The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

THE ♦RCTIC EXPEDITION.

Woonvicn, APRIL Sir Francis
T. Baring (First Lord of the Admiralty), Rear-Admiral
J. W. D. Dundas (First Naval Lord), Captain Alex-
ender Milne and the Hon. William Cowper (Lords of
the Admiralty), Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.B.
(Surveyor of the Navy), Mr. John Parker (First Secre •
t try ,to the Admiralty), Lord Minto, Lord Clarence
Paget, Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.B. (Governor of
Greenwich Hospital),. Rear-Admiral Sir James Alex-
ander Gordon, K.C.B. (Lieutenant-Governor of Green-
wich Hospital), Rear-Admiral Bowles, C. 8., Commodore
Henry Eden (Superintendent of her Majesty's Dock-
yard, Woolwich), with Lieutenant Robertson (Royal
Navy) and Mr. Humphrys.(Chief Engineer at Woolwich
Dockyard), embarked at 930 A.M. to-day at Woolwich
in the Black '.Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander S.
B. Cook, and went down the river on a visit to the ves-
sels of the Arctic expedition at Greenhithe.
Their Lordships went on board the Resolute, Captain
Austin, C. 8., and were received by the gallant officer
and the whole of the officers of the vessel assembled on
deck. Their Lordships were much pleased with the
clean and well-ventilated condition of the vessel, and
the excellent art angements for the comfort of the officers
and men.
They then proceeded to the Assistance, Capt. Erasmus
Ommaney, and were received by the gallant captain and
his officers assembled on deck. Their Lordships were
gratified with the excellent appearance of the officers
and crew of this vessel, and with her appearance below
deck, the arrangements for the accommodation of all on
board being, as in the Resolute, better than in any ves-
sels previously sent to the Arctic regions.
After minutely inspecting the e two sailing vessels, they
went On board the Pioneer, Lieutenant Sherard Osborn,
and inspected that vessel very particularly, to ascertain
her capabilities for the duties she is expected to perform.
The Intrepid screw steam-vessel will leave Woolwich
on Wednesday, under Lieutenant-Commander John
Bertie Cutor, to have her compasses adjusted at Green-
bithe.
The crews of the whole four vessels, the Resolute, the
Assistance, the Pioneer, and the Intrepid, will be paid
wages in advance at Greenhithe on Friday, the 3d inst.,
and on Saturday, the 4th inst., the whole of the vessels
will leave Greenhithe on their progress to the Arctic
regions. They have three years' provisions oa board,
besides supplies for the missing expedition, and they are
to be supplied with Mr. Shepherd's balloons previous to
their leaving the river.
The Lords of the Admiralty. returned in the Black
• Eagle steam-vessel, and on arriving there, at 1.15 P.M.,
left immediately for town.
The Widgeon steam-vessel is to tow the Mary, Sir
John Ross's private yacht, down the river to-morrow, on
her way to the Frith of Forth, and through the Forth
and Clyde Canal to join the Felix at Ayr, and go on
with her to the Arctic regions as her tender. Tho Lords
of the Admiralty have ordered that a year's provisions
be supplied to Sir John Ross's expedition.

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to Marlborough House, where they may probably be seen
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The Napoleon has the following :
" Agriculture is still in a state of great suffering.
What specially causes the low price of corn is the un-
certainty with respect to the future, of which the end is
not seen. Speculators, who had purchased rather large
quantities to sell later, have left for some time past the
corn in the market or with the producers, and seem to
abandon all chance of profit. In order to remedy the
double inconvenience of capital without circulation, and
corn below value, the Government has imagined and
authorised loans on corn, convinced that the slightest
rise in the price of that article would produce in favour
of agriculture a result of which superficial observations
do not give an idea, but which clearly appears from the
following table :
" When the kilogramme of bread is
at 20c., France disburses 1,460 millions
at 30c., 99 2,070 ~
at 40e., 2,555 „ -
at 50c., 3,650 „
Tbue, according to small variations, France may have to
pay two milliards, more or less, to agriculture for bread
in the course if a year. This enormous difference
made it the daty of the Government to seek the means
of raising the price cf corn. It believes tE at it has found
it in loans on flour. Such a simple explanation will, no
doubt, put an end to the passionate criticism of certain
Journals."

In what, as far as principle is concerned, does this
notable scheme for enhancing the price of bread, and
'thus robbing the poor and industrious bread-eater for
the benefit of the large landowner, differ from the
Socialist schemes for the organization of labour, and
for the formation of loan banks. Yet these are so de••
nounced by the gentlemen who have concocted the
above scheme (which almost seems to have been sug-
gested by some members of the English aristocracy)
fur their own especial benefit. In each case money
is proposed to be taken from the taxes, to which all
contribute, to be expended for the benefit of a few
individuals, to the damage and injury of the re-
mainder of the tax-payers. The only difference is,
that the Socialists propose to give to the poor the pro-
ceeds of the plunder, while the Napoleon proposes to
adopt the English plan, of plundering the poor for the
benefit of the landowner.

The Evenensent gives the following additional re-
turns of votes from the army :—Rouen, 4th
Regiment of light infantry : Sae, 66, Leclerc 19—
Toulon, 10th Regiment of the line : Sue 41, Leclerc
7—Dijon, 14th of the line : Sue 52, Leclerc 13—St.
Omer : Sue 18, Leclerc 3.
The Gazette de France, however, claims the ma-
jority at St. Omer for Leclerc.
The Presse says that the statement of the votes of
the army received up to Sunday night gave to Sus
856, to LECLERC 241. The votes of the army for
the Soane and Loire are—Democratic list, 397 ; Re-
actionary list, 34.
PARIS Bounsa, Aram 22.—Latest prices.—Five
per Cents., 89f. ; Three per Cents., 55f. 35c. ; Bank
of France, 2,125 f.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, OA East Indian, s%—Great
i In-
dian Peninsula, IN3 —Luxembourg, I% —Para and btras-
bourg, 5%.