The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

THE SE.I}WIt FOIL Slit JOHN FRANKLIN.
Sir It. J. Murchison has published a letter, dated
*setae mouth, JUL 1, in which he says:
Although I have during the last fortnight feedlot
Wee beat bent. Pim, dated St. Petershingre,y6
rzessent be hod hem ;are kindly reseisied bge.
authorities to whom he had been add
that he had bees most zealously aided by her Majoety's
minister. Sir Hamilton Seymour, I desisted from alluding
to a subject in which many of your readers are deeply inter-
sect' until Route decisive step had bees takes in respect to
the bold proposal of the young U h officer. His object
was to traverse Siberia to its north-eastern extremity. and
thence to endeavour to math the mountainous lands far to
the north of thisring's Strait, beyond which it was conjec-
turel that Franklin and his companions might he frozen
np. Li. 'Wilma l'im hail already informed me that the
Rusian gemeraphers, and particularly the explorers of
Northern Siberia, with whom he had been put into com-
munication. were oppose to a plan which, from their ex-
perience aid anismintance with the condition of the regions
to be travelled over, they looked upon a. impracticable
but that he mill hoped to overman), all objections, and to
have It in his power to riek his life :it the good cause. I
have now, however, received distice t information through
ER.lleary Bums de Brunnow, that the Imperial go-
vernment, after having taken the most lively interest in
this .n inevery former effort to rescue the miming expedi-
bon, hail satisfied itself. on the UT...1.174130W1 report of the
persons who had most studied the subject, that the execu-
tion of the plan which the noble and courageous devotion
of Lieut. sant l'irn had led him to i.nerive, was opposed by
imunationtable obstacle.. Under these eireumstancee, the
Emperor could nut cement to allow the lite of a British
officer to be ',crated in vain ; but that still, being desirous
of doime tverything which might be peosible, the Imperial
government had placed our countryman in communication
with H. Barr cad H. Middendorf—the one the ezplorer of
Nova ZetabLi, the other of Northern anal Ea-tern Siberia—
in the !vire that by some other 1.14 u additional chances
might be obtained of procuring the desired tidings. It is well
tomes that the Imperial Government has all along facilitated
by every exertion as its power our efforts to obtain seek
tidings, whether in its Asiatic or American Arctic memo
Son.; and all the British officers who hays served is
B. bring'. Strait can testify to the friendly cooperatios of
the Russian authorities in those desolate regions. How-
ever moth, then, we may regret that the plan of reenties
the unknown lands to the north of &twines Strait by an
expedition across Siberia must be gives up, for mom
which will be fully captained at the moat of re
Geographical Society, we must not abooka the
Id a that the Franklin expedition may have ontwed
Wellington Channel, and may have worked be way
to the westward, and that, by carrying out some gates*
based on the principle of meeting war us nag nati-
o rs, we may still succeed in muslin limm. It was
thit:feeling. founded en a true estimate of the mak and
resolute character of my friend, Sir Jobs issakhn,
which indueeil the gallant young Pim to peopened his
adventurous scheme. It is on the mate irria. slob a Meet-
ing Frankliu that another project hat boss In the
must generous manner, by Mr. Boatees4 wide I dal heleg
before the Royal Geographical Society et ate seat asides.
alit by which it is proposed to attain the seats ark by
penetrating to the north of Behring's Stroll is a amen
strew steamer. Let ea. therefare, trust that. is ass
to any well concerted scheme devised by oar Asimireaty fier
(slowing in the track of Fraoklim •edeee imam be
&rim& through the eo-operatios of lbegMed ad lets*
by which the intense anxiety thee b hit way be meat net.
Aloes all, let um put away deepening until every ins-
table steam shall have bras exboushrd. lan r cling he the
hope that, a' fin est of Pa Rosin leases were re end
providentially and brought tea alive and well to Ail&
WV:, after passing upwards of six years in the hoes*
Arctic region of Spturberges (where they obtained elaged-
anft of animal food), we may yet as@ a ponies, at et
our gallant missing crews nitwit, even though the ssppWa
th y carried rat with them From this country say re
been long ago ezhansted."

It is understood that Mr. Beaman, the spirits' projector
and commander of the private eapedities about te rectal
to Dehring's Strait, has purchased kis yeast, whack has
ban taken into dock for the strmirthesist. This
espednion fetuses much • impertsmee hem the
proheluldv that obstacles, whisk it is hared, way prove
insuperable, appear to stood ha the way of the eassetioa by
Lestmi.uit Pim, of Ids same he manktag Ile soots of
Siberia. The first 2Wizirnallotiess will be to visit
the island of New of Se/sl=lsslseit,
am
tidal would have been lie IMMO, molt et
Pao, bad he suceredmi is ntablag the welsh tif *II MIS-
- to the south of it.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT HIOUGATIL—On Saturday
car, mne, about 8 o'clock, the arrighberheed Sigh/gee
sea alarmed at an explotanzar arllng bee the Wan of
Mfrs. Batton, near the e It appears the tern yeas
sted4,nt- of the law, Mr. Pew (the toes of Sir R. ester,
of Norwich) and his freed, Mr. Wpon Edwards, were
reading with one trailue to their
examination, when aeea of e~
~W~tod saes
the incautious was ef= to lerener lb .
Mr loiter, injure, we le like y
to do well, :err Mead. Kr. Edward% be such
frightful jokey as net to have bees =peel b his
frunds when ermetread residence.
el Mr. Y
ter, on the Lome elha ereidest, with graft perees ef
mind Thatched his Mead up is his arum. tho•gh In • Wee
Loss head to foot, end mid We, yerther with Wawa ••
the gr.s.plut outside, and extinguished the flews, beth gen-
tlemen would inevitably have perished.
thrstist's I mritoeters Tu.—Yesterday the roster
Portion of those omnibus proprietors and moiety's's* com-
panies whose vehicles ply within short distances of the me-
tropolis, and who were opposed to any reduction in the
fares, sot only succumbed to public opinion on the subject,
but also peered some new and elegant omnibuses, splendidly
fitted and well horsed, on the various lines of road. The
Sew vehicles Lave better sitting-room, and are mush wider
between the *ate; in a few there are covered life lines ax-
tendiag along the inside of the roof, for the purpose of pas-
seagees steadying themselves, either in seeking a vest or
going to slight, end the ventilatiou Is on a better pis.
With respect to fares, a person may travel t nearly
the whole of the metropolis, oa the north beak of the
Thaw", at a halfpenny a mile, and in some Wawa far
leas. Ity taking the proper ronveysotes free the Edg-
, ware-risaii to Whitechapelroad, or ince re,c4, the &stases
PA he Accomplished fur fourpenee, that io—Tottenhant-
• court-rued ono penny, and these to iiiintschapel.rood,
threepence.
FAT tt. ACCIDYNT AT TUE Cowsszum.—Yester-
day Mr. Waklcy, ALP., held en inquest at the Chester
Arms, Albany street, itorenerparli, on the holy of We.
Forman, aged 33, late engineer at the CoMmissall. OS
Thursday night last the deepened was shout to gee es
water in one of the lakes, whoa, in stooping forward to
lay hold of the china for that purpose, he mimed e, and
kis right hand wascaeght by the erase of the seek% Which
Was going at a great velocity. The stoker, who we war
kan, immediately stopped the engine, but alt baba der
tawsd's arm was nearly torn from the shwahleg meat, lay-
lag the chest open and dividing the principal weemile. Mr.
WI, surgeon, was instantly called ia, hat Nib was ex-
tinct, the medical opinion being, from the (reheat injuries
received, that death mast have been instantaneous. It
haring been stated, in answer to a question by the Coro-
ner, that mean, had been adopted which would render ins-
ponitil.• a similar catastrophe, the jury retuned a verdict
of :'Accidental death."

NILLANCIIioLT OINTIRENCIL ON A RAILWAY.—
On Sunday afternoon, about two eklock, a line little girl,
Ise years of axe, daughter of Mr. Procter, one of the resi-
dent officers of the London and North-Westega Railway, et
Rdgehill Station, near Liverpool, wee playing about in front
of the it.ition, and just as a train was sp; ranching she en-
deavoured to run across the line, but before she could reach
the other side the poor child fell, with a lex and an arm
lying aceee the outside rail. The entire train passed over
her, severing the arm and leg, and after lingering is excru-
ciating army until this (Monday) morning, death happily
pet a period to the unfortunate sufferer's misery. Another
dleaMer arose from the same catastrophe : The ticket col-
lector, John Normanby, seeing the imminent danger of the
little girl, ran to her aid, but before he could accomplish his
humane purlene the buffer of the engine knocked him
down, an .1 he fell completely doubled up against the plat-
form. Ile thus escaped instant death, although the injuries
he hie sustained are of a series. nature.