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LONDON and NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY.
AMENDMENT of ACTS, CREATION of NEW SHARES for
PAY M ENT of DEBT, EXTENSION from CHESTER to BIRKEN-
HEAD and BRANCHES.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that APPLICATION is intended
to he made to rARLIAME NT in the next session for an ACT to
alter, amend, extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or some of the powers
and previsions of the several Ac a of Parliament, or some of Ulm
ibllowing, relating to the London and North-Western Rail-
way. Cols p any ; that is to say: An Act passed in the session of
Parliament. held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled an " Act 10 consolidate the London and Birming-
ham Grand Junction and Manche-ter and 13irmingliam Railways,'
and the several other Acts distinguished in the Queen's printer's co-
pies of the local and pers real Acts, as sith and 9th Vie., cap. 159 ;
9th and 10th Vic., caps. 67, 80, 82, 142, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233,
244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 399 ; and 10th
and 11 th Vic., caps. 73, 107, 114, 118, 121, 132, 139, 159, 178, 188,
228, 246, 270, 271, 274, and 294; and 11th and 12tit Vic., caps. 60
and 131 ; 12th and 13,11 Vic., cap. 74 ; 13th and 14th Vic., cap. 36 ;
and 14th and 15th Vic., caps. 2s and 94.
And it is proposed by the salt intended Act to enable the London
and North-Western Railway Company to extinguish their
deben-
ture debt, or some part thereof; aid for that purpose to crea
shares, and to guarantee in respect of the shares to be so cre an
irredeemable preferential interest or ddividendnot exceeding 3 ated
per
centum per annum. •
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the
Lon-
don and North-Western Railway Company to extend the line theirfrailway from Chester to or near to Birkenhead, and for that purpos;
to make and maintain the railways hereinafter mentioned with all
proper works and conveniences connected therewith ; that Is to say:
Firstly, a railway commencing by a junction with the Chester and
Birkenhead line of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc-
tion Railway, within the limits of the general station at Chester, in
the parish of St. Oswald, in the county of the city of Chester, at or.
near the point at which the main line of the Chester and Holy-
head Railway diverges, passing thence, in, through, or into
the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other
places following, or seme of them; that is to say, St. Oswald in the
county of the city of Chester, and St. Oswald, the Bache, the Holy.
and Undivided Trinity, Illacon-cum-C.rabhall, Bla on-cum-Crab-
wall, Crabwall, St. Ilfollington Banastre, Little
Mellington, Ilackford, Mollington Tarrant, Great Mollington, Lea,
Shotwick, Shotwick-park, Great Saughall, Little Saughall, Ca-
penhurst, Woodbattk, Puddinston, Burton, Neston, Ledsham,
Willaston, Eastham, Little Sutton, Childer Thornton, Hooton,
Raby, Great Neston, Little Neston, Hargrave, Thornton Hough,
Thornton Mayes, Poulton Lancelot, Poulton-cum-Spittle, Spital„
Bebington, Bebbinhton, Brornborrow, Bromborough, Brombrow,
Brirnstage, Storeton, Stourton, Woodchurch, Thingwall, Thingwell,
Barnston, Trenton, Landican, Oxton, Noctorum, Upton, Over-
hurch, Bidstone, Bidston-cum-Ford, Wallasey, Wallasea, Liscard,
and Poulton-cum-Seacombe, all in the county of Chester, and termi-
nating on the shore of the river Mersey, on the north
side of Wallasey Pool, adjoining certain land intended
to be reclaimed from the river Mersey, vested in
the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests,
land revenues, works, and buildings usually denominated
the N rth Reserve , situate in the township of Poulton-cum-
Ceacombe, in the parish of Wallasey and ,the county of Chester.
Secondly-A Branch Rsiway, with all proper works and con-
veniences diverging out ef the Id st-mentioned intended railway, to
the warehouses of the Birkenhead Dock Company at Birkenhead
and which said branch railway will cornmen e by a
junction with the said first-mentioned intended railway in
Bidston Moss, otherwise called Bidston Marsh, belon
stongingh to
Bober Vyner, Esquire, in the township of Bid
wise called Bilston-ettra-Ford, in the parish af Bidston,
in the county of Chester, passing thence in, .through,
or into the several parishes, townships, and extra parochiaßid l p laces
following, or some of them ; that is to say -Wallasey, ton,
Bidston-cum-Ford, Claughton-cum-Grange, Claughton. and Birken-
head, all in the county of Chester, and terminating at or near
the warehouses of the Birk, nhead Dock Company, situated on
the south side of Wallasey Pool, in the parish, township, chapelry,
or place of Birkemhead, In the county of Chester. Thirdly-A
branch railway, with all proper works and conveniences, from
the said first mentioned intended railway to Birkenhead Ferry,
commencing by a junction with the first-mentioned intended rail-
way, in or near a certain field or close of land belonging
omas to John
Winder Lyon Winder, Esquire, and occupied by Th Johnson,
in the township of Prenton and p irish of Woodchurch, in the county
of Chester, passing thence in, through, or into the saceseveralfollowi parisheg,
s
townships, and extra-parochial and other pin
or some of them, that is to say : Bebbington, Storeton,
Grange, Claugh-
in the county
oodchurch, Prenton, Oxton, laughton-cum-
Wton, Bidston, Tranmere, and Birkenhead, all
of Chester, and terminating at or near the Birkenhead Ferry,
in the parish, township, chapelry, or place of Birkenhead, in the
said county of Chester. Fourthly-A short branch railway,the
or
curve, to connect the first-mentioned intended railway with
railway authorised by the " Parkgate Railway Act, 1847" (10th and
11th Vic., cap. 187), at or near the point where the said first-de-
scribed railway will intersect the road from Parkgate to Bebbinwgtonin,
which short branch railway, or curve, will be situated wholly
ith
the township of Thornton Hough, otherwise called Thornton Mayes,
and parish of Neston, in the county of Chester.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the said
London and North-Western Railway Company to purchase lands
and buildings by compulsion or agreement for the purposes of the
said intended railways and the works connected therewith and to
,
levy tolls, rates, and duties in respect thereof, and to grant exemp-
tions front the payment of suck tolls, rates, and duties.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take power to
stop up, alter, or divert, temporarily or permanently, all turnpike or
other roads and highways, tramways, aqueducts, canals,
reservoirs,
rivers, streams, brooks, pipes, waters, and watercourses, within the
aforesaid parishes, townships, and places, which it may be necessary
to stop up, alter, or divert. by reason of the construction of the said
intended railways and works, or any of them, and to vary Or extin
with
-
guish all existing rights or privileges in any manner connected
the lands and buildings proposed to he purchased or taken for the
purposes of the said railways and works, or which would in any
manner impede or interfere with the objects aforesaid, and to confer
other tights and privileges.
And notice Is hereby further given that a published map and
plans and sections describing the lines and levels of the said
proposed railways respectively, and of the lands to be taken for
the purposes thereof, together with a book of reference to such plans,
and a copy of this notice, as published in the " London Gazette,"
will be deposited, before the 30th day of November, 1851, with the
clerk of the peace of the county and city of Chester, at his
office in the city of Chester, and with the clerk of the
peace of the county of Chester, at his office in the said city of
Chester; and that copies of so much of the said plans, sections, and
book of reference as re'ate to the several parishes and extra parochial
places in or through Which the saiddrateNseled railways are proposed to
be made, together with a copy of thpf notice, as published in the
London Gazette," will be deposited, before the said ''oth day of
November. as follows (that is to say)-in the case of parishes, with
the parish clerks of such parishes respectively, at their respective
places of abode; and in the case of the parish, township, chapelry,
or place of Birkenhead, with the clerk of the parochial church called
or known by the name of St. Mary, in Birkenhead, at his place of
abode; and in the case of any extra-parochial place, with the parish
clerk of some parish adjoining thereto, at his place of abode.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1851.
SAMUEL CAR rER,
SwIF and WAGSTAFF] Solicitors.

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Dated 13th November, 1851.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW Kamm, Nov. 18.—
Oat -straw, from 8s Od to 108 Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ;
wheat ditto, 7s Od to 8s 6d ; barley ditto, 6s Od to:7s Od.
Hay, from 8d to 10d per stone.

COAL MARK ET...—YESTXRDAT.
Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market :
Bate's West Hartley.. 16s Od Keepier l9s 3d
iluddle's W. Hartley.. 16s 0,1 Keepier Grange
Carr's Hartley ..... ... 15s 6d I.ambton
Davison'sWest Hartley 16s ed Stewart's
Elasting's Hartley ... Ifis Od Whitwell
Holywell
Longridge'sW.Hartlerldi Od Eleugh Hall
North Percy Hartley.. 16s Od,Soutk Hartlepool
Ravensworth'sW. Hart 163 Od South hellos lB3 9d
Tantield M00r.......... 16s od ' Thornley
West Wylam
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. Pease's West 153 Od
Northumberland
Riddell . ..... ... ...... ... 18s 6d D2rwentwatfrHartley 16s Od
Walker
Braddyll.
Hawn
199:
Haaw01......
Ships at market, E 9 Sold, 46.
CardiffVdsidne3. n
a ..r.t.1.... ..... 21s Od
Hartley
16s Od

SHIP NE* S.
C..NsTerrrtroir.E, Nov. s.—The Sicilian ve3sel Ori-•
enter from Ibraila, has just arrived here with damage to
ship and cargo.
FRAsEnnunorr, Nov. 17.—The Smack Edward, of
Lyon, from the Shetland Isles, was driven on shore on a
reef of rocks at Cainbulg Head during the storm of last
night, and went to pieces; crew drowned.
HARTLEPOOL, .Nov...l7.—The,'Frau.Sophie, for Scot-
land, in attempting this harbour this afternoon, wind
northerly, very strong, with a high sea, was stranded
near West Hartlepool.
NEW YORK, OCT. 29.—The D. B. Picton, for Port-
land, put. into Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 21st of Oc-
-tober, leaky. The schooner Xerxes has been assisted into
Machias, with much damage, having been in contact
on the 15th of October with the Robert Follett, of Lu-
beck. Tho sloop Laura, from St. Thomas's, to this port,
was totally lost on the 26th of October en Little Island;
crew saved. Nov. I.—The Queen of the West arrived
here .on the 29th of October from Liverpool, after being
out eight days. She leaked very badly, and was com-
pelled to throw overboard 580 sacks of salt. The Bro-
thers, of and from Anapolis, Neva Scotia, struck on the
outer ledge of Swanscot on the 26th of October, and was
abandpned. She subsequently came off; and drifted on
shore on the rocks, where she lies a wreck. The Argus,
from St. John's, New Brunswick, for Portland, which
was abandoned on the 23d of October off Mohican, has
been towed into Booth Bay. The Mariner, of and from
St. John's, New Brunswick, for Hallowell, was totally
lost at Harpswell Neck in the gale of the 26th ult.; crew
saved.. The schooner Pearl, from St. John's, New
Brunswick, for this port, which went ashore near Mon-
tank Point, got off on the Ist inst., and was seen stand-
ing in for Long Island Sound.

GRAVESEND, Nov. 19.—Wind N.W., light, hazy.
Arrived—Albion, from Boulogne; Commodore, from
Riga; Citizen and Ajax, from Memel.
Sailed—Agra, for New Zealand; President, for St.
Helena; Elizabeth, for Hobart•town; Countess of Zet-
land, for Hong-Kong; Nepaul, for Calcutta; Mary
Crocker, for Apalachicola; Helen Lindsay, for Hong-
Kong; Ariel, for Algoa Bay; Princess Royal, for Ham-
burgh ;• Rhine and Adonis, for Rotterdam; Panther, for
Ostend; Seine, for Boulogne; Stadt Dorderecht, for
Dordt; Lion, for Harlingen; Camillus, for Demerara;
Joven Mario, from Bilboa.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Walpole, from Calcutta for Bolton, August 11, in lat;l4
S., long. 82 E. _ _

Samuel Russell, from China for New York, August 16,
in lat. 10 S., long. 72 E.
M. A. Johnston, from Liverpool for Calcutta, September
4, in lap. 37 S , long. 20 E.
Wellington, bound N., October 17, in lat. 31 N., long.
38 W.
Earl of Chester, bound N., October 26, in lat. 39 N.,
long. 34 W.
English schooner Favourite, from Liverpool, November
7, in lat. 48 N., long. 11 W.
Anna Robertson, from London for the Swan River, Oc-
tober 8, in lat. 9 N., long. 24 W.
Mary Woods ship, October 13, in lat. 16 N., long. 26 W.
Arethusa, from Callao for Queenstown, October 14, in
lat. 18 N., long. 27 W.
Eu,lrom Liverpool for Lima, November 9, in lat. 11 N.
Lahore, from Liverpool for Calcutta, August 9, in:lat. 19
S., long. 82 E.
Aske, from Matitas for Liverpool, July 23, in lat. 7 S.,
long. 95 E.
Ormelle, from the Clyde for Calcutta, October 13, in lat
14 N., long. 25 W.

Appleton, from Coquimbo for asylums, October 13, in
ht. 29 N., long 35 W.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

APPOINT MEW'S.
Lieutenant—George Pyne, to the Express.
Master's Assistant—James B. Patterson, to the
Rapid.
Second Master—W. G. M. Sent, to the Fisgard.
DEVONPORT, Nov. 18.—The Hecate steam-sloop,
Commander George I. Hand, arrived on Sunday from
the eastward. She was coaled to-day, and will sail
to-morrow for Lisbon.

The Rosamond steam-sloop, reported ready for sea
to day, is to go into the Sound to-morrow, and ex-
pected to sail the latter part of the week.
The Crane had her compasses adjusted to-day by
Mr. Thompson, harbour-master, and will sail for the
coast of Africa on Friday or Saturday.
The Constance frigate is ordered to be brought for-
ward for commission.

PORTSMOUTU, Nov. 19.—The Winchester, 50, is
ordered to be fitted out at this port to carry the flag
of the Commander-in-Chief on the East India and
China stations to relieve the Hastings 72.
The Sharpshooter steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander J. C. Bailey, has been paid off alongside the
dockyard je, ty this day.

The Fairy and Elfin Royal yachts have made
another trial of their machinery tc-day preparatory
to being reported ready for the service of her
on Saturday.
WOOLWICH, Nov. 19.—The Ascendant hired con-
vict ship has arrived at moorings off the Royal Ar-
senal in charge of Surgeon Superintendent James M
Stiell, M.D. Majesty
(1838), and will take on board male
convicts for Bermuda, calling at Portsmouth and
Portland, to take on board convicts at these places
for the same destination.

FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE IN PARLIABIENT•STRERY.
aftwearswa drrdivs,inwgas a
incapable cab at
a a
—Last evening
.a very. ,sad event happened in Parliament-
street, mear Richmond-terrace, whit. it is feared will
fatally.
turned n ed A
outrnan
his horse, when a very aged man, named Smith, who has for
furious
managing
gan a
in rate,g
manyyears been employed at one of the wharfs near Cannon-
row, was crossing the street, and the driver brought the horse
against him with great violence, and'he was forced a consi-
derable distance in the road. The man was unable to pull
his horse up, and the wheel passed over Smith's leg, and the
horse trampled on his head. Soon after the driver himself
fell off the box, and was taken into custody by one of the F
division of !police who happened to; be passing at the time,
and witneased• the occurrence. Smith was conveyed as
speedily as poSsible to the Westminster Hospital, and seen
ric by MiiPti ay, the hope surgeon, who discovered that one
leg was fr ctured, and • that extensive injury had taken
place in th head ,; but front the state the poor man was in,
1
he was una le-to make's' full examination ;he is, however,
in a most d 1 ngerous state, and hardly expected to recover.
•
FIRE IN. BRIGHTON.—Between one and two o'clock
on Tuesday, ,morning the attention of the constable on duty
in the Cliftop-road was arrested by certain appearances be-
tokening that some building in that neighbourhood was on
fire. Occasional sparks darted up into the air, and a rising
cloud of smoke, at first invisible in the dark night, was gra.
dually lit up with a red glare. It was quickly discovered
that an unfinished) .house is the new row near the church
erecting.in Clifton-road was in flames, and that they had
alreaduairied such hold as to render the chance of getting
them under] doubtfill. Information was at once conveyed
to Inspectotj Elphick, vas, lives not far distant, and to the
Town-hall, whence the fire had by this time become visible.
Friend Paine turned outi and with his engine and hose made
all haste for, the spot, Bel* he . could , reach it, however,
the fire had got considerably, ahead. ' The whole structure,
from top to bottorn, was one mass of red flame, and the fire
raged until lit had completely gutted the house, and reduced
its component parts to ash* On inquiry we learned that
the building was insured: in the,County Fire-office for 25014
but the entire value of it is estimated at 6001, to which the
loss of time that, must ensue from the accident should be
added. :'We regret , to -say, that there were in the house tools
belonging to the Workmen of the value of 301. These, of
course, were not insured, and the loss to the poor fellows
must be severely felt.-Brighton Guardian.
MIRACULOUS Escarn.--A man belonging to Kelty,
on returning from Dunfermline the last market day, on leap_
ing a small fence, instead of finding himself on terra firma,
found he was descending into an old coal shaft, upwards of
40 feet in depth. His neighbours becoming alarmed at his
absence; a search' was made next day ; and finding his little
Skye terrier sleeping at the mouth of the pit, they were in
time to release him from his miserable position. With the
exception of a few bruises, he is now quite well, although
he was quite insensible when he was released from his gloomy
prison.—Caledonian Mercury.
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THE SEARCH for SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
The interesting account recently published by Sir
John Richardson of his boat voyage upon the coast
of North America in search of his frieiad, Sir John
Franklin, has a postscript of the highest value, giving
a summary of the results afforded by the return of
the expeditions under Captains Austin and Penny.
As this statement enables us distinctly to perceive
the present hopeful aspect of the Arctic question, we
propose to place it entire before our readers' who can
desire no better authority thin that of Sir Johu
Richardson for their guidance and information :
"The preparation of the illustrations,. and other
circumstances, having retarded the publication of
these volumes for some months after the letter-press
was ready, the delay hes enabled us to learn the
result of the last year's search fur the lost expedi-
tion. The first traces of the missing ships, disco-
vered on the south side of Beechey Island and on Cape
Riley, as mentioned in vol. ii., p 155 , were followed
up by the discovery of 700 empty meat tins, and
other remains, which furnish undoubted proof of
Franklin's ships having wintered 1845-6 on the inside
of the above-named island. The tombs of three men,
with headboards bearing their names and the dates of
their deaths, were erected on the east side of the
island, not far from the site of the armourer's forge,
an observatory or store-house, and other enclosures
opposite to the anchorage. One of these men belonged
to the Terror, and two to the Erebus, which is suffi-
cient evidence of the presence of both ships ; and the
latest death supplies us with the date of 3d April,
1846. The mortality does not exceed. that of previous
expeditions; and we may therefore conclude that the
expedition was in highly effective order when it left
that anchorage, with only a moderate inroad into its
stock of preserved meat, the 700 empty tins found on
the island forming but a small proportion of the
24,000 canisters with which the ships were supplied.
" Captain Penny and his officers, who examined
Beechey Island and the neighbourhood very carefully
and minutely, believed that the expedition did not
quit its winter anchorage till the end of August or
beginning of September, 71846, founding their opi-
nion mainly on the lateness at which the ice breaks
up; that much of the summer was passed there they
consider as proved by the deep sledge ruts in the
shingle, which must have been made after the snow
had partially disappeared, and by small patches of
garden ground bordered with purple saxifrage, and
planted with compartments with the native plants.
"It is also the opinion of several officers of the
searching party that Franklin's ships left their win-
tering station suddenly. The reasons assigned for this
belief are, that several articles which might have been
useful were left behind, and; that at a look out, or
fowling station, on Cape Spencer, a long day's jour-
ney from the anchorage, the lines for securing the
covering of a circular inclosure, formed by a low wall
of stones, had been cut, instead of having been deli-
berately united, when the covering was removed,
leaving the ends of the line attached to the stones.
The absence also of any memorandum of past efforts
or future intentions, either at the stone cairn erected
on the south side of Beechey Island, at the pile of
canisters, or in the neighbourhood of the kitchen,
forge, and other marked localities opposite the an-
chorage, is thought by some to be an indication of
the sudden departure of the expedition. The value of
the articles left behind is too trifling to suppose such
an inference : these were an armourer's wooden stand,
used, when laid on its side, for the support of the
anvil, and when standing on its end for the insertion
of a vice ; several coal bags, two of them containing
coal dust mixed with a small proportion of small cin-
ders and ashes ; some pieces of rope, and scraps of old
canvas, and a small piece of oaken fire-wood, besides
many fragments of worn clothing utterly worthless.
An iron stove, that had been made on board
ship, was also found at a fowling station near
the east coast of the island, but it is stated
to be not worth carrying on board. The birds'
bones remaining in the vicinity of the stone inclosure
on Cape Spencer, show that the sportsmen encamped
there had been tolerably successful, and much small
shot was found scattered amongst the stones with
which the inclosure was paved. In the interstices of
the stone wall there were many pieces of newspaper.;
also two bits of paper of much interest to the friends
of two of the missing officers—one being subscribed
with the name of Mr. M'Donald, the surgeon; the
other containing part of a memorandum in the hand.
writing of Captain Fitzjames, giving directions as to
the times of recording certain meteorolegica- 1 obser-
vations, and the absence of the diligently searched-for
memorandum does not seem to be sufficiently ac-
counted for by such a supposition. The time required
for calling in the parties from Cape Spencer, Caswell's
Tower, in Rsdstock Bay, and other points where
they have been traced, and for embarking the instru-
ments and utensils from the observatories and kitchen,
might hare sufficed for the planting af a copper cy-
linder or bottle, with a memorandum.
" That the ships drifted out unexpectedly in a
floe of ice is not considered by the nautical men who
have examined the anchorage to be possible. The
north point of Beechey Island being connected to
North Devon by a shingle beach, covered by only
two or three feet of water, no pressure of ice can
operate on the harbour from that direction, so as to
drive out vessels by the south-eastern and only navi-
gable .entrance, and it is almost certain that Frank-
lin's ships must have made their exit by the tedious
and laborious operation of sawing out.
" The absence of a memorandum at the wintering
station is remarkable ; and, in my opinion, wholly
unexplained by any suggestion that has hitherto been
given by the many writers who have made their
opinion's known through the medium of the periodical
press. From Sir John Franklin's well-known
anxiety to act np to the tenor of his instruc-
tions, combined with the expressed desire of the
Admiralty, that he should embrace every opportunity
of forwarding accounts of the progress of the expedi-
tion to England, I should have thought that he would
certainly have left a record of his doings at a winter
station, which he knew to be within reach of the
whalers, before he commenced his voyage of the se-
cond season, in the hope of penetrating either to the'
south-west or.northward, where he knew there would
be little or no chance of finding a channel of commu-
nication, unless he succeeded in overcoming all ob-
stacles, and pushing his way through that archipelago
which has hitherto proved a barrier to successive ex-
peditions. And should he, as some suppose, but con-
trary, as I think, to all likelihood, have cut his way
out of Beechey Harbour merely to turn his face to
England, still I think he would have left some au-
thentic record on the spot, mentioning his labours, and
the cause of his return.
"As there are no natives on the north side of Lan-
caster Strait to disturb any memorial ear flag post
that may be erected, Sir John Franklin would
probably not think it necessary to bury the copper
cylinder or bottle containing his memorandum, but
would rather suspend it in the moat conspicuous way
he could devise.
"Now, I have learnt by experience that the
wolverine (the wolverine inhabits the islands north of
Lancaster Strait, and its recent footmarks were often
seen by Lieut. M'Clintock) will ascend trees to cut
down a package hung to a branch; and that bears
have similar habits was fully ascertained by Captain
Austin's sledge parties. A depot, formed by Lieut.
M'Clintock on Griffith Island, was entirely eaten by
bears, the tin cases proving to be but a poor defence
against the tusks of these omniverous animals, who
expressed their approval of preserved potatoes by the
way in which they cleared out the canisters:
" That they would relish the pemican, which was,
part of their spoil, might have been predicted. They
did not respect even the sign-post, but overthrew it,
and bit off the end of the metal cylinder containing
the record.
"The want of this memorialZleaves us totally in the:
dark as to Franklin's intended course, which would in
all probability have been decided upon before be left
the harbour ; for, from his position, he had the means
of ascertaining the state of the ice both in Barrow's
Strait and in Wellington Channel. If the former
was open, his course would be to Cape Walker and
the south-west, agreeable to his instructions ; but if
Barrow's Strait was closed, as he had found it to be
the preceding year, and Wellington Channel open,
then he would gladly follow the latter, which one
at least of his intelligent officers considered to be
the most promising route of all, and which the spirit
of his instructions permitted bhn to take if shut out
from the west or south-west.
" The well planned and thoroughly-crganised
travellipg parties of the searching squadron, though
they traced with extraordinary perseverance extensive
portions of insular coast, failed in detecting any fnr-
ther decisive vestiges of Franklin's course. Captain
Austin's two ships with their tenders, wintered at
the south-west end of Cornwallis's Island, under the
shelter of Griffith Island.
"From thence Lieutenant M'Clintock, who made
the longest journey of all the pedestrian parties,
setting out in spring, rounded the west-end of
Mel-
ville Island in longitude 114 deg. W. and, passing
over the extreme discoveries of Sir W. 'Edward
Parry, saw distant land
extending beyond the 116th
meridian. The intermediate
passage and bays were
explored by Lieutenant Aldrich Mr. Bradford, and
Mr. M`Dougall. Oa the south lido of Barrow's
Strait, Cape Walker and the adjoining
coasts were
traced by Captain Ommanney and Lieutenants Os•
borne, Mtechaw, and Browne; Lieutentint. ()borne

rches nearly to the 72d
parallel, on the 104th meridian.
having Carried his
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southerly point attained.
of the same island. Thrlotnglibesouws
the south shore of Victoria itthhien
wlhBoolemoi
on w
ol 8:01, ando 'y
s'
wind
goinoadai
great extent of the coast line, close!
these officers on both sides of the
strait,
examined. by
whatever of Si; John Franklin's
ships
~,t,erarev.,cyno tracesi
pc
oa
sr
tt s usedplao t
ebdy
by the
and, and is perhaps
tirhelllart.teir.wPee*rrertyhri
though Lieutenant M`Clintock found the miles of
whiseceoi,verfet ,
.other
traces of that cffiaer's travelling parties. The
or animals.
" Captains Penny end Stewart, in the Lady Frank-
lin and S :phia, wintered in Assistance Harbour, in
company with Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross, of the
Felix. The spring journeys of the two former, and
of their officers, were directed to the examination of
Wellington Sound. Captain Stewart and Dr. Su-
therland explored the west and north sides of this in-
let, their most northern points being in lat. 76 24 N.
Messrs. Goodsir and Marshall traced its south and
west sides to the 99 h meridian ; and both parties
from their most westerly stations saw a navigable sea
extending northward and westward to the utmost
limits of their vision. Wellington Strait, closed to
the eastward and northward, opens into this westerly
passage by three channels, separated from one ano-
ther by Baillie Hamilton's and Deans Dundas's
Islands. Baring's Island lies more to the westward,
opposite the middle channel. Its shores, and those
of the two other principal islands, were examined by
Captain Penny, who crossed over to the point of Sir
Robert Inglis s Bay, on the northern shore, which has
been named Albert Island, and from whence he had
the melancholy prospect of boundless open water,
which he had not the means of navigating. A boat
was transported over the ice towards it, with much
labour; but the provisions of the crew running short
it was abandoned. Mr. Goodsir found a spar of Ame-
rican spruce, untrimmed, with its bark worn off, and
broken at both ends, twelve feet long and as thick as
a man's ankle, on the shore facing the open water ;
also many smaller pieces of the same kind of drift
wood, while none was picked up by Captain Stewart
in Wellington Sound. From this fact these officers
inferred that the drift wood had come from the west-
ward. The currents or tides among the islands at the
western outlet of Wellington Strait were at times,
according to Captain Penny's judgment, not less than
four knots, and the general opinion of his officers was
that the principal set of the stream came from the
westward, and the prevailing winds from the north-
west.

" Animal life was abundant in the open water and
on its coasts. Walruses were seen repeatedly in the
several channels north and south of Baillie Hamilton's
Island ; and Polar bears were numerous and bold, so
as to be dangerous to parties not well armed. Several
of the bears were killed, and one of them contained
an entire seal in its stomach; the practice of these
voracious animals being to swallow their prey without
mastication, when it is not too large to pass their
gullets. The walrus cannot exist except when it has
access to open water; nor is the Polar Lear usually
found at a distance from it, except in its passage from
one sheet of water to another. The travellers also
saw Polar hares, wolves, foxes, herds of rein deer, vast
flocks of king and eider ducks, brent geese, and many
gulls and other water fowl of less utility to man.
Musk oxen were seen only on Melville Island, where
Lieutenant M'Clintock killed four, and might have
procured more had he wished to do so.
" On the sth of September, 1850, a floe of ice, at
least two years old, and upwards of thirty miles in
width, filled the lower part of Wellington Strait, and
remained fast, though diminished in breadth, when
last visited on the 24th July, 1851. Captain Penny
is of opinion that open water existed beyond it all the
winter.

" With respect to traces of Sir John Franklin's ex-
pedition beyond Cape Spencer, none whatever were
observed by Captain Penny's travelling parties, except
a small piece of drift wood which had been recently
charred, and had been exposed to little or no friction
subsequent to the operation of fire (a piece of elm
board that had been originally coated on one side with
mineral pitch or tar, and, after long exposure to the
weather, split by an axe, was too much weathered
even on the most recent surface to come within the
date of Sir John Franklin's expedition. It was found
on Baillie Hamilton's Island, and must have drifted a
very long way) This was found by Mr. Goodsir in
Disappointment Bay, in lat. 75 36 N., long. 96 W.;
and I consider it to be certainly a relic of Sir
John Franklin's expedition, as these coasts are not
now visited by natives, and this piece of charred
wood could not have been water-borne from
any great distance. It must have travelled,
however, some short way subsequently to its having
been exposed to the action of fire ; for if it had been
the remains of a fire kindled on the spot, other frag-
ments of charcoal would have been found lying beside
it. Franklin would undoubtedly, during the spring
passed in Beechey Bay, send out a party up Welling-
ton Sound, as he would never let the opportunity
escape of examining, as far as he was able to do, a
route that might influence his future movements ; and
as the course to the westward within the reach of pe-
destrian parties was known, the resources of the two
ships would be turned to the undiscovered way, com-
mencing in their vicinity. That such exploring
party went beyond the limits of Captain Penny's re-
searches, I infer from neither post nor cairn marking
the limits of its journey having been seen. If the
same expanse of open water was visible in 1846 from
Baillie Hamilton's Island, which Captain Penny saw
in 1851, we may readily conceive the efforts that
would be made to carry the Erebus and Terror
into it by any practicable extent of ice-sawing,
apga
er t iocfu laa yo e i
of
fßiaorerofiwl
i' so
gS tar ai t
st
rremained
notclo s edm d.
iTcaht
ee
with certainty the length of time that straits have
been blocked up ; for drift ice, loaded with the re-
mains of several year's snow, may be carried into a
narrow
to
favourablesbut ito
concurrence
uarnrde
oa
es
o f suddenlyw m winds
removeds
and tides. One navigator, therefore, may be able to
passage,
again
o s
a o as
sail, as Sir W. Parry did, nearly quite through that
northern Archipelago in one season, while his succes-
sors may find impassable barriers thrown across the
path which he pursued, and new avenues opened. It
would be unsafe, therefore, to argue that Wellington
Strait is nearly closed because it was choked by a
floe of some age in 1850 and 1851.
"By the efforts of the searching parties which have
just returned, combined with those of preceding
years, all the accessible parts of the continental coast
of America have been explored, and both sides of
Barrow's Strait, the further side of Melville Island,
and the land beyond Cape Walker. Land has also
been traced, though only by distant view, round the
bottom of Jones's Sound. This has narrowed the
lines of search to two distinct points, that is, to the
south-west of Cape Walker, which, from its being
the direction in which Sir John was instructed to go,
seemed to be especially the one in which he was to
be sought; and the newly-found channel opening out
to the westward from Wellington Strait. It is
greatly to be desired that this one may be pursued by
new efforts.

" Mr. Rae, in April last, was on the eve of setting
out from Great Bear Lake, in the hope of crossing on
the ice to Victoria Land, and of continuing his search
in a boat as soon as the navigation opened. Though
be may not actually attain Lieutenant Osborne's
furthest, he may, under favourable circumstances,
approach so near to the scene of that officer's search
,
des outleteied t
otrhie a
snore
the
or of Lieutenant M'Clintock's, as to prove, should he
openevh aso
find no traces of the ships, that the intervening space
is too confined for the seclusion of living men. Cap-
tain M'Clure, who passed to the eastward of Point
oßarrowrenot
sanguine
ue foundbpeo, s e may
a have as
r oe
th
west side of Parry's Archipelago, and have
spent the
winter
believe
the h
ite
supposed and this season Captain Collinson ma b
salsu
far
anseason,
from
sailing eastward in the same direction. It '
y e
is from
Behring's Straits, then, that we are next to look for
tidings of great interest to the civilized world whh
sympathises so universally with the
'
e efforts mdel to
trace and relieve so many gallant ' • victims to science.
"Oct. 20, 1851."

SN 0 WST 0-1131
ON
THE COAST.
.LOSS OF THE vESTA STEAM-SHIP.
Since Sunday last the
d north-eastern por
coast has been vi-i.•tion of the
d betweenby one
snow-
storm. It conirn9acecontinued heavy
in the morning, andath. two and three o'clock
dispatches
leaving several of the esodfayoutrhesnow had
portts the time
not ceased falling. The wind blew violently from the
north-west, and at some places the terror of the scene
was increased by thunder and lightning. A more
dense fall has not been experienced for a considerable
time, and many of the vessels which arrived in the
Humber and other ports had upwards of two feet and
more of snow on their decks. Amongst the many
disasters resulting from the storm, and which are be-
lieued to have been of a most numerous end calamitous
character, was the total loss of a fine steam-ship
called the Vesta, trading between Sunderland and
Hamburgh, and, considering the boisterous state of
the weather, and the great peril those on board were
placed in, their preservation may be deemed
of the most surprising character. The Vesta one
coin-
mended by Mr. Smith, who, was part was
owner, and her
crew comprised in all sixteen persons. With a good
freight she left Sunderland in the course of Saturday,