The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-10 00:00:00

THE NORTH-IVEST PASSAGE.

The first meeting of Lieutenant Bedford Pim
with the party from the Investigator is thus de-
scribed in a private letter, dated " Her Majesty's
ship Resolute, Melville Island, April 19, 1853 :"
" This is really a red letter day in our voyage, and
shall be kept as a holiday by our heirs and successors
for ever. At 9 o'clock of this day our look-out man
made the signal for a party corning in from the west-
ward ; all went out to meet them and assist them in. A
second party was then seen. Dr. Doraville was the first
person I met. I cannot describe my feelings when he
told me that Captain M`Clure was among the next party.
I was not long in reaching him and giving him many
hearty shakes—no purer were ever given by two men in
this world. M'Clure looks well, but is very hungry.
His description of Pim's making the Harbour of Mercy
would have been a fine subject for the pen of Captain
Marryat, were he alive.
"M'Clure and his First-Lieutenant were walking on
the floe. Seeing a person coming very fast towards
them they supposed he was chased by a bear, or had
seen a bear. Walked towards him ;on getting onwards
a hundred yards, they could see from his proportions
that he was not one of them. Pim began to screech
and throw up his hands (his face as black as my hat) ;
this brought the captain and lieutenant to a stand, as
they could not hear sufficiently to make out his language.
"At length Pim reached the party, quite beside him-
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angel of light ;he says He soon was seen from the
ship ; they had only one hatchway open, and the crew
were fairly jambed there, in their endeavour to get up.
The sick jumped out of their hammocks, and the crew
forgot their despondency ; in fact, all was changed on
board the Investigator.
" M'Clure had 30 men and three officers fully pre.
pared to leave for the depot at Point Spencer. What
a disappointment it would have been to go there and
find the miserable Mary yacht with four or five casks
of provisions, instead of a fine large depot !
"Another party of seven men were to have gone by
M'Kenzie, with a request to the Admiralty to send out
a ship at Point Leopold, in 1854. The 30 men are on
their way to me now. I shall, if possible, send them on
to Beechy Island, with about 10 men of my own crew,
to be taken home the first opportunity.
" May 2.—lnvestigator's second party, consisting of
Lieutenant Cresswell and Wynniatt, Mr. Piers, and
Mr. Meertsching arrived, bringing two men on their
sledge. They made an extraordinary passage across for
men in their state. The greater part of them are affected
with scurvy, but are rapidly improving."

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

ISIR,—In addition to the very interesting particulars
which have appeared in The Sun of this day of the pro-
ceedings of her Majesty's ship Investigator in the Arctic
Regions, we think it will be satisfactory to the publics
to know, that by letters we have received from Com.
mander M'Clure of that ship and from Captain Kellett,
of her Majesty's ship Resolute, it appears that those of&
cers bad met at Melville Island, and had been in com-
pany fora fortnight at the date of the last communica-
tion, Captain M'Clure had
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herself will be able to force a passage through this large
mass of ice.
we are, sir, your faithful servants,
HALLETT, ROBINSON, AND CO.,
Agents to Captain Kellett and Commander M 'Clure.
George-street, Westminster, Oct. 8.

FATAL STEALS-BOAT COLLISION.—SOUTHEND, OCT. 7.
intelligence has just reached here of a collision be-
tween the Trident steam-ship, Captain Morris, one of
the fleet of the General Steam Navigation Company,
and the brig Harewood, of London, Mr. Graham,
master, which took place on Tuesday night, near the
Mouse light, some miles below the Nore, and occasioned
the foundering of the latter vessel, and the loss of six
of her crew. The Trident is one of the largest ships be-
longing to the company, and was selected by her Ma-
jesty for returning to the metropolis on the occasion of
her first visit to Scotland, in preference to the Royal
George sailing yacht. The names of the unhappy fel-
lows who perished were—George Waters, mate; John
Alderson, seaman ; Richard Thompson, seaman ; 'Wil-
liam Johnson, seaman ; and William Collins and Tho-
mas George West, apprentices. On the part of the
steamer it is averred, as we are informed, that the acci-
dent did not result from any improper navication on
their part ; that they saw the approach of the Harewood,
and stopped the engines, and did everything to avoid
coming in contact, but that she ran right into them.
The whole matter, however, will be thoroughly investi•
gated at the coroner's inquest upon the bodies, as soon
as any of them are found. The brig and cargo are a
total loss.
CITY ROYAL COMMISSION--In consequence of prior
engagements on the part of the Royal Commissioner
appointed to inquire into the state of the Corporation
of the City of London, it is now understood that thi
seal will not be opened until the commencement of tliAl
ensuing month.

MANSION- HOUSE. William Mason, a well- '
dressed, clever-looking man, upon black crutches, was
brought before the Lord Mayor, upon several charges of
forgery.
George Rob:ns, warehouseman to Mr. Townend,
batter, of Bread-street, Cheapside, said—On Thursday,
the Bth of September, the prisoner came to our ware-
house and asked for a bat, and purchased one for 6s. 6d.
I never saw him before that time to my knowledge. He
offered me the 51. note I produce. I tendered it to Mr.
F. Townend, who wrote on the back of it, in my pre-
sence, "Win. Mason, 4, Kennington-terrace," by the
prisoner's direction. The note purports to be the issue
of the Branch Bank of England, at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
Charles Locke, warehouseman to Messrs. Grisbook
and Co., woollen drapers, of Woolwich, said—The pri-
soner came, on Wednesday, the 14th of September, to
our warehouse, and purchased goods to the amount of
11s. or 125., for which he paid me with the forged 101.
note 1 produce. I presented the note to our cashier, and
the change was handed to the prisoner, who wrote, in
my presence, upon it, in pencil, " Wm. Jarvis." The
note purported to be the issue of the Leicester Branch
of the Bank of England.
William Creighton, assistant to Mr. C. W. Abbott, of
No. 357, Oxford-street, woollen draper, said—l remem-
ber the prisoner coming to our warehouse, on the evening
of the 15th of September, between six and seven o'clock.
He was served by another person of the establishment
'with goods of the value of 15s. or 165., and he tendered
me the forged Si. note I produce. He wrote on the
back of it, " Wm. Mason, 43, Upper Charlton-street,
Fitzroy-square." It purports to be the issue of the
Newcastle-on-Tyne Branch of the Bank of England. I
have known the prisoner as a customer for eight or nine
years, and always considered him to be a respectable man.
Henry Heckscher, watchmaker and jeweller, was the
next witness called. The witness said—l carry on busi-
ness in Thames-street, Windsor. The prisoner came,
on the 15th of September, between 5 and 6 o'clock in
the evening, to my shop. He was standing for five or
ten minutes looking at my shop front, and he then came
in, and asked me to shew him a silver watch which was
hanging in the window. He said he had been robbed
of his watch and 71. at some races in Rent, and that he
could not afford to exceed 2/. I showed the watch he
wanted to look at, but 31. was the pries, and he said he
could not afford that amount. I then showed him ano-
ther, and he asked me if I could recommend it, and I
told him I could not recommend it so much as the first
watch. I then showed him a watch for 2/. 155., which
I could recommend, and I told him he should have it
for 21. 10s.. for I really felt for him. (Laughter, in
which the prisoner very heartily joined.)
The Lord Mayor (to the witness)—You mean, that
you sympathised with him so much on account of the
robbery from which he had suffered, that you were de-
termined to let him have a bargain ?
Witness—That was it, my lord. Well, he said he
would have a silver chain too, the price of which was
10s. 6d., so I said that I would take 6d. off the chain,
and I did so.
The Lord Mayor—That was more sympathy, I
suppose.
Witness—Yes, my lord. I did feel very much for
him, so the whole came to 31. He then said he had no
change, and offered me this 101. note in payment, and
wrote his name John William Mason, 3, Mount-place,
Oxford," on the back of it. I then went and got
change, and handed it the prisoner, together with his
purchase. I believe his watch is now in Hull, and I
wish to talk to your lordship about it. (A laugh.)
The Lord Mayor—You must talk to the police about
that.
The 101. note purported to be the issue of the Leices-
ter branch of the Bank of England.
Mr. William Wyburd, the inspector of bank notes in
the Bank of England said—l have been 12 years in-
spector, and 24 years in the establishment. I have
examined the four notes produced, purporting to be
notes of the Bank of England. They are all forgeries.
The policeman who had the prisoner in custody said
he had reason to believe that if the prisoner was re-
manded, numerous other cases would be brought for-
ward against him.

The Lord Mayor—l shall commit the prisoner upon
the charges which are perfect and complete ; and I shall
have him brought up again, in order to ascertain what
effect the publication of this examination may have in
bringing forward other cases.

GUILDHALL—George Johnson was charged with
the following cruel highway robbery :
Caroline Oliver said she was a poor servant-girl out
of place, and had been on the day previous to ask her
late mistress to give her a character, and was returning
through Little Moorfields, when three men seized her
and thrust her against the wall. Two of them held her
there, while the other removed her hands from her dress,
which she was holding up, and thus protecting her
pocket, and drew out her purse, containing half a sove-
reign, twelve shillings, four sixpences, and twopence in
copper money, which he showed to his accomplices, and
they all three made off together. Complainant followed
calling out "Stop thief,' but they separated, and the
prisoner was the only one captured, and he was the one
that took her purse from her pocket.
Thomas Bell said he heard the cries of "Stop thief,"
and seeing the prisoner running, he gave chase, and
overtook him in Milton-street, and detained him until
the prosecutrix came up and identified him. On the way
to the station-house, a man came behind witness and
caught hold of him round the neck, as if with the inten-
tion of releasing the prisoner, but witness having his
right hand at liberty, struck at him, and so got rid of
his assailant. Nothing was found on the prisoner when
searched.

Alderman Muggeridge asked the prosecutrix how
much money she had lost ?
Prosecutrix appeared greatly troubled at her loss, and
said she had 1/. 4s. 6d. in her purse, and it was every
farthing she had in the world.
Aldermun Muggeridge inquired where she was going,
as she was out of a situation?

Prosecutrix said she wa4 a stranger, and had no
friends in London. She had made arrangements to go
to Bristol to join her brother, who had returned from or
was going to sea.
Alderman Muggeridge asked how she intended to go ?
Prosecutrix said—By the excursion train on Sunday
morning.
Alderman Muggeridge said she should not be pre-
vented from going to her friends, and he then awarded
her 11. from the poor-box, and as it would be necessary
to remand the prisoner to ascertain if he was known, she
would be required to attend again' and he should there-
fore order her expenses to be paid by the court to enable
her to do so.

The prosecutrix thanked the alderman, and
The prisoner was remanded.

CLERKENWELL.— William, Allen and Ann Davila
Were examined on the charge of uttering counterfeit
coin.

Mr. Jarman, from the office of the solicitor to the
Treasury, prosecuted the case, which excited some
amusement.

A few days ago the female prisoner, who is a woman of
good address, made a trifling purchase at the shop of Mr.
Smith, a butcher, in Whitecross-street, and tendered a
counterfeit shilling in payment. The prisoner, being
told that it was a bad one, expressed much surprise, and
immediately put down a good one, saying she was
aware from whom she had taken it. Before departing
from the premises, she, in very severe terms, denounced
the traders in counterfeit money, remarking that
offences of such a description operated exceedingly
cruelly on shopkeepers. With such observations Mr.
Smith and his wife, of course, perfectly coincided ; but
the former suspected, to use his own terms, that she
Was " a wolf in sheep's clothing," and determining to
be convinced, followed her at a distance, and saw her
immediately join the other prisoner, whom he had no-
ticed on the opposite side of the street in front of his
house, while his lady customer was making her lamen-
tations. He dodged them about, until he saw them
enter the St. Paul public-house, in Chiswell-street, when
he pounced upon them just as they had put down
another bad shilling, for a quartern of gin. When first
brought to this court, they denied all knowledge of
each other, but it was now satisfactorily proved that
they had cohabited together at 92, Shaftesbury-street,
Hoxton, where, after they had been in gaol 24 hours,
their thud, 4 years of age, was found, by Sergeant
Busain, N division, who also discovered in the same
apartment other counterfeit money.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed them for trial.

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SOUTHWARK.—John Impey, a journeyman baker,
residing in Surrey-row, Blackfriars-road, was brought
before Mr. Combe, charged with committing an assault
on Sarah Lemon, a lodger in his house.
The complainant, a dissipated-looking woman, who
is well-known to the officers of the court from her
habitual drunkenness, which has caused her to be sepa-
rated from her husband, a respectable tradesman in the
Borough, stated that she had lodged in the prisoner's
house a fortnight, and on Thursday evening his wife went
with another female to the Surrey Theatre. Previous to
her going she asked complainant whether she would be
kind enough to wake her husband up at eleven o'clock,
as he had to go to work at that hour. Witness knocked
at the door at the time, and finding that he did not hear
her she entered the room and aroused him up when
he suddenly seized her by the throat with one hand, and
with the other indecently assulted her in such a rough
manner that she was compelled to go to St. Thomas's
hospital. As the prisoner was doing so his wife
came home. She called in a constable and gave him into
custody.
Mr. Walter Tyrell, one of the dresser's at St. Thomas's
hospital, said he attended complainant on Thursday
night, and, after examination, he could discover no
marks of violence, nor anything to show that any as.
sault had been committed.
The complainant stated that the prisoner hurt her
very much, especially about the neck, and she had a dif-
ficulty in walking.
The prisoner declared that he never hurt her at all,
and it was all false about any indecency having been com-
mitted. The real facts were as follow. His wife went
with a female friend to the theatre, and she asked the
complainat to knock him up, as he had to go to work at
eleven o'clock. Instead of doing so, she entered his room
and pulled him off the bed, when he jumped up and
thanked her, at the same time telling her that she de-
served a kiss for being so kind. He kissed her, and
while he was doing so his wife returned home, and
as soon as she entered the house the prosecutrix
turned round and accused him of indecently assaulting
her.

Mr. Combe—You did not expect your wife home,
then, did you?
Prisoner—No, I did not ; but all I did was to have a
tin in the dark. (Laughter.)
Combe—Well, you have acknowledged having a

LAMBETH. A fashionably-dressed Frenchman,
who gave the name of Lejard Challind, applied to Mr.
Elliott for some redress against a person who had made
an illegal seizure, and carried away a quantity of his
property.
The applicant, in broken English, stated that he had
engaged an oven and a shop from a person named Do-
novan, at 12s. a week, and at the expiration of the first
week, and without giving him the slightest notice of his
intention, the landlord put in a distraint for the rent,
and swept away his property, consisting of bread, scales,
and weights, and refused to give them back.
Winsley, the broker pat in, said the articles seized
were perfectly worthless, and not at all adequate to cover
the amount of debt, much more costs, and he should wil-
lingly give them up upon the payment of both. The prin-
cipal article was bread, consisting of 95 small loaves,
manufactured from some composition, and totally un-
saleable and unfit for human food.

Dixon, the officer, here placed before his worship a
portion of one of the loaves of bread, as a specimen of
the manufactory. In form it was somewhat flat, with a
brown crust or covering, and when cut it had all the ap-
pearance of a Dutch cheese.
Mr. Elliott, having examined the bread, remarked that
it appeared to him to be enormously heavy for its size,
upon which the man who made it, and who was em-
ployed by the complainant, said it was quite unfit for
human food.
Dr. Bushill, one of the guardians of the poor for the
parish of Lambeth, and who happened to be in court on
other business, here remarked that be had submitted a
portion of the loaf before his worship to the test of boil-
ing water; and, to the best of his judgment, it was com-
posed of flour of rice, potatoes, and a portion, say a
third, of flour, and the composition beingdevoid of yeast,
and unfermented, was decidedly unfit for human food.
The landlord here remarked, that he was very willing
to forego the expense of the distress, provided the com-
plainant paid him the week's rent, but this the French-
man refused to do, and Mr. Elliott refused further in-
terference in the matter. _ _

.
James Davis, the baker, who said that a portion of the
composition put into the bread used to be brought in
pails by his employer, and that, therefore, he could not
tell what it was, here applied to the magistrate to com-
pel the Frenchman to pay him his week's wages, but
Mr. Elliott refused to interfere, beyond offering him
a summons if his master persisted in his refusal to pay,
and here the matter ended.

THE ARMY.