The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-12 00:00:00

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The Baretto Junior transport, which accompanied the
discovery ships Erebus and Terror on their departure
from England (under command of Captain Sir John
Franklin), having proceeded with them as far as Wale-
fish Island, Disco, parted company with them on the 12th
ult., and passed Spithead on her way to the Downs on
Wednesday. The following is an extract of a letter re-
ceived from her :

" The Downs, August 7.
" I hasten to tell you of our arrival, not sorry to turn
our backs upon the frigid zone. We had a boisterous
passage out though not a long one, rounding Cape Fare-
well on the 23d and 24th of June, in a heavy gale of wind
from the S.E., in lat. 52 10 N., long. 46 47 W. The
discovery ships behaved gloriously ; there was no small
sea on, for, high out of the water as we are, we had one of
our dead-lights stove in. Two days after we entered
Davis's Straits the weather became very fine, and we saw
the stupendous mountains of West Greenland, covered
with ice and snow, also three large icebergs, which in a
few days thickened on us, but fortunately we had gener-
ally leading winds, which enabled us to thread them with-
out danger. We left our excellent and good friends of
the discovery ships at Walefish Island, Disco, on the
12th, all in good health, and high spirits as to their future
enterprise, full of hope as to their ultimate success.
They are famously strong ships, well manned, and impos-
sible to be better officered. We left them complete in
full three years provisions, stores, and fuel, besides five
bullocks, which we killed there for them. Our passage
home has been a short one ; the first week we passed in
Davis's Straits, in a heavy gale of wind and thick weather
right up. We had both the land and the ice to keep clear
of : however, we got out untouched. The rest of the pas-
sage was fine for a northern climate. The wind being
fair from the N.E., we have come home by the English
Channel, instead of as usual north about."
Letters have been received at Woolwich, dated her
Majesty's ship Erebus, Walefish Islands, Davis's Straits,
July 8, 1845, from one of which the following is an
ex tract :
" We are discharging the transport as quickly as pos-
sible, for the season is far advanced and we are in a great
hurry to get up the country ; but we have plenty of time
)et if the weather keeps fine. We calculate on being ab-
sent two years and a half, unless we get through into
the Southern Ocean, when it may be three or four years
before we return. We are all well, and lam very happy.
We have the best treatment, and one of the best of Cap-
tains, and a good set of officers throughout. The Baretto
Junior, the transport ship, sails the day after to-morrow
(July 10) on her return. "The natives here are civilized,
and as shrewd at making a bargain as you or I would be
in any transactions at home."

Mr. McKenna, Queen's Counsel and a Roman Catholic,
has been offered the Chief-Clerkship in the Irish Secre-
tary's Office at Dublin.
OPENING or ST. GEORGE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
We are gratified to hear that the collections in aid of the
building fund of the above church at the opening services
amount to the very handsome sum of £384 2s. 3d.
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—Mr. Charles Lawrence
electedctiairmofandle and Mr. raulnicotbieorntsßon Railway deputy
chairman
pany, at a a meeting of the Directors, held yesterday at
the station in Lime-street. GalyadCsot!
CHURCH or SCOTLAND.—The Bev. Robert Story,
minister of the parish of Roseneath, preached in
the Scotch Church, Oldham-street, on Sunday last.
The Rev. gentleman is on his way to London, on in-
vitation from the Marquis of Lorn, to baptise his infant
son, Earl Campbell, heir to the Dukedom of Argyll.
This selection of the Scottish parish minister to perform
this interesting service evinces on the part of the
illustrious House of Argyll a strong attachment to the
Church of their fathers, in whose affairs the Noble
Marquis takes a deep interest.
CHARGE OF STEALING MONEY.—A young woman
named Margaret Gray, was charged by a youth named
Johnson, clerk to Mr.- William Jones, attorney, with
lobbies him of £ll. which he said was
his master's pro-
perty. It appeared that Johnson and the prisoner had
been living together as man and wife for the last two
years ; that they had quarrelled ; that Johnson had struck
and maltreated the prisoner on several recent occasions,
and that she, knowing he had some money in the house,
and finding she could no longer live with him, had taken
some of it for her support and left the house. Mr. Jones
claimed the money, as it had been received by Johnson in
his absence, but the court on hearing the whole case re-
fused to admit this claim, and discharged the prisoner.
ANNUAL REVENUE OF CORPORATIONS.—An abstract
of the accounts of the various municipal boroughs in
England and Wales, from the Ist September, 1843, to
the 31st August, 1844, has just been presented to parlia-
ment, from which we select the following as interesting
in this district :—Chester, £7,881 ; Lancaster, £2,316 ;
Liverpool, £395,799 ; Manchester, £59,876 • Preston,
£9,189; Stockport, £1,952. In the cases .of Chester,
Lancaster, and Preston, the balance is on the wrong side
of the account. The principal incorporated seaports
stand thus :—Bristol, £48,431; Hull, £31,391 ; Newcas-
tle-on-Tyne, £56,157; Plymouth, £12,290 ; Portsmouth,
£7,543; Southampton, £5,808; Stockton, £1,999; Sun-
der6land, £2,414 ; Swansea, £28,270 ; Great Yarmouth,
:C 262. Of these Stockton, Southampton, Portsmouth,
Newcastle, and Bristol, shew a balance on the wrong side.
ANTICIPATED ARRIVALS FROM AMERICA.—The Great Western steam-ship was appointed to leave New
York on the 31st ult., and the Britannia, British and
North American Mail steam-ship to leave Boston on the
Ist instant, both for this poi t. Some speculation is
afloat as to which of the two will arrive first, and a few
bets are, we learn, pending on the result. The Britannia
had to come via Halifax for the mails, while the other
could proceed across the Atlantic without much, if any,
deviation. The distance to be run is much the same for
both ; and both being fine ships, and of nearly propos-
tionate steam-power, curiosity is on tip-toe as to which
shall be the winner. The "chances" not of " war," but
of "wind " may, however, defeat all attempts to arrive
at a fair criterion of their respective general speed. One
vessel may fall into a favourable vein, and the other,
though not far distant, into an opposing current of air,
and a heavy seaway.
THEATRE ROYAL—The attraction at this establish-
ment during the past week has been increased by the
engagement—a farewell one—of the inimitable Taglioni,
accompanied by Mademoiselle Petit Shephan, and Mons.
Sylvain. The house, during each night of their perform-
ances, has been literally crammed with the most fashion-
able audiences we have witnessed for some seasons. The
ballet selected for Tursday and Friday was " La Sylphide,"
in which Taglioni exhibited all her accustomed grace and
force, criticism upon which we feel would be totally out
of place. Mademoiselle Petit Stephan is a very pretty
dancer, and, with Sylvain, acquitted herself admirably.
Last night, Mademoiselle Taglioni took her benefit.
which, we need not say, was a bumper one. On Wed-
nesday we perceive Mrs. Seymour takes her benefit.
This lady is gaining favour rapidly with the audience as
are several others of the company. On Friday we are
promised a visit from Henry Philips, for one night only.
BURGLARY.—At the police-court, yesterday, a boy
named William Cockrane was charged, before T. Booth,
Esq., with this offence. A police-officer stated that about
one o'clock that (yesterday) morning he met the prisoner
in Circus-street, with a bundle under his arm, and
stopped him. The bundle contained copper money, and
several ss. papers of copper were afterwards found on
the prisoner's person. Inquiry was set on foot,
and it was found that the shop of a grocer in Byrom-
street had been burglariously entered, and the money
abstracted. The owner said that he had missed from
£5 to £lo,—in copper—he could not precisely tell
the amount. The house had been fastened up on Satur-
day night. A shop-boy identified several of the five shil-
ling papers found on the prisoner, which he had himself
made up. The amount found on the prisoner was £4 16s.
10d. He had been employed at the shop until about a
week ago, and knew the premises. A back cellar had
been forcibly entered, and two street doors had been found
open in the morning. The prisoner was committed for
trial at the assizes.
CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—The Helena, 16, Com-
mander Sir C. Ricketts, Bart., was at the Cape of Good
Hope on the 20th of June, from a five months' cruize in
the Mozambique Channel. On the 4th of April her pin-
nace, whilst cruising between the port of Mozambique
and Cape Delgado, under the command of Lieutenant
Charles Codrington Forsyth, captured after a short re-
sistance (one man being severely wounded), an Arab
dhow, with 83 slaves on board, and a crew of 14 men,
armed with spears, creeses, swords, and double-barreled
guns. The slaves were principally small children which
had been kidnapped at the Portuguese settlements on the
coast by the Moors, and by them sold to the Arabs, who
take them to Muscat. The boat, on her way to rejoin
the Helena, unfortunately lost seven of her best men from
a sort of yellow fever. The dhow was such a wretched
craft that she was sunk soon after her capture, not being
in a fit state to send to an English colony, and the slaves
were put on board the Helena.