The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-29 00:00:00

THE PACIFIC.
SIR J. FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

From the Sandwich Islands we have accounts of
the 26th of May inclusive. The Polynesian co:ttains
the following information of the English surve3s in
the Pacific:—
" SURVEY OF THE WESTERN COAST OF AMERICA,

SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, ETC.
" Iler Britannic Majesty's ship Herald, Captain
Kellett, C. 8., which sailed hence on the 19th instant,
left England on the 26th of June, 1845, and touched
at Rio Janeiro, the Falkland Islands, Conception,
Valparaiso, and Callao. Thence to New Granada,
where she commenctd hey special object of surveying
in the bay of Choco. Surveyed river Buenaventura
as high up as the town of the same name. This is
the best harbour on the west coast ; but this, even,
has but twelve to sixteen feet of water. After com-
pleting the survey of this bay, proceeded to Panama,
thence to the Straits of Juan de Fuca, in latitude 48
deg. north. Remained in the straits three months,
and surveyed the south part of Vancouver's Island,
and the north part of Oregon Territory in the straits.
" From the Straits of Juan de Fuca the Herald
returned south to San Francisco, in California, sur-
veying some islands on the coast, and reached Mazat-
lan, in Mexico, in November, 1846. Thence down
the Mexican coast to Panama, where she arrived in
the middle of January, 1847. Spent three months
in surveying the Pearl Islands, in Panama Bay,
whence she proceeded to Callao to provision and refit,
and arrived in June.

" After refitting she proceeded to Guayaquil, and
surveyed from Santa Clara Island up to the city of
Guayaquil, a distance of about forty miles. From
this point she completed the survey ,of the South
American coast as high up as Panama Bay, by Fe-
bruary, 1848.
" Here the Herald received orders from England to
proceed to Kamschatka, to seek out a proper position
for, and to establish and provision her Britannic Ma-
jesty's
ship Plover, that she might be in readiness to
communicate with and relieve the wants of Sir John
Franklin, in case be should succeed in finding his
way through from the east. After a very rough and
tedious passage, during which she was towed some
600 miles by her Britannic Majesty's steam-frigate
Samson, she arrived in ninety days at Petropaulov-
skoie, in Asiatic Russia. After recruiting and re-
ceiving every possible civility and attention froth the
Russians, she crossed the sea of Kamschatka to
Norton's Sound, in Russian America, to procure
interpreters and baiders (light seal-skin boats), the
latter of which she failed to procure. This employed
-her till August, 1848.
" From Norton's Sound the Herald proceeded
northward, and in September anchored off the Island
of Chamisso, in Kotzebue's Sound, in about 67 deg.
N. lat. Here she remained about a month, cruising
about and exploring the bay; but failed to hear any-
thing of Sir John Franklin and his expedition, or of
the Plover, with whom she expected to fall in, and
to establish whom in winter quarters she was
dispatched. _ _ _

‘-‘ The Plover left these islands, it will be recol-
lected, on the 24th of August last, too late in the tea-
son, probably, to reach her rendezvous before the
Herald left. She has not since been heard from at
these islands.