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

ARRIVAL OF M. BELLOT.
M. Bellot, of the French marine, whose volunteer of
cervices for any Arctic expedition was announced in oar
journal a few days since, arrived from Paris on Saturday
morning. Ile has hastened across to join the Prince
Albert, at Aberdeen.

M. Bdlot, Knight of the Legion of Honour, is a dis-
tinguished officer in the French service, and was
wounded at Madagamar 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. &Hot is, as it were, the representative of the
French navy in the search for Franklin, for we have
reason to believe that deep sympathy is felt by all offi-
cers of the navy of France, and indeed of all navies in
the civilised world, in the fate of that brave and good
man and his gallant associates.

SHIP NEWS.
NOTICE.

Leghorn, April 30.
Advices from Naples, of the 2611, state that the qua-
rantines lately established there bad all been taken off.
GRAVESEND, MAY 11. —Wind S.W.. calm, fine.
Arrived—Wigerhaen,.from the Mauritius ; Sorcnto,
from Alexandria ; Eliza Keith, from Callao ; Minerva,
from Barbadoes; Hugo, from Riga; Tar, from Valpa-
raiso; Ann, from Rouen; Alliance, from Guernsey; Spirit
end Eske, from Stettin; Sprightly, from St. Michael's;
Anne Dorolhe, from Denmark ; Ann, from Bombay ;
Cicero. from Grenade; Ocean Wave, from the Maori-
tisis;• Lady Hilda, from Byrbice; Blanche, Eilen,
Pan-
dora, Grecian, end El.z-:beth, from Jamaica ;
from Stettin; Germania, from Rostock; Malcolm, from
Dominica ,• Violet, from Marseilles ; 'rhoma3 'Hughes,
feom Port Philip ; Tay, from Alexandria ; Cessar, from
Tarragona; Claret, from Bordeaux; Pleiades, from Bar-
badoes; Hellespont, from the Cape of Good Hope; Con-
cordia, Ranger, and Giraffe, from Rotterdam ; l~u en
and Lion, from Harlingen; Static Dordrecht, from Dordt;
Thames, from Hamburgh ' • Menai, from Cklais; City or
Rotterdam, from Dunkirk.

Sailed—Scindian, for St. Helena; Bangalore, for New
Zealand; Comet, for Bordeaux; Caledonia and Elbe,
for Hamburgh ; Ocean and Attwood, for Rot-
terdam ; Sir E. Banks, for Ostend ; Fleohe, for
Ghent; Victoria, for New York; General Wiltshire, for
Brazil; City of London, for Dunkirk; William Joliffe,
fur Havre; Albion, for Boulogne; Fame, for Calais;
Antwerpen, for Antwerp; Batavier and Earl of Auck-
land, for Rotterdam; Lord John Russell, for Harlingen;
Catherine, for Norway; Ocean Breeze, for Malta; Dal-
housie, for Calcutta; Jane. for Adelaide; Amy Robsart,
f)r Newcastle; Mereutio, for Liverpool; Propoutis, for
the Cape of Good Hope; Jylland, for Nykjobiug;
Bonetta, for Bamburgh; Crusader, fur St. Thomas;
Noriih Crehia, for Liverpool; Heurich, for Wolgast; La
Societe, for Caen; People, for Cherbourg; Mischief, for
Barbacioes.

VESSELS SP3R WITH.
Statira Morse, bound west., withEN
pabsengera, March 21.
Percival, of Newcastle, March 27, in lat. 49 N., long.
20 W.
Richard Thornton, from London for B4tnvia, March 27,
in lat. 2 N., long. 21 W.
Wanderer, from Cardiff for Rio Janeiro, March 16, long.
22 W.
Lady C. Guest, from London fur Bermuda, April 10, in
lat. 33 N., long. 42 W.
Ircin Dublin for Quebec, April 23. in lat. 47
N., long. 37 W.
Ellen Forestal, from Limerick for New York, March 27,
in 44 50 N., long. 22 W.

Maude, for New Yi;rk. Muy 1, in lat. 51 N., tong. 13 W.

ENGLISH SWINDLERS IN FARM.
AN OLD TRICK REVIVED.
The following story appears in the Gazette des Tri-
bunau.t: "Two well.nressed persons, having the appear-
ance ulEnglishmen,_ went yesterday to the fair which is
being held on the Route de Versailles. They placed
before them a tray containing a great numba
of pieces like those of 20f.; 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. Pr, sently a c.lb drove up, and two other
Englishmen, also fashionably dressed, alighted. They
went to within a short oistance of the other two, and
one sell in bad French, ' Why, I declare it is Lord
Harrison trying to win ills wager with Sir
Bathurli.' ' What wager?' said the stge.lnd English-
man. ' What! don't you know that he has betted
too/. sterling that he would otfdr 1,000 guineas at If.
each to these silly Frenchmen, and that he would not
ltriathhuoruisr.:
said
succeed in selling so'
in two hours; whereas Sir 13athurls
has betted that they will all be taken in less than
a
'I am of the same opinion as Sir
Part.' said.
How otthliner,se'crLdhintlnwg
shook hands liitshhmllitanr.riso'nF2er
'Let my
conversation was
us bet.'
much?' 10/.' ' Done.' then
and, after some
persons hastened to
the gold pieces as their resources
the two gentletre-e of
a little farther off, I:tiering amongst themselves, these
and
than an hour the whole of rsebseullt
The two gentlemen who had .
joined the other two ie the
rapidly off. A few ininutee.aft
• and retired a short distance. Their
overheard by the persons standing by;
aad bought as many of
%resources permitted. Meanwhile
tehecab repeated their conversation
000 guineas were we.ereiusoleld".
e ar
B,s bth effected
and
otherall
ei
fondnsa
il. sale i
drove
then
rapidly nes
inhabitants of Great
having also the appearance _of inhab.
Britain arrived, and inquired what haadndtaat taken place.
On being told, they cried 'lt is they!'
dine explained that they were detective officers ofsatualiee'
English police, and that they bad been :eat over to
watch eel tail!" notorious pickpockets of London.
who
have come to .exerei,e their industry in Franc„. ..,-,
The
statement of these ufficere spread rapidly amongst the
purchasers of the guineas be-
-Oa examination of the
pretended pieces of
. alZedt'ihattnrdigtehde jionytoofsg the
ldr,esist.
was discovered that they
sere not worth 15c; each. The secret police of Paris,
assisted by the English officers, have commenced a
search after the clever cheats."

hum S Friday the OCIETY OF .....ONDON:
an-
nual meeting of this society was held at the Hanover-square
Rooms; the Marquis of Blandforci in the chair.
report stated that
nine new associations had been
_formed
as England in connexion with the society during the past
year. The receipts exceeded those of the preceding year
by over 261. The stun of 4855/. had been collected by the
Irish Society, Which, with the contributions from the
auxiliaries, amounted to over 9,0131; and, deducting the
expenditure, there vim A babuice of 1,5254 The repPli WU
unanimously adopted:

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 Bay Company, is in command of the expedi-
tion; and Mr. Leask, ice-master of the North Star, who
piloted 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 theyl
explored the shores of the Polar Sea, and whose nobe
conduct under trying circumstances of no ordinary na-
ture is imperishably written on the
page ofhonouredof history,his
has
volunteered his set vices to go in searchar master. The crew of
the -
vessel a
large portion being those who sailed in her
picked men—a
last year.
Lady Franklin, we believe, has gone down to Aber-
deen,fitting out,
where the vessel is li.nd is expected to
remain some time in Scotland.
It is almost superfluous to say that the course of the
Prince
Prince Albert will Regent's Inlet,
be directed to
and that the main object of the voyage is to explore the
western coat of Bnotnia from Cape Bird, south, and the
eastern coast from BrenVold Bay. If the ice admits of
it, the vessel wall probably go to Brentford Bay, whence
the two boat parties will be dispatched; and there is
every reasonable hope that the party destined for the
western side
will find a water communication between
Brentford Bey and Cape Bird. At all events, the dis-
tance across
cannot he more than ten miles, and be the
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
AUthoriied to do so; but should this not be necessary,
we fear we must make up our minds to remain in ipso-
ranee till the autumn of 1852, when the ships will pro-
bably return; for there appears to us to be but little
hope of learning anything until then, unless, indeed,
Captain Austin had 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 squadron 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
may 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 Drummond's, and we earnestly hope that our
appeal may not be altogether in vain. It is a noble and
honourable service, and ought to be supported by the
noble and honourable of the land. We cannot omit to
mention—though no tat liberty to give his name—
that a commander in the navy, among other'offieers who
have volunteered their services to Lady Franklin, ac-
companied his proposal to command the Prince Albert
with an offer of .500/. towards the equipment of the expe-
dition. We record this fact as one honourable to all con-
cerned, though Lady Franklin's acceptance of 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
regions on or about the 15th, and she will not this time
go out without the organ, which the illustrious Priuce
whose name she bears has kindly ordered to be put on
board " to contribute to the amusement of the men" iu
the dreary depths of winter.