The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-01 00:00:00

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LONDOX, SATURDAY. .VOI73IBER I.

LOLI3 KosslTn has opened a battery against
Russia and absolutism, whkh the eh-impious of that
power and this principle know not how to meet, or
what kind of entrenchments to rube against it. Our
absoluti,t4 were evidently prepared fur an outburst
of dein,eracy, an onslaught of republicanism. They
expected appals to popular pa,,ions or demands of
armed intervention, to be attended by the dangers and
expenses of war. The Ilungurian orator has em-
ployed none of these missiles, and had recourse to
none of these hackneyed and alarming means of agi-
tation. lle eomev forwanl u philosopher, to utter
the simple complaints of humanity, and plead as a
supplie wt, not an a tribune, fur its lights.
What Kosscrn comes to ask es not armies..

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in not subsidies, if/ not the demonstrations a loch
provoke. or the vapourings which either end in
smoke or in the kindling of war—all he asks for.
is a just, an awakened, nn enlightened, and
iidorna,l state of public opinion. The great
Bun ratinn orator declared his de•ennination nut
to mouth upon the internal politics of this
country. And, yet, unwittingly, he laid his finger
upon one of our most marked peculiarities and de-
touts. No minister or party could raise or spend
one is without the light and force of public
opinion hi ing directed ton arils it to prohibit or
approve. Yet in their weightier decisions, by which
the innovate of England was brought to bear upon
the principles and parties which agitated and di-
vided the trintinent ; for these public opinion in Eng-
landw.ubhnd,waaignurantoeasa put het ie. Diplomatic
agency uit is a mystery, and the speech of a Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs, even in full parliament, a mere
flinging of dust in people's eyes. Let the public
into the meret, smith Kossuill, let public information
and public symindhy be thereby excited, and a minis- ,1
ter will Is oes powerful for guiid as he is now almost I
powerles,Never were words spoken more full of
truth and meaning, or more conducive to the grand
purpose or a great and popular league of constitu-
tionalism and eitiienship, against the absolutism and
solilierdoin id the east.

......
When liii,srrit bud thus disposed of the bughcar
of war, Ae turned to unmask another of those empty
asctres, with which the reacti .... ists frighten timid
isenis to the slumbers of tor)istn. This was social
ender.

ffel. Events have proved that the opinion was
right. No traces of Sir Jons's expedition have
been found ia any of the other places where time
was lost in searching for him; but the first vessel
that neared the Wellington Channel discovered one
of its winter stations. Ilad the first searching expe-
dition been sent directly there, as it ought to have
been, three long and profitless years would not have
been wasted.
Nor is this the only instance in which the Admi-
ralty have shown their lack of judgment. To any
representation respecting the quarter in which
search ought to be made, which did not square with
their preconceived notions, however well supported
by argument, they turned a deaf ear. They pooh-
poohed it ; they did not deign to examine it. But
any cock-and-hull story about a balloon bringing a
note from Sir Jolts FRANKLIN (even so recently as
a few weeks ago) was enough to induce them to
send a commission to inquire into it on the spot. It
would really seem as if the Admiralty would listen
to nothing on the subject that had not absurdity and
utter senselessness to rec..mmend it.
On the head of the conduct of the officers em-
ployed to conduct the search, we touch with more
reluctance. It is easy, sitting by the fire-side, to
criticise the conduct of men hemmed in by colossal
masses of ice, swayed backwards and forwards by
impetuous, varying, and imperfectly known cur-
rents. Even here, however, the stern truth must
be told. Frankly, then, it does appear that
Sir JOHN !tons was more intent upon reaching
the magnetic pule he discovered on a former occasion
from the north, than upon searching every accessible
spot fur Sir JOIIN FRANKLIN and his gallant compan-
ions. And the sudden return of Captains AUSTIN
and PENNY, a full year before they were looked for,
certainly culls for sonic better explanation than has
yet been tendered. The recriminations of these offi-
cers are one main subject of investigation now sub-
mitted to the commission we have alluded to, and
we will not anticipate its decision in favour either
of the one or the other. We fear, however, that it
will be found that personal incompatibilities—the
same miserable cause which baffled the first Arctic
expedition under Sir JOHN Ross—will be found to
have been in play on the late occasion. We
write with the map, representing the opera-
tions of the searching expedition, just published
by Mr. Aurtowssferif, before us; and we readily
admit that the work done has been executed in a
gallant and masterly style, but how, with the pros-
pects before them, could Captains AUSTIN and PENNY
return, when their stores enabled them to remain
another year?
The map to which we refer, shows that to the
west of Wellington Channel, the north shore has
been minutely examined as far as the 116th degree
of longitude ; on the south shore as far as the 104th,
examination has been made in a way that leaves
nothing to wish fur; but no traces of Sir JOHN
FRANKLIN have been seen in that direction. At
Bets:hey Island, however, just within Wellington
Channel, the winter quarters of his expedition in
lff 15 4; have been found. There can be no mistake.
The graves, the erections, the sledge tracks,
indented by frequent passages, speak for them-
' selves. And there are unmistakeable indica-

Many people," said KossfTlf, " when they hear
these words social order, get nervous and excited.
'Acre aro many that misuse' these sacred words as
a likuphemy. They call order absolutism ;
they say that it is social order when humanity is put
in prison ; they call social order the silence of the
grave."
And liossetit then went on to show that the
maintionaan• of social order could only be bused on
the recognition of popular rights and the establish-
ment of national freedom. :so tioble and convincing,
au logic .1 amidst all their sentiment, and is, full of
ennimon sense amidst all their enthusiasm, are these
arguments and this langtmg.., that anything like
reply is impossible. 'flip most inveterate of the fires
of fit's- it and of the supporters of Russia can
find nothing to gainsay in them. The nobleness
they canuwt yucstion,thetruth hole:mia deny. They,
thenfon.. itemise the man of hypocrisy, anti assert,
that beiause he is rational and right he cannot be
Sillet.ll', and that this mild philosopher, who preaches
no principle more warlike than rim-intervention, or
mon• extreme than constitutional liberty, must be a
Jacobin in disguise., whilst the citizens who welcome
him are set down as a band of suns erelsilt s, anxious to
disturb the public tranquillity and feast with the
nationalists on private property. Mr. Wins: is a
It t N nu: with this veratione historian, and eit %IMES
011 I'IN is nothing other than a lti/lIKsPIERILE in a
atruight eullur and broad brimmi d hat.
Absurdities such as these , which excite a smile,
do not Uri II refutation. It is atialit 101 hat KOSSUTICS
IlfeSetit t* hill and attitude belie them. Hut in order
to stigmatise him. and to make a contrast between his
prisosit nibdness, and his past energy, the history of line
life is niked up, every event of it misreimisentell,
and every net of his distorted. Time because in his
country, walled up by Austrian custom houses, he
proposed a league for the non-consuniption of the
dear and beggarly manufacture% of Austria, while
opening its ports to the cheap 'induce of England,
as soon as he had power to do w,= for this liossetil
is stigmatkied as a protectionist.
Another crime is, that to support a war in defence
of his country's indepentlenee he employed paper
111101111. Anti, pray, what did Pin', the pilot who
weathered the storm? Paper money includes English
bank mai s and French aesigoofe. If the latter were
worthless it wail owing to the exorbitant quantity
on recklessly issued. Hut the Kosserit notes were
Limed in such quantities and for such purpose% as to
leave them still of fur mum value than the paper of
bankrupt Austria.
A noire ludicrous charge to lay at Kosserit's
dime ia that of his having kill d the constitution of
his country. Ile might as well lie amused of shoot-
ing Lewis II vrityanv or of flogging Mine. MAIO:It*.
114111. The AU:4 rians wreaked their vengeance on the
Hungarian ("institution by abrogating it. But the
Mad device of SVIIW Iti.t.Nlll.ltl; doing are was nothing
more than a continuation of Huse acts and that poi
hey of M Errtais shirt first vaned forth the
opposition of Hungary and awoke the energies of
Vest
'fhe liberator of Hungary does not. however. re-
gard either the ninstitution or the freedom of his
country as definitively buried. Ile considers Aus-
. tria as tilltd, and its emperor us a mere satellite of
the Russian OAK. Kinst• rim does not soy,
that be require% succor against Austria. That
would be intervention ; and the Hungarian would
bra prior cause, if it feared to meet Austria in anus.
All lie asks is. that Russia be compelled to leave Aus-
trial° its natural state of dissolution, of which so ninny
'manifest symptom' appear in the disorder of its
finance., the deep discontent of its citizens, the un-
mitigated and insolent, yet silly tyranny of its buy-
limpertir, and the mutinous state or its three principal
prewllleil% only deterred from insurrection by the
pnsenee of armies ahnewit as numerous as the popula-
t• liberties they crush, and whose means
they devour.

tions that the thoughts and efforts of the adventurers
were all directed to the north, up the Channel.
1 here is a look-nut at Cape Innis further up the
gulf; there are tracks of overland sledge expeditions
to the north. No reasonable doubt can exist that
Sir Juitx FRANKLIN has pawed up Wellington
Channel.

The channel has been explored in boats and
sledges beyond the 'Nth degree of north latitude, and
has been found to extend, undiminished in width,
beyond the 77th. The American exploring vessel
was carried by an indraught as far as the 75th
degree. The packed ice which arrested her progress
was of inconsiderable breadth, and beyond was open
water as far as could be seen. The appeatance of
the ice showed that it was permanent, but open in
favourable seasons. All has not yet been done that
can be done to discover the remnant of the bold ad-
venturers who may survive, or their remains.
Hope to find any one of them alive is, we admit,
all but extinct within us. Seven years in these
dreary regions is an imprisonment which we can,
scarcely expect any man to have survived. De-
spondency would carry off the crews, and without
their men the officers would be very helpless. Still
it is nut impossible that one or two may survive.
Food, it is clear, these sullen seas afford, and blubber
to serve for fuel. The atmosphere is not less
endurable than many Esquiniaux can bear in
their snow huts. And while there is possibility
that one man may yet be rescued, common
humanity, the honour of the country, demand that
an effort should be made. Nor will the public mind
ho satisfied until the actual fate of the missing expe-
dition is learned.

No time should be lost in despatching a strong and
swill steamer, as recommended by Captain l'Etisv;
and some man of intelligence and indomitable reso-
lution and ye,— ought to be placed in coin-
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=ad with Unlimited authority.

We have nothing to say against the composition
of the commission now sitting at the Admiralty to '
decide on the course to be pursued with reference to I
the laurel' after Sir Jon ‘NELIN. We have no I
wish to anticipate their decision. But we trust they
wi.l bear in mind that the dilatory manner in which
that *swell was originally set about, and the way in
whiela it has been hitherto prosecuted, haze been
the reverie of ratisfactury. Men may say to the
Admiralty and to the service, as BRUCE mud to It %N.
IX/1.111 at the battle of Bannoekbuni, " Your wreathe
ham lost a rose."
With regard to those wha sit at the helm of affairs,
the search was far too tardy in being set about in
earnest. The expedition sent out under Sir Jolts ,
Ross was inadequate; the more complete one under
Captains UNMANLY, AUSTIN, and PENNY, was deci-
&•dly too late. We do nut /say too late as meaning
that all hope was then over, but as having delayed
an earnest effort to rescue the missing voyairers
longer than was creditable to :hose under whom they
sleeve& Them was evinced in this procrastination'
en apathy to the fate of brave men sent out by their
• country to achieve a hazardous exploit.
And tik.ng with apathy there was evinced a sin-
gular lack of judgment by the heads of affairs.
Before the last expedition started, we—and others
whose voice had better eaims to attention—again and
again urged upon them the prahability, the all but
certainty that Sir lone Fwv:vat.tx had gone up
Wellington Channel. This opinion was based upon,
first, the promising character of that opening ; se-
(syndic.. the knowledge that Sir Jolts had casually
let fall an expression in conversation with Mr. Ax-
e, IN SMITH only explicable on the assumption that he
intended to laza through the Wellington Channel;
thirdly, the knowledge that he had positively stated to
a friend that he intended to try the Wellington Chan.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1,

within the Swiss frontier to take advantage of the
first outbreak to join the expected rising in France.
These instructions are said to have been gent in con-
sequence of discoveries made in the investigation of
the riots d the Cher and Allier.
The Patrie adds a feature or two to the biography
of the new minister of commerce. Ile is grandson of
the Count de Casablanca, a general before the revo-
tion of 1789, and aftewards senator and peer of
France. lie is also nephew of the illustrious Luce i
de Casabiaoca, who commanded the admiral's ship
the Orient at the battle of Aboukir, and who blew
himself up with his son in a conflict with the fleet
commanded by Lord Nelson.
The Ordre reports that Admiral Prince Menzikoff,
the ltussian minister of marine, has arrived in Paris,
I on a private mission.
Four members of the Mountain, MM. Greppo,
Nadaud, Leroux, and Sartin, having visited Moulins
together have been, during the whole of their stay,
I dogged by a sort of escort of gendarmes, who never
let these representatives out of sight. A liberal
member of the French parliament is subjected to as
close a surveillance by the authorities as a distin-
guished member of the swell mob in London by Bow-
street officers.
The number of persons now in prison on the charge
of having been concerned in the late riots in the de-
partment of the Cher exceeds one hundred, most of
whom will, it is said, be brought before a court-
martial.
The Presidential candidatesbip of M. Ledru-
Rollin is beginning to be placed on the order of the
day in certain quarters of the Faubourg St. Antoine.
For some days past great activity has been displayed
on this subject by persons attached to a revolutionary
journal. The worsmen do not appear much disposed
to exert themselves in favour of any personal ambi-
tion, but they declare that they are resolved to exer-
cise their electoral right in 1852.
For some time past attempts have been made to
seduce from their duty non-commissioned officers and
soldiers in some of the regiments in garrison at Lyons,
and in other parts of the sixth military division.
These attempts have in most CL9e9 failed, but a few
soldiers have allowed themselves to be affiliated with
secret societies. The military authorities, being
apprised of this fact, instituted an investigation, the
result of which has been the arrest of a certain nun-
bor of non-commissioned officers of the 13th regiment

of the line, who are to be brought before acoutt-
martial.
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A number of Jesuits have gone into Baden is
missionaries, and are preaching three times a day to
the people. They attract large crowds.
Mc learn that the loss of the corvette Alcmene is
now certain. A recent letter of M. Pharamond, consul
of France at Sydney, addressed to the minister of
foreign affairs, confirms the sad event. Ile was oc-
cupied in seeking for our unfortunate countrymen,
in order to send them back to France. Ile had,
however, not been able to obtain any intelligence
respecting M. d'llarcourt, the commander ci the
vessel.

The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has
declined about two millions and a half in Pars, and
remains about the same in the branch banks The
discount acconimo,'ntion has increased neatly six
millions in Paris and about one million iii de pro-
vinces, the amount of the former being 40,267,159 fr.,
and of the latter 60,873,167 fr. tin the side of the
liabilities the notes in circulation have increased
nearly five millions in Paris, and two minims and
three quarters in the provinces. The account current
of the 'lrensury has declined about three millions, the
present amount being 61,912,999 fr. Private accounts
current have decreased nearly two millions and a half
in Paris, and increased rather more than one million
and a half in the provinces—the amount of the for-
former being 122,035,511 gr., and of the latter
32,217,6081 r. The total amount of the metallic re-
serve is at present 6101 millions to 5551 millions of
notes in circulation.

The Bourse was little affected by political rumours.
The Fives closed at 00.10, with a rise of .sc. The
Threes rose 10c. and closed at 53.70.

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