New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-29
Newgork Daily Griba,re
RELICS or THE FRANKLIN EXPE-
DITION
Correspondence Of II. n. Y. Tribune.

LosDoS, Nov. !, 1859.
II was my good fortune, few days since, TO meet
| with Mr.. Sidney Brooks formerly Of New-York but
latterly Of Newport, who is travelling in Europe.
Mr. Brooks is an enthusiast in al that relates TO the Arc
tic Regons-jf enthusiasm is not TOO warm term 70 use
regard to a country where mercury is usoay solid
meal-and isso thoroughly familiar with every voyage,
and every incident Of every voyage that has ever been
made to tai frozen that he is looked up 10 by his
friends authority upon the precise course pursued
by each dscoyerer and the exact addition which each
has made 70 the general sum Of knowledge. IL was
not strange therefore, that should find bin, Just now,
very deeply interested in the relics of the Franklin
Expedition, with which Capt McClintock has recent
ly returned England and quite ready and able 70 ex-
plain each successive step the voyage of the unhap
py Sir John and his still unhappy followers, as
well az the course pursued by Capt. NcChntock in
search Of that heroic company. Even TO one indiher-
ent to Arctic discovery the interest shown in these
relics by Mr.. Brooks wOad have proved contagious.
The difficulty, however, was to get sight of them
They are in due season, probably in few days, 10 be
exhibited to the public but might then be here TO
see or if were, a mere passing glance at them in
snail and crowded room would give but slight opportu-
nifty for any careful examination. Bat am indebted
to Mr.. Brooks for relief from this embarrassment The
vice Institution in Whitehall Yard and permission 10
see them could only be procured through a member
This was given me- at Mr.. Brookfs request, by Major
Gen. Dupuis of the army, a veteran in arms though
Young in years resting at home, now, under his lau
rels, after having served through the whole of the
Crmean war where he engaged in the four great
battles Of the campaign and where he from the rank
of captain to that he now holds. The General is him
self by no means q relic, he has evidently any
amount of unexhansted power Of fight in him; but it
was nevertheless interesting 10 zee brought thus in
juxar oston living representative and the few mani
mate remains of the great struggles of England in
latter years. with the two great northern forces-the
Arctic Winter and the Russian Bear.
The Erebus and Terror sailed from the Thames in
May, 1915, more than fourteen years ago. How anx-
ousy tfey have been sought for how expedition after
expedition has been sent ont at public charge and by
private munifcence from two nations; how much suf-
ferpg has been encountered, and how many precious
lives have been sacrificed in this humane and noble
vice, and how, especially, the devotion of one single
woman TO the cherished object of her life the send
ing of succor to her lost husband and his gallant
followers has never, for a moment faltered-an this
need not be repeated for the story familiar 10 us ALL
and will be remembered till sympathy for suffering,
admiration for generous courage and reverence for
disinterested devotion noble purpose cease TO be
emotions in the human heart TIE result Of these several
voyages made least probable if not almost certain,
that another expedition would discover traces of
the Iong-lost voyagers and if it should find none of
them alive at least ascertain their fate. Captain Coz
lnson who sailed, if remember right, in 1850, and
was absent till 1854 sad in his published report that
Sir John Franklin, and his men, would be found, II
they ever We're, somewhere near the magnet
ic pole. / do not know whether Lady Frank
lin accepted this theory, and instructed Captain
MeClintock accordingly, or whether that commander
beeN ed it to be true but certain IL Is that he shaped
his course in accordance with it, landing at Beechy
Island where it was already known Sir John Frank
lin passed bis first winter, and erecting there the
marble tablet sent out by Lady Franklin, in eommem-
grafton of tho expedition of her husband, and then
making his way down Peel's Sound toward the mag
netic pole and finding at last, what he sought for in
tia, region Ii is singular proof of how accurate the
surveys have been, and how comprehensive the know
ledge is of that inhospable and desoate world of ever
lasting ice aud almost everlasting night, that predc
ton made 30 long ago should be accurately verified
Capt. McCntock iasde his wintering position at the
entrance 10 Bellot Strait, in snug harbor when he
called Port Kennedy. To Lieut.. Hobson he allotted
the search of the western shore of Boothna to the
magnetic pole; while he himself went soulhwaru'
toward the same point 4" in the hope Of communi-
eating with the Esquimaux, and obtaining such IN
formation as might lead us at once to the object OF
90 ur search" His success complete and entirely
justified his foresight He started on the 18th OF febru-
ary and in eleven days be fell in with party oil the
natives from whom be learnt "that several years ago
ship was crushed by the ice off the north shore OF
King Williams Island but that all her people landed
safely, and went away to the Great Fish River,
where they died." From this band oil Esqulnsu1
he obtained many relics. On second
;ourpev month later be met with other natives, ana
from them received information Of another ship having
been seen off King Williams Island, which drifted
ashore in the autumn Of the year-lS4S and that
4" MANY Of the white men dropped by the way as they
" went toward the Great River" Continuing hi'
search. he found on the oath of May about ten miles
eastward of Cape Herschell on King Williams Island,
a beached skeleton, around which lay some fragments
of European ao.hing. judging from his dres',
adds Can't. McChntoek, 81 this unfortunate young man
WAS steward or officers servant, and bis position
"exacty verified the Esquimauxs assertion, that they
"dropped as they walked along" Lieutenant Hob'on
even more fortunate than his commander. After
,s,,;no from him he made 70, Cape Felix the northern
extremity OF King Williams Island where he found q
rs;rr about which were relics of shooting OF mag
pet;c station, and among them boats ensign. few
miles TO the southwark upon Point Victory, he came
mon another earn where avast quantity OF ectning
aud stores Law s,reyved about if here every article
" uas thrown away which could possibly be dispensed
a,r;,b. p;ckaxes, shovels boa;s, cooking utensils,
;.oD,rork rome. blocks canvass dip circle. ant
:. engraved 'Fredesic Hornby, H. NJ slsmall medi-
| % cra-cbss.. osrs. &C." Bot among them, and more