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SIR JOHN" FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION. CAPTAIN...
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. To William CdNiNG-HAM, Esq. Whale-Jlsh...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Order of Knighthood h...
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On Sunday last, at St. Paul's, Bermondse...
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The Belgian Government has authorized an...
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Lagos—Additional Information. The Dispat...
Lvster ordered his own boat to be prilled back , and called to Mr . Blight , the boatswain in command , of the anchored boat , to " slip the cable , " he replied , V It is a chain cable , clinched to the bottom , and we can't unshackle it . " Jtist as Captain Lyster jumped on board the boat to see what could be done , Lieutenant Corbett . staggered xip from the stern , saying , "I have done it , and am alive , " He had been standing in the water , cutting the chain cable with a cold chisel , and in doing ' so received five wounds . Such cool devotion deserves to , be recorded . Captains Jones and Lyster speak in high terms of all their officers , and we are glad to observe that they make honourable mention of the warrant arid petty officers who distinguished
themselves . Mr . William J . Stivey , carpenter of the Sampson , is characterized as " a man always where he is wanted . " During the attack on one of the stockades , he was " neck deep in water , axe in hand , hewing away at the stakes to make a passage for the boats . " In consequence of the paucity of officers of higher rank , Charles Blofield , a Twatswain ' s mate , had charge of a pinnace mounting a twelve-pbund howitzer , during two days of the fighting , arid performed this important duty With great credit . The list of killed and wounded is now said to amount to 90 , —15 killed and 75 wounded . Many promotions have been made by the Admiralty , among all ranks of the force engaged , since the receipt of Commodore Briiee ' s despatches .
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Sir John" Franklin's Expedition. Captain...
SIR JOHN" FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION . CAPTAIN FITZJAMES ' S JOTTRHAX—COHctlfded . 2 Z . M . S . Erebus , Whale-fish Islands . July 3 rd , 1845 . —This morning , instead of going into Whale-fish Islands , by some mistake . Read fancied we were wrong , and away we went up to the end of the bay , thirty miles , to the mouth of theWaiguht Channel , looking for them- —the bay full of the most gloriqiis icebergs , packed close along : the shore . At noon we found out our mistake , and had our sail for nothiug , which would be good fun but for the delay . I went on board the Terror ' va . " -the evening , and found Captain Crozier knew the mistake , but fancied we had given up the ~ idea of going there . Fortunately , 4 he wind favoured us right round the bay , arid we had a delightful sail . We are now ruririmg . into these Whale-fish Islands . 4 th , evening . - —You will bear in mind that all this time £ ke « ou is up . Finding ourselves at last off these rocky islands , we sent Lievesconite in the gig to reconnoitre , as Captain Crozier , who had been here some years ago , did not recognise the place- —a certain flagr staff on a hill having been carried away . Very soon out paddled five "Htiskimays , " in the smallest possible canoes , all in a row , and two going a-head kept near the ship , and piloted her into a safe place among the rocks , where we are now moored in a channel just four times the ship ' s length in breadth , and perfectly landlocked . I was ashore all day on Boat Island , observing , with " Fox , " and got very wot and cold ; but plunging into cold water , when I got on board , made me quite
warm . Sunday , 6 th . —A fine sunshiny night , and wo had a delightful sunshiny day , quite warm , the air clear , ico glistening in all directions . The fine bold land of Disko , black , and topped with snow—clear—the sea covered with bits of ico , which are rushing through the channel as they break from the icebergs , which fall with a noise like thunder . Every man nearly on shore , running about for a sort of holiday , getting oklor ducks' eggs , & c ; curious mosses and plants being collected , as also shells . Lovcscomto and I on the island since six this morning , surveying .
It is very satisfactory to mo that ho takes to surveying , as I said ho would . Sir John is much pleased with him . All yesterday I was on tho island with Fairholme , with tho dipping-needle . Wo havo a littlo square wooden house to cover ourselves . Very largo mosquitooa biting us . I shall send you one . I ho transport will probably bo cleared to-morrow evening or Tuesday , and shall got off on Wednesday evening or Thursday ; that is , tho 9 th or 10 th—and hard work too . a man just como over from Liovely , n Dane , who luiH married an Esquimaux , says that they boliovo it to •> o ono of the inildost seasons and earliest summers ovov
known , and that tho ico in clear away from this to Uwcmtfiv Sound . Koop this to yourself , for Sir John 1 H "' Rurally vory anxious that peoplo in" England should » ot bo too Banguino about tho season . Bosidos , tho pipers would havo all sorts of stories , not true . I do Iwhcvp wo havo a good chance of getting through this year , if it is to bo done at all ; but I hope wo shall not , «•« I want to havo a winter for magnetic observations . And now horo goes a now pon irto tho porcupine , to fll that your journal is nt an end , at loast for tho pro-H 0 ' * t . I do hopo it has amused you , but I foar not ; for what can thorns bo in an old tub liko this , with a parcel Pi fioft boars , to amueo a " lady fair , " Thto , howovor ,
is afafion de porter , for I think , in reality , that you Will have been amused in some parts and interested in others , but I shall not read back for fear of not liking it , and tearing it up .
. To William Cdning-Ham, Esq. Whale-Jlsh...
. To William CdNiNG-HAM , Esq . Whale-Jlsh Islands , iltb July , 1845 . Dea ^ CoNiNGHAif , — -E——r- ' s bundle of . yarns will show you that I aril well and happy , and have not forgotten you yet . I have not much time , as the transport sails to-morrow evening , and we shall be all day at work . It was a heavy job , clearing the transport , and took us longer than we imagined it would have done , though we worked from four till six . We are now fullvery having three years * provisions and coals > besides the engine . The deck is covered with coals and casks , leaving a small passage fore and aft , and we are very
deep in the water . We sail , possible * to-morrow night , and hope to get to Lancaster Sound by the 1 st of August , which , however , is a lottery . It is now eleven o ' clock , and the sun shines brightly above the snowy peaks of Disko . From the top of one of the islands ; the other day , I counted 280 icebergs ; and beautiful objects they are . Should you hear nothing till next June , send a letter , vicb Petersburg , toPetro Paulowski , in Kamskatka , where Osmar was in the Blossom , and had letters from England hi three months . And now God bless you , and everything belonging to you . Always your affectionate James Fitzjames .
Miscellaneous. The Order Of Knighthood H...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Order of Knighthood has been conferred on Dr . Charles Nicholson , Speaker of the Legislative Council of New South Wales . . Mr . Cheyne Brady , nephew to the late Lord Chancellor of Ireland , and Secretary of Bankrupts , has been appointed Clerk to the Crown for the county of Fermanagh , in the room of Mr . Daly , removed to Donegal . Mr . Morrison , of the firm of Morrison and Dillon , in Fore street , is in treaty for Appuldurcombe , an estate in the Isle of Wight belonging to the Earl of Yarborough . Mr . Morrison once wore a porter ' s knot on hla broad shoulders . Iiord Broughton de Gyfford , the late President of the Board vof Control , has been made a Knight Grand Cross , and Lord Howden , the Envoy to Spain , a Knight Commander , of the Order of the Bath . Major-General Sir John Owen , of the Royal Marines , has also been made a Knight Commander . It is said that the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier will arrive in England in the beginning of March . The Queen of Spain has been driving out in the Casa del Campo , accompanied by the King and the Princess Royal .
. .... . Lord Howden has received an autograph letter from Queen Victoria , congratulating Queen Isabella on her escape from the poniard of the regicide . Our Queen wrote without waiting the arrival of the official dispatches . The Spanish Government have received similar communications from the President of the French Republic and the King of the Belgians . " Prince" Louis Napoleon has presented a " magnificent gold box" to Mr . J . Laurie , of Hyde Park Place , " as a remembrance of tho very gracious gifts , which bolonged to the Emporor Napoleon , " received by said " Prince " Louis Napoleon .
Tho Queen of Madagascar , called , very ungallantly , " a troublesome female , " by the Morning Chronicle , died in November last , after " the flower of her army" had been cut off by a rebel chief . A new Opera , by M . Alari , entitled , Sardanapalus , waa played at St . Petcrsburgh on tho 7 th inst . for Mario ' s benefit . It was completely successful , and will bo brought out at Covcnt Garden during tho ensuing season . Dr . Sumncr [ John Bird ] preached a charity sermon for the benefit of that excellent institution , tho Consumption IIoBpital , at Brompton , on Sunday , when tho sum of 68 J . 15 s . 4 d . was collected . On tho same day , 60 / . were received at tho chapel of tho Asylum for Female Orphans , Lambeth , after a sermon heard by tho Lord Mayor and tho " dignitaries" of tho City .
Mr . Shelley , tho candidate for Westminster , recommended , as Mr . Prout informs us , by Lord Dudley Stuart and Sir Benjamin Hall , addressed tho electors on Thursday at tho Pinzza Hotel , Covont Garden . Ho is in favour of voto by ballot , triennial parliaments , " extension" of tl » o suffrage , And—tho abolition of tho system of centralization , ¦ At tho levco hold on Thursday , an Address from tho " Men of Marylobono" was presented to tho Queen , praying her Majesty to call to her councils Parliamentary Re-formers , and ' stating that " any attempt to ro-iinpOBQ a tax upon food will meet with universal discontent , and pluco the country in inoxtrkablo confusion . " Sir Stratford Canning is on hia way homo from
Constantinople . Tho Now Administration has been jocosoly dospribpd as " Benjamin ' s rnosa—tho greatest of thorn all . "
The Rev . J . Radcliffe , Chaplain of Merton College , Oxford , Vicar of Bramhanv Yorkshire , and Incumbent of Radley , Berks , died of apoplexy directly after breakfast on Sunday morning . He was a very stout old gentleman indeed . The remains of Richard Lalor Shiel reached Dublin last wee . k , . and were deposited in the church of the . Jesuits there . j and over these relics of a " man of genius' high . Mass was to be said by Archbishop . ' Murray , and other priests , on Monday . Shiel ' s remains will have " strictly private" burial .
Sir Herbert Jenner Fust died on Friday last , in the 75 th year of his age . By his death , some valuable patronage falls to the disposal of the Crown and the Archbishop of Canterbury . Sir Herbert held the appointments of Dean of the Arches , Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury , and Master of Trinity College , Cambridge . In 1800 , he was called to the bar ; in 1803 , he obtained , his doctor ' s degree ; and in 1828 , he became King's advocate , upon which occasion he received the honour of knighthood . In 1834 , he became a privy councillor . He was the second son of Robert Jenner , Esq ., of Doctors ' - Commons , and assumed the name of Eust in 1842 , on succeeding to the estates of the late Sir John Fust . Sir John Dodson , Queen ' s Advocate , succeeds Sir Herbert in his appointment .
The venerable Dr . Murray , Roman-catholic Archbishop of Dublin , after a short illness , died at a quarter to six o ' clock on Wednesday morning , at his residence in Mountjoy-square , Dublin .
On Sunday Last, At St. Paul's, Bermondse...
On Sunday last , at St . Paul ' s , Bermondsey , —of which tie Rev . Dr . Armstrong is the incumbent , —no less than twenty-seven persons renounced the Roman Catholic faith , and joined the Established Church . The Reverend Charles L . Fisher , who some time since filled the post of chaplain to the Pope , announced his intention , on the 18 th inst ., to abjure the Roman Catholic faith , and on the ensuing Sabbath to attend the parish church at Lyme Regis , where he has been officiating in the Roman Catholic chapel . , On the 24 th " a number of refugees celebrated the anniversary of the revolution of 1848 , at the National Hall , Holborn . - . :....
_ _ It ts said that Lady Harris , niece of Colonel Outram , the distinguished Indian official , and widow of Sir "William Harris , of the Bombay Engineers , and Envoy to Abyssinia , has recently-become a Roman Catholic , in Edinburgh , and that she has made over all her property , and the beautiful estate of Sea Cliffjin Haddingtonshire , to the Jesuits . It is understood that this lady , after performing a novitiate at an austere convent in Grenoble , France , is to found a similar institution in Leeds . Lords Campden and Feilding have been making themselves very conspicuous of late , at Rome , in the observance of Roman Catholic ceremonies . On the occasion of a young
Roman lady ' s taking the veil , of the noble family of Giustiniani , Lady Campden had accepted the office of godmother to the newly-made nun , and had previously conducted her to the Vatican , and presented her to the Pope , in order to receive his apostolic blessing ; but being too unwell to take part in the actual ceremony , Lady Campden deputed Lady Feilding to represent her in the solemn , function , which was performed by Cardinal Barberini . Lords Feilding and Campden sat within the altar rails , dressed in deputy-lieutenants' uniforms ; whilst Lady Feilding , in velvet and diamonds , led her god-daughter up the church , and crowned her with a silver diadem . Crowds of English attended the ceremony , and subsequently repaired to stare at the nun at the door of tho parlatoria , whore they were regaled by tho abbess with sweetmeats and ices .
The Belgian Government Has Authorized An...
The Belgian Government has authorized an English company to lay down an electric telegraph between Ostcnd and London . The electric telegraph on the Great Western Railwo is now completed to Bath , and will reach Bristol in about a week . From Bristol it will be continued to Exeter , thence into connexion with the South Devon lino , and thus Plymouth will be at last united to Paddington . A treaty between Great Britain and the Republic of . Now Granada , for tho suppression of tho slave trade , was signed nt Bogota on tho 2 nd of April , 1851 .
Headed by certain members of tho Rothschild family , tho Parisian Jows have formed an association " For tho Study and Propagation of tho Snercd Sciences , " —a sort of Jewish Univcrmty , whero young men aro to be educated for tho priesthood , imd weekly lectures delivered on tho " Fathers of tho Synagogue . " Tho entire cargo . of tho Apprentice , from Buflsornh , which arrived , u few days since , consisted entirely , of antiquities from Nineveh , which luwe been safely deposited in the British Museum , and ' of ancient marbles from tho same quarter for Sir John Guest , who already possesses a valuablo collection of Assyrian remains .
A Ship Carpenters' Library has boon established aj ; Monkweannouth , and has received a present of books of great value from Mr . J . Lang , ship-buildor , of Sumlerlancl . Although but a very short tinao in existence , tho library now contains upwards of 200 volumes , which wo in great request and constant uso ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28021852/page/11/
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