Gladstone had said that the mem-
bers of the Church of England in the colonies were
under great disabilities as compared with other
religious communities; but this was not so,
the fact being that the law affirded them the same faci-
lities for the regulation of their affairs as other religious
bodies. The Bill would interfere with the prerogative
and supremacy of the Crown, and that being so, he should
give it his opposition. He hoped the Right Honourable
Gentleman would withdraw the Bill, and introduce it
again in a shape more acceptable to the House.
Sir W. P. W OOD said it was admitted on all hands
that the Colonial Church ought not to remain in its
present state. He denied that the Church had
all the privileges of Dissenters in regard to
the management of her affairs. The Right Hon. Gen-
tleman who introduced the Bill said its principle was
simply to remove the obstacles which prevented mem-
bers of the Church assembling and regulating their
affairs in the same way as religious Dissenting bodies,
and if any of the clauses deviated from that object there
would be ample opportunity to amend them in Com-
mittee. He was far from saying that all the clauses
were free from objection. If they gave the Church of
England fair play, and left her unfettered, he had so
much confidence in her integtity, that he believed she
would exert herself, as she had done in America, to pro-
mote the cause of religion. Though there was not
much chance of passing a Bill this session, he trusted
the time was not far distant when Parliament would
seriously direct its attention to the subject.
Mr. HORSMAN observed that Mr. Gladstone had
stated his object was to leave the Church in the colonies
entirely unlettered. Did he mean to say there should
be no State restriction on the one side, nor State advan-
tage on the other? Ha agreed that perfect religious
equality was the best principle to adopt in the colonies.
The Secretary for the Colonies had given a pledge
to legislate on the subject next year, on the
ground that the condition of the colonies, in
regard to the Church, was in an extremely
unsatisfactory state, and under those circumstances he
suggested the Bill should not be pressed. He warned
the Secretary for the Colonies that legislation on suet'
a question would be attended with great diffi-
culty, and would require much caution and delicacy.
The effect of the present Bill would be to establish one
state of church government at home and another in the
colonies, an arrangement which he thought was cal-
culated to give rise to considerable evils.—(Hear.)
It was impossible to show that the provisions
were consistent with the rules and regulations
of the Church of England. The proposer of the Bill
said he wished to give to the members of the Colonial
Church that equality which was enjoyed by voluntary
religious bodies, but that could be done without an Act
of Parliament. The Free Church of Scotland made rules
for her own government, but she did not ask for the in-
terference of the Legislature to enable this to be dune,
because it was unnecessary.
Mr. GLADSTONE inquired if the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman the Secretary of State would have any objection
to lay on the table of the House the correspondence
between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop
of Sydney ?
S!r. J. PAtKINGTON said, that as the correspond-
ence was a private one, he could not undertake to lay it
before the House.
The amen.iment was then carried without a division,
and the Heu-e proceeded to the other orders of the day.
COUNTY ELECTIONS POLLS BILL.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR moved the second
reading of this Bill.
Mr. B. DENISON said that having had some ex-
perience in county elections, he was satisfied that
county electors might be polled in one day. He had
scarcely ever known an instance where the result of the
first day's poll had been reversed by the second day. A
county election was always a holiday, and gentlemen
who were acquainted with the manufacturing districts'
would acknowledge, as he did, the evil effects of the
second day's election.
Mr. PACKE opposed the Bill.

Col. SIBTEIOI7‘P said the Bill was a disgrace to a
civilized community, and he hoped that the House would
give a decided negative to it.
Mr. W. BROWN thought the Bill would be a great
benefit to county constituencies, and ho should therefore
support the Bill.
Mr. LOCKE KING supported the Bill.
Mr. B. OSBORNE thought that every Hon. Member
who had any wish to put an end to the system of inti-
midation at county elections would vote for this Bill.
To say that there was no such thing at county elections
was absurd, when they remembered the ♦ery singular
correspondence which had been given to the world within
the last fow days between Mr. Kor and the Marquis of
Londonderry.
Mr. BRAMSTON opposed the Bill on the ground
that if a third candidate were suddenly started without
notice on the polling day, there would be no time to
carry out the arrangements.
Mr. R. PALMER thought this was an alteration
which ought to be made at some time, though he did
not think this the proper season.
After some remarke from Sir J. Pakington, Lord R.
Grosvenor, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The Bill was rest,' a second time.
MAYNOOTH COLLEGE (ADJOURNED DE-
BATE.)

On the motion for the further adjournment of this
debate until the 10th of June.

Mr. CARDWELL said, as that was a day on which
many Hon. Members thought that this House would not
exist, at any rate that it would be too near its end to
allow of an investigation of this nature to be carried
out, he wished to know what were the real intentions of
those who had instituted the motion.

Mr. NEWDEGATE said that as his Hon. Colleague
(Mr. Spooner) bad met with an accident he had
desired him to watch the progress of this motion.
For this purpose he had made inquiries, and
as her Majesty's Government could not give him
a day specially for the purpose—(ironical cheers)—he
found that the 16th of June was the first day on which
this motion could be brought forward with a view to
discussion. As this was a question on which the country
was desirous of obtaining the decision of the House in
the form of the motion laid before it, be had felt him-
self bound to fix the renewal of the debate for that day.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that fixing the debate for so
late a period was, he thought, a mere mockery. If there
was to be an inquiry into the system of education pur-
sued at Maynooth, it could not be by a Com-
mittee, which could not commence its sittings
before the 18th of June, and could not continue them
longer than a few days. He thought this was treating
the question with great disregard, and he hoped that if
the qu-hition mita not be brought on sooner, that
it would not be brought on at all, lie himself
was not opposed to inquiry on this subject,
but still he could not say that tie was was prepared to
vote for the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, for it was
one thing to propose to inquire whether the system of
education at the College of Maynooth was such as it
ought to be supported by a Govenment grant,
and another thing to question the very
grounds on which the grant was made.
do the
that powers
th the
tut
whichd b
tyh e tyh e
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soeveearsne
dm. e n t ,H
He
accordingre
He thought the inquiry would be much better insti-
grettet
speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman the
Home Secretary had not been more explicit
as to the intentions of Government on the subject of the
Maynooth grant, and he hoped that by the time this
debate was renewed they would have made up their
minds on the subject and be prepared to tell the House
whether or not they meant to propose the abrogation of
this grant.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
the Government had no intention of proposing the abro-
gation of the grant to Maynooth; nor had anything
fallen from any member of the Government calculated
to raise any such impression. He him-
self was not inclined to concur in the
grounds far the inquiry which had been
given by the lion. Mover, although he did think it-
desirable that an inquiry should bo made, and that too
in the manner now proposed, and he considered there
were great objections to the mode of a Royal Commis-
sion as proposed by the Noble Lord opposite. With
regard to the Government not having granted a specific
day for the resuming of the debate, he thought that
the press of business which they had at present was a
sufficient answer.
Mr. B.,OSBORNE said that there was no motion fixed
for Wednesday next. Surely a race was not of so much
importance as Maynooth.—(Laughter.)
Mr. C. ANSTEY moved that the debate be adjourned
until Wednesday next.
Mr. NEWDEGATE said he could not agree to the
amendment. The Hon. Gentleman was addressing the
House when Six o'clock arrived, and
The SPEAKER sojourned the House until to-
morrow.

THE SEARCH for SIR JOHN FRANKLIN

The following are the Admiralty instructions to Sir
Edward Belcher, relative to his search for Sir John
Franklin :-
1. Having appointed you to the command of the ex-
pedition (in consist of the ships Assistance, Resolute,
Pioneer, Intrepid, and North Star), preparing for the
further search of Sir John Franklin, you are, whenever
such ships shall be in all respects ready to put to sea,
and proceeding down channel, or north about, make the
best of your way to Barow's Straitvcalling at Disco (if
in your way) for such replenishments as the place affords
and a supply of dogs for sledging purposes.
2. We have entrusted you with this command, in the
full persuasion of your thorough acquaintance with its
obligations, and of your judgment and ability to meet
them.

3. Wo do not therefore consider it necessary to en-
cumber you with minute instructions for your guidance
at each step of your proceedings; bnt furnishing you
with papers which point out the views of the Admiralty,
as successive expeditions have been dispatched from this
country, and those also relative to the difficulties OceUr4

ring to oppose those views, we leave it to you to decide,
as the case shall present itself.
4. We deem it right, however, that a certain course of
proceedings should be pointed out to you; and adopting
the recommendation of the committee appointed in Oc-
tober, 1851, to inquire and report upon a previous ex-
pedition, the plan of future operations there proposed is
to be considered as the basis of your proceedings. By
that plan, Beechy Island, is the point indicated as the
basis of your operations, and you are to consider it as
the grant rendezvous to which you are are to push for-
ward, there to establish the North Star as a general
def
5. Arrived at this point, two great objects will en-
gage your attention :
1. The endeavouring to pass up Wellington Channel
with one sailing vessel and one st'amer.
2. The advance of a similar force towards Melville
Island.

6. The object of the first of these expeditions will bo
the endeavour to recover those traces of Sir John
Fr anklin which ceased at Cape Bowden, to the north
of Beechy Island; and to follow up such traces, if they
should be found. The object of the other expedition
will be, to deposit, if possible, at Winter Harbour,
Melvilio Island, or tailing that, at Byam klartin Island,
a supply of provisions, fuel, and clothing for any parties
that might reach such positions from Captain Collin-
son's or Captain M'Clure's ships.
7. As r( girds the first-named expedition, and the
possible contirigency of corning upon Sir John Frank-
lin's track; we cannot too strongly impress upon you
the necessity of your establishing along your line of
route, cachettes of provisions sufficient to supply your
crews and those of the missing ships, should any accident
happen to your own vessels, and render it necessary for
you to return without them to the general rendezvous at
Beechy Island; and you will be most careful along the
line of such route, as well as in every other direction
you may have to take, to avail yourselves of every re-
markable promontory, point of land, or other distinctive
locality, to deposit exact notices of your condition and
intended proceedings; and you are to give positive orders
that these notices or records are to be deposited ten feet
true north of the cairn or staff, and likewise beneath or
in the cairn itself.

8. With regard to the expedition to be dispatched
towards Melville Island, it is scarcely to be contemplated
that, under the most favourable circumstances, more
could be done in the first season than to reach that
point; and the officer in charge of that service will of
course have to take into account the having to winter in
that quarter.

9. His earliest attention in that case, in the ensuing
spring, will b:--Ist. The depositing such supplies at
Melville Island as he can spare, or endeavouring to con-
vey them thither by sledges, if ho should not reach the
island with his ships; and 2d. The detaching travelling
parties in a westerly direction for the combined purpose
of a search for traces of Sir John Franklin, and of de-
positing notices in conspicuous situations as to where the
supplies
are left, but being at the same time strictly en-
joined to return to their ships before the usual period of
the breaking up of the ice, in order that such ships may
return to their rendezvous at Beechy Island or other-
wise prepare for quitting Lancaster Sound to return to
England, according as the supplies on board of his ships,
and the length of time consumed in the above service
shall require.
10. And here we think it necessary more particularly
to call your attention to the instructions to be given by
you to the officer charged with this branch of the ex-
pedition; for whilst there is a possibility of your
calculating on an early return of such officer
from Melville Island, in the summer of 1853,
and of his being able to afford you support in
any particular direction, it is on the other hand not
improbable that, from a prolonged detention to the
westward, it may be his bounden duty not to hazard a
further stay in those seas, but to make the best of his
way home; in which case he must endeavour to com-
municate with the rendezvous at Beechy Island, before
finally quitting Barrow's Strait, in order to obtain in-
formation of the other ships, and to deposit records of
his proceedings.
11. He should, therefore, be made to understand the
nature of the responsibility that devolves upon him
both as to the execution of his orders, in the first in-
stance, and determining the point at which the power of
compliance with those orders ceases.

occurl2.
t olt is
experienced by the expedition in 1850-51 may again
pr,eovfencoturasep, pasossasgieble that seasons such as were
by ships up Wellington
Channel, or to the west of Griffith Island, and, under
such circumstances, it will be for you to consider how
far it might ssrve any useful purpose to undertake an
examination by travelling parties from Baring Bay, or
Prince Alfred Bay, in the direction of Jones's Sound, in
addition to those which it will be your duty to send out
to the north and north-west, for traces of Sir John
Franklin, in the direction of Queen's Channel.
13. Our instructions, theretore, are without reference
to the possible circumstance of records still being found
at Beechy Island, or elsewhere (and for which it will be
your duty to search) at a certain distance from the re-
spective cairns, where it has been stated it was Sir John
Franklin's custom to deposit them ;" and if by such re-
cords it should prove that Sir John Franklin proceeded
to the eastward out of Lancaster Sound, after he win-
tered at Beechy Island in 1845-46, you will still con-
tinue to push forward two of your ships towards Mel-
ville Island, as already directed by us, and with the
other two you are to act as circumstances may render
necessary, depending on the information which those
records may convey ; and adverting to the report of two
ships having been seen on the ice in the North Atlantic,
in the spring of 1851, we think it expedient to draw your
attention to this subject, that you may adopt such steps
on your way from Baffin Bay, with reference to search
and iinquiry on the shores of Davis Straits, as you may
consider most advisable under the circumstances above
stated, and the information the records may convey.
14. You are aware of the deposit of stores and provi-
sions at Port Leopold, and of the steam launch left
there by Sir James Roes; you are at liberty to employ
that vessel in any way that her services may be made
available; but with reference to the store of provisions
at Port Leopold, and also those for 100 men, which were
landed by Mr. Saunders on an island in Navy Board
Inlet, it is our directions that such provisions and stores
shell on no account be touched by any of the vessels
under your orders, unless compelled to do so by abso-
lute necessity.
15. We have furnished you with copies of these in-
structions, which you are to deliver to the captain and
officers in command of vessels under your orders. And
we deem it necessary that you should be directed to
communicate freely and unreservedly with your second
in command, and the officers in charge of the other
ships, on all points connected with the expedition,
keeping them acquainted with your views and intentions,
that, in case of an accident happening to yourself, or a
separation of the ships, these officers may be fully aware
of the course of proceedings intended to be adopted by
yon, and when the ships are separated from you for
the purpose of carrying out our orders, the same un-
reserved intercourse and communication is to be main-
tained between the officers in command of the respective
ships.
16. You are, no doubt, aware of the Prince Albert
private vessel being engaged in a like search in the
Arctic Seas; you aro to afford that vessel every aid and
assistance, in the event of falling in with her, but you
are in 110 way to interfere with her orders or take her
under your charge.
17. The various logs and private journals, with draw-
ings, plans, &0., are to be sent to this office, on the re•
turn of the expedition. And you are to be careful that
from the date of your parting company with the ships
sent to assist in towing you, your own letters to our
secretary, together with those of the officers addressing
you, are duly numbered as well as dated; and you are
invariably, should any opportunity offer, to-leave letters
for us at such places as Cape Warrender, Ponds Bay.
&c., provided no delay be incurred thereby.
18. Your ships have been fully (quipped for the ser-
vice they are going upon, and it has been our desire that
you should be provided with every means and resource
that might be made available. We have an entire reli-
ance on the best use and application of those means on
your part, and we have equal confidence in the care to
be exercised by you fQr those employed under your
orders; but there is one object which in the exercise of
that care will naturally engage your constant attention,
and that is, the safe return of your party to this country.
19. We are sensible, however, that notwithstanding a
t therefore,
t
wish to keep this part of your duty prominently in mind,
yet, that an ardent desire to accomplish the object of
your mission, added to a generous sympathy for yonr
missing countrymen, may prevail in some degree to carry
you beyond the limits of a cautious prudence.
directions 2O.Y ou
t o h are
tel severale 'distinctly
sh
shall each be on its way home, and to the eastward of
Barrow Strait, whenever their stock of provisions shall
have been reduced to twelve months' full allowance; and
ships
t under o understand
you r
orders
r de
our
rs
commending you, and those employed under you, to the
providence of God, we trust that success msy crown your
efforts, and that you may be the means of affording suc-
cour to those of our countrymen whose absence we have
so long deplored.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Given under our hands this 16th day of April, 1852.
HYDE PARKER.
PHIPPS HORNE r.
THOS. HERBERT.
ALEX. MILKS.
Majesty's ship Assistance, at Greenhithe.
To Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8,, Captain of her
By command of their Lordships,
W. A. B. HAMILTON.
The piece of tin or copper, said by Adam Beck to have
been dropped from a staff, should also be looked for. See
Evidence before Arctic Committee.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 18.

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BANKRUPTS.
Charles Wentworth Wass, picture dealer, Bond-street,
to surrender June 3, at two, and June 29. at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee,
Basinghall-street; Hughes, Chapel-street, Bedford-row.
William Russell, draper, Bethnal-green-road, May 21,
at half-past one, and June 29, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee; Ashurst and
Son, Old Jewry.
Henry Calvert, tailor, Potersfield, May 29, at twelve,
and
July 3, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
2,
Baker,at on eo,izt.
Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Low, Chancery-lone.
James Banister, brass founder, Birmingham, May 29
and June 19, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
James, Birmingham.
scrivener
John Passman, currier, Stockton-upon-Teev, Dur-
ham, May
the Newca2st7le-upon--Tpyans to
tDweissivtricfatoniCkdiumjrnot.lnyey.
ghall-street.
cial assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Allison, Dirling,
ton;
DIVIDENDS.
Berle, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
A. WoodsA,
Greet
rtehaet
Yarmouth,Court,
er,
June 10, at one—J, Wright, Chesham, Buis' h •
ing Smog-
l2Bil3

shire, grocer, June 7, at one—A. Lyon, Saffron Walden,
Essex, draper, June 7, at twelve—C. H. Waite, South-
ampton, glass•dealer, Juno 7, at twelve.
In the Country.

Sarah Wilson, Nottingham, hotel-keeper, June 11, at
half-past ten, at the Court, Nottingham—J. Gracie,
Bristol, and Dudley, Worcestershire, woollen-draper,
Jane 10, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

J. J. Rayner, Manchester, tailor and linen-draper, 25.,
on any Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of
Mr. Macke' zie, Manchester.
Jane Parker, Goanargh-with-Newsham, Lancashire,
innkeeper, 10;., on any Tuesday, between eleven and
one, at the office of Mr. Mackenzie, Mincheltcr.
J. J. Nicholas. second dividend Lit 31. 6J., together
with the first dividend of 10a. 6 i., upon new proofs, on
Wednesday, May 26, or any subsequent Wrdneday,
between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Miller,
Bristol.

W. B. Richards, Hill Top, Staffordshire, provision-
dealnr, 2i., on Thursday, May 20, or any subsequent
Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Yelpy. Btrmingbam.
N. Mence, Heuwick, Worcestershire, porter brewer,
Is. Sid., any Thursday, betweQa eleven and three, at
the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
C. H. Giusden, H )ve, Sussex, lic,,nsed victualler, Is.
8d , on Thursday nexc, and three i(dlowir,g Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham,
Coleman street.

B. Billings, Harlow, Essex, common brewer, Is. 6L,
on Thursday next, and three following Thursdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham,
Coleman-street.

H. Byshe, Brighton, builder, 2d., on Thursday next,
and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two,
at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

C. Champion, Fenchurch•street, merchant, June 14,
at twelve—J. G. Marsh, Church-street, Minories, car-
penter and builder, June 9, at twelve—M. Lockwood,
Wandsworth, grocer and cheesemonger, Jane 9, at
twelve—J. Hall, Croydon, confectioner, June 9, at one.
In the Country.
H. Hayman, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, apothe-
cary, June 15. at eleven, at the Court, Exeter.