The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-09 00:00:00

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31 22 26
42 20 21
45 18 20
31 20 21
30 21' 29
32 29 31
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3:3 27 29
33 21 23

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28 34
40 42

24 2d 24 26
29 32 -
- 30
16 20 37 42
23 25 32
17 21 21• 26
, and Wheat at Aberdeen, the
her prices are per boll, except
lbs.

At Berwick, Coldstrei
price is given per quartet
Oatmeal, which is per sa

m. Kelso;
The ott
lc of 29)11

BERKHAMSTEAD, OCT. G.—The first Ball
of the Season, given by the Berkhamstead Club, took place
at the King's Arms, on Thursday last, and was attended by
all the Nobility and Gentry for many miles round,. with
the addition of the Officers of the 69th Regiment. The
Stewards were the Marquis of Salisbury and Thomas
Dorrien, jun., Esq. Weippart, with his excellent full
band, attended, and gave universal satisfaction. Dancing
was resumed after supper, and was kept up with great
spirit till a late hour. The whole went off with great
eclat.

On Thursday, Sir James Gordon, the resident
Commissioner of the Victualling Board, visited South Down
Brewery, a branch of the establishment, when a general
inspection of all employed ensued, and at the conclusion of
which they were informed by Sir James, that a considerable
reduction in the Brewery and Cooperage war immedictely
to take place. We understand that the porter at the gate,
two warders, and ten labourers, were marked for super-
annuation ; and report says that the Master Cooper and
several other officers will follow. It is further reported,
that a reduction will be made throughout the Victualling
Department, both here and in all the ports.—Plyntouth
Herald.

So dense was the fog at Shepherd's BuSh, on
Saturday morning, that the drivers of some of the car
riages coming into London were obliged to get down and
lead their horses.

On Saturday last it was discovered that a sin-
gularly disposed thief had visited Biggleswade on the pre-
ceding night, and committed robberies of a curious de-
scription. Mr. Niven, tea-dales, lost about 401 h. of honey
from two hives, which was taken by drowning the bees ;
his vine was also stripped of grapes, and a pail in his yard
taken to carry them off in. A tub, belonging to Mr. Tup-
lin, was also selected as a proper vessel in which to convey
the honey. A box of barley-meal was stolen from Mr.
Albone's, but the box was afterwards found on the north
road ; and a number of engraving tools and other articles
were stolen from the workshop of Mr. Conquest, glazier,
by taking a pane of glass out of the window. Informa-
tion being given to the constable, they pursued a woman
suspected as the thief, and took her into custody, with the
articles in her 'possession, at Buckden, whither she had
gone in a stage-waggon on her way home to St. Ives.—
Her name is Mary Greensmith, and she says that she se-
creted herself in Mr. Niven's garden about nine o'clock in
the evening, and that a man, a perfect stranger to her, as-
sisted in the robberies. She was committed for trial.

On Friday, at noon, the remains of John
the Chelsea
attached
pensioner,
to the Hospitalwereconsigned tto theHgerawvaes,
in Salter,
burial-groundthe
would in the yheaavre il47e
e 200,1
oa7n d
yearshad he
f
lived
oan
fwool d Cmho
was
borne nlnstitution."
rni months r, gd ea ry,
de-
signated as the " Fa
age: he was the oldestth
Collegeitutio and
wlies
borne to the grave by four of his old comrades, and the
sergeants followed as chief mourners. After the burial
service was performed, the pensioners fired a volley of
musketry over the grave. So universally was he respected,
that there was scarcely a dry eye amongst nearly the whole
of the pensioners belonging to the College who followed
him to the grave. He had only been ill three days. Mrs.
Roberts, the landlady of the snow Shoes public-house,
every morning sent him a glass of rum, and the boy on
Tu"daY morning had just brought him his daily allowance
when-he expired. The Commissioners also allowed him
one pint of ale daily.
It ha,
been eab
been stated, that if Captain Parry had
'
to advance 15 miles farther, i. e., to the 83d
ti,, theen;
/teetwled
o°f°
- ornament. This, however, is not quite
!old have been entitled to the reward allotted
correct. By the last act on this subject, passed in the year
1818, a reward is offered of 20,0001. for the discovery of a
passage from the
•
Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, along the
northern shore of Mnn
"Ira ; also a reward of 5,000/. to
those who shall first approach within one degree of the
North Pole; and proportionate rewards, at the discretion
of the Commissioners for discovering the longitude, to
‘. such persons as shall first have accomplished certain pro-
portions of the said passage or approach, namely, the
passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and
the approach to the North Pole." According to the
account published, Captain Parry only reached the
latitude of 82 deg. 45 min., which is more than 400
miles from the Pole, and he was still very far, therefore,
from fulfilling the condition which would have entitled
him to the reward of 5,000/. With regard to the pro-
portionate reward, Captain Parry, in order to be entitled
to it, must have reached a higher northern latitude than any
former navigator, and the simple question here is, how
has any former voyager proceeded northward ; what is
the extreme point of human adventure in these polar seas?
Few, certainly, have reached so high a latitude as 82. 45.
In 1606, Hudson advanced only as far as 82 degrees. The
Dutch navigators were never beyond north latitude 80.11. ;
and Captain Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave, was in
1773, stopped by ice in latitude SO. 48. Some of the
whalers have, however,
gone beyond this. In 1816, the
Neptune whaler, of Aberdeen, was as far as 83. 20., and
if the present Act had been in force, might have claimed
a share of the 6,0001. for accomplishing
a proportion of
the desired approach. The Act of Parliament does not
assign a reward for reaching any particular latitude short
of one degree from the Pole ; it is only to those who have
advanced farthest into these unknown seas, that a share of
the 5,0001. is offered ; and unless the 83d degree be con-
sidered as the extreme limit of navigation in the Northern
Ocean, up reward would attach to the roaclaiug of this Pint.