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BATTERS' COAL-WEIGHING
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We had an opportunity yesterday morning of wit-
nessing in operation, at the Bull Hotel, Bishopsgate-
street, an ingenious machine, adapted to one of the
most desirable and economical eurposes—that of
weighing all coals on delivery. The patent of the
invention has been taken out by Messrs. Batters,
Clements, and Co., the eminent coal-merchants of
Westminster ; and the experiments were made in the
presence of several gentlemen connected with the
coal trade, besides others interested in the success of
a process by which a notorious species of fraud, sadly
injurious to the public, might be materially lessened.
The machine is simply an application of the beam and
scale principle, a table being drawn from the end of
the waggon, from which the sacks are taken by the
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weight of each is determined to an ounce, whether a
registry of the same is required or not.
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annum—this convenience is obviously one of vital
importance. The Act of Parliament, Ist and 2.1
Viet., cap. 101, declares that all coals shall be
weighed in place of the previous practice of measuring,
an enactment which has left open a wide field for
imposition. The provisions, however, of an Act of
Parliament have not been found sufficient to protect
the public ; and the nefarious trader still reaps a
large reward from his malpractices, well knowing
that in the majority of instances the quiet house-
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rather than incur the annoyances incident to the pre-
sent cumbrous mode of weighing the sacks, or else is
totally unable, in a crowded thoroughfare, to avail him-
self of the test authorised by law. It it, therefore, a
matter of surprise, that an appendage so simple as
that of Messrs. Batters' has never been thought of
until the present moment. But now that a machine
so immediately available has been constructed for the
especial defence of the consumer, the weighing ceases
to be a thing of difficulty, and the Legislature might
properly compel its adoption, as it did some years ego
when a change was peremptorily made from measure
to weight. The transit of the coals from the waggon
into the cellars of Mr. Came fully proved that the
inventors of the apparatus have not over-estimated
its practicability ; and as a load is delivered in an
equally brief space of time, and with equal ease to
the men, as though they were not weighed, we think
the public may be reasonably recommended to guard
themselves against short weight in future by insisting
upon the use of those vehicles to which the machine
of Messrs. Batters is affixed.

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AND LOWER CALIFORNII.—The new number cf the Quar-
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counter before he pockets his first fragment of gold at a dis-
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respecting mortgagees and trustees. It confers very consi-
derable powers on the Court of Chancery, giving that court
jurisdiction over trustees in a summary manner by orders,
and enabling the court to seize and possess funds with the
view of earrying_opt the trusts reposed ill trustees. •

RETURN OF CAPTAIN FORSYTH

IN THE PRINCE ALBERT.

SUPPOSED TRACES OF. sia J. FRANKLIN.
The following letter from Captain Forsyth, report-
ing the return of this little expedition, cogsisting of
his solitary veTsel the Prince Albert, will be read with
the deepest interest, not only for the intelligence it
conveys, but for the extraordinary and unexampled
exploit performed—for it is nothing less—during one
short season in the Arctic Seas. - _

It will be fresh in the recollection of our readers
that this branch expedition, equipped by-the untiring
energies of Lady Franklin, aided by a' few private
personal friends and public sympathisers in the cause
—Equipped, 'too, in the space of three short weeks—
left the port of Aberdeen after all the other wssels
had long proceeded on their voyage ; but, unlike-all.
those expeditions, she boldly stemmed the waves of
the Atlantic, and threaded the icebergs of Baffin's-
Bay alone—and would have wiWered alone in those
dreary regions, whither she had gone, had any op-
portunity offered, or prospect even, of potting the
vessel into any harbour; as far as we know, how-
ever, she never once dropped her anchor, unless, in-
deed, it might have been at the entrance of the Wel-
lington Channel.
In the whole history of Arctic navigation the voy-
age of the Prince Albert stands 'unexampled. It will
be seen that she ran through Lancaster Sound an&
Barrow's Strait—sailed down Prince Regent's Inlet
to the spot where the Fury was wrecked—crossed to
the opposite side, to Port Bowen, and then ran up the
straits as far as the entrance of Wellington Channel ;
and after again running the gauntlet of Barrow's
Straits and Baffin's Bay, hats rettituedjo England to
give us the intelligence !ilia brings, which thousands
are now perusing with feelings of the.most profound
interest.

We have seen private letters from this expedition
which show more clearly than this dry official report
—which, "as an officer in her Mhjesty's navy (not
under any employment or countenance of the Admi-
ralty) he felt it his duty to make to the Board"—how
unjustifiable it would have been for Captain Forsyth
to have attempted to remain out, with an ice master
and ice mate, ignorant in'the extreme, and always at
variance one with the other, and eventually 4, fighting
it out" on the quarter-deck, par nubile fratrum,
forcibly reminding us of old Stephan° and Trinculo,
together with other circumstances not necessary to
enter into h,re.
We heartily congratulate this little expedition on
its safe return, and cordially wish Captain Forsyth
the advancement he so well deserves for his most
anxious and well-managed voyage, under the most
trying circumstances.
It may be generally known that Captain Forsyth
served under Sir John Fraklin in Australia, in com-
mand of some colonial " vessel, and that in gratitude
for the kindness shown to him by S'r John, Lady
Franklin (whose hospitality to all parties when Sir
J.hn was Governor of Van Diemen's Land was pro-
verbial) induced him to volunteer his services gra-
tuitously in this sacred and noble cause.

CAPTAIN FORSYTH'S DISPATCHES.
The following dispatches were received at the
Admiralty-office yesterday :
" Prince Albert, Aberdeen, Oat. 1.
" Sir,—l have the honour to report my return to
England, and take the earliest opportunity of com-
municating, for my Lords Commissioners' informa-
tion, that traces of the missing expedition under Sir
John Franklin have been found at Cape Riley and
Beechy Island, at the entrance to the Wellington
Channel.
" The annexed document was copied from one left
in a cairn at Cape Riley, by Captain Ommaney, the
day previous to our visiting it. We observed five
places where tents had been pitched, or stones placed
as if they bad been used for keeping the lower part of
the tents down ; also a great quantity of beef, pork,
and birds' bones, a piece of rope, with the Woolwich
naval mark in it (yellow), part of which I have en-
closed. Her Majesty's ships Assistance and Intrepid,
when last seen by me, on the 25th of August, whilst
off Point Innis, appeared to be well over with Cape
Hotham, carrving-a press cf sail, with a strong breeze
from the westward. Penny's vessels were also in the
entrance of the Straits, and two American brigantines,
working over towards Cape llotham.
" As an officer belonging to her Majesty's service,
although not having been especially sent out by her
Majesty's Government, I deem it incumbent on me
Ito inform their Lordships of the part this vessel has
taken in the search.
The Prince Albert, under my command, left
Aberdeen on the sth of June last. On the 21 of
July, after experiencing a succession of westerly
gales, we arrived off Cape Farewell. On the 15th,
met some whalers off the Black Hook, returning to
the southward, not having been able to accomplish the
passage round Melville B sy. On the 19th, entered
tha ice, and on the 21st came up with Sir John Ross
in a labyrinth of heavy icebergs. On the 23 !, met
the remainder of the fleet of whalers coming to the
southward.

" On the 26th made out Captain Austin's and Mr.
Penny's, vessels beset is the ice, about 15 or 20 miles
to the northward of us. From this time to the 9th of
August we were generally beset,
occasionally expe-
riencing some very heavy shocks, when we succeeded
in getting into a lead, and passed Captain Austin
within a few miles still beset. On the 10th his ships,
by the aid of steamers, got into open water, and were
towed past us in a calm. The same evening they
were again beset. Oa the 12th the steamers, assisted
n Austin very kindly offered myself and
forced a Passage through. It being
c
,s a tow clear of the ice, which we most
and gladly availed oursfilves of. On the
hsayilrmb
jl,aocshtaninpg.ao
t,d
e communicated with the natives at Cape
gave us to understand that a ship answer-
ing the description of the North Star had wintered
somewhere about Woistenholme Sound. The same
evening the Assistance was dispatched to ascertain the
truth of this report.

parted
" Oa the 17th I
jesty's ships Resolute and Pioneer,previously
arranged with Captain Austit havingundertakeP
the exa-
mination of the south side of Lancaster
a sound and
company with her Ma
Barrow's Strait, from c.
Leo-
pold, whilst he visited Possessiond
pond's Bays.
On the 18th we made the land five miles to the east-
ward—ape Liverpool to Port
keeping within a quarter of a Zile of Ire shore,, as far
of Cape Liverpool,
found it impossible to land to ascertain as the Wollaston Islands. When off Cape thy it
provisions bad been touched since they therefore
close] inspcting the coast,
was blowing a gale to the eastward ; we
if the fuel or
.from
om Parker
ours odfetchke they
top of the coals.
eleuyetlove. From
were deposited
did not there last year by Mr.
ap-
pear to have been molested. The flag-staff had been
what we could sea
blown down, and was lying
On the outer or western Wollaston Island a notice
on the
was left recording our • •the disposition visit and
Majesty's ships, Ste.
" The gale having increased would not admit of
our further examination of the coast at this time ; we
were obliged in consequence, of its violence to stand
out in the strait, and heave the vessel to in the midst
of drift ice. On its moderating the next day we
found ourselves off Cape York- AsLeo was still
blowing strong, I bore up for Port pold. At
three A.M., on the 21st, arrived off the har-
bour, but found it closed with heavy ice. With much
difficulty our boat succeeded in getting in by being
hauled some distance over the ice. It appeared by a
document left at the flagstaff that the North Star had
called here on the 1&h, but from the state of the ice
was unable to land her provisions, and had I-ft this to
attempt to land them at Port Power or Neil ; other-
wise eveything appeared to have been untouched
since here Majesty's shiPs I""tigator and Enterprise
left last year. As it was intended by the parties who
fitted this vessel out that she should proceed to
Brentford Bay and commence operations from that
place, I mado the best of my way up Prince Regent's
Inlet in order to effect that object. As we drew up
towards Fury Beach, the land ice gradually ex-
tended off the shore, commencing a little to the
southward of Port Leopolkl, up to within 10 or ]5
miles of Fury. Pow, when it stretched directly across
the inlet, apparently/ in front of Port Bower. Find-
ing great quantities of drift i setting up the
inlet, and likely to close me in, with no port to take
refuge in, I stood out to the northward, with the in-
tention of proceeding down the western side of North
Somerset. On reaching the north end of Leopold
Island I found the pack extending from th.erce across
Barrow's Strait, towards the entrance of Wellington
Channel. Afr«r having forced our way through great
quantities of heavy drift ice, the vessel receiving many
severe concussions, we got in with the land between
Capes Herschel and Hurd, and examined the coast as
far as Point Innis, in the Wellington Channel, without
finding any further traces of the missing parties, with
those already mentioned at Cape
the exception of
Riley.
" There being no possibility of my penetrating to
the S.W., as I had intended, from the heavy ice in
that direction, I ran back to Prince Regent's Inlet
The appearance of the ice being much the same, with
no port to enter in the vicinity of my future opera
tions, I was most reluctantly obliged to give up the
idea of remaining in these regions, more particularly as
the season was fast advancing, when the ice begins to
form, and I know from experience if this vessel was once

caught there would he no chance of our getting. out
again, as she has no power.to bore through it ; I there-
fore determined, after most mature consideration, to
return to England. On the 27th I ran into E-U•dley
Bay, near Cape York, and landed a notice with some
provisions. Before our men could get on board a gale
commenced with a heavy sea, which nearly drove us
on shore under the Cape. Oa the 291 I examined
the western side of the entrance to Admiralty Inlet,
thence across to Elwin Bay, keeping close alongshore
to Possession Bay ; off which place I fell in with the
North Star, which I found had met with the same
'impediment' in Prince Regent's Inlet as ourselves,
and had, consequently, not succeeded in entering
either Ports Bowen or Nut, but had landed hir pro-
visions inside the Wollaston Islanda.. We found that
the Resolute had visited Possession Bay on the 13th,
Captain Austin having left the night previous in the
Pioneer to visit Pond's Bay. On the 21 and 31 of
September I examined the shores of Pond's Bay, but
could discover no traces of Captain Austin's having
been there. Perhaps the North Star may have been
more fortunate, as I saw her standing in on the even-
ing of my departure. On the 4th we lost sight of
Cape Bowen, near Pond's Bay, and on the Ist inst.
arrived here, being the last. and smallest vessel, that
left England, and the first that arrived in Barrow's
Strait.—l have, &c.,
" CHARLES C. FORSYTH, Commander, R.N.
" To the. Secretary 'to the Admiralty, Whitehall."

True copy of a paper found at Cape Riley :

"HER MAJESTY'S ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION.
" This is to certify that Captain Ommanney, with
the officers of her Majesty's ship Assistance and In-
trepid, landed at Cape Riley on the 23d of August,
1850, where he found traces of an encampment and
collected the remains of materials which evidently
prove that some party belonging to her M:jesty s
ships have been detained on this spot. Beechy Island
was also examined, where traces were found of the
same party.
" This is also to give notice that a supply of pro-
visions and fuel is at Port Leopold. Her Majesty's
ships Assistance and Intrepid were detached from the
squadron under Captain Austin, off Wolstenholme, on
the 15th inst., since which they have examined the
north shores of Lancastar Sound and Barrow's Straits,
without meeting any other traces. Captain Om-
manney proceeds to Cape Hotham and Cape Walker,
in search for further traces of Sir John Franklin's
expedition.
" Dated on hoard her Majesty's ship Assistance,
off Cape Riley, August 23, 1850.
" ERASMUS OMMANNEY."

The following is a private letter we have received
from Aberdeen :
" The news brought by the Prince Albert is most
important, as it goes to prove that the missing expe-
dition has been at Barrow's Straits at no very dis-
tant period ; but God knows what has le-come of
them since then. The Assistance, it is thought, must
have some further clue to them by the way in which
she was rushing over towards Cape Hothatn when
the Prince Albert left. Captain Forsyth was very
much mortified at being obliged to return ' • but what
was he to do? He could not get to within seventy
miles of Brantford Bay, and it was impossible to
travel over such impassable ice. All the ports in
the inlet were closed against him ; and the only
alternative he had was to go to some place and
winter, from which, perhaps, he would not have
got out until this time next year, and thus
would have entailed an immense deal of ex-
pense on Lady Franklin without reaping any
adequate benefit; in fact, without doing the slightest
good, or in any way forwarding the object of this
expedition. Look at the North Star. She wintered
in Wolstenholme Sound, and Captain Forsyth arrived
at Port Leopold six days after her. The Prince
Albert was the last and smallest vessel that left
England, and the first to arrive in the strait. She
is, also, the smallest craft that has ever penetrated so
far to the westward in Wellington Channel.
" All the officers and ships' companies of the search-
ing expedition were enjoying excellent health. Cap-
tain Forsyth believes they had not a man on the sick
list of either ship. The steamers have behaved admi-
t rably. Captain Austin says he does not know what
he should have done without them. They were found
to be of the utmost service as pioneers. When they
came to the neck of the ice, the steamers would cast
off their tow=rope, and dash at it, cutting into ice 12
and 15 feet thick, then clapping on their devil's claws,
backing astern, and roussing' the masses out by
wholesale. They also found blasting of much service.
The Intrepid has strained the frame-work of her en-
gines a little, but nothing material. The whalers
were astonished to see the little craft Prince Albert
amongst the ice. She appeared to be a mere boat
alongside their great hulks.
" The Prince Albert received some severe shocks
in getting round Melville Bay. Captain Austin said
Commander Forsyth must be a second 'Baffin' to
have attempted it in such a little thing.
" Unfortunately the ice-masters of the Prince Al-
bert never agreed as to the best way to get through
the ice; one of them, who had lost a ship there some
years ago, was for always stopping to see if the ice
would open; so the whole of the fag devolved on the
commander, and altogether this ship has been one of
never-ceasing hard work and difficulty to him. The
two ice-masters were men who could not write their
own names, and were regular northern bears; so
Captain Forsyth's position has not been a very plea-
sant one.
" The Prince Albert saw the North Star off Pond's
Bay on the 3d September, homeward bound.
" The vessels at the entrance of the Wellington
Channel when the Prince Albert left were—The As-
sistance, Capt. Ommanney ; and the Intrepid, screw-
tender, Lieut. Commander B. Cutor ; Capt. Penny's
two vessels, Lady Franklin and Sophia, and the two
American ships Advance and Rescue. The latter
were almost solid pieces of timber, and so far aft as
the foremast they were perfectly so. They intend
wintering at Melville Island ; so does Capt. Austin ;
and Capt. Penny was also inclined to make that
iland his winter quarters. Penny could not get into
Jones's or Smith's Scaled.
" The Prince Albert remains at Aberdeen for a
day or two, waiting instructions from Lady Franklin."

[PRICE SD.

reached, and has bad a splendid run on her home-
ward passage.
With regard to the positions of the other expedi-
tions when last seen. it may be stated, that on Aug.
25th, when the Prince Albert was between Cape
Spencer and Cape Tunes, in Wellington Channel,
Mr. Snow went at noon to the mast-head, and saw
the Assistance as near as possible within Cape Hotham
—Penny's two ships, the Lady Franklin and Sophia,
were in the mid channel—the American brigantine
Rescue was close beset with ice near Cape Bowen.
These were the only vessels to be seen there. The
Intrepid could not be seen, but she was doubtless in
company with the Assistance. The ice was very
heavy, and extended all around, from Prince Leopold's
Island to Cape Farewell, westward, so as to prevent
any possibility of reaching Cape Walker; Cape Hc-
them might he reached with difficulty. In Welling-
ton Channel there was a great deal of ice, but it
admitted of passages being made, in which the ships
were working ; and Captain Penny was pushing up
the channel boldly.
Captain Austin, with the Resolute, had the Prince
Albert in tow on the 16th of August, and carried her
to the entrance of Lancaster Sound. They then
parted company, and did not meet again ; but it was
found that the Resolute had been into end examined
Possession Bay on the 17th of August.- The Pioneer
had been detached from the Resolute, and was pro-
ceedinr in the direction of Cape Walker.
The Felix, it was understood, was to make for
Admiralty Inlet, and the last report of her was that
she was standing to the northward, Sir John Ross
being in doubts whether he should not return to
England.
The other American vessel, the Advance, when last
seen, was ashore near Borrow's Bay, but was expected
to he got off.
The Prince Albert has accomplished much during
the short visit which silt- 1:a:; paid to the Arctic
lie-
gions. We have already stated tint she had been in
the Wellington Channel, which has not often been
explored, and which Sir James Ross flilA to reach.
She has also been at Fury Beach, a point not reached
by any vessel for nearly twenty years. It was, how-
ever, utterly impossible to Lind there on account of
the ice. The whole of the coasts of Baffin's Bay
were also examined, but no traces found of Franklin.
As to the whalers, the Prince Albert brings no in-
telligence which has not already been communicated
to the public by previous arrivals from the fishing
ground.
The crew of the Prince Albert, as well as those of
all the ships of the expedition, have enjoyed good
health and spirits, in the important enterprise in
which they hove been engaged ; and have, in short,
felt no want hitherto, but that of success in the object
of their search.