The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-01 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

The supplies of both town and country killed meat on
sale to-day are seasonably extensive, and the trade gene-
rally is rather inactive as follows :
Per Bibs by the carcase.
a. d. s. d.
Beef, inferior 2 4 210
Do., middling 3 3 6
Do. prime large 3 8 4 0
D•., do. small 4 2 4 4
Pork, large 3 8 4 4

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0. d. s. d.
Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 4
Do., middling 3 6 4 0
Do., prime 4 2 4 6
Veal 3 6 4 6
Perk, small 4 8 5 4

BOROUGH HOP.

The supplies of new hops are very extensive, and a fair
average business is doing in most kinds at full prices. Last
week's imports were 50 bales from Harburg.
➢iid and East Bent pockets, 3/ 10s to 51 15s per cwt.;
Weald of Sent, 3/ 5s to 4/ 14s; Sussex, 3/ Os to 3/ 16s.

CAPT. COLLINSON, R.N., ON THE PROPOSED
ARCTIC SEARCH.

Captain Collinson has addressei the following letter
to the Times:—

Slr,—ln your leading article on Thursday, relative
to the continuance of the search for Sir John Franklin
and his cownitnious, you have riot unfairly summed up
the results of the expeditions hitherto sent in quest of
our missing Countrymen.
"There is not a doubt that hardships have been un-
dergone and perils encountered ; but the assertion that
the crews of the abandoned ships were withdrawn by ' a
miracle almost' is not warranted by the facts related in
the journals now before the public.
" So long as no else was obtained to the route pursued
by the missing vessels after leaving Beechey Island there
was a necessity that every nook and corner of the Arctic
Sea should be examined, entailing what we know now
to be much unnecessary hazard and fatigue. This
case is now different ; we know the exact spot where
to go to ; we know the confines of the arta within which
the record of their voyage remain have been reached by
a vessel ; we know that the travelling parties from the
Enterprise could have traversed the very route pursued
by the crews of the Erebus and Terror after they aban-
doned their vessels, and we are aware that that ship re-
turned in safety to England. Yet, in the faqe of all
this, you call upon the British public to discountenance
what you are pleased to term "so outrag,emni-a pro-
ceeding."

After the labour, the anxiety we have undergone, you
call upon us to forbear when the noble object which has
occupied the attention of the whole civilised world for
the last ten years is fairly within our grasp.
Setting aside the question as to whether there are
any survivors or not, we owe to the memory of these
135 Englishmen, whose lives have fallen a sacrifice in
the accomplishment of a ,great geographical problem, to
the satisfaction of their friends and relatives, that the
mystery attending their fate should be cleared up.
We owe it to our national honour that what we have
begun should be accomplished, and that we should not
deprive our fellow-countrymen who may hereafter
be in difficulty of that firm trust in succour which, has
hitherto formed a bond of union in distress. Sir, I have
been brought up in the persuasion that perseverance in
a good and noble cause is one of the attributes of the
Anglo-Saxon race ; let us not permit the slur of aban-
doning the fate of our missing countrymen, to surmise to
be handed down to posterity when we have it in our
power without serious risk to place the matter beyond a
doubt.

I have trespassed longer upon your columns than was
my intention, but I hope what I have said will lead you
as well as your readers, to count the cost of permitting
the timelto pass away without an attempt to recover the
records of an expedition which now forms a portion of
the history of the world. •