The southern press., 1852-01-12

the object Of moro bitter and continuous hos.
tlity than any of his colleagues. His policy
WAS unsparingIy assailed by Journals whOse only
bond Of union was their abuse Of him. We
have always regarded Lord Palmerston, not
only AZ an accomplished and energetic states
man, whose sympathies, whether at home or
abroad, were always in favor Of progress and
the inaienable rights Of man, but as one who
has done more to uprOot the slave trade than
any politician of his age. Talents so command.
ing, and principles SO cosmopolitan, have made
him the especial favorite Of the British people.
I he influence which he has welded in his own
and other countries cannot disappear with his
retirement
THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION.
BY the Avon have been received further intel
ligence Of the Behring Straits Arctic sesrch;nv
expedition, brought by hef Majesty's ship Dad.
lus, Capt. Wellesley, from Behring's Strain
The Plover, Commander Moore, had passed tn.
winter in Grantley harbor, and was rtjoined t
the Enterprise, Capt. Collinson, c. b., fro,
Hong Kong, on the Sd OF July who on the lot
proceeded northward. The Dsedalus and Plov
met ut Port Clarence toward the end of Jul,
the former deeply laden with provisions an
stores, and prepared to pass the winter in tn
ice, should that prove necessary from any acc
dent having happened to the Plover
Lieutenant Barnard and Mr.. E. Adams, both
of the Enterprise had been left at Michaeowsk'
the Russian trading post in Norton Bay, in o.
tober lat, for the purpose Of collecting infos
nation of tho missing expedition from the Rus
sian posts and from the native inland In pu,
suance of this object, Lieutenant Barnard, wit
an interpreter, had gone early in January to
distant post, intending to communicate, if poss
bic, with some of the heghboring chiefs. d.
ring the night the post was surrounded by
large body Of Ko-yu-kuk Indians, several q
whom at daybreak entered the principal dive.
ling and killed the Russian governor Lieuter
ant Barnard and the interpreter, who were
the same house, made such resistance as droy
the Indians out of the house. They then lai
siege to the post, sheltering themselves hehin
woodan shields, stuck upright in the snow, bu !.
one OF them being soon afterwards shot, tn
whole party retired to an E>quimaux village .
some distance, where they committed great cyt
elites, killing upward of SO natives, includiu
women and children.
Lieutenant Barnard died of his wounds on III
afternoon Of the day following the attack M,
Adams on hearing of the ev mt at MichaelOwsk
proceeded with number of Russians to tn
post, where he saw the body of his late compa
ion, in which were numerous wounds, the prn
cipal one being in the abdomen, Of such an ex-
tent as to have proved inevitably fatal.
The line of ice in the Arctic sea has been
found in a lower latitute than in the two prt
ceding years. There is no account of the In
vestigator, Commander Mcclure, since Jul,
1850; probably he is in the ice eastward o
Point Barrow.
ITALY Y-PoILrIcAL PRISONERS AT NAPLES
letter dated Cosenza (Calabra) says "a
miserable scene took place here some time since
which is not generally known. The political
prisoners; nearly five hundred in number were
removed from their different places Of conine.7
ment to the central prison of this town. Mo. 1t
OF these have been two years in prison, prayil ~
in vain for trial. AS they were marched throu s.h
the town many people wept at their appeara ace :.
There were lawyers, venerable priests, and med :.
ical men, personally known to mauy spectators,
loved and respected-some of them locking
hiiserably altered, and all more or less tellim !:
the effect of two years imprisonment" The
same letter states that in the province of Calabr
Citra there are 972 political prisoners waiting I
trial in the prisons Of Cosenza, Paola, Rassano
and Castrovillari
The IEGISLATURE-Tha two housoo orr.,