The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-12 00:00:00

The Hound, brig, was commissioned by Commander
Patten yesterday.
The Foudroyant, 78, was warped on Tuesday from
her moorings to the sheerhulk, and on Wednesday
her masts were sent into the yard preparatory to
storing.
Shipwrights will commence planking the Phoebe,
in N 0.2 slip, on Wednesday.
WooLwicir, Nov. 10.—The Investigator, Captain
Bird, arrived at Woolwich at 3 30 p.m. to-day, towed
by the Monkey steam vessel, and brought up at
moorings opposite the dockyard.
Wooewicer, Nov. 11.—The Monkey steam-vessel,
Master Commander Bryant, after towing the Investi-
gator to Woolwich, again went down the river to
assist the African steam-vessel in towing the Enter-
prise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross, and arrived
with her at this port at eight o'clock A.M. to-day.
On going on board the Enterprise this forenoon, it
was gratifying to witness the robust and apparently
excellent health of the officers and crew, who have
recovered entirely from the fatigues of their perilous
voyage in the Arctic regions. The Enterprise and
Investigator entered Port Leopold on the 11th of
September, 1848, and remained locked up in the ice
until the early part of Septemb?r of the present year.
\\ hen these vessels arrived in the extreme northern
regions they burned blue lights and sent rock, is up
every evening and morning, the Enterprise frng at
10 p m., at 12 at night, and '2 o'clock Ads' ; the In-
vestigator using her rockets at 9 and 11 P M., and 1
o'clock A.M., and both burnt their blue lights at
about five minutes before the rockets were sent up.
During the long and tedious days of winter the
officers and crew amused themselves by catching
foxes, and secured upwards of 100 of these animals,
which are nearly the size of the common foxes of this
country, only the fur of the former is white in winter
and of a grey colour in summer. The whole of the
foxes were liberated, after each had a collar put round
his neck made of bearskin, and having the names of
the vessels, and the captains commanding them, with
the latitude and lcngitude of the place where the ships
were at the time, written upon them. Several of the
foxes were taken a second time with their collars upon
them. The traps used for taking the foxes were
empty casks, and sometimes three or four of the foxes
would be taken in one day. Capt. Sir J. C. Ross headed
the party who proceeded on the ice in search of Capt.
Sir John Franklin, and the officers :nd crews of
the Erebus and Terror, and the sufferings of the
whole of those engaged in travelling over the ice were
very great. The party was out 39 days. The
difficulty of travelling over the ice is described as
very great, owing to the little direct progress made
in a day's journey, as the party had sometimes to
walk three or four miles along the course of a ravine
before they could meet with a safe crossing, and after-
wards walk a similar distance back on the other side
of the ravine, before they could proceed in the desired
direction. The route travelled by Captain Sir James
C. Ross and party from Leopold Harbour was along
the west side of Prince Regent's Inlet, and the north
side of Boothia, and extended more than 200 miles.
In their course they visited the place where the Fury
was left, and found the peas, flour, and other pro-
visions saved from that vessel in as good condition as
when first put on board, with the exception of the
biscuits, some of which had become mouldy. Pre-
vious to leaving the Arctic regions, they left a large
boat which they had cut in two, and lengthened six
feet, making a capacious boat of about fifty feet
in length, and very strong, and sufficient to hold
a whole ship's crew. The engines were also
left, that if any of the engineers of the Erebus or
Terror were still alive and found them, they might
be able to put them together to aid their return from
the northern regions. Provisions for six months'
consumption were also left about three days' journey
from Port Leopold, in Prince Regent's Inlet, in the
direction of the place where the Fury was wrecked,
and a similar quantity about three days' journey
round the entrance to Prince Regent's Inlet from
Barrow's Straits. Several of the men had to be taken
back from the excursion on sledges, their strength
being completely exhausted. The assistant surgeon, a
veryintelligent young man, and three ahle seamen
of the Enterprise, with three of the crew of the In-
vestigator, have diei since the vessel left Woolwich
in the spring of 1848.
The Enterprise and Investigator are to be paid off
at this port, and it is already ordered that they are
to be prepared for proceeding to the Arctic regions
againiearly in 1850. There are:some on board the En-
terprise who have not lost hope of the return of Sir
John Franklin's expedition.
THE ADMIRALTY.—Rear-Admiral Dundas, Captain
Eden, Captain Milne, and Secretary Parker, will
leave town to morrow morning by
.the express train
via Brighton for Portsmouth, to inspect that fine
frigate the Leander, 50, at Spithead. The board will
be entertained at luncheon by Captain Dacres on
board; after which they will return to town via
Gosport at half-past five.
NAVAL AIDE-DE•CAMP TO THE QUEEN.—Captain
Henry John Rous (1823) succeeds to the above
honourable distinction by the promotion of Captain
Berkeley to be Rear-Admiral.
THE COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP VEX•
oesoice.--fhe Earl of Hnrdwicke having served his
time for his flag in the above ship, notified his wish to
resign; Captain Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., has
consequently, been sent out to relieve the Earl.
Captain Blackwood took passage in the Vulture
steam-frigate, from Portsmouth, on Saturday evening,
to embark in the Ganges, 84, at Plymouth, about to
sailco mtourlatnheee
r.in- Mediterranean.c hi e
fof
Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8.,
the West India station, sailed
from Halifax is the Wellesley, 72, on the 27th ult.,
1 for Bermuda.

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