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It has become a matter of grave and painful consideration whether, at the present moment, Sir John Franklin and the one hundred and twenty five gallant adventurers he has with him are not actually on the very verge of famine and its attendant horrors. It is imperative that the public mind should be set at rest that "no stone shall be left unturned" to reserve from a fate, at which humanity shudders, this intrepid band of our fellow countrymen, and that every practicable means should at once be adopted for the purpose of transmitting relief to the lost Expedition.

It has been officially stated that three different parties will be dispatched early in the ensuing spring to search for