The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

TH PROJECTED VOYAGE TO THE ARCTIC

REGIONS.
Of the nature of the projected voyage to the Arctic
Seas by Mr. Kennedy and his crew of Orkney men, in
search of Sir Jon Franklin, a few notes are supplied by
the John 0. Groat Journal. Mr. Kennedy is now at
Aberdeen, where the little ship, the " Priace Albert,"
is fitttng out. The route to be followed is
by Lancaster Sound, then down Prince Regent's
Inlet as far as possible. The ship is then to be moored
in some harbour, and two boats will be desdatched in
various directions according to circumstances, or as
the openings in the ice may present. One
boat it is intended to bring overland to the western
shore, at Cresswell or Brentford Bay in the direction
of the magnetic pole. The other will be sent south-
wards to Felix Harbour, and will cross Boothia
Isthmus, and after striking the sea-coast will pro-
ceed by Sir James Ross's Strait to meet the other
boat. After meeting, they will again diverge and
explore westward. It is then intended that one of
the boats be dispatched in the direction of Simp-
son's Straits, whilst the other will be directed north-
west with a view to come on the track of Dr. Rae and his
party. Mr. Kennedy has been thirteen years in the
service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and spent eight
years of that period in Labrador. Knowing the country,
and the abundance of deer, salmon, and marine animals,
he has the firm persuasion that at least a portioa of Sir
James Franklin's party are yet alive. He goes out with-
out fee or reward, animated by a pure devotion to the
service. The crew consists of seventeen persons, nearly
all natives of Orkney. The expedition is to be conducted
on teetotal principles; and the ship will be ready for
sea by the end of this month. She carries three boats
—one of mahogany, one of common materials, and
one of gutta percha. Messrs. Duthie, of Aberdeen,
are building a boat specially for Mr. Kennedy's use.
It is to be twenty-two feet long, only two feet wide at
the midships, or broadest part, and after being covered
with hide or gutta percha, with one person set in it—
canoe fashion—is calculated to draw only three inches of
water, the depth of the boat is to be twelve inches
at the seat. It is intended to propel this extraordinary
craft after the manner of the natives of these regions—
the Esquimaux—by a double-bladed oar, and the person
seated in it will be covered up with a skin dress, but-
toned to the chin and fastened to the deck, that in the
event of its being swamped, it can easily be righted again
without any water getting into it. Mr. Kennedy con-
templates not only using this boat for crossing rivers
over ice, and down rapids, but to make it his couch of
repose all night, by simply pulling a blanket over him,
and there repose in a temperature that makes one freeze
to think of it. Ile has been accustomed to these hard-
' ships, and has stood many nights in similar circum-
stances, with the thermometer 40 to 50 degrees below
zero; often, too, with no covering but the canopy of
heaven. The Prince Albert will be provisioned for two
years. All success attend her.
Letters have been received from Commander Pullen,
the officer in charge of the boat party from the Mackenzie
River, in search of Sir John Franklin. They are dated
Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie River, July 17, 1850, and
detail the proceedings of the party, who were upon the
point of starting, and hoped to reach the sea about
the 23d of that month. The season had been extraordi-
narily fine, and the party were confident of an open sea.
Others also, natives of the country, were of the same
opinion. Should they find provisions and fuel plentiful
on Banks's Land, it is possible that they might winter
there, for the further prosecution of the search next
season.—lnverness Courier.

SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE NEW YORK PACKET.
SHIP IVANHOE.

We regret to state that little doubt now remains as
to the fate of the splendid New York line of packet-ship
Ivanhoe and her officers and crew, respecting whose loss
grave apprehensions have recently been entertained.
Hitherto no public notice of the fact of the ship's non-
arrival has been taken, from a disposition to hope even
against hope; but by the royal mail steam-ship Asia ac-
counts were received from Savannah, on Saturday evening,
which render it unnecessary and futile, we fear, any
longer to preserve silence. Most of our readers will
remember that some months ago the Ivanhoe, whilst in
a storm at sea, lost her Commander, Captain Knight,
who was swept overboard, unseen, from the poop. Her
then chief mate afterwards received the command,
and when the Ivanhoe last left New York, early in
February, was making, we believe, his voyage hither
in that capacity. Subsequently to her departure
from New York the Ivanhoe was observed by
the Joseph Walker, which arrived in the Mersey on the
13th ultimo, ashore on Nantucket Shoals during a fresh
gale of wind, with her sails spread. Her arrival at this
port was, however, daily expected, but without avail;
and at length grave fears of her safety were awakened
by the fact that large quantities of wreck such as
would belong to a ship of the Ivanhoe class had
been passed off the Shoals in question. On Saturday,
however, circumstantial evidence of a more marked
character arrived in Liverpool ; namely, a re-
port from Savannah that the ship Julia Howard, whilst
on her passage from Boston to that city, passed, on the
12th ult., in lat. 30 34, long. 71, a quantity of wreck and
picked up a broken oar, upon the blade of which the word
Ivanhoe was stamped. Bales of cotton and casks, with the
private marks thereon, had also been picked up; and, al-
though the discovery of abroken oar cannot alone be taken
as evidence of the ship being entirely last, with all her
crew, yet, combined with the other evidence already
alluded to, we fear it must destroy even the remotest
hope entertained of the Ivanhoe's safety. The Ivanhoe
was a fine ship, of about 1,300 tons register, and was
formerly commanded by Captain Edwards, well known
as having made several quick passages in her between
this port and New York. She was quite a favourite
ship with both passengers and shippers of merchandise.
—Liverpool Albion.

THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The following Mem-
bers were present at the Speaker's Bth dinner ou Saturday :
Lord Norreys, Lord Melgund, Lord Emlyn, Hon. George
Smythe, Hon. J. W. Fortescue, Hon. Captain Harris, Sir
Hedworth Williamson, Sir John Hamner, Sir George
Staunton, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Henry Verney, Sir Edmund
Macnaghten, Hon. Compton Cavendish, Mr. Finney, Mr.
Saville Ogle, Mr. Osman Ricardo, Mr. Walter, Mr. Joseph
Sandars, r. Tier Seymer, Mr. Sotheron, Mr. William
Beckett, Mr. Charles Grenfell, Mr. Joseph Bailey, Mr.
Cornwall Leigh, Mr. William Evans, Colonel Reid, and Mr.
Heneage.

Tag Fox CLUB.—The third meeting of the Fox
Club this sewn took place on Saturday evening at Brookes's.
Present—the Right Hon. the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount
Ebrington, M.P., Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle, M.P., the
Right Hon. Lord Sudeley, Mr. J. Houghton Langston, M.P.,
Mr. Frederick Dundas, Sir W. Gibson Craig, Bart., M.P.,
the Right Hon. Viscount Enfield, M.P., Mr. Rowland
Alston, the Hon. llamilton Duncan, the Right Hon. the Earl
of Camperdown, the Right Hon. Sir Robt. Adair, Mr. E. A.
Sanford, Viscount Duncan, M.P.,; the Right Hon. Lord Saye
and Sele, Mr. H. F. Stephenson, Mr. A. K. Stephenson, Co-
lonel the Hon. Geore Anson, M.P., the Right Hon. Edward
Ellice, M.P., the Right Hon. Lord Marcus Hill, M.P. the
Hon. R. S. Carew, Mr. A. W. Robarts, and Mr. Edward
Ellice, jun., M.P.

We learn that the splendid estate of Closeburn has
just been purchased by Douglas Baird, Esq., Gartsherrie, for
the sum of 180,0001. This, with his previous purchase of the
Shaws estate, at 45,0001. (being originally part of CliPse-
burn), will form one of the most princely estates in Scotland.
—North British Muil.

Mr. St. John, ex.Consul-General of England at
Algiers, died at Pau on the Dith ult., to which place he had
gone in the beginning of the winter for the recovery of his
health.

SAMUEL STANIFORTH, Esq.--This gentleman, who
was well known and respected in Lancashire, and who held
the lucrative office of distributor of stamps at Liverpool for
many years, died at his residence,Everton, on Saturday. He
was upwards of 80 years of age.
EMIGRATION.—A large number of small farmers
and farm labourers, with their families, are daily arriving
here in waggons, with their luggage, to emigrate to the Ca-
nadas, in the timber ships now being fitted out for the spring
voyages. The greatest number arrived on Tuesday last,
and are principally from parishes in the north of Devon.—
firgy;4o Journal,