The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-20 00:00:00

ASCENT OF MONT BLANC.

SlR,—May I take the liberty of requesting a little
space to record our success in the ascent of Mont
Blanc on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 12th and 13th ?
I was accompanied by three other gentlemen from
Christ Church, and twenty guides. We left Cha-
mouny at seven o'clock in the morning on Tuesday,
and got to our bivouac on the glaciers at the Grands
Mulets at four o'clock. Here we made a fire and
dined, and at midnight started again with lanterns, as
the omen was not up, along the Glacier de Tacconay,
reaching the Grand Plateau (where the avalanche
swept away Dr. Hamers party, in 1820) about four
o'clock in the morning. After a great deal of trouble
amongst the crevasses, and having at times to cut
each footstep in the ieo with hatchets, we scaled the
blur de la Cote, and g:.4 to the summit of Mont
Blanc at half-past nine o clock on Wednesday morn-
ing, where we remained half-an-hour in the enjoy-
ment of a perfectly cloudless view.
In descending we got back to the Grands Mulets
by one o'clock. The most dangerous part of the
journey now commenced, as the extreme heat of the
day had thawed much of the snow on the Glacier du
Bossons, which threatened at every step to give way
beneath us. We were, however, all tied together
with cords ; but for this one of our party would have
been lost. We ultimately arrived in safety at Cha-
mouny at half-past six o'clock in the evening, where
the whole village turned out to meet us, and a little
file was prepared by M. Tairraz, of the Hotel do
Londres, in honour of our safe return. Guns were
fired, and wine distributed, and at night the bridge
was illuminated with pine branches. I believe we
formed the largest party ever assembled together on
the summit; but the increased number of guides was
necessary from the treacherous state of the snow,
after the bad weather that has prevailed here lately.
I should have liked to have sent you a few details,
but I feel some delicacy in intruding on your columns
to the extent I have done.
Your obedient servant,
sigma.
ALBERT

Chamouny, Hotel de Londres, Aug. 14.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
This popular writer has recently
ith the Hon.
ascent of Mont Blanc, in compsaYsYvn
rode a successful
i of Sir Robert
Sackville West, Mr. C. Floyd
Peel), and Mr. Phillips, of ulhamoony at -0, cYtli Church College,
half-
Oxford. The party started fronithe 1
oth instant,with
past seven on Tuesday porters, and Cross-
sixteen guides and almobotnas, many: „A at
arrived the Grande
ing the Glacier des Bosons,
were to sleep, above the
Mulets Rocks, where
vvt,
at a quarter past four, P.m.
level of perpetual
their bivouac, having brought up
Here they mad end mornsuy,
stopped until midnight, when
wood for afire,to with lanterns, for the moon was
againd sreeiched the Grand Plateau at four in the
they
not up, an Tbia is where the party. was swept away
told to keep silence -
avalanche during Dr. Hamel 's fatal attempt
znorning.
dead as
by the
earfetera great deal of danger and
they passed.they all got safely to the summit at half-past
and
Ftihneayl l yw,
fatigue,
nine „ Wednesday morning, without a cloud to de-
stroy the view. Mont Blanc had never before been
in 1820,
invaded by such a large party. The return was ac-
complished in much less time, but the danger was Cr
greater, through an unexpected thaw on the glaciers
below the Grand Mulet. However, they all got to
Chamouny at half-past six on Wednesday evening,
where they were welcomed with guns, illuminations,
and every kind of demonstration the inhabitants, who
had watched them all the way with telescopes, could
command. On the night (Jt the ascent Sir Robert
PPeelt wal at Chamouny, and invited all the villagers o
a suncr to drink to their successful return.

THE POLICE PORCH AT TUE EXHIBITION.—A very
handsome silver teapot has been given to Superintendent
Pearce, by the command of the Queen, as a mark of her
Majesty's appreciation of the constant zeal, intelligence, and
discretion shown by him when in attendance up her
on er
Majesty on the occasions of the Queen's frequent visits to t
Exhibition ; and a handsome gold watch to Inspector John
Beckerson (B division) and Robert Lester (C division), as a
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mark of approval of their attention in the discharge of their
' duties when in attendance upon her the and tliTf..
cesses on the occasions of their visiting the Exhibition. - A
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handsome gold watch is also given to Inspector Nassau
Smith the (D division), from the Prince of Wales, as a
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Dispatches were received yesterday at the ColowaA:
(Ace trQl33 the Governor of Vgi Diemtu'o Loud.