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The Lost Nayigators-Franklia's De-
, mi gil signs, and Outfit.

The Lost Nayigators-Franklins de.
.y~ttgII signs, and Outfit.
,d'a7st har Sir JaNEs Ross in letter to Sir EDwARI
Pam, when faars were entertained anc
-a expressed Of the loss Of Sir JOHN and Captain
CroxER says: a
Eiil Z n N"Their last letters to mo from Whale6sf
Is,ands the day previous to their departure
infsrms me that they had taken on board pro
a.i visions for three ysars, on full allowance
which they could extend to four years without
sny seriuug Inconvenience, so that we may fee
assured they cannot want from that source
r. until after the middle Of July, lS49.'
5H. Sir JoBg RlcHARDsos,! one Of Captain
FpASKIrY's warmost friends, speaks thus ofhis
designs; .f9e~4 ts
ri had many conversations with FRANKLIN
up to the eve Of his departure respecting his
..-- H. future procsedings.l His plans were to shape
his course, in the first instance for the neigh
hood Of Cape Walker, and to push to the
str Westward in that parallel; Or if that could not
bs accomplished, to make his way Southwark
to tho channel discovered on the North cosst
Of the continent, and so on to Behrng $
Strait; failing OF success in that quarter, he
.da meant to retrsce his course to Wellington
Sound, and attempt passage Norhward oil
Parrys Islands; and, if foiled there also, to
u sa fs descend Regents Inlet and seek the passage
along the coast discovered by Messrs DsAsE
and SIMPSON
...5 .......s ..s.s, WHEN LAST HEARD OF.
ton bore the date Of July 20, 1s46, when
Captain DANSErT, Of the Prince Of Wdtes
Aur -. WHEELER, fell in with tho discovery ships in
aat.a7 Melville Bay, in "a deg 4sm north latitude,
and 66 deg 10 min west longitude. boat
with seven officers boarded the whaler, and
Captain DANSErT was to have dined on board
4.g Sir JoHS FRANKLIN's ship the following day,
49,. but the wind fayoring, he sailed during the
and thara luna hle tn he the
" bearer ofletters which would otherwise have
been sent by him. Captain D. says that the
officers whom he saw, but of whose names
, with the exception Captain FErzJAMEs-he is
"a <43y Ignorant we're all well and in good spirits.
The officers then expressed good hopes Of
soon completing their expedition.
s... .., ....t- t THE sEARCH7-RELIEP EXPEDITIONS.
In September, 1916, Sir JOHN Ross pro.
ee.f1 posed to tho Lords Of the Admiralty search
~ e'-- expedition. Their reply was awe do not
intend Immediately to dispatch relief ex-
pedition." The news now received decides
sir JoHN FRASKLNs fate, before even the
frst expedition undertaken in the manly
tug to search for memorials the lost
When the year 4Shad arrived without any
- ' tidings Of this gallant party, Great Britain dis
patched three separate expeditions to reclaim
them. These, DR.. KANE observed, were well
devised, but peculiar draw backs seemed to
attend their efforts, and before the beginning
ea ofls5O they had all abandoned the search, al
s most without attaining tho first Threshold Of
inquiry. Their failure aroused everywhere the
generous sympathies of men. Science felt for
Its votaries humanity mourned its fellows, and
.H an impulse heller and more energetic than
W Wy " other, invoked crusade Of rescue. That
l.. II. M 2e 6 r.,
bIS, not content with stimulating the renewed
efforts of her own countrymen, claimed the CO.
operation Of the world. In letters to the Pres
ident of the United States, full Of the eloquence
Of feeling she called on us, kindred peo
po, to join, heart and hand, in the enterprise Of
..r..8 snatching the los; navigators from dreary
grave, -..aa 40 AE-3
...B.Y ....a. THE UNITED STATES RESPONDS.
All know of the noble GRIsNELL expidition
under Lieutenant DsHAvEN, in 1850, of tho
notable one under Dr. KANE, in 1853, and of
the last expedition of Lieutenant HARTsTETN,
which returned in October 1855, which have
given renewed lustre to the American name
AUTHENTIC AND REPuTED DISCOVERIES
The frs. American expedition mado the only
% reliable discovery, perhaps, ofmemorials Of the
,,,,s party of Sir JoBN FRANKLIS they came upon
.ral their encanpment or first winter quarter at
..I peechy Island, where they found three graves,
of those who had died as late as April, 1916.
In The summer of 1854. DR.. john Rsr, who
hsd been many years in the employ Of the
Hadsqr Bay Company, encountered party Of
-y wandering E;quimaux, who satisfied him from
their representations, and BY the exhibition of
various small articles in their possession, which
had belonged to the missing ships, that Sir
JoHE, with at least thirty or forty Of his com.
panions, had pershcd Of hung ger, in the spring
sap Of 1851, in tho neghborhood of Fox River.
81 This not reliable, If the following can be
depended on; we have no fuller particulars by
the dispatches last night.
....I.. TIE LATEST NEWS.
r---- In June, 1s47, Sir JOHN FRANKLIN died. In
",~ April, is4s, Captains CnozrEH and FrTzJANEs
With one hundred and i've snrviV0rs abandoned
The ships in the ice, and proceeded toward
Great Fiah River. Their fate no historian has
recorded. ..u.a
The International Cricket Match.
#'. The result Of the games at Hoboken of the
49, "All England Eleven" with the twenty-five