The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-28 00:00:00

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The following are the sailing orders for Captain
Collinson, of her Majesty's ship Enterprise, from the
Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High
Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland :-
1. Whereas the efforts that have been made during
the last two years to relieve the Erebus and Terror
have faiLld, and all access to the Parry Islands has
been prevebated by the accumulation of ice in the
upper part of 13,:rrow Straits ; and whereas it is pos-
sible that the same severity of weather may not pre-
vail at the same time ii. both the eastern and western
entrances to the Arctic Sea, wes have now determined,
in a matter of such moment, to send an expedition
into the Polar Sea from the westw,.:'rd, and having a
full confidence in your zeal and skill, le‘e have thought
proper to appoint you to the cominanu of her Ma-
jesty's ship Enterprise, and also to place urarier your
orders her Majesty's ship Investigator, both nit which
vessels having been duly fortified against collie:oh
with the ice, equipped for the polar climate by a
warm-air apparatus, and furnished with provisions for
three years, as well as a large supply of extra stores,
you are now required and directed, as soon as they
are in all respects ready for sea, to proceed to make
the best of your way to Cape Virgins, in order to
arrive at Behring's Straits in July.
2. At Cape Virgins the Commander-in-Chief in
the Pacific has been desired to have a steam-vessel
waiting fur you, and by her you will be towed
through the Straits of Magellan and the Welling:on
Channel, and on to Valparaiso.
3. At that port you will use the utmost dispatch
in watering and refreshing your crews, and in fully
replenishing your bread and other provisions and
stores ; and having so done you will again use your
best exertions to press forward to the Sandwich
Islands.
4. There is only a bare possibility of your reaching
those, islands in time to ieeet her Majesty's ship He-
rald, under the command of Captain Henry Kellett;
but if that should be the case, you will receive from
him, not only every assistance, but much useful in-
formation touching your passage to the Strait and
your further Proceedings to the northward. It is still
more improbable that her Mjesty's ship Plover should
be there ; but wherever you may fall in with her, you
are hereby directed to take her and Commander
Moore under your orders.
5. At the Sandwich Islands you will find additi-
tional orders from us for your guidance, which- we
propose to forward hence by the Panama mail of next
March; but if none should arrive, or if they do not in
any way modify these directions, you will enforce
the greatest diligence in rovictualling you. two ves-
sels, in procuring, if possible, the necessary re'sclui-
maux interpreters, and in making all requisite prepa-
rations for at once proceeding to B:hring's Straits, in
order to reach the ice before the Ist of August,
6. An examination of the several orders issued to
Captain Kellett will show that it is uncertain where
he may be fallen in with. You may probably find
the Herald and Plover together.
7. We consider it essential that after entering the ice
there should be a depot, or point of succour, for any
party to fall back upon. For this purpose the Plover
is to be secured in the most favourable quarter, as
far in advance as can be found—such as Wainwright's
Inlet or the Creek at Hope Point ; but if they be un-
safe, and none has been discovered nearer to Barrow's
Point, then at Chamisso Island, or any part of
Kotzebue Sound which may afford the necessary
shelter:

8. Considering, howevers the naseire of the service
in which the Plover will already have been employed,
and that a portion of her crew may be unfit to con-
tendti-
titud withos;you
othe rigours ocua
call
,foro
s ofr
volunteers
afurtherfrom
stay in
tat ship,
those i
and from the Herald, if in company, sufficient to form
a crew fir the Plover; taking care that the men to
be selected are
of theaoreeemn shin, number w
men of
cadfrgo for
odchhaatracter, and that they
defence
is
fdoor the not
a exceed
against any treacherous attack on the part of the na-
tives of Norton Sound.
9. The, petty officers' ratings that may be vacated
by men invalided are to be filled up by men volun-
teering to remain ; such volunteers are to be subjected
to a strict and careful survey by the medical officers
9f several ships ; and those only aro to he re-
tained who would seem to be in all respects fit to
eutiouttcr this extended service ; and the remainder
necessary to complete the craw is to be made up from
the Enterprise and Investigator,
10, such crew having been formed (to continue
under the command of Commander Moore, and with
the officers now in the Plover or with those who may
volunteer for the service), the Plover, if the Herald
should be in company, is to he filled up by Captain
Kellett with all the provisiens, fuel, and stores that
can possibly be spared by Cflp4—in Kellett, who vAll
hear in mind, not only what may be required for the
use of the rover's crew until the autumn of 1853
and the contingency of parties arriving on board from
Sir John Franklin s expedition, but also the possi-

bility of any party from the Enterprise or Investi.
gator having to fall back on the Plover.
11. In providing for this necessary equipment f)r
-the Plover, attention will be paid to the numbers left
in the Herald, and the supplies necessary to carry
that vessel to Whoahoo ; and having received from
Captain Kellett any baidars or light boats that he
may be, able to spare, and which may be likely to
form a useful addition to your own boats or those of
the Investigator, when searching parties may be dt
tacbcd from the ships in the spring, the Herald will
return to the Sandwich Rends, there to fill up pro-
s, and thence proceed to Hong-Kong on her way
to England, in pursuance of our orders of the 14th of
December last.

12. Oa detaching the Plover to take up her winter
quarters you will direct Commander Moore to remain
there until you join him, or, failing your return to
him, until the end of the summer of 1853; when—
hut not until it is absolutely necessary for securing
the Plover's passage through the Alentian group of
islands—be is to quit Bahriiig's Straits and make the
best of his way to Valparaiso (touching at the- Sand-
wich Islands for refreshments), where he will receive
further instructions relative to his return to England
from the C:)mrnand,;u-in-Chief.
13. If the Herald and Plover should be fallen in
with to the northward and eastward i f B.ihring's
St raitY, or in the Polar Sea, Captain.Kellett, on de-
taching himself from your company, should consort
witth the Plover as far as her winter quarters, and if
time and circumstances admitted of it, he should ac-
sist in securing her there.
14. In the event of your having to winter your 1
ships on the continent or Esquitnaux shores, you will
probably meet with some of the wandering tribes, or
with Indians. With these you
,Will cultivate a
friendly feeling, by makinglhem aregents of those
articles to which they are apt to attach a value; but
you will take care not to suffer yourself to be sur-
prised by them, but use every precaution, and be
constantly on your guard against any treacherous
attack. You will also, by offering rewards, to be
paid in such manner as you may be able to arrange,
endeavour to prevail on theta to carry to any of the
Hudson's _Bay Company an account of your situation
and proceedingP, with an urgent request that it may
be forwarded to England with the utmost possible
dispatch.ls.ln
whatever place you may have to establish
your winter quarters you will devote every resource
in your power to the preservation of the health, the
comfort, and the cheerfulness of the people committed
to your care.
16. We leave it to your judgment and discretion
as to the course to be pursued after passing Point
Barrow and on entering the ice ; and you will be
materially assisted in this respect by what you will
learn. from Captain Kellett, if he should be fallen in
with at the Sandwich Islands, as well as from the
observations of Sir E. Parry and Captain Beechey,
contained in the memoranda of which we send you

17. We have desired that you should Le furnished,
not only with a copy of the orders under which Com-
mander Moore is now acting, but also with copies of
all the orders which from time to time have been
givea to Captain Kellett, as well as with those under
which an attempt was made to relieve the Erebus and
Ter.ror by Captain Sir James Ross on the eastern
side through Bdtin's Bay. You will further be sup-
plied with all the printed voyages or travels in those
northern regions ; and the memoranda and instruc-
tions drawn up by Sir John Richardson as to the
manners and habits of the Esquimaux and the best
mode of dealing with that people (a copy of which is
also sent) will afford a valuable addition to the infor-
mation now supplied to you.

..
18. We- deem it right to caution you against stir-
faring the two vessels placed under your orders to
separate, except in the event of accident or unavoid-
able necessity ; and we desire that you will keep up
the most unreserved communication with the com-
mander of the Investigator, placing in him every pro-
per confidence, and acquainting him with the general
tenor of your orders, and with your views and intentions
from time to time, so that the service may have the
full benefit of your united efforts in the prosecution,
of such a servic,: ; and that in the event of any una-
voidable separation, or of any accident to yourself,
Commander 1114Clurc may have the advantage of
knowing, up to the latest period, all your ideas and
designs relative to the satisfactory completion of this
undertaking.
19. We also recommend that as frequent an ex-
change may take place, as conveniently may be, of
the observations made in the two ships ; that any in-
formation obtained by the one be as quickly as pos-
sible communicated for the advantage and guidance
of the other.

20. In case of any irreparable accident happening
to the Enterprise, you are hereby authorised to take
command of the Investigator, and to make such ar-
rangements for the officers and crews as may be most
consonant to the rules of the service and most condu-
cive to the objects of the expedition.
21. In the event of Great Britain being involved
in hostilities with any foreign power during your
absence, you are to abstain from the smallest act of
aggression towards any vessel belonging to such na-
tion, it being the practice of all civilized countries to
consider vessels engaged in service of this kind as
exempt from the rules and operations of war.
22. In earring, out the foregoing orders, you will
avail yourself of every practicable occasion of ac-
qt,:ainting our Secretary with every step of your pro-
gress; as well as with your future intentions ; and
occasion,; "Y during your voyage you will throw over •
board one of the tin cylinders with which you have
been supplies (headed up in any cask or barrel that
you could marn:facture or spare), containing an ac-
count of the date, position, On your reaching Eng-
land you will call on
j every person, in both vessels, to
deliver up their logs, e;irnale, chart:, and drawings,
but which, they may be informed, shall be returned
to them in due time.
:11.3. With respect to your search proving fruitless,
and yoor finally quitting :the Polar Seas, as well as
your secucing your winter quarters towards the close
of
impress
upon
of the utmost precaution and
care being exercised in withdrawing in time, so as in
no case to hazard the safety of the ships and the lives
a any
yyou the necessity one season, we cannot toe strongly
of those entrusted to your care, by your being shut
up in a position which might render a failure of pro-
visions possible. _ _

We feel it unnecessary to give you more detailed
instructions, which might possibly embarrass you in a
service of this description ; and we have therefore only
to repeat our perfect reliance on your judgment and
resolution, both in doing all that is possible to relieve
the mi=sing ships and in withdrawing in time, when you
come to the painful conclusion that your efforts are
unavailing.
24. You will bear in mind that the object of the
expedition is to obtain intelligence of, and to render
assistance to, Sir John Franklin and his companions,
and not for the purposes of geographical or scientific
research • ' and we conclude these orders with an
earnest hope that Providence may crown your efforts
success, and that they may
be the means of ex-
pelling- the gloom and uncertainty which now prevail
respecting the missing expedition.
Given under our hands this 15th day of January,
1850, F. T. BARIXG,
I. W. 1). DONDAS.
By command of their Lordships,
J. PARKER.
Richard Collinson, E3q C. 8., Captain of her
Majesty's ship Enterprise, at Devonport.

SAVINGS' BANKS.--M a special general meeting of
the trustees and managers of the Provident Institution,
St. Martin's place, held on Friday, the 25th of January,
the fallowing resolutious were unanimously adopted :
" That, in the opinion t f this meeting, it is most de-
sirable that a careful examination of the recounts of all
savings' banks should be forthwith adopted." " That, in
accordance with the suggestion of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert (the president of this institution), the
Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Masterman,
Ihron Lionel Rothschild, and Sir Edmund Antrobus, or
other three or more gentlemen, be requested to appoint
Highness Prince Albert, for
s thet emc
oarnddi
aal c
tcheauonht ss ootf'
this
hh
ies
an accountant, who shall institute such inquiry into, and
St. M
meeting ar-
examination of thle2
in's• place Pie,vident Institution, as shall be to them
satisfactory." "
the kind interest which be i4ts manifested in calling the
be tendered to his Rob?
attention oc the msnagers to the advantages which will
arise to this, ant; Similar institutions, by the immediate
adoption of a careful inquiry into the state of their
affairs, and thus maintaining the confidenc; of deposi-
tors, so essential to the well-being of the system of
savings' banks, which has been productive of the utmost
advantage to the poorer
,classes of the community!'—
" John Wray, Chairman.
THE Ilona or MURDERS.—The Liverpool Times
states that the house in which Mrs. Henrichson, her
children, and servant were murdered is now converted
into a beer-house, and that morbid curiosity is likely to
make the speculation a profitable one. The parlour of
the house in which the servant and one of the children
were slaughtered is converted into a bar and taproom,
ti,--e entrance of which is through the hall in which Mrs.
Henrichson herself met her doom; and sentesume every
party indulging in a glass of fourprnny itled to have
point.cd out to him the precise spots on which the mur-
ders took place, and the spats of blood, &c.,- whilst th©
privilege
his butchery by cutting the youngest child's throat is
W' descending to where the villain consummated
limited to those who luxuriate in the higher priced and
more palatable deeciptious of malt liquor.