NEWS OF FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

West Coast Times, Issue 93, 4 January 1866, Page 3

NEWS OF FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.

THREE OF THE PARTY SUPPOSED TO BE STILL ALIVE. Writing from New York on the 29th of September, the special correspondent of the San Francisco "Evening Bulletin" says : — " Henry Grinnell has received a very important and interesting letter from Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, which announces that he has learned such facts in his present expedition us to lead- to the belief that there arc yet) surviving three men of /3ir John Franklin's oxp'edition. Crosier, who succeeded Franklin in the command of the expedition, and three others, have been seen. Crosier was reduced to a skeleton, and nearly starved to death, while his three men wci'o fat,, they having lived on .the flosh of their companions, i who all desoi'ted tho two ships that ' were fast in the mountains of ice, while Crosier would not eat human flesh. The man finding tho party, at once took them in charge, and, catching Jseal, fed Crosier sparingly from day to day, until his life was saved. He thus caved for them through tho . whole winter, during which one of them died. Crosier and the two remaining men were taken to Neitschillo, on Boothia t Felix Peninsula, whero there wove many lnnuits having guns and plenty of ammunition, so they were enabled to shoot plenty of ducks, Sec. The limuits treated thorn kindly. At longth they started for the Cabannas' country, sinco which time they have not been seen or heard from All this was previous to 18G4, but the limuits that Crosier and liis friends arc not yet dead.

Henceforth, it is said, Lord Portaiiington must 1)0 classed among tho only truo weather prophets— tho equal aliko of Zndkiel,.Old Mooro, and Muthicu do la Dromo. The worthy peer, Into in August, issued a circular warning his tenants not to despond, 1 as, after a little more rain a sudden chango would usher' in one of the brightest and warmest Septembers over known. Tho terms of the circular were curiously absolute, and his lordship was gently chaffed for his affectation of a weatlior -wisdom beyond tho pretensions of the most experienced meteorologistsTho laugh, however, wns premature, for tho 'prediction lias been verified to the letter. It is proposed to lay a new Atlantic telegraph cablo by tho way of Pulmoutli, Oporto, and the Azore to Halifax, by which route tho longest distance of unbroken cablo required will bo that from tho Azores (Flores) to Halifax, 1400 miles, or rather less than the quantity whioh tho Atlantio Telegraph Company successfully laid tho other day before the accident happened by which the cablo was lost. Tho inventors of the cable (Allan's) now proposed to bo used say that in that piece of wiro lay the radical weakness of the old Atlantio cable ; and that the cable was ruined by tho means that wero adopted to strengthen and preserve it, suo slbi gladh truci(lulus. The comparative softness of the insulating substance that enveloped the conductor wns penetrated they say, and torn by the wiro arranged round it intended to strengthen the cable to resist a heavy strain. They admit tho necessity of tho strengthening wiro, but thoy place this within the softer envelope, closely twisted round the copper conductor, out of tho way of doing and receiving injury. The scientific question of ' comparative efficacy of the. two systems is ono that must bo solved by experiment, s-- . It would seem that our French neighbours will never leavn to understand England and tho •English in the smallest degree The latest piec misapprehension reported is odd enough. time tho papers stato la perruque <lv lor mairc — " the wig of the Lord Mayor" — has been conferred on" II 11I 1 Alderman •Phillips."

Tlio Into Dr. Harry, inspector general of military hospitals, was found after his death, at Corfu, to lie a woman. A contemporary says that the fact was suspected during life by reason of voice, stature, and beardless faco, but that I) i 1 Barry was very haughty and bold, having given inovo than ono clmlleng to a duel.