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RETURN OF CAPTAIN FORSYTH

IN THE PRINCE ALBERT.

SUPPOSED TRACES OF SIR J. FRANKLIN.

The following letter from Captain Forsyth, report-
ing the return of this little expedition, consisting of
his solitary vessel the Prince Albert, will be read with
the deepest interest, not only for the intelligence it
conveys, hut 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 exoPdition, 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 kberdeen after all the other vessels
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 wintered alone in those
dreary regions, whither she had gone, bad any op-
portunity offered, or prospect even, of putting 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 and
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, has returned to England to
give us the intelligence she 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 Majesty'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 " fighting
it out" on the quarter-deck, par nobile fratrum,
forcibly reminding us of old Stephano and Trinculo,
together with other circumstances not necessary to
enter into here. _

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 Sir John, Lady
Franklin (whose hospitality to all parties when Sir
John 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-offiee yesterday :
" Prince Albert, Aberdeen, Oct. 1.

" Sir,--I 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 had 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, carrying a press of sail, with a strong breeze
from the westward. Penny's vessels were also in the
entrance of the Strai's, and two American brigantines,
working over towards Cape Hothain.
" 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
to inf,,rm 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 2d 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 ay. On the 19th, entered
the ice, and on the 21st came up with Sir John Ross
in a labyrinth of heavy icebergs. On the 23i, met
the remainder of the fleet of whalers coming to the
south ward.

" On the 26th made out Captain Austin's and Mr.
Penny's vessels beset in 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. On the 12th the steamers, assisted
by blasting, forced a passage through. It being
calm, Captain Austin very kindly offered myself and
Sir John Ross a tow clear of the ice, which we most
thankfully and gladly availed ourselves of. On the
14th we communicated with the natives at Cape
York, who gave us to understand that a ship answer-
ing the description of the North Star had wintered
somewhere about Wolatenholme Sound. The same
evening the Assistance was dispatched to ascertain the
truth of this report.

Liver
" On the 17th I parted company
Ma-
jesty's ships Resolute and Pioneer, h • mg previously
arranged with Captain Austin to undertakehaving
the exa•
mination of the south side of Lane
with her
Barrow's Strait, from Cape
Liverpool to Port Leo-
pold, whilst he visited Posses •
mon and Pond's Bays.
On the 18th we made the land five •
mile of shore, as far
,
Lancaster Sound and
miles to the east-
ward of Cape Liverpool, closely inspecting the coast,
found it impossible to land to ascertain if the
keeping within a quarter of a
as the Wollaston Islands. When off Cape Nay it
was blowing a gale to the eastward ; we therefore
feeloerr
provisions had been touched since they were deposited
there last year by Mr. Parker, of the Truelove.
what we could see from our
deck
pear to have been molested. The flag-staff bad been
blown down, and was lying on the top of the coals.
On the outer or western Wollaston Island a notice
was left recording our visit and the disposition of h
ifnu rtthhee r
strait,
a examinationnd
h e
heave
thethe as
vesselot at
t to this
is i time
; we
the midst
they
did
p From
-
Majesty's ships, &c.
" The gale having increased would not admit of
our
of drift ice. On its moderating the nest day we
found ourselves off Cape York. As it was still
blowing strong, I bore up for Port Leopold. 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
e
were obliged in consequence of its violence to stand
out
document left at the flagstaff that the North Star had
called here on the 13th, but from the state of the ice
was unable to land her provisions, and had left this to
attempt to land them at Port Power or Neil; other-
wise everything appeared to have been untouched
since her Majesty's ships Inwstigator 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 made the best of my way up Prince Regent's
Inlet in order to effect that object. As we drew up
towards Fury Beach, the laud ice gradually ex-
tended off the shore, commencing a little to the
southward of Port Leopold, up to within 10 or 15
miles of Fury Point, when it stretched directly across
the inlet, apparently in front of Port Bower. Find-
ing great quantities of drift ice 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 thence across
Barrow's Strait, towards the entrance of Wellington
Channel. Aftfir having forced our way through great
quantities of heavy drift ice, the vessel receiving many
severe concussions,
got in with the land between
Capes Herschel and we
Hurd, and examined the coast as
far as Point Innis, in the Wellington Channel, without
finding any further traces of the missing parties, with
the exception of those already mentioned at Cape
Riley.
'Chore 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, 1 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 be 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 Eardley
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 29:h I examined
the western side of the entrance to Admiralty Inlet,
thence across to Elwin Bay, keeping close al-ongshore
to Possession Bay ; off which place I fell in with the
North Star, which I found had met with the same
impediment in Prince 11!,gent's Inlet as ourselves,
and had, consequently, not succeeded in entering
either Ports Bowen or Nut, but had landed her pro-
visions inside the Wollaston Islands. ‘Ve found that
the Resolute had visited Possession Biy on the 13th,
Captain Austin having left the night previous in the
Pioneer to visit Pond's Bay. On the 2d and 3d 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. —I have, &el..
" CHARLES U. 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 en 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 Majesty'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 ofLancastar 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 board her Majesty's ship Assistance,
off Cape Riley, August 23, 1850.
" ERASMUS 0111MANNEY."

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 become of
them since then. The Assistance, it is thought, must
have some further clue to them by the way in which
she was pushing over towards Cape Hotham 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 Brentford 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-
rably. Captain Austin says he does not know what
he should hare 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. Cator ; 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
island his winter quarters. Penny could not get into
Jones's or Smith's Sound.

" The Prince Albert remains at Aberdeen for a
day or two, waiting instructions from Lady Franklin."

(From the Aberdeen Journal of Oct. 2.)
The Prince Albert, Commander Forsyth, arrived
between eight and nine o'clock last night (the crew
all well), and brings some important particulars in
addition to the intelligence brought by the North
Star, and which are contained in the following state-
ment, kindly furnished us by Mr. Snow, second in
command :

Commander Forsyth did not stop at Port Bowen, as
has been stated in the accounts brought by Captain
Saunders. He attempted twice to land at Port Leo-
pold, but was prevented by the ice, over which the
boats had to be dragged. When there he met the
American brigantine Advance, and, in company with
her, went over to Cape Hurd, and up Barrow's
Straits. He then proceeded to Cape Spencer, at Wel-
lington Channel. Here there waa a great deal of ice.
Bore up on the 25th August, when Mr. Snow was
sent to examine Cape Reilly. Here he found the
Advance, which was aground. Mr. Snow found
traces on Cape Reilly of five or six tents, or encamp-
ments, which, from certain peculiarities, be knew to
be those of a vessel in her Majesty's service. He
found that the Assistance, Capt. Ommanney, had been
at Cape Reilly two days before, and had left the no-
tice given above.
Mr. Snow states that the traces of the encampments
of a vessel in her Majesty's service were very evident.
The seamen who were dispatched from the Assistance
to examine these remains found a rope with the
Woolwich mark evidently belonging to a vessel
which had been fitted out at Woolwich, and which, in
all probability, was either the "Erebus" or the
" Terror." Other indications were also found, which
showed that some vessel had visited the place besides
the Assistance. Mr. Snow left a notice that the
Prince Albert had called off Cape Reilly on the 25th
of August.
When Mr. Snow returned on board, the Prince
Albert bore up for Cape York, on the eastern side of
Prince Regent's Inlet. The ice extended completely
across from land to land, and quite blocked up the
passage down the Inlet. On reaching Cape York,
Mr. Snow again went on shore, and found a cairn of
stones, but no traces of anything. lie left two cases
of pemmican.
As it was perfectly obvious from the state of the
ice that the object of the expedition—the explora-
tion of Prince Regent's Inlet, and the passages con-
necting it with the western seas—could not be car-
ried into effect, Commander Forsyth resolved to re-
turn to England, and the Prince Albert then bore up
to the eastward. Commander Forsyth landed
at Possession Bay on the morning of the 29th August,
but nothing was found there to repay the search in-
stituted. On the Ist of Septernla r, the Prince Albert
got into Pond's Bay. Mr. Snow was again sent on
shore to make an examination of four points of land
there, but on none of them could any traces be found
of the objects of the search. They came out of
Pond's Bay on the 2d September. There was no
ice to the eastward, nor on the whole passage
homewards from Wellington Channel. The Prince
Albert has explored regions which have seldom been

[PRICE SD.

reached, and has had 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 Innes, 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 ship, the Lady Franklin and Sophia,
were in th‘t 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
co:npany with the Assistance. The ice was very
heavy, and extended all around, from Prince Leopold's
bland to Cape Farewell, westward, so as to prevent
any possibility of reaching Cape Walker; Cape I'o-
- might be 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 and examined
Possession Bay on the 17th of August. The Pioneer
had been detached from the Resolute, and was pro-
ceeding. 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 Johis 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 be got off.

The Prince Albert has accomplished much during
the short visit which she has paid to the Arctic Re-
gions. We have already stated that she had been in
the Wellington Channel, which has not often been
explored, and which Sir James Ross failed 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 land 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 have been engaged ; and have, in short,
felt no want hitherto, but that of success in the object
of their search.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTIONS.

Mates—John Ward (b 1848), the senior, eligible
for promotion; Charles Joseph Wrey (1848), third
in seniority on the list, now serving in the Prince
Regent, 90, at Lisbon; Edward Bernard Hopkins
(184 b), fourth on the list ; Thomas Malcolm Sabine
Pasley (1848), fifth on the list, now of the Terrible
steam-frigate, Mediterranean—have been promoted
to the rank of lieutenant.

Mates—William Chimmo, passed in seamanship
Jan. 2, 184$ ; Bedford C. T. Pym, passed in seaman-
ship July 7, 1848 ; and T. B. Collinson, passed in
seamanship July 7, 1848—all three serving in the
Herald surveying-ship in the Pacific, have been pro-
moted to the rank of acting lieutenant, to be con-
firmed at the above dates, on passing the examina-
tions at the Royal Naval College.
Assistant-Surgeons—Dr. Thomas James Layton
(November, 1838), the seventh on the list of those
who have passed for surgeons (numbered in the alpha-
betical list of the navy to belong to the Firefly
steamer, but whose name does not appear in the list
of officers belonging to that vessel), and Alexander
Leith Elmslie (June, 1841), fourteenth on the list of
officers passed for surgeons, and serving at the Royal
Marine Infirmary at Chatham—have been promoted
to the rank of surgeon.
Clerks—Charles A. Jenkins (Jan. 26, 1842),
twelfth on the list of qualified clerks, who has lately
been paid off, as clerk in charge of the Porcupine
steam-vessel, after three years' service in the Mediter-
ranean ; Joseph Cave Paine (Dec. 7, 1842), twenty-
second on the list, now serving as clerk in ch;srge of
the Investigator, in Captain Collinson's expedition to
the Arctic Regions, via Behring's Straits; and Alfred
Whitehouse (Jan. 4, 1843), twenty-fifth on the list,
in charge of the Scorpion surve3ing vessel, West
Indies, have been promoted to the rank of paymasters.

A PPOINTM ENTS.

Assistant Engineers—William Oliver, William
Farley, and Joseph Lovering, to the Wasp, 12, screw-
sloop, fitting at Woolwich, for coast of Africa.
Naval Cadets—O. S. Cameron and Edward M.
Tupper, to the Victory, flag-ship, at Portsmouth, G.
11. Stokes, to the Ajax, 58, screw guard-ship,
Queenstown ; Percy Bagwell, to the Albion, 90,
Ply mouth Sound.

Gunner—Henry Smith, to the Wasp.
Boatswain—William Topson, to the Wasp.
Carpenter—James S. Casey, to the 'Wasp.
Commander Charles Mason White, who retired
from the masters' list July, 1846, died on the 30th
ult., at East Retford, Nottinghamshire, aged 78. In
Allen's New Navy List, we find that he was a master
of 1796. He was master of the Diligence at the cap-
ture and cutting out of various privateers in the West
Indies, 1796-97-98, including a privateer and five
merchant vessels cut out of Aguada Bay, Porto Rico,
and the Spanish armed sloop Nativedad, captured off
Cuba, 1798 ' • master of the Adventure in the expedi-
tion to the Helder, 1799 ; in the following year at-
tached to a flying squadron with a military force me-
nacing the enemy's coasts, and of Monmouth, in the
expedition to Egypt, and consequent operations in
1801 ; master of the Amphion, in Nelson's pursuit of
Villeneuve, and engaged in Rosas Bay a flotilla of 27
gun-boats, 1805 ; of Phoebe, off Boulogne, 1806 ; of
Excellent, at the defence of Roses, 1807-8 ; and
Adriatic, in 1807.
Paymaster and Purser Francis May (1831) died
at Peckham, aged 84. Ile was in the Severn at
Algiers.
Adventure, 2 (transport), Master Commander
Wellington, was paid off yesterday at Devonport.
Blenheim, 60 (screw guard-ship), Commander W.
11. Henderson, C. 8., is ordered to go into Ports-
mouth Harbour from Spithead, and to take up her old
moorings.
Dauntless, 24, screw-frigate, Captain Halstead,
will be ready to go to Spithead on the Bth, and is
ordered to be paid advance and to proceed to Cork.
Dragon, 6, steam-frigate, Captain 11. W. Giffard,
arrived at Devonport on Wednesday morning from
Portsmouth. She took on board a fire-hearth for
the Arrogant, screw-frigate, at Lisbon, and supernu-
meraries waiting .a passage, and left yesterday, en
route to Malta.
Firefly, 3, steam-sloop, Commander Seymour, ar-
rived at Devonport on Tuesday evening from Ports-
mouth and Woolwich. The mails for the coast of
Africa arrived on Wednesday morning, but in conse-
quence of a slight defect in the paddleboz and engine
she was detained from proceeding until yesterday
afternoon.
Lively lighter, Harfield, arrived at Davonport, with
stores from Portsmouth, on Wednesday.
Thetis, 38, Captain Kuper, C. 8., was to
if
ee tidebeen
docked at Devonport yesterday evening, the
was sufficiently high. They had lightened her consi-
derably by taking out her guns, stores, &c.
Volcano, steam-vessel, is to be sent from Woolwich
to Sheerness, where she is to be rigged for commis-
sion for coast of Africa service.
Wasp, 12, screw-sloop, Commander Crozier, fitting
at Woolwich to take the mails to the coast of Africa
on the 2d of November, is to have a complement of
150 men.

PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Norwegian cor-
vette Ornen, Captain C. H. Valeur, 16 guns, from
Morten to the Mediterranean, anchored at Spithead
this morning, and saluted the national flag, and the
Port Admiral, whom the captain afterwards waited
upon in company with his consul, Chevalier Louis
Vandenberg.
The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, has
been taken into dock to-day to have her bottom ex-
amined. She is taking in coals, and will go out to-
morrow to try her engines.
News has been communicated to the Port Admiral
this afternoon of the discovery of the remains of an
encampment in the Arctic regions, believed to have
been a wintering place of Sir John Franklin.
The Sutlej Indiaman sailed from Spithead at noon
for Madras and Calcutta.

The Furious :team-sloop bent sails this afternoon,
and will sail in a day or two for the eastward.
The directors of the Portsmouth Sailors' Llome
acknowledge with many thanks a donation of .51., re-
celled by them in aid of the funds of the institution
from Lieutenant-Commander Selwyn, the officers,
and crew of her Majesty's ship Teazer, just paid off.
MALTA, SEPT. 27.—The cholera is fast decreasing.
The Merlin steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander
Turner, with the homeward India mail, is just tele-
graphed. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Pottinger, from Constantinople, arrived yes-
terday with a full cargo of fruit. She left this
morning at half-past ten, A.m., for Gibraltar and
Southampton, On the Merlin being telegraphed the

recall was made for the Pottinger, but from the dis-
tance was not seen. The Frolic, 16, Commander
Vansittart, from Athens, arrived on Sunday night
last, and on the following morning interchanged the
usual salutes. The Volage surveying-ship, Captain
Graves, with the Research cutter, were still lying at
Smyrna on the 23d, but were expected to leave for
Malta in a few days. The Auxiliary Gutter was at
Syra.

TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION.

Last night, shortly before ten o'clock, a fire, in-
volving a most serious destruction of property, broke
out in the manufacturing premises belonging to
Messrs. W. W. and R. Brooks, tallow-welters, No.
1, Southwark-bridge-road, nearly facing the brigade
engine-station.

The premises extended from Southwark•bridge.
road into Little Guildford street, where they had
another frontage and entrance. The whole occupied
nearly half an acre of ground, and comprised the
melting-houses, the making shops, spacious stores
filled with dip 9 and in ,ulds of great value, the ware-
houses containing a large and miscellaneous stock, and
the btore- rooms f,,r dC-positing casks of tallow in the
raw. This property wa3 adjoined by the flax ware-
house, belonging to Mr. Ward, in Little Guildford-
street, and Templar's Cottages in the saint! street,
whilst several shops and a Welsh chapel abutted upon
the factory in the front road.

The fire commenced i❑ the melting house. At the
time a number of men were engaged at one of the pans
melting some tallow, and, whilst stirring it, the
whole contents, about 2 cwt., became ignited. The
men, knowing that the application of water to such
an article whilst on fire would be of no use, made
an endeavour to smother the flames by covering
the top of the pan. Unfortunately that expedient
proved completely futile, for the flames immediately
shot forth with the greatest fury, and set the flooring
of the shops over it in a blaze before the men therein
had time to be fully aware of what had occurred. The
men who were in the last-named apartments were
obliged, in order to save their lives, to jump down
stairs through an immense sheet of flame. The bri-
g ade engines were immediately taken from the oppo-
site station to the burning premises, at which time an
abundant stream of water was flowing from the mains
in the district. The engines were charged with water
and in full work in less than five minutes after the
outbreak; but owing to the inflammable nature of the
stock in trade the flames travelled with rapidity, and
ignited almost simultaneously the store-houses, making-
shops, the spacious warehouses, and some hundred
frames filled with candles. The scene then became fear-
ful in the extreme ; for such was the fury of the confla-
gration, that the tiles and slates of the roofs were shi-
vered into a thousand pieces, while the fragments were
scattered over the neighbourhood like so many fire-
balls in a state of combustion. But a very brief period
elapsed ere huge sheets of flame broke through the
roof, and mounted some hundred feet into the air,
causing the district to be as light as noon, whilst the
lofty objects in the City and the vessels in the Thames
were brought out in bold relief. This caused the
more distant engines to be turned out, so that a great
many more engines of the London Brigade and West
of England Office were enabled to reach the scene
before sufficient time had elapsed to send for them.
The whole of this powerful force was called into ope-
ration, but in spite of the exertions of the firemen, the
flames extended to the flax-warehouse of Mr. Ward,
Little Guildford-street, to one of the Templar's Cot-
tages, and to the backs of several houses in the South-
wark-bridge-road. The firemen, however, by great
perseverance, and owing to the judicious directions of
their superior officers, succeeded i❑ cutting off the
further extension of the devastating element; but at
half-past eleven o'clock a great body of fire still re-
mained in Messrs. Brooks' factory. The damage
done is very considerable, as the whole of the manu-
facturing premises and stores are levelled with the
ground. Fortunately the firm was insured in the
Phenix and Sun Fire Offices.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.
The site decided on by this company for their new
station at Chester will be close to the city walls, at
a point that gives facilities for connecting their own
traffic with that of the Shropshire Union, the canals,
and river.