The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-11 00:00:00

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are glad to say that no mortality or accident occurred to
any of the persons actually accompanying the Expedition,
although one of the volunteer artillerymen, Williamson.
who was somewhat advanced in years, and who was unable
longer, to bear the fatigues and hardships of the journey,
unfortunately died when on his way back to a Hudson Bay
station. lie was accompanied by two Canadians, who were
well acquainted with the country, but having separated
himself from them, he must have wandered out of the true
path, and perished. Captain Back despatched men in all
directions to search for him, and it was a considerable dis-
tance of time afterwards that his body was found. Carron
and Ross, the remaining artillerymen, return with Dr.
King to England via Hudson's Bay. They, with Malley,
but particularly the latter, were of essential service to the
Expedition.
" Captain Back speaks in terms of the warmest praise of
the numerous attentions and, valuable assistance that he
received during his journey from Governor Simpson and
the different gentlemen of the Hon. Hudson Bay Com-
pany's stations.

"As our citizens have always taken a lively interest in
this expedition, we think it right to lay before them again
the instructions which Capt. Back received from Govern-
ment, shortly before leaving England (as detailed by the
Arctic Land Committee, in the prospectus published by us
in April, 1833), and. then so far as we are able, from the in-
formation we have been able to procure, afford them a brief
sketch of what was actually accomplished:
" During the first winter, the expedition had to endure
great privations and sufferings, owing to the scarcity of food,
and the severity of the weather. On the 25th of April,
being exactly one year after he had left Lachine, and during
a very heavy snow storm, the despatch communicating
Capt. Ross's safe return was delivered to Capt. Back. The
primary object for which the journey was undertaken being
thus happily fulfilled by other agents, Capt. Back made pre-
parations for complying with the secondary part of his in-
structions—the examination of the coast between Point
Turnagain and Ross's Pillar. Several boats were with
the utmost activity built during the winter, but, in
spring, finding that they had an insufficient supply of
provisions, they could only take one with them. It was
not until the month of July, 1834, that the expedition
got to open water on the Thlew-ee-chadezeth, or Great
Fish River. Captain Back, we believe, succeeded in de-
termining that this river runs to the Northward, and if we
understand the purport of the scanty information which has
reached us, it has its source on a heighth of land, about
150 or 200 miles from Fort Reliance, the winter establish-
ment of the expedition at the eastern extremity of Great
Slave Lake. Captain Back is the first European who has
visited Great Fish River, and examined its course to the
Polar Seas. Its very existence was doubted by many
geographers. It is said to be large, but dangerous of navi-
gation—greatly impeded by ice, and having little but
-mounds of sand along its banks. It falls into the Polar
Sea at a point, as far as we can learn, that coincides very
near to the place assigned to it by Captain Back and the
Arctic Committee in London, in their prospectus already
referred to.

" Further than this we only know that the party of in-
trepid travellers had to encounter every obstacle to which
Polar navigation is liable, and we are kd to believe that im-
mense masses of ice, accompanied by uncommonly severe
weather, finally arrested their progress.
" How far the labours of the expedition will increase our
knowledge of the line of coast, we are unable to say ; but
from what has beon stated above, it is obvious that a new
route has been opened to the Polar Sea, and that the large
blank which formerly struck the eye, on surveying the map,
will now in a great measure be filled up. Captain Back
will, we believe, have much interesting information to com-
municate, respecting his observations on the Aurora, the
changes on the needle as he drew northward, &c. The
extreme cold experienced, we learn, was 70 degrees below

zero.
" The expedition returned to Fort Reliance, which place
Captain Back left on the 20th March. 1835, and travelled
on snow shoes to Fort Chipewyan. From this station he
departed on 2Sth May, and arrived at Lachine, as already
mentioned, on the 6th instant.
" Thus has terminated an expedition, undertaken from
the most generous and lofty motives of which our nature is
susceptible, pursued with the utmost ardour and zeal, and
conducted in safety through dangers and difficulties of no
ordinary kind, with the most consummate wisdom.
" Captitin Back arrived in Montreal this morning, and
will leave' for New York in a day or two, in order to em-
bark in the packet ship of the 16th inst., for Liverpool.
" The preceding notice has been hurriedly thrown toge-
ther, and it is not improbable some mistakes may have
crept into it, which, with every attention on our part, it is
scarcely possible to avoid when writing on such a subject.—
..lion/real Gazette, A ug._B. •

"ST. JOHN'S, N. 8., JULY, 21.—The bark James, Pet-
tingeil, of this port, bound from Philadelphia to Quebec,
was wrecked on Shag Island, coast of Newfoundland, on
Saturday night, 20th June, in a gale of wind and thick
weather, all hands saved. The James was a new ship, on
her second vovage.—Ohserver.
" A brig called the Nathaniel Graham, from Cork, went
ashore about half-an-hour after the James, four miles to
the eastward of the spot where that ship was lost, and went
to pieces an hour after she struck. She had 48 souls on
board, crew and passengers, of whom only seven were saved.
A ship was also reported to be lost about 30 miles further
to the eastward, but her name was not known. The above
intelligence is contained in a letter from Captain Pcttin-
gell to. Mr. J. Holman,-of this city, one of the owners of
of the James.,--lb..
"Extract_ of a letter from Sydney, dated June 23 :---‘ I
have just returned from Scattarie Island, that fatal spot to
many persons and ships. The bark William Ewing, of St.
John's, N. 8., Robert Suttie master, was wrecked on the
west end of the island, on the night of the 20th. She had
on board near 300 passengers from Londonderry, Ireland ;
fortunately they were all saved, though much exposed to the
heavy sea._ As must be expected, the greater part of their
clothes and baggage was lost. I never witnessed a more
orderly- set of people in their situation. They expressed a
high opinion of their captaip, whose kind treatment and
attention to their wants, endeared him to them and the