The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-07 00:00:00

THE FROZEN SHIP.

One serene evening in the middle of August, 1775,
Captain Warrens, the master of the Greenland, a whale-
ship, found himself becalmed amongst an immense
number of icebergs, in about 77 deg. of north latitude.
On one side, and within a mile of his vessel, these were
of immense height, and closely wedged together, and a
succession of snow covered peaks appeared behind each
other as far as the eye could reach, showing that the
ocean was completely blocked up in that quarter, and that
it had probably been so for a long period of time, Capt.
Warrens did not feel altogether satisfied with his situa-
tion; but there being no wind, he could not move one
way or the other, and he therefore kept a strict watch,
knowing that he would be safe, so long as the icebergs
continued in their respective places.
About midnight the wind rose to a gale, accompanied
by thick showers of snow, while a succession of tre-
mendous thundering, grinding, and crushing noises, gave
fearful evidence that the ice was in motion. The vessel
received violent shocks every second, for the haziness of
the atmosphere prevented those on board from discover-
ing in what direction the open water lay, or if there was
actually any at all on either side of them. The night
was spent in tacking as often as any cause of danger
happened to present itself, and in the morning the storm
abated, and Captain Warrens found, to his great joy,
that his ship hadinot sustained any serious injury. He
remarked with surprise that the accumulated icebergs,
which bad on the preceding evening formed an impene-
trable barrier, had been separated and disarranged
by the wind, and that in one place a canal of open sea
wound its course among them, as far as the eye could

discern.
It was two miles beyond the entrance of this canal
that a ship made its appearance about noon. The our
shone brightly at the time, and a gentle breeze blew from
the north. At first some intervening icebergs prevented
Captain Warrens from distinctly seeing any thing but
her masts ; but he was struck with the at' ange manner
in which her sails were disposed, and with the dismantled
aspect of her yards and rigging. She continued to go
before the wind for a few furlongs, and then grounding
upon the low icebergs, remained motionless.
Captain Warren's curiosity was so much excited, that
he immediately leaped into his boat with several sea-
men, and rowed towards her. On approaching, he
observed that her bull was miserably weather-beaten,
and not a soul appeared on the deck, which was covered
with snow to a considerable depth. He then hailed her
crew several times, but no answer was returned. Pre-
vious to stepping on board, an open port-hole near the
main chains caught his eye, and, on looking into it, he
perceived a man reclining back in a chair, with writing
materials on a table before him, but the feebleness of the
light made everything very indistinct. The party went
upon deck, and having removed the hatchway, which
they found closed, they descended to the cabin. They
first came to the apartment which Captain Warrens
viewed through the port-hole. A tremor seized him as
he entered it. Its inmate retained his former position,
and seemed to be insensible to strangers. He was found
to be a corpse, and a green damp mould had covered lila
cheeks and forehead, and veiled his open eye-balls. La
had a pen in his hand, and a log boek lay b(1, re
him, the last sentence in its unfinished page ran tlitu;;—
" Nov, 14, 1762. We have now been enclosed in the lee
seventeen Gays. The fire went out yesterday, au . our
master has been trying ever since to kindle ii, again,
without success. His wife died this morning, There is
no relief—"
Captain Warrens and his seamen hurried from the spot
without uttering a word. On entering the principal
cabin the first object that attracted their attention was
the dead body of a female reclining on a bed in an atti-
tude of deep interest and attention. Her countenance
retains d the freshness of life, but a contraction of the

limbs showed that her form was inanimate. Seated on
the floor was the corpse of an apparently young man,
holding a steel in one hand and a flint in the other, as if
in the art of striking fire upo❑ some tinder which lay
beside him. In the fore part of the vessel several
sailors were found lying dead in their berths, and the
body of a boy crouched at the bottom of the gangway
stairs. Neither provisions nor fuel could be dis-
covered anywhere ; but Captain 'Warrens was prevented,
by the superstitious prejudices of his seamen, from
examining the vessel as minutely as he wished to have
done. He therefore carried away the log-book already
mentioned, and returned to his own ship, and immedi-
ately steered to the southward, deeply impressed with
the awful example which he had just witnessed of the
danger of navigating the Polar seas in high northern
latitudes.
On returning to England he made various inquiries
respecting vessels that had disappeared in an unlsnown
way, and, by comparing the results of those with the in-
formation which was afforded by the written documents
in his possession, he ascertained the name and history
of the imprisoned ship and of her unfortunate master,
and found that she had been frozen thirteen years pre-
vious to the time of his discovering her among the ice.
—Westminster Review.

Not one railway plan has been deposited this year
with the clerk of the peace for Newark, and on.ty eight
for the county. Last year there were betw'een thirty
and forty.

ST. lvEs.—Upwards of fifty pieces of mahogany
have been brought into this port by the pilot boats, at.d
from the appearance of the wreck the portions found
are supposed to have belonged to a Fretch vtssel, of
about 200 tons.—Wept Briton.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.-011 Friday
afternoon, between two and three o'clock, as a man of
the name of Gillham was proceeding up the river in a
boat, when off the Penitentiary his hat fell overboard,
and while endeavouring to reach it, he overbalanced
himself, and fell into the river. A waterman of the name
of Freeman immediately went to his assistance, and
succeeded in getting him into his boat in less than two
minutes from the time of his immersion. He was con-
veyed to a public-house near Vauxhall-gardens, where
every attention was paid to him, and in less than two
hours he was enabled to return to his home.
CCRATES.—There is a story extant in the diocese
of Exeter that the Bishop has been working with great
anxiety to introduce tractarian curates wherever he
could find an opening. it is said that Dr. Barnes, of
Colyton, wishing to appoint a curate, was met by an
answer from the Bishop that he could not think of
licensing a curate from any other diocese, as there were
plenty of excellent men unemployed in his own, and it
is said further that he has thrust a tractarian upon Dr.
•Barnes. Two other beneficed clergymen, one of them
an archdeacon—in fact the first three letters of his name
are John Moore Stevens, thus runs the rumour—finding
that they had power to employ a curate for three months
without a licence, determined not to be circumvented by
their.respectable diocesan, to appoint their curates for
that period, and so re-appoint. The Bishop then met
them in a very handsome spirit, and saved them the
trouble of walking straightly by the law, by appointing
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The Bestwall and Swineham estates, close to the
borough town of Wareham,which for some time have been
announced for sale in our paper, were on Thursday last
submitted to public competition at the Auction Mart, by
Mr. Robins, and, after much opposition, were kr', eked
down at 12,700 guineas, the Earl of Eldon being declared
the purchaser. It may be in the recollection of our
readers that these farms were selected by" the late Sir
Claude Scott, Bart., to develop his system of practical
agriculture, and where he succeeded in proving that ca.
pital, industry, and skill would surmount every difficulty,
and render farming the most profitable of all employ.
ments.
THE LATE CONFLAGRATION AT NEWFOUND-.
LAND.—The Court of Common Council have given OA
sum of 3151. towards the public subscription raised few
the relief of the sufferers by the great c4nflagration
which occurred on the 15th of July last, at St. John's,
Newfoundland. The amount already collected amounts
THE NEW-CUT.-011 Thursday after-
noon o
THEne& r nearly
FIRE
01 /N.
several men belonging to the Fire Brigade were
busy searching among the ruins for the remainder of the
sovereigns alleged to have been lost in the fire. During
their search they found a cat which had escaped from
the flames by creeping into an empty cistern. They also
found upwards of 45 sovereigns. Mr. Ferguson had in-
sured the life of the poor little dwarf, but not to a large
amount. Morris, one of the firemen, met with a severe
accident, by a piece of burning material falling upon hie
head and severely burning him. He was taken'to the
,hospital.

TRANSFER OF LICENCES.
ST. ANNE'S, WESTMINSTER.
At a special session for the district of Soho, held on
Saturday (present, James Whiskin, Esq., Chairman, and
Thomas Russell, Esq.), the following transfers of licenses
took place:—Dean-street, Soho: Green Man and French
Horn, from Edward Stone to Charles Cutting—Greek-
street: George and Dragon, from Mary Anne Page to
James Norton—Hayes-court: Geneva Arras, from Robert
Tibbatt to Walter Wightman—Little Compton-street:
Conch and Horses, from Robert Seaton to George Sandy
—Lisle-street: Prince of Wales, from Louisa Meunier
to Henry Bingham—Macclesfield-street : Horse and
Dolphin, from David Moyniham to Isaac Pye—Moor-
street: Three Tuns, from Robert Willey to Thomas Nar-
riott—Princes-street: Falcon, from John Brook Haynes
to James Frederick Tindall.
The above were the whole of the applications ma le for
transfers, and none of the cases called for any special re-
mark from the magistrates, further than the requirement
on the part of the authorities that the parties above en-
trusted with licences should conduct their houses in strict
accordance with the provisions of the law.
The magistrates then separated, there being no further
business to transact on behalf of the parish.
FINSBURY DISTRICT.
On Saturday, a special session was holden at the
Session House, Clerkeawell, before Messrs. Wilkes and
Warner, the magistrates for several purposes, when the
following public-house property changed hands:—
The Welsh Harp, in Aylesbury-street, from Alfred
Poole to John Attley ; Apple Tree, Dorrington-street,
from William Henry Young to rilliam Brown ; the
Bull's Head, Peter-street, from Mary Martin to Thomas
Williams ; the Cart and Horses, Turnmill-street, from
Henry Cross to Charles Leverge • the Gun, St. John-
street, from Thomas Shirley to john Sawyer ; White
Hart, Myddleton-street, from Isaac Jeans to John
Bowdy ; Horse and groom, Turnmill street, from John
Bower to Daniel Newman ; Lamb and Flag, Clerken-
well-green, from Edward Thomas Phinn to John
Bradley ; Hemingford Arms, Hemingford-road, from
William Harris to Reuben James Huntley ; Nightingale,
Hornsey-road, from Joseph Archdeacon to Richard
Allen ; Oxford Arms, Oxford-street, New North-road,
from William Moody to John Thornett ; the Dolphin,
Old-street, from James Walker Ready to John Henry
Spear ; the Red Lion, City-road, from Thomas Henry
Brown to Sarah Smith.
STRAND UNION.
On Saturday the following transfers or lionises took
place at the Strand Petty Sessions, before Messrs. Graham
(Chairman), and George Cow dray :
Bull's Head, Vere- street; Clare-market, from Mr. G.
Davis to Mr. Michael Alengan ; Castle, Portugal-street,
from Mr. Wm. Ford to Mrs. Mary Field ; Crown and
Still, Clare-street, from Mr. James Aimeroth to Mr.
Thomas Hetherington ; Fountain, Clare street, from
Mr. Wm. Dousbery to Mr. Henry Elraes ; Grapes. No.
109, Drury- lane, from Mr. Wm. Neat to Mr. Daniel Cold-
man, late of the Cloudesley Arms, Cloudesley-terrace,
Islington ; Pavilion, Newcastle-street, from Mr. Fred.
Newhouse to Mr. G. Baldwin • Old George, Stanhope-
street, Clare-market, from Mr. John Hooper Staines to
Mr. Wm. Bradley ; Nag's Head, James-street, Covent-
garden to Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, administratrix to iier
late husband ; Bell, Exeter-street, Strand, from Mr. E.
Rine to Mr. W. Evans ; Red Lion, Houghton-street,
Clare market ; the late proprietor, Mr. W. Meades, not
being present, in consequence c f being in the debtors'
prison, Whitecross-street, the Chairman objected to
grant the transfer, stating that it was a principle he al-
ways adopted, and which was always followed out at
other sessions, not to grant a transfer in the absence of
the individual who was about to part with his house, as
the Bench must always be satisfied as to the facts of the
case. Inspector Cogan observed that the police maxis.
traces always had similar objections. Licence refused.
NOVEL APPLICATION.-Alr. Moseley, vestry clerk of
the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, attended on be-
half of several licensed victuallers carrying on business
in Bow-street and its vicinity, soliciting the interference
of the Bench to prevent Mr. Humphreys, proprietor of
an hotel opposite the Grapes, Bow-street, from publicly
selling gin and spirits. He stated that the former land-
lord, Mr. Jackson, who had parted with the house and
interest of the business to Mr. Humphreys, when he ob-
tained his licence, pledged his word that he would only
sell gin and other spirits to persons who were in the
habit of dining and lodging at his house. He (Mr.
Moseley) was informed that in the alterations which
were now in progress it was intended to construct the
premises so as to be able to sell to out-door customers.
The CHAIRMAN remarked, that a pledge entered into
by the former proprietor was not binding on the present
occupier.
Mr. Roach, transferring clerk, said that Mr. Hum-
phrey formerly conducted La Ville de Paris Hotel, in
the Haymarket, and carried on the business of a well-
known house in Brydges-street, Covent-garden.
The CHAIRMAN stated that the case was out of the
jurisdiction of the Bench, and that when a renewal of the
application for the licence was made at the granting of
licences. the attention of the Bench might be called to
it. If Mr. Humphreys persisted he must abide by the
consequences.