Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-06-13
The Search.

petition for Arctic search were stated by Hen
ry Giinnell, V. P, at recent meeting of the
Council of the Geographical Society. 1t APP
pears that the vessel selected for this duty, in
tended TO sail about the last of Iune, will be
commanded by Capt McClintook, of the Royal |
Navy, who has already conducted one exped-
ton in search of Sir John Frankin's party.
This expedition is undertaken at the instance
of Lady Franklin, who has devoted the whole |
of the remains of her fortune TO the enterprise,
having conveyed ii TO trustees for the purpose
She has purchased for the purpose screw
steam yacht, the For, schooner rigged diago-
nally planked, built for the late Sir Richard
Sutton, and now lying at Aberdeen. This
vessel is to be strengthened for the service she
is to enter upon, and at once got ready for sea.
To aid the work, subscription has been
started in England headed by the most distin-
guished geographers in that country. Sir Rod
erick Murchison, President of the Boyal Geo
graphical Society, subscribes ElOJ; Admiral
Beaufort, ESQ; Lord Wrouesly, President of
the Royal Society, ESQ; Sir Thomas Acland
El00; Hon. Mrs. Fairhulme, .fl5O Ash
urst Maendie and Mis- Majendie, E1O0; M.
de La Roquete, Vce-Presdcnt of the Geo
graphical Society at Paris, ,oO0f, and various
other distinguished persons other sums. The
subscriptions are to be paid to Coutts & Co.,
bankers, TO LADY Franklins Final Search
Fund"
1t was hoped that the ship Resolute, the ves-
sci picked up by some Of our mariners, purchas-
ed by this Government, and lately returned to
the English Government would be permitted
TO be used for this expedition, and once more
visit those regions where she was abandoned
by her officers and crew. The Admiralty,
however, would not permit her to be sent upon
This service, and have had her disman,led and
laid up in ordinary. The utmost the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty have consent
ed to in behalf of the expedition, is to promise
leave Of absence TO such officers Of the Navy as
might volunteer 10 serve upon it. Capt Nc
Cintock has had granted 10 him leave of alb
scnce for eighteen months. This officer I'M
derstands perfectly well the enterprise which
he has offered TO conduct, and has already won
high place in the annals of Arctic adventure.
lie served with distinguished ability in the ex-
petition under command Of Sir John Ross in
1850, again under the orders of Capt. Aus
lin in 1901, and, thirdly, in command Of The
screw-steamer Intrepid, in company with the
Resolute, commanded by Capt Kelet, in 1923.
Capt. McClintock has demonstrated in his
Arctic career an extraordinary skill in or
ganizing sledge-travelng, having brought il to
degree of perfection which has wrought an
entire revolution in Arctic operations. His
personal success in conducting sedge parties,
has been such that no name in the list of North
ern voyagers stands higher than his
1t was stated at a meeting of the Royal Irish
Academy, held on the eth of April, that it
was generally understood that Lord Palmerston
was personally favorable TO granting Govern
ment aid to Lady Franklins expedition. 1t
was further stated that several influential
New York people" had preferred request TO
the Admiralty that the Resolute might be plac-
ed at the disposal of Lady Franklin.
The Board, however, quite decisively decln-
ed to allow that vessel 10 be sent upon the SER
vice, and accompanied their refusal to lend any
aid to The expedition by the statement, lndl
they shave arrived at the conclusion that they
should not be justified, for any objects which in
their opinion can be attained by an expedition
to the Arctic Seas, in exposing the lives Of of.
fcers and men to the risk inseparable from any
such enterprise" 1t appears, however, by in.
vestigations, the results OF which were made
public at the meeting Of the learned Society
last named, that the rate Of mortality for al
Arctic Expeditions since 1918, exclusive o
the missing expedition,) is under l2 pc
cent per annum; for which, and other reasons
Arctic service is extremely popular both will
officers and men. From which we NAV con
elude that the reason assigned by the Lords
Commissioners for their refusal 10 Lady Frank
lin was one of those convenient generalization
with which official persons, much pressed, pu
aside persevering applicants.
The locality in which Sir John Franklin
vessels, the EreJus and Terror, lie, is not S
vague and nexplorable as the uniformed read
err would imagine. 1t is easily reached, is Gil
cumscribed within narrow limits, and, what
attractive 10 The scientific world, is in the in
mediate neighborbood Of the magnetic Nort
Pole. The extent Of coast line which has bee
already ,raversed by the Searching expedition
of the British Government, is $500 miles,
There remain to be explored only $40 mile
Professor Hanghton (of the Royal Irish Acat
envy says thai an expedition consisting Of 10
persons, might be expected TO traverse fro
1000 TO 10000 miles, with sledges, in si
gle year.
1t is asserted, and we think with perfe
truth, that it is by no means necessary for II
complete exploration of the area describe
(Sounded by $40 miles of coast,) that the e
ploring vessel should penetrate so far as to ri:
detention by the ice. In the event of invou
tary detention, or accident to the ship, the ere
could readily escape over the ice, with sledg
and boats, either to the whaers, or TO one
'he three great depots of provisions stored ,
at Port Leopold, Beechey Island and Melvil
Island. In this manner, it will be remembe
ed, the crews Of Sir Edw ard Bechers shi
were withdrawn from the vessels, not of nece
sity, but in compliance with Admiralty order
their crews at The time being 10 good heal
and another years provisions remaining.
In regard to the ships being crushed, Il
danger, such as exists, is annually met by VIII
lers who encounter it from mere motives
gain. Out of the thirty British Governme
vessels employed in the late expeditions, on
oae-the BreadalJaae-was los, by ice.crus