The southern press., 1852-01-13

the object of more bitter and continuous hos
! tility than any of his colleagues. His policy
was unsparingly assaulted by journals whose only
bond of union was their abuse of him. We
have always regarded Lord Palmerston, not
only as an accomplished and energetic states
man, whose sympathies, whether at home or
abroad, Were always ilr>favor Of progress and
the inalienable rights OF man, but as one who
has done more to uproot the slave trade thap
any politician of his age. Talents so command,
ing, and principles so cosmopolitan, have made
him the especial fayorite Of the British people.
he influence which he has welded in his own
ana 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 searching
expedition, brought by her Majestys ship Dada-
lns, Capt Wellesley, from Behring's Straits.
The Plover, Commander Moore, had passed the
winter IN Grantley harbor, and was rejoined by
the Enterprise, Capt Collinson, C.. b.. from
Hong Kong, on the Sd Of July, who, on the 10Th
proceeded northward The Dedalus and Poyer
met at Port Clarence toward the end of July.
the former deeply laden with provisions and
stores, and prepared to pass the winter in the
ice, should that prove necessary from any acci.
dent having happened to the Plover.
Lieutenant Barnard and Mr.. E. Adams, both
of the Enterprise, had been left at Michaelowski
the Russian trading post in Norton Bay. in Oc-
tober lat for the purpose of collecting infor-
nation OF the missing expedition from the Rus
sian posts and from the native inland In pur.
suance of this object, Lieutenant Barnard, With
an interpreter, had gone early in January to a
distant post, intending to communicate, if posi-
BILE, with some of the heighboring chiefs. Du-
ring the night the post was surrounded by
large body of Ko-yu-kuk Indians, several of
whom at daybreak entered the principal dwell
ling and killed the Russian governor. Lieuten-
ant Barnard and the interpreter, who were in
the same house, made such resistance as drove
the Indians out of the house. They then laid
siege to the post, sheltering themselves behind
woodan shields, stuck upright in the snow, but
one OF them being soon afterwards shot, the
whole party retired to an f. quimaux village at
some distance, where they committed great cru
elites, killing upward of 60 natives, including
women and children
Lieutenant Barnard died of his wounds on the
afternoon of the day following the attack. Mr..
Adams on hearing of the ev mt at Michaelowski.
proceeded with number of Russians to the
post, where he saw the body Of his late compan-
ION, in which were numerous wounds, the prin-
cpal 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 pre-
ceding years. There is no account of the In
vfstigator, Commander Mcclure, since July,
1850; probably he is in the ice eastward of
Point Barrow.
lTALY-PoLITIcAL PRISONERS AT NAPLES
A letter dated Cosenza (Calabria) says :-aA
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 confine-
ment to the central prison of this town. Most
OF these have been two years in prison, praying
in vain for trial. AS they were marched through
the town many people wept at their appearance.
There were lawyers, venerable priests, and med
cal men, personally known 10 mauy spectators,
loved and respected-some of them looking
miserably altered, and all more or less telling
the effect of two years. imprisonment" The
same letter states that in the province of Caiabri
Citra there are 972 political prisoners waiting
trial in the prisons of Cosenza, Paola, Rnssano,
and Castrovlari
The LEGIsLATURE.-The two houses organ
lied yesterday, by the reelection of last years
officers, with the exception of the clerk Of the
senate, which Office has been given to a new
incumbent. The attendance of members was
uncommonly full all the senators being nressnt