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

BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 22.

STOCK EXCHANGE.— There was little variation to-day
from the quotations of yesterday. The market was quiet,
but, although little was done, prices remained comparatively
firm. Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston were done at 73x4
dis.—North btaffordshire, at 10 dis.—South Staffordshire,
at 4% dis.

YORK, APRIL 20.

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STOOK ExcwANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol.

low :—North British (guaranteed 6 per cent. for five years,
and 5 per cent. in perpetuity), 4%—lireat Northern, 6%—
York and North.Mitlland, 14%.

REPORTED SAFETY OF SIR

JOHN FRANKLIN.
(From the Aberdeen Banner.)
The following extract from a letter, just come to
hand, canna fail to be read, at the present moment,
with profound interest. We merely give the intel-
ligence as it has reached uF, without drawing any
conclusion from it. The circumstances, are, how-
ever, we repeat, deeply interesting. The letter is
from Captain Sawyere, in command of the British
ship Lord Hardinge, to his father, Mr. Sawyers,
the collector of the Customs. in this city, it is
dated " Whampoa (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-
ticulars 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."
Mr. Sawyers has communicated the above particulars
to the Admiralty.
We have also been favoured with a copy of the
Current, published at
Tictofirfc 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-
zatland told him that Sir John Franklin had been
discovered by an English expedition on the Atlantic
passage, in Prince Regent's Inlet, where Ile 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 be 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 bad en-
countered."

TO THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WHO
WERE TOO LATE TO VOTE FOR LORD
DUNCAN'S MOTION FOR THE REPEAL OF
ME WINDOW TAX.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer having to revise his
Budget with regard to the stamp euties on Thursday
next, it will be competent for any Member who bas not
voted for ii,indow duties to move that he tikes into
his consideration the propriety 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 therecf. 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
eatisfied. 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.

Exet2r, April 22, 1850.
Y.S. Many of your readers bore 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 Rouse of Commons would give way to
better men nest year.