The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.

At the moment of going to press we have received the
following by private lettere :—Her Majesty's ship Herald
arrived at Oahu from Behring's Straits, on Oct. 16th.
The pack was found so dense that the ship would not
attempt it for some days, but sent her boat, which passed
through about five aides, and found an open sea to the
northward, with the exception of some floes aground;
communicated with Plover, who were not sorry to re-
ceive their letters. They were all well. Her Majesty's
ship Investigator arrived off Cape Lisburne on the 31st
of July, but Enterprise got ashore on Point Clarence.
With the assistance of Herald's people they took every-
thing out of her, which was placed in a house built for
the purpose on shore. They got her off after some days'
hard work, and started her after Investigator on the 22d
September. Captain Moore had been informed by the
natives that two boats' clews of white men had been
killed, and their bodies buried on the banks of a river,
but when he offered them a cask of tobacco if they would
show the place, it turned out, like most of the natives'
information, not to be worth much; they made excuses
that a tribe of hostile Indians were near the spot, and
they could not venture.—Portsmouth Times and Naval
Gazelle.

The Hercules, 72, store-ship, Master-Commander R.
Fulton, arrived at Spithead this morning from the east-
ward.

The Margaret Evans, Pratt, from London for New
York; the Duke of Bronte, Barclay, from London for
New Z-aland; the Lady Flora, Pentreath, from London
for Corfu, with the head-quarters of the 30th Regiment;
and the Semarang, Escat, from London for Hong-Kong,
with the 59th Regiment on board, arrived at Spithead
yesterday; and the Belle Alliance, with part of the 30th
Regiment, dropped out to Spithead.
The Salamander, steam-sloop, Conamander Ellman, ar-
rived at Colombo on the sth of December from England,
and sailed on the following day fur Trincomalee and
Hong-Kong.
The Amphitrite, 25, Captain Frederick, bent sails to-
day. She will probably drop out to Spithead to-morrow
and sail this week for the South Pacific.

The Driver steam sloop, Commander Johnson, ar-
rived at Callao o❑ the 4th ult., from Guayaquil.
The Dmdalus, 20, Captain Wellesley, suited trom San
Francisco on the 12th of November for Valparaiso, with
100.000 dollars in specie.
ROYAL MARINES.—First Lieutenant Delacornbl/4‘, is
promoted to the rank of captain, vice Thoma. Fraser,
placed on half-pay.
Captain Frazer, Lieutat,ants Stuart, Tinklar, and
Meheux, and a detachment of 200 men, are under orders
for embarcation immediately the Prince Regent, 90,
arrives from Lisbon.

First Lieutenant Stewart and a detachment will re-
lieve the detachment at present serving in her Majesty's
ship Blenheim, on the 3d prox.
WooLwrcn, JAN. 25.--The Ann lighter is to proceed
to Greenhithe on Monday, with stores, to put on board
the Argus steam-sloop. The compasses of the Argus
will be adjusted on that day, and on Tuesday she will
leave Greenhithe for Portsmouth.
The Ariel steam-vessel, fitted with a smoke consum-
ing apparatus, went down the river on trial to-d.sy a.
twelve o'clock, and Mr. Ilumphrys, chief engineer, with
Mr. Trickett, assistant to the chief engineer, went on
board opposite the dockyard. The Ariel returned up
the river about one o'clock, after a very short trial, it
being evident that further improvement must be made
in preventing the escape of smoke when feeding the fires
before the plan can be recommended for trial at the ex-
pense of Government, all the trials, including the trial
to-day, being at the expense of the patentees.