Sir John Franklin

It was in Warwicksmre tnat i made the acqnaintance of Sir John Franklin. while I was still quite a child. The stout, good hnmored gentleman, whose image appears before rae as I write his name, is associated in my mind with au event in which he took the keenest interest - a total eclipse of the stin - trat the amusement afïorded by a rather absurd incident connected with it I am afraid engrossed my childish mind more tlian j all the scientific explauations of the phenomenon which Sir John Franklin was so well qnalified to give. In those primitivo days it was held that the best mode of witnessing the obscuration of the sun was to watch it through pieces of smoked glass, with which we were all duly provided when we sallied forth to an open piece of gronnd where nothing impeded the view. The result was that in the course of a few miuutes the noses of every oue present were severoly blackened - unconsciously to theni&elves - and the appearance of the whole scientific party was irresistibly comic. Sir JoIjh Frauklin appeared then so full of lifa and energy and high epirits that it wasdifficult to think of him afterward as the w'ornout suffering hero of that last fatal voyage, which held the country in suspense as to his fate duriug I a period cruelly long and trying to his wifeand toallwho had relatives among his companions in the icebound vessels. I One of my cousins was of the number, ! and I well remember the sensation in his home when soine of the relies of the disastrous expedition, afterward brought I back. were identifled as having belonged to