The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE ARCTIC VOYAGE OF THE PRINCE
ALBERT IN SEARCH OF SIR J. FRANKLIN.

Captain. Forsyth, who came up from Aberdeen by,
the night mail-train, attended at the Admiralty yes-
terday morning, and brought with him the several
bones (beef, pork, &c.) which were found on Cape
Riley, together with a piece of rope about a foot and
a half in length, and a small piece of canvas with the
Queen's mark upon it, both in an excellent state of
preservation, placing it almost beyond a doubt even
that they were left on that spot by the expedition
under Sir John Franklin.

The voyage performed by the Prince Albert has
thus been the means of keeping alive our hopes, and
of informing us, up to a certain point, of the progress
of our Government expeditions, of which we might
have been left in a state of utter ignorance till about
this time next year, or the year after, just as it might
chance. Everything connected with the navigation
of the Arctic Seas is a chance, coupled, of course,
with skill; and in looking at this voyage performed
by Lady Franklin's little vessel, it must be obvious to
every one that Captain Forsyth bas had the chance of
an open season, and the skill to make use of it.
" Live a thousand years," and we may never see
such another voyage performed. We have only to
look at all that have preceded. Parry, it is true, in
one year ran to Melville Island( and, passing a
winter, got back to England the following season ;
and this is at present the ne plus ultra of Arctic navi-
gation. Sir John Ross, we know, went out in the
Victory to Prince Regent's Inlet, and was frozen in
for some four or five years, and all the world gave
him up as lost, but " there is life in the old dog yet,"
as the song Las it.

Sir Jam-es Ross was frozen in at Leopold harbour,
and only got out, after passing a winter, to be car-
ried away in a floe of ice into Baffin's Bay, which no
human skill could prevent.
Sir George Back was to make a summer's cruise
to Wager River and return to England. Tbe result
every one knows, or may make themselves ac-
quainted with, by reading the fearful voyage of the
Terror. It would be superfluous to enumerate many
other of our series of Polar voyages, but it is pretty
evident that Captain Forsyth's voyage, performed in
the summer months of 1850, will be handed; down to
posterity as one of the most remarkable, if not the
most remarkable that has ever been accomplished in
the Arctic Seas—the expedition consisted of one
solitary vessel, the Prince Albert, of eighty-nine
tons !

The main object of the voyage, it is true, has not
been accomplished, but as all the harbours in Prince
Regent's Inlet were frozen up, and it was not possible
to cut through four or five miles of ice to get the ship
to an anchorage, Captain Forsyth had no alternative
but to return, and in doing so has, in our opinion,
shown great good sense and judgment, rather than
remain frozen in at the Wellington Channel, where
he only went to reconnoitre, and where he bad no
business whatever, his instructions being confined to
Prince Regent's Inlet.

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to-day at Woolwieh to enter the crew for
the coast of Africa.
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THE FRIMLE Y MURDE
FUNERAL OF THE REV. MR. HOLI.Ti'ILL,-,7443.
The mortal remains of the murdersd cleegiegmt c. „ ..the Rev. Mr. Holiest, were borne to the grave yestei- '
day by twelve respectable tradesmen of the village, and
interred in Frimley churchyard, almost beneath the
altar window.

The two youthful sons of the lamented deceased,
with his two brothers, were the chief mourners. The
officiating clergyman was the Rev. J. Clayton, rector
of Farnborough. The boys and girls of the village
school attended, and among the resident clergy and
gentry present we observed Mr. John Tickell, of
Frimley Grove; Mr. J. F. Burrell, of Frimley ; the
Rev. Gilbert Ileatheote, rector of Ash ; the Rev. John
Laurel, curate of Cove, &e.
By desire of the family, the ceremony was con-
ducted in as private a manner as possible; but the
melancholy circumstances attending the death of the
unfortunate clergy man, sled the very general respect
entertained for his character theeughout the district
over which his ministration exteeded, had the effect
of attracting a very large concourse of spectators.
It is hardly necessary to remark, that the scene was
altogether very affecting. At one period of the ser-
vice scarcely a dry eye could he observed.
FRIMLEY, THREE P.M.—Nothing of importance
calculated to lead to the positive detection of the mur-
derers has been discovered up to the present time.
On Sunday afternoon the camlet cloak belonging
to the deceased gentleman, which was among the
articles stolen, was found in a ditch near the spot
where the masks and the'remains of bread and meat
were discovered. _ _

A great deal has been said as to the want of an
efficient rural police in the neighbourhood. The fact
is, the only police in Surrey are the constables which
each of the principal towns support for their own
safety and protection.