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NOVEMBER 11, 1851.
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St. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season.
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Doors open at Half-past Eight, to commence at Nine o'clock.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The following notice has been given :
"SURRENDER OF THE BUILDING TO THE CON-
TRACTORS.

" 1. The Executive Committee have received the
instruction of her Majesty's Commissioners to an-
nounce that the possession of the building will be
given up to Messrs. Fox, Henderson, and Co., the
contractors, on Ist December next.
"2. Tne Executive Committee have, therefore, to
recommend that any exhibitors who may not yet have
removed their goods or fittings should do so without
further delay, as it will not be in the power of the
Executive Committee to afford any assistance to ex-
hibitors after that date. On the Ist December the
staff of the Executive Committee will be withdrawn,
and the cranes, platforms, and various appliances for
assisting the exhibitors removed.
" 3. Any exhibitors who permit their articles, after
the Ist December, t. remain in the building, must
apply to the contractors, and make their own ar-
rangements as to the hours, &c., for admittance, &c.
" 4. It must be distinctly understood that, like her
Majesty's Commissioners, the contractors, during any
period they may suffer the exhibitors' goods to re-
main in the building, will not be responsible for
any loss or damage, or for accidents which may arise
from the necessity of removing the goods from one
part of the building to another, and collecting the re-
maining articles into one spot.
" By order of the Executive Committee,
" M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary."

The following farewell letter has been received by
the Executive Committee of the Exhibition of Industry
of All Nations from Mr. Riddle, the United States'
Commissioner, previous to his departure for New
York :
" United States' Office, London, Nov. 8, 1851.
" Gentlemen,—As my official duties in the Crystal
Palace have now ceased, I shall take my departure for
America on the 12th inst. 1 cannot allow myself to
go hence without tendering to you my sincere and
heartfelt acknowledgments for the many acts of
kindness, courtesy, and attention I have received
at your hands, and for the unform prompt-
ness with which you have responded to all
communications emanating from this commis-
sion. Indeed, in my humble opinion, the success
of the Great Exhibition may be mainly attributable
to the admirable and indefatigable management of
your committee, and the limited number of gentlemen
of which it was composed, thereby preventing colli-
sions ; which would inevitably have occurred had the
whole responsibility been entrusted to a larger body
of directors. While I have received every assistance
from officers under your direction, there is one who
has been high in authority, and of whom I cannot
speak in too high terms of praise—l allude to Captain
Owen, of the Royal Engineers. The even temper,
and calm, dignified demeanour he has observed on all
trying and pressing occasions, are worthy the highest
commendation ; and, for one, I am proud to bear wit-
ness of the energetic and impartial manner in which
he has discharged his arduous duties.
" Wishing each and all of you, gentlemen, that con-
tinued success to which your brilliant talents so justly
entitle you,
"I have the honour to subscribe myself,
" Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " EDWARD RIDDLE,
"United States'Commissioner to Industrial Exhibition."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Nov. 10.
The Royal dinner party yesterday included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in
Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Baroness de
Speth, the Dowager Lady and the Hon. Caroline Lyt-
tleton Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Colonel
Hon. 'Charles and Mrs. Grey, the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Wood, Sir George Couper, Sir George
Bowles, the Rev. Mr. Birch, Mr. Glover, and Mr.
Beeker.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the Prince of %Vales, the Princess Royal, and younger
members of the Royal Family, walked in the Home
Park this morning, accompanied by the visitors, and
attended by the suite, and witnessed the firing of a
feu-de-joie by the Royal Horse Guards and the 2nd
battalion of Grenadier Guards (now stationed in
Windsor), in honour of the Prince of Wales's birth-
day. After the firing they marched past in slow and
quick time.
The troops were commanded by Colonel Bou-
verie, and formed in review order at half-past nine
o'clock.
Afterwards Prince Albert, accompanied by Sir
Charles Wood, went out shooting, attended by Co-
lonel Hon. Charles Grey and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Prince of -Wales and Prince Alfred were
driven out (in the forenoon) in an open carriage,
attended by the Rev. Mr. Birch.
The Dowager Lady and the Hon. Caroline Lyt-
telton, Sir Charles Wood, and Sir George Bowles,
took their departure from the Castle today.

Dispatches were received from the Governor of
Sierra Leone on Sunday 0 the Colonial-office.

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THE RAMSIIAY INQUIRY AT PRESTON.
FOURTH DAY--MONDAY.—The proceedings in this
case were appointed to be resumed this morning, and
the Court met at eleven o'clock. Increased interest
was manifested, the court being completely filled. As
soon as the Earl of Carlisle had taken his seat, Mr.
Sergeant Wilkins said that so much indulgence had
been granted to him that he was almost ashamed to
ask for any more, but he and his Learned Friends had
been occupied for two mornings up to four o'clock,
and the whole of yesterday, although Sunday, in pre-
paring for Mr. Ranashay's defence, but they were not
quite prepared, and he therefore trusted that his Lord
ship would allow him till to-morrow morning. Mr.
Monk, on the part of the memorialists, said he had no
wish whatever to press on these important proceed-
ings, but he hoped they would not be protracted un-
necessarily. If they went beyond Wednesday next,
he could not possibly attend on Thursday. As in-
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CORONER'S INQUEST.—DREADFUL CASE OF STAB.
SING By A SAILOR —Yesterday afternoon the inquiry, ad-
journed from Thursday last, was resumed, and concluded
before Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital, relative to the
death of James 13rabbas, aged 21, a seaman, who was stabbed
by a seaman named Joseph Clinton, belonging to the collier
brig Clayton, of South Shields, lately lying in the Regent's
Canal Dock, and who died in the above institution on Tues-
day last from the effects of the injury. Several witnesses
were examined, and a verdict o: " Manslaughter" was re-
turned against Joseph Clinton. The corroner issued his
warrant for his committal to Newgate, and the witnesses
were bound over to prosecute.

TIIE ARCTIC EXPEDITION•

We have been favoured by the Hudson's Bay Corn-
pany with the following copy of a dispatch received
from Dr. Rae, dated Jane 10,
containing an account
of a journey (preparatory to his boat expedition) from
Great Bear Lake to the Arctic coast, and thence over
the ice to Wollaston Land. _ _

Dr. Rae, it will bt_,, seen, found no traceF, and could
learn no intelligence of Sir John expedi-
tion.

SIP GEORGE SIMPSON, GOVERN-a-IN-CHIEF, HUDSON 'S3

BAY COMPANY'S TRREITOEIES.
Provision Station, ICmidall Elver,
10th June, 1851.
Sir,--I have the hohour to acquaint you that I
arrived at this place today from the Arctic coast,
with my two men, having been absent forty-two
days, during which the shoie of Wollaston Land was
examined to the eastward of longitude 110 deg., and
westward as far as longitude 117 deg. 17 min., with-
out finding any strait or pabsage leading to the north,
and without seeing any traces of Sir John Franklin's
party, or obtaining any tidings of them from the Es-
quitnaux we met with.
I left Fort Confidence on the 25th April, accompa-
nied by four men, with three sledges drawn by dogs,
and a small sledge drawn by the men alternately, in
which our provisions and baggage were stowed. We
reached this station on the 27th, and were detained
two days by stormy weather. This time was profit-
ably employed in arranging our baggage and stores,
repairing and strengthening our sledges, and in recruit-
ing the dogs.
On the 30th, everything being in readiness, and
the weather fine, I started for the coast with two
men (Beads and Linklater), and two sledges drawn
by five dogs. A fatigue patty of three men and two
dogs accompanied us to within half a day's march of
the coast. In consequence of a great thaw that had
occurred the previous week, which cleared much of
the ground of snow, the travelling was extremely
bad, and although long detours were made to find a
good road for the sledges, they got much injured by
the stones.

On the Ist May, we put en cache for our return
journey a little pemican and flour, and next day,
when 10 miles from the coast, the fatigue party was
sent back. After experiencing much difficulty in
crossing some deep ravines, we reached the shore of
Richardson Bay, about 5 miles west of the mouth of
the Coppermine, near mid-day, when I was most
happy to find that, as far as visible, the ice to sea-
ward was not unfavourable for travelling.

Being desirous of walking during the night to
prevent the glare of the sun on the snow inflaming
the eyes, we commenced our journey at 10 Pee. on the
2d. The weather was unpleasant, with a strong
breeze of cold north wind, as ire directed our course
as straight as possible for Poirt Lockyer. The ice
being smooth, and the snow hard, we advanced ra-
pidly until 8 A.M. on the 3d, when we stopped for the
day in latitude, by observation, l 8 deg. 8 min. 44 sec.
N. The building of an excellent snow-house occu-
pied us an hour and three quarters, during which our
simple cooking was going on, sa that no time might
be lost.
On:the 4th we encamped on the beach five miles
north of Point Lockyer, where we found some wood
for cooking, and as the weather vas fine, no snow-hut
was required; the wind was, however, still sharp, and
a temperature of 10 deg. made a shelter in the form
of a semi-circular wall of snow agreeable. At 9h.
15m. r.et., we were again on foot, our course being
directed towards the N.W. end o Douglas Island, ou
which we landed at 3h. gm. Aat., on the sth, when
we cooked a kettle of pemican and flour with some
wood picked up, and put en cache a quantity of pro-
visions for our return. After two hours stay, we re-
sumed our march in a nearly N.E. direction. At the
same hour as on the previous evening we commenced
our night's march, and a walk of 1 miles brought
us to a low point covered with clehris of sandstone and
limestone, and a few boulders of granite. The land
was so low that from our snow-house it appeared much
more distant. We now turned eastward, but had much
difficulty in keeping along shore, as there were
several small bays and islets, amcng which, in the
hazy weather, we had some trouble to find our way.
Under these circumstances, rather than lose time
uselessly, I determined to travel overland due east,
leaving the coast to be traced when returning, at
which time the thawing of the snow would have laid
bare a greater extent of the shore, and. made it more
easy to define. On our second day's march, over
an uninteresting track of low ground; swamp, and
lakes, we arrived at the coast at sic A.m. on the 7th,
nearly opposite to some large rocky islands, and at
a place where the shore presentec a high sloping
front. After two hours walk to the east by north
alongshore, we built our snow but in lat. 68 deg.
31 min. 42 sec. N., long. 111 deg. 30 min. W ~ under
a steep bank, surmounted by some whitish limestone,
and reddish brown sandstone in situ. Here, during
the interval between taking the observations for time
and latitude, I shot ten hares. Thess fine animals
were very large and tame, and several more might
have been killed, as well as many partridges, had I
thought it expedient to follow them.
7th and Bth May. Our course fer the first five
miles of this night's march was nearly E.S.E. until
we rounded a long point, and crosseda deep bay in an
east direction, some large islands /Sing
outside at'z'a
couple of miles' distance from shore, but gradually
approaching it to within half a mib as we advanced
westward. The islands I named after the dis-
tinguished naturalist and traveller, Sir John Richard-
son. The islands, as well as the adjacent coast, were
high, rocky, and in many places precipitous. Speci-
mens of the rocks have been preserved.
The land now turned imperceptibly nothward to N.
40 E., in which direction we proceeded 4 miles to the
entrance of a narrow inlet, on the west side of which,
in lat. 68 deg. 88 min. 5 sec., long. 110 deg. 50 min.
we stopped at half-
past eight A. 31., but built no snow-
hut, as the weather was not bad. Previous to taking
the noon observation, and whilst sipper was cooking,
I examined the inlet, hoping to fird it a passage lead-
ing to the northward, but a wall, of 2 miles unde-
ceived me ; several deer were keen, but as we had
abundance of provisions no attempt was made to
approach them. On the night cf the Bth the
weather was so stormy, with thick snow, that
we could not travel, we therefore built a
snow-house and made ourselves comfortable, occupy-
ing our time repairing shoes, tusking up calculations,
&c. Next night, the weather haing become better,
we resumed our march and travelled nearly three
miles, rather to the southward of east, then east one
and a half mile, after which we crossed a point two
miles broad in the same direction. We now tra-
versed a considerable bay with low shores, our course
being E. by N. To this bay I gave the name of
WTelbank, after one of the directors of the Hudson's
Bay Company. As we travelled onwards the land
continued low and had an easterly trending during
the remainder of our night's walk, which was not con-
tinued so long as usual, the weather being extremely,
cold for the season. The thermometer showed a tempe-
rature of 22 degrees below zero, which made the
shelter of our snow-hut more than usually acceptable.
One of the men got rather deeply frost-bitten in
the face, and the taking of a set of lunar distances
was rather unpleasant work. I have generally
found, indeed, that a temperature which, in winter,
would be pleasant, is in the latter part of spring,
almost insupportably cold. The latitude of our posi-
tion was 68 deg. 37 min. 48 Bee. N., by observation ;
longitude, by account, 110 deg. 2 min.
The furthest point of land, about six miles distant,
bore E.S.E., so that it appeared unnecessary to travel
further in this direction, as my survey and that of
Messrs. Deese and Simpson must have met here, al•
thought:our latitudes do not agree, mine being some
distancehere south
were of fh
now
theirs.
two
modes of proceeding open to
T
me—the one being to strike overland to the north in
search of the sea-coast, the other to return along the
coast and travel westwards, in hopes that some of the
spaces of Wollaston Land, left blank in the charts,
might prove to be the desired strait. I chose the latter
Of these modes, because to travel overland in a
northerly direction would be very difficult and fa-
tiguing, and would always be getting more so, as the
ridges of land (most of which were already clear of
snow) lay across our line of route, so that a few days
of warm weather would have made travelling with
sledges and dogs very difficult, if not wholly imprac-
ticable. The night of the 10th was very stormy, with
thick snow drift, but the wind being in our backs we
commenced our return to our previous day's resting-
place. After walking some time we fell upon our
old track, which saved me much trouble in taking
ick that we could not
bearings, as they wouso
th ld have been often requi-
site, the snow 1312iQg
see to the distance of twenty yards. After a very
cold but smart walk of rather more than seven
hours' duration, we were glad to find ourselves
snug under cover of our old quarters—our, clothes
being penetrated in every direction with the finely
powdered snow. The weather on the night of the
11th continued so bad, that we were obliged to re-
main indoors, but the following night was fine
enough to allow us to proceed westward by our for-
mer track. Our journey to Douglas Island was
favourable. The coast, from lat. 68 deg. 31 min. 40
sec. N., and long. 118 deg. 5 min. was, with the ex-
ception of one high rocky point, low and indented

with many bays of small extent, the general direction
being nearly west. The weather continued good, so
that we arrived at the N.W. extremity of Douglas
Island at a few minutes to eight A.M. on the 15th,
where we found abundance of drift weed to cook with.

As to return by Douglas Island would lead us out
of the straight road homewards, when wa started on
the 16th for Wollaston Land, we carried with us the
provisions we had previously put en cache. We di-
rected our course to the most distant visible point,
bearing about N.N.W., and found that it was
nine miles distant, but in reaching it we were
delayed by rough ice, in rounding which we
increased the length of our walk very much, and
a very heavy fill of snow stopped cur further
advance. Our next nigh ~'s journey was rather long
to make up for the time lost by the bad weathar.
For thirteen miles our course was about N.N.W.
along a series of bays and points ; the coast then ran
north for some distance, and afterwards, slightly to
the eastward until we encamped on a small peninsula
near the head of the bay, in lat. 69 deg. 1.00 long.
,113.25, both by account. 17th and 18th May we
walked for 21 miles N. 28 deg. west, which brought
us to a point on which we deposited some pemican,
&c., having made another cache about seven miles
from our former day's sleeping place. We also left
here a small sledge on which I had hauled, from 35
to 50 lb. since leaving Richardson's Bay, two days
excepted. 'We now traversed a deep and wide bay in
a direction N. 40 W. towards some high hills, which
appeared to be not very far off; but finding that we
could not reach the coast there, I turned more to the
northward, and ended our night's walk on the west
point of a small bay, in lat 69 deg. 17 min. 30 sec.,
long. 114 deg. 7W. Being anxious to discover bow
the land looked to the northward, and as a high
hill, about thirteen miles inland, would afford
the opportunity of obtaining a very dis-
tant view; our next day's journey along
shore was only five and a half miles, the course
being west. Here I left the dogs and baggage under
the care of one of the men, whilst with the other I set
out for the hill already mentioned; but unfortunately
the walking was so bad, that although we were quite
unencumbered, we could get no farther than ten
miles, when we returned, rather fatigued, to our
sleeping place. Many partridges (Tetrao .111utus)
were seen, but they were so shy that only eleven were
shot. These birds are large, and fine eating. To
the large bay we bad just traced, and to a range of
hills, of which the most prominent is the one I at-
tempted to reach, I gave the names of Simpson and
Colville, in honour of the Governor-in-Chief and
Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories.
During the journey of the 19th and 20th the trend-
ing of the coast was still to the west, as far as our
sleeping place, on a point with high limestone cliffs,
lat. 69 deg. 15.54 N., long. 115 deg. 24.54 W. The
next night our course was to the north of west until
within a mile or two of the end of our night's walk,
which was nearly in a north direction to the head of
a small bay, where we took up our quarters in lat. 69
deg. 24. 47., long. 116 deg. 23. 34.
On the 21st and 22d we travelled nearly at N.W.
for five miles, which brought us to a cape, with lime-
stone cliff, at least 170 feet high. This Cape was
named after Captain Hamilton, R.N., Secretary to
the Admiralty.
A couple of miles to seaward there were thirteen
Esquitnaux lodges, and we had an amicable interview
with the good harmless inhabitants, who were rather
timid at first, but soon gained confidence. It was
difficult to make them understand that no return was
expected from some presents I made them. None of
the women showed themselves, but all the men were
well and cleanly dressed in deer-skin. They were all
very fat, having evidently abundance of seals, flesh,
and fat, large quantities of which were carefully de-
posited in seal skin bags under the snow. We pur-
chased a quantity of this for our dogs, and some
boots, shoes, and seal skins for our own use. After
a most friendly interchange of signs and words, few
of which could be understood on either side, we
parted, after six of them had walked some distance
with us, bath parties apparently equally well pleased
with the meeting.
Our course was now N. 36 deg. W., across a bay
eleven miles wide, the north side of which was
bounded by a curiously shaped point which I called
Pullen, after the commander in the navy of that name,
who successfully performed the voyage from the west-
, ward of Point Barrow to the Mackenzie River in
1829. To the bay the name of Lady Richardson was
given. Three miles further in the same direction
brought us to an island, which was the terminus of
our night's journey. This land is high but not
rocky, and about 3-1- miles long. It received the
name of Bell, after a chief trader in the Hudson's
Bay Company's service ; near it to the east there is a
small islet covered with large pieces of rugged lime-
stone.

Next night our course for 71- miles was N. 33 deg.
E. to a point with limestone precipice, 70 or 80 feet
high. The coast then rounded up to the northward
until it attained a true north direction, and for a mile
before we ended our night's walk, a N.N.E. course
into a small bay, where we rested for the day in lat.
70 deg. 00 min. 23 sec. N., long. 117 deg. 15 min.
35 sec. W.

The period I had allowed for our outward journey
having now arrived, I left our dogs and one of the
men here, whilst with the other I travelled half a
day's journey farther.
At 8 hr. 30 min. on the 23d night was beautiful,
as we started with no other incumbrance than a gun,
telescope, and compass, so that we travelled fast over
the hard snow and ice. After walking two miles to
the N.W., we turned a cape, which received the
name of Baring, in honour of the First Lord of the
Admiralty, beyond which the cost took a sudden
bend to E. by N. for eight :miles, and then became
more northerly for GI miles, which was the furthest
point reached. A high cape, which was called after
Sir George Back, bore N. 73 deg. E., about ri miles
distant, and bounded our view of the coast in that
direction.
Near the place from which I turned back the land
was fully 300 feet high, from which objects could be
seen at a great distance, and some land 15 or 20
miles off was observed, the most westerly point bear-
ing N. 25 deg. W., the view of its more distant eas-
tern extremity being obstructed by Cape Back.
It is difficult to determine whether the water di-
viding these two shores is a bay or a strait, but from
the little information I could obtain from the Esqui-
maux, I suspect it to be the latter. Unfortunately,
want of time (as the interests of the summer voyage
with the boats required my presence at this place)
would not allow me to decide this question. Our
return was effected at the same quick pace as our out-
ward journey, and we arrived at our bivouac, after an
absence of ten hours, with excellent appetites for
supper, to which, as usual, we did ample justice.
Oa the 24th May, at 8.25 P.M., we commenced our
homeward route, the details of which I shall not
trouble you with, merely remarking that the bearings
and distances were carefully checked, and several ob-
servations for lat. variation and time obtained, which
the cloudy state of the weather prevented being taken
previously.
Where the depth of the bays were at all doubtful I
made a circuit round them, whilst the men and dogs
followed the straight route.

We had several more interviews with the Esqui-
maux, all equally friendly as the first. At one of the
tents two of the women made their appearance, and
were not in the slightest degree timid.
All the land near the coast from Cape Lady Frank-
lin to Cape Baring is so extremely barren, that although
many deer cross from the main, they do not remain
near the shore, but make their way directly inland,
too far for persons, travelling as we were, and abun-
dantly supplied with food, to follow them.
On the 30th May we reached our cache of the 16th,
and found it, as well as two others, perfectly safe,
notwithstanding that one or perhaps all of them had
bean seen by the Esquimaux.
Oa the night of the 30th we crossed over, in as
direct a line as the rough ice would permit, to the
high rocky point north of Cape Krusenstern, travers-
ing a portion of Lambert Island on the way.
Next night we reached the south side of Point
Lockyer, where a laughing goose (Anscr Albifron)
was shot, and water was obtained without thawing
snow. _ _

-6; the 2d of June the extremity of Cape Hearne
formed our head• quarters, at which place eleven geese,
all in fine condition, were killed.
Being anxious to know if a deposit of provisions,
left in Icy Cove by Sir John Richardson in 1848, and
examined by me in 1849, were still safe, I deviated
half a day's journey from our direct route in order to
visit it ; but a deep snow-drift prevented my attain-
ing my object. As the Esquimaux appear to have
a great respect for caches of any kind, I believe it is
still quite safe, unless destroyed by wet or the barren
ground bear,

Our next sleeping place was seven miles N.W. of
Cape Keniqll. Here ten geese were shot, and
double that number might have been got had we re-
quired them.
At 7.50 A.M. on the 4th of June, we encamped on
the south shore of Richardson Bay, two miles east of
where we stopped on the 2d May. During the last
two days there was much water on the ice, and it
was evidently high time that our journey should be
approaching its conclusion.
As the consumption •f provisions for the coast

journey began here, it may not be out of place to
mention that the quantity used in thirty-three days
was 541bs: of flour, and 1081bs. pemican, or nearly
2lbs. for each person, per diem, with 14lbs. tea, 21hs.
chocolate, and 101bs. sugar, for all the party during
the same time.
We stayed a day here to arrange loads for our-
selves and dogs, and to make a cache among the
rocks of 301bs. pemican, 20Ibs. grease (fuel rem iin-
ing), and several other things which we did not re-
quire to carry with us.
On the sth of June, between 9 and 10 r.fu , we
started for the Kendall, lightly laden, and came on to
within four miies of our cache of provisions made on
the Ist of May. One of the men was sent to exa-
mine it, but found that everything, except an axe, had
been either eaten or destroyed by a barren ground
bear. We saw a very large one next day, probably
the very fellow that had robbed us, but he was too
wary to allow U 3 to get within shot of him—possibly
he may be less successful, in avoiding us on our re-
turn to the coast.

On the 9th when nice miles from this, a large musk
bull was shot, and his flesh was found excellent—the
skeleton will be preserved.
A short time after midday on the 10th we arrived
here, having been five days coming from the coast,
during some of which we were fourteen hours on foot,
and continued wading through ice-cold water or wet
snow, which was too deep to allow our Esquimaux
boots to be of any use.
The latter part of cur journey, if not the most
fatiguing, was by far the most disagreeable. Through
every hollow and valley, a stream, more or less large,
flowed, some of them so deep and rapid, that we had
often to walk three or four miles out of our course
to
.find a ford, and even then it was so difficult to
keep on our feet, that one of the men fell and lost our
cooking utensils, plates, pans, and spoons, so that for
two days we were compelled to use stones as Subs t
tutes.
Our principal food was geese, partridges, and lem-
mings. The latter being very fat and large, were
very fine when roasted before the fire or between two
stones. These little animal were migrating north-
wards, and were so numerous that our dogs, as they
trotted on, killed as many as supported them without
any other food.

The dogs did their work well considering their
leanness when we set out—had they been in better
condition, I have no hesitation in saying that our
daily journeys would have been three or four miles
longer. We were frequently delayed by rough ice,
but when this happened, we made up for lost time by
additional exertion either on the same or subsequent
days. I subjoin a note of the daily and total dis-
tances travelled, counting this place as our starting
point.
I beg to enclose a very rough tracing of the coast
examined ; it has been done in great haste, and with-
out pretensions to great accuracy, as I have many of
my calculations to revise, and several sets of lunar
distances to work out. Some islands are also omitted,
and the positions of others may require alteration.
In conclusion, permit me to observe that the con-
duct of the two men who accompanied me has been
excellent, and they, as well as myself, are in a much
betterl state for commencing another such journey than
when we left Fort Confidence.

Apologising for the hurried manner in which this
is written, my only excuse being the anxiety I feel
that it should be sent off with the least possible delay,
I have the honour to remain, sir, your most obedient
servant, (Signed)
JOHN RAE.

DISTANCES TRAVELLED.

Kendal to coast, 64 miles ; 2d and M May, 25
miles, 3'l and 4th, 27.5 ; 4th and sth, 23 ; sth and
6th, 20.5; 6th and 7th, 1975; 7th and Bth, 19'5;
Bth and 9th, stormy; 9th and 10th, 21.5 ; 10th and
11th, 21.5 ; 11th and 12th, stormy ; 12th and 13th,
19.5 ; 13th and 1401,20.25 ; 14th and 15th, 21; 15th
and 16th, 10.50; 16th and 17th, 26.75 ; 17th and
18th, 25.5 ; 18th and 19th, 5 along coast, 20 inland ;
19th and 20rh, 23; 20th and 21st, 2225; 21st and
223, 19 75; 223 and 23d, 23.50; 233 and 24th, 31 ;
24th and 25th, 23; 25th and 26th, 18.75 ; 26th and
27th, 23 25 ; 27th and 28th, 23 ; 28th and 29th,
24.5 ; 29th and 30th, 21 ; 30th and 31st, 16.5 ; 31st
and Ist June, 21; June Ist and 23, 25.5 ; 2d and 33,
23 ; 3d and 4th, 19.5 ; 4th and sth, did not travel ;
sth to 10th, 75. Total, 8'24.25 geographical miles, or
942 English miles.

PROPOSED FURTHER SEARCH FOR
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
At the first ordinary meeting of the Royal Geogra-
phical Society, held last evening at their rooms,
Waterloo-place, a highly interesting paper was read
by Lieutenant Pim, proposing a search for Sir John
Franklin in another direction. Sir R. Murchison,
Bart., the president of the society, took the chair.
There were present—Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian
Ambassador, with several distinguished Germans ;
Count Wielhorsky, of the Russian embassy ; W. R.
Hamilton, Esq., former president of the society ;
Captain Fitzroy, R.N., Captain H. Kellett, R.N., R.
Brown, Esq., president of the Linnasan Society ; Cap-
tain Penny, R.N., Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort,
Colonel Lloyd, Colonel Neil Campbell, Captain
Scorld and several Egyptian gentlemen, Mr. Rennie,
Major Carmichael Smijth, &c.
The CHAIRMAN expressed his gratification at seeing
so crowded an attendance at their opening meeting,
and said the Government ought to provide a better
place of meeting for the Royal Geographical Society,
and he hoped this would be- done before long. He
read letters from the Grand Duke Constantine and
the Crown Prince of Sweden, who had been elected
members of the society ; and, in alluding to the im-
portant subject about to be laid before the meeting
by Lieutenant Pim, read a letter which he (Sir R.
Murchison) had addressed to the Grand Duke Con-
stantine on the subject.
Lieutenant BEDFORD CLAPPERTON Pim said he
would commence by stating the circumstances which
led him to the belief that the missing ships were to be
found, not on the coast of America, but on that of
Asia. While on board her Majesty's ships Herald
and Plover, the fate of Sir John Franklin was daily
the subject of consideration ; and he was struck with
the fact that the plans of relief adopted were based
on the supposition that the Erebus and Terror had
failed in the very commencement of their voyage.
He was convinced that Sir John Franklin would not
be found on the threshold of the northwest passage,
and applied himself to the consideration of where he
would have to be looked for. He was impressed with
the fact that Wrangel and Anjou had found an open
sea, in the cold season, in a comparatively high lati-
tude. In support of this sciew he read an extract from
a letter lately received from Admiral Sir Francis
Beaufort, in which that officer stated his conviction
that, if the Erebus and Terror should succeed in
passing through Wellington Channel, they would find
the Northern Ocean completely free from ice, and
find it an easy matter to penetrate to the west-
ward. Franklin's difficulties would therefore com-
mence when, having made his westing, he might en-
deavour to haul to the southward for Behring's Straits;
for Cook, Beechey, Kellett, and all navigators who
had passed through that opening, found the soundings
decrease on approaching the southern edge of the ice,
making it almost demonstrable that a bank of some
hundreds of miles in length, and most likely rising up
into many islands, stretched across from west to east.
If those ships, therefore, did find their way through
Wellington Channel, they had got into some laby-
rinth of ice and islands abreast of Behring's Straits,
or further west on the flats off the coast of Siberia.
From that opinion of Sir F. Beaufort, and taking all
other circumstances into consideration, it appeared to
him that Sir J. Franklin had passed through Wel-
lington Channel, attained the Kolyma, and would
then naturally steer to the westward; and when
reaching the meridian of Behring's Straits, would re-
enter the ice, in order to penetrate to the Pacific
Ocean. Difficulties, however, would again impede
his progress. Embedded in the frozen m asses which
had checked the advance of every navigator
earliest to the present time, he would be at from
thehe
of the winds and currents, rendering it
probletmatmicaelretyo
which coast he would be driven—to that of the new or
the old world. The endurance, hardihood, and courage
of Richardson, Kellett, Pullen
negative evidence that it ,and
wasnßoate,thhead
coast
tdeodf
North America to which we must look for a solution
of the question—what has become of Sir John
Franklin ? The next place to which attention turned
was Siberia. Wrangel's narrative, proving that
pieces of wreck had been found on the Asiatic shores,
and historical accounts stating that various Russian
expeditions experienced the greatest difficulty in pe-
netrating even a short distance easterly,
evi-
dent that the very cause which produced that effect
made it
on the Russian vessels would bring about an opposite
result on any ships which might happen to be about
the meridian of Behring's Straits; consequently, that
a well-organized search of the AsiaticT shoresn would
afford results highly satisfactory. he Herald, after
an absence of six years, having returned to England,
after three times visiting Behring's Straits, without
more success than the squadrons on the Eastern side
of America, and the fate of Franklin being still
wrapped in mystery, he considered it his duty to
make knoWn that conviction, and to submit to the
Lords of the Admiralty a plan for obtaining traces of
the missing expedition. This proposal was to start
on the 15th of this month, and to travel by way of