The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-02 00:00:00

CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. The Sarah
Sands from Montreal arrived last evening with
dates to the 15th inst. Cholera was subsiding at
Quebec. She brought 240 artillerymen amongst
her passengers. The 71st, 66th, and 54th Regi-
ments were under orders for embarkation, and ex-
pecting to leave in one of the Company's steamers.
The Sarah Sands passed the Ottawa on the morning
of the 17th, one day's sail from Quebec.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The following interesting letter respecting the
Arctic discovery ships has been forwarded to us
for publication :

Her Majesty's ship Phcenix, Queenstown, Sept. 2.
As we have just arrived from the Arctic regions, you
may be anxious to know the latest news. We have
brought home Captains Sir E. Belcher, Kellett, and
M'Clure, the discoverers of the north-west passage, they
all having left their ships this year, except M'Clure, who
left his last year. Sir E. Belcher left his ship in Wel-
lington Channel, about 40 miles from Beachey Island ;
and Captain Kellett left his in lat. 74 deg. 42 min.,
long. 101 deg. 22 min. west, 28 miles south-west of
Cape Cockburn. With respect to our own work, I
must tell you we arrived at Disko on the 18th of June,
and, after discharging the transport, we sailed (with the
Talbot store-ship in tow) on the sth of July for Uper-
navik to procure dogs, which we did ; and sailed for the
ice in Melville Bay on the 20th. After procuring some
600 looms and ducks for the Arctic squadron at Cape
Shacklelis, we stood for the ice ; but were soon brought
up in lat. 74 deg. north, the ice being very heavy. The
captain and icemaster landed on one of the Duck
Islands, to see how the ice was to the northward, and
the icemaster informed us that during 47 years' expe-
rience he never saw so much ice, upon which the captain
(Inglefield) determined to try the west shore, all the
whalers having done so a fortnight before, they not
being able to get through Melville Bay.
We immediately went away south again, and, filling
up with coals at the coalmine in Disko (where we got 70
tons in 24 hours,) we halted across for Home Bay.
We fell in with the whalers on the 3d of August off
Home Bay, who informed us that the ice bad not broken
off the shore yet, and they had not been able to get any
further. Captain Inglefield was determined to look at
the ice himself. At sunset the icemaster reported no
lead and the ice very heavy, when we bore up for Disko
again, intending, alter filling up with coals, to get right
through the pack, as the last chance of getting up at all.
We entered the pack in 70 deg. north, first calling at
Liveley, and filling up with coals, and were 10 days
getting through, coming out abreast of Ponds Bay. We
found no ice off the west shore for 150 miles on the land.
We now made all haste to Beachey Island, cAllinc, at
Wollaston Sound to see the depot of provisions which
were left there in 1849 by the North Star. But when
we went on shore we found all the casks stove, all the
preserved meats destroyed, all the rum, brandy, and
wine gone. We brought off about forty casks of flour,
but they were all stove, and the flour spoilt. We sailed
the next morning for Port Dundas, which is exactly op-
posite. We remained there a day, and then stood for
Beachy Island, where we arrived on Aug. 26. Here, to
our astonishment, we found the North Star under weigh
on the eve of starting for England, with the whole of the
squadron on board. They have left their ships. Of
course they immediately gave us three cheers. We
landed a number of stores for Collinson, should he come
this way.
Lieutenant Mecham, first of the Resolute, picked up a
record, which Captain Collinson left behind, he having
come up the Prince of Wales' Straits the following year,
being only a fortnight behind M'Clure. He then, find-
ing he could not get beyond the head of the straits,
turned back and followed M'Clure round the south-west
side of Baring Island, but was stopped when he got to
lat. 72 deg., long. 125 deg., and was obliged to go back
again after being within 40 miles of M'Clure. Collinson
eventually wintered in lat. 71 deg. 35 min. west, long.
117 deg. 40 min. I send you a copy of his record, and
a tracing of the land explored. I suppose we shall hare
another expedition next year to look after him. We
started from Beachey Island on the 27th, calling at Wol-
laston Sound depot. We tried to get to Port Leopold
to visit the depot there, but could not, in consequence
of the ice. We were only three days coming through
the pack. Remained at Lievely three or four days ;
took in what coals there were, when we all started for
England. We parted company with the Talbot and
North Star off Cape Farewell in a gale of wind, and ar-
rived off here this morning.

RECORDS POUND AT PRINCESS ROYAL ISLETS BY LIEU
TENANT MECHA3I, IST OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP RESO
LUTE, IN THE SPRING, 1854.

Her Majesty's ship Enterprise rounded Point Barrow
in the pack on the 26th of July, 1851. Got into open
water on the American shore on the 30th, along which
she proceeded until the 21st of August, when two islets
were discovered east-north-east of the Pelly Islands.
Captain Parry was seen on the 26th, and on the same
evening a bold bluff, in lat. 71 deg. north, longitude 122
deg. west. Standing to the north-east along this shore,
she entered a strait on the 29th, in which, on the fol-
lowing morning, in lat. 72 deg. 55 min. north, long. 127
deg. 10 min. west, two islets, with a beacon on the
largest, were seen. Here we found a boat, with 37 casks
of provisions, deposited by the Investigator, which ves-
sel had wintered in the pack, four miles east-north-east
of these islets.

During the autumn a travelling party from her reached
the north end of the straits, in 73 deg. 32 min. north,
and 115 deg. west. The last date from her is June the
Ist, when all were well.
Travelling parties had been exploring north and
south. The latter had fallen in with the natives, who
were described as inoffensive people.

Captain APClure named the southern shore Prince
Albert's Land ; northern shore, Baring's Island ; the
straits, Prince of Wales ; and the islets, Princess Royal.
The Enterprise, proceeding up the strait, which varies
from 10 to 20 miles in width, reached the north end of
it on the 31st, and on the southern shore found a cylin-
der, deposited by the Investigator's travelling party,
dated on board the ship, April 21, 1851. Finding the
entrance blocked by ice, returned along Baring's Island,
rounding Cape Erebus (Nelson's Head of M'Clure) on
the 2d of Sept., and on a low point in 72 deg. 1 min.
north, and 125 deg. 10 min. west a cask was found,
with intelligence of the Investigator, dated Aucrust 18,
1851. She left IPrincs of Wales Straits on the 10th.
All well.

The Enterprise, proceeding northerly, landed on an
island in 72 deg. 55 min. north, and 125 deg. 10 min.
west, and deposited 20 days' provisions for eight men.
Not finding any suitable place for winter quarters, re-
turned to where she now lies, in lat. 71 deg, 35 min.
north, long. 117 deg. 39 min. west, at the east side of the
entrance of Prince of Wales Straits.

it. CommrsoN, Captain.