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He thought the inquiry would be much better insti-
tuted by the Government, according to the powers
which they possessed. He regretted that the
speech of the Right Honourable Gentleman the
Home Secretary had not been more explicit
as to the intentions of Government, on the subject of the
Maynooth grant, and he hoped that by the time this
debate was renewed they would have made up their
minds on the subject and be prepared to tell the House
whether or not they meant to propose the abrogation of
this grant.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
the Government had no intention of proposing the abro-
gation of the grant to Maynooth; nor had anything
fallen from any member of the Government calculated
to raise any such impression. He him-
self was not inclined ,to concur in the
grounds for the inquiry which had been
given by the Hon. Mover, although he did think it
desirable that an inquiry should be made, and that too
in the manner now proposed, and he considered there
were great objections to the mode of a Royal Commis-
sion, as proposed by the Noble Lord opposite. With
regard to the Government not having granted a specific
day for the resuming of the debate, he thought that
the press of business which they bad at present was a
sufficient answer. _ _ _

Mr. B. OSBORNE said that there was no motion fixed
for Wednesday next. Surely a race was sot of so much
importance as Maynooth.—(Laughter.)
Mr. C. ANSTEY moved that the debate be adjourned
until Wednesday next.
Mr. NEWDEG ATE said he could not agree to the
amendment. The Hon. Gentleman was addressing the
House when Six o'clock arrived, and .

The SPEAKER adjourned the House until to-
morrow.

THE SEARCH for SIR JOHN FRANKLIN

The following are the Admiralty instructions to Sir
Eivrard Belcher, relative to his search for Sir John
Franklin :

1. Having appointed you to the command of the ex-
pedition (to consist of the ships Assistance, Resolute,
Pioneer, Intrepid, and North Star), preparing• for the
further search of Sir John Franklin, you are, whenever
such ships shall ba in ail respects ready to put to sea,
and proceeding down channel, or north about, make the
best of your way to Barrow's Strait, calling at Disco (if
in your way) for such replenishments as the place affords
and a supply of dogs for sledging purposes.
2, We hare entrusted you with this command, in the
full persuasion of your thorough acquaintance with its
obligations, ar2el of your judgment and ability to meet
them.

3. We do not therefore consider it necessary to en-
cumber you with minute instructions for your guidance
at each step of your proceedings; but furnishing you
with papers which point out tho views of the Admiralty,
as successive expeditions have been dispatched from this
c.untry, and those also relative to the difficultiea occur-
ring to oppose those views, we leave it to you to decide,
as the case shall present itself.
4. We deem it right, however, that a certain course of
proceedings should be pointed out to you; and adopting
the recommendation of the committee appointed in Oc-
tober, Issl, to inquire and report upon a previous ex-
pedition, the plan of faturo operations there proposed is
to be considered es the basis of ycur proceedings. By
that plan, Beechy Island, is the point indicated as the
basis of your operations, and you are to consider it as
the grant rends zvous to which you are are to push for-
ward, there to establish the North Star as a general
&eat.
5. Arrieed at this point, two great objects will en-
gego your attention :-
1. The endeavouring to pass up Wellington Channel
with one sailieg vessel and one steamer.
2. The advance of a similar force towards Melville
Island.
6. The object of the firs of these expeditions will be
the endeavour to recover those traces of Sir John
Franklin which ceased at Cape Bowden, to the north
of Beechy Island; and to follow up such traces, if they
should be found. The object of the other expedition
will be, to deposit, if possible, at Winter Harbour,
Melville Island, or failing that, at Byam Martin Island,
a supply of provisions, fuel, and clothing for any parties
that might roach such positions from Captain Collin-
son's or Captain M'Clure's ships.
7. As regards the first-named expedition, and the
possible contingency of coming upon Sir John Frank-
lin's track; we cannot too strongly impress upon you
the necessity of your establishing along your line of
route, cachettes of provisions sufficient to supply your
crews and those of the missing ships, should any accident
happen to your own vessels, and reader it necessary for
you to return without them to the general rendezvous at
Beechy Island; and you will be most careful along the
line of such route, as well as in every other direction
you may have to take, to avail yourselves of every re-
markable promontory, point of land, or other distinctive
locality, to deposit exact notices of your condition and
intended proceedings; and you aro to give positive orders
that these notices or records are to be deposited ten feet
true north of the cairn or staff, and likewise beneath or
in the cairn itself.

8. With regard to the expedition to be dispatched
towards Melville Island, it is scarcely to be contemplated
that, under the most favourable circumstances, more
could be done in then first season than to reach that
point; and the officer in charge of that service will of
course have to take into account the having to winter in
that quarter. _ _

9. his earliest attention in that case, in the ensuing
spring, will be-Ist. The depositing such supplies at
Melville Island as he can spare, or endeavouring to con-
vey them thither by sledges, if he should not reach the
island with his ships; and 2d. The detaching travelling
parties in a westerly direction for the combined purpose
of a search for traces of Sir John Franklin, and of de-
positing notices in conspicuous situations as to where the
supplies are left, but being at the same time strictly en-
joined to return to their ships before the usual period of
the breaking up of the ice, in order that such ships may
return to their rendezvous at Beechy Mend or other-
wise prepare for quitting Lancaster Sound to return to
England, according as the supplies on board of his ships,
and the length of time consumed in the above service
shall require.
10. And here we think it necessary more particularly
to call your attention to the instructions to be given by
you to the officer charged with this branch of the ex-
pedition; for whilst there is a possibility of your
calculating on an early return of such officer
from Melville Island, in the summer of 1853,
and of his being able to afford you support in
any particular direction, it is on the other hand not
improbable that, from a prolonged detention to the
westward, it may be his bounden duty not to hazard a
further stay in those seas, but to make the best of his
way home; in which case ho must endeavour to com-
municate with the rendezvous at Beechy bland, before
finally quitting Barrow's Strait, in order to obtain in-
formation of the other ships, and to deposit records of
his proceedings.
11. He should, therefore, be made to understand the
nature of the responsibility that devolves upon him,
both as to the execution of his orders, in the first in-
stance, and determining the point at which the power of
compliance with those orders ceases.
12. It ie, of course, possible that seasons such as wore
experienced by the expedition in 1850-51 may again
occur to prevent a passage by ships up Wellington
Channel, or to the west of Griffith Island, and, under
such circumstances, it w ill bo for you to consider how
far it might serve any useful purpose to undertake an
examination by travelling parties from Baring Bay, or
Prince Alfred Bay, in the direction of Jones's Sound, in
addition to those which it will be your duty to send out
to the north'and north-west, fur traces of Sir John
Franklin, in the direction of Queen's Channel.
13. Our instructions, therefore, are without reference
to the possible circumstance of records still being found
at Beech), Island, or elsewhere (and for which it will be
your duty to search) at a certain distance from the re-
spective cairns, where it has been stated it was Sir John
Franklin's custom to deposit them ;*, and if by such re-
cords it should prove that Sir John Franklin proceeded
to the eastward out of Lancaster Sound, after he win-
tered at Beechy Island in 1845-46, you will still con-
tinue to push forward two of your ships towards Mel-
ville Island, as
.already directed by us, and with the
other two you are to act as circumstances may render
necessary, depending on the information which those
records may convey ; and adverting to the report of two
ships having been seen on the ice in the North Atlantic,
inithe spring of 1851, we think it expedient to draw your
attention to this subject, that you may adopt such steps
on your way from Baffin Bay, with reference to search
and !inquiry on the shores of Davis Straits, as you may
consider most advisable under the circumstances above
stated, and-the information the records may convey.
14. You are aware of the deposit of stores and provi-
sions at Port Leopold, and of the steam launch left
there by Sir James Ross; you are at liberty to employ
that vessel in any way that her services may be made
available; but with reference to the store of provisions
at Port Leopold, and also those for 100 men, which were
landed by Mr. Saunders on an island in Navy Board
Inlet, it is our directions that such provisions and stores
shall on no account be touched by any of the vessels
under your orders, unless compelled to do so by abso-
lute necessity.
15. We have furnished you with copies of these in-
structions, which you are to deliver to the captain and
officers in command of vessels under your orders. And
we deem it necessary that you should be directed to
communicate freely and unreservedly with your second
in command, and the officers in charge of the other
soar views and intentions,
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of the course of proceedings intended to be adopted by
you, and when the ships are separated from you for
the purpose of carrying out our orders, the same un-
reserved intercourse and communication is to be main-
tained between the officers in command of the respective
ships.
16. You are, no doubt, aware of the Prince Albert
private vessel being engaged in a like search in the
Arctic Seas; you are to afford that vessel every aid and
assistance, in the event of falling in with her, but you
are in no way to interfere with her orders or take her
under your charge.
17. The various logs and private journals, with draw-
ings, plans, &c., are to be sent to this office, ou the re-
turn of the expedition. And you aro to be careful that
from the date of your parting company with the ships
sent to assist in towing you, your own letters to our
secretary, together with those of the officers addressing
you, are duly numbered as well as dated;
and you are
invariably, should any opportunity offer, to leave letters
for us at such places as Cape Werrender, Ponds Bay.
&c., provided no delay he incurred thereby.
18. Your ships have been fully equipped for the ser-
vice they are going upon,
and it has been our desire that
you should be provided with every means and resource
that might be made available. -We have an entire reli-