The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

the present year, 8,8151. ls. Altogether there is a
balance on this account of 143,3741. 10s.
The general revenue account shows a total of balances
on the credit side of 342,0951. 2s. ld., whilst the debtor
side exhibits payments to the amount of 118,7651. 9s. 7d.,
leaving a disposable balance of 223,3291. 12s. 6d. The
dividend proposed is two per cent. for the half-year,
which, upon 8,212,0001. amounts to 164,240/. ; adding
to this, interest upon fixed Four-and-a-lialf per Cent.
stock, 9,1491. 3s. 3d.; we have a total of 173,3891. 35.3 d.,
which leaves a balance of 49,940/. 9s. 3d. to be carried
to the general revenue account.
The share capital of the company consists of
6,975,1001. consolidated stock; 69,700 171. shares, all
called, 1,184,9301.; and 6,500 201. Windsor shares, with
81. called, 52,0001.; making the total amount called on
which dividend is payable, 8,212,0001. Then there re-
mains the 121. uncalled upon the 201. Windsor shares
78,000/., making a total share capital of 8,290,000/.
The appendex contains some interesting statistics. It
appears that the total mileage travelled by locomotive
engines during the half-year ending June 30, 1851,
was 975,210 miles, as against 903,508 miles in 1850, and
1,155,256 miles in 1849. The coke consumed in the last
half-year was 14,045 tons as against 13,010 tons in 1850,
and 17,414 tons in 1849. And the average cost of coke
was 20s. 6d. in 1851, 20s. in 1850, and 10s. 6d. in 1849;
the ditrurence in consumption, therefore, will not make a
corresponding large decrease in the expense as compared
with 1849.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
Although the infamous fabrication which was
lately put forth by the Dundee papers respecting Sir
John Franklin's party was suspected by us to be a
wicked imposture, it has been suggested that a cir-
cumstantial exposure of the falsehood of its separate
details would be very satisfactory to the many whose
anxieties are greater than their knowledge of the
Arctic question ; we shall, therefore, enumerate the
various points upon which the whole story is made
to rest.
It was stated that on the 19th of June, the whaler
Flora, of Hull, which had been out a year and a half,
arrived at Stromness, and sent off thence her papers
and letters, amongst which was one addressed by the
mate of the Flora, Mr. George Douglas, to his
brother, Mr. John Douglas, living in King•street,
Aberdeen. These circumstances are false with-
out exception. No Mr. John Douglas is to be found
or heard of; not a single whaling vessel touched at
Stromness on the date mentioned, nor during the
entire month of June, nor since. No whaling ship
whatever, much less the Flora, of Hull, there being
no such vessel, has been out a year and a half, and by
thus minutely stating the period of her absence, fresh
proof of falsehood is afforded, since it obliges the
Flora to have sailed in the month of January, by more
than two months earlier than it is the practice of the
Davis' Straits' whalers to leave England. The writer
has presumed, without shame or limit, upon the igno-
rance of his readers.

But we have not done with enumerating the
falsehoods of this wicked production. The above
statements preface the supposed letter from Mr.
George Douglas, and are given upon the authority of
a Mr. Thomas Reid, whose existence under that
name we may presume to be as fabulous as the al-
legations with which he ventures to delude the public
mind.

The writer is made to state that in February last
the crew made a snow house on the land, the precise
position being judiciously suppressed, the ship having
at that time been frozen in Lancaster Sound for five
months ; that they were visited by Esquimaux,
who inquired if they were English or Americans (!).
On being satisfied, they further inquired if they
belonged to Chief Frankum's party, and then made
signs to intimate that some had gone to sleep. It was
finally resolved to visit the spot pointed out by the
Esquimaux, and a party started on the 27th of March,
having previously packed the provisions, arms, &c.,
" into a flat-bottomed boat." The next sentence de-
scribes their journey overland, and the finding, on
the sth of April, of the bodies of four men, the signal
which guided them to the spot being a black silk
handkerchief, tied to a walking-stick, stuck into the
snow above the bodies !