The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-27 00:00:00

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selves full of resources in the most arduous circum-
stances. If ever the journals of Lieut. litCusrocx
and toe other commanders of parties during the lata
scotch are allowed to see the light, it will be appa-
'.ciit that their duties were manfully and efficiently dis-
charged. What has hitherto been wanting has been,
one director of the operations, invested with absolute
power for the time ; full of fFith in. the possibility
of accomplishing his mission, and with the indo-
mitable will which alone can insure success.

A rAvontrrE topic for depreciatory oomment with
Juts; BULL, is the impulsiveness of our neighbours
on the other aide of the Channel. While blaming
them for acting hastily upon the impulse of the mo-
ment, Jolts feels that he is indirectly praising him-
self on the assumption that ho is more slowly moved
to action. It is not worth while to dispute the
justice of this assumption : true it is that people will
say they have seen Jolts before now do things in
haste for which he blushed at leisure; it may, how-
ever, be conceded that in most things he is a some-
what slow coach.
Hut a man is not to be accounted wise simply
because he is not easily set in motion. He may be
dull and slow of comprehension; or he may be indo-
lent and self-indulgent ; or he may be puzzle-headed
and unable to make up his mind. We will not be
so uncivil its to attribute the deliberation on which
Jolts Hem, prides himself to any or all of thew de-
fects; but that some one of them has, at times at
least, quite as great a share in his procrastinations
as prudent foresight, may be inferred from the fact
that his excitement, when he does get excited, Ls
quite as gnat, and often as unreasoning, as the ex-
citement of lighter oatures. And this peculiarity of
temperament sometime; makes Joins appear very
absurd, inasmuch as he is apt to appear heated and
disturbed about matters long after all the rest of the
wwld have cooled down. _ _

The interest taken by Joux in the fate of Sir
Jolts rItANKLIN and his associates, is a case in
point. Nearly six years have elapsed since any
direct i c was received from the expedition.
Three vein at least have all who are conversant with
the dangers to h it was exposed, twin urging the
necessity of despatching an expedition in aid. Govern•
paid has been slow to move ; and, so long as there was
comparatively littlt room for upprchcnsiou,tltegeueral
public could not he 'imagist to take any interest in
the matter. But now, after such a lapse of time as
redoes.. the cleaner of any one of the missing crews
surviving. to a faker mid dubious isissibility, the
anxiety to promote a search after them is becoming
intense uud wordy. "I he agitation of three years is at
last beginning to tell WI the drowsy smiceptibilitiesof
Jolts Ito -LL, and he is becoming preternaturally
alert and interested precisely at the moment when it
is all but tau late tor action.

It k not without to. alloy of bitterness that one
reflects, t hat had a t it he of the eagenwss now expt owed
m no many quarter: to learn the fate of our missing
Arctic navtgatom, and send aid to them, found utter-
Mire three years ago, Sir JOHN Fit %SUMS, Captain
Cm/tilt, and the far greater part of their brave m-
aoriates would, then: 6 little doubt, have been safe at
home with us. Now, almost all we dare to hope fur
is to learn what luta been theie fate.

Ear be it foes& us to discourage this tardy re-
pentanee. It is barely possible that a few of the
crews of the expedition may survive. Mr. FMK
MLitt, us was stated by Lieutenant Osnosse at the
Geographical Society's meeting on Monday last,
contemplated the puseibility of being kept out for six
years, and this impression may have leer prevalent
among the einem'. The provisions on board the
yes,els, eked out by occasional supplies, might be
made to serve for a longer period. The pmsence of
the means of reNerving animal life in these high
latitudes depends, it is obvious, more upon local cit-
e' taxes of physical conformation than the
mere distance from the Equator. It is ps-
sible, then, that our navigntom may have
found menus of sustenance; and, forearmed by
anticipations of a long detention, may have been
able to bear up against the inroads of despondency
far more fatal than the most inclement ehmate, or
the greatest privations. We will not, therefore, yet
abandon all hope of seeing serve of the lust ones
found.
Nor even if we had relinquished all hope, would
we cease to press the national duty of continuing the
search F.r them. 'They were sent out to presecute
&sceneries, in which their country takes a laudable
pride; they departed, confident that their country
would not forget them, or tail to watch over their
sufity. 'the honour of the country demands that
the efforts to relieve them shall not be abandoned
heron• certainty has been obtained that tiny are
unavailing. This is not merely due to the
gallant adventurers whose fate is yet du-
hems ; the whole nation has an interest
in it. At no time has this country been
left without enterprising spirits prompt to undergo
any hazards in its service in the most remote regions.
But this devotedness requires for its nourishment a
confident belief that, wherever a man goes in his
country's service, there will its eye he upon hint and
its arm powerful to protect him—the consciousness
that his services are known and appreciated, and
that in the hour of peril relief will be at hand. And
;mesh a consciousness can only be inspired, such a
collations. only kept alive, by the country acting in
a manner to warrant their being entertained. If the
waxen for Sir Jolts Fit ANKLIN's expedition is cal-
lously and prematurely abandoned. many a brave
nun may hereafter shrink from incurring dangers in
the service of the nation which he might otherwise
have faced with a light heart.
The Geographical Society has appropriately be-
come the centre whence information emanates re-
specting what is doing to promote the search for Sir
JIMN FRANKLIN, and of the agitation by which it is
sought to awaken and keep alive public interest in
the undertaking. Its public meetings have, since
the commencement of the present winter session,
been almost exclusively devoted to that object. This
is most praiseworthy. A reference to the journals
of this society, will show that since MS it has done
more to extend the limits of geographical know-
kdge, and to make that knowledge precise and accu-
rate, than had been done by either individuals or as-
Joel/aims during the princeling half century. Even
this merit, howeverswill appear inconsiderable, when
compared to that of awakening the nation to a sense
of what it owes to itself in watching over and pro-
tecting those whom it despatches; on distant dan-
gerous missions.
The operations of the coming semen are two-fold.
There is from the cast Lieutenant Piles Siberian ex-
pedition ; from the west the promised resumption of
the exploration of the \Wellington Channel. From
the former, iu so far as this country is concerned, we
can promise ourselves nothing but the chance of pro-
curing information respecting the fate of the adven-
turers. That such information will be obtained
through it, is highly probable. In the opinion so con-
fidently expressed by Lieutenant OSBORNE on Mon-
day evening, that Sir Joiix FRANKLIN must have
penetrated tar to the northward and westward, all who I
have paid any attention to the subject, will be inclined
to concur. But Lieutenant Per has not been furnished
with the means of relieving the expedition, or its sur-
visors, should be find any. The tardy and
niggardly contribution of government is utterly
inadequate to that purpose. Something may in this
respect—and something u-ill, we believe, be done
by the Russian government. For our determined
hostility to the politics of that government has not
blinded us to the fact that where political bias does
not interfere, it has often shown itself extremely
humane and munificent in the cause of humanity. It
will noway, surprise us to learn that the EMPEROR
has sent along with Lieut. Pne ample supplies fur
the relief of the expedition, should he succeed in
finding it.
The more, then, is it incumbent upon us to make such
efforts in the west—our own region—as may enable
us to stand without a blush in the presence of Russia.
It is certain that the examination of the Wellington
Channel is to be resumed this season. Let it be done
in such a manner as will enable the parties employed
nut only to make a thorough search, but torelieveeffee-
tually the survivors, should any be found. Let ships
enough be scat out mutually to support each other ;
to afford numerous detachments for boat and sledge
expeditions; and to carry ample supplies of provi-
sions and other stores. Above all, let a judicious
choice be made of a commander-in•chief for the ex-
pedition. Men and officers there are in plenty who
will shrink from no danger—who will prove them-

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27. 1851.

call it a " Franconi article," and applies this designa-
tion to the President's adoption of M. Grimier de
Camagnac's denunciation of a royalist plot in the
Ocestaut lama. The usual sameness pervades the
comments-of the Order' Assembke, Opinton Pub-
Tigre, and Osion , seasoned with more or less di
pasamn in a sneering or indignant shape. The No-
howl and Sisk are quite as anti-Elysean es the
royalists. The Pays alone, of the whole press,
indulges in decided eulogy, for which we may expect
that M. La Gueionniere will get a magisterial repri-
mand from the sick bed of M. Lamartine. The Preset',
no doubt laughing in its sleeve with high content-
ment, to perceive the arbitration of the position
passing more and more into the hands of the Left,
is quite silent, thinking probably that good wine
needs no bush. The Djbats, too, abstains from com-
ment.
The Muniteur duly contains the " erratum' an-
nounced yesterday by M. I)upin, i.e., making the
change described yesterday in the speech of the
Minister of the Interior, on the interpellations of M.
ereton. . .

M. Granier de Cassagnac publishes in the Consti-
tglionnel the steps which he had taken, but vainly,
to procure reparation from M. Croton for the gross
insults used towards him in the Assembly ; and calls
attention to the tyranny of the parliament in obliging
men of the press to sign their articles, that they may
be outraged with impunity.
M. Devinck addresses a letter to the electors of the
Seine, accepting the position of candidate of the party
of order to represent the department. It seems
doubtful, as yet, whether M. Devoick will be able to
get the quarter of votes inscribed necessary fur his
election.

31. de Larochejacquelin has presented another
amendment to the Communal Electoral Bill, having
for its object to render electors, after a residence of
six months, all Frenchmen born in the commune, or
who have drawn for the conscription in it.
M. F. Bouvet has moved for the appointment of a
parliamentary committee to inquire and report whe-
I ther soldiers willing to work at the making of mil-
-1 ways and in other public works might not be so em-
ployed with advantage to the state and to the mili-
tary service.
A. petition presented to the Assembly by Philippe
de Gerard, claiming a million of francs for the inven-
tion of an improved method of flax spinning, in
pursuance of an alleged promise of the Emperor
Icapoleon, has been approved of by the committee
upon petitions, and has been referred to the ministers
o the interior and of commerce.

The vast amount of dormant claims upon the
public treasury, which every now and then show
signs of vitality, will cause the fate of this petition
to bo watched with interest. _

I have to mention the death, at Paris, of the
Russian General Kiel, the superintendent of the
execution of works of art ordered by the Czar.
M. Charrieres, the eminent surgical-instrument.
maker, who was yesterday promoted in the Legion
of Honour, was among the guests at the dinner-table
of the President after the ceremony at the Cirque.
At dinner a box was brought to him containing a
cross of an officer of the Legion of Honour, together
with a letter from his workmen, informing hint that
the cross was a present from them. The box was
handed by M. Charrieres to the vice-president of the'
republic, and afterwards passed round the table till
it reached the hands of the President. Ile took off
his own cross, enriched with diamonds, and sub-
stituted it in the box for the workmen's present. M.
Charrieres modestly declined the exchange, and said
he could not give up wearing the cross of his workmen,
and ho felt unworthy to wear that of the ('resident.
Ultimately M. CharWres consented to keep them both,
hut he said that he should place the President's cress
in the middle of his manufactory, in the handsomest
frame that he could devise, and when all was ready
he should give a ate to his workmen, which he
hoped the President would honour with his company.
The committee has resolved by 11 votes against 3
that the state of siege in the departments of the
Arcache. the Cher, and the Nii:vre be maintained.

At the Bourse the Five per Cents. rose 25e., and
closed at 91.20; the Three per Cents. rose 20c., and
closed at ;i6.20.

GERMANY.
PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov. 25.
The address from the throne to the Clambers on
their meeting, on the 27th' is now the subject of all
talk and conjecture in the political circles here.
Those best informed, not belonging to the ministerial
party, affirm that the prime object of the address
will be to provoke at once the expression of the sen-
timents of the Chamber with respect to the existence
by right of the revived Provincial Diets. This is the
question, indeed, which will determine at once the
strength of the ministry and the strength of the op-
position or constitutional parties.
It is reported that the King will not open the
chamber in person.