The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

TilE SUN,

MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1850.

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

ADMIRALTY, AUG. 26, 1850

The Secretary of the Admiralty will feel obliged by
the Editor of The Sun inserting the enclosed in the
paper of this evening.

EXTRACT OF A DISPATCH FROM SIR GEORGE
SIMPSON, DATED NORWAY HOUSE, JUNI; 26,
1850.

I am sorry it is not in my power to give any
information respecting the fate of the expe-
dition under Sir John Franklin, as no advices
have been received here from the Arctic Regions
since the arrival of the express which conveyed chief
factor Rae's letters up to the 29th November, receipt
of which was acknowledged from London previous to
my departure from Canada. The packets that were
forwarded from Lachine to Mr. Rae and Captain
Pullen, under dates 21st of January and 14th of
February, reached Red River Settlement respectively
on the 30th of March and the 30th of April,
but from the circumstance of the bearers
of the first packet having lost their way
between Cumberland and Luc la Rouge, occasioning
a loss of nearly a month, they did not reach Isle a la
Crosse till June Ist, one packet arriving there in the
morning, and the other in the evening of that da3 ; the
former was dispatched within an hour after its re-
ceipt, and the latter in like manner, the bearers of
the second packet overtaking those who started
in the morning. As the navigation of the
rivers was open, it was expected that
both packets would have reached Great Slave Lake
before the breaking up of the ice in time to enable
Captain Pullen and Mr. Rae to have re-
sumed their search, provided there were sufficient
provisions in the district for that service ;
but that is exceedingly doubtful, as the demands upon
our resources during the three past years have ex-
hausted our reserves (which under the most favour-
able circumstances are always low in that
poor and remote part of the country) to such
a degree, that it was found necessary to send many of
the servants during the past winter to neighbouring
lakes, to subsist themselves by fishing. The to o boat
loads of provisions, with crews of fifteen men, ordered
by me, under date 21st January, to be forwarded
from Red River, to meet the demands of the expedi-
tion, to be fitted out this summer, were dispatched
by chief factor Bellenden, at the opening of the navi-
gation, with a hundred pieces of pemican and
fl)ur, stores of tea, sugar, biscuit, pork, &c., for Cap-
tain Pullen, and Mr. Rae, and about fifteen bales of
clothing.

o .ving to the late breaking up of Lake Winipeg,
these boats did not reach the grand Rapid until the
12'11 June, but as the crew corsisted of fourteen
picked men of the settlement, and one of the most ex-
periencEd and active guides, they will dot:b•less natio
an expeditious voyage to McKenzie River ; I fear,
however, they will arrive too late to be available for
service during the present season of open water.
It is expected the cargoes of these boats will
be delivered entire as arrangements had been made
to victual the crews for the whole voyage from Red
River to McKenzie River.

The continued absence of cbi,f factor
Rae from the charge of the important
district of M'Kenzie River is attended with
very serious inconvenience to the business; but
we consider no sacrifice too great in giving effect to
the views and wishes of her Albjesty's Government
and the British public in reference to this pain-
fully interesting service.

The Duke of Wellington leaves Apsley House this
day for Walmer Castle, far the autumn. Lady Charles
Wellesley and family, who have during the last week teen
sojourning at Folkestone, leave there to-morrow to join the
noble and gallant Duke at Walmer.
His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen is expected to
arrive at the Prussian Legation to-day from a temporary
leave of absence in Germany.
The Marchioness of Douro will relieve Viscountess
Canning of her duties as La y-in-Waitirig to the Queen to-
morrow, when the Marchioness will attend on her
Majesty during her Dlajesty's progress from London to
Balmoral.
The Duke of Buccleugh is erecting at Granton a
patent slip, for the repair of vessels, on the largest scale yet
attempted, it being intended to be available for vessels even
of 1,200 tons.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
SUICIDE OF A CHARTIST LEADER.—John Warden,
for many years a Chartist leader in Lancashire, and who was
tried at Liverpool a few years ago, with a number of others,
but acquitted, committed suicide on Monday week by cut-
ting his throat. The incision, however, was not so dece but
that he lirgered until Monday last, when he died. His life
of late had been one continued scene of misfortune. Father,
mother, brother, wife, and child— all-followed each other in
rapid succession to the grave; and, at last, the sole survivor
began to wear the aspect of a dejected and pining being, un •
til at length, finding be was somewhat deficient in his ac-
counts with his employer, a card-cutter for jacquards, whose
books he kept, he put an end to his existence.
ToWYN.—FATAL OCCURRENCE..—LYO respectable
farmers, from the parish of Manafon, Montgomeryshire, of
the names of Goodwin and Newell, while bathing at this
place on Monday evening, went toe far into the sea, and, not
being able to swim, lost their footing, and were drowned.
The sea was quite calm at the time. and it was low water,
several other persons were bathing at the same time, and it
beirg so tine and the sea so smooth, no one for a moment
thought that the unfortunate men were in danger until tco
late. Both the deceased have left wives and several children
to lament their untimely loss.—North Wales Gazette.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—Mr. Longbournr, agent
for Lord Milford, in Pembrokeshire, has been accidentally
drowned. He went in a phaeton, accompanied by a servant,
to Maenclochog fair; after transacting his business, he set
out homewards in the afternoon. To shorten the distance,
he resolved to pass through the river Cleddy by a ford near
Egremont ; he was warned that heavy rains had made the
ford dangerous, but he persevered. In the stream he dis-
covered the correctness of his warning; the current was so
strong that the horse could not resist it; the animal plunged
about, and the shafts broke. Mr. Longbourne leaped from
the vehicle to swim ashore; the servant clung to the horse,
and gained the land, but Mr. Longbourne perished.—North
Wales Gazette.
SALMON FISHING?.—We have just had the Lammas
floods, but they do not bring up salmon, for salmon there are
few or none to bring. The season has been a mast unpro-
ductive one to our tacksmen. From whatever cause, there
seems to be a general decay of red fish in our western Scot-
tish rivers. The Glasgow courier of Tuesday says:— " A
few weeks will terminate the present salmon fishing season.
On the Clyde—once famous for the extent and richness of
its takes—it has been the mos: unsuccessful upon record.
Since the month of March, when the fishing begins, we be-
lieve there have not been forty salmon killed betwixt Glas-
gow and the mouth of the river." Such a fact as that is
quite extraordinary.— Danzfries Herald.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS —Major Jacob, of the
Bombay Artillery, is appointed a Companion of the Military
Order of the Bath. Mr. W. Bage is appointed Colonial En-
gineer at the Gambia. Thomas Martin Matthews is ap-
pointed a member of the Executive Council of the Bahama
Islands. Robert Alexander Thomson and Dr. William
Kirkwood are appointed members of the Legislative Council
of the Bahama Islands. Dr. Robert Lawson is appointed a
member of Council in Sierra Leone.
The New York Evening Mirror states that the
daughter of President Fillmore "is an accomplished young
lady, about eighteen years of age, and now engaged, we be-
lieve, in the honourable employment as teacher of a public
school in Buffalo. The latter fact-is something for a repub-
lican people to boast of; and something to put the dainty
daughters of the would-be aristocracy to the blush."
H.ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Amongst the noble
and distinguished individuals honouring the performances at
Her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening with their
presence were the following :—His Grace the Duke of 'Wel-
lington, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Donegal,
the Countess of Glengal and Lady Margaret Butler Earl of
Mountcharles, the Viscount Clifden, the Count de Rosen, the
Viscount Canterbury, the Count de la Tour Dupin, Lady C.
Somerset, Lady Catherine Stuart, Lady F. I3entinck, Lord
William I'aulett, Lady Lake, Lady Augusta Wentworth and
Miss Wentworth, the Count de Berke, and the Baron Vide!.
Her Majesty's box was occupied by the Marchioness of
Donegal, Lady Harriet Chichester, Mrr. Verner, the Earl of
Belfast and party. Amongst the company were also the
following :—Lietenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford,
Bart., Lady and Miss Woodford, Sir John Lowther, Bart.,
Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Mr. Storer, Sir Thomas Hare,
Bart., Lady Mackenzie and Miss Mackenzie, the Hon. Capt.
Corry, M.P , the Hon. Cecil Forrester, the lion. 0. F. Toler,
the Hon. Spencer Cowper, the Hon. Robert Bourke, the
Hon. Mr. Ilenbury, the Hon. Mrs. St. John, the lion. Mr.
Dudley de Rous, the Hon. Miss Maude, Mr. Norman Mac-
donald, Major Buckley, Captain 1-hibbs, Captain and
Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Walker, Miss Richards, Mr. Leslie,
Miss Bellew, &c.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Amongst the fashion-
able company honouring the performance at the Royal
Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening we
remarked his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick and
party, her Grace the Duchess of Inverness and party, the
Marchioness of Westmeath, the Marquis of Douro, M.P.,
the Marchesa Brancaleoni and Madlle. Brancaleoni, the Earl
of St. Germans, the Earl and Countess of Beauchamp, Vis-
count Dupplin, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Templetown,
Viscount Mandeville, Lord and Lady Burghersb, Lord
Francis Gordon, Miss Burdett Coutts and Miss Grant, Mrs.
William Locke and Miss de Burgh and the Hon. Miss Blake,
Sir George Armytage, Sir Henry Webb, Lady Monson,
Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Colonel Blane, Mr. Henry
Greville, M. and Madame Ralli, Madame de Boota, Hon.
Mrs. Arthur Upton' Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, Mr.
'
and Mrs. Horstman Miss Gyles, Mrs Hooper and the Misses
Hooper and Miss Laurie, Baron and Baroness Von Sten;
Sir Francis and Lady Vincent, Colonel Blane, Captain
Steele, Captain Pakeuham, Mr. E. Bligh, Mr. John 13ulteel,
Mr. J. Lloyd Clayton, Mr. Martineau, Major M•Lcod, Mr.
C. C. Vartyn, Mr Erskine, Lady Louglas, General Lewell3'n
and Lady Lewellyn, Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Augustus
Stanley, Hon. Theobald Dillon, Mr. and Mrs. Herring, Mr.
Cox, &c.

DI,PARTURL OF THE BISHOP OF MONTREAL.-00
Saturday the Right Re.. Dr. Francis Fulford, who was con-
secrated on the 25th of July last Bishop of the diocese of
Montreal, left the shores of England to enter upon the epis-
copal duties of his distalt Lee. His Lordship was a passenger
in the Hibernia, bound for Boston, in which city he con-
templates remaining a few days previous to passing onwards
to Montreal.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of Saturday
and yesterday.
The illonitcur pub'idits th 3 following telegraphic
dispatch, dated Strasburgh, the 23d o' At gust, at one
in the afterncon :

" The President of the Republic visited the Civil and
Military Hospital, the Foundry, the Arsenal, and the
Cathedral this morning. 'There was in immense crowd
everyt here, and he met an excellent reception. He
leaves Strusburgh at this moment, amiilst cries of Vive
le President'.' lie is clotely followed by an immense
crowd."

The reception of the PRESIDENT at Strasbourg
was very cold. Nothing could be more unen-
thmit:stic than the address of the Mayor, it is as
follows :

" Monsieur le President,—Your solicitude about the
interests and wants of our neighbourhood brings you to
our torn. We congratulate you on your good visit.
Be pleased, Monsieur to President, to sea in the hospi-
tality we are happy to offer you a proof of our pro-
found respect for our institutions, and for the First
Magistrate of the Republic."
The following case has just been decided by the
Tribunal of Commerce. AI. ESCUDIER, the publisher
of the Decadence de l'Argleterre and the Loi Anglaise,
by M. LEDRU ROLLIN, was sued by M. ANTOINE on
some bills of exchange, of which he was the holder.
M. DCUDIER, in his defence, demanded that M.
LEDRU ItoLLIN should be declared responsible, and
assigned the following grounds for the demand :
When M. LEDRU ItoraaN agreed with AL ESCUDIER
to publish these winks, he would not have hina as a
direct debtor, fearing that an opposition would be
placed upon any of the proceeds for debts due by M.
LEDRU ROLLIN. He therefore made M. acuntEß
sign bills, which were endorsed to the order of M.
DALICAN, DI. LECLANCHF and M. ANTOINE. In
coinpl ing with the desire of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, M.
ESCUDIER expected that the two works would be com-
pleted by the author, which has not been the case,
and, above all, that there would be a sale for them,
whereas they have rema;ned on the shelves of his
warehouse. Having derived no benefit from the
works, he had therefore a right to refuse payment of
the bills when in the hands of a person who was only
a prOe-nom. The Tribunal, after hearing the plead-
ings, complied with the demand of 117. ESCUD!EIt,
and gave judgment by default against N. LEDRU
ROLLIN.•
We read in the Paris correspondence of the Inde-
pendancc of Brussels

"You are avvra that a rumour prevails here that a
letter has been written by the Prie:ce do Joinvide to a
representative of the moderate party. This letter was
read the day before yesterday at M. Mo!6's, end the
name of the member, formerly an ambassador, who re-
ceived it, was mentioned. It is said that it is the Re-
publican party which provoked the seeding of this fire-
brand, as it is resolved to support the Prince de Joimille
against the pretenskns of M. Louis Bonaparte, and lees
In the position of that candidate, as regards his own
family, guarantees against any possible return, by that
way, to the monarchy. ALhough I believe the litter to
be authentic, I have to state that a deputy, well known
for his relations ‘lith the younger branch, M. R. (dn
Nord), who Las just returned fcom London, eh clams
that he has had a conversation with the Prince ee Join-
ville, which was little in accord with the intentions at•
tributcd to him by the letter, as spoken ef by the Bulletin
de Penis."

There is a well written article in the Presse on the
probabilities of 1852, from which we extract the ful-

lowing:-

" The Republic will not die—such is the first solution,
which appears more and more evident as we go on. The
Bonapartists already make themselves Republicans
through fear of legitimacy, and we shall soon see the
Legitimists doing the same through fear of the Em-
pire. The Or:cellists may also be converted through
fear of something else. In fine, the poor Republic,
so disdained, will be the coannon shelter. We an-
nounce that, in 1852, there will be only lOlaib-
hears. How con!el it be otherwise P Who could, in
1852, combat the Republic? Certainly not the Repub-
licans. The Republic is not such as they imagined it,
but still it is the Republic. In wYat is only a firm,
even a degenerate one, they feel the germ ef demo-
cracy, and they trust to time, which ripens all that
just and true. Not the Orleanists. The Count de Paris
will be still a clai:d in 1852. The party which regrets
the revolution of 1848, atter having effected that of
1830, feels more ill-humour than antipathy fur the R-...-
public. It could not eons( nt to again raise a throne on
an ill-eNtinguished volcano; it will guard the Republic
which reserves it 1101,03. Not the" Legitimist-. A
restoration of La Vent is impo:sible, so is one by a
European ceali,ion. The Legitimists, no doubt, have
the object of their predilection at Frosdorf ; but, in de-
fault
of their young King, they will guard the Re- 1
public which prottcs and reserves their prEciple.
Remain the Bonapartists. The dreams which they
had made in the atmosphere r f flatteries and faLehood
concerning an empire Lad vanished into thin air on the
banks of the Rhone. Scarcely had M. Luis Napoleon Bo-
naparte left the Ely: oe, when he recovered something
of that sound sense which we had admired in the works
of the prisoner of Ham. In approaching the people, he
got farther from the phantasmagoria created by his
courtiers, and perceived the vanity of coup; detat, which
he has disavowed, as well as the power of the Republic,
which he has recognised and proclaimed. On that side
also there is no danger. The idol is wanting to the
adorers, supposing that there are any such. The Empire
reminds us of a statue without a pedastal. It is hence-
forward only a pedestal without a statue."

Bu.SIN ILS DONE IN FOR CIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOGE-EXCIIANGE, Auc. 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, VA—Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), I.l%—East Indian, 7A— Great Indian Penin-
sula, I.l4—Paris and Rouen, 23q ex div.

SPA IN.
Madrid journals of the 19r,h have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.

PORTUGAL.

Accounts havc. been received from Lisbon to
;he 19

Commodore MARTIN'S squadron arrived in the
Tagus on the 11th.

The QUEEN and the Court were at Cintra, and
the Ccunt DE TuomAß at Calde:3. Several incen•
diary fires had occurred in the provinces.

DENMA RK AND THE DUCHIES,
Tue Harnburgh Courant publishes a letter from
Altona of the 20th ult. which Bays,---
" Seventy-six wounded have been brought in lore to-
day from Rendsburg; 600 men cho we re Wounded in the
late engagement, and admitted into tha hospital of this
place, have already been discharged cured, and have
gone back to the army.
" The commandant of Rrndsburg, Litut.-Colonel Von
Lesser,_ died suddenly yesterday, and is to Le solemnly
interred to-day.

GERMANY.
A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, of the 20th
,ast., in the Kolner Zeitung, states that a Cabinet
Council was held on the 19th, in which it was re-
solved to decline accepting the Austrian invitation
to join the "Federal Diet," and reserving a protest
against all "non. German" consequences to consent
to a Commission respecting the property of the Con-
federation,
The Gazette of the Empire of Vienna, of the 17th,
contains the following article :
" Ths convocation of the Germanic Diet by Austria is
a fre,h attempt made to bring about concord in dis-
united and divided Germany. The revolutimary move-
ments of the last two years, and the policy adopted by
Prussia having thrown Germany into anarchy, Austria
will convoke the plenary assembly at Frankfurt.
That assembly to resolve two questions: 1. The formation
of a new central provisional power, and. 2. The revision
of the Federal Compact. It is also necessary to give an
organ to the Confederation, in order to impress on the
affairs of Germany a character of unity and of durability,
and t‘i place all the members of the Confederation in a
position to prepare for the future. The differences
which have arisen, however, between Austria and
Prussia produce obstacles which will' neith, r
permit the creation of a federal organ, nor
to come to an understanding as, to the revision.
The circular dispatch addressed on the 190 July by
the Austrian Cabinet to all the German Governments
sufficiently proves it.. Under these circumstances, the
Austrian Government had no other course than to
place itself on the ground of Germanic right in re-
maining faithful to its policy, and to ensure the appli-
cation of the Federal.Cumpact, which has never mated
to exist It has found it necessary to propose the re-
establishment of the Diet, the constitutional organ of
the Confederation, for it would otherwise have been im-
possible to have triumphed over the obstacles raised on
different sides, and fresh combinations. The objections,
which some of the confederated powers may raise
against the formation of a provisional power, without
their participation, will be without any value with re-
gard to the convocation of the constitutional and legal
organ of the will and of the action of the Confederation.
Count Thun is therefore charged to propose to the
plenary Assembly to revive the Diet, and the As-
sembly will authorise the convocation. The,Austrian Go-
vernment has proposed this convocation by a circular
note c f 14th August. It takes pleasure is believing that
the great interests of the country, its welfare, its power,
and its honour, will be worthily appreciated 'by all the
Government; and even by those which have hitherto
folios ed an individual policy. For what reason should
they not fulfil their federal duties? Dors not the fede-
ration give them a full and entire guarantee of indepen-
dence and liberty? Will not a mediating federal au-
thority best conciliate diverging interests? We repeat,
the Austrian Government—strong in the sincerity of
its intentions—is authorised to admit that difficulties of
form, which every Government can remove, will not pre-
vent this last attempt et conciliation. Nobody will incur
the responsibility of having exposed the German name
to the derision of contemporaries and of posterity. The
Diet is to assemble after the lit September, until after
the revision of the Constitution, and Austria has so-
lemnly promised that she will not demand tho pure and
simple reestablishment of the former irstitutions.”

ITALY.
Several arrests gave taken place in Florence.
The Croce di Sovoia of the 20:h states that the
King of SARDINIA, having had an attack of elysipelus
in the cheek, had been bled twice, but it does not
appear that any danger was apprehended. The QUAEN