The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

SUPPOSED NEWS OF SIR JOHN

FRANKLIN.
An extra, published by the Colombo Observer, con-
tains, tinder date Singapore, Jan. 6, the following:—
News from the utmost ends of the earth are always ac•
ceptablo, more especially when the subject-matter is the
relief of the distressed, who have risked and it may be
feared lost their lives in a search after knowledge. I have
it in my power this month to give you later information of
the search which is being prosecuted for the recovery of Sir
J. Franflin and his party than even the Admiralty itself is
yet polisessed of. Her Majesty's surveying ship Herald
arrived here from the Arctic regions, rid the Sandwich
Islands and Hong-Kong, during the last week, and she has
the lates t accounts from the far north. Near the extreme
station of the Russian fur company they learned from the
natives that a party of white men had been encamped 300
or 400 miles inland, that the Russians had made an attempt
to supply them with provisions and necessaries, but that the
natives,, who are at enmity with the Russians, had frustrated
all attempts. No communication could be opened with the
spot where they were said to be, as a hostile tribe intervened.
From the Esquimauas they had this vague story very
_satis-
factorily confirmed, with the addition that the whites
murdered.
natives having quarrelled, the former had been
As to the possibility of these unfortunates being 5-r
have paid
John
Franklim's party I leave you and your readerdwz
0. Whether
attentian to the case in all its bearings t.O !fahlA,,, company,
little men spoken of were or were not Swirl°
alive, a;
little hopes can now be entertained of
e year, and their
findong them
their provisions must have been expendedv all been burned out
fuel, which is as necessary, must have
nearly two years

lON BY A TAX COLLECTOR.
EXTENSIVE DEFALCATlON
Mr. Stone, an old inhabitant of the parish of
—On Saturdayand who held the situation for some
St. Mary's, Newington,
.
of the_ property-tax in that parish, was
years as collector
taken at his
earridence, Park-street, Camden town, by Ser-
geantl P, and safely lodged at Horsemonger-
Q
lane gaoul,inolnLa warrant issued by the Commissioners of In •
co
me and Property-tax, and charging him with being a de-
faulter of the money collected by him to the amount of
100/. It appears that a discovery of the defalcation had
been made nearly twelve months ago, and at that time Mr.
Stone absconded. A warrant for his apprehension had been
issued at that time by the Commissioners at Somerset
House, and it was placed in the hands of the parish con-
stable for execution. For some cause or other, however, it
had never been put in force, and the Commissioners, from in-
formation which had reached them, issued another warrant
which they forwarded to Mr. Robinson, the superintendent
of police of that district, and that gentleman at once placed
it in the hands of one of his sergeants, Quinnear. This active
and indefatigable officer lost very little time in putting it
into force, an soon captured his man. In this, as in many
instances of a similar description, the sureties of Mr. Stonea
are unable to pay a single shilling of the defalcations, and
the consequence has been that the unfortunate rate-payers
have been compelled by a re-assessment to make up every
farthing of the 1,5001.