The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

CLOSE OF THE MUNICIPAL TEAR, 1853.

The LORD 11levon said that he thanked the members I
of the Court of Common Council for their attendance
during his year of office. That was the last occasion
upon which he should have the pleasure of meeting them
in the capacity of chief magistrate of the City of London.
For the support they had rendered him during his term
of office he felt grateful, and he should ever bear in mind
the excellent manner in which the dignity of that office
had been supported during his mayoralty by the mem-
bers of that court. He would then take his leave of
them, and, in handing over the office to his successor,
he had taken that opportunity of bidding them respec-
tively farewell. (Loud cheers.)

THE CITY LIBRARY.
The court entered into a discussion upon the report
on the reference relative to the :establishment of a free
library, and a free circulating library, and for an appli-
cation to Parliament for an act.

The report included the report of their sub-committee
and recommended the adoption of it.
The report stated as follows : " Your committee
having, on the 26th of May, presented a report recom-
mending the establishment within this city of a free
library and a free circulating library for the use and
benefit of all persons resident within this city and its
vicinity, upon the model of those established at Liver-
pool, Manchester, and other places, and that the Right
Honourable the Lord Mayor should be requested to
convene a public meeting of the bankers, merchants,
and all other persons resident within this city and its
vicinity, for the purpose of determininc, upon the most
eligible means for effecting so desirable a purpose ; but,
upon the reading of the report, the court ordered the
same to be referred back, with instructions to make
further inquiry and report ; and it appearing desirable
to ascertain whether the recommendations can or cannot
be carried into effect within this city under the au-
thority of the act of Victoria, 13 and 14, c. 65 ; and
also to make further inquiries as to the probable success
of founding and maintaining such libraries without en-
dangering or interfering with the existing library of the
corporation (the Guildhall Library), we do certify that
we have proceeded in such inquiries, and we feel satis-
fied that the establishment of a free library and a free
circulating library would be the means of introducing
the works of the most approved authors to the homes
and fire-sides of the inhabitants of this city, and would
also afford to all classes an impulse to diligent and
thoughtful reading, and encourage the pursuit of studies
the result of which, under favourable circumstances,
would extend the boundaries of knowledge and national
civilization.

-‘At the same time we have ascertained that the act
of the 13th and 14th years of her present Majesty, above
referred to, cannot be applied in establishing a public
library and museum by the mayor and corporation of
this city, and we have ascertained that by an act of her
present Majesty's reign, cap. 3, intituled 'An Act for
establishing a public library, museum, and gallery of
arts in Liverpool, it is enacted that the council of that
town shall establish and maintain a public library and
museum, with a gallery of arts, and from time to time
(addend and change such site, and also appoint a com-
mittee and officers for its management and direction,
the admission thereto being free of charge, with sundry
other powers, provisions, and authorities therein con-
tained. In pursuance of which act of Parliament a
public free library and a free circulating library have
been established in that town, whilst Manchester, Hull,
and other corporate towns, have availed themselves of
the act of the 13th and 14th of her Majesty, and have,
with the aid of their respective towns, established
libraries, all of which are now in successful operation,
and surpass the expectations of their supporters.
" And it appears to us desirable that measures should
be adopted, under the authority of the Court of Common
Council, to apply to Parliament authorising the esta b
lishment of a free library and free circulating library and
museum, and that previous thereto the Lord Mayor
should be requested to convene a public meeting of the
merchants, bankers, and other inhabitants of this city,
to procure their aid and support to such an un d ertak-

ing, &c."
The report was agreed to, and, after the transaction
of other business, the Court adjourned.

ACCIDENT TO THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.—The
Evening Mail says :—" The Marquis and Marchioness
of Londonderry left Morrison's llotel on Wednesday
morning for Mount Stewart,
shihis lordship's seat in the
north of Ireand. His lordp h a
ad, we sent to say,
been detainel d for several days in Dublin by a severe and
dangerous injury, which he suffered when rein tu
Merrion.
rning On
foot from the Exhibition, on the
flagway
square West. By some inexcusable and indeed criminal
negligence, one of the circular openings in the flaggin
coal is shot into the cellars was left open-
:
through which
sf
and no person was left in charge to warn Passenger
his leg and
the danger. Lord Londonderry, while looking
the building, walked into the opening, when up at
thigh, up to the atop of his limb, received several
severe contusions, but happily there was neither frac-
ture nor dislocation. His lordship, with his accustomed
courage, made his way without, assistance to his hotel,
where he remained for several days confined to his bed."
schooner COLLISION AT SEA.--7110 Emerald Isle, from
London to Liverpool, was run into on Sunday night by
a brig, name unknown,
, painted black, andapparently
Danish vessel, which bore on her
course, never stopp in
ga
to render assistance
crew escaping half an hour, the . The Emerald Isle sank in about
beating aboutin the boats • and,
after
atforL 17 hours without food' or water,
landed safely
axT, Isle of Man.

By the Royal Mail steamship Magdalena wo
=have received accounts from Valparaiso, announ-
cing the arrival there of the screw schooner Isabel,
sent out many months since by way of the Straits
of Magellan, on an exploring expedition in search
of Sir John Franklin. We are sorry to learn that
a disagreement among the officers has led to an
abandonment of the whole expedition. The details
are given in the following extracts from the Val-
paraiso Herald of the 14th of September :
"Upon her arrival, in consequence of a disagreement
between Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Robert Grate, sailing
master, the latter left the vessel. Then difficulties arose
with the crew, who refused to proceed further in the
vessel. An appeal was made by Mr. Kennedy to Mr.
M`Kay, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Nereus, the result
of which widened the breach instead of producing any
good effect—not from anything done by Mr. M‘Kay,
who acted throughout the affair in the most gentle-
manly manner, but from Mr. Kennedy having called
on a naval officer while there was a Consul in the
pert. The men were taken on shore to the Consul on
Saturday, August 27th, and he said that it was a very
unpleasant thing for him to interfere between the par-
ties, embarked as they were upon such a glorious service
as the rescue of their fellow countrymen from death.
He advised them to go on board and reconsider the
subject, and trusted that they would then see the true
state of affairs, and that any unpleasantness that had
occurred should be forgotten, and that the motto of all
embarked on such an expedition should be mutually to
bear and forbear. He then told the men they were to
appear before him again on Monday, at two p.m. ;
but Mr. Kennedy went on shore on Thursday morn-
ing, and, by application to the captain of the port, got
the men sent to prison, so that the affair was now
fairly out of the hands of the Court. A new crew
was now partly engaged, and the repairs of the vessel
proceeded with ; but new difficulties now arose, which
finally terminated in the engineer leaving the vessel.
Mr. Kennedy now seeing that his path became more and
more rugged, determined not to proceed any further ;
so that, for the present, the expedition is abandoned,
which, on the whole, is fortunate for Lady Franklin, as,
form the advanced period of the season, it would have
been impossible to reach the ice this season in time to
render any service; so that the saving of wages and pro-
visions will be a considerable item between this and next
March, when it is to be hoped that the vessel will be
despatched to aid in the good work' before her. It is
an unfortunate affair altogether ; but let us trust that
good may result from it.
" We have been favoured with the perusal of the jour-
nal of Mr. Richard Bardin, engineer to the Isabel, kept
during the paßsage from London to Valparaiso. Speak-
ing of the passage through the Straits he says, when
near Port Famine, July 21, 1853 :
" On the whole, upon looking over our day's work,
it is a truly surprising one, and I doubt, if we were to
make 20 voyages to the Pacific via the' Straits of Ma-
gellan, whether we should ever do the like again. Very
few vessels, I am positive, ever did more in a day in their
progress through the Straits. As far as we have come,
that part of our outward voyage that was most
dreaded has proved the most fortunate ; it shows that
we are but poor creatures, mostly creating our own
difficulties. Our men have been continually croak-
ing upon the dangers to be apprehended from
the attacks of the natives, who were all set down as the
most murderous set of villains that disgraced humanity,
so numerous that you were beset with them at every
mile of your progress ; nothing would take it out of
their heads that such was not the case ; guanacos and
natives were supposed to abound in innumerable crowds.
We have seen a feW of the former, but of the latter, not
one.

" 22d.—About 12.30 this morning we felt the
first " williewaw " (this word was unfortunately
overlooked by Webster). We were running along
with a fresh breeze, when in an instant we
were in the midst •f a hurricane ; it came on
to blow furiously from the Patagonian hills, and I
can well believe what Captain Fitzroy says of their
violence. The Isabel is a very stiff vessel, but this and
the succeeding ones were too much for her ; she suc-
cumbed to them for a moment, and then righted. They
only lasted a few moments at a time, and were suc-
ceeded by an almost perfect calm, as if the violence of
the effort had left Monsieur Boreas breathless, or
attacked with a sudden fit of asthma.'
"On the same morning, he says,—
" saw the remains of the penal settlement that the
Chillian Government established here, and which was
broken up in such a tragical manner by the rising of the
prisoners and part of the garrison ; after which they
seized an English bark—l believe the Eliza Cornish, of
Plymouth—and another vessel, and, there is every rea-
son to believe, murdered the crew.'
"Shortly after passing this settlement the Isabel
anchored, and the commander with a party, including
our journalist went ashore. His description of the place
is valuable, as being the latest visitor whose observations
have been offered to the public, and his reflections and
reasoning upon the premises will also be found interest-
ing.

" Upon landing we found wells dug, for the conve-
nience of vessels seeking water, close to the beach,
which was covered with trunks of trees, some of them
two feet in diameter. We found the snow in some
places two feet deep. Upon gaining the summit of St.
Anne Point we directed our course to the settlement.
Part of it had been destroyed by fire. There were two
fieldpieces' one dismounted. The battery had been made
of turf, and was seven feet in thickness ; it was almost
levelled. We found the tew iron of a forge there. There
were four houses built of brick and lined with pencil
cedar on the south of the battery, but they were con-
structed in the rudest manner, an adze only having
been used to smooth the wood. There had evi-
dently been very little regard paid to cleanliness or com-
fort. To the north of the settlement was the grave-
yard, a square enclosed space of about 60 feet, upon
entering which the first object which attracted our atten-
tion was a cenotaph in the centre of the yard, upon
which was the following inscription :—" Sacred to the
memory of Captain Pringle Stokes, Royal Navy, who
died at Port Famine, while in command of her Majes-
ty's ship Beagle, Ist of August, 1828. His body was
buried on the opposite side of the bay. This board
was put up by her Majesty's ship Havannah, 21st
September, 1851. It was a singular thing to come
upon such a record in such a place, surrounded as
it was by the graves of such a set of fellows ; no one can
question the feelings that prompted its erection. Would
it not have been better to have placed it over his head,
if it had been required Some people would cavil at
the idea of recording the death of a suicide in any manner ;
in Scotland it would not be allowed ; but, surely, if
ever any one deserved such a remembrance it
was poor Captain Stokes, whose mind had become
unhinged by his performance of one of the hardest
duties ever intrusted to man—the survey of a por-
tion of the Straits in the winter time ; and also by
his great devotion to the cause of science and humanity.
His death added another to the long the
that array of
ttthe
martyrs
of science. Peace be to thee !
and let us trust
Recording Angel, when he entered that deed performed by
thee while in a state of insanity, blotted out all previous
record of thy faults and frailties. There was only one
other headstone in the yard, and the inscription upon it
was in Spanish. There had been an enclosure for
cattle, apparently, but not the least attempt at the
formation of a garden, or space for agricultural improve.
ment. I suspect that it was the fact of not keeping the
prisoners usefully employed that led to the events which
preceded the breaking up of the colony. The morta-
lity must have been very great among the parties there
resident, as the yard was entirely filled with graves,
each surmounted by a woooden cross. Some of them had
been buried like the Indians, as there were three of the
bodies above ground, the thigh bone of one protruding.
I think there is no doubt that great rigour had been
used with them, as I do not think common causes would
have produced so great a mortality.
" There are some roots of large trees on the south
front of Mount Felipe, some as much as four feet in
diameter three feet from the roots, and it appears to have
been thickly wooded at one time.
" Upon going into the Governor's residence we found
records of several visitors who had left their cards of
the walls, stating name of,v essel cs, date of visit, & . T
last one was as follows : Thomas Kendrick, Hu The
Bay Company steam bark Otter, May 9, 1853—bound
Island-20 of crew,
to Vancouver'ssix passengers.'
Another was Geiosrigane Brown, Ellsworth, Maine, United
States. A schooner, Victory, 50 tons, bound toall, seven
Califor-
nia—all well, 13 in
"Finding there was not much of interest to occupy
passengers.'
our attention,
sand having proved that there was no
Chilians remaining wo came on board.
Saturday, 23d.—As the men had been very hard
worked since we entered the Straits, I proposed to Mr.
Kennedyw that I should keep watch at night to allow
themn ono night of uninterrupted rest. Accordingly I
had the middle watch, and as I wanted to find out the
rise and fall of the tide I every hour put over the hand
lead and marked the depth of water at the water's
edge,
and to secure greater accuracy I marked
on the ship s gunwale and a place
marked the line there also.
Thened follow
I.ing
a.wam.s the resultte
the
obtained :—The tide
tur at 30 At 1.30 rise was 14 inches ;
from 2.30 to 3.30 the rise was 151 inches • from 3.30
to 4.30 it was 17 inches ; from 4.30 to 5'.30 it was
12 inches; giving a mean peer hour for four hours of
rather more than 141
ylch s.,

EIGHT HORSES BURST ALIVE.—The Bury Post gull
on Thursday night last, at twelve o'clock, the stables
erected at the bottom of Ridgeway-hill, Dorchester, and
belonging to Mr. Landsdale, the railway contractor,
were burnt to the ground, and eight valuable horses
perished. The horses were valued at 3001., and we re-
gret to say that Mr. Landsdale was not insured. The
catastrophe was caused by the man who had charge of
the horses getting drunk and letting the candle fall upon
some straw. He has since absconded.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills
for the Cure of Bad Legs are the most effectual reme-
dies.—Extract of a letter from Mr. David Smith, of the
Patent Slip, Arbroath, dated June 10, 1853. "To
Professor Holloway—Sir : I suffered the most excrucia-
ting- pains for a period of eight years from a dreadfully
bad leg, which completely disabled me from performing
any kind of work during the whole of that time. I used
every available remedy, hut derived no benefit whatever.
As a last resource I tried your ointment and pills, which
alone effected a complete cure, and have enabled me to
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loway's establishment, 244 strand, London.

, THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LAN-E.-THIS
EVENING.—Mr. E. T. SMITH, Lessee, respectfully informs
his friends and patrons that he has, regardless of expense, engaged
a galaxy of EQfJESTRI A.N TALENT never before assembled con-
junctively, even in this the Metropolis of NatiCIIS, and by whom the
classic development of the bippodrarn qic art obtained a triumph
every evening unmatched in the histot y of such performances. The
gymnastic artistes were equally successful. The victory of the
Vaulters was completed, in the throwing of nearly 200 somersaults
by 0. Dale and Barnes, the European and American champions.
The Eleventh Exhibition will take place THIS EVENING, Novem-
ber 3, when Mr. Smith earnestly but respectfully solicits a continua-
tion of that support which he so gratefully recognises.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 4,

Will be performed MONEY. Characters by Messrs. G. Vanden-
hoff, Tilbury, Howe, Buckstone, Compton, H. Corri, and W. Farren ;
Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Fltzwilliam.
To be followed by MIDAS. Characters by Misses Featherstone
and Ormonde.
To conclude with MAKE YOUR WILLS.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CILLIMES KEAN.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 4,
Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup
ported by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.
After which, Lord Byron's Tragedy of SARDANAPALUA, con-
siderably abridged for stage representation. Principal characters by
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with DEAF AS A POST. Principal character by
Mr. Harley.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Under the Management of Madame Vestrie.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 4,

win be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principa 1
character by Mr. C. Mathews.
After which, THE COMMENCEMENT OF A BAD FARCE
which, however (it is hoped), will turn out to be WRIGHT AT
LAST (sth time). Principal character by Mr. Wright.
To conclude with A CURIOUS CASE. Principal character by
Mr. C. Mathews.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 4,
_ _ _

Will be performed THE DISCARDED SON. Characters by
Leigh Murray, Paul Bedford, and Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley and Miss
Woolgar, &c.
After which, THE CAMP AT CHOIMAM.
To be followed by "HOTEL CHARGES!" or, How to Cook
"A Bifiln."
To conclude with COMING OF AGE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 4,
Will be performed THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac-
ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Emery, F. Robson, Cooper, and Galli ;
Mesdames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, E. Turner, and
Wyndham.
To be followed by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters
by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling.

ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
SECOND WEEK of the GRAND EQUESTRIAN JUBILEE,
With an entire change in the SCENES of the ARENA, forming the
second monster Programme of the series arranged for the purpose
of introducing the unequalled Equestrian and Gymnastic talent of
this far-famed Establishment.
THIRD WEEK of Miss KATE COOKE, whose graceful daring
and finished mode of managing her beautiful and most perfectly
trained steed, Snowdrop, in the highest school of ménage con-
tinues to be received with increased admiration and applause.
The world's wonder, Miss EMILY COOKE, will appear every even-
ing in her matchless Feat of Leaping through 16 balloons.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 4,
The Successful Burlesque of JUPITER'S DECREE, AND THE
PALL OF PHATON; or, THE FIERY COURSERS OF THE SUN.
To be followed by the Scenes of the ARENA, supper ted by the
acknowledged favourites and other talented Artistes, ,or which ex-
tensive arrangements have been made. The extraordinary Artistes
on LA PERCHE, Signor CARLOTTIE and Signor FRANCOIS.
To conclude with Mr. W. Cooke's exciting NEW GRAND
GREEK ENTREE, which has been eminently successful.
Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.