ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4297, 4 December 1876, Page 4

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

(From our ovm Correspondent.) Bay Findlay, an American horse, won the Drillingham Handicap at Newmarket. Leonard Amblain, a Belgian, arrested on board an outward-bound steamer for Liverpool, accused of robbery and murder of Messit, a banker, and his housekeeper at Ivory, near Brussels, was delivered on Friday to Belgian officers at Dover. Arriving at Ostend, the officer and prisoner—the latter being manacled—took a special compartment on the Brussels train. On the arrival of the train at Brussels both were missing. The compartment they occupied was deluged with blood, and bore marks of terrific struggles. The body of the officer was found beside the track, with the skull and face battered. All his valuables were missing. It is conjectured that Amblain watched his opportunity to attack the officer, and with his wrist-irons beat him to death, after which he unlocked his manacles and escaped. He was afterwards captured at Lille, in France.

The narrative of the Arctic expedition is published. It relates that, on the first encounter with the ice, the expedition was detained seven days in Port Payer. It started thence on August Bth, but before reaching the shore of Grinnell Land the vessels were caught in the ice track. After this their progress northward was an incessant struggle through chance openings made in the ice by the wind and currents through which the ships moved. The Discovery wintered in a well-sheltered harbor on the west side of Hall’s Basin, a few miles north of the Polaris Bay. The Alert pushed forward and rounded the north-east point of Grant's Land; but instead of finding, as expected, a continuous coast of a hundred miles towards the north, she found herself on the border of an extensive sea with impenetrableice on every side and no harbor. The ships wintered behind a barrier of grounded ice close to hand. The floating masses of thick polar ice had, in meeting, pressed up large quantities of intermediate ice into blocks frequently a mile in diameter, and varying in height from ten to fifty feet. Obstacles of this kind destroyed all hope of reaching the North Pole by sledges. Therefore when the attempt was made the sledge party was obliged to make a road with pick-axes nearly half the distance it travelled. It was always necessary to drag the sledge loads by instalments. The party really travelled 276 miles, though they only progressed seventy-three. All the cairns erected by the Polaris expedition were visited. At a boat depOt in New Map Bay a chronometer was found in perfect order. When at Polaris Bay the party dis- . covered and hoisted an American flag, and fired a salute, A brazen tablet, with the following inscription, was fixed on the grave of Captain Hall, of the Polaris “ Sacred to the memory of Captain Hall of the Polaris, who sacrificed his life in the advancement of science. This tablet is erected by the British Polar Expedition, who, following his footsteps, have profitted by his experience.” Two sailors of the Greenland sledge party w r ere buried near Captain Hall’s grave. The sufferings of the sledge party from scurvy were frightful. ihe expedition under Commander Markam and Mr Fair which endeavored to feach the Pole consisted of seventeen persons. Nine became utterly helpless and had to be carried on sledges. Three could barely walk and were unable to render assistance.

The ‘Morning Post’ announces that Capt. Cameron will not at present resume his exploration, as the expiration of his furlough obliges him to resume his service in the navy.