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reached Cape Sepp;ngs on the western entre' nee o
the Regent's Inlet; they worked down the western
shore till the Ist of August, when the Fury was
forced on shore by masses of ice; she, however,
was got off, and hove downs for repair a little
limber to the sruthward ; but on the 23d of Ad-
gust, they were forced, in consequence of increased
sevetity of weather, to abandon her. H. r Officers
and men were removed into the Heat (which had 11
also been in great danget), and Captain PARRY
Tilt himself under the necessity of returning to'
England, and accordingly stood to tele northward, and
on the 27th anchored at Neill's Harbour, a little to the
4onthward of Port Bowen. After two or thtee days
Spent in refitting, they sailed again on their way home-
wards, and on the 17th of September got through the
ice and passed the Arctic Circle. On the 10th of
October they made the Of knelt, and on the 12th
Captain PARRY, accompanied by two Officers, landed
at Peterhead, and set off for town, where, as we stated,
he arrived on Sunday. The crews of both vessels are in
better health than when they left England last year.-1
That this is owing to the excellent arrangements made
in fitting the ships out by the Board of Admiralty, and
the great care and kind attention of Captain PARRY,
there can be no doubt. The officers state, that the
winter passed so cheerfully, that they almost thought
themselves at home.

Various specimens of the animal, vegetable, and mineral produc-
tions of the Arctic regions, have been brought home in the Hact.a,
but few or none, we believe, of peculiar rutty. Many curious mag-
netic phenomena have been observed, particularly in the course of
experiments made with Professor Raatow's metallic plates. Those
plates are an invention of great importance to navigation. In Cap-
tain PARRY'S first voyage, when they had reached latitude 73 deg.
they witnessed for the first time the curious phenomenon of the
directive power of the magnetic needle becoming so weak as to be
completely overcome by the attractive power of the ship, so that
'for all the purposes of navigation the compass was wholly useless.
Professor BARLOW remediedthis evil, which, in a less degree, exists
generally on ship-board, by placing the centre of a small iron plate
in the line of no attraction of the ship's iron, and at a proper dis-
tance behind and below the pivot of the compass needle; in con-
sequence of which the needle not only remains active and vigorous
in the Polar Regions, but continues to point to the correct magne-
tise meridian in other seas, uninfluenced by the attraction of the
ship's iron. The general utility of the Professor's plates had been
well established before Captain Naar sailed on his last voyage,
but we understand that his experiments on them have led to some
entirely new and unexpected results in magnetic science, and are
likely to rove highly important to navigation.

Hamburgh Papers to the 12th inst. reached us this
forenoon. The following are extracts :

ST. PETERSBURGH, SEPTEMBER 2s.

An existing ordon nance that no person in the service
of the State shall belong to a secret society or free
masons' lodge, is now extended to all individuals aho
are candidates for degrees in our Universities. All
students, before they ate admitted, are also to give a
certificate that they do not belong to a secret society.