The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-23 00:00:00

YORK, APRIL 20.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as U.-
low :—North British (guaranteed 6 per cent. for five years,
and 5 per cent. in perpetuity), 4:34—Great Northern, 5N—
York and North_,Midland, 14N.

REPORT ED SAFETY OF SIR
JOHN FRANKLIN.
•
(From the Aberdeen Banner.)

The following extract from a letter, just come to
hand, cannot fail to be read, at the present moment,
with profound interest. We merely give the intel-
ligence as it has reached us, without drawing any
conclusion from it. The circumstances, are, how-
ever, we repeat, deeply interesting. The letter is
from Captain Sawyers, in command of the British
ship Lord Hardinge, to his father, Mr. Sawyers,
the collector of the Customs in this city, it is
dated " Whampoas (China) 23d February, 1850,"
and says :—" California has been all the rage at
Hong-Kong, lately, and the day before yes-
terday a vessel arrived from thence ,(namely, from
California), with news of four hundred vessels there,
entirely deserted. One had chalked upon her side,
Gone to the diggings for a month.' She brought
news also of Sir John Franklin. I have seen no par-

Oculars yet in the papers. One of the officers of the
expedition had reached the Sandwich Islands, and
reported it (namely, the expedition) being in safety."
Air. Sawyers has communicated the above particulars
to the Admiralty.
We have also been favoured with a copy of the
Overland Register and Price Current, published at
Victoria, China, on the 26th February, 1850, where
we find the following :
" A gentleman from Mazatlan, and formerly con-
nected with an independent yacht expedition from
England, informs us that the British Consul at Ma-
ritland told him that Sir John Franklin had been
discovered by an English expedition on the Atlantic
passage, in Prince Regent's Inlet, where he had
been frozen in nearly four years. The weather
during the greater part of that period had been un-
usually cold, even for that high latitude ; while that of
the past year has been, on the contrary, warmer than
usual. On this account, the expedition referred to
has been able, it is said, to penetrate the icy barrier,
and rescue the unfortunate adventurers. The gen-
tleman who gave us the information is of the highest
respectability ; and the facts he gave us were related
with such a degree of caution, and so evident a desire
to avoid all exaggeration, that we are induced, in the
absence of other information, to regard them as pro-
bably accurate. However this may be, the report at
least gives room to hope that this heroic navigator
and his companions have escaped the dreadful fate
which it has been so long feared that they had en-
countered."

TO THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WHO
WERE TOO LATE TO VOTE FOR LORD
DUNCAN'S MOTION FOR THE REPEAL OF
TdE INDOW TAX.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer having to revise his
Budget with regard to the stamp duties on Thursday
next, it will be competent for any Member who has not
voted for window duties to move that be takes into
his consideration the propkiety of amending his Budget—
that the window duties be repealed by the sanction and
vote of the Commons, for which the population of all
England cry aloud, and have petitioned for until they
are weary thereof. If the strong cord of taxation be
forced beyond its power it may snap when little expected.
By the abolition of this inhuman tax the people will be
satisfied. Its continuance will cause all who support it
to be held as the bitter enemies of her Majesty's sub-
jects (particularly the poor and invalided, who feel it
most).—Your obedient servant,
ANTI-WINDOW-TAX.

Exeter, April 22, 1850.
P.S. Many of your readers here and throughout
England will feel obliged by your insertion of this letter
to call the Members of Parliament (seven years' Mem-
bers) to their duty. Were Parliaments to be annual,
one-half of the House of Commons would give way to
better men next year.