The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

REX V. THE ALDERMEN OP IPSWICII.

Sir W. Follett said he was instructed to apply for a similar
rule against the individuals who had been elected aldermen.
The same facts governed the case against them.-7-1 uletgranted.

HEX V. THE COUNCILLORS OF IPSWICH.

A similar rule was granted against the councillors of Ipswich

ARRIV4L OF THE NORFOLK, BERWICK WHALE
SHIP.

( From the Berwick Warder.)
It is with much gratification we are at length enabled to an-
nounce the arrival at this port of the Berwick whale ship Nor-
folk, Captain Harrison, one of the vessels beset in the ice in
Davis' Straits.

. The Norfolk got clear of the ice on the 13th November, and
continued to drift southward, followed by the Grenville Bay and
Lady Jane (Newcastle vessels), which made their escape three
days afterwards. On the 20th saw the land, distant about 40
miles, in lat. 64. The Abram was seen last on the 28th, beat-
ing to the north-eastward, lat. about 68. The prevailing winds
being easterly, they continued to drift southward, and set shore-
ward, and on the Bth December they were in the mouth of Hud-
son's Bay, Resolution Island bearing east 15 or 20 miles. They
were then carried by the current to Green Island, and proceeded
a considerable way in Ungava Bay; but, very fortunately, .a
current swept them along the land and round Batton's island,
and carried them entirely out of Hudson's Straits, where they
were apprehensive at one time they would have to winter.
There were frequently partial openings in the park of ice, and
the ships took advantage to proceed eastward, and heavy swells
aided their escape; but the vessels received some heavy blows
from the ice. This was in lat. 58 50, and distant from the
Labrador coast 30 miles. Several whales were seen in about
lat. 61 30, and though the attempt was made to take them, it
was unsuccessful, owing to the ice and heavy gales.
The Norfolk called at the Orkneys to put on shore a portion
of the crew. She left there on Monday morning, carried a fair
wind fur Peterhead, and turned from thence with the wind
southerly. On Friday morning she reached Berwick Bay, and
anchored off the pier; and with the afternoon's tide she came
into the Tweed, and is now stationed off Spittal.
The captain and crew of the Norfolk, we are glad to say,
have endured their hardships as jolly British tars always do,
and are all well. Her success, however, has been very mode-
rate; she has only one fish; and Captain Harrison declares it
was never in his power the whole year to look for fish, as the
season was so severe with frost. Since they left Davis' Straits„
the weather, we understand, has been extremely fine.
The arrival of the Norfolk has diffused one universal feeling
of joy throughout all classes of the inhabitants.
Since the foregoing was written we have been on board the
Norfolk, and can, from personal observation, give the most
favourable account of the whole crew. She came into the
Tweed, towed by a steamer, amid the joyous acclamations of a
large concourse of people assembled on the pier the ramparts,
the Carr-ruck, and every place that could command a view of
the interesting scene, and was moored off the new jetty at Carr-
rock. The ship was immediately thronged with visitors, and
congratulations heaped upon the captain and his hardy tars in
abundance, their return being regarded as a sort of resurrec-
tion. They all look tolerably well, considering what-they have
endured, remarkably well—thin, but healthful. The captain is
full of4' moving accidents." He has some fears, it would seem,
a the fate of the Abram. The ships he left in the ice cannot,
he thinks, get out till spring; and be is of opinion that Captain
Ross's expedition will scarcely be available.