FATE OF THE SIR JOHM FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION ASCERTAINED.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 227, 23 December 1859, Page 3

FATE OF THE SIR JOHM FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION ASCERTAINED.

,News arrive*! in Loudon on 52nd September that Captain M'Cliutoch had landed at Portsmouth tiie day before from the yatch Pox, and had hurried up to London, carrying with him tlie verbal-and tangible traces of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin.

The intelligence was eagerly welcomed, and it has proved true. On tbe same evening the Admiralty forwarded the documents to the journals for publication, and they are read with the greatest interest. The first is addressed by Captain M'Clintoch to the Secretary of the Admiralty. »' Yatch Fox, K.Y.S.

" Sir,—-I beg you will inform the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty of the safe return to this country of L*dy Franklin's final searching expedition which 1 had the honor to conduct. Their lordships will rejoice to learn that our en--"! deavors to ascertain the late cf the Fiankljn expedition have met with complete success at P.-int Victory upon the N. W. coast of K;ng Williams jfslandsi.- A record has been,found dated the 25th April, 1848, signed hy Captains Crozier and Fitzjames. By it we were informed that her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror were abandoned on the 22nd. April, 1848, on the ice, five leagues to the N.N.W., and that the snrvivors, in all amounting to 105 souls, under the command of Captain Crozier, were proceeding to the Great Fish River. " Sir John Fraukin had died on. the llth June, 1847. Many deeply interesting relics of our lost countrymen have been'picked up ou the Western shore of King William's Islands, and others obtained from the Esquimaux, by wlumi we were informed that subsequent to their abandonment one ship was crushed aodsunk hy the ice.jihd the other farced on shoro, where she bad been ever since, affording them an inexhaustible ;weulth. Being unable to penetrate beyond Ballot Straits, the Fox wintered at Breutford's Bay, and the. search included the estuary of the Great Fish River, aud the discovery of 800 miles of:coast line, by which we have united the explore; ion of the former search expedition to the north-west of our. position, with those of Sir James Ross, Dease, Simpson and Rae. The search has been peiforme I by sledge journeys this spring, conducted by Lieutenant Hobson, R.N,. Captain Allau.Youug and myself. '* As a somewhat detailed report of our proceedings will doubtless be interesting to their lordships, it is herewith enclosed, together with * chart of our discovery and expedition, and ut the earliest opportunity I wiil present myseif to t*ie Admiralty to aff *rd further information, and lay 'bef »re their Lordships the record found at J?-»rt Victory.. '. ~-'■','.'. "I have the honor to be &c, ' >«■■ J. L. M'Clintoch, R.N. " To the Secretary of the Admiralty."