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GREAT. WESTERN RAILWAY.-Th©
Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money
on Loan, to pay off Dehentnres falling due, and are prepared to accept
Tenders for the same for a period of 3,5, or 7 years at 5 per cent.
per annum. Application may be made to the undersigned.
By order of the Directors.
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, 2d November, 1855.

OTTOMAN CLUB, 14, Regent-street, 31st
December, Itss.—At the General Meeting of the Members
held this day, en explanation was given by the Proprietor of the
position and future pro=pects of the Club, which was considered
satisfactory. Certain alterations in the Rules of the Club wero then
proposed, and the Mcetimt was abljourned till the 31st of January
next, at 3 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of confirming them, if
approved.

By order of the Committee.
C. A. CURWOOD, Hon. Sec,

IN TIIE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.

TRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, An
Injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and
on the I 1 th of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph
Franklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou-
sand pounds, from imitating this Medicine, which is protected by
Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the
Ecolc do Ph ►rmacis de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine,
Vienna.

TRIESEMAR, No. 1,
Is a remedy for Relaxation, Speruialorrhoaa, and all the distressing;
consequences arising from early abuse, &c., and its effects are ell-
cacioas in youth, manhood, and old age ; to those persons who
are prevented entering the married state from .he results of early
errors it is invaluable.
TRIESEMAR, No. 2,
effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely'
eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Cara`vl and Cubebs
have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health
of a vast portion of the TRIESEMAR; No. 3,
is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which
unfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in-
evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the
sarsaparilla in the world cannot remove.
TRIESEMAR, Ncs. 1,2, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell,
and They may lie on the toilet table
without
TiztEsE MAR, Nos. 1,2, and 3, are sold in tin cases, price 1 Is., or
four cases in one for 335., which saves its. ; and in 5/. cases, whereby
of
their nauseating
userm qualities.
suspected.
there is a saving of 11. I 2s. ; divided into s iparate doses, as adminis-
tered by Valpean, Lailemand, Roux, &c.,&c.
To be had Wholesale and Retail in Londcn of Johnston, 65,
Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Ox-
ford-street ; ft. 11. Ingham, druggist, 46, Market-street, Manchester ;
IL Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton; J. Priestly, chemist, 52,
Lord-street, Liverpool ; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street,
Dublin ; Wirmall, bookseller, High-street, fliainingkam.

AWFUL CASE or BURNING,--_ An inquest was held be-
fore the county coroner, on Thursday last, at Royston,
on view of the body of Ann Tokey, who had been burned
to death. The poor girl had been reading a book on the
night of Monday, but, sitting on the stool before the
fire, had fallen asleep, when by some means her clothes
caught fire, and she ran up to her brother's bed-room a
mass of flames. He tried to put it out with his clothes
and those of his brothers who were in bed with him, but
not succeeding, and the flames beginning to communicate
with the bed-clothes, he begged her to run down stairs,
which she did, into the street, and there ran up and
down, one body of fire flaming considerably above her
head. Almost instantly her father and mother came up,
and she was thrown down on the wet road, and rolled
over, and the flames were extinguished, and she was
wrapt in a blanket and carried home, where she died at
half-past 4 the next morning. The view of the body was
awful in the extreme. Verdict, " Accidentally burned."
—Cambridge Independent.
THE NEW SOUTH WALES TARITF.—The adoption of
the new tariff in New South Wales is an event which is
calculated to create surprise in this country, where a free
trade policy has become so firmly established, and where
reduction of taxation is the rule, and an increase is only
permitted in the exceptional case of the urgent require-
ments of the present war. New South Wales has no
heavy war expenses to provide for, and yet we find that
the taxation of the necessaries of life had been most
enormously increased. The duties on tea and sugar have
been increased 100 per cent. ; upon some other articles
the additional imposts are very considerable. The passing
of the now tariff bill has given great dissatisfaction to
the colony, and an analysis of the votes of the mem-
hors gives a very unpleasant and unsatisfactory re-
sult that the minority opposed the Lill are all elec-
tive members, and represent the most numerous
and influential constituencies in the country ; while the
majority is almost entirely made up of official and no-
minee members. We question much whether the build-
ing of the new Council Chamber, at a cost of 10,0001.,
or even the assimilation of the tariff with that of the
neighbouring eolony of Victoria, will be sufficient to
reconcile the tax-paying portion of the inhabitants of
New South Wales to the operation of a financial mea-
sure carried by the nominee element in opposition to the
wiles and feelings of the great bulk of the people of the
colony,—Australian and New Zealand Oa :ate.

LivEßrooL, Tuesday.—By the Baltic we have
advices announcing the return of the Hudson's-bay
Company's Arctic expedition, and the confirmation
of Dr. Rae's melancholy report as to the fate of
Franklin's party.
It will be recollected that Dr. Rae has been em-
ployed by the Hudson's-bay Company for the last
four or five years in an effort to discover any traces
of the remains or the fate of Sir John Franklin
and his party ; that he has made two expeditions
into the Arctic regions for the purpose, and that
ho was so successful in the last expedition as to
discover evidences of the fact that a party of
white men, with ships and boats, had perished in
that far-off hyperborean region several years ago,
which Dr. Rae concluded to have been the ill-
fated expedition he was in search of. Beyond
finding some spoons and other trifles among the
Esquimaux bearing the name of "Franklin," and
the above tidings which he gathered from the in-
habitants, his expedition amounted to nothing. It
will also be recollected that soon after the conclu-
sion of his last tour the Hudson's Bay Company
sent out another party to elicit still more facts on
this point, and that, in pursuance of this design, a
messenger was sent from their head-quarters in
Montreal to Governor. Simpson at the Selkirk set-
tlement to make the necessary arrangements for
that purpose. Mr. J. D. Stewart and Mr. Ander-
son were selected for this duty.
The (St. Paul) Minnesotian, of December 12,
gives the following account of Mr. Stewart's expe-
dition and its sad result :
" Mr. Stewart, with a party of 14 men, therefore
started from his post, the Carlton-house, in 54 N. lati-
tudeeon the 7th day of February, 1855, and proceeded
to Fort Chipowyan, at the head of Lake Athabasca, in
lat. 58 N., at which point they arrived on the sth day
of March. /It had been determined to make the trip to
the Arctic Sea by water so far as was practicable, and
the party therefore remained at this post until the 26th
of May, busily engaged in constructing boats, and
making other preparations for their dreary journey. At
that date the party left Fort Chipewyan, and journeyed
by canoe on the Peace River, which connects Lake
Athabasca with Slave Lake, some 350 miles in a north-
westerly direction, till, on the 30th day of May, they
arrived at Fort Resolution, which is situated on an
island in Slave Lake, about latitude 61.
"At Fort Resolution the party was joined by Mr.
Anderson, who, with Mr. Stewart, had been appointed
to the command of the expedition. Here another delay
was made, for the purpose of reorganisation, and making
the last preparations before attempting to penetrate the
interminable frozen north. These arrangements com-
pleted, the party started out on the 22d of June for the
head of Great Fish River, in lat. about 63N. Thence they
followed the course of the stream to the Arctic Ocean.
Mr. Stewart represents the navigation of this river as
exceedingly dangerous, being obstructed by over 100
difficult rapids. Over all these, however, with nothing
more substantial than birch-bark canoes, they passed in
safety, and arrived at its mouth on the ath of July.
"Here they met with Esquimaux, who corroborated
the reports of Dr. Rae, and directed them to Montreal
Island, a short distance from the mouth of Great Fish
River, as the spot where, according to their instructions,
they were to commence minute exploration. From this
time until the 9th of August the party wereindustriously
engaged in searches on the island and on the main land
between 67 and 69 north latitude. We cannot recapi-
tulate the perils escaped and privations endured by the
brave band while seeking to find traces of their country-
men who had perished on those desolate shores. Three
times they providentially escaped being ' nipped,' as
Mr. Stewart expressed it, or crushed between moving
mountains of ice. At last on Montreal Island, where
their explorations commenced, they found snow-shoes,
known to be English make, with the name of Dr. Stan-
ley, who was surgeon of Sir Jon Franklin's ship, the
Erebes, cut in them by a knife.
"Afterwards they found on the same island a boat
belonging to the Franklin Expedition, with the name
' Terror' still distinctly visible. A piece of this boat,
containing this name, was brought along with him by Mr.
Stewart. Among the Esquimaux were found iron kettles
corresponding in shape and size with those furnished to
the Franklin Expedition, and bearing the mark of the
British Government. Other articles, known to have be-
longed to the expedition, were obtained from the E-qui-
maux, and brought by the party for deposit with the
British Government. No bodies, however, were feund,
or traces of any. The report of the Esquimaux was,
that one man died on Montreal Island, and that the
balance of the party wandered on the beach oi the main-
land opposite, until, worn out by fatigue and starvation,
they, one by one, laid laid themselves down and died too.
"Teo Esquimaux reported, further, that Indiana far
to the north of them, who had seen the ships of Frank-
liii's party, and visited them, stated that they had both
been crushed between the icebergs. Mr. Stewart took
especial pains to ascertain whether the party had come
to their death by fair means or foul ; but to every in-
quiry the Esquimaux protested that they had died of
starvation.
" Gathering together the relics found, the party set
out on their return on the 9th of August last. The re-
turn route did not vary materially from that taken on
their way north. Mr. Stewart has occupied the whole
time since in reaching our city, having come by way of
the Red River country, and having been absent in all
about 10 months. Mr. Stewart lett St. Paul yesterday
en route to the Hudson's-bay head-quarters at Lachine,
Canada, to submit an account of his adventures."
The St. Paul's Times, in its account, says :
"The expedition reached what is called Montreal
Island, where they fell in with some Esquimaux, who
informed them where the crew of the Terror (one of
Franklin's ships) met their untimely fate. They gathered
up the remains of a boat having the name of Sir John
Franklin on it, a hammer, kettles, part of a blue flag,
and other articles belonging to the unfortunate vessel.
We aro informed by the Esquimaux that they reached
the spot just in time to see the last man die of hunger,
who was leaning against seine object when discovered.
He was too far gone to be saved. The wolves were very
thick there, and no traces of the bones of the men could
be seen, supposed to have been eaten by the wolves.
The Esquimaux state that it is four years ago since the
crew perished. It was on the coast opposite Montreal
Island. Their bones lie buried in the sand within an
extent of 12 miles. This is the fifth winter since they
perished, and the drifting sands of that barren region,
being in lat. 68 deg. north, have piled in successive
layers on the bones of those noble and ill-fated men.
Mr. Stewart describes the region as dreary in the ex-
treme—not a blade of grass or a stick of timber met
the eye. No game of any kind could be found. The
Esquimaux, from whom their information was obtained
by signs, pressed their fingers into their cheeks, and,
placing their hands on their stomachs, endeavoured to
indicate the manner of their horrible death. They were
charged with killing them, but merely answered with
their signs."
The Montreal Herald, of Dec. 24, has a more
detailed account of the expedition :
" We have been favoured by E. M. Hopkins, Esq. (in
the absence of Sir George Simpson), with the following
outline of the proceedings of the Arctic expedition,
which, by instructions from her Majesty's Government,
was employed by the Hudson Bay Company to follow up
the clue discovered by Dr. Rae while engaged on
another exploring expedition, also fitted out by the Hud-
i son Bay Company, of the fate of Sir J. Franklin's party.
" It will be in the recollection of our readers that it
is scarcely a year ago that we published to the world
the first authentic information that had been received of
the lamentable fate of the gallant Franklin and his brave
comrades. The intelligence which was conveyed to Dr.
Rae in the winter of 1853.4 by the Esquimaux, and in
the accuracy of which that distinguished Arctic traveller
placed perfect reliance was received by the public in
England with great hesitation, arising, probably, from
an unwillingness to believe the mournful facts. That in-
telligence was in substance that, in the winter of 1850 the
Esquimaux saw a party of whites travelling from the
northward towards the A rctic coast, dragging a boat over
the ice, intending to use it as soon as they reached open
water ; that the party, about 40 in all, made the land
near the mouth of the large river (the Great Fish
River), and there perished of starvation, to which
were added a number of frightful details of their suffer-
ings, which we will not again inflict on our readers. In
proof of the truth of these reports, the Esquimaux ex-
hibited and sold to Dr. Rae a great variety of relics,
principally silver forks and spoons, marked with the
crests and initials of various officers of the ships Ere-
bus and Terror (Franklin's), and, amongst other articles,
a small order, or star, with Sir John Franklin's name
engraved on it.
"These were the tangible proofs conveyed to England
by Dr. Rae, in confirmation of the tale he collected from
the Esquimaux ; but his proceedings and conclusions
have been frequently called in question ; and therefore
it will be the more gratifying to him now that they are
fully corroborated, even to minute details of locality,
&c., in which lie might possibly have been mistaken.
As soon as Dr. Rae bad laid his report before her
Majesty's Government it was decided that an attempt
should made to follow up the trace he had obtained,
commencing at the point indicated by the Esquimaux as
the scene of the last sufferings of the party of whites
seeit!hbeyotrghaemnisiantiloBnsaond management of this new expedi-
.
tion were wisely entrusted to the Hudson Bay Company.
On the 27th of October, 1854, the instructions of her
Majesty's Government and the Company were forwarded
from London to Sir George Simpson at Lachine, where
he received them in the middle of November. His great
experience and well-known ability in affairs of that
nature enabled him to decide with promptitude on the
mode of carrying out the expedition ; the men to be
employed as leaders and in subordinate capacities ; the
amount of supplies, craft, and all other requisites for
the undertaking ; and on the 29th November last year
his instructions were despatched by special messenger
to the Hudson Bay territories, all parts of which were
put under requisition to furnish material, the whole to
be collected at the rendezvous, Fort Resolution, in
Great Slave Lake, by the let of June following, and an

complete were the plans, and so carefully had all th
contingencies been provided against, that in no point
was there a failure in carrying out his arrangements.
"The officers selected to lead the party were Mr.
Anderson, a chief factor of the company, and Mr. J. G.
Stewart, a chief trader—both well qualified by experi-
ence, courage, physical strength, &c., for the arduous
duty. The party consisted of these two officers and 14
men, and left Port Resolution, a port in the Hudson's-
bay Company on Great Slave Lake, on the 22d of June
last, in two bark canoes, in which they performed the peri-
lous voyage down Great Fish River—a river known to
the world for its dangers and horrors. From Mr.
Stewart we learn that he doubts that the party ever
could have got safely down that stream to the coast
had it not been for the wonderful dexterity of the three
Iroquois voyageurs whom Sir George Simpson had pru-
dently forwarded from Lachine to join the expedition
—the three best men of his own canoe,
" The party reached the outlet or estuary of the river
on the 30th of July, and skirted along its eastern shore
as far as Point Beaufort, but found no traces to reward
their search. Thence they crossed over to Montreal
Island, 12 miles distant, lying near the western shore
of the estuary ; probably, in that crossing, incurrink, as
great peril as any in the gloomy record of Arctic travels,
pushing their bark canoes boldly out into the Arctic
Ocean, and forcing their way through drifting masses of
Arctic ice seven or eight feet thick. But they were pre-
pared to make any effort to reach the island, which, as
well as Point Aigle,. near it, had been the place Dr.
Rae understood the Esquimaux to mean when describ-
ing where the white party perished in 1850 ; and they
had the melancholy satisfaction of procuring on
that very spot the fullest possible confirmation of
Dr. Rae's report. They also met Esquimaux in that
vicinity, who had seen the whites, and gave much valu-
able information. Suffice it to say that on the island
were discovered the remains of a boat, which had been
partially destroyed by the natives for the sake of the
wood and the metal fastenings.
" Although there was sufficient left to identify 't
as
belonging to the Franklin Expedition—one fragment of
wood (now, as well as some other small relics, in posses-
sion of the Hudson Bay Company at Lachine) having
the name `Terror' branded on it, while another piece
bad the name of Mr. Stanley (surgeon of the Erebus)
cut upon it, this latter being part of a suove•shoe,
evi-
dently of English manufacture, being made of oak, a
species of wood no man accustomed to use snow-shoes
would ever select for the purpose—no papers or books,
and no human remains were found ; nor was it likely,
as four years had elapsed since this tragedy was enacted
upon a low candy beach, exposed to the storms of four
Arctic winters, and there is little doubt that either the
sea has washed off, or the sand has buried deep, the un.
furtunates who perished on this spot. The Esquimaux
were very friendly, and freely displayed all their trea-
sures obtained from the boat, or found near it, and these
consisted principally of the oars, used by them as tent-
poles, the boat.kettles, the empty preserved meat-cases,
&c., but no papers ; and the natives stated, with every
evidence of sincerity, that none had ever been seen or
found.
" Everything portable was secured by Messrs. Ander-
son and Stewart and brought back, and the articles are
now on their way to Canada ; it would be useless to re-
count them all, but we may mention bar iron, rope with
the Government mark on it, oars branded with the broad
arrow, pieces of buntin (remains of a flag), a letter-
holder, a step of a mast, &c.—all clearly European, and
all Government supplies. Is anything more wanted ?
" The weather is described as having been ' execrable'
—constant storms, with ice, snow, rain, sleet, bail, thun-
der, and whatever else can be conceived that isdisagreeable.
It is a part of the coast the natives even consider unin-
habitable—merely visiting it for a short time in summer
when the deer pass that way.
"On the 14th of August, when the expedition com-
menced its retreat from the coast, the ground was co-
vered with fresh fallen snow, and the ice was forming ;
in fact, winter had set in, Few further details of the
I last moments of the lost party have been collected. We
may mention one mournful incident reported by an
Esquimaux woman, who saw the last man die. Ho was
large and strong, she said, and sat on the sandy beach,
his head resting on his hands, and thus the last survivor
of Franklin's expedition, yielded up his brave spirit.
Messrs. Anderson and Stewart retraced their steps to
Great Slave Lake, whence the latter continued his jour-
ney onward to Red River settlement, and thence rid
the Minnesota Territory to Montreal, whore lie arrived
on Friday evening last, direct from the Arctic Sea, after
upwards of 5,000 miles travel in open craft and through
uninhabited regions without a halt. A few facts taken
at random may serve to bring home to our appreciation
what this North-West expedition accomplished and went
,through. In 13 months, to a day, the Iroquois who
were sent from Lachine to form part of the expedition,
returned thither, thus performing in one year the same
service that Sir G. Back got through in three. Foe tfo.
days and nights the party saw no firs, there being no.
timber on the Great Fish River or Arctic coast ; and
during those 60 days they travelled incessantly in open
craft in a wretched climate, never had dry clothes or
slept on dry blankets, and never ate cooked victuals
except on rare occasions, when they made a little tea by
means of a lamp. This party of 16 in all travelled in
bark canoes down one of the most turbulent rivers
known even to North• West voyagers ; ventured among
the ice on the Arctic Sea ; and returned to their start-
, ing point without meeting a single accident to person or
property—and, withal, performed all that was required
of them ; and, had they gone out four or five years
earlier would no doubt have been instrumental in sav-
ing the lives of a portion of Franklin's party.
We think the foregoing narrative is ample corrobora-
tion of the wisdom of the recent outcry, to put " the
right men in the right places."
" One word in conclusion as to the Franklin Expedi-
ti in. The two vessels, Erebus and Terror, left England
in 1843--were last heard of in 1845. They probably
tried several passages, but were baffled by the ice, and
tinily in 1843 were crushed, probably in Victoria Straits.
Many of the crews perished, but one or more boats got
off with the survivors, who took all the stores they could
collect and travelled southward towards the Arctic coast
in the hope of reaching some of the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany ports. 'the season of 1849 was probably spent on
this dreary journey, and renewed in 1850, when they
reached the coast at the mouth cf Fish River, but in so
exhausted a state that they could merely run their boat
on the beach and crawl ashore to die. This seems all
that is certain, and all that we can ever know, of the
fate of the Franklin Expedition."
Her Majesty's Arctic discovery ship Resolute,
which was abandoned, has been towed into the
port of New London by the American whaling-
ship George Henry. When found she had drifted
1,000 miles from the place where she was aban-
doned. Her sails, rigging, and all her appoint-
ments were in good order.
The following correspondence has been made
public at Washington :
" Washington, Dec. 8, 1855.
"Sir,—Her Majesty's Government have lately been
apprised of the safe return of the expedition under your
command to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John
Franklin. They have also been informed of the safe
return of the searching squadron under Capt. Hartstein.
This intelligence has afforded sincere pleasure to her
Majesty's Government, andi have now the honour, in
their name, to offer their cordial congratulations to you,
sir, and to convey to you, and to request you to com-
municate to the officers and crew who, under your com-
mand, so nobly attempted to afford Sir John Franklin
and the officers and crews Of: her Majesty's ships em-
ployed on the Arctic Expedition, the assurance of the
sincere regard of the British Government and people for
their generous exertions.
"I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
and humble servant, "JOHN F. CRAMPTON.
"To Dr. Kane, United States' Navy."

" Philadelphia, Dec. 11, 1855.
" Sir,—l am highly honoured by the letter you have
addressed to me expressing the generous feeling with
which her Britannic Majesty's Government have been
pleased to regard the efforts of the expedition lately
under my command to afford assistance to Sir John
Franklin and his associates. I shall not fail to comma-
nicate it to the surviving officers and men of the party ;
and I pray you, in their behalf as well as my own, to
convey to her Britannic Majesty's Government our very
grateful acknowledgments for this mark of their favour-
ing regard.
" I am, Sir, with great respect, your very obedient,
E. K. KANE.
faithful servant,
ton
" Ilia Excellency John F. Cramp, Minister
Plenipotentiary."

DEOWNED WHILE TEEVING.—On Friday an inquest
was held at Manchester on the body of James Pauley,
aged 26: Mrs. Sarah Wilkes said that she resided at
No. 79, Dale-street. Her husband was storekeeper to
the Rochdale Canal Co. About half-past lon Wednes-
day morning she was in the kitchen, and heard a noise
on the slates of the house, followed by a plunge into the
water of the canal, which runs underneath the window.
She opened the door and found a quantity of lead hang-
ing down in front of the house ; and she drew the infe-
rence that a man had fallen into the water, but could
not see anything. On the following day the deceased
was found about the middle of the stream. It is sup-
posed that deceased was engaged in taking the lead off
the roof of the house, missed his footing, felt into the
canal, and was consequently drowned. Verdict, "Found
drowned."—Manchester Examiner.
BLIND ASYLII3I.—We understand that Jenny Lind
(Mrs. Goldschmidt) having heard that the musical pu-
pils of the Blind School were very anxious to hear the
melody of her far-famed voice, and that there were no
means of affording there the opportunity in the crowded
concerts at the Philharmonic-hall, most good naturedly
consented to visit the school and sing an anthem there.
Accordingly, last evening, after the service, she pro-
ceeded to the school and there sang several anthems.
We are unable to give any further information, as the
meeting was strictly private, it being arranged, from
motives of delicacy, which will be easily understood,
that no persons should be present except the blind pu-
pils and the matron. The fact, however, having come
to our knowledge, we think ourselves justified i❑ record-
ing an act which speaks so highly for the disinterested
kindliness of this giftod lady's heart.7l4tiverpoa Atlbien.