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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
Madlle. ANGIII will appear on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday next.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
Madame BISCACCIANTI will make her First Appearance on
Wednesday, October 16.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
TIIE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
M. CHARLES HALLE will perform on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday, the 15th, 17th, and 19th lust.

HER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
Master HEINRICH WERNER will appear on Wednesday, the
16th, and Friday, the 18th

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE•
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
Applications for Boxes and Stalls to be made at the Box•ofce of
her Majesty's Theatre ; and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, Chappells,
Sams, Alicroft, Leader, and Cocks, Soc., &cl,

HE B, MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE GRAND NATIONAL CONCERTS.
The Executive Committee, Directors, and Managers of "The
Grand National Concerts" have the honour to announce that the
FIRST SERIES will commence TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, the 15th
if 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.
Mdlle. Angri, Miss Poole, Miss Messent, Mrs. Alexander Newton,
and Madame Biscaccianti (the celebrated prima donna, from Milan,
who will make her first appearance in England) • Signor Ca Milan,
M. 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 will
perform Beethoven's Concerto in E flat, with full orc
Concerto nea
evening of' his engagement), Master Heinrich Werner (whose per-
formance at Buckingham Palace Profess her Most Gracious Majesty
and Prince Albert, and at the ional Matinees, has been
the marvel of the whole mtvical world), and M. Thalberg (who
will introduce several new Morceaux, written expressly for these
Concerts).
Blagrove, Henry Cooper, and M.
Violin—MM. Molique, Henry
Sainton (Solo Violinist to her Majesty). An engagement is also
pending with the renowned Artiste, Signor Sivori, who is on his
way to England from the Havannah.
Tenor—Mr. Hill.
Violoncello —MM. Piatti, Hausmann, Hancock, and Rousselot
cele-
.
Double Base—MM. Anglois, Rowland, and Herr Mailer (the
brated Contrabassist from Darmstadt, who will make his first ap-
pearance in this country).
Harp—Mr. John Thomas and Mr. H. J. Trust.
Concertina—Mr. R. Blagrove.
Flute —MM. Richardson, Briccialdi, Carte, and Remusat.
Oboe—MM. Barret and Nicholson.
Clarionet—M. Franc, from the Grand Opera, Brussels, and M.
Haycock.
Bassoon—M. Baumann.
Horn—M. Steglich.
Cornet-a-Pistons—M. Arball.
Ophicleide —M. l'rospere.
Trombone-31. Winterbottom.
ORCHESTRA.
Musical Director, Composer, and Conductor—M. Balfe.
First Violins—M. Molique (Principal), late
Co Kape
oper, lmeil.ster at
Dando,
Stub-
R. 0.,
gardt ; Browne, Royal Italian Opera, Henry
R. 1.0., Dawson, Her Majesty's Theatre, Goffrie, R. 1.0., Gries-
bach, R. 1.0. Hartnagl, Kreutzer, 11.M.T., Cary, 11.M.T.,
l'atey, RAIL, Pigott, 11.M.T., Shargool, H.M. T., Thirlviall,
R. 1.0., Watkins, R. 1.0., Zerbini, R. 1.0.
Second Violins—Willy (Principal), R. 1.0., W. Blagrove, 11.1.0.,
Barnett, 11.M.T.. Hall, 11.M.T., Heanen. 11.M.T., Jay, R. 1.0.,
Kelly, R. 1.0., J. Loder, R. 1.0., Marshall, R. 1.0., Ridgway, 11.11 T., .
Ridgway (two), 11.M.T., Schmidt, ILM.T., Tallance, Thirl-
wall (two), 11.M.T., Villain, 11.M.T., hats
R.n, R.I
BlaO.grove, R. 1.0.,
Tenors—R. Hughes (Principal), ,
Bo.'. en, H.M.T., Calkin, H.M.T., Ganz, 11.M.T., Glanville, R. 1.0.,
Rice, ILM,T., Trust, R. 1.0., Webb,
II R. 1.0., Weardner, stlake,
II R.M.T., G00d-
.1.0.
Violoncellos—Piatti (Principal), .M.T. G
ban. R. 1.0. Guest, R. 1.0., Hancock, Hausmann, R. 1.0., W.
Loder, Lovell Phillipps,R.l.O.,Rousselot, Beethoven Quartet
Society, Thorley, Philharmonic.
Double Basses—Anglois (Principal), 11.M.T., Casolani, R. 1.0.,
Castell, R. 1.0., Mount, R. 1.0., Muller, Grand Opera, Darmstadt (his
first appearance), Percival, 11.M.T., Pickhaert, 11.M.T., I'ratten,
R. 1.0., Rowland, R. 1.0,. Russell, Severn, R. 1.0.
Harps—John Thomas, 11.M.T., H. J. Trust, R. 1.0.
Flutes—Richardson (Flautist to his Grace the Duke of Devon-
shire) ; Briccialdi, La Scala, Milan.
Piccolo—Remusat,H.M.T.
Oboes—Barrett, R. 1.0., Nicholson, R. 1.0.
Clarionets—M. Franc, G. 0., Brussels, and Maycock, 11.M.T.
Bassoons—Baumann, R. 1.0, Larkin, R. 1.0.
Horns—Steglich,H.M.T., Blangini,Calcott,ll.M.T., Calcott, jun.,
H.M.T.
Trumpets—Zeiss, H.M.T., Davis, H.M.T.
Cornet-d-Pistons—Arban, Conservatoire, Paris.
Trombones—Marin, 11. M.T., King, 11.M..T., Winterbottom,
11.M.T.
Opkicleide—Prospere, R. 1.0.
Timpani—Chipp, R. 1.0.
Bass Drum and Cymbals—Hinchey, H.M.T.
Side Drum—lt. Hughes, jun., 11.M.T.
Triangle—W. Ganz, 11.M.T.
Principal Composers—MM. Sphor, Balfe, G. Macfarren, EdWard
Loder, Hard Glover, Hector Berlioz, and Felicien David.
Arranger of Operatic Selections, &c.— Sigsor L. Negri.
Chorus Master—Herr Ganz.
Deputy Chorus Master—Mr. Frederick Osborne William&
Organist—Mr. Willing.
The Music of the Serenatas will be published by Messrs. Cramer,
Beale, and Cs.
Box Stalls, One Pair.. 4s. Od. Gallery Stalls •• • , 2s. Gd.
Ditto, Two Ditto . 3s. Gd. Slip Stalls I 6d.
Half Circle, Ditto • 2s. 6d. Gallery .. ••• • • . • ls.
Promenade • • • • • Is. Gd.
N.B. It is respectfully announced that all persons attending the
Private Boxes, and the First and Second Tiers of B oxubl St
icalls,
will be required to appear in Evening Dress ; and the Pis
most earnestly requested to assist in carrying out this regulation,
as far as may be practicable, in all parts of Her Majesty's Theatre.
Applications for Private Boxes and Stalls to be made at the Box-
office; or to Messrs. Andrews, Alcroft, Leader and Cock, 1, ew
Bond-street ; Hookham, and Ebers, 'Old Bond-street;
Sams, St. James's-street ; Cramer,ale, and Ce., and Bailey, Re-
gent-street ; Chappell, Bond-street and Dyte and Son, Strand.
Mr. Thomas Masters of the Polytechnic Institution,
he the Co
Rloseum,efresh-
and Royal Botanic and Zoological Gardens, will supply t
ments and Wines, &c., he.

GRAND SALON DE D ANSE,
ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND.
OPEN FOR THE SEASON.
Lessee—Mr. Thomas 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 her Majesty's Theatre, the Royal Italian Opera,
and the Philharmonic Concerts :
First Violins—Hayward, Cohen, Bee's, 11. T. Seabrook, Van lied-
deghem.
Second Violins—Pelerin, T. Jackson, Edwards, C. Griesbo4l.
Tenors—Sapinski, J. Jackson.
Violoncellos—Quinton, W. F. Reed.
Contra Basses—G. Taylor, W. Trantor, Guy, Stubgen•
Flauto —J. Saynor.
Piccolo—Meyer.
Flageolet—J. Tyler.
Oboe—J. Schott.
Clarinetti —Park, G. Tyler.
Bassoon—Montara.
Cornets-a-Estons—Humfreess, Cottrell.
Horns— W. F. Youngman NV-Youngman.
Troinboni--Webster, Guiraud.
Ophicleide—Mosca.
Bass Drum—Harrison.
Side Drum—Seymour.
INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
Overture, " Zampa" • • •• .. .. Herold.
rSoolloka(ViOlCinre)rnorn.e." :.. .... .... .. Borini.
. • Mr. Van neddeghen.
Valse, " Hommage a Strauss" .. • • .. Borini.
Selection from LA SONNAMBULA .• .. Bellini.
Conducted by BORINI. •
To the votaries of Terpsichore remarks on the excellence of
Borini's Band, after the experience of its Orchestral Triumphs at
Cremorne, would be superfluous.
Solos and Concerted Pieces will be performed during the evening.
Borini's Latest Compositions—The Adelaide Polka, Waltzes to
various popular Irish Melodies, Galop d'lndustrie, New Quadrille of
all Nations.
The Grand Salon, Refreshment, and Ante-rooms have undergone
Iconsiderable alterations and improvements.
Doers open at Halt-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 Ficry Ordeal and the Handling 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
Ten ; also a Series, exhibiting Scenes in the Arctic Regions and
Ceylon, daily at One e'clock.—Diver and Diving-bell, &c., &C.
Admission, is.—Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex-
cept Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten.

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

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

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, which it will ever be his study to deserve.
Doors open every evening at Ilalf-past Eight—Dancing to commence
at Nine precisely.—Admission, One Shilling.
N.B. Particulars of the Concerts will shortly appear.

THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE,
New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of the generative system, prom ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis-
qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street (IE-
-1(ml-street, London. Published by the Authorsl:so7lodxfboyrdStrt'ange,
11, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, s reet ;
Starie, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, L- eaden.
hall-street.
PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Colonic,' Engravings.
PART IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessivi e
in-
dulgence,v and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and gene g
incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions fel
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Colour
Engiavings.
Parer IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
"13 ilnPertant part of the Work should not escape the reader's
notice.
.pehr.:Alibeß:7o:ll3siAt.dev.noted to the consideration of marriage,
subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
. , for
du-
ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
and its du-
&eau), -- BALM OF STRIACUM is exclusively
reined—
. ferry's Purifying employed in
nervous and sexual debility, impotence, Sc.c., 11s. and 335.
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IBiverrnetros.-is?,tirgehott,; Oonifsoward.-
' , day, from Eleven to One,

SHIP NEWS.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
Messina, Oct. 1.

Orders have been received not to give pratique to any
vessels arriving from British ports, Leghorn, or Genoa
for tho present, in consequence of instructions from the
Board of Health at Palermo.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
SHORTLAND'S BLUFF LIGHTHOUSE.
His Honour, the Superintendent, directs to be noti-
fied, for general informatien, that a new fixed white
light, of the second class, consisting of twenty-four
lamps, 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-
tion of the new lantern have not occasioned any change
in the original height of the light.
HENRY GINN, Clerk of Works.
Melbourne, May L

NOTICE.
One of the editions of the chart of Port Philip made
by Captain Hobson, of her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake,
and the first edition of the chart ptiblished 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.)
Superintendent'-office, Melbourne, May 7.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 13.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze.—
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. Std. 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`Doryall, 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 Belize;
the Hale, for Trinidad; the Clemence, for Nantes; the
St George, for Savannah; the Oregon, for New Orlans.
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 seen on the 11th of Septem-
ber, two miles west of Escumiac 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 immediately filled with water 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-
nately twelve were drowned.
GRAVESEND, OCT. 13.—Wind W.N.W., light, cloudy.
—Arrd. the Martin Freidrich, from Singapore; the
Florentia, 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 Rochester, the Vigilant, the St. Lawrence, the
Elizabeth and Jane, the Friends, the Queen of the Tyne,
the Ophelia and Mary, the Energy, the Coldstream, the
Magnific, the Nymph, the Jabez, the James, the North-
umberland, the Cygnet, the Elizabeth, the Watermillock,
the Kitty, the Susannah, the Earl of Mulgrave, and the
Wentworth Beaumont, from St. Petersburgb ; the Leo,
from Christiania; the Triton, from Ostend; the Giraffe,
from Rotterdam; the Seine, from Boulogne; the Konigs-
berg, from Sundswald ; the Harmonica the Emma Heyn,
the Marianne, the Friedrich Wilhelm IV., the Margaret
Nichol, the Victoria, the Brancepeth Castle, the William
Sorlie, the Lydia, and the Favourite, from Dantsic; the
John, from Quebec; the Tutonia, the Castilian Maid,
and the Anna, from Rostock; the Grenette, from Leer;
the Blyth, the Jane Sinclair, and the Orion, from Stet-
tin; the Christiana, from Cr:fie; the Cruiser, from Wy-
borg; the Johannes, the Maghens, and the Mayor,
from Archangel; the Astrea, the Margaret, the
Ism, the Carolina Johanna, and the Mary Ann,
from Riga ; the Gesina, from Hamburgh ; the
Alexander, the Haabit, the Vrowarts, and the
Swantevit, 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 Woodpark, 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 riederick-
stadt; the Louisa Augusta, from Laurvig; the Henry
Carton, from Sundswald; the Oarmes, from Gottenburg;
the Oster Rusoer, 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 Walton, from Putna
Arenas; the Arno, from Algoa Bay; the Christian, from
Stettin; the Familie, from Sunderhoe; the Conferentor-
nad Classen, from Friederichstadt. Sld. the Royal Al-
bert, for Calcutta; the Amy, for Leghorn; the Gladia-
tor, for Malta; the Lanecroft 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, Amster-
dam; the William Jolliffe, for Havre; the Director, for
Antwerp; the Wilberforce, the Trident, and the Burger-
meister Hynclekoper, for Tonningen; the Attwood, the
Bete,vier, the Earl of Auckland, and the Rhine, for Rot-
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 Tistedalon,
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 Hobe,
from Newcastle for Brazils, Oct. 3, in lat. 49 N., long. 3
W. The Eliza, of Liverpool, from London for Algoa
Bay, Sept. 5, in let. 17 N., long. 27 W. The Borneo,
from the Clyde for Batavia, Sept. 6, in hit. 13 N., long.
27 W. The Congo, from the coast of Africa for Bristol,
Sept. 19, in let. 35 N., long. 36 W. The Washington,
from Scarborough for the Cape of Good Hope, Sept. 12,
in let. 13 N., long 25 W. The Fortitude, from Ooringa
Bay for London, on the 2d 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 let. 28 N., long. 37
W. The Sobraon, from Belfast for Demerara, on the
9th ult., in let. 23 N., long. 37 W. The-American ship
Tyre, on the 27th ult., in tat. 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

Present ...
Proxies ...

Total ...
rAesgeanitnst..t.he motion—
P •••
Proxy ... ••• .

271 1,022,0711. 4,810

51 64,1971. 444
1 1501. 1

52 64,3471. 445

Total ...

Majority for the motion 219 957,6241. 4,365
The 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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them. Their peculiar properties act so immediately on the
system by purifying the blood and invigorating the constitu-
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They are quite as efficacious in the cure of Headaches, Liver
Complaints, and disorders of the Stomach, and are a certain
remedy for Dropsy.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The British and North American royal mail steam-
ship Asia, Captain Judkins, sailed from the Mersey on Sa-
turday, At noon, for New York direct, with the usual mails
a fair cargo of goods, and 167 passengers. The United States;
mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, will sail from Liver.
pool for New York on, Wednesday next.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

PROCEEDINGS OF H.M.S. NORTH STAR.
(Received 28th September, 1850.)
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY, LONDON.
Her Majesty's ship North Star, Spithead,
28th September, 1850.
Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the informa-
tion of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
an account of the proceedings of her Majesty's ship
North Star, from the 19th July last year; up to
which date their Lordships 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
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 ram. 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. The 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 hung 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 mass 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 az they were carried against
it with the current, the ship also drifting directly in
front of it, and at 2 F.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 bad 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 coming in contact with the numerous
bergs that were aground. At noon the latitu demob-
served was 75 38 N. and longitude 68 12
throughout the day the wind was blowing strong
from the S.E.
At 1, A.M., of the 23d 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 is 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 Wolatenholme Island 1 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
that were aground off Dudley Diggs (and which
At
it perfectly clear of ice, caused
materially retarded the progress of the pack) now to
P.M.) we opened Wolstenholme
float Sound, a waanyd.
observed
aground off Cape Athol,
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All sail was immediately made on the ship (al-
though it was blowing a heavy gale) to force her
through the ice. Fortunately the masts and yards
held on, and she pushed her way through, and reached
open water at 3 r.m. The rudder was then shipped,
and we stood up the sound, anchoring in 19 fathoms,
when it became dark,
On the 30th of September, after examining the
sound, the ship was removed to winter quarters, at
the head of the bay, and safely mowed in hit. 76
I cannot sufficiently express the heartfelt joy
every man and officer felt at this unexpected and mira-
culous dispensation of Providence in releasing us from
the ice in the extraordinary manner in which we
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were; for if we 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 Here we found a settlement of E
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number of families dwell. These huts generally
formed about half under ground on the slope of a hill
near the sea, the upper part being
very rude manner with rough stones. They do not
know the use of boats, and their
pelted to follow the
to be a small spear, which theye
mostly seal's flesh.
They live entirely on raw food,
at their various stations
retreat during the
Not having boats, they are
northward becomes ex-
land ice to the north during the summer, depositing
the seals which they kill
minor details as to our
along the coast, on which they
winter, as their stock to the
was spread over, and every
haunted.
As I cannot here enter into
proceedings throughout the winter, I would briefly
state that the ship became frozen in. on the 12th of
October, when the housing
upper limb
other preparation made for the winter.
did not re-appear until the
The thermometer did not fall below Zero till the
beginning of November.
sun
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which time
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again made
its appearance—a period of 116 days.
During the winter we
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the thermometer invariably rose, sometimes neatly to
weather. I may
Zero; as also in cloudy
westward, during
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that throughout the whole voyage neither the marine
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indicate the weather, although
was registered at nine and ten P.M. at 63/ below
csiotlidveestanmdomntohv,eontorhe
Zero, and at 61 for the following eight hours.
It also fell to 6:31 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 he the coldest
natural temperature ever registered.
On Monday, January 28, 1850, an Esquimaux
was brought alongside in a 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 h
relumanity' ls sake, to receive
him on board, though uctanty,
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 111
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 us better
than when he first came. His new mode of living
being totally different to what be had been accus-
tomed, he became unwell, and died on the 9th 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 12th of May the as-
sistant-surgeon (who examined 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 should 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 Artic ships should be issued. I
also directed that the crew should be put on a full
allowance of bread, they having 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 stuffy;
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
air, 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 ne 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-
peared, 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, th 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 GO 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 half. On the 23d we commenced
cross cutting, which account to form more than twice
the above length, on 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
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where she had remained upwards of ten months.
During
were employed warping, heaving, and towing her
through the ice in the sound, and, after very great
exertions, succeeded in getting her into open wuter
on the morning of the 3d. We then made sail and
beat out between Wolstenholme 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 Poipt 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
rest. of the 14th, and without perceiving the slightest
prospect of suttees, I bore up for 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 risks.
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 again
stood over for Port Leopold, and on the 16th made
another 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 from Cape Clarence to the north side of
Barrow's Straits, completely blocking up that strait,
and also across Prince Regent's Inlet 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 W., two brigs were seen to the eastward,
which, on closing at about three r.st., 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 far 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,
har'bour 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 vessels an opportunity 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 her 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 for
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-
tion, which I consider he so well merits. The draw-
ings taken by him of Wolstenholme Sound, North
Star, Bay; &c., 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 28th of August we had sue-
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 a• 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
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
the gale was increasing, and the, ship being on a dead
lee shore, and the holding ground very bad—the bot-
tom consisting of loose stones—l could not venture
to weigh the anchor. I therefore deemed it prudent
for the safety of the ship to: slip the cable at the fifth
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'a own provisions remaining on board, and con-
sidering it would be running far too 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 svhilst sawing and getting the ship out
of Wolstonholme Sound, I found it necessary to issue
to the people actually employed an extra ration of
preserved meat and spirits and half a ration extra of
bread, as the untal allowance is not sufficient to enable
men to continue for 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 I3;:y to leave a notice (as enclosed) of
where the provisions wore 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 Enterprise, were re-
moved, and the enclosed (which I beg leave to for-
ward) put in their place.

On the morning of the 3d 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 45
fathoms, as r found the current was setting out of the
inlet, 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 deposited
there; but, after examining its north side for twenty
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
of a cairn of stones.

At eight P.M. the boat returned, and we weighed
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 W., 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 ao 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
Qf 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, sen., 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, WOL-.
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 29th July last year, and gradu-
ally drifted from day to day, until the 26th of Sep-
tember we found ourselves abreast of Wolstenholme
Island, when, perceiving the ice a little more loose
and the sound 13rfectly clear, made all sail and
pressed her through it, anchoring in the lower 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, Wolstenholme, April 15, 1850:
COPY OF A NOTICE LANDED AT WHALE POINT, AUGUST
14, 1850.
"Her Majesty'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
Melville Bay on the 29th July last year, and gradu-
ally drifted from day to day until, on he 26th Sep-
tember we found ourselves abreast of Wolstenholme
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, Wolstenholme 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."
COPY OF THE NOTICE FOUND AT WHALER POINT BY
HER MAIESTY's SHIP NORTH STAR WHEN SHE
CALLED THERE ON THE 14TH AUGUST, 1650.
" 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 cylin-
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. BIRD,
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 Ship North Star, of
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 Cranford, 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) " 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 tip by heavy loose floes, could
not enter. She then steered over 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 16th August, 1850. Port Leopold bearing true
N.W. I 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."
day of
" Landed at Navy Board Inlet, this 27
Mr. James J. Rutter, clerk in charge, p
August, 1850, from her Majesty's
ing, stores, 1:c , undermentioned—viz. (being for the
Irlothlttalf:
of the Arctic Expedition):—Carpet
shiPtheNsi
use
378 bottles),
biscuit, 12 7681 b. ; brandy (in
boots, 124
pairs
67 gallons ; rum (over proof), 835 6-8 gallons ; red
wine (port), 34 4-8 gallons; white wine (70 gallons);
beef, 744 81b. 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; oatmeal,