The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-14 00:00:00

N°. 18)114.] LONDON, MONDAY ks',
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tt • OCTOBER 14, 1850.
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HER- MAJESTY'S THEATRE
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
Madlle. ANGRI will appear on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, and Satureay next.

LEER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TIIE (IRANI) NATIONAL CONCERTS.
Ma('Arne BISCACCIANTI will make her First Appearance on
Mednesday, October 16.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
-THE WIANI) NATIONAL CONCERTS.
m. CHARLES HALLE will perform ou Tuesday, 'Thursday, and
S.iturday, the loth, 17th, and 19th inst.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TII!.: GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
master HEINRICH WERNER will appear on Wednesday, the
IGth, and Friday, the 18th int.

LIFER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE•
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
Applications for BON es and Stalls to be made at the Box .office of
her Majesty's beAtre ; and at Cramer, Peale, and Co.'s, Chappells,
Sams, Allcroft, Leader, and Co ,s, &c., &eii,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
The Executive Committee, Directors, and Managers of "The
Grand National Concerts" have the honour to announca that the
FIRST SERIES will commence TO•310R1.0W, TUESDAY, the 15th
of October.
The Concerts will commence at eight, and terminate usually
about eleven. The Theatre has been entirely re-decorated for these
entertainments.
In addition to the following list, numerous engagements are pend-
ing with other Vocal and Instrumental Artistes, particulars of which
will be announced at soon as possible.
VOCALISTS.
3ldlle. Angri, Miss Poole, Miss 3iessent, Mrs. Alexander Newton,
and Madame Biscaccianti (the celebrated prima donna, from Milan,
who will make her first appearance in England) ; Signor Calzolari,
NI. Jules Lefort, M. Jules Stockhausen, Mr. Frank Bodda, and Mr.
Sims Reeves.
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO PERFORMERS.
Grand Pianoforte—Miss Goddard (Pupil of M. Thalberg, who will
make her first appearance in public), M. Charles Halle (who w 11
perform Beethoven's Concerto in E flat, with lull orchestral accom-
paniments, on the opening night, and a different Concerto on each
evening of his engagement), Master Heinrich Werner (whose per-
formance at Buckingham Palace before her Most Gracious Majesty
and Prince Albert, ael at the Professional Matinees, has been
the marvel of the who], musical world), and M. Thalberg (who
will introduce several new Morceaux, written expressly for these
Concerts).
Violin —MM. Molique, Henry Blagrove, Henry Cooper, and M.
Sainton (Solo Violinist to her Majesty). An engagement is also
pending with the renowned Artiste, Signor Sivorit who is on his
way to England from the Havannah.
Tenor Mr.
Violoncello —MM. Piatti, Hausmann, Hancock, and Ronsselot.
Double Bass—MM. Anglois, Rowland, and Herr Muller (the cele-
brated Contrabassist from Darmstadt, who will make his first ap-
pearance in th's country).
Harp—Mr. John Thomas and Mr. H. J. Trust.
Concertina—Mr. It. Blagrove.
Flute —MM. Richardson, Briccialdi, Carte, and Remusat.
Oboe—MM. Barret and Nicholson.
Clarionet—M. Franc, from the Grand Opera, Brussels, and M.
31 aycock.
Bassoon—M. Baumann.
11 orn —M. Steglich .
Cornet-a-Pistons—M. Arban.
Ophicleido —M. l'rospere.
Trom'ams —3l. Winterbottom.
ORC HESTRA.
Musical Director, Compwer, ma.l Conductor—M. Balfe.
First Violins—M. Molique (Principal), late Kapelmeister at Stut-
gardt ; Browse, Royal Italian Opera, Henry Cooper, R. 1.0., Daiido,
11.1.0., Dawson, Her Majesty's Theatre, Goffrie, R. 1.0., 11. Giles-
bach, ILI 0., Hartnagl, 11.M.T., Kr utter, Oury, 11.31. T.,
l'atey, 11.1.0., Pigott, H.M.T., Shcrgool, H.M. T., Thirlwall,
Rd 0., Watkins, R. 1.0., Zerbini, R. 1.0.
Second Violins—Willy (Principal), R. 1.0., W. Blagrove, R. 1.0.,
Barnett, WALT., H.M.T.,Mennen,II.M.T., Jay, 11.1.0.,
Kelly, 11.1.0.. J. Loder, R. 1.0., Marshall, R. 1.0., Ridgway, H.M.T.,
Ridgway (two), 11.M.T., Schmidt, 1131. T., Tallance, hirl-
wall (two), 11.31. T., Villain, H.M.T., Watson, 11.1.0.
Tenors —lt. Hughes (Principal), ILM T., R. Blagrove, R. 1.0.,
Bo en, 11.31. T., Catkin, 11.M.T., Ganz, 11.M.T., Glanville, R. 1.0.,
Rice, 11.31. T., Trust, R. 1.0., Webb, 11 Westlake, R. 1.0.
Violoncellos—Piatti (Principal), 11.M.T., Gardner, 11.31. T., floo
Wd-
ban. 11.1.0. Guest, R. 1.0., Hancock, R. 1.0., ausmann, R. 1.0., .
Loder, Lovell r hillipps, R.l.O.,Rousselot, Beethoven Quartet
Society, Thorley, Philharmonic.
Double Basses—Anglois (Principal), TI.M.T., Casolani, 11.1.0.,
Castell, R. 1.0., Mount, 11.1.0., Muller, Grand Opera, Darmstadt (his
first appearance), Percival, H.M.T., I'ickliaert, Pratten,
11.1.0., Rowland, R. 1.0,. Ituss,•ll, 11.31.1'., Severn, R. 1.0.
Harps—John Thomas, H.M.T., 11. J. Trust, R. 1.0.
Flutes—Richardson (Flautist to his Grace the Duke of Devon-
shire) ; Briccialdi, La Scala, Milan.
Piccolo—Remusat, It M.T.
Oboes—Barrett, R. 1.0., Nicholson, R. 1.0.
Clarionets-,--31. Franc, G 0., Brussels, and Maycock, H.M.T.
Bassoons—Baumann, 1t.1.0, Larkin, 1t.1.0.
Horns—Steglich, H.M.T., Blanginl,Calcott,ll.M.T., Calcott, jun.,
11.M.T.
Trumpets—Zeiss, 11.M.T., Davis, H.M.T.
Cornet-a-Pistons—Arban, Conservatoire, Paris
Trombones—Marin, King, Winterbottom,
11. 51. T.
Opt icleide—Prespere, R. 1.0.
Timpani—Chipp, R. 1.0.
Bass Drum and Cymbals—Hinclicy, 11.M.T.
Side Drum—R. Hughes, jun., 11.M.T.
Triangle—W. Ganz, 11.31. T.
Principal Composers—M3l. Sphor, Balfe, G. Maefarren, Edward
Loder, Howard Glover, Hector Berlioz, and Felicien David.
Arranger of Operatic Selections, &c.—Signor L. Negri.
Cl.orus Master—Herr Ganz.
Deputy Chorus M aster—Mr. Frederick Osborne Williams.
Organist—Mr. Willing.
rhe Music of the Serenatas will be published by Messrs. Cramer,
Beale, and Co.
Box Stalls, One Pair.. 4s. 0,1. I Gallery Stalls •• ...... 2s. Gd.
Ditto, Two I)itto . 3s. Gd. Slip Stalls ...• ••..• • .. Is. Gd.
Half Circle, D tto • •... 2s. GI. I 'Gallery •••• • • • ..... • • 15. Od.
Promenade • • ........ IR. 6d.
N.B. It is respeettully announced that all persons attending the
Private Boxes. and the First and Second Tiers of Box Stalls,
will 'be required to appear in Evening Dress ; and the Public is
most earnestly requested to assist In carrying out this regulation,
as far as may oe practicable, in all parts of filer Majesty's Theatre.
Applications for Private Boxes and Stalls to be made at the Box-
Bond; or to Messrs. Andrews, Alcreft, Leader, and Cock, - ew
d-street ; Hookham, and Ebers, Old Bonl-street;
Sams, St. James's-street ; Cramer, Beale, and Co., and Bailey, Re-
gent-street ; Chappell, Bond-strt et ; and Dyte and Son, Strand.
Mr. 'Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution, titheloseu,
and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply Reiresh-
ments and Wines, &c., &c.

GRAND SALON DE D ANSE,
ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND.
OPEN FOR THE Sti.ASON.
Lessee—Mr. Thonias Bartlett Simpson, Albion Tavern, Great
Russell. street, Covent-garden
Mr. SIMPSON, anxious to have the best Band in London, has re-
tained the valuable talent of the leading Artists engaged during the
past season at Cremorne Gardens, including the following eminent
Performers from h:r Majesty's Theatre, the Royal Italian Opera,
and the Philharmonic Concerts :
First Violins—Hayward, Cohen, Bue's, 11. T. Seabrook, Van lied-
deehem.
Second Violins —Pelerin, T. Jackson, Edwards, C. Grlesbach.
Tenors—Sapinski, J. Jackson.
Violoncellos—Quinton, W. F. Reed.
Contra Basses—G. Taylor, W. Treater, Guy, Stubgen.
Flauto J. Saynor.
Piccolo—Meyer.
Flageolet—J. Tyler.
Oboe—J. Schott.
Clarinetti —Park, G. Tyler.
Bassoon— Montan..
Cornets a-Pistons—Humfreess, Cottrell.
Horns— W. F. Youngman, W. loungmen.
Trombont —Webster, Guiraud.
Ophlcleide—Mosca.
Rasa Drum—Harrison.
Side Drum—Seymour.
•
INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. •
Overture, " Zampa" • • • • Herold.
Polka, "Cremorne" • • ••
Sole (Violin) .• .. Mr. Van Ileddeghen.
Valse, " Ilommage a Strauss".. •• Borini.
Selection from LA SONNA [BMA • • ..
Conducted by BO RINI.
Tp the votaries of Terpsichore remarks on the excellence of
Bon's Band, after the experience of its Orchestral Triumphs at
Cremorne, would be superfluous.
Solos and Concerted Pieces will be performed during the evening.
northing Latest Compositions—The Adelaide Polka, Waltzes to
various popular Irish Melodies, Galop d'lndustrie, New Quadrille of
all Nations.
Tile Grand Slalen, Refreshetent, and Ante-rooms have undergone
considerable alterations and improvements.
Doers open at Half-past Seven o'clock. Admission One Shilling.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
Lecture on the Ballad Music of England, by Mr. George Bar-
ker, illustrated by his own compositions, every Evening (except Sa-
turday) at Eight o'clock.—Lecture on the Hydro-Electric Machine,
by Dr. Bachhoffner.—Lecture on Chemistry by J. H. Pepper, Esq., il-
lustrating the Ancient Fiery Ordeal and the 1.1 an Bing of Red Hot
Metals. —Model of Weston's Patent Nova-Motive Railway, at work
daily.—Dissolving Views illustrating some of the Wonders of Na-
ture, daily at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings at a Quarter to
'few; also a Series, exhibiting Scenes in the Arctic Regions and
Ceylon, daily at One e'clock.—Diver and Diving-bell, &c., &e.
_ _

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

ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament of the 25th of King G orge

the Second.
(Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., 57, Brompton-square.)
AURENrS CELEBRATED AND UNRIVALLED BAND !
Principal Cornet•a-Piston, M. Boulcourt, from Pali-, and Artiste
Attache to M Strauss' Orchestra at the Baths of Vichy, France.
As this elegant and popular resort of fa pion is now duly
LICENSED by ACT of PARLIAMENT,
CONCEkTS

will be produced. In addition to dancing. The new lessee pledges
himself that nothing shall be wanting on his part to render this
establishment worthy the distinguished patronage and support it has
hitherto been honoured with, and respectfully solicits a continuance
of those favours, witch it will ever be his study to deserve.
Doors open every evening at Half-past Light—Dancing to commence
at Nine precisely.—Admission, One Shilling.
N.B. Particulars of the Concerts win shortly appear.

Present
Proxies

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Aurgeons, are in attendance daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford.
street, London, from i_devon till Two and Vivo to Eight; on Sun•
lay, from Eleven to One.

PUBLIC INVITATION.
in consequence of the extraordinary desire manifested oil the
part of the Public to view the Premises forming the West-end
Branch Establishment of E. MOSES and SON, the Proprietors have
adopted the expediency of Suspendi,g Business One Hour Earlier
until Further Notice, and the Public arc hereby informed that FREE,
ADMISSION will be given from :'even o'clock until Nine to all
parties desirous of viewing the interior of the Establishment.
*3.* i4ranch Establishment. New Oxford-street.

SHIP NEWS.
QUARANnNE NOTICE.
Memina, Oct. 1.

Orders have been receive.] not to give pral.iquk, to any
vessels arriving from British ports, Leghorn, or Genoa
for the pres,nt, in consequence of instructions from the
Board of IL ahh E,t Palermo.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
SHORFLAND'S BLUFF LIGHTHOUSE.

His Honour, the Superintendent, directs to be noti-
fi-d, for general information, that a near fixed white
light, cf the sec ;rd cl -se, consisting of t venty four
lemp,, is now exhibited at the Bluff, in place of the
former light of nine lamps.
This light will be exhibited from sunset until sunrise.

The necessary alterations of the column for the erec-
[ion of the new lantern have not occasiocel any change
,n the original height of the light.
HENRY GINN, Clerk of Worker.
Melbcurne, May I.
NOTICE.

One of the editions of the chart of Pert Philip made
by Captain Hobson, of her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake,
and the first edition of the chart published by Captain
Stokes, of her Majesty's ship Beagle, containing a se-
rious misprint in the bearing laid down as the course
for vessels entering the Port Philip Heads, masters of
vessels should be very careful in examining their charts,
and altering, should they give the bearing of north-east
by east (N.E. by E.); such a course must inevitably
carry the vessel pursuing it from the outside, directly
upon the point Lonsdale Reef.
The proper course for entering the Port Philip Heads
is north-east by north (N E. by N.)
Superintendene-office, Melbourne, May 7.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 13.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breezl.
The steam-ship Canada, from Boston, was off Holyhead
at 5 o'clock; she will arrive about lor 2 o'clock. Arrd.
the Savannah and the Victor, from St. Petersburgh;
the Lyra, from Port-au-Prince; the Hellespont, from
Constantinople. Sid. the Swittsure, for Africa; the
Brazilian, for Ceylon; the Henrietta, for Rouen; the
Sophia and the Leveret, for Rotterdam; the Robert, for
Revel; the Yarmouth, for Syra; the Josephine Marie,
for Charente; the William M`Deryall, for Beyrout; the
Marie Auguste, for Boulogne; the Lanen, for Palermo;
the Crookbane, for Leghorn; the Robert Watt, for Apa-
lachicola; the Dublin, for Mobile; the Sophia, for Bel ze;
the Hale, for Trinidad; the Clemence, for Nantes; the
St. George, for Savannah; the Oregon, for New Orleans.
Off the port the Princess Royal, from Africa; the barque
Leonora.
GRIMSBY, OCT. 11.—It is blowing a strong gale from
the northward. A schooner belonging to Exeter has
driven on shore near Tetney Haven.
A loaded brig, supposed to be the Liddell, of New-
castle, from Miramichi, was serer on the 11th of Septem-
ber, two miles west of Escumitac lighthouse, apparently
on the strand, by the Czar, arrived at Dundee.
ELSINORE, OCT. 4.—This morning, as the English
three-master, the Northumberland (merchantman), was
entering this port from Cronstadt, with a cargo of ropes
and sails, she ran full on the Vrouw Lydia, Dutch brig.
which almost immeliately filled with wat-r and went
down. A boat from the Custom house at once put off to
endeavour to save the crew, but by some mischance she
struck on the masts of the foundered vessel, and was in-
stantly capsized, The other vessels lying near at anchor
sent out their boats, and did everything to save the un-
fortunate men who had been thrown into the water.
By great exertion eleven men were saved, but unfortu-
natsly twelve were drowned.
GRAVESEND, OCT. 13.—Wind W.N.W., light, cloudy.
—Arrd. the Martin Freitirich, from Singapore; the
Florrntia, from St. John's; the Menai, from Calais; the
Stadt Dordrecht, from Dordt; the Diana, from Har-
lingen; the Apollo and the Ocean, from Rotterdam; the
City of R ichester, the Vigilant, the St. Lawrence, the
Elizabeth and Jane, the Friends, the Qieen of the Tyne,
the Ophelia and Mary, the Energy, the Coldstream, the
Magnific, the Nymph, the Jabez, the James, the North-
umberland, the C) gnet, the Elizabeth, the Watermillock,
the Kitty, the Susannah, the Earl of Mulgrave, and the
Wentworth Beaumont, from St. Petersburgh; the Leo,
from Ctirisiiauia; the Triton, from Os end; the Giraffe,
from Rotterdam; the Seine, from Boulogne; the Konigs-
berg. from Sundswald; the Harmon* the Emma Hey n,
the Marianne, the Friedrich Wilhelm IV., the Margaret
Nichol, the Victoria, the Brancepeth Castle, the William
Sortie, the Lydia, and the Favourite, from Dantsic; the
John, from Q.rebec; the Tutunia, the Castilian Maid,
and the Anna, from Rostock; the Grenetts, from Leer;
the Blyih, the Jane Sinclair, and the Orion, from Stet-
tin; the Christiana, from Gefl •; the Cruiser, from Wy-
borg; the Johannes, the Maghens, and the Mayor,
from Archang.,l; the Astrea, the Margaret, the
I,a, the Carolina Johanna, and the Mary Ann,
from Riga ; the Gesina, from Hamburgh ; the
Alexander, the Haabit, the Vro arts, and the
awevit, from Stralsund; the Ouse, the Trio, the
Pauline, and the Hope, from Konigsberg; the Generous,
from Riga; the Julia and Sophia, from Aalborg; the
Aurora, from Denmark; the Hoffaung and the Warner,
from Hamburgh; the Bertha and the Glory, from Me-
mel; the Samaritan, from Konigsberg; the Dauntless,
the Lomar, and the Woodpsrk, from Gottenburg; the
Ocean, from Uddewalla; the Clio and the Eneaghen,
from the Baltic; the Eider, from Tonningen; the An-
dreas, from Gottenburg; the Brodrene, from Friederick-
stadt; the Louisa Augusta, from Laurvig; the Henry
Carton, from Sundswald; the alums, from -Gottenburg;
the Oster Itusoer, from Lulea; the Dovre, from the
Baltic; the Elbe, from Hamburgh; the Prosperity, from
Ghent; the Ann and the Ranger, from Amsterdam; the
Travancore, from Madras; the Sir Robert Peel and the
City of London, from Dunkirk; the Waloan, from Future
Arenas; the Arno, from Algoa Bay; the Christian, from
Stettin; the Familie, from Sunderhoe; the Conferentor-
read Classen, from Friederichstadt. Sid. the Royal Al
bert, for Calcutta; the Amy, for Leghorn; the Gladia-
tor, for Malta; the Labecroft and the Astracan, for Liver-
pool; the Antwerpen, for Antwerp; the Thames and
the Caledonia, for Hamburgh; the Fame, for Calais;
the Albion, for Boulogne; the Magnet, for Amster-
dam; the William Jolliffe, for Havre; the Director, for
Antwerp; the Wilberforce, the Trident, and the Burger-
meister Hyndekoper, for Tonningen•' the Attwood,• the
Batavier, the Earl of Auckland, and the Rhine, for Rote
terdam; the Sir Edward Banks, for Ostend; the Lord
John Russell, for Harlingen; the City of Rotterdam, for
Dunkirk; the Adelaide, for St. Michael's; the Tistedalen,
for Norway; the Odessa, for Elsinore; the Eliza, for
Guernsey, the Anna Maria, for Christiania; the Jane''
Abbott, for Elsinore; the Elizabeth, for Lubeck.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH —The Swedish brig Hebe,
from Newca tle for Brazils, Oct. 3, in lat. 49 N., long. 3
W. The El:a a, of Liverpool, from Loudon for Algoa
Bay, Sept. 5, in lat. 17 N., long. 27 W. The Borneo,
from the Cl) de for Batavia, Sept. 6, in lat. 13 N., long.
27 W. The Congo, from the cat of Africa for Bristol,
6, pt. 19, in lat. 35 N., long. 36 W. The Washington,
from Scarborough for the Cape of Good Hope, Sept. 12,
in lat. 13 N., lung 25 W. The Fortitude, from Ooringa
Bay for London, on the 2a ult., in lat. 19 N., long 28 W.
The Bowes, of Workington, from Gloucester to Quebec,
on the 12th ult., Cape Ray bearing N. by W. 33 miles.
The Emanuel, from Flushing for Valparaiso, on the
Ist ult., in lat. 16 N., long. 26 W. The Fulmar, from
Bahia for Cowes, on the 9th ult., in lat. 28 N., long. 37

W. The Sohraon, from Belfast for Demerara, on the
9th ult., in lat. 23 N., long. 37 W. The American ship
Tyre, on the 27th ult., in lat. 40 N., long 32 W.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN,
SHIRE RAILWAY.

When our report left on Friday evening with an
account of the meeting, which appeared in The Sun
of Saturday, a scrutiny was going forward on the
motion of Mr. Wood—" That at whatever rate of
interest the new shares be issued, they should have
no priority of dividend over the present existing pre-
ference shares." At 9 o'clock the chairman resumed
the chair, and announced the following results :
For the motion

Representing

Shareholders: In Stock. Votes.
152 447,229/. 2,282
119 574,8421. 2,528

Total ... ... 271 1,022,071/. 4,810
Agaiust the motion—
Present ... ... 51 64,1971. 414
Proxy 1 1501. 1

Total ... ...

64,3471.

Majority for the motion 219 957,6241. 4,365
'rile consequence was, that instead of there being the
majority of three-fifths, which the Act required, there
were about nine-tenths of No. 1 quarters, five-sixths
of 101. preferences, and •nine-tenths of the aggregate
number of votes. By this resolution, therefore, the
new stock had been created, and it was trusted it
would put the company in a more comfortable posi-
tion than it had been put before. Votes of thanks
being given to the chairman and scrutineers, the
meeting terminated.

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THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

PROCEEDINGS OF H.M.S. NORTH STAR.
(Received 28th September, 1850.)
TO THE SECRFTARY OF THE ADMIRALTY, LONDON.
Her Majesty's ship North Star, Spithead,
28 h Septernbe-, 1850.
Sir —I have the honour to report, for the informa-
tion of my Lords C:mtni-sioners of the Admiralty,
an account of the proceedings of her M4je:ty's ship
North Star, from the 19th July last year; up to
which date their Lordship; have already been made
acquainted.
After the boats of the Prince of Wales whaler left
the ship on that date, I proceeded along the edge of
the ice in search of an opening to get through the
pack (as there was no land floe in Melville Bay),
being occasionally compelled to make fast to a berg,
or large floe, whenever our progress was impeded,
either by the closing up of the ice or calm weather.
In this way we continued making little or scarce any
progress, until noon of Sunday, the 29th of July,
being then in lat. 74 32 N. and long. 79 17 W.,
when a fine breeze sprung up from E.N.E., with
clear weather, which enabled us to run between
the floes (which had considerably opened, leaving
wide lanes of water between them) at the rate•of
about five miles an hour. We continued running in this
way as nearly in the direction of Cape York as the 1
ice would allow us, and I then had great hopes that
we should be enabled to get through without much
detention ; but we were doomed to be again disap-
pointed, for about four P.M. the ice began to. close very
rapidly from the southward, which prevented our
further progress, and we were obliged to seek shelter
in a bight in one of the largest floes we could see.
The wind shifted to S.S.E., and blew a strong gale,
with heavy rain. Tne ice, which was all in large
floes, pressed against each other with great force,
squeezing up and breaking in all directions. The
ship being providentially placed in a bight or notch
in the floe, to which she was made fast, we were en-
abled to veer her further into it, as the edge of the
floe broke away by the outward pressure ; and by
that means kept her in the only pool of water to be
seen, and prevented her from receiving any injury.
The rudder was unshipped and bung across the stern,
and the yard and stay-tackles got up, and everything
prepared for hoisting the large boat out, in the event
of any accident happening to the ship.
A quantity of provisions was also got on the upper
deck ready for placing in the boats, if wanted, and
which were kept up during the whole time the ship
was beset.
At midnight it blew a very heavy gale with rain
from S.S.E., which weather continued with little in-
termission for the two following days. We were thus
beset by the ice from this date until the 26th Sept.,
and kept drifting about with it in a totally helpless
condition ; every opportunity, however, was embraced
of endeavouring to extricate the ship by heaving and
warping whenever the slightest opening took place in
the ice.
During the month of September the bay ice formed
so strongly as to cement the whole maas together,
forming one large floe. On the 21st of September it
blew a strong gale from the eastward, and the ship
drifted with the pack rapidly to the westward; and at
about 5 P.M. the ice was opened in consequence of its
coming in contact with an immense berg of some
miles in circumference, which was lying aground, and
kept breaking up the floes tie they were carried against
it with the current, the ship also drifting directly in
front of it, and at 2 P.M. she was within a quarter of
a mile of it. The yard tackles were got up on both
sides, in readiness to get the large boat out, as it was
impossible to say on which side they might be wanted,
the ship being turned round in all directions by the ice
as it pressed in. We continued in this way until about
midnight, when we were pushed round' the- inner edge
of the berg, with a body of ice which had now become
very small by the immense pressure and continued
drifting with it to the north-west. Fortunately the
ice was now small and much decayed, for had it not
been so nothing could have saved the ship, and I fear
crew also; for unlike a whaler, who, although severely
nipped, is kept afloat by her empty casks until provi-
sions can be got up sufficient to last for a long time ;
with us it would have been quite otherwise, for being
deeply laden, if nipped, would have sunk almost im-
mediately.
On the 22d September the ship continued drifting
in the same manner to the N.W. with the ice, which
was continually coining in contact with the numerous
bergs that were aground. At noon the latitude ob-
served was 75 38 N., and longitude 68 12 W. ;
throughout the day the wind was blowing strong
from the S.E.
At 1, A.M., of the 231 we were much in the same
perilous situation as we were at midnight of the 21st,
being carried along in front of an immense iceberg
which lay aground, and against which the ice was
pressing with great force ; but the same Almighty
Providence which had protected us on all former oc-
casions was equally kind in the present, and allowed
us to be pushed clear of it, the ship passing along its
easternmost side, about 300 yards from it.
We continued drifting along the land in a most un-
safe and precarious situation, as the ice was carried
about and broken up in its passage between the nu-
merous icebergs which lined the coast, until noon of
the 26th of September, when we appeared to be drift-
ing directly towards Wolstenholme Island ; and it
was doubtful whether we should pass within or with-
out it. Here, providentially, the ice appeared much
looser, caused by the water being much deeper, and
allowing the bergs that had Passed the ridge of others
observedA
tl,
it perfectly clear of ice, caused
that were aground off Dudley Diggs (and which
materially retarded the progress of the pack) now to
P.m., we opened Wolstenholme
floatsou n
da :vaanyd.
by several icebergs lying aground off Cape Athol,
which prevented the ice from entering, and turned it
outside of the island.
All sail was immediately made on the ship (al-
though it was blowing a heavy gale) to force her
throughon,
andthe
ice.she pushed
her
FortunatelyWaythem
open water at 3 P.M. The rudder was then shipped,
and we stood up the sound, anchoring
in 19 fathoms,
through,astii and and r e
ayeahr
edd
held s
when it became dark.
On the 30. h of September, after examining the
sound, the ship was removed
to winter quarters, at
the head of the bay, and rife] e moored is lat. 76
33.0 N., long. 68 56.15 W. '
I cannot sufficiently express the heartfelt joy that
every man and officer felt at this unexpected and mira-
culous di:pensation of Providence in releasing us from
the ice is the extraordinary manner in which we
were ; for if wis had not got in here, I fear very few,
if any, of the crew would have survived the winter, as
it is more than probable the ship would have gone to
pieces, and a sufficient quantity of provisions could
not have been saved to have lasted them for so long a
time. This the most thoughtless of the crew ap-
peared to be quite aware of.
Here we found a settlement of Esquimaux, and
another one about twelve miles down the sound. They
appear very harmless people, but possessing less loges
nutty than any race of beings I have ever yet seen.
Each settlement consists but of one hut, in which a
number of families dwell. These huts are generally
formed about half under ground on the slopele of a hill
near the sea, the upper part being, u ver in a
very rude manner with rough stones. They do not
know the use of boats, and their only weapon appears
to be a small spear, which they carry in their hand.
They live entirely on raw food, mostly seal's flesh.
Not having boats, they are compelled to follow the
land ice to the north during the summer, depositin
the seals which they kill at their various stations g
along the coast, on which they retreat during the
winter, as their stock to the northward becomes ex-
hausted.
As I cannot here enter into minor details as to our
proceedings throughout the whiter, I would briefly
state that the ship became frozen in on the 12th of
October, when the housing was spread over, and every
other preparation made for the winter.
The thermometer did not fall below Zero till the
beginning of November.
On the 24th of October the sun just showed itself
above the hills at noon, and did not re-appear until the
17th of February, when his upper limb again made
its appearance—a period of 116 days.
During the winter we had heavy gales of wind
occasionally from the westward, during which time
the thermometer invariably rote, sometimes nearly to
Zsro ; as also in cloudy weather. I may here aid
that throughout the whole voyage neither the marine
nor the aneroid barometer have been of any use to
indicate the weather, although both appear quite sen-
sitive and move together. We found February our
coldest month, on the 24th of which the thermometer
was registered at nine and
ten P AL at 63f below
Z ro, and at 61 for the following eight hours.
It also fell to 631 on the 27th. The thermometer by
which this was registered and the meteorological
table was kept, I have carefully put away in order that
it may be tested, as I believe that to be the coldest
natural temperature ever registered.
On Monday, January 28, 1850, an Esquimaux
was brought alongside in *sledge in a most deplorable
condition from frost bites, and as his companions
threw him off from it at the front of our ladder,
making us to understand they wished us to cure him,
I felt compelled, from humanity's sake, to receive
him on board, though reluctantly, as he was
much
' in the way of our men on the lower deck. For the

first two months he appeared to do well, and I was in
hopes we would be enabled to cure him ; and„,in.the
meantime, as a sort of recompense, I expected to
make him understand our language sufficiently to in-
quire if he could give us any information respecting
Sir John Franklin and his party, or any of the other
Artie ships. However, in this I was disappointed,
for although he was on board upwards of three
months, he did not appear to understand U 3 better
than when he first came. Hi, new mole of living
being totally different to what he had been act us
toured, he became unwell, and died on the 9:11 of May.
Our crew remained in good health and spirits
throughout the winter, they of their own free' will
taking every necessary exercise until the month of
April, when several slight cases of scurvy made
their appearance; and on the 12 hof May the as-
sistant-surgeon (who exatnieed the men every Mon-
day morning) reported to me that he feared we should
have still more fresh cases, and recommended that
vegetable diet or pickles shoull be supplied to them as
a preventive. Having none on board for our own
use, I felt it my duty to order that part of what we
had on board for the Artie ships should be issued. I
also directed that the crew should be put on a full
allowance of bread, they haying been on two-thirds
during the winter, we not having had room to stow
the same proportion of that species as of the other
kind of provisions on leaving England.
I regret to state that four of the men died, although
neither of the cases could be attributed to the climate.
I cannot help here mentioning the very great atten-
tion and• kindness paid by Mr. James Rae, the as-
sistant-surgeon, to the sick under his care, on all
occasions ; nor was it limited to that alone, for his
attentions to the ventilation of the ship, and health
and comfort of the crew, were his most anxious stilly;
and I received many valuable suggestions from him
on these points. I therefore strongly recommend him
to the favourable consideration of their Lordships.

At the commencement of the severe season we were
annoyed with steam from the galley, when a large
ventilating funnel was placed over the coppers, and
led up through the housing, which completely carried
away all the steam ; several other smaller ones were
got up in different parts of the ship, and I may state
that throughout the whole season there was not a
particle of damp on the lower deck, and the tempe-
rature was between 40 and 50.
Not being fitted with the heating apparatus, I got
a stove fitted in the gunroom, and another in the
cabin, as also two on the lower deck, from which
funnels led through all the cabins, keeping the tem-
perature to between 40 and 50, and preventing any
moisture from accumulating. The officers were also
enabled to dry their clothes, when a strong fire
was kept up, by hanging them round about the
funnels. _ _

As the spring and summer advanced shooting par-
ties were sent away, when all we succeeded in get-
ting was only about 50 hares and a few wild ducks.
(Several foxes were also shot during the winter.)
Beacons were erected on the north and south en-
trance of North Star Bay, in which were placed a
cylinder, containing an account of our having win-
tered there, and intentions of proceeding to the west-
ward when liberated (a copy of which I enclose).
A beacon was also erected to mark the place
where the four men were buried, in which a similar
notice was enclosed, having added to it their names,
ages, and date of decease.
When the weather became sufficiently warm to al-
low the carpenters to handle their tools in the open
sir, the ice was dug away from round the bows of
the ship for three feet deep, to examine and repair
what injury she received in coming through the ice
last year, which was found to be very trifling; the
galvanised iron with which the bows had been covered
was all ragged and torn off; it being thinner than
copper was of no protection to the wood, and only in-
jured the wards in hauling them across her bows. The
iron casks in which we held our tar and oil were
broken up and used for covering her bows, which
made the ship in a much better condition for taking
the ice than which she left England. The upper deck
was then caulked, as the frost during the winter had
drawn all the pitch out of the seams. The pitch in
the seams of the ship's sides was found not to be in-
jured, having been protected from the intense cold by
the snow embankment with which she was surrounded
during the winter.
During the month of June the rigging was re-
fitted and blacked down ; the sails repaired ' • the ship
and boats painted, and everything got ready for sea.
From this time the few cases of scurvy which had
made their appearance in April now rapidly disap-
i geared, and since then we have all been perfectly
healthy.
About the Ist of July, everything being in readi-
ness for sea directly an opportunity might occur, my
whole attention was directed to watching the progress
of the dissolution of the ice ; and Mr. Leask, the ice
master, was sent to the top of a high hill every day to
examine its state in the offing.
The ice rapidly disappeared in the bay, the floe
becoming covered with pools of water, and in many
places holes formed right through which increased in
number every day. All along the shore the ice was
broken up by the tide, and it daily became more diffi-
cult to land.

On the 13th of July, the water caused by the
melting of the snow on the hills in the interior, which
poured down like a river• through the south ravine,
had completely cracked the floe across, and opened it
out from 20 to 60 feet in width.
I therefore determined to saw a canal down to it
from the ship ; a distance of 2,030 yards. On the
morning of the 16th we commenced our labours, be-
ginning from the ship and sawing towards the crack.
On the evening of the 22d the two straight cuts were
completed ; the ice varying in thickness from two to
four feet and a ball. On the 231 we commenced
cross cutting, which we found to form more than twice
the above length, on account of having been obliged
to enlarge:the width of the canal one yard in every ten,
to admit of the floating out of the pieces when the ice
in the offing might open.
Oa the evening of the 25th the ice having become
so rotten, the saws and other implements were brought
on board ; for it now decayed so very rapidly that I
considered it would soon all break up of itself.
During the latter part of July the ice decayed in an
astonishingly rapid manner; the floe which some short
time ago was four feet in thickness, was now broken
into s:nall pieces, and was fast disappearing—so much
so, that the water alongside the ip on the surface
was perfectly fresh.
On the morning of the Ist August the ship was got
under weigh and hauled out of her ivinter,quarters,
where she had remained upwards of ten months.
During the whole of that day and the next all hands
were employed warping, heaving, and towing her
through the ice in the sound, and, after very great
exertions, succeeded in getting her into open water
on the morning of the 3d. We then made sail and
beat out betweenk Wolstenhohne Island and_the main,
and stood to the westward. About 25 miles west of
Wolstenholme Island we fell in with the pack or
middle ice, which we entered, and after several vex-
atious stoppages and hard labour we succeeded in
reaching open water at midnight of the 6th, and stood
over for Possession Bay, on our passage to which, a
distance of 150 miles, we did not meet with any ice,
not even bergs.
At eight P.M. of the Bth-of August I sent a boat
into Possession Bay to ascertain if there were any
tidings of the Arctic ships, or any other information
to guide me ; having failed last season in meeting
with the Investigator, I 'was comparatively without
instructions. At midnight the boat returned without
having discovered any trace of the ships except Cap-
tain Sir James Ross's instructions to Captain Bird,
dated July, 1848 (printed in Arctic Papers, marked
C, page 4) ; also a notice from Captain Ross, stating
that they got through the pack on the evening of the
22d August, 1848, examined Pond's Bay on the 23d,
and left this notice on their way to Lancaster Sound
on the 25th August. (A similar notice to this is
printed in Arctic Papers, marked C, No. 11, p. '7,
from Captain Bird.)
Being desirous of obtaining observations for longi-
tude at this place to ascertain the relative position of
our winter quarters, and the weather being foggy,
I laid off and on until it might clear up for that pur-
pose, which it did on the afternoon of the 10th, when,
having obtained the required observations, I left a no-
tice of my intention to proceed to Whaler Point, or
to any of the other places mentioned in my instructions,
to land the provisions.
I then proceeded up Lancaster Sound, with a fine
breeze from the eastward, and made the land near
Whaler Point on the afternoon of the 12th, without
meeting with any obstruction from ice. As we
neared the land, we found the ice extending off Port
Leopold about 12 miles. After trying every possible
means to get the ship into the harbour until eight
r.st. of the 14th, and without Forceivimz, the slightest
prospect cf success, I bore up far Port Bowen, having
previously sent in a boat with a notice (a copy of
which is enclosed) stating that finding no prospect of
getting in there, I would endeavour to land the pro-
visions at Port Bowen or Port Neill.
Captain Sir James Ross will already have ac-
quainted their Lordships of the provisions, stores,
&c., which had been left there, and which appeared
to me to remain exactly as they had been left. The
housing or tent cover was very much torn and rot-
ten, and I should •say in another winter will disap-
` pear altogether. A copy of that notice I'beg to
enclose

From the purport of that notice I was left in much
doubt as to whether the ships had gone home ; and
from the appearances of the ice, and the bad season
last year, I deemed it advisable to land the provisions
at all ri,km.

On the evening of the 15th of August we examined
Jackson's Inlet, Port Bowen, and Port Neill—all
three of which places we found completely blocked
up with heavy land floes of old ice. Finding it per-
fectly impossible to land the provisions here, I agiin
stood over for Port Lecpold, and on the 16th made
•anothtr attempt to enter it, but I found the ice to ex-
tend much further off from it than before.

The ice appeared to extend in a N.E. direction in
a solid pack iron' Cape Clarence to the north side of
Birrows Strait', completely blocking up that strait,
and also across Prince Regent's 'filet to the S.E. ,
where it reaches some miles south of Port Neill. The
first gale from either north or south will turn either
of these bodies right across the entrance of Port Leo-
pold, and completely seal it up.
Finding it impossible to get into Port Leopold with
the ship, or even to send in a boat to remove the no-
tice I had left there before going to Port Bowen ;
and, on account of the advanced state of the season,
not deeming it prudent to put off any more time,
where there was so little prospect of success, I threw
over a cask containing a notice (a copy of which I en-
close) and proceeded to the eastward with the inten-
tion of landing the provisions at some of the places
indicated in my orders.
At noon of the 21st, being in lat. 73 56 N., and
long. 83 42 F., two brigs were seen to the eastward,
which, on closing at about three P.M., were found to
be the Lady Franklin and Sophia, in search of Capt.
Sir John Franklin. By these vessels I received their
Lordships' letter to me, dated April 10, 1850, to-
,gether with a «Return of the Arctic Correspondence."
By that letter I was informed of the return of the
Enterprise and Investigator, which made the neces-
sity of the provisions on board being landed more
urgent. I therefore determined to do so if possible
somewhere near Navy Board Inlet, which seemed to
me on the passage up to be the only likely place we
saw, and at which, I was informed by Mr. Penny, I
should find a safe harbour.

Judging from the latter part of their Lordship's
letter, where I am ordered to land the provisions at
Disco, or the Whale Fish Islands, that they imagined
I had not got over to the western side, and consider-
ing that provisions would be fir more available here,
as I knew that the whole eight vessels in search of
Sir John Franklin were in Lancaster Sound, I there-
fore told Mr. Penny that I would endeavour to land
them as above mentioned, if possible ; and if a safe
harbour could not be found to land the whole, I would
endeavour to land some for his or the other ship's use
in the event of shipwreck, and proceed with the re-
mainder, as ordered, to Disco.

By him I received intelligence that the eight ves-
sels came through Melville Bay in company, and
that he, with his consort, the Sophia, parted from
them on the 15th of August off Dudley Diggs; that
off Cape York they learnt from the natives where we
had wintered, and the Felix and Intrepid went in
search of us.

During the afternoon =it• continued perfectly calm,
which gave the two vessel's arfopportunity of writing
home. At 2 A.M. of the next morning (the 22d) a
light breeze sprang up, when we parted company at 5.
We observed a schooner under the south land, and
soon afterwards Commander Phillips came on board
from the Felix. By him I received information that
his schooner parted company off Dudley Diggs on the
15th with ber Majesty's ships Resolute and Pioneer,
also the Prince Albert ; and on the 17th he parted
company with her Majesty's ships Assistance and In-
trepid off Cape Leopold. These vessels were to pro-
ceed up the northern shore of Lancaster Sound ; he
accompanied them into Wolstenholme Sound, opened
the beacons we had left, and found we had saled. He
also informed us that Captain Austin was going to
Pond's Bay, and from thence up the south side of
Lancaster Sound, and that letters would be found in
a cairn on a low point on the north side of Pond's
Bay.

On the morning of the 23d, being off Wollaston
Islands I dispatched a boat (in charge of Mr.
Leask, the ice-master) to look for a harbour. At
two P.m. the boat returned, and he then informed me
that provisions might be landed in a bay just within
the easternmost Wollaston Island; the soundings
gradually decreasing. I therefore ran in and moored
the ship in four fathoms, about a quarter of a mile
from the shore. Everything was then got ready fir
landing the provisions, which was commenced at four
A.M. of the following morning. The beach, which
consisted of loose stones, among which large pieces of
ground ice had been thrown up, rendered the landing
very difficult; however, with the assistance of all the
spars and planks that we could collect, we managed
to get them rolled up.
During the time we were landing the provisions the
crew worked with great spirit, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. John Way, the senior second master,
who conducted the operation with great energy and
ability, and who seemed determined that no obstacle
should prevent the fulfilment of the object. He also
superintended the sawing out of the canal in Wolsten-
holme Sound, the landing the notices in the boats at
the various places, and every other duty where trust was
required, highly to my satisfaction ; and I cannot too
strongly recommend him to the favourable consideration
of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for his
promotion, which I consider he so much deserves. I
would also further state that, whilst discharging the
provisions and other stores, I was highly pleased with
the zealous and active part Mr. James J. Rutter, the
clerk in charge, took in assisting as far as possible the
fulfilment of that important duty, especially consider-
ing the hurry and bustle which attended the process
situated as we were. Not only on this occasion, but
during the whole time he has been under my com-
mand, I have had great reason to be pleased with him,
and would strongly recommend him also to the favour-
able consideration of their Lordships for his promo-

tiein, which I consider he so well merits. The draw.
logs taken by him of Wolstenholme Sound, North
Star, Bay, Lee., are enclosed, with the charts or plans
of Wolstenholme Sound, &c., which latter were drawn
by Mr. Aylen, master's assistant, under my imme-
diate superintendence.
By the evening of the 28:h of August we had suc
ceeded in landing the provisions as per invoices en-
closed, which was a sufficient supply for lasting 100
men for twelvemonths, in addition to a large quantity
of preserved soups, vegetables, pickles, and other com-
forts, and about 40 tons of coals. I also landed our
own housing, to cover the tea and other perishable
articles, which might prove very useful in keeping
our men warm, and sheltering them in the event of
shipwreck.
While employed landing the provisions three very
large deer, with immense horns, were seen walking
about near them at one time (and I believe there were
more seen at other times); but we were far too much
occupied to think of looking after them.
Everything was now completed except the erecting
of e beacon flag-staff, similar to the one erected on
the 26th, on a low point outside, and for which every
thing was landed ready, and it was my intention to
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have sent a party to erect it next morning whilst un-
mooring the ship ; but during the night the wind
shifted to the westward, and blew very hard the fol-
lowing morning, causing a heavy ground swell. As
bot-
tomtleh ee
to weigh the anchor. I therefore deemed it prudent
for the safety of the ship to: slip the cable at the fifth
shore,gcaoloe s
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shackle, and proceed to sea. Fortunately a stone
beacon, or cairn, was erected near the provisions, with
a pole in the centre of it, in which was deposited a
cylinder containing an invoice of all that had been
landed. This beacon is in latitude 73 deg. 41 min.
N., and long. 80 deg. 55 min. W.
Having only about three months of the North
Star's own provisions remaining on board, and con-
sidering it would be running far tco great a hazard to
attempt to leave Navy Board Inlet with so small a
quantity, owing to the possibility of being caught in
the pack on the way home, and thereby detained
another winter in the Arctic regions, I therefore de-
sired the clerk in charge to retain a sufficient quan-
tity of those shipped on board for the expedition so as
to complete up a twelvemonth's supply.
During the time the men were employed in landing
provisions, also whilst sawing and getting the ship out
of Wolstonholme Sound, I found it necessary to issue
to the pople actually employed an extra ration of
preserved meat and spirits and half a ration extra of
bread, as the usual allowance is not sufficient to enable
men to continue fur so many hours at such hard work
in this cold climate.
At noon of the 29th we passed Cape Hay, where I
intended to leave a notice of where the provisions had
been landed but as the beacon erected by ourselves
on the outer point of Navy Board Inlet was so plainly
seen from it, and there being too much sea on to ad-
mit of a boat's landing, I did not deem it necessary
to wait, and proceeded on to the eastward.
Oa the afternoon of the 30th I sent a boat into
Possession Bay to lea've a. notice (as enclosed) of
where the provisions were landed and also to get ob-
servations for longitude. On the boat's return I was
informed that the notices left by ourselves on the 10th
of August, and those from the Boterprise,_ were ro-
Moved, and the enclosed (which I beg leave to for-
ward) put in their place.

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it was calm we did not close with her till about' ur--
o'clock the next morning, when I sent a boat elf4__\7o
board and found it to be the Prince Albert, Com-
mander Forsyth, on his way to England. The only
additional information I received from him was, he
left her Majesty's ships Assistance and Intrepid, and
the Lady Franklin, Sophia, and Felix, all well, in
Wellington Channel.

On the afternoon a breeze sprung up, and we soon
ran out of sight of bim. It was my intention to
have kept company with him until we had crossed the
pack, but he sailed so badly that I thought it better to
proceed to Pond's Bay, and there land notices of
where the provisions were landed, after which, if I
had met him, I would, if necessary, have taken him
iu tow.

O❑ the morning of the 31 of September we were
off the north entrance of Pond's Bay, and the weather
being calm, I anchored the ship with a kedge in 4.5
fathoms, as I found the current was setting out of the
and a number of bergs aground near us.
A boat was then dispatched to examine the north
shore of the inlet, in search of the letters that we
were informed by Sir .John Ross were dep.,sited
there; but, after examining its north side for twrnty
miles, could not find any appearance of a cairn. Two
notices similar to that left at Possession Bay were
landed about ten miles apart, and placed in the centre
or a cairn of stones.

At eight. PM. the boat returned, and we weigLed
the kedge and proceeded to the S.E. I regret not
having met with Captain Austin that I might have
been able to inform him of where the provisions were
landed. However, I have no doubt Mr. Penny will
see him, who will give him the necessary information
of my intentions, which he promised to do before
parting company.
At four A.M., of Sunday, the Bth September,being in
lat. 71 40 N., long. 71 10%V., the fog which we had had
for the last four or five days cleared away, and we
observed ourselves close to the pack or middle ice, which
being loose, we immediately entered, and got through
it by ten A.M. without much interruption, it being
small, and all of last winter's formation. Its width
I estimate at about twenty-two miles. We then
stood to the S.E. with a fine fair wind.

On the 9th at noon, when in lat. 70 2 N., and long.
62 20 W., a pack or body of very heavy ice was ob-
served ahead, and which compelled us to haul to the
N.E. for about 20 miles, and we then stood 50 miles
true east, when we again shaped our course down the
straits, since which time we met with no pack, but
passed a number of bergs.

We got to the southward of Cape Farewell on the
afternoon of the 14th of September, but the wind
hanging to the eastward we did not cross its longitu-
dinal meridian until the morning of the 18th of Sep-
tember, being then in lat. 55 30 N.

I may here mention, that although the ship was so
long beset last year in the ice, and has since passed
through so much of it, she has never once received a
nip, and is now as strong and tight as when she left
England.
I regret exceedingly not being able to fulfil my in-
structions of last year, and can only assure their
Lordships that no exertions were wanting on the part
of myself, the officers, and crew, to do so. Had last
season been as favourable as the present for the navi-
gation of the Arctic seas, I have no doubt I should
have found the Investigator or Enterprise before they
left their winter quarters.
The North Star passed Scilly Light at the midnight
of the 26th inst., and arrived at Spithead at eleven
A M this day.
In conclusion, I beg to express to their Lordships
my entire satisfaction of the conduct and unwearied
exertions (when required) of every officer and man
under my command, and more particularly Mr. John
Way, sett., second master; Mr. James Rae, assistant-
surgeon ; and Mr. James J. Rutter, clerk in charge,
each of whom I have already spoken of in this dis-
patch ; they are all of long standing in their present
rank ; I therefore earnestly trust their Lordships will
grant them the promotion they have so well earned.
I have the honour to be, sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
J. SAUNDERS, Master and Commander.
COPY OF A NOTICE PLACED IN EACH OF THE BEA-
CONS ERECTED IN THE NORTH STAR BAY, W 01...
STENHOLME SOUND.
" This paper is placed here to certify that her Ma-
jesty's ship North Star was beset at the east side of
Melville Bay, on the 29:h July last year, and gradu-
ally drifted from day to day, until the 26th of Sep-
tember we found ourselves abreast of Wolstenholnae
Island, when, perceiving the ice a little more loose
and the sound perfectly clear, made all sail and
pressed her through it, anchoring in the lo*er part
of the Sound that evening ; and arrived in this bay on
the Ist October, where she remained throughout the
winter. It is my intention to leave as soon as the
breaking up of the ice will permit, and prosecute my
voyage in search of the Arctic ships.
(Signed)
"JAMES SAUNDERS, Master and Commander.
" North Star Sound, ‘Volstenholtne, April 15, 1850.'
COPY OF A NOTICE LANDED AT WHALE POINT, AUGUST
14. 1850.
"Her Majf,ty's ship North Star, off
Port Leopold, August 14, 1850.
" This paper is placed here to certify that her Ma-
jesty's ship North Star was beset at the east side of

,Veleille gay on the 29,h July last year, and gradu-
ally drifted from day to day until, on the 2Gth Sep-
tember we found ourselves abreast of Wolstenhol me
Sound, when, perceiving the ice a little more loose,
and the Sound perfectly clear, made all sail, and
pressed her through it, anchoring in the lower part of
the Sound that evening, and arrived in North Star
Bay, Wolstenholine Sound, on the Ist October, where
she remained throughout the winter until the Ist of
August 1850, when she got liberated, and proceeded
to the westward, passing through the pack in the cen-
tre of Ross's Bay, and reached Possession Bay on the
evening of the Bth August, 1850, and arrived off Port
Leopold on the 13th August, 1850. The season
being so far advanced, and there being no prospect at
present of getting into the harbour to land the pro-
visions, I shall therefore proceed to land them either
at Port Bowen or Port Neil, according to circum-
stances, as their Lordships' orders for my return to
England this year are so peremptory.
(Signed) "J. SAUNDERS,
Master and Commander." .
COPT OF THE NOTICE FOUND AT WHALER POINT Br
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP NORTH STAR WHEN SHE
CALLED THERE ON THE 14TH AUGUST, 1850.
" The provisions and stores landed here from her
Majesty's ships Enterprise and Investigator, being in-
tended for the use of Sir John Franklin and his party,
it is earnestly desired that any other persons (not in
absolute distress) who may find them will leave them
undisturbed, and will return this paper into the eylin-
der which contains it, as it is intended to inform Sir
John Franklin or any of his party who may arrive
here the Enterprise and Investigator, having wintered
in this port, and having sent parties during the spring
in every direction in search of, but without obtaining
tidings of them, are now about to proceed to sea with
the view of continuing the examination of the north
shore of Barrow's Straits, as far to the westward as
the season will permit, and that they will endeavour
to touch again at this port before they shall depart
for England. But this latter part of the plan of ope-
rations must greatly depend upon circumstances of
weather and season, which, at present, appears by no
means favourable for its successful execution.

(Signed) " EDWD. BLED,
Captain H.M.S. Investigator.
(Signed) "JAS. C. Ross,
Captain H.M.S. Enterprise.
" Port Leopold, August 15, 1849."
COPY OF TWO NOTICES THROWN OVERBOARD FROM
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP NORTH STAR, OFF PORT
LEOPOLD, AUGUST 16, 1850.
" Her Majesty's Sbip North Star, off
Port Leopold, Aug. 16, 1850.
" Her Majesty's Ship North Star crossed over on
the evening of the 14th August, and found Port
Bowen, Port Neill, and Jackson's Inlet completely
blocked up by a thick land floe, rendering it impos-
sible to land the provisions for the Arctic ships. She,
therefore, has put back to this port, and, not being
able to enter, will now endeavour to land them at one
of the places mentioned in the Admiralty order—viz.,
Cape York, Cape Crauford, Cape Hay, Possession
Bay, Pond's Bay, or Agnes's Monument ; but, on
account of the lateness of the season, will not be able
to return to say at which of the places.
(Signed) '6 JAMES SAUNDERS, Master
and Commander."
" Her Majesty's ship North Star arrived off Port
Leopold, Cape Clarence, with provisions for the Arc-
tic ships, on the 13th August, 1850, but finding
the harbour blocked up by heavy loose floes, could
not enter. She then steered o'er for Port Bowen,
Jackson's Inlet, and Port Neill, but could not enter
either of those places from their being blocked up by
heavy land floes. The North Star came hack to Port
Leopold again on the 16th August, 1850, when she
found the place still so blocked up with ice that she
could not enter. The dispatch accompanying this
will give information as to my further intentions.
This was thrown overboard (and put into a cask) on
the 16 h August, 1850. Port Leopold bearing trueh
N.W. W.—four leagues. It is requested that this
paper may he forwarded, if found, to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, London.
(Signed) " JAMES SAUNDERs, Master
and Commander."
" Landed at Navy Board Inlet, this 27th day of
August,jam e 1585.30.,
iftruotmte
rh,ccrleArklajinestcyh'asrgseh,i
pt
heNsolrotph clSottahr-,
ing, stores, tce, undermentioned—viz. (being for the
use d the Arctic Expedition):—Carpet boots, 124
pairs ; biscuit, 12,7681 b. ; brandy (in 378 bottles),
67 gallons ; rum (over proof), 835 6-8 gallons; red
wine (port), 34 4-8 gallons; white wine (70 gallons);
beef, 744 Slb. pieces ; pork, 1,948 41b. pieces ; pem-
mican '(about), 1,4601 b.; flour, 26,7361 b.; suet
4481 b. ; currants, 1121 b.; peas, 77 bushels °gam

•
; 5,•261.b. ; eiv.pnlate, 2,0931 b. ; tea
in 8 whll4-Cases), 663:b.; vitv-gar, 54 gallons ; to.
b..c00, 1,6281 b. ; soap, 1 2921 b.; pr: served meats—
rat boilNll3-ef, ste.A ed beef, bk:ef and vegetables,
v-?asolied beef, roast mutzoo, boiled mutton, loop and
bouille (sorted), 13,59.513.; soup—common, vege-
table, ox-cheek, gravy, and concentrated, 3,7781 b.;
lemon juice, 2,2321b5., 31 cases, 558 bottles ; pre-
served vegetabh•s—:urnips, green peas, carrots, beet
par.nip, v,getable, (sorted) 3,8021 b. ;
cavAles (compositions, 1901 b ; ditto, moutd,,, 3901 b. ;
ditto dips, 2101 b.; sperm oil, 140 gallons; lignum
vita, 1,4001 b ; rice, 1361 b.; preserved potato, 13441 b.;
preserved milk, 1. 36 pints ; Scotch barley, 7901 b. ;
black pepper, 54113. ; salt, 1401 b. ; mustard, 162114. ;
dried yeast, 3613. ; pickles—onions, 4491 b. ; walnuts,
4951 b ; cranberries, 61141b5.; cabbages, 4201 b,;
mixed pickles, 438i1b. ; patent fuel, about 38 tons ;
fire wood, 3,4001 b.
" JAIdES J. RATTER, Clerk in Charge."
COPY OF A NOTICE LANDED AT POVEBSION BAY.
TWO SIMILAR ONES ALSO WERE LEFT AT POND'S

BAY.
" This paper is placed here to certify that provi-
sions have been landed on the east side of the en-
trance of Navy Board Inlet, just within the Eastern-
most Wollaston Island, from her Majesty's ship
North Star, sufficient (of every description) to last
100 men for twelve months, being for the use of the
ships in search cf Sir John. Franklin and his party.
It is, therefjre, earnestly requested that no one will
remove them except in cases of actual distress. It is
further requested that this paper be replaced were
found. A beacon (a cask on a pole) is erected at
the entrance of Navy Board Inlet, and about two
miles north from where the provisions are landed, and
must be seen in clear weather by any ship passing up
the south side of Barrow's Strait. There is also asmail
stone beacon or cairn erected near the provisions,
there not having been time to erect a flag-staff there
likewise, the North Star Laving been obliged to slip
her anchor and put to sea on account of a gale of wind
coming on on the morning of the 29th of August,
1850. She is now en her way to England. The
provisions are landed in lat. 73 44 N, long. 80 55. W.
(Signed)
" J. Ss ustraus, Master and Commander.
" Her Majesty's ship North Star, off Possession
Bay, August 30, 1850."
DOCUMENT FOUND AT POSSESSION BAY BY HER MA-
JESTY'S SHIP NORTH STAR, 30TH AUGUST, 1850.
" Her Majesty's ship Resolute in Possession Bay,
August, 1850, lat. 73 30 N, lOn. 77 20 W.
" Captain Austin having left, in Pioneer, to exa-
mine Pond B.ty at midnight of the 17th instant, this
paper is signed by the senior lieutenant. Ciptain
Forsyth, in Princa Albert, left us on the 17th at
noon, to examine Cape Hay; visiting Wollaston Island
and Cape Charles York, on his way to Regent's
Inlet. Parted company from Assistance, Intrepid,
and Felix on the 16th, and Captain Penny's brigs the
day before. All well and in most excellent spirits.
" ROBERT DAWES ALDNISS, Senior Lieutenant
and CA:amending Officer of her Majesty's ship
Resolute.
"Whoever finds this paper is requested to forward
it to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London, with a
note of the time and place at which it is found.—
Qiiconque trouvera ce papier eat prie d'y marquer
le t ems et lieu ou it l'aura trouve, et de le faire par-
at nir au plutot au Secretaire de l'Amiraute 13ritan-
niqu3 a Londres.—Quienquiera hallari este papel,
esti pedido de euviarlo al Secretario del
Altnirantazgo, d Londres, con una nota del
tiernpo y del Luger en los quales se hallo el dicho
papel.—Enhver awn finder dette papiir an-
modes at inrisende samme uforto vet trl Rea-
j ermgc_tn i K obenhavn eller i Stockholm, Idler til
Secretairen of det Brittiske Admiralitet i London,
med bemre,-kning angaat-nde, tiden naar, og stedet
hvor papiret er fundet.---Een ieder die dit papier
mogt vinden, wordt hiermede verz Sgt, om het zelve,
ten !Toedigste, te willen zenden, can den Heer Mini-
ster van de Marine der Nederlanden in 'S Graven-
blge, of wel aan den Secretaris der Britsche Admi-
raliteit te London, en dear by te voegen eene nota,
inhoudende de tyd en de pleats alwaar dit papier is
gevonden geworden."
Descriptions in tt,e Russian language were also left.
COPY OF THE NOTICE PLACED IN THE BEACON AT

THE OUTER POINT OF NAVY BOARD INLET.
" Provisions have been landed at the bottom of this
bay from her Majesty's ship North Star, sufficient (of
every description) to last 100 men for twelvemonths,
for the use of the ships in search of Sir John Franklin
and his party. It is therefore earnestly requested
that no one will remove them, except in cases of
actual distress. It is further requested that this paper
be rf placed where found.
(Signed) "J. SAUNDERS, Master and Commander.
`tier Majesty's ship North Star, east end of
Navy Board Inlet, within Wollaston
bland, 26th August, 1850."
COPY OF TUE NOTICE PUT UP IN THE CAIRN, NEAR

THE PROVISIONS.
" The provisions landed here from her Majesty's
ship North Star, sufficient (of every description) to
last 100 men for 12 months, for the use of the ships in
search of Sir John Franklin and his party. .It is,
therefore, earnestly requested that no one will remove
them, except is case of actual distress. It is further
qtv..steti that this paper be replaced where found.
(Signed) " J. SAUNDERS,
Master and Commander.
" Hsi. Majesty's ship North Star, east end of
Navy Board Inlet, within Wollaston
26th August, 1850."
The following memorandum was brought home by
Commander Forsyth, of the Prince Albert :
(GENERAL MEMORANDUM.)
Her Majesty's ship Resolute, at sea, lat. 75 25
N , long. 61 34 W., July 25, 1850.
In the hope that the expedition is now not fir dis-
tant from"the North Water, and although the nature
and movements of the ice are so varied in different
seasons as to prevent any determination of plan until
the moment for acting arrives, it becomes desirable
that what is contemplated in the prosecution of the
charge assigned to me—the accomplishment of which
we all have so much at heart—should be made known.
I, therefore, here promulgate it, and it is to be re-
ceived as an addenda to the instructions issued by
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and car-
ried out with all the earnestness and zeal that so
highly-important a service demands.
Toe circumstance of a tender being attached to
each ship establishes in a great measure the security
and Couffiene necessary in the proSecution of this
service, which Would not be felt by one ve.sser alone,
and admitS a partial separation for the season, to
enable a mcre extended search being made.
When maturely considering the most probable
route of the missing expedition in its return by way
of Lancaster Sound, or of any of the crews that might
have left their vessels, it appears that they would have
attempted to reach Pond's Bay, either during the late,
autumn of last year or the earliest moment this
spring, with the hopes of meeting the whalers in the
present season.
Therefore, the Resolute and her tender will pro-
ceed to Pond's Bay, and, if it can be done, commu-
nicate with the natives there; then, as circumstances
admit, search along the shore on her way to Whaler
Point.
The Assistance and her tender will commence the
search at Cape Warrender, continuing it along the
north shore to Wellington Strait, examine its shores
and neighbourhood, and proceed as far up it as is
practicable and sufficient to fully satisfy that it has
or has not been the course of the missing ships. As
Mr. Penny, in his Success, will traverse the northern
part of this strait, there is good reason to hope that
so very important a doubt will be set at rest.

Should any record be fOund of Sir John Franklin
having proceeded in that direction, then it is to be
made known to the Resolute by depositing a notice
there-of either 'at Cape Riley or Cape Hotham, and
the search proceeded with most vigorously, in which
the Resolute will hasten to join at the earliest
moment.
But in the event of no record being found there—
and it is most desirable and important that the ships
should Meet; or at least communicate results of labours
to this point—then the rendezvous to be between
Cape's Rennell, Hotham, and Riley ; the Resolute
standing to the northward from midnight to noon,
and to the southward from noon to midnight, in the
meridian of Cape Hotham.
But should the examination of Wellington Strait
be speedily accomplished without traces being found,
and the Resolute not having reached the rend, zvous,
then, in order to save time, the Assistance will take
up the search to Cape Walker, examining its neigh-
bourhood thoroughly as lar as is practicable; and
failing to obtain any information there, or to meet the
Resolute, will then continue it on the north shore of
the Parry Islands.
And with a view to have a fixed place, where there
is good reason to expect that vessels may reach,
should the rendezvous, on account of time, fail for
communication, then a full account of proceedings,
which any ch suite cf plac.s called for from circum-
stances not anticipated ht-re, must be deposited at the
southern extresnity of Griffith's Island.
In the event of the Rssolute first reaching the ren-
dezvous between Capes Rennell, Hotham, and Riley,
then all endeavour will be made to prosecute to the
entrance of Wtllington Strait, touching at Cape
Reilly and Cipe Hotham, in order, according to cir-
cumstances ; and failing to meet there with informa-
tion of the Assistance, or traces of the missing expe-
dition, will then proceed towards Capes Rennell and
`~Walker; and not lindiog traces in that cirection, will
continue the search in the south-vvest, towards Mel-
ville Island, where it would be expected to take up
winter quarters. But if, on the contrary, traces are
found, then the object of reaching Melville Island
would be 'abandoned, and winter quarters taken in the
south-west, 'according to circumstances.
Should Assistande, on reaching Capellotham, dis-
covet ths t Resolute has preceded her, and gone on
without finding any traces, she will make the best of