The weekly Placer herald., 1854-06-10

SanctlOnlng any new expedition to search
for Sir John Franklin, have determined
that such orders shall be issued to Sir E..
Belcher as will empower him to continue
the search for the missing expedition for
another year. Thus we hope that the
open water to the northwest of Welling-
ton Channel will be examined, which, it
will he remembered, was left unexplored
by SIR E. Belcher at the date of his de-
spatches last year The names of the
officers and crews Of the Erebus and Ter
ror, contrary to the notice given by the
Admiralty, are still retained in the "Navy
List" and will remain there until the re-
turn of the searching ships. This change
may he, in some measure, due to Lady
Franklin, who has addressed long and
eloquent protest to the Admiralty against
the removal of her husbands name from
the Admiralty's books, until all search tor
him terminates.
With unextinguished hope she still de-
cares that it appeals to her reasonable
that Sir John Franklin and his companions
should not he considered dead. but living
and bases her conviction to the latter effect
on these grounds: 81 Because no evi-
dence has been discovered Of any catas-
trophe having befallen them Q. Because
the quarter of the Arctic Sea where it is
most probable that the missing parties
would be found living, or their fate ascer-
tanned, has never yet, so far as we know,
been explored. Sir e. Becher, when
last heard of having advanced only to
the verge of the open sea to the north
west, but without entering it; and because
the part thus indicated is one of the
two courses pointed out to my husband in
the Admiralty instructions for him to fol-
low, and also because it had been pro-
nounced after thorough examination of
the other course, that he could not have
passed that way. s. Because within the
uneXamined region the resources for sup
porting life are probably abundant; and
a. Because my husband and his officers
steadily contemplated, and from the first
provided for, a detention extending over
an indefinite period, should difficulties
occur to prevent their return at the time
exrected." 1t is expected that Captain
IngIefeld will be ready to depart with the
| Phoenix about the 18th of this month,
(April. )-London .Athenaeum.
The Paris correspondent of the Tribune,
in the following extract from his letter,
doubtless tells the truth in regard to the
financial condition of Russia. 1t is what
naturally might be expected of a power
that has little commerce and no manutac-
lures:
As to the Russian Exchequer, had on
previous occasion, at the beginning of
what is called the Eastern complication,
to warn your readers agains the industr-
ously circulated statement of the "hldden"
treasures slumbering in the vaults of the
Bank of st. Petersburg, and the rldcu-
Ious eXaggeration of the vast monetary
power that Russia can WELD at a given
moment. My views are fully confirmed
by what has happened since. Not only
has the Gar been forced to withdraw his
metallic deposits from the banks of Eng
land and France, but moreover to com
NIT an act of fraudulent confiscation.-
Prince Paschkewitch has informed the
| Warsaw mortgage or discount Bank that
its capital will be taken as "a forced loan,
although the statutes of that Bank forbid
its advancing money upon any security
but landed property. We are also in
formed that the Russian Government IN
tends issuing a sum of 60, 100000 roubles
in inconvertible paper, to defray the ex-
penses of the war. This contrvance is
no new one on the part of the st. Peters
burg Cabinet At the close Of 176S,
Catharine ii, in order to meet the expen-
ses of the war with Turkey, founded a
bank of assignates ostensibly instituted
on the principle of issuing convertible
notes payable to the bearer. But hy a
well managed oversight, she forgot to tell
the public in what sort of money these
notes were to be payable, and some
months later the payments were only made
in copper coin. BY another untoward
"accident" it happened that these copper
coins were overvalued 10y 80 per cent,
when compared with the unconed metal,
and only circulated at their nominal value
in consequence of their great scarcity and
the want of small money for retail pur-
poses. The convertbility of the notes
was, therefore, a mere trick.
A CURIOUS BooK.-Mr. jefferson made
an original book out of the New Iesta-
meet, an account Of which is given by
him in a letter to John Adams, dated
October 18th, 1918, when Mr.. }. was
seventy years old. He took two copies
of the New Testament and cut out the
savings of the Savior, rejecting every