§ CAPTAIN PIMasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, What arrangement he proposes to make to follow up the track of the Polar Expedition this year, with a view if possible to communicate with the ships; whether it is proposed that Captain Allen Young, in the "Pandora," should on his proposed voyage to the position of the "Erebus "and" Terror," fifteen miles N.N.W. from cape Franklin, endeavour also to perform this service of following the expedition now absent in an opposite direction; and, whether a vessel will be sent which shall be exclusively devoted to effecting a communication with the Arctic ships?
§ MR. HUNTSir, the arrangements made by the advice of the Arctic Committee, and with the full approbation of Captain Nares, provided for the sending out of a relief ship in the Spring of 1877 to the entrance of Smith's Sound, unless the Expedition should have previously returned. A letter received from Captain Nares states his intention of sending a sledge party down to that locality in the Spring of 1876, if possible, with despatches, for the chance of a ship from England calling there. The Admiralty 402 have arranged with Captain Allen Young, who was contemplating a voyage to the Arctic regions this year in his yacht, to look for cairns in which such despatches might be deposited; and he has, with great public spirit, consented to make this the primary object of his voyage, undertaking to bring home any such despatches, unless he can find means for sending them to England otherwise.