The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

Mt F. B. HEAD AND MR. DICKENS.

Ilto letter of Mr. Mims has provoked ageffilli
replica, and amend others we Ind Sir F. B. Haul
liking up a pot to submit "I hew twilactions" on the
gubject of the " 'non ow appeal" to Sir George
Grey, " earnestly beseeching him, ao a solemn &Sp
which be owes to society. and a responsibility w
De cannot for ever put away, to originate a 14 gielatin
season making the infliction of capital punDh=nt •
private whinnity within the prime walls.
Sir, I " earn. stly beseech Sir Gnome Grey" to do
so each thing, for the following maroon :
Toe merelial object of every paalsitment which the law
Mims." sot so meth to rewrap the pest aims as to pre-
vent its nemeses. Now, Ma. Manniag's last momenta
dearly explain, or rather indisputably prove, the benefit
eibun meaty pesctic.hy derives hoot a public executirm.
She Mel *dram enouga—as she eat smiling by his side—to
piss the minder of " her beet Mead ;" so dLg his gran ; to
Weird and Irmo to barn his body; to Wow kis
ctn.; to teary him in her own kitchen. She had mer-
idiem wiregh—almost before he wss sold—to o to his
:tramedam his pronny. Her self- Ware
the audacities at Mohave% wee wissismpled ; her
ss of heart ea her trial, as well as in prison, most
extreordinary. And yet this hold, witregeous woman, who
after the musdee, and with her kinds stained with blood,
lad rid to het keebsad, "1 disk 1.4) mere of what I haw
done than if I had shot the eat that h on the wall !" after-
wards eriampkaatly adding, " I have the nerve of a horse !"
dad so; dare to hoe the indescribable terrors of a public
emotion ! She did not fear death in private ; oa the eon.
OM, she alinott succeeded in gradually, with her own
Made, wangling herself; bet her obdurate heart quailed
at the idea of beholding In fearful array before her, the up-
lifted horrid faces of the Loudon mob; and aecardlogly, as
her last act " she drew from her poekat a black silk hand-
kerchief ; requested that she might be blindfolded with it ;
sad,kwieg a black silk vell feeteseS over her head, so es
rarely to cowed her features from public gen, she was
died in slow aid solemn proceeds.% towards the drop ;"
sad se for a few Meting moments she stood, with bandaged
eyes, beneath the gibbet, how unanswerably did the picture
mutely exot
tied the terror which the wicked very naturally
have cf being publicly hanged before the sewn and refuse of
society! " e whistlings—the imitations of Pend—the
brutal jokes and indecent delight of tits thieves, L,w prosti-
tutes, ruffians and vagabonds," so graphically desaibe f by
Mr. Charles Disked, were—by her own showing—not only
the sow :earful Forties of her wateare, but, ander Provi-
dence, these 110U00 ingredients may possibly have effected
that momentary montane. whisk the mild bet fervent ex-
Isortatkims of the &spiels had failed to produce.
Bat, Wiles the Impede/ of dividing the death by law of
a murder. r of the most effective portion of its terrors, there
are, sir, I submit, higher and Infinitely men important
mums, which make it our bond's duty to require that every
grimmer wuu suffers death should be executed is public.
80 Ing a. it shall be deemed advisable by as, by laws di-
vine as well as human to deprive the murderer of his life,
the whole process of hie trial, ending in an act of suit awful
respoesibiluy, ought to be perknaed in open day, ia order
that the coounaarty may at aU events clearly see what it is
they are duii-g—what it is they have does. The purple
hands of the wretched sufferer salliciestly explain what
the white nightcap hypocritically conwals, malady, this
dreediol set that has been perform=ed; sad, although
thieves and prostitutes may ridicule the convulsions they
witness, there will, it Is to be hopcd, in a free country, and
with a free press, always be band among an E iglish crowd
some one tellow.eireature posesesing the kindly feelings of
Mr. Charles Dickens, who,- should he see sufficient matins
for doing so, will not only cell upon the country most
seriously to consids r whether the punialismut he delineates
Ms not exceeded the offence, but, es an honest witness, real
condemn snd expose an unnecessary Caithness or cruelty
that ma) have woompankd it; and, although no doubt User.
may exist moms us many a mat of mawkish sensibility who,
dousing it

to king • simenly. unhandsome yang
MMUS tM wind and Ids nobility,

may dries that our criminals should bo ossratly strangled,
yet I trust, sir, that you, bmitad of " earnestly supplicating
Bir George Om" ix this indulgence, will, with your mutat
power, urge kis ea so asesant whatever to attempt to
abrogate the Inalienable right which every member at our
Chr sties community ought to maintain, of witnessing,
whenever his consdeams prompts him to do so, the legalised
smitten of his fellow-creature, for wide% natiuial act ha is,
Uwe c‘a ea st no doubt, before God cad man, infinitesi-
mally responsible.
I am, dr, your obedient servant,
Oeendon, Nov. 17. F. B. Him).

PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL ARTOIII.
the 13% nand§ Benin of Parliamentary and Finset:id
Inforence was held at the house of Mr. D. Liddell, New-
man (gel* Waken, Esq. is the chair), when it was re-
solved that a Newcastle and Ostesh•sd Society should be
famed, with the following executive :—Mr. Walters (Pre-
eldest), Mr. Liddell (finestary end Tresserer4stain J.
D. Weatherley, end MOM .B. Whitfield, D. , Jan.,
Jaws D urn, John Manson, John Scams, 8. ion, N.
Gibson, George Charlton, ;John Skelton, Janne El:ephens,
soli Jelin Blakey.
81:11017LAlt AFFAIR AT frOtTlrOltV.— On the 2nd
fast sow excitement was anted in this town by the r-nort
that the hum occupied by Mr. Davis, gran r, and Wham
Of
aninsed taxes end of market tolls, tad been broker ere
nuns the sight preceding, and upwards of 3001. in mosey,
ha da ober property, anted of by thieves. The 110004111“
flea by Mr. Dads el tee robbery was, that the thieves
LM Int 'stored his back hitches by opeskag the window::
that they the. returned thrash the window Ina All
yard, bringing with 111•11111 Of Wel whisk lay
in the kitchen, gad with ibis they bust spat the
Deck done, and ebtained amnion to the sitting mem
and the other ports of the bean. His song was kept is
his eltoldren's bedroom, which was dune over his owe,
and the thieves had disowned where his mosey was placed,
sad had Not pommies of it. They had also stolen a
quality f sitvu spume, a silver wank and other va:usale
emits ; end with all this property, and about Ilia of
to from thn shop, they bad r t eine away. Nobody in
the hoes hod bend their movements, and nothing wee
knows of the burglary until the inlidren eons down in the
as-reing. Mr. Davis Ikea mat fee Saperiatadent Beta,
and informed him of hie loss, sad sweat over to the &volley
beak le order to eseertain the 11111111110111 of some of the stolen
sates, which he had previossly resolved from that establish-
ment. Of the mosey last, ao len then 1701. lied bent re-
solved la the shape of taxis, sad 1401. were hie owe, sad
mush pity was felt for Mr. Davis, because it wen knows that
se lame a Is.. mast peeve nu serious Weed to a Naas is his
ebseastaaess. Who Superintendent Bona and Mr.
Grove, the parish constable, came to examise tho
they found that there were no footmarks Wide penises,
nor owside. A brightly polished Wormy _ ,table whine
stood immediately under the kitchen mistime refund to, bed
no teem of nails or dirt upon it. The Wass window had
apparently not been disturbed for a coseiderable time as
quality of dust had lodged in the groove in whisk it travelled.
Then mere was • dog in the house—an animal particularly
rerearksMe for its vigilance during the night, as every roe
in the habit of passing the shop at a late hoar was well-
sware—ead no alarm was given by it. After these disco-
veries the police did vet trouble themselves shout the natter,
bat Seperiatesdent Dever wetted epos the megirrates at
the Town.hall on Wednesday, and in order to free the police
from the blame which some people had visited upon them f,r
not taking vigorous measures to discover the supreed thieves,
related the fat's above gives, and deelared emp stically that
be did not believe a burglary had taken place. On the same
day Davis was arrested under a warrant from the Commis-
sioner of Taxes, and his golds sad stock were seised at the
sane time to assist in making gold the amount due by him to
pbo WorcratersAire CAroniek.

SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANHLIN, BY
THE ADVIOE..WHALER.

The following wet intending narrative of the
s of the Advise, whaler, Oaptais Posey,
relsdiageb of the aisle; expaiitioe, is ham the
et Ida Osedeir, who eland all the pug. ea
a whines voyage in the Annie Newt wI the
view el essising to discover sad to softie bisollent
friend Sbr Joan Franklia. Tits neblesseest asu
tilt Poesy is beyond all rains. Aetna.*
Om motives of hasemity, and without se king hes
seusrdek will he men that be hesitated net to pima
Me ship is dear/ is the geed esue:
My irmrst width Mies ihneerded by the Trueloves with
vett A Illid I had segiested to modes tit
them may tags, Mud Is thorny, bet whisk
la the eatiee Memo el theatmegies eff the. expedideetC
been sem gwerlese.maphilesiod ups se MO'
unlinking spss their 'Meg 414ffitY lb" 1 1114
seeessly
diem the Meat width Metals oesy. ell
the Addeo, ss he bb inesepthe sad exertions. He
Tea meatight tisk la deb" what he did ; foe his ship had
already aroleable cane es heard, sad her doithlimp asd
imamate= were almost .ssibe wain. Bet with a ma-
rimba middles* in the min and knowledge et
et lime seas, Msmnimd to me all risks,
smilallo r liin he
amest be nodes emblems to the expsdi
_dose.
Dudes Est if be seedpeeeim whales in the Boa. It
wed& NOW Ibsen, to his einem
I seq bele nuealieu thee Mr. Peony has spent detest the
while of his lb amidst the hardships of the Davis' Straits '
whole Gala, ; that hie satesal habits of observatioa are
great, and his knowledge of the &forest plenuessa me-
netted with the medals of the Mises. fields of Ise hal
Bellth's Bay, piefosed. This is sot only my own epiebei,
formed after eight =oaths' essetant intercoms@ sad ,free
many emthersatioss with his epee the internam, mil pet
little knows sec bjeet of the Ands lee, bat it is the en•
pouted opinion also cf every as. smug* the wireless to
whom I have spokes upon the subjoin. His same ea •
navigator is moreover etdy_ brows from his amen%
espleraties of the Gall of Tettedialibeek, or Hogarthes
Boum, ramify salted by the whalers Heinithsclue sad
the met te *be neethwards.
It ma es the Ind of Almost that Capt. Poesy determined
to pressed Immediately to Leaman Send, sad, U pistils,
to Primo Begest's Islet, ha*, ea that day
through the Animism ship M'Clellan, of New Lesdnuillea:t
the satire lees of the Lady Jose, of Newesialee
bed
the
Sorrier, of Peterheed ; and that nothing
bees sees th he of the North Star by mast s and
Sail was bassediately made, sad the ship nutter the hem!
ward, Meth a sharp been. from 13.8. E. In the Amu= me
were of Cape Walter Submit. Oa this oussies, sad is
ki sq
pram over the same ground a math, we sow a
emeiderable sash*, of middle-lead of them of
• very dark Moir, and hada, dashers of
embedded in their subsumTale e. sisals to be roe=
the berg, of the west rout, for although I saw on some of
these en the east We dirt bends and earthy stains, it wee
very ter boa &Jog 10 general se it is hers. Usliskilp I
had set impotently of closely examisiss than Libels. •
strung Mid (avowable bre.: r costier.ed throughout the
eight to carry us rapidly into the Bound, the weather Wog
still clear and delightful. A keen and 1411/001 leek-oat was
kept by every as. for the slightest trees whack might haw
been left by either of the expeditions.
We had ran past the magnificent headland of Cape Byes
Mortis, sad Po swam Bey eau °poring out to our view.
It still emulated beastifeby clear, hat every 'line within
light was inuakenned by reffilelloll-4 phenomena" SW
theists of which so often attract the attention of the deeds
voyager. I we. standing on the forecastle, tea/aisle" wkh
a telescope every point of the ahem with as analems eye,
when, with • thrift of joy, I reeognised a fig pat asi es-
elm. I gazed earnestly at it ; there could be so mistake ; I
could almost nuke out the waving of the flag. Without my-
iag a word, I put the glees Lath the hands of a man who mei
standing near me. and told him to look at the point a heed.
He dit so, and, with a steel, immediately
.prommucted that
he saw a signal flying. Delighted and overjoyed, I enatebel
the glow from kis boob, am sinio swilled it to sty eye. Fee
butane Ism the wished-for signal, bet for an lastest only;
it fadd and again appeared, but sow distorted late • broken
sad ellejeisted column, now lea as up-turned sad 'averted
The mho:ties had canoed a piens of lee to MUMS
=anilliCOMS. I seed not say I was defected after this stades
di appgatineat ; but I resumed my eye mach along the
share, as did also not a few warmhearted nab en beard;
the master seared, ever leavieg the crow's-nest.
Disriag the wbole of FrMiy, the 3rd, the favourable
breeze contieued, carrying us rapidly ea. We bodes yet met
with say little is-, cad what we has seen was very light ;
everything looked well, and we had high hopes. In the
flermooe, whilst off Cope Hay, an Admiralty eyhader was rat
overboard, enclosed in • ceek, seeordiag to the Admiralty
instructions, masked with a pole and vase, and
P
ballasted. We were now running past Navy Board Inlrelr areli
had to stand more to the northward, too that we were rather
further from the south shore, sad the headlands on each side
of the deep Bight et Crokir Bey were seen looming in the
distance of the opposite shore.
From what I could make cut at the disbars, the country
to the westward of Navy Board Islet appeared to me to be
of a mach leveller and flatter nature than any I had yet
SOM.
Toe insolent. towering and snow-upped mountain ranges
had disappeared, and • moorlike, champagne country taken
their place. On some pens of the shore, however, one ab-
ruptly -pr, cipitons rocks of; as extraordinm' appearance,
perfectry fiat on the top, and baring a Moab buttressed
appearance in front, wit-:out any apparent treats of atratit
sawn ; for here, even at a great distance, the fact of a rock
bed, ' stratified or not can be made out by the snow resting
on toe rucces‘ive ledges.
We continued naming, with every sail set that would
draw, daring the whole of Friday the 3rd. Late in the even-
ing it began to and overcast, when I mired to my birth,
having been on deck, wi.hout intermission, sines we had es.
tend the Bound. On going en deck math at four a. m, as
Saturday the 4th, to my great dtagrth I fund that it
was quite thith, and blowing very bard with a heavy sea,
and all the appearance of as the:mitre gale. The topgallant
mils had to be stowed and the tamed' reeled. By sin cm
the gels had an Increased that the ship had to bi hove to
under close-reefed miintomail. A homy cress sea was be
this tim, runnier, and it war exceedingly title* and misty.
At ten a.m. we fell in with heavy washing the ; a press of
sail had to be leads oa the ship, and she was reached over
to the north ads of the Sound, where she wan again hove to,
until ten at night, when the des wee again found to be under
our lee. The sea was here breaking with the greatest vin
lens and magnificently upon the heavy masses of ice and
epos a solitary berg which was in eight.
Sail had again to be aide, and the chip plead to wind-
ward. A very heavy cross ma running, the waist-bats had
to be takes in on deck. It moderated slightly on the fore-
noon of Sunday;; the sea was felling, and to my great
joy, the weather began to clear. We found ourselves in the
deep bight of the the, which apparently stretched in a
eremitic, or ocineave direction, from Cape York on the
south aide, to about Borneo's Inlet on the north. The gale
had completely broken up the ice, that is to soy, it was in
the state of pack ice. Captain Penny says that he
timid make out from the mast-head Prints Leopold
Telma, sad, moreover, that he distinctly saw a water Ike
Ks lea. I hays the met perfect othddena in thb,
at Kr. Posey, for I know that he has an eye
?we*rghly wineeted to thew of the telempe, and is, es
I ham oa seem essesions had opportunities of rewashing, an
aft% la the mos of is.
We row ammied to ply cur way out of the Sound
yaks, fusgig elegrised at having to renounce our search.
Tar my owe pan, I waswierroWy distressed ; far 1 had
tolled In ashiedrag the principal, if sot the only object of
my voyage. Bat Mr. Posey kad warmly another course
open to him; he was not authorised by his owners a'
Cstto the search, or to go out of his way in ends-
uitormallon regarding the expeclitim As los" as
there was • thanes of primula, whales in Primo Dm
pat's Inlet, he might have peroseered, although,. I hewe
sail beton, his ship was very deep in the water and
the risk would have bees great in pushing tltastglt the
heavy "pack Ise" which we had fallen In with. Bat
when, at the conclusion of the gale, we fogad that
the lancties had bean entirely broken up, which
rendered it impossible to prosecute the flaking in this
dimiss, sad c insequently his contintiatios of a sunk
MINI lbe speditions incompatible with his duty to Ids 1
wow, hew. reluctantly compelled to retries kis steps.
The ant three days were melancholy enough, and the
I weather weeded' sad stormy. Our progress outward was
' very slow--a curious feet, as Mr. Penny informed me that,
on previous occasions, the dignity always had bees to make
' their way IT the Sound against the current, which sets to
the east with great strength.
About midday on Thursday the 9th, it began to dear.
We Wend ourselves shoat three miles off the west cheek of
Navy dead Inlet. Tnroughent the afternoon and evening
It graditelly improved, until about midnitht, when it was
oohs and brilliantly clear. An Admiralty m Under was here
got ready, and enclosed in a small cask, along with some
of the lasses newspapers which we bad oa board, ad'
two boats were dispatched on shore to bury it in the
most sonnieuous place possible. I went in one of the
boats; we landed on a mall island upon the west side of
the inlet—ens of the Wolluton Islands, I apprehend.
Whilst pulling in, and appeal:him the land, I strained my
era la all divetions in math of mints and signals of any
sort, but not the slightest vestiges of meal wen to be seen.
Al we rounded the west side of the island, to obtain a
suitable loading-place, I saw many blocks of iceaground on
the rocks. ad observed through the 6 ass water that the
rocks at the bottom were all scratched and polished by the
friction of the M. The only appearances of algae wen in
the deep clefts of the rocks, and these were but scanty. We
landed on the south-west side of the island, and found it to
be entirely composed of limestooe, and about a little more
than • quarter of a mile square. Scattered about on
i theisland wen various large worn boulders of granite, some
of them sore than half way up the tighest point, which I
ebould say was about 50 or 60 feet above the level of the
sea. There was enreely a vestige of ergetatio• to be seen.
We disturb 4 on our landing about italf-cdossn pairs of
the eider duck (rovesteria sioliasima). Their eggs I found
to be within • very few hones of mator;ty. There were
' besides numerous nests, the occupants of which had, I
suppose, already winged their way southwards. Two brent
geese (maser berrtiela) sad a tingle pair of Arctic terns
I. fermi Artie*, were meet vociferous and courageous in
defence of their downy carving whenever I approached.
These were the only birds I saw, with the exception of a
rolitsry raven (come 'corm) not very high over-head,
whose sharp and yet anudeally bell-like croak came startling
ern the ear.
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• "'Water sky' a wertala dark appearance of the sky, which indi-
cate' eke: water la that dinettes, sad whtati, when contrasted with
the blink wet ke or lewd, is very otespieusus."—Parre.

Oa Haws aide of the lined, la a rimy sbeleuredAtW
elm, wee Ike teselas at as inelmax muse, but, bat
evidently of owe meow bock. autonaded by the beam od.
the bur, kg, awl seal, and a few little bite et baleen. I
observed she • portion of the bre et • barna* skull. bat
ovldes•ly leas ezposed to the drab of weather sad
atewayhere. la the seeatineOe sea bed deg • hole es
the toreflhe Mad. sad badoi lamed the wok k wee co
anal up, • odes el stew smiled ea the le,, sod a pole
!zed there's, is which woe pot • Wait hell.
We thee pawed to. Nara to the Addeo, which by this
thy bad 'mod fortbaselLad bad the elgoelef awall bedded.
ee It w with tiew end step that Ina& my way towatde
the hiss.. resseely WIN to behave that le woe steamy
I dwell have • epee wideb etimed te sae me aser we: dear
trivade—a spot. maw's, atiolseed seeable me betas
shame the meet or d.s whisks devoldor pasty was, as
a bees easedem. emehead ban I )thesis.
hoe.
We bed set beta Iwo ea boa beige thlik were swag
ea. We lest diktat is Iwd issithp, aril Mt oat tee it
again *mil the 14111, trlMa wwo he to the seaftward, Is
lat. 71 O.—Hero/A