The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-10 00:00:00

cidental death, and, at the same time, expressed a
wish that the boatman should be reprimanded for his
want of skill and judgment, which was immediately
done in an impressive manner by the coroner.

TRACES OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
We were happy to give our readers yesterday an
account of the intelligence just received from Davis
Straits of the Arctic Expeditions in search of Sir
John Franklin. The information was conveyed in a
mmorandum given by Dr. Kane, surgeon to the
American brig Advance, to Captain Parker, of the
whaler Truelove", which was forwarded by Captain
Parker to the Admiralty, by the Tyne, of Berwick,
which arrived on the 6th inst.

We have since received another account of this
' matter, of which we proceed to give the substance as
follows :—Oa the 26th August of last year, the day
after the Prince Albert left Wellington Channel, on
her return home, further traces of Sir John Frank-
lin's expedition were discovered by the Advance, to
the north of Point Tunes, in Wellington Channel, and
on the 27th three graves were found on Beechey
Island, by Capt. Penny's parties, which were visited
by Capt. de Haven, Capt. Penny, and Dr. Kane.
These bore the names respectively of one marine and
one seaman of the Erebus, and one seaman of the
Terror. The date of the latest death being April 3,
1846. There were also the remains of the observa-
tory, carpenter's shop, and armourer's forge, with
stacks of empty meat tins. Dr. Kane adds everything
indicated permanency and organisation. There can
be no doubt but that the cove between Cape Riley and
Beechey Island, facing Lancaster Sound, was the first
winter station of the missing vessels.
On the 3d of September the ice in Wellington
Channel broke up, and by the 6th the several vessels
had penetrated to the Cornwallis, or western side of
the channel. Such, however, was the impenetrable
character of the pack in Lancaster Sound, that, by
the 10th of September, the entire searching squadron
was again centred about eight miles south of Griffith
Island. This was the furthest point westward at-
tained by the American expedition.
The latest date from Commodore Austin is of the
13th of September. He was then in momentary an-
ticipation of making winter quarters, and expectation
seemed to point to a small harbour three miles east of
Cape Martyr, on the south coast of Cornwallis
Island.

The American vessels were subsequently frozen in
opposite Wellington Channel, drifting in the pack
during the ensuing winter from lat. 75 deg. 25 min.
out of Lancaster Sound into Baffin's Bay. Their
liberation, after much exposure and trial, took place
on the 10th of June last, at a point south of Cape
Walsinghana, on the west side of Davis Straits, a li-
near drift exceeding 1,050 miles. Every officer and
man in the American expedition had scorbutic symp-
toms, but no deaths had occurred. The crews had
refreshed, and the expedition was endeavouring to
rejoin the seat of search.
Captain Parker adds, that he left the Prince Albert
with the two American ships at Duck Island all well,
thus affording very satisfactory intelligence of the
progress of the former vessel, which had sailed from
Orkney only five weeks previously.
We thus appear to owe this beginning of intelli-
gence from the Arctic regions to the otherwise unto-
ward event of the Americans having been driven
back to Baffin's Bay, where they have fallen in this
summer with the whalers, and especially with Captain
Parker, of the Truelove, who appears to have given
up the papers committed to him by the Americans to
the first vessel returning to England with which he
came in contact.

In itself the intelligence must be regarded as upon
the whole satisfactory, proving that the missing ex-
pedition was safe and well up to the end of their first
winter season, with the exception of the three
casualties mentioned. There is little doubt of the
discovery affording a starting point for the following
up the track actually taken by Sir John Franklin's
party. Supposing Captain Austin to have gone into
winter quarters in the part named as probable (though
we think it highly possible that he might have had
yet more of the open season remaining, and proceeded
still farther) a travelling party would undoubtedly be
sent to Wellington Channel for the purpose of making
the fullest investigation of the traces, so that the
future course of the searching squadron might be
shaped accordingly. We hope that the conclusion
here presented may prove incorrect, and that the
various vessels, though in no case wintering singly,
may not be all together, but that a wider field may
• be searched in consequence of the travelling parties
having a different point to start from.
We cannot but turn afresh with melancholy feel-
ings to the remembrance of the aid which should have
been at the service of the gallant searchers, and has
been withheld. We allude to the steamer which
might at this moment have been ploughing her all but
resistless course in the direction ascertained to be that
which our missing friends have taken. But the mo-
ment for argument and entreaty, as well as for action,
has passed for this season. May we be spared the
bitterest consequences of neglect.
We give below an extract from the New Yorh
Tribune, of August 19, which exhibits the American
feeling upon this subject :
" The surprise and disappointment which were felt
when, some time since, we heard of the change of pur-
pose on the part of the British Admiralty, relative to the
dispatching a steamer to join the English and American
vessels in search of Sir John Franklin, are, it is believed
giving place to a feeling likely to produce positive good.
It is altogether probable that an American steamer will
be sent out in place of the promised English steamer.
England had announced to the world her excellent in-
tentions, and this announcement was undoubtedly a prin-
cipal cause for the failure of the proposition of 'alr.
Seward, of the United States Senate, at the last session
of Congress. But for that announcement, a powerful
propeller, bearing cur flag, would months ago, with its
pro once and its Lzupplies, have gladdened the hearts of
our countrymen and friends in the Polar Seas, an
would 14e now leading the way in this great enterprise of
humanity. We need not inquire why the Admiralty,
after deciding upon a measure far more likely to ensure
success than any yet tried, have failed to accomplish
their design. It is enough for us to know that the pro-
ject was and is a good one, and that we are in every way
able to consummate it.

" The superiority of a steamer to all other vessels in
the power of penetrating the ice and of extricating her-
self from difficulty with comparative ease, illustrates her
certain efficiency for this service, and requires no com-
ment or explanation.
" Oar other enterprises in steam navigation have been
successful, and in the face of a formidable competition
are winning for us no little renown. For this enter-
prise also we are prepared, and success in it will be a
crowning honour. Not an officer, not a seaman of the
navy, or of the entire marine of the United States, from
the veteran to the boy whose commission or whose ar-
ticles bear the date of yesterday—but would deem it a
glorious privilege to be one of the noble company bound
outward upon that adventurous steamer's deck; fur
he would go attended with the most generous hopes and
most heartfelt prayers of every son and daughter of his
country.
"It was so when the expedition fitted out by Mr.
Grinnell went to sea—and it will be so again, when, as
we hope, the people of the United States shall, by the
fraternal act now proposed, seek to correct that which,
with our present information, we cannot help regarding
as the error of England in this matter.
" If, as by the English papers we are led to believe,
probable traces have very recently been discovered of
the missing squadron somewhere to the north of Lan-
caster Sound; and more especially if the English ves-
sels now iu those seas are, as reported, likely to suffer
through their total ignorance of the place where the
provisions sent out last year were deposited (the cap-
tain of the supply ship having, as is said, been guilty of
a most unaccountable blunder), then is it all the more
necessary that what is to be done should be done
quickly.
" No doubt the subject will be brought before
,
Con-
gress, at an early period of its coming Session."—
Chronicle.

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