Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-05

They made an extraordinary passage across for men IN
their state The greater part of them affected with
scurvy, but arc rapidly improving"
The following letter from Commander Mcclure,
addressed to his uncle, will also be read with
interest:
"HER MAJEsTr's SHIP REsoLurE,
"DEALY ISLAND, BARRow's STRAITS, APRIL, 1853
"MT DEAR UNCLE: Your kind and most unexpected
letter reached me through travelling party, dispatched
by my excellent friend Capt Keett, at position on the
opposite side of these straits where had been
in since 1851 The surprise caused by the appearance
of strangers where imagined to be within
couple Of thousand miles, more than can describe
and what only family be imagined by any who
have not been similarly situated particularly when it was
ascerained that two vessels and large supplies
close at hand.
''The spirits of my crew seemed to revive and from
dependency to JOY was but the work of The
sick forgot their malades and jumping from their ham
mocks were carried in the stream of human creatures
the only solitary hatchway which the severity of the
weather allowed Of being kept open rushed on deck
be assured that the strange apparition actually
living flesh and blood, and denzens of the neither
world for certainly their faces black Erebus
from cooking In their tents When all discovered to
be real, ana not dream, my poor fellows, equally with
myself could not find words TO express thoughts;
the heart was too full 1T n call from the grave.
Never trust may the feelings of gratitude to the
Almighty Disposer of which then swelled in my
bosom pass away. Many and great have been the mer-
ces we have experienced in long, tedious and terri
BILE navigation Of that fearful Polar which has for four
hundred years baed the navies of maritime Europe and
through which the directing finger alone of Providence
has safely guided All human agency powerless,
indeed to advance yard in its accomplishment,
amidst the supendous barriers of which leave its
frozen surface.
'.You will, am certain, be very happy to Learn that
the Northwest Passage has been discovered by the ves
ugator, which event decided the Goth October,
1850 by sledge party the ice from the position the
ship frozen in but, in all probability my despatch
will be published, do think it necessary trouble
you with further details Sufficient say have been
most highly favored both regards the health of ALL
having only lost man, who accidentally poisoned him.
self about fortnight SINCE well in being able to
extend search in quest of Sir John Franklin
very large extent of coast which not hitherto known
and found inhabited by tribe of Esquimaux,
who had before arrival the face of the
white man. and really the most simple, interesting
people met-lving entirely by the chase, and hay
ing weapons except those used for that object The
ercer passions of nature appeared unknown they
gave pleasing idea of fresh from his Makers
hand and unconaminaed by intercourse with boast
ed civilization. All those who traded with the -
pany found the greatest reprobates
On the 7th of this month left the Investigator, and
arrived board here the 18th. =
g Every exertion is being made to follow up the
traces of poor Sir j. Franklin and if nothing is met with
by the numerous parties that traversing the
shores of this nhoptabe and inclement country naugh
will be heard to throw light upon his mysterious
fate and search viii have arrived at its limits
know nothing of the Enterprise and only regret her
leaving u.s."
THE LONDON OF 18th.
THE LAST HoPE GoNE.-Commander Mcclure send
news Of Sir John Frankin's expedition The OPT
MON among the distinguished and Polar worthless
that Sir John Franklin after leaving the winter
quarters where his traces found carry
the Admiralty Instructions steering first westerly for
Melville Island and then shaping his course far the
CONFORMATION Of the Of action permitted southery
and westerly fer Behring's Straits 1t supposed that
in endeayorng carry this purpose into effect the Ere
bus and Terror hopeessy frozen up destroyed
years ago in some of the mutudinous channels which
are known supposed to exist there
wef ind N ha Tho IF tha r,rp
navgators and it comes before recommended by its
extreme probability Certainly Sir John Franklin was
not officer to leave uninterrupted any duty which he
had been ordered 10 perform and therefore it probable
that he would have deviated from the letter of his in
strucons without excellent cause; had he devated
il all but certain that he would have left behind him
Beechy Island elsewhere record his changed
intention.
If, then, Commander Mcclure has been unable to find
traces OF the lost expedition between Behring's Straits
and the point from which he wrote his dispatches it
would appear that best chance has been exhausted
The public have right to expect that have
the last Of Arctic expeditions Even Sir John Barrow
had he been yet alive would have entreated the Ad
miralty TO hold their hand.