The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

THE SETN, LONDON,

ARRIVAL OF M. BELLOT.
M. Bellot, of the French mArine, whose volunteer of
services for any Arctic expedition wa4 announced in our
journal a few days since, arrived from Paris on Saturday
morning. He has hastened across to join the Prince
Albert, at Aberdeen.

M. Bellot, Knight of the Legion of Honour, is a dis-
tinguished officer in the French service, and was
wounded at Madagascar in 1845, in the combined attack
of the French and English at Tamatave. The generous
offer of his services on an arduous voyage to the Arctic
seas, in a cause so sacred, will be duly appreciated by
all classes of her Majesty's subjects, and tend, we trust,
to cement that union between the nations of the globe
which is so ardently sought to be established by the
" world's fair."

M. BAlot is, as it ware, the representative of the
French navy in the search for Franklin, fur we have
reason to believe that deep sympathy is felt by all offi-
cers of the nary of France, and indeed of all navies in
the civilised world, in the fate of that brave and good
man and his gallant a:sociates.

SHIP NEWS.
NOTICE.

Leghorn, April 30.
Advices from Naples, of the 26th, state that the qua-
rantines lately established there had all been taken oft
GRAVESEND, MAY 11 —Wind S.W., calm, fine.
Arrived—Wigerhaw, from the Mauritius ; Sorcnto,
from Alexandria ; Eiza Keith, from Callao ; Minerva,
from Barbadoes; Env, from Riga; Tar, from Valpa-
raiso; Ann, from Rouen; Alliance, from Guernsey; Spirit
and Eske, from Stettin; Sprightly, from St. Michael's;
Anne Doroth,-, from Denmark ; Ann, from Bombay ;
Cicero, from Grenada; Ocean Waite, from the Mauri-
tius; Lid), Hilda, from Berbice; Blanche, Ellen, Pan-
dora, Giecian, and El:z Abeto, from Jamaica ; Alwina,
from Stettin; Germania, from Rostock; Malcelm, from
Dominica, ; Violet, f, om Marseilles ; Thomas Hughes,
from Port Philip ; Tay, from Alexandria ; Cceiar, from
Tarragona; Claret, from Bordeaux; Pleiades, from Bar-
badoes; Hellespont, from the Cape of Good dope; Con-
cordia, Ranger. and Girstf,, from Rotterdam ; queen
aid Lion, from Harlingen; Static aadrecht, from Dordt;
Thaini-v, tram Hainburgn • Menai, from Calais; City of
Rotterdam, from Dunkirk'.
...

SaiLd—Sandian, for St. Helena; Bangalore, for New
Zi,land; Comet, fir Bordeaux; Caledonia and Elbe,
fit Haulburgli ; Oct an aid Attwoud, for Rot-
tc.rdatu ; Sir E. Banks, for Ostend ; Fleebe, fcr
Go ill; Victoria, for New York; General Wiitstiire, for
Brazil; City of London, for Dunkirk; William Johtfe,
fur llavre; Albion, for Boulogne; Fame, for Calais;
Antwerpen, for Antwerp; Baravier and Earl of Auck-
land, for Rotterdam; Lord John Russell, for Harlingen;
Cattierina, fir Norway ; Oc<au Bre. for Malta; Dal-
housie, for Calcutta; Jane. fur Adelaide; Amy Robsart,
for Newcastle; alert:wit), fur Liverpool; Proporttis, for
the Cape of Good Hope; Jyilaud, fur Isi)kjobing;
8.-inetta, for .Flambuigh; Crusader, for St. Thomas; '
North Creina, ior Liverpool; lienrich, for Wolgaat; La
Societe, for Caen; People, fur Cherbourg; Mischief, fur
Barbadoes.

VESSELS' SPOKEN WITH.
Statira Morse, bound west, with passengers, March 21.
Percival, of Newcastle, March 27, in let. 49 N., long.
20 W.
Richard Thornton, from London for Batavia, March 27,
in lat. 2 N., long. 21 W.
Wanderer, from Cardiff for Rio Janeiro, March 16, long.
22 W.
Lady C. Gaest, from London for Bermuda, April 10, in
lat. 33 N.. long. 42 W.
Nautilus, from Dublin for Quebec, April 23, in lat. 47
N., long. 37 W.
Ellen Forestal, from Limerick for New York, March 27,
in lat. 50 N., long.. 22 W.
Maude, fur Now York, May 1, in lat. 51 N., long. 13 W.

ENGLISH SWINDLERS IN PARIS.
AN OLD TRICK REVIVA'D.
The following story appears in the Gazette des Tri-
banazia: "Two well.dressed persons, having the appear-
ance of Englishmen, went yesrerday to the fair which is
being held un the Route de Versailles. They placed
before them a tray containing a great nunaba
of pieces like those --of 20E; and with a
very strong English accent offered them for sale
at one franc each. The public suspecting that the
pieces were only a composition gilded, made few pur-
chases. Presently a cab drove up, and two other
Englishmen, also fashionably dressed, alighted. They
weld to within a short distance of the other two, and
one said in bad French, ' Why, I declare it is Lord
Harrison trying to win his wager with Sir
esulecieettod
Hathurls.' ' Whitt wager?' said the second English-
man. ' What! don't you know that he has betted
loot, sterling that he would offer I,COO guineas at If.
hanaa
hour.'
tihoesstel_lisoiglly Frenchmen, and that he would not
Hathurls,' . s'alid aul
50 in two hours; whereas Sir Bathurls
that they will all be taken in less than
part,,
said
the
other,the sefond.
of the same opinion as Sir
as bet.'Englishman. For my
shook hands , I think with Harrison." Let
' liiwaillireh?. ' lot.'
conversation vats overheard
red a short'ia andei.:tancTe.heyTthheeinr
and, after some whi. by the persona standing by;
r atphe,
..
ir
dsgofyonl sdo hf
:i isi toAen etat 1. e-s
wttoh
me theii tut x
resources
gu
bt r,
sellers,ameee spot.
rapnantegtbdrestiatd:ittotiohhtufeellin themselves st el
tal
conversation:
eeas manynvt h
h eisol ee
at h e
littlelw° acesfg'aerntheerm:ffn,
than an hour the whole of
The two gentlemen Who
jt int d the other two in
having also the rppearanet
°and the result was the same. In less
the
had
eloae,wf7iiighua
bitnviteaelairs were sol d .
cattchclutihetakstilie
otacheen
four drove,
individuals
its of Great
Britain arrived, and inquired
On tn in; wit:, they cried 'lt is they!' and at the same.
time e xpiained that they were detective officers of e
English police, and that they had been sent over to
watch certain notorious I:ockpockets of London who
have come to exerci-e their industry in France. The
stat-ment. of these I theirs spread rapidly amongst the
crowd, and the joy
of t;le purchasers of the guineas be-
catae changed into sadness. Oa
discovered
t!Onot the
pretended pieces of gold,
it was that_
_they
were not north 15c, cue!). Tile secret polio of Paris,
assisted by the English officers, have commenced a
search-alter the clever cheats."

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H nover-square
SOCIETY or LONDON.
--Uri meeting of this socitty was held at the
achair. The
noorns; the Marquis of Blandford in the
formed
—On Friday the an-
report stated that nine new associations had been
in England in connexion with the society during he forme
s`
year. Th t
—e receipts exceeded those of the preceding year_
by over 26L The sum of 4,8551. had been collected by the
Irish Society, . which, with the contributions from the
auxiliaries, amounted to over 9 0131- and, deducting the
expenditure, there* -, /
43 a )glance of 1,5254 The report Was
umicaottely adopted.

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INTENDED DEPARTURE of the PRINCE
ALBERT for the ARCTIC SEAS.
This little vessel, which, skilfully handled by Captain
Forsyth, performed so remarkable a voyage last year,
although she failed in her mission, is again on the eve
of sailing from Aberdeen, in the hope of now accom-
plishing it. Mr. Kennedy, an experienced officer of the
Hudson's Bey Company, is in command of the expedi-
tion; and Mr. Leask, ice-master of the North Star, whopiloted that vessel through Baffin's Bay and Barrow's
Strait, is in command of the vessel Embarked with
them is John Hepburn. This brave man, who was with
Sir John Franklin, Richardson, and Back, when they
explored the shores of the Polar Sea,
and whose noble
conduct under trying circumstances of no ordinary uale-
tore is imperishably written on the page of brnyO has
ured
volunteered his services to go in search of his honoured
master. The crew of the vessel are all picked
large portion being those who sailed her men—a
in last year.
gone down to Aber-
Lady Franklin, we believe,
ad is expected to
remaindee Aber-
deen, w
shoemree
ttheisivessel
be directed to Prince Regent's Inlet,
Prince Albert will •
voyage is to explore the
It is almost superfluous to say that. the course of the
fromof theCa Bird, south, and the
western coast of 800n...a
Pe
Ifthe ice
coast from Brentford Bay.
and that the main object
eastern
it, the •
will be dispatched; and there is
vessel will probably go to Brentford Bay, whence
the• two boat parties
every reasonable hope that the party destined for the
western side will find a water communication between
Brentford Bay and Cape Bird. At all events, the dis-
tance across cannot be more than ten miles, and be the
Scotland.iß fitting hoaust ,
difficulties what they may, we doubt not Mr. Kennedy's
energies and experience in travelling will succeed in
overcoming them.
Had the Government acceded to the request of Sir
Robert Inglis to send a steam-vessel to bring us intelli-
gence from Captain Austin's squadron, the Prince Al-
bert would have gone straight to her work; but we have
heard that she will now be directed first to endeavour to
communicate with Griffiths's Island, in Barrow's Strait,
where it is the known intention of Captain Austin's
squadron, to leave notices of their proceedings.
Should they be of such a nature as to render it desir-
able for the Prince Albert to return to England to com-
municate the intelligence she gains, she will doubtless be
authorised to do so; but should this not be necessary,
we fear we must make up our minds to remain in igno-
rance till the autumn of 1852, when the ships will pro-
bably return; for there appears to us to be but little
hope of learning an) thing until then, unless, indeed,
Captain Austin nad the good luck (scarcely during that
short season to be expected) to come up with the mis-
sing parties last year, in which case we may hope to
have the equadron back in the ensuing autumn.
It is not to he supposed that the whale ships will ven-
ture far to the westward, and in our opinion the only
hope of learning anything will be by the return of the
Ancient Mariner. The brave old man Sir John Ross
rosy have gone to the westward with Captain Austin's
ships, and will, in such case, be able to tell us of their
whereabouts'; but this is by no means to be relied upon.
We heartily wish that the gentry of the land would
support the undertaking, by coming more liberally for-
ward with their subscriptions. Many have done so, but
the great burden of the expense is still borne by Lady
Franklin, which ought not to be allowed. An account is
opened at Drumm,,nd's, and we earnestly hope that our
app6al may not be altogether in vain. It is a noble and
honourable service, and ought to be suppert:d by the
noble and honourable of the land. We cannot omit to
mention—though no tat liberty to give Lis name—
that a commander in the navy, among other officers who
have volunteered their services to Lady Franklin, ac-
companied his propesal to command the Prince Albert
with an offer of 5001. towards the equipment of dee expe-
dition. We record this tact as one honourable to all con-
cerned, though Lady Franklin's acceptanceof the highly
valuable services of Mr. Kennedy has, we understand,
prevented her from accepting its obvious advantages.
The Prince Albert is expected to sail for the polar
regiors on or about the 15th, and she will not this time
go out without the organ, which the illustrious Prince
whose name she bears has kindly ordered to be put on
board " to contribute to the amusement of the men" in
the dreary depths of winter.