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London, England, 1862-01-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNISDAY, JAN. 15.

Wu's we take rep an Auah•lian newspaper we
behold, as in • mirror, the multiplied and ex-
panded ilatafjo of Old England, and of all the mani.
fold activities and energies of English public life
and popular enterprise. There, on the hem and
fringe of a sea girt continent we me the venerable
organisms of English polity and English society
bunting into a second youth, with all the ex-
uberance and all the redundant vigour et a
people proud of its beginnings and sure of its
destinies. There we see the Crown, the
Parliament, the press, all the living forces of
freedom at high pressure and half speed. It is
then we i.e what British Democracy, the bugbear
of pedants and cynical triflers at home, becomes,
at its worst or at its best, in a fair nntrodden
Geld. Coarse, loud, reckless, extravagant it may
be, foe it is youth, but thoroughly in earnest,
business-like, and practical in all its
aims, full of serious purposes, and of the
instincts of law and order. It is difficult

at this distance and in this Old World, even to
conceive the thought that those busy and crowded
cities abounding with tumultuous and restless life,
those magnificent bays and harbours thronged with
ships, those inexhaustible gold fields, those bdund-
leas pastures, are, or were yesterday, but the strip
and border of an immense unexplored region of

wilderness, mountain, plain, andforest, peopled,
if peopled at all, by a few scattered and starving
savages, a degree more human than the ape, be-
side whom our own ancestors of CALIWI'S era were
a civilized and polished race.
Yet such is the fact, as we are painfully reminded
by the last mail from South Australia. It brings us
melancholy tidings of the fate of a band of those
devoted martyrs of discovery, who lay down their
lives, literally most freely may it be said, in the ser-
vice of the human race. From time to time since
last summer our readers may have remarked the
anxious tone in which the Exploring Expedition
which had set out from tho capital of Victoria to
penetrate, and, if possible, to traverse, the vast
unknown interior of that continent from south
to north, was mentioned in all the public journals
and letters from the colony. In the last days
of July one of the expedition' had returned to
Melbourne and reported that nothing had been
beard of Mr. Bonus, the leader of the explorers,
since the 16th of December, 1860, the day on
which be had started from Cooper's Creek for the
Gulf of Carpentaria, accompanied by Mewl. WiLlo,
Ku o, and OW, and leaving the rest of the party
under the charge of Mr. Bases, at Cooper's Creek.
Another "contingent party," under Mr. Watour,
bad moved from the Darling River to Cooper's
Creek, enduring extreme hardships and privations
from drought, from sickness, and from attacks of
the natives. Four of Mr. Warowr's company had

perished at intervals by the way from sheer ex•
haustion, and the survivors were just saved by
a fall of rain from the most terrible of all linger-
ing deaths in the desert. Mr. Bays had re-
mained for eighteen weeks at the depot of
Cooper's Creek after the departure of Mr.
Bunas's expedition northward into the interior,
and had then been compelled by the death of
one of his party to return to Melbourne, leaving
what provisions and cattle he could span
in depOt for the explorers. Mr. Bynum bad
expressed an opinion that ho should reach the
northern coast and be beck to the depot at
Cooper's Crock within three months at moat, and
all his party had taken their departure in excel-
lent health and spirits. Mr. Beaus feared
that Mr. Biliar's expedition had stuck fast from
want of water and exhaustion. On the receipt
of his report the Committee at Melbourne
lost no time in taking measures for the relief of
the lost explorers. Mr. ALIZID WILLIAX Howls;
distinguished for his energy and ability in the con-
duct of previous expeditions, and who had rendered
inestimable service to the colony by his examina-
tions of pasture lands and
.gold fields, had already
returned from Cooper's Creek, and was now
despatched by the Exploration Committee, under
the auspices of the Government, re-equipped and
strengthened in men and materials, while another
party was sent off to make for the Albert River,
and a coast party was also organized by the go-
vernment. Mr. Howrrr was moat liberally
fugoished with every resource by the Committee,
and his party, consisting of four only, but ad-
mirably selected, set out on the 20th of June for
Cooper's Creek with despatches for Mr. Bola;
and stores for the parties at the depUts. From
the beginning of July till the 2nd of November
nothing more was heard of the original exploration
party or of the contingents, or of Mr. Howirr's
expedition of search. On that day the news
reached Melbourne of the arrival at Sandhurst of
despatches from Mr. HownT, announcing the sad
fate of the explorers.
In the long martyrology of discoverers by
land and sea, there is no nobler or MOM
affecting story than this of the suffering
and death of an Irishman whose name
will be remembered in the annals of Australia
until the name of the mother-land is forgotten.
If anything could add poignancy and bitterness to
the loss of those brave and devoted men, it would
be the simple fact that they died on their return
to the point of departure, having successfully at-
tained the object of their expedition, having
actually crossed the Australian continent, and
struck the waters of the northern coast. The men
who have attempted this terrible task before, and
died in the attempt, would make up a little army.
No forlorn hope that ever stormed a breach and
fell in the arms of victory ever died a more heroic