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AWFUL CASI OF BURNING.—An inquest was held be
fore the county coroner, on Thursday last, at Royston,
on view of the body of Ann Tokey, who had been burned
to death. The poor girl had been reading a book on the
night of Monday, but, sitting on the stool before the
fire, bad fallen asleep, when by some means her clothes
caught fire, and she ran up to her brother's bed-room a
mass of flames. He tried to put it out with his clothes
and those of his brothers who were in bed with him, but
not succeeding, and the flames beginning to communicate
with the bed-clothes, he begged her to run down stairs,
which she did, into the street, and there ran up and
down, one body of fire flaming considerably above her
head. Almost instantly her father and mother came up,
and she was thrown down on the wet road, and rolled
over, and the flames were extinguished, and she was
wrapt in a blanket and carried home, where she died at
half-past 4 the next morning. The view of the body was
awful in the extreme. Verdict, " Accidentally burned."
—Camirielge Independent.
Tim& NEw SOUTR Wit TARIM—The adoption of
the new tariff in New South Wales is an event which is
calculated to create surprise in this country, where a free
trade policy has become so firmly established, and where
reduction of taxation is the rule, and an increase is only
permitted in the exceptional case of the urgent require-
ments of the present war. New South Wales has no
heavy war expenses to provide for, and yet we find that
the taxation of the necessaries of life had been most
enormously increased. The duties on tea and sugar have
been increased 100 per cent. ; upon some other articles
the additional imposts are very considerable. The passing
of the new tariff bill has given great dissatisfaction to
the colony, and an analysis of the votes of the mem-
bers gives a very unpleasant and unsatisfactory re-
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tivo members, and represent the most numerous
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minee members. We question much whether the build-
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or even the assimilation of the tariff with that of the

neighbouring eolony of "Victoria, will be sufficient to
reconcile the tax-paying portion of the inhabitants of
New South Wales to the operation of a financial mea-
sure carried by the nominee element in opposition to the
wishes and feelings of tho great bulk of the people of the
colony,—Australian and New Zealand Gazette.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—By the Baltic we have
advises announcing the return of the Hudson's-bay
Company's Arctic expedition, and the confirmation
of Dr. Rae's melancholy report as to the fate of
Franklin's party.
It will be recollected that Dr. Rae has been em-
ployed by the Hudson's-bay Company for the last
four or five years in an effort to discover any traces
of the remains or the fate of Sir John Franklin
and his party ; that he has made two expeditions
into the Arctic regions for the purpose, and that
he was so successful in the last expedition as to
discover evidences of the fact that a party of
white men, with ships and boats, had perished in
that far-off hyperborean region several years ago,
which Dr. Rae concluded to have been the ill-
fated expedition he was in search of. Beyond
finding some spoons and other trifles among the
Esquimaux bearing the name of "Franklin,'' and
the above tidings which he gathered from the in-
habitants, his expedition amounted to nothing. It
will also be recollected that soon after the conclu-
sion of his last tour the Hudson's Bay Company
sent out another party to elicit still more facts on
this point, and that, in pursuance of this design, a
messenger was sent from their head-quarters in
Montreal to Governor Simpson at the Selkirk set-
tlement to make the necessary arrangements for
that purpose. Mr. J. D. Stewart and Mr. Ander-
son were selected for this duty.
The (St. Paul) Minnesotian, of December 12,
gives the following account of Mr. Stewart's expe-
dition and its sad result :
" Mr. Stewart, with a party of 14 men, therefore
started from his post, the Carlton-house, in 54 N. lati•
tude, on the 7th day of February, 1855, and proceeded
to Fort Chipewyan, at the head of Lake Athabasca, in
lat. 58 N., at which point they arrived on the sth day
of March. llt had been determined to make the trip to
the Arctic Sea by water so far as was practicable, and
the party therefore remained at this post until the 26th
of May, busily engaged in constructing boats, and
making other preparations for their dreary journey. At
that date the party left Fort Chipewyan, and journeyed
by canoe on the Peace River, which connects Lake
Athabasca with Slave Lake, some 350 miles in a north-
westerly direction, till, on the 30th day of May, they
arrived at Fort Resolution, which is situated on an
island in Slave Lake, about latitude 61.
"At Fort Resolution the party was joined by Mr.
Anderson, who, with Mr. Stewart, had been appointed
to the command of the expedition. Here another delay
was made, for the purpose of reorganisation, and making
the last preparations before attempting to penetrate the
interminable frozen north. These arrangements com-
pleted, the party started out on the 22,1 of June for the
head of Great Fish River, in lat. about 63N. Thence they
followed the course of the stream to the Arctic Ocean.
Mr. Stewart represents the navigation of this river as
exceedingly dangerous, being obstructed by over 100
difficult rapids. Over all these, however, with nothing
more substantial than birch-bark canoes, they passed in
safety, and arrived at its mouth on the 30th of July.
"Here they met with Esquimaux, who corroborated
the reports of Dr. Rae, and directed them to Montreal
Island, a short distance from the mouth of Great Fish
River, as the spot where, according to their instructions,
they were to commence minute exploration. From this
time until the 9th of August the party were industriously
engaged in searches on the island and on the main land
between 67 and 69 north latitude. We cannot recapi-
tulate the perils escaped and privations endured by the
brave band while seeking to find traces of their country-
men who had perished on those desolate shores. Three
times they providentially escaped being ' nipped,' as
Mr. Stewart expressed it, or crushed between moving
mountains of ice. At last on Montreal Island, where
their explorations commenced, they found snow-shoes,
known to be English make, with the name of Dr. Stan-
ley, who was surgeon of Sir Jon Franklin's ship, the
Erebes, cut in them by a knife.
"Afterwards they found on the same island a boat
belonging to the Franklin Expedition, with the name
' Terror' still distinctly visible. A piece of this boat,
containing this name, was brought along with him by Mr.
Stewart. Among the Esquimaux were found iron kettles
corresponding in shape and size with those furnished to
the Franklin Expedition, and bearing the mark of the
British Government. Other articles, known to have be-
longed to the expedition, were obtained from the Esqui-
maux, and brought by the party for deposit with the
British Government. No bodies, however, were found,
or traces of any. The report of the Esquimaux was,
that one man died on Montreal Island, and that the
balance of the party wandered on the beach of the main-
land opposite, until, worn out by fatigue and starvation,
they, one by one, laid laid themselves down and died too.
" Tne Esquimaux reported, further, that Indians far
to the north of them, who had seen the ships of Frank-
lin's party, and visited them, stated that they had both
been crushed between the icebergs. Mr. Stewart took
especial pains to ascertain whether the party had come
to their death by fair means or foul ; but to every in-
quiry the Esquimaux protested that they had died of
starvation.
" Gathering together the relics found, the party set
out on their return on the 9th of August last. The re-
turn route did not vary materially from that taken on
their way north. Mr. Stewart has occupied the whole
time since in reaching our city, having come by way of
the Red River country, and having been absent in all
about 10 months. Mr. Stewart left St. Paul yesterday
en route to the Hudson's-bay head-quarters at Lachine,
I Canada, to submit an account of his adventures."
The St. Pant's Times, in its account, says :
"The expedition reached what is called Montreal
Island, where they fell in with some Esquimaux, who
informed them where the crew of the Terror (one of
Franklin's ships) met their untimely fate. They gathered
up the remains of a boat having the name of Sir John
Franklin on it, a hammer, kettles, part of a blue flag,
and other articles belonging to the unfortunate vessel.
We are informed by the Esquimaux that they reached
the spot just in tune to see the last man die of hunger,
who was leaning against some object when discovered.
He was too far gone to be saved. The wolves were very
thick there, and no traces of the bones of the men could
be seen, supposed to have been eaten by the wolves.
The Esquimaux state that it is four years ago since the
crew perished. It was on the coast opposite Montreal
Island. Their bones lie buried in the sand within an
extent of 12 miles. This is the fifth winter since they
perished, and the drifting sands of that barren region,
being in lat. 68 deg. north, have piled in successive
layers on the bones of those noble and ill-fated men.
Mr. Stewart describes the region as dreary in the ex-
treme—not a blade of grass or a stick of timber met
the eye. No game of any kind could be found. The
Esquimau', from whom their information was obtained
by signs, pressed their fingers into their cheeks, and,
placing their hands on their stomachs, endeavoured to
indicate the manner of their horrible death. They were
charged with killing them, but merely answered with
their signs."
The Montreal Herald, of Dec. 24, has a more
detailed account of the expedition :
~ We have been favoured by E. M. Hopkins, Esq. (in
the absence of Sir George Simpson), with the following
outline of the proceedings of the Arctic expedition,
which, by instructions from her Majesty's Government,
was employed by the Hudson Bay Company to follow up
the clue discovered by Dr. Rae while engaged on
another exploring expedition, also fitted out by the Hud-
son Bay Company, of the fate of Sir J. Franklin's party.
" It will be in the recollection of our readers that it
is scarcely a year ago that we published to the world
the first authentic information that had been received of
the lamentable fate of the gallant Franklin and his brave
comrades. The intelligence which was conveyed to Dr.
Rae in the winter of 1853.4 by the Esquimaux, and in
the accuracy of which that distinguished Arctie traveller
placed perfect reliance was received by the public in
England with great hesitation, arising, probably, from
an unwillingness to believe the mournful facts. That in-
telligence was in substance that, in the winter of 1850 the
Esquimaux saw a party of whites travelling from the
northward towards the A retie coast, dragging a boat over
the ice, intending to use it as soon as they reached open
water ; that the party, about 40 in all, made the land
near the mouth of the large river (the Great Fish
River), and there perished of starvation, to which
were added a number of frightful details of their suffer-
-1 ings, which we will not again inflict on our readers. In
proof of the truth of these reports, the Esquimaux ex-
hibited and sold to Dr. Rae a great variety of relics,
principally silver forks and spoons, marked with the
crests and initials of various officers of the ships Ere-
bus and Terror (Franklin's), and, amongst other articles,
a small order, or star, with Sir John Franklin's name
engraved on it.
"These were the tangible proofs conveyed to England
by Dr. Rae, in confirmation of the tale he collected from
the Esquimaux ; but his proceedings and conclusions
have been frequently called in question ; and therefore
it will be the more gratifying to him now that they are
fully corroborated, even to minute details of locality,
&c., in which he might possibly have been mistaken.
As soon as Dr. Rae had laid his report before her
Majesty's Government it was decided that an attempt
should made to follow up the trace he, had obtained,
commencing at the point indicated by the Esquimau" as
the scene of the last sufferings of the party of whites
seen by them in 1850.
The organisation and management of this new expedi-
tion were wisely entrusted to the Hudson Bay Company.
On the 27th of October, 1854, the instructions of her
Majesty's Government and the Company were forwarded
from London to Sir George Simpson at Lachine, where
he received them in the middle of November. His great
experience and well-known ability in affairs of that
nature enabled him to decide with promptitude on the
mode of carrying out the expedition ; the men to be
employed as leaders and in subordinate capacities ; the
amount of supplies, craft, and all other requisites for
the undertaking ; and on the 29th November last year
his instructions were despatched by special messenger
to the Hudson Bay territories, all parts of which were
put under requisition to furnish material, the whole to
be collected at the rendezvous, Fort Resolution, in
Great Slave Lake, by the let of June following, and eo