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London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

GUILDITAT,L, SEPTEMATR 28, 1850.
THE COMMITTEE FOR LETTING .THE
CITY'S LANDS will meet-at 'GUILDHALL, on WEDNESDAY,
the 9th day of October next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive
TENDERS for LETTING on I.FASES On Lots), for 174 years
(less three days), from Michaelmas, 1850, two Houses, Nos. 59 and
60, on the west side of Wilson-street, Finsbury ; a.Staqe on the
west side of Finsbar)-passage, Wilson-strict aforesaid; and two
Muses, Nos. 27 and 29, on the south side of Providence-row, Fins-
bury.

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THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller.

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KING'S COL EGt, LONDON.
GEOLOGICAL MINERALOGY.
Professor TENNANT; I'.G.S.. will commence on WEDNESDAY,
October 9, at Nine O'clock a COURSE of LECTURES on
MINERALOGY, with a view fo ta,:ilitate the study of GEOLOGY,
anti of the application of :Slitters]. Substances in the ARTS.
The Lectures will be illustrated by au extensive Collection of
Specimens.
further particulars may be obtained at the Secretary's office.
R. W. .ELF, ll. 1)., Principal.

FORD'S WELLINGTON FAMILY and
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, DALE-STREET, LIVERPOOL.
This Hotel, situated In the immediate vicinity of the Exchanee,
Docks, and other places of public and commercial resort, is fitted up
in first-rate style, and the accommodations for American, Foreign, as
well as English strangers, will he found everything that is desirable,
while the arrangements of the "Cuisine" are in the hands of a first-rate
Cook. The Proprietor urther wishes to intimate that his Coffee
and Commercial Rooms, as well as *tiling and Bed Rooms, will be
found second to none in the kingdom.
N.B. The charges fbr servants are included in the Bill (except those
who only stay .a few hours), viz., Walter, Porter, and Chambermaid,
and It is respectfully intimated that all further payment is unne-
cessary.

ill•usage he had received from the police. He took
to his bed, and was unable to leave the house for
three weeks. Feeling better then he went to work
for about 10 days, when he became so ill that he
again took to his bed. Mr. O'Flaherty, surgeon,
attended him until-his death, which took place on the
26th ult.

E ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
BARLOW'S CAST-UON SLEEPERS.
In consequence of its being necessary to make an alteration in the
Specification for these sleepers recently issued from this Company,
each party who has tentlere.l tinder the said Specification caw hare
his Tender returned to him on application at this office any day after
the ith instant, when a copy of the amended Specification will be
handed to him gratis.
The.ehargo to all ()Uor parties will be•ten shillings a copy.
The last day for receiving Tenders under the amended Specifica-
tion will be Tuesday the 22,1 instant.
The Direct rs do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender.
:By order,C. •-•
P. V.ONEY, Secretary.
Bishopszate Station, October

Several of the jury remarked that they were in the
habit of seeing the deceat,ed pass their houses daily,
and they knew him to be a sober, quiet, and. well-
conducted man.

Just published, decoy five., price 2d.,
RAILWAY PROSPECTS ; or, a Glance into

Susan Geary, the deceased's widow, was next ex-
amined. She corroborated the statement of the pre
vious witness as to the violence inflicted on the de-
ceased by the police with their staves, and
she further stated that on his arrival home
on Sunday morning he was unable to raise
his left arm, which was covered with bruises
from the blows inflicted with the policemen's staves ;
he had also a black eye, his jaws very much swollen,
and he was bleeding from one ear. Mr. OTlaherty;
surgeon, attended him, and he continued to complain
of the violence he had received until he died. De-
ceased repeatedly said that he had not given the police
any provocation for the violence, and the only way
she could at all account for it was, that some time
ago deceased saw Sergeant Bushell ill-treat a man,
and gave evidence of the fact before the police magis-
trate, and whilst following the deceased to the station
house she distinctly heard Sergeant Bushell say to
the deceased, he had got him at last, and he would let
him know it.

Baily Brothers, do;n11111, London.

Just out, price Sixpence,
ZADKIEL'S ALMANACK FOR 1851.
Containing Predictions of the Weather ; V oloe of the Stars ;
the Eclipses, &c. A Hieroglyphic; am! most Wonderful Revelations
from the World'of Spirits, through a Magic Crystal, in which nu-
merous Spirits of the Dead have appeared I Illustrated by Woodcuti
of the Appear:was of the Spirits !
Hall and Co., 25, Paternoster-row; London ; and all Booksellers.

KILLARNEY and VALENCIA RAILWAY.
Notfee is hereby given, that an EXTRAORDINARY GENE-
.
' RAL MEETING of the 'Shareholders in this Company will tie herrl
at the. Onicei of the'Company, No. 26, Throgrnorton street, London,
011 WEDI.IESDAT, the 231 day of OcLiber, laso, at Two o'clock in the
Abernoon precisely, for the purpose Of confirming the Declaration 4f
Forfeiture made at a Meeting of the Directors, held on the 30th day
of July last, and fhe 16th day bt Auimst Mat, Or certain Shares in the
said Comphsity, and for directing, the Shares so forfeited to be sold or
ott erwise disposeil of.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
ADMIRALTY, OCT. 1, 1850.

• JOHN ATT WOOD, Chairman.
26, Thromorton-street, London, '
October 4, 1850.•

The following promotion has this day taken place,
consequent on the death of Rear-Admiral Sir John
Marshall, C.B.:—

TO -PARENTS and GUARDIANS.—A portion
of the extensive Premises in Regent-street, occupied by
Iles,rs. NICOLL, will in 'future be devoted for the production of
BOYS' and YOUTHS' CLOTHING, such to exhibit unusual goad
• taste, style,' and ftuislt, besides having a further recommendation in
, their dir.ability and very moderate cost.
College Caps and Gowns, wif every kind of Garment calculated
for pleasure, duties, or exereite, and such as are worn by Young
• Gentlenfen at the CollegeS clad Great Puolic Schools. These are at-
ways ready to be:met with at the Wnrerooms of H. J. told D. NI-
COLL, Merchant Clothiers, Paletet Patentees, and Manufacturers Of
: Cloth, Regent-street (from 114 to 120 Inclusive), and 22, Cornhill. !
Cauxton.—Many have assumed these of the word " PALETOT;"
but Messrs.:MCCALL are'the Solo:Patentees Of the design•and
tenet (in Winter or Summer Sabatances)etoployed in the manufac-
ture of this inexpensive and, gentlemanly article of Costume.

Captain Edriard Collier, C. 8., to be Rear• Admiral of
he Blue.

Captains Thomas Ball Sullivan, C. 8., and David
Scott, have also been promoted to be Retired Rear-Ad-
mirals, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of
Ist September, 1846, without increase of half-pay. ,

Mr. T. O. Flaherty, M.D., of 2, James-street,
Oxford-street, stated that he saw the deceased on the
19th of August last; "he had his left arm in a sling,
which he found covered with severe briAses,,,and com
plained of having been violently begen" ail -oVer his
ot
body by the police with their staves. He continued
to attend
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pleuritic,
his dea t whichh took place
which
ay _
have arisen
from violence or from a cold. .

Commissions by the Lord• Lieutenant of. Someisetshire.
North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
The Hon. Edwin Berkeley Portman, to be Cornet, vice
Lord Dungarvon, promoted;. Thomas Barrel!, Gent.,
to be Veterinary Surgeon, Sept. 20.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Herefordshire.
Herefordshire Regiment of Militia—William Money
Kyrie, Esq., to be Captain.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Lecture on the Ballad Music of England, by Mr. George Bar-
ker, illustrated by his own compositions, every Evening (except 4-
tairday) at Eight eclock.—Lecture on the Hydro-Electric Machine,
by Dr. Bachhoffner.—Lecture on Chemistry byJ. H. Pepper, Esq., 17-
lustrating the Ancient Fiery Ordeal and the handling of Red 11Ot
Metals. —Model of Weston's Patent Nova-Motive Railway, at work
dally.—Dissolving 'Views Illustrating some of the Wonders of Na-
ture, daily at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings at a Quarter to
Ten ; also a Series, exhibiting Scenes in the Arctic Regions a&I
Ceylour daily at One. ,o'clock.—Dlver and Diving-bell, &c., kc.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
William Johnson, farmer, West Drayton.
Frederick Johnson, watchmaker, Lincolnshire.
BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Horatio Jolley,• fruit salesman, Farringdon-
street, to surrender Oct. 11, at half-past one, and Noi.
14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street; Sharp and Inder-
maur, Devonshire-terrace, Marylebona.
George Little, electrical apparatus maker, Holborn-
bars, Oct. 11, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 14, at two
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee,
Coleman-street-buildings; Fitch, Southampton-street,
Bloomsbury.
Thomas Fielding, hotel keeper, Rhyl, Flintshire, Oct.
11 and Nov. 7, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and
Son, Liverpool.

Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex-
cept Saturday) trom Seven till Half-past Ten.

ARGYLL • SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great
Windmill-street, St. James's.
Open every Evening with Laurent's celebrated and unrivalled
Band. rtincipal Cornet-a-piston, Mons. BOULCOURT, from rants,
and Artiste Attache to Mr. Strauss's Orchestra at the Baths of Vichy,
' France. •
' The Subscribers are respectfully informed that Mr. Laurent, jun.,
having become Lessee to the above Rooms, begs to announce his M-
• tention of applying to tha Honourable Magistrates for a Licence to
the came Rooms, and, if granted, he w.ll give CONCERTS of a very
. superior description, in conjunction with his Dancing Academy. Mr.
Laurent, jun., solicits the patronage of the subscribers and nobility
in this new undertaking, pledging himself strenuously to cater tor
' their, amusement, and hopes to deserve a continuance of that liberal
support which has hitherto been bestowed on this distinguished and
• popular establishment.
Terms of Subscription:—Slx months, 51. 55.; one Month, 1/. ls.;
one evoaing, ls.
Doors open st Half-past Eight, Dancing commences at Nine pre-
cisely, closing at Half-past Eleven.

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DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basiughall-street.
J. Tidmarsh, Regent-street, and Cheltenham, draper
Oct. 25, at twelve—S. Gillatt, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-
square, builder, Oct. 25, at eleven—T. Dunn, Hastings,
builder, Oct. 25, at half-past twelve—.l. Sparrow, Oz-
ford, draper, Oct. 26, at eleven.
In the Country.
P. Vaughan; Brecon, scrivener, Nor. 13, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—J. Croome, Bristol, manufacturing
engineer. Nov. 4, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol— W.
Hulme, Manchester, tailor and draper, Oct. 21, at twelve,
at the Court, Manchester—D. H. Haley, Lodge-road,
Birmingham, iron founder, Oct. 31, at eleven, at the
Court, Birmingham.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

rIIHE • EIGHTH of OCTOBER, 1850.
The EIGHTH of OCTOBER, 1850, will display a new trading
feature, in the shape of an Establishment never before equalled. The "town tourist" cannot have failed to notice, in his progress to
the west end of the metropolis, an extensive range of premises in c urse of erection at the corner of HART-STREET, NEW Clx-
FORD-S'FREET.
The situation, extent, and character of these premises must, front • the earliest stage of the undertaking, have impressed the public with
the idea that such a project could be connected with no mean capi-
talists—no ordinary speculation.
The gradual development of theimilding and the Ultimate display
of the eame of the proprietary at once disclosed to the passer.by.the
true character of the speculation ; and thousands in that and other
• important localities have ever since been lOoking forward with ant-
' ions expectation to the opening of the West-end Branch of E. MOSi.S
and SON. .
The expediency of opening an Establishment like that under con-
; Sideration cannot properly be called in question.
The east end and the west end of the metropolis are two perfectly
disiinct localities ; and to such an extent has the Capital grown
that a visit from one part to another involves both trouble and et-
, , pence.
The excellency of the present undertaking may be safely argued
from the encouraging fact, that the proprietors number from the west
end a large proportion of their wealthy supporters, whose interests
and convenience will nedessarily be better consulted in their own lo-
cality, and who, in return, will have more ready opportunities of fa-
vouring E. MOSES and SON with,their commands.
It would be idle and u'eless to argue that such a vast speculation
•as the WEST-END BRANCH would not have been entered into,
had not the voice of the public called loudly fur it. E. MOSES and
SON have had too much experience in such undertakings, and know
too well bow to improve the capital which the public have placed at
their disposal, to enter into a project like the present unsupported by
. the pu'ilic, from whom they derive that c mildence, without which
such an enterprising speculation would never have been attempted.
In starting the Branch of the City Establishment at the West. end,
E. MOSES and SON have taken especial care so to model their ar-
rangements to the requirements of the locality, as to render this
' Branch suitable ail parties.
The BESPOKE TAILORING DEPARTMENT is deierving of
particular mention ; being, as it is, the first at the West-end,in point
of business-arrangement, accommodation, and fashion.

B. B. Blackwell, Verulata-buildings, Gray's Inn,
coffee-house keeper, Oct. 25, at eleven—J. and W. Poole,
Spitslfields, builders, Oct. :31, at two—H. Williams
and J. Welsh, Great Distaff lane and Mile-end, builders,
Oct. 31, at eleven.
In the Country.
T. Thomas, Dudley, iron merchant, Nov. 5, at twelve,
at the Court, Birmingham.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.'
J. Jopling and J. Jopling, Vs" olsinghsm, Durham,
drapers—T. Neale, jun., and W. Thornton, Gatton and
Reigate, Surrey, brick and tilemakers—C. R. Dames and
J. F. Bowman, Osborn-street, Whitechapel, sugar re.
liners— H. de Cubes de Lizardi and J. de Lizardi, Aus-
tin-friars, City, and Liverpool, merchants—T. Allow
and S. Crosse, St. Martin's-lane, surveyors—T. Ferries
and R. Dickinson, Liverpool, victuallers—R. M'Kean
and S. Perkes, Liverpool and Birkenhead, engineers—J.
Biddle and W. Bishop, Stratford Mills, Gloucestershire
—W. Schofield and E. Schofield, Leeds, linendrapers—
T. Richards and W. Taylor, Salisbury-place, Lock's-
fields, Walworth, and Wood-street, City, wadding
roanufactui era—W. G. W. Freeman and F. E. Sloper,
Tonby, Pembrokeshire, chemists and druggists—J. Bar-
well and W. Barwell, Birmingham, button manufacturers
—E. Billingsley, J. Tankard, and J. Cole, Braidiord-
moor, Yorkshire, worsted spinners (so far as regards J.
Cole)-12. Slater, J. L. Cooke, and Mary Slater,
Jerrnyn-street, St. James's, butchers (so far as regards
R. Slater)—T. Hall and H. Hall, Brereton, Cheshire.
millers—J. Sherwood, R. Sherwood, and J. Sherwood,
jun., Birmingham, platers—R. Prescott and E. Prescot.,
Runcorn, Cheshire, butchers—S. Pryor and 11. Pryor,
Holborn• hill, umbrella manufacturers—W. Cotching and
G. Bull, Wing. Buckinghamshire, farmers—B. Brether-
ton and P. Bretherton, Birmingham, livery stable-
keepers—F. A. Harris, Dudley, Worcestershire, and
Lavinia Harris, Bilston, Staffordshire, lace dealers.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

The Nobility and Gentry will here meet with, no obstruction or
confusion, and will have no uecc•sity to pass through the more busy
portion of the Est:o)l6llmM, there beirw-aseparate private entrance
to this department, ivith distinct accommodation for servants in at-
tendance. Attention is also called to the fact, that Bart-street,
Whin runs parellel with Oxford-street, being quiet and private, af-
fords safe standing room for carriages—a circumstance worthy the
attention of the gentry.
In connexion with the Bespoke Department, there arc SELE
HABIT FITTING-ROOMS, and FITTING-ROOMS fir GENTLE-
MEN, besides DEPARTMENTS devoted to the JUVENILES.
Everything has been done by the proprietors to renter their Branch
Establishment in these important respects (without qualification of
terns), the first Establishment in the first fashionable locality in the
kingdom.

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In the arrangements of the READY-MADE DEPARTMENTS
there are also those recommendations which cannot fail to elicit the
approval. of a discerning public.
The classification of goads, the ready ingress and egress, and every
other arrangement, are such as must conduce to the accommodation
and satisfaction of the purchaser.
For such an Establishment, in such a situation, the most superior
assortment of fashions has been prepared.
The proprietors have determined not to be equalled in the collection
of dress at their West-end Branch ; and, in order to produce the first
specimens of attire, they have not only made purchases of the moat
superb materials in Cloths,'Silks, Satins, Alpacas, Lustres, &c.. &c.,
but have secured the most elegant and novel designs, by offering
handsome prizes for the best Jpectmens of artistic skill in cut and
workmanship ; an experiment which his proved more than success-
ful to this end.
The GENTLEMEN'S WINTER OVERCOATS, and the other ar-
ticles of attire, when inspected, will prove that the proprietors are not
dealing in exaggerated terms in thus recommending the present
Stock of Attire.
Iu LADIES' HABITS, E. MOSES and SON intend to convince
their supporters, that as Fashionable Tailors, they are neither to be
surpassed nor equalled by many decrees.
Their STOCK of JUVENILE CLOTHING calls alike for terms of
the highest recommendation. Whtre this branch of the Tailoring
Trade has been too often overlooked or slighted, E. MOSES and SON
have made it a point of particular study ; nor do they question for a
moment that their endeavours will secure anything short of the
111;hest approbation.
A conspicuous feature at the New West. end Branch of E. MOSES
and `ON is that of a STOCK of ItE IDY-MADE LIVERIES, which,
though elegant in the extreno, and superior in material, are sold at
prices exceedingly advantageous to the purchaser. The attention of
the. Nobility aed Gentry is particularly directed to this branch of the
proprietors' business in New Oxford-street.A .
`TOOK of SUPERIOR MOURNING, at prices less than those
charged, anywhere else, by 50 per cent., is also deserving' of promi-
nent mention. No advantage will be taken in the furnishing of
these articles of the melancholy circumstances of bereavement, or of
the haste in the adoption of such attire—circumstances which have
too often led to imposition on the part of tradesmen.
The • SHOOTING-COATS, Fl S FLING-COATS, LOUNGING-
COAT, and the various ready-made goods are in keeping with the
rest of the articles 8(.1d ; and the most extreme satisfaction must re,
suit from an inspection and trial of the Stock.
A large and fashionable collection of HATS and CAPS adds much
to the recommendations Of the new Branch Mouse; and the Public
are assured that here their interests are equally consulted.
r9The system which the proprietors intend to pursue at their New
taqishment is not new. Their oia system of cheapness, coupled
with quality and fashion will be in operation-at the Branch House as
at the Origins]. Establishment.

Catherine Liniky, living at 6,. Conway-court,
stated that on the evening in question she was talking
to the deceased, who was quite 'sober, a few doors
from his own house, when Sergeant Bushell came up
and asked deceased how long he was going to stop
there ? Deceased made no reply, but walked away,
the sergeant and another constable following him.
In a few minutes afterwards she saw the two police-
men having hold of the deceased, and both striking
him over the arms and body with their staves. De-
ceased was offering no resistance to the constables,
and begged of them to let him walk quietly along.
William and Mary Ross corroborated the evidence
of the previous witnesses.
Morris Geary, a brother of the deceased, stated
that he was following the deceased to the station, when
observing the violence which the police were using
towards his brother, he begged them to desist. He
was collared and dragged into the station along with
deceased, and both in the charge room and whilst on
their way to the cell witness and deceased were
knocked about by the sergeant, who repeatedly struck
them about the arms and face with his fist, and wk.-
ness was thrown violently into the cell like a dog.
Witness and deceased appeared before the police ma-
gistrate on the following Monday, when the charge
was dismissed.
William Hoinmitt and others spoke to the .same
facts, observing that the conduct of Sergeant Bushell
was brutal in the extreme.
The Conorma, in summing up the case, observed
that there was not the least doubt that the police had
exercised brutal violence towards the unfortunate de.
ceased, and that it was the duty of the Police Com-
missioners to institute a searching inquiry into the
conduct of several of their officers.
Last evening, on the re-assembling. of the jury,
Sergeant Bushell, 9 D, and Sergeant M'Craw, 15 D,
were in attendance, when each of the witnesses were
called in separately, and desired by the coroner to
point out the persons who had so ill-used the deceased.
Each witness instantly identified Sergeant Bushell,
but only one pointed out Sergeant M'Craw, on which
the coroner observed that as the case was doubtful re.
specting M'Craw, it was nothing but fair that he
should have the benefit of the doubt.

The room was cleared of strangers, and after about
half•an-hour's consultation the jury returned a verdict
of •' Manslaughter against Nathaniel Eaton Bushell
and at the same time regretted the inability of the
witnesses to identify the other constable engaged in
the outrage on the deceased.

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT
BRISTOL, BY TWO SOLDIERS. -

BRISTOL, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.—Two private sal-
fliers, of the 15th infantry, named Andrew Daly and
John Macfarlane, alias M'Fetten, were brought to
this city in custody to day, and committed to gaol to
await their trial, upon a charge of murdering a po-
liceman named Pimm, No. 206, of the Bedminster
division of Police, while engaged in the discharge of
his duty in Thomas-street, in this city. The murder
took place as long ago as the 4th of May, 1849, and
the circumstances connected with it were these :—On
the night of that day the prisoners, another soldier,
and some girls of the town, had been drinking toge-
ther at a public-house in the neighbourhood of
Thomas-street,
making a noise, so as to disturb the in-
habitants. The policeman accosted them, told themreneot't be permitted to create an upror in
and upon going into the street they
and ordered the prostitutes to go home.
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streets,
would s-s t
The girls obeyed, which irritated the soldiers, one of
whom said to the constable, " Who are you ; what
right have you to interfere ?" The deceased replied
that he was a policeman, whose duty it was to keep
'order in the streets, upon which Macfarlane said
there was no harm in killing a policeman and
called to his companion, " Let us kill the
The deceased, in reply, again urged
them to go home to their barracks, upon which
they both struck him with sticks they were carrying,
and knocked him down, and while be was on the
ground they And another soldier beat bim very much,
one of the men picking up a stone from the street, and
constable was rendered insensible by their violence,
but on recovering consciousness, and finding that he
striking him several blows on the head with it. The
had receivedan extensive wound of the head, he pro-
cured assistance, and apprehended Daly and Macfar-
lane, who were at once taken before the magistrates
and charged with the assault. At their examination
a sergeant of the regiment attended,
and stated that
the men were part of a company drafted for Ceylon,
of getting confined till the company had sailed—
and bad in his belief got into the quarrel for the pur-
posea
trick which one of them had tried twice before with
success. This Bristol magistrates, upon this repre-
sentation, and acting in the belief that the wound
On the 9th
would not prove serious, handed the soldiers over to
dispatched to
their sergeant, by whom they were ,- • .
on, and after lin-
India with the rest of their comrades.
of May, Pima), who had been progressing favourably,
was taken worse. Erysipelas came
goring till the 15th, he died. The soldiers had then
left England ; but upon a verdict of wilful murder
being found against them by the coroner a jury, a
representation was made to the Government, which
at once ordered their arrest and return to England.
They will be tried at the next Gloucester county
assize.

Isaac Dale, May Bank, Staffordshire, licensed victualler.
John Harris, Kingewood, Warwickshire, innkeeper.
Thomas Alcock, Whitnash, Warwickshire, butcher.
William Coleman, Coventry, Weaver.
Charles Mander, Coventry, tailor.
Thomas Cooper, Cuvontry, tobacconist.
Thomas Calvert, Rochdale, moulder.
Joseph Butte rwortb, Rochdale, porter.
Edmund Lord, Rochdale, manager in a cotton factory.
Joseph M'Quoay, Milnsbridge, Yorkshire, woollen

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James Baron Lovell, Wells, Somersetehire, tailor.
Mary Harper, Talawaine. Monmouthshire, beer retailer.
John Jones, Ebbw-vale, Monmouthshire, slitter.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.

W. At'lipnzie,' Edinburib, cement manufacturer, to
meet Oct. 10 and 31, at two, within Greig's Chain Pier
Inn, Trinity.

PRICE QF SUGAR.

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The Return of Cash or Exchange of Gods, and the marking the
price of each article in plain figures, will in no way be departed trona
at the West-end Branch. •

Before concluding this announcement E. MOSES and SON would
hint that their New Premises in Oxford-street are of the most novel,
elegant, and commodious description. The Establishment is an Ex-
hibition itself, quite alone in point of style, convenience, and decora-
tion —and is Well deterving a visit from the curious in those matters.
An excursion, in fact, would be well repaid by a view of this superb
trading structure, of which-no idea can be formed except uon in-
sPect ion.

- The proprietors take this opportunity of inviting the Public to view
their New West-end Branch Establishment, whether purchasing or
not ; where.every attention will be paid to them, and every informa-
tion given.
Having thus announced the opening of the New Branch Establish-
ment, and having touched (in as brief a manner as possible) on the
recommendations there held out, E. MUSEt and SON would an-
knowleige gratefully that vast amount of favour at the hands of the
Public, to which alone they can date this proud advance in their
speculations ; and the proprietors would assure the Public, that it is
their determination to merit renewed support, by an adherence at
the
New Establishment to those principles which have worked so
well atthe Old.
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the Bth of OCTOBER.

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Grocers'-hall, Oct. 4.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON
J. FERMOR, ESQ.
This inquiry was resumed yesterday, at the She-
riff's-office, Red Lion-square, before Mr. Commis-
sioner Barlow and a special jury.
Several witnesses were examined to show that the
unsoundness of mind was only of a recent date, the
object being to prove that he was perfectly sane when
he executed certain deeds and wills, likely to become
the subject of diipute.
The inquiry was then adjourned.

MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A
SERGEANT OF POLICE.

Yesterday evening Mr. H. M. Wakley, deputy-
coroner, and a highly respectable jury resumed and
concluded, at the Rising Sun, High-street, Maryle-,
bone, an inquiry touching the death of James Geary,
aged 28, a plasterer, of 5, Conway•court, adjoining
the Marylebone police-court who had been ill•treated
by Sergeants Bushell and M'Craw, of the D division
of police. Mr. Duncombe, solicitor, appeared to
watch the proceedings on behalf of the friends of
the deceased ; and Mr. Wontuer, solicitor, for the ac-
cused parties.
Catherine Donoghue, of 5, Conway-court, Maryle-
bone, said that the deceased was her brother; he was
a married man, and was in a good state of health up
to the morning of Sunday, the 19th of August last.
Between 12 and one o'clock on that morning she was
passing through High-street, Marylebone, along with
deceased's widow, when they observed a crowd of
persons collected opposite the Angel public-house,
and on going to ascertain the cause witness saw a
man lying on the pavement near the kerb, and Ser-
geant Bushell, 9 D, standing, over him with his left
hand in his neckerchief and one knee on his chest.
The man called out to the sergeant not to strangle
him and said he would walk quietly anywhere if
they would allow him to get up. Witness, recogniz-
ing her brother, begged the sergeant and another
constable who was standing by not to use him so
cruelly. Shortly afterwards, as they were dragging
the deceased violently along, Sergeant Bushell dashed
him against some area railings and struck him over
the arms and shoulders with his staff. Deceased in-
treated Ahem not to ill-use him in such a way, but
did not offer the slightest resistance to the constables.
Sergeant Bushell, and the other officer who had hold
of him continued to strike the deceased in the ribs
with their staves as they proceeded to the police-
station. A crowd was collected and cried " Shame"
on the constables, and told theM not to use the de-
ceased so brutally, but did not molest them in the
slightest manner. Deceased was quite sober. He
recognized witness and his wife, but begged them not
to interfere with the police, as they would serve them
in the same way. He was locked up until Sunday
at noon, when he was bailed out, and on his return
home complained of pains all over his body from the

night on the
THE FIRE IN
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,eswsrass.
Batrtooenkdee,ds
of the extensive loss of
other persons received
premises
premises, upwards of a dozen
melters, of tbe Southwark-badge-o rnoamd
iesefisreof whichm brokeessrs.
B roootttk!en,°TtijahlulTorwskdia
with a great destruction of property. Independently
serious injury to their houses and furniture, and when
the ruins were inspected yesterday morning at day
light, it was a matter of astonishment that every house
surrounding the place bad not been destroyed. Sub-
joined is a copy of the official report of the damages :
—" Thursday, October 2, half past nine P.M.-A fire
broke out on the premises of Mess. Booe, tallow
Inciters and chandlers, in the Southrswarkr-brkidge-road.
The damage done vial as under: —Melting house
burned down and consumed, the factory and the con-
tents destroyed, the warehouse with contents burned ;
the making-house, store-house, and counting-house
considerably damaged by fire, and the stabling
slightly injured. I
, •be premises and their contents
were insured in the Phoenix and National Mercan-
tile Fire-offices. The cause of fire, a Copper of fat
boiling over. The fire was extinguished by firemen
with six engines of the London Establishment, one
of the parish, and that of the West of England
office. No. 5, Mary Ann-place, Mr. F. Thomas
(private), back front damaged by fire, and furniture
by removal ; not insured. No. 3, Brunswick-place, ,
Mr. C. Barrett (private), similar damage to building
and contents ; furniture not insured ; building in the
Phoenix. No. 2, ditto, ditto, Mr. R. Harris, premises
and contents damaged, by fire, water, and removal ;
insured in the PllCelliX office. No. 1, ditto, Mr. Al-
gar, similar damage to furniture, and the front win-
dow pulled out ; invurance not known. No. 2, Peter-
street, T. Edmondson, copper smith, workshops very
severely burned, and tontents ifijured by removal;
insured in the Sun ; No. 3, ditto, ditto, W. Millest,
marble-mason, stock damaged; contents uninsured,
building not known. No. '2l, Little Guildford-street,
R. Havill, coffee-shop keeper, great damage to furni-
ture by removal ; uninsured. No. 22, ditto, F. Barn-
well, turner, similar damage; contents not insured ;

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building, unknown at present. No. 23, J. Bathe
(private), side windows burned out; back front
burned and roof damaged by fire ; contents not in-
sured. No. 24, ditto, E. Beschiff, cap peak maker ;
damage to furniture, &c., by removal ; insured in the
Royal Exchange office. Ditto, W. Prose, similar da-
mage ; insured in the same office. •No. 25, ditto, W.
Ward, hemp, flax, and cane merchant; serious da-
magc to back workshops ; insured in the Sun-office.

LORD STANLEY AND THE BURY

[PRICE SD.

but to proceed to the final operation, in which, per-
haps, I am not a very handy workman ; but I will be
bound to"say that no workman ever undertook his
task with more cheerfulness. readiness, and pleasure,
than I perform that which I am about to do.
Lord STANLEY then proceeded to adjust the stone,
a very handsome silver trowel having been presented
to his Lordship' for that purpose, with the following
inscription :
" Presented by; the members of the 'Bury Athe-
'mum to the Right Hon. Edward Geoffrey, Baron
Stanley, on his laying the foundation atone of that in-
stitution, October 3, 1850."
The assembled company then adjourned to the As-
seri-My-rooms, where a cold collation had been pre-
pared, in commemoration of the occasion, at which
Mr.A EftedrmtuhnedusGuraul iondyy,alotfotahset,,Wthye Chairmanpresided.ldeg the
health of " the Earl of Derby," to which Lord
Stanley briefly responded.
The CHAIRMAN then gave " the BiShop and Clergy
of the Diocese. gave

ATHENEUM.
LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.
BURY, LANCASHIRE, OCT. 3.—This large and
thriving manufacturing town bas been in a state of
excitement to-day, in consequence of the founding in
it of a handsome new building, to be called the Bury
Athenaeum. Lord Stanley had accepted an invitation
to lay the corner-stone, a ceremony which was to be
succeeded by a dinner at the Derby Arms, and a
public soirie in the evening in one of the large mills
of the town. Among the leading, persons present
besides Lord Stanley, were Lady Stanley, the Lord
Bishop of Manchester, the Earl and Countess of
Wilton, and their noble daughter, Lady Mary
Egerton, Mr. James Heywood, M.P., Mr. William
Brown, M.P., and Mr. Alexander Henry, M.P.
The Bury Athenaeum, hitherto denominated the
Bury Mechanics' Institution, was established in the
year 1836. For some years after its foundation,
however, the number of members was very limited ;
and, consequently, no large amount of funds could be
raised. The number having now attained to between
200 and 300, the members found it necessary to
make an effort at obtaining larger accommodation,
the institution having been hitherto conducted in a
small building in the Wylde.. A strenuous appeal to
the public was resolved upon, and a number of gen-
tlemen interested in the new movement held meet-
ings in conjunction with the members, when it was
determined to establish an Athenaeum, and if the ne-
cessary founds could be raised, to erect a suitable
building. 2,0001. or 3,000/. having been subscribed
in the course of a few months, the provisional com-
mittee procured estimates of the cost of a new build-
ing. It was agreed to accept that of Mr. Sidney Smirke,
architect, of London, who proposed to erect the
building at a cost of 4,0001. The site chosen is a plot
of ground adjoining the newly-erected Town-hall, in
Newmarket-street. The edifice is to be erected in
the Italian style, from stone hewn entirely from the
quarries of the Earl of Derby, in the neighbourhood
of the town. The Noble Earl has also given the site
on which the building is to be erected to the inhabi-
tants for ever.
Lord STANLEY, on presenting himself, was received
with several rounds of enthusiastic cheering. He
said—Ladies and Gentlemen, connected as I am by
many and close ties with the town of Bury, I have at
once and cheerfully complied with the request made
to me by several of the leading inhabitants of this
town, that I would take part in the proceedings of
this day, by laying what I can hardly call the first
stone, the corner stone of a building which I Islay hope
and trust is calculated to promote in no inconsiderable
degree the comfort, happiness, and improvement of a
very large portion of the population of the town and
neighbourhood.—(Hear, hear.) I say of a very
large portion of the population, because I am un-
willing to believe—and, indeed, the great interest
which I see excited in the crowd around me prevents
me for a moment believing—that this thriving and
prosperous community is behindband with the rest of
the age in that universal desire for knowledge, that
thirst after mental cultivation which is the distin-
guishing and honourable characteristic of the present
day. The days are gone by when science and lite-
rature were the luxury of the privileged few ; they
have become in these days a necessary for the many,
and not a luxury of the few. It is not the affluent
classes and the independent alone who pursue the
paths, the tastes, the enjoyments -of literature and
science; but also the manufacturer and the merchant
—those who have still their way to make in the world,
who have still their worldly fortune to realise—ay,
and far more, the mechanic, the artisan, the man de-
pendent for his daily bread upon bis daily labour, feels
that thirst for knowledge which is the surest means
of obtaining, as it is the strongest motive for leading
to, intellectual improvement and mental cultivation.
—(llear, hear.) If there were no other benefit de-
rived from this universal desire for knowledge than
that it tends to counteract the otherwise contracting
and narrowing influence of all-absorbing pursuits,
but more especially of those pursuits which depend
upon the constant endeavour to acquire money and
to obtain worldly advantage, which, after all,
must be the mainspring of all commercial enterprise—
I say, with regard to the mechanic and the artisan, if
I the pursuit of knowledge did nothing more than sub-
stitute the charms of literature and science for the de-
grading pursuit of sensual indulgence and brutal in-
toxication—if it leads the humbler classes away from
mere sensual indulgence to the cultivation of the in-
tellect, and to the improvement of the mind, there is
en important and signal benefit derived from the uni-
versal spread and thirst for knowledge in the present
day.—(Cheers.) All classes alike feel that the pur-
suit of knowledge is, to use the words of the poet—

The Bishop of MANCHESTER, in responding, said
he had learned with the greatest pleasure that the
institution, the foundation of which they were met to
celebrate, was intended for all classes of all shades and
sects of men, whether in politics or re)igion.—(Hear.)
Although the conduct of the clergy had sometimes
perhaps been liable to be unkindly interpreted or
misunderstood when they interfered in public mat-
ters, yet, while they had the privilege of visiting the
sick bed, and of giving religious counsel to those who
sent for them, it was also incumbent upon them not
to neglect those secondary and important measures
which knight be necessary -for the welfare• of those
around them. They were, perhaps, excluded from
moving in political life, but they were unfaithful to
their trust if they aought..uot tp usix.itteluselves with
eveiything that might otherwise tend to protnOtis the
welfare and happiness of their fellow-men.—(Ap-
plause.) He was anxious for the dissemination of
sound and useful knowledge among all classes, and
expressed his satisfaction that their young and re-
spectable rector was among the supporters of this
institution.—(Cheers.) He was sure the clergy would
not be wanting in their support to this institution, if
they were allowed to do so. A wide and enlightened
toleration, a faithful, yet fearless discharge of their
duty, a disposition to look at points of concord rather
than of difference, were the principles on which they
invited the co-operation of all around them in the
work.—(Cheers.)

" Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute;
And a perpetual feast of nectars sweet,
Where no crude surfeit reigns."
I say " no crude surfeit reigns," because the thirst for
knowledge, like some other lees innocent desires, in
creases the more it is indulged ; and, to use the words
of another poet—
" The increase of appetite cloth grow

By what it. feeds upon.
But, gentlemen, there are other and higher advan-
tages. The study of science and literature sharpens
the intellect, enlarges the faculties of the mind, and
gives a more just appreciation of the movements both
of the natural, the visible, and the immaterial world
by which we are surrounded, and enables all men to
feel more forcibly and powerfully the wonders of
creation, and the wisdom and intelligence which has
produced them.—(llear, hear.) Lastly, gentlemen,
there is one great and prominent advantage in insti-
tutions such as I trust this will be whose foundation
we are this day celebrating : it brings together in one
common, one rational, one laudable pursuit, classes of
society, who, but for institutions of this kind, would
see little of and feel little for each other, and have
little feeling or sympathy in connexion. It brings
together classes of men whose pursuits in life
ate widely different, whose occupations are
widely distinct, whose sphere of action is wholly
separate, and impresses upon them practically the
conviction that from the highest to the lowest we are
all rational, intellectual, responsible beings, all en-
dowed with higher faculties than those which tend to
the mere attainment of earthly good, or the mere ac-
quisition and support of bodily comfort ; it leads us all
to feel, moreover, that we are members of one com-
mon family, the great human family, bound together
in one great communion and fellowship.—(Hear.)
Gentlemen, I am quite sure I am expressing the wish,
and the desire, and the hope of every one among you
when I say that I trust that such may be the happy
and beneficial effect of the institution which we are
now originating. I rejoice to hear, because I think
it is a matter of the most vital importance, from the
chairman of the committee that one of the main prin-
ciples of this institution is that everything which can
tend to polemical and political discord shall he sedu-
lously and carefully eschewed—(Hear, hear)—that in
the management of this institution party politics and
religious differences shall be altogether excluded.
Gentlemen, if this be not the case—if this building,
which I will not allow myself to believe for a moment
will be cramped in its objects by the want of that
liberal and generous spirit on the partofthose who first
established it—if it be permitted to degenerate into
a mere reading-room or news-room for the purpose of
amusing the idle hours of any portion of the popula-
tion, then I say that this ceremony is wasted and
thrown away, that it is not worth the pains which
have been bestowed upon it. I say, that if political
or polemical differences be allowed to be introduced
—if the building be diverted from any other of its
legitimate, and lawful, and proper purposes—namely,
the advancement of science, the promotion of
knowledge, the diffusion of educational in-
struction, and, more still, the diffusion of kindly
feelings amongst all classes of the community—then,
gentlemen, I shall deeply regret that I have taken any
part in the institution of a building which would lead
to no good, but probably to much of evil.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, the advantages or disadvantages of this
building, and of this institution, are in the hands of
you, the subscribers, the committee, and the inhabi-
tants of Bury. It rests with you whether it shall be
productive of the greatest happiness to the population.
I trust and believe that it will be so ; and,if you support
it as it should be supported—if the leading inhabitants
of this town will put themselves forward for the pur-
pose of leading the way, and assisting their humbler
brethren in the acquisition of knowledge and the cul-
tivation of their intellect—then we are about to com-
mence a great, and good, and glorious work, and the
building we are now commencing will lead, as I con-
, fidently hope,
.to the moral and social advantage—to
the rational enjoyment of the population of Bury ; and,
as I also hope it will do, to the intellectual advance-
ment and happiness of its inhabitants.—(Cheers.) I
accept with the greatest pleasure the very handsome
trowel which you have done me the honour of placing
in my bands, and I believe I have now nothing to do

The CLIAIRMA-N then proposed " The distinguished
strangers who have honoured us to-day with their
company ;" to which the Earl of Wilton responded ;
and also " The health of Lord Stanley," which was
received with loud cheering.
Lord STANLEY, in responding, said he assured them
they owed him no thanks for any little services he
might have performed in taking part in the ceremonies
of the day. It was to him an unmitigated satisfac-
tion to assume that distinction, and if he did not per-
form his task in a manner calculated to secure the en-
tire approbation of a working man, at all events he
did it with a good heart and a good will.—(Cheers )
If the exertion he was called upon to make were far
greater than it had been, he should have been far
more than repaid by witnessing the universal and
general good feeling and cordial union of all parties
and all denominations which appeared to have charac-
terized the proceedings of the day.—(Cheers.) And it
was to him the greatest satisfaction to find that in this
work, which might, and he hoped would, contribute
greatly to the improvement, comfort, social happiness,
and mental improvement of the people of Bury, there
appeared to be on the part of all concerned, and of all
parties in this town, a general and cordial desire to
concur. He agreed with the Lord Bishop that it was
by such concurrence, and to such union, that they
must look for the success of an undertaking.—(Hear.)
He felt most deeply and gratefully the kind manner
in which they bad received him. He would not make
so ill a return for their kindness as to detain them by
any lengthened observations, after having, both there
and out of doors, trespassed on them to a considerable
length. He was not there for the purpose of asking
their support for the institution—he was there sur-
rounded by the promoters of the institution them-
selves, by those who had led to the completion of the
undertaking, and by those who he hoped would be
gratified by, and enjoy the results. Therefore it was
quite unnecessary that he should dilate before them
on the advantages to be derived from what was em-
phatically the work of their own hands and purses.
But he would venture to say this, that he trusted the
shows they had seen that day were not outward, that
the enthusiasm was not evanescent, that they would
net permit the first impulse to pass away, and then
the institution which they had raised to languish
for want of support and continuous encouragement.
But, if they sere deeply impressed with the ad-
vantages which it tended to confer upon themselves
and those most dear to them, upon their fellow
men of all denominations and of all classes, they
would remember that it was not by a mere ins-
pulse, a regard, for the moment, stimulated to enthu-
siasm in the first instance, but speedily to dwindle
away, but by continual support, personal and pecu-
niary, that this institution and the benefits to be de-
rived from it were really to be realized and maintained.
—(Cheers.) He trusted that what they had well
begun they would not suffer to flag for want of con-
tinued support ; and with the sincerest desire, and the
confident hope, that by their united efforts this insti-
tution might tend to the advantage of the town and
neighbourhood of Bury, and to the moral and social
improvement of all classes of the population, he called
upon them, its patrons and supporters, to join with
him in drinking " The Bury Athenaeum—may its
success in promoting the intellectual and moral im-
provement of the people of Bury answer the fullest
expectations of its founders."—(Great cheering.)
After several other toasts had been given and ac-
knowledged, including " the Members for the
County," " the Magistrates of the division," " the
Ladies," " the Chairman," &c., the proceedirgs ter-
minated.
_ _

. ......
At a soirée held at the :lame place in the cv”ning
there was a very numerous attendance of working
people and others.

NORFOLK ESTUARY.

The contract for carrying into effect this great
work (one warmly advocated by the late lamented
Lord George Dintinck) has been undertaken by the
eminent firm of Peto and Betts, under the direction
of the engineers in chief, Sir John Rennie and 11,,bt.
Stephenson, Esq. It will, therefore, be commenced
immediately.
The great district of the fens, called the Bedford
Level, and the adjacent low lands, comprising nearly
half a million of acres, will be so effectually drained
by this work as to be enabled almost entirely to get
rid of the prssent very expensive system of artificial
drainage by wind and steam ; and so fully convinced
are the fen proprietors of the benefits which will re-
sult from the completion of this work, that they have
voluntarily contributed the sum of 60,0001. in order
to forward the enterprise.
The navigation of the Ouse from the sea to Lynn
and upwards will be so much improved that the cor-
poration of Lynn have likewise made a present of a
like sum of 60,000/. to the company who have under-
taken so vast a scheme.
The grand and ultimate object, however, is simul-
taneously to reclaim from the sea a valuable tract of
land, amounting to about 32,000 acres, which will
form a profitable investment for the company's capital,
as will appear from the following paragraph of the
directors' report to the general meeting of proprietors
in February last
" Your directors estimate the expense of reclama-
tion at 201. per acre, and the value of the first intake
to be sold at 551. per acre, which, after deducting the
per centage of 300 to the Crown, will give a profit to
the company of 52,000/. ; and your directors believe
the net profit will be realized at the end of five years
from the commencement of the contract, and they
propose out of such profit to pay the whole of the
interest of five per cent. that may have accrued to
the shareholders, and at the end of every subsequent
year a sufficient quantity of land will he reclaimed
to pay the interest at four per cent. with a portion
of the principal advanced ; so that, at the end
of nine years from the commencement of the
contract, the whole of the capital, with in-
terest at five per cent. and four per cent. at the
period above mentioned will have been repaid, leaving
at least 30,0001. to be expended on the further work
of reclamation, or otherwise to be disposed of for the
benefit of the company, as may be both practicable
and expedient ; and it will not be required, in order
to accomplish the above results, to reclaim more than
6,500 acres, or a greater profit per acre on 5,000 acres
than 301. per acre.
" The land belonging to the company comprehends
32,000 acres, which will ultimately be reclaimed, and
it is calculated that the reclamation will proceed easily
,at the rate of 1,000 acres per annum, which, after
paying the expenses, viz., 201. per acre,which has been
ascertained from experience to be amply sufficient,
and assuming that the remainder of the land be only
worth 451. per acre, will give a bonus of 25,000/.
per annum, after paying the principal and interest of
the capital, as above stated.
" The total sum already expended is 35,000/., and,
exclusive of the 120,000/. contributed by way of gift
by the drainage and navigation interests, it is not ex-
pected that the shareholders will be called upon to

.eater sum than 101. or 121. per share on
tres to complete the contracts, which
greatly under the engineer's estimate."

RCTIC EXPEDITION.

1g extract from a letter received from
Commander Forsyth, dated Aberdeen, 8. 30 r.m., Ist
October, 18,50, contains several interesting details
which hare not been given in his official dispatches to
the Admiralty :

"We sailed from Aberdeen on the sth June,
reached Cape Farewell on the 3d July, touched at
Upper Navik on the 18th. On the 15th July met
some of the whalers returning to the southward, not
having been able to get round Melville Bay on ac-
count of the heavy ice. On the 20th regularly en-
tered the ice off the Devil's Thumb. O❑ the 21st
overtook Sir John Ross amongst a dense number of
heavy bergs—he had sailed from England a fortnight
before me. On the 23d fell in with the remainder of
the fleet of whalers trying to get to the southward,
as fast as they could, as they had abandoned the Mel-
ville route this year. Even could they have
accomplished it, it would have been so late in
the season that their northern fishing would
have been past. On the 25th we dis-
covered Captain Austin's and Penny's vessels
beset to the northward of us ; from this till the 9th
of August we were occasionally beset, our diminutive
little craft getting some severe pinches between the
ice. Our men worked night and day to get up with
Captain Austin's ships, and on the morning of the 9th
we passed them still beset. It must have surprised
them very much to see us passing them, as they left
Engler* a month before us. The next morning they
worked themselves out, and were towed past us in a
calm by the steamers in gallant style. These steamers
have been invaluable ; the steamers cut the road for
the other ships by rushing at the ice with full speed
and cutting through it, their iron plated bows not
feeling the effects much. They have given much sa-
tisfaction to Captain Austin and his officers. The
same evening they were again stopped by the ice, and
on the 12th we again came up to them close to Cape
Melville. As it was calm, Captain Austin desired
Captain Ommanney to take the Prince Albert in tow,
whilst he took the Felix in tow. On the 13th we

landed at Cape York, and heard from the natives that
a ship answering the description of the North Star
had wintered in Wolstenholme Sound, near Cape
Dudley Diggs. On the 15th Captain Ommanney
was sent to ascertain the truth of the report. On the
17th the Prince Albert parted with the Resolute and
Pioneer, about seventy miles from Possession Bay,
and proceeded to examine the south side of Lancaster
Sound and Barrow's Strait, to Port Leopold, which
she did most effectively, keeping close to the shore,
within a quarter of a mile, and occasionally landing,
without seeing any marks of the missing expedition.
" On the evening of the 20th we arrived off Port
Leopold, but found the port blocked up with heavy
ice ; sent a party on shore, found that the North Star
had visited there a week before, but could not land
her provisions on account of the harbour being closed.
She then went to Port Bowen and Neil, and found
these places blocked up also, and then went to the
Wollaston Islands and landed them there. As this
vessel had been fitted out purposely for Prince
Re-
gent's Inlet, to proceed to Brentford Bay, or some-
where in its vicinity, we made the best of our way up
the inlet. As we advanced to the southward we found

we could not approach the shore nearer than four or
five miles, on account of the heavy sea. Batty Bay
and Elwin Bay were both closed. It was thought
before our leaving England that we might have been
able to lay the vessel up in the former, but we found
to our great disappointment that there was no getting
near either place. On the 22d we arrived within
about fifteen miles of Fury Point ; here we
found the ice extending in a barrier of heavy hum-
mocks right across the inlet to the eastern shore,
without any appearance of it breaking up. After
making certain there was no chance of penetrating
it, the Prince Albert ran to the northward, and

with much difficulty got out of the inlet, from the great
quantities of heavy ice setting up. I then intended
to have tried to effect a passage down the western
side of North Somerset, but on arriving off the north
end of Leopold Island, found the whole of that coast
fronted with heavy ice, the pack extending across to
the Wellington Channel. We now stood across the
Strait and examined the coast as far as Point Innis,
in the Wellington Channel. On landing at Cape
Riley traces were discovered of an encampment, with
some Queen's rope, and other indications of some
parties having been stopping for a time, belonging to
the Erebus and Terror, for we know of no other, with
the exception of Sir E. Parry, about 1824, who ever
landed on this point, and then only to take observa-
tions. Captain Ommanney had called here two days

previously, and had discovered other remains et
Beechey Island. About three miles from here he had
left word, from what he had collected, that he bad
proceeded to eve Ilotham for further traces of the
missing parties.
•` On the 25th August, when we last saw Assist-

ance and Intrepid, they were close over to Cape
Ho'ham. Penny's two brigs and the two American
brigantines, all in the entrance of Wellington Chan•
nel, which was much encumbered with ice. Seeing
all these vessels close together, I thought it would be

useless my proceeding in that direction, and therefore

stood back again towards Prince Regent's Inlet; find-
ing it still closed, with no harbours to winter in, the
Prince Albert proceeded to Eardly Bay, near Cape
York, narrowly escaping being driven on shore in a
gale of wind under that point. We subsequently
visited Admiralty Inlet, Possession, and Pond's Bay.
On the 2d of September saw the North Star enter-
ing the bay. We landed several parties about here,
but could discover no traces whatever of pinks hav-
ing visited the bay. There were numbers of old
Esquimaux huts, but no inhabitants. The season
having now far advanced, and no port in the vicinity
of our operations open, I determined to return to
England, and on the 4th of September lost sight of
Pond's Bay. Although this vessel has obtained no
certain information, yet what she has brought is most
important, proving that the Erebus and Terror did
actually enter Barrow's Strait, whether they have
been cast away or not; but it is evident a large party
had been on Cape Riley for some time. Another
thing, the vessel has visited an immense extent of
coast, ascertaining that they are nowhere on the south
Nide of Lancaster Sound or Barrow's strait. As we
had no harbour to winter in, our returning will save
an immense expense to Lady Franklin.
" The Prince Albert is only 89 ton., the last ves-
sel to leave England, the first in Barrow's Strait, and
the smallest that has ever been so far in the Polar
Seas. This little craft has experienced some tremen-
dous weather, both in the Straits and on her return
out and home, but by the help of Providence she
has escaped without any material damage."

TRACES OF FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.
The intelligence we published yesterday, brought
home by Captain Forsyth in the Prince Albert, of
traces of a party having been found at Cape Riley
on the 23d of August by Captain Ommanney, has
excited the most intense interest in naval circles,
the more so inasmuch as it has been ascertained at
Chatham dockyard that the rope which Captain
Forsyth found on the spot when he visited it,
and copied Captain Ommanney's notice, is proved
by its yellow mark to have been manufactured
there, and certainly since April, 1824 ; and more-
over, from inquiries instituted, very strong evidence
has been elicited in favour of the belief that the
rope was made between the years 1841 and 1849.
The only Royal expedition that has been within 40
miles of Cape Riley, we believe, was Parry's, but
then Captain I3eechy landed only for about ten
minutes, and certainly formed no encampment there.
Captain Sir James Ross's expedition could not get
near Cape Riley on account of the heavy hummocky
Ice, which barred out the travelling party, so that it
is altogether impossible that any party in possession
of Government stores other than that of Sir John
Franklin's expedition could have left the traces re-
ferred to by Captain Forsyth and Captain Omman-
ney. That the trail, then, of the Franklin expedition,
or some detachment of it, has been struck, there can-
not be the slightest doubt in the minds of any one who
has read the dispatches and reports. That Captain
Ommanney felt satisfied on this score is evident from
the terms of the paper he left behind him ; but it is
much to be regretted that the Assistance and
Intrepid being in sight of the Prince Albert, on the
25th of August, two days after the discovery, no
communication took place as to what "remains of
materials were found" by Captain Ommanney, " what
other traces were found of the same party" by him,
and what were his inferences or hopes deduced there-
from. The squadron, it appears, however, were in
full cry upon the scent on the 25th of August, and
we must wait patiently, but anxiously, for the next
accounts of the results of their indefatigable researches.
Captain Ommanney was to push for Cape Walker,
the point which Ross failed to reach. Here he will,
it is expected, at once determine the radius of the
search that it is imperative on the part of the squad-
ron to make.
At all events, the alleged story of Sir John Rose's
in
Esquimaux is not the "best information we can find
aid of the exertions now making with such indefati-
gable vigour" to discover the fate of, and if possible to
rescue the missing officers and crews of the Erebus and
Terror. We have at least some actual traces of the
wanderers, the discovery of whi h
c Justides the equip-
ment of the searching squadron, and we have stout,
gallant, skilful, and enduring men on the track who
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Lord Stanley, one of the stewards of the Doncaster
races, presented to the members of the Racing Club a splendid
haunch of venison, which weighed Kilts. The animal
weighed, when killed, 3Oi stone, and was one of the largest
red deer ever seen. It was shot by his Lordship in Knows-
lay-park.—Sheffield Times.