The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-18 00:00:00

NEW .ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

It was unanimously agreed, at, the meeting of the
members of the Geographical Society, on Monday night
last, that the chairman, Sir Roderick Murchison, should
solicit the Admiralty to send out another expedition to
the Arctic regions in the summer of 1854, and none of
the solicitations of the society have hitherto been made
in vain. It is not intended at present to send out any
more expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and his
missing companions in a north-west direction, although
further supplies will, if found requisite, be sent to
Beechey Island for Sir Edward Belcher's expedition.
The new Arctic Expedition is intended to proceed in
quite a contrary direction to any of the previous expe-
ditions sent out from this country in search of Sir John
Franklin and the officers and crews of the Erebus and
Terror discovery ships, now more than 8 years absent from
England. The Phmnix, screw steam-sloop, will be
again commissioned by Captain Edward Inglefleld,
F.R.S., who was presented with a gold medal by the
Geographical Society at, the last meeting, and he will
proceed to the Arctic regions in her, and endeavour to
make a passage into the Polar Sea to the north-east of
Spitzhergen. In addition to the English bottles found
,orne time ago on the coast of Siberia, and forwarded
to England by the Russian Government, intelligence
has been received that several deer had been found at
Spitzbere-en with their ears cut—a proof that they had
been in the hands of persons who had adopted that Eng-
lish mode of marking them. The Admiralty have liberally
granted 50/. to eaph of the gun-room officers and 351. to
each of the other officers of the Phcenix screw steam-sloop
as compensation for the expenses they incurred in pro-
viding for their mess for a longer period than their recent
four months' voyage would have warranted for so short
a period, and as they had prepared their stocks to last
for the winter, bad they been frozen up during their pro-
gress. The Admiralty also appear desirous of securing
the services of several of the officers who served in the
last voyage made by the Phoenix, Mr. Staunton, recently
master of that vessel, having been appointed to the
Dauntless at Portsmouth, as that frigate is to be kept
for service at a home port, and Mr. Richards, recently
serving as clerk in the Phoenix, to the Edinburgh
gunnery-ship, at Devonport, and both these officers are
desirous of again serving in any Arctic expedition that
may be fitted out under the command of Captain Ingle-
field. Mr. Staunton, although appointed to the Daunt-
less, has obtained permission to remain at Woolwich for
some time, to completely work out the observations he
was engaged upon, first at Greenhithe, and afterwards
in the Arctic regions, and now in the observatory of the
compass department at Woolwich.

THE POPE IN THE POLPIT.—OD Sunday afternoon,
the Gth inst., the Roman Forum presented a spectacle
of rare interest and scenic effect, Pio Nono having taken
a sudden resolution to hold forth to the assembled mul-
titude from the steps of the church of San Giuseppe del
Falegnami, over the Mamertine Prison, whither the
ancient crucifix, which has been adored there for
many centuries, had just been brought back in the
midst of a splendid processional train, after its 15 days'
sojourn in the church of San Carlo al Corso. His Holi-
ness was accompanied by his Court and the Cardinal
Vicar, and took the text of his sermon from the para-
ble of the sower, in the 13th chapter of St. Matthew,
and dwelt forcibly upon the verse, " But while men,
slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat
and went his way." Without making any direct oli-
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course was merely moral, and was delivered with ex-
treme energy of diction and abundance of oratorical ges-
ticulation. Altogether, his Holiness took a very gloomy
view of the morals of his subjects, and told them he
regretted that they had made so little progress in
spiritual ref ietiation since he had last exhorted them to
repent from the pulpit of St. Andrea della. Valle six
)'ears ago, but he trus ed to obtain the divine blessing
for them, through the intercession of the apostles
Peter and Paul, over whose prison he then stood.
The Pope then followed the crucifix into the church,
listened to the Ambrosian hymn, and received the
blessing of his sacristan, Monsignor Castellani ; after
which, accompanied by the Cardinal Vicar, his suite,
and the Roman municipality, and preceded by the ban-
ners of the 14 rioni, or districts of Rome, he slowly
ascended the right hand road to the Capitol, turning back
once more to give his benediction to the crowd that filled
the Forum below, from the Temple of Concord to that
of Antoninus and Faustini, stretching nearly as far as
the Arch of Titus. The pe,ple, although by no means
enthusiastic, were respectful, and the beauty of the day,
the richness and variety of the costumes, and, above all
the classic resemblance of the locality, rendered the
whole scene extremely impressive.
GRAND AQUATIC/ SPORT.—In despite of the approach
of winter, three great matches have been made, to take
place in the middle of next month, at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne. They are all of an important character, in-
volving the question of superiority between the
Thames and the North-country watermen ; and, al-
though the articles of agreement of two out of three
have not been duly executed, money has already
been speculated in anticipation of the result. The
greatest of these events is for the championship of the
Tyne and a stake of 2001., between James Candlish,
the champion of that river, and James Messenger,
of Teddington, Middlesex (one of the best men, if
not
the best man, upon the Thames). Candlish's defeat
this season by his present opponent having been as-
cribed to want of condition and other causes, the
present match has been made to decide the question of
superiority. This race is appointed for the 13th Decem-
ber, the day before which it has been agreed that Robert
Newell, of Horsclelyasdpoewr: the ex
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thrice a candidate for the
championship of the Thames, shall contend against the
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matches being thus arranged for
the 12pth,; l3th, and
15th, in order to afford Londoners and others an op-
portunity of witnessing the whole without unnecessary
expense or inconvenience, in one visit to the north ; each
race will be from the Old Mansion-house, and extending
three miles and a-half, to Scottiswode-bridge.
A. SINGULAR CASE BEFORE THE PARIS CIVIL TRI-
BUNAL,--M. Michewitz, editor of a musical newspaper
in Germany, went some time ago to the Grand
Opera in Paris, to hear the. Freyschutz, and he
was so discontented with the manner in which it
was performed that he brought an action against
the management for the purpose of having it declared
that the opera should be performed again by the first
artistes of the theatre ; also that a lean in the theatre
should he set apart for him gratuitously, and that 100 f. as
damages should be paid to him for each day's delay in
the roproduction of the opera. The director of the
opera applied to the tribunal for an order on the plain-
tiff to deposit 1000 f., as security for the costs, he being
a foreigner ; and he caused it to be intimated that
he intended to prosecute him for presenting a defama-
tory and insulting request to justice. The tribunal
ordered M. Michewitz to deposit the 1,000 fr., and de-
cided that the hearing of the erase should take place in a
fortnight.
MIDDLE TEUPLE, Nov. 17.—The following members
of this Ron. Society have been called to the bar, and
were sworn in this evening in the hall : -Mr. George
Bilsborrow Hughey, Mr. Edward Irvine Howard, Mr.
John Marriott, Mr. Henry James Slack, Mr. John
ward Coleridge, Mr.
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Stewart Glennie, Ahlcirto.elCheohArarielp:isnAaElird,l.
tTl\l'elr:omas Brooke, Mr. Frederick Mani"
Alfrede CarmichaelGutteres
Henriques, Hooke,James
field, and Mr. James Ambrey Jephson Norr eye.