The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

George T. M. Purvis, and his Secretary, Paymaster,
and Purser, George P. Martin, will assemble at
Southampton on the 2.i of February next, and on
the following morning proceed in the Company's
vessel, which will leave on that day en route to India.
Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.B , Surveyor of
the Navy, visited Woolwich to-day, and was accom-
panied by Captain Superintendent H. T. Austin, C 8.,
when visiting the Retribution steam-frigate.
Mr. Casey, chief engineer of Captain Austin's
steam department, has been appointed to superintend
the fitting of the engines of the Retribution steam-
frigate.
The Hermes steam-vessel, Commander Fishbourne,
when ready for sea, will leave Woolwich fur Ports-
mouth, and will proceed from the latter port on the
sth of February with the mails for the Cape of
Good Hope, where she is to be stationed.
Mr. Peak', assistant to the master-shipwright,
with a leading man and six shipwrights, left Wool-
wich for Greenwich to-day, to examine and report
as to the value of the Iphigenea for the Marine
Society boy's vessel, as it is intended to sell her out
of the service.

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
BEHRING'S STRAITS.
The following interesting letter has been addressed
by Commander Moore, of her Majesty's ship Plover,
to Mr. Barrow, F.R.S., of the Admiralty:—
" ller Majesty's ship Plover, Kotzebue Sound,
September 28, 1849.
" Many thanks for your very kind letter of the
14th February, 1849, and at the same time lam
much grieved to receive the melancholy news of your
beloved and honoured father's death. Every one on
board was much grieved at it. You must excuse my
short note to you. I intended sending you a long
account, but Captain Kellett, of the Herald, sails
much sooner than I expected—that is, to-day. I did
not think he would have sailed before the Ist of
October. After leaving the Sandwich Islands, I pro-
ceeded with favourable winds and thick weather, and
arrived off St. Lawrence Island on the 9th of October,
the wind at S E., with every chance of being at Kot-
zebue Sound the next day, but the wind came round
to the N.N.E., and the current running strong to the
S.W., and on the 16th I found it was useless to
attempt to beat through. We were then running
upwards of 30 miles a day. I determined to anchor
under Cape Tchoukotsky. We had not been at an-
chor long when the natives came off, but it was some
time before they would come on board. I sent a boat
away, thinking I could see some appearance of an
inlet, and to my great joy we found a moat splendid
harbour and, wanting water, we instantly got the
ship in, getting ice and everything ready at a mo-
ment's start, should the wind shift ; but no, we re-
mained until the 25th, when we were driven into a
most snug inner harbour, and obliged to secure the
ship, much against my will ; but we cannot go against
wind and weather, and with such a miserable, dull-
sailing craft, that can only proceed as if time were no
object. I have had much to put up with here, but truly
glad and thankful, with the help of Providence, point-
ing out snug winter quarters, and thus prevented me
from losing a mile. I have sent a tracing of this new
harbour to the Admiralty. The account of the natives
will be most interesting. We have gained their
greatest friendship, and I was enabled to travel all over
the country, and was in hopes we should have reached
Kotzebue Sound by sledges, but after six weeks'
severe travelling, arrived within twenty miles of East
Cape, and found the ice was broken up there, and
the natives could not go across. We found them
far different to what we read about, and all along
the coast to Point Barrow. Many a tear was dropped
by them when we left, and their feeling towards
us was most kind and hospitable. I was always
having them to dine with me; and through kind-
ness and treating them with determination, I can
assure you now that whatever ship should touch
there will meet with kindness from them. Deer I
get plenty of it ; fish at times, and it was a great
thing for my ship's company. We all suc-
ceeded very well with their language, and only
sorry to find it different on this side. A few only
can understand us, but we have established just as
good a feeling here, and every chance of supplies of
deer ; but a dangerous place for the ship, and we
could not find a single place to the northward. If
we could have put the ship into Wainwright Inlet it
would have been a great thing for me. I then could
have gone as I intended in the boats. We got to 72
51 N., and were then stopped by the ice. lily large
boat got well round Cape Barrow, and when the two
small boats started for the Mackenzie no ice was to
be seen. I have been expecting Lieutenant Pullen
back every day, and still look for his return. I have,
all the time I have been in this sea, found the cur-
rents alter with the winds. I hope ling ere this that
Sir John Franklin has arrived safely in England and
all his brave companions. They must have had plenty
to go through. I send this short note sooner than
none; my next shall be longer. The Herald is just
going to be off, and I must finish."

MURDER AT SUTTON -IN-ASEFIELD.—One of the
most brutal and cold-blooded murders that it has of late
been our duty to record, took place at the small town
of Sutton-in-Ashfield, fifteen miles from Nottingham, on
Monday morning last. It appears that Berry, the man
implicated in this diabolical deed, is about fifty years of
age, and, some years ago, owing to the disreputable
course which his wife was pursuing he became jealous
of her. They had for a length of time been living on
bad terms, and the conduct of the wife becoming raore
undisguised, he resolved to leave her. The consequence
was tbat the woman went to live with her paramour, the
husband in the meantime cohabiting with a woman, re-
siding in the same parish, of the name of Hallam, by
whom Le had a child. His conduct has for a consider-
able time been marked by unsteadiness, and on Monday
morning, at about half-past eight, he returned to his re-
sidence, and after a short absence, locked the door, tak-
ing with him a butcher's cleaver. He proceeded up•
stairs, where his daughter then was, and immediately
struck at the unfortunate child's head, mtking three
frightful wounds, indeed almost hewing the head in
pieces. Hearing the cries, the neighbours forced open
tl:e door, and Mr. Lomax, surgeon, was sent for, who,
however, could render no effectual assistance. The
child soon after died. Berry was taken by the police to
the Mansfield lock-up, where be will remain until after
the coroner's inquisition.
FIRE AT PALMER'S CANDLE FACTORY.—Yester-
day morning, about six o'clock, a fire broke out in the
immense range of premises known as the Patent Me-
tallic-wick Candle and Lamp Factory, situate in Great
Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, the property of Messrs. Pal-
mer and Co. The discovery was made by one of the
lads employed on the premises, who, in opening the
door of the tinmen's workshop, found the place in
Hamer. Having the presence of mind to close the door
sgaie, he was enabled to give an alarm, which speedily
brought a number of workmen to the spot, who in-
stantly set to work, and happily succeeded an preventing
the conflagration from extending. The outbreak was
caused from a pipe-stove used in the workshops.
[ADVERTISEMENT].—BOTANIC WATER AND BEARS'
GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and falling
off, the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the head,
is the use of the two above-named articles, applied alter-
nately, the botanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf,
and as a stimulant, and the bears' grease as a nourisher.
If any further evidence was required of the virtues of
hears' grease for renovating and preserving the hair, Mr.
Catlin's account ef the quantity used, and the length of
hair obtained by some of the North American Indians,
would be a sufficient answer.—Ross and Sons, 119 and
120, Bishopsgets-street, London, who first introduced
the use of bears' grease in this country, and who fat and
kill the animals, recommend the public to purchase none
other but with heir names and address printed on the
pot, or the chances are their obtaining a spurious article.
BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY FOR
1850.—A cheaper edition of this important work, cor-
rected to the present time, and comprising particulars of
more than 100,000 persons, has just appeared, complete
in 2 vols., at the low price of 2/. 2e. " The untitled
aristocracy (says the Morning Post) have in this great
work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical his-
tory, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the
peerage and baronetag'. It will be an enduring and
trustworthy record. A work of this kind is of a na-
tional value. It may be regarded as the Domesday
Book of our own time. Its utility is not merely tempo-
rary, but it will exist and be acknowledged as long as
the families recorded in it continue to form an integral
portion of the English Constitution. As a correct record
of descent, no family should be without it."
SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN HUNGARY, IN
1848-9. BY AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER.—" This is a work
of deep excitement—cf soul-harrowing interest. It is
impossible to imagine a more vividly picturesque sketch
of the late military operations in Hungary—a more
powerfully graphic view cf the horrors of civil war_
than are here presented. Independently of its general
interest as regard& the progress of the war, this produc-
tion has many claims to notice. The author is evidently
a fine high-spirited, soldierly, chivalrous fellow. Amidst
a thousand daring exploits and hair-breadth escapes—at
one time dreadfully wounded and left for dead upon the
field of battle—his personal adventures illustrate the re-
mark, that' truth is often more romantic than fiction.'
Language could not express too highly our feeling of
the intense and absorbing interest of this volume."—
Naval and Military Gazette.
THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.—BREAK Ur OF
THE FROST.—During the whole of yesterday veal
with a dense andsdggye
marked alteration took place in the weather,
ape gea,„d n
but decided thaw having set in,
atmosphere, accompanied by a fall of r t
course of a few hours all appearance of
On te waters in St.
appeared in the metropolis..
e, and in Kensington-
James's Park, the Serpheinntir saintrost had die-
state of the ice, a large
gardens, owing to the
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acontinued o
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followingut h e
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s. No accidents beyond
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ttehresmasneldve
mere contusions from falls took place.
GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON.—His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge has signified his intention
of presiding over the fifth anniversary festival of this
useful charity, at the London Tavern, in February
next. Among the present list of stewards are the names
of the Chevalier Bunsen, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir
Francis Lawley, Bart., Mr. Benjamin B. Cabbell,
M.P., &c.