The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

Queen's Channels. It certainly owe.
Mr. PENNY had not given them distinet mines k
conversations with captain Anemia -4he name
Queen's Channel does not appals teihave beim al
plied to the inner reach tilt aft. Ift. PENNI% cal
turn to England. Captain'Ausritt miutitled teeail
the advantage this irregular proceeding of his adver-
sary gives him. But, after making every allowance,
we cannot admit that Captain Minix could
be misled by the expression in Mr. Patsy's
peevish note. Ho knew that only the southern ex-
tremity of the inner reach bad en examined;
that the parties who penetrated into it had men a
tract of clear water, at least sixty miles in hoses
li
extending beyond them. with everyePearannal or a
passage still further on. How then can he peen*
to have been misled by the statement that " Wallop
ton Channel requires no further search r ipas
obvious that the greater part of the opening hat Mt
been examined.
Bat worse than this : at the time when Captain
AUSTIN abruptly left Wellington Channel he was in
possession of a report from the master of his own
vessel showing that there was every probability a
pump into the channel would be opened in the
course of a few days :—" As far as the eye can reach
from the crow's nest, the Wellington Strait is filled
with ice, consisting of large floe pieces and loom
pressed up ice ; the whole of it appears to be
detached from the land, and lanes of water stretch
across from side to side. To the eastward, Barrow's
Strait is quite clear of ice right across as far as can be
seen. To the southward also there is a great deal et
water mixed with the ice." Captain At nut also knew
from the reports of the various exploring parties that
the ice only
Channel;e half-way up !bats now Galled
Wellington hannel ; that the whobs die mintimes
part of that channel, and all of Qum% awed
that had been seen was bee km Ilsel Taint.
that the wind was from the ssethweed.
the state of matters on the 11th of August, we holm
that it was his duty, irrespective altogether of the
opinion of Mr. PRNNY, to have made an attempt to
penetrate further in, by sending a steamer, insirthe
command of that gentleman, or with him to pilot it,
or without his assistance.
We have only one other remark to make with re-
ference to the conduct of the expedition. Omesider-
able surprise has been occasioned by the bet el no
despatches from Sir Joum FRANKLIN bIiROMIII4 at
his winter quarters on Beechey Island. Was wall-
clod search made for them? Captain AIIST/N
on his examination before the committee :--" We
went to a cairn, took it down and examined it to a
certain extent, but not in the way in whisk
we were satisfied it ought to be examined.'
And the following important question and car
swcr occur in Captain OSIMANNILY'S examina-
tion :—Capt. theme's " Yon are aware that it wee
an arrangement of Sir JOHN FILiNKLIN in another
expedition to bury his information at a distance
from the pile. Did you dig in any direction from it ?
OMMANNET : I did not know of such an ar-
rearment." It is at least possible, therefore, that
thipeishes were left by Sir Jous FRANKLIN at
Issebey Island, and not found on account of the
devenly manner in which the search less tLcm was
made.
The impression produced by the facts upoa which
we have been commenting, is painful in the xtreme.
The search for Sir JOILN FRANKLIN has not
been properly conducted. Proper exertions have
not been made to discover and relieve him and'i,
his gallant associates. Reproach with reference
to the past is vain ; but the lesson read by it ought
not to be neglected. The utmost care mns: be taken
in selecting the commander of the new expedition ;
and if officers of the royal navy are to be «Zed upon
to act in concert with officers of the merchant ser-
vice (and considering the intelligence, ability, and
experience of many of our whalers, such a combina-
tion appears to be extremely desirable), every care
ought to be taken to prevent jars and misunderstand-
ings arising from points d mere naval etiquette.
The officers of the royal navy ought to be given to
understand that they arc engaged on an exceptional
service, in which all mere martinet considerations
must be left out of account. Or the game course
must be adopted which was pursued with such distin-
guished success when the great voyages of discovery
in the Sonth Sea were instituted, and commis-
non
when a - mis-
non was given to Ctiox,—the pupil of a Sunderland
collier,—to enable him to take the command.

GERMANY.

VIENNA, Dee. 1.
A system of wholesale banishment is just now
going on in Austria which it is difficult to reconcile
with any plan of policy or prudence, and which bids
fair to drive out of the country all the labour, ca-
pital, and enterprise that can get leave to depart or
find means to escape.
Not only have a great number of Jews been sum-
manly sent away, accused of tampering with the
ensitessgee—dinagb many of them have declared that
Iwy aims from long distances to Vienna simply to
makiparchases—bnt many other persons have been
bed without the least reason being assigned,
their passports being simply returned to them with
the words written across that they were to be consi-
dered as expelled by martial law.
The worst, however, remains behind, and shows
that the tyranny exercised in this respect is as pur-
poseless as harsh. A poor fellow who for a long time
was established in England; having married and
amassed a little property there, returned to Austria&
short time ago to see a sick relative, and now finds
that ho will not be able to go back again to Eng.
land, having received a strict order from the poises
to return to the village in EL where he woe
born, but had long ceased to haliZgeagier tie or lOW
Wien ! Remonstrance in all snob cases is vain.
Very energetic proceedings have been la tOp take
hi the government against the bank, and its large
liability to that establishment forms the only cir-
cumstance that prevents its being destroyed toot
and branch. It became indeed a snug Mettle 1
concern under the management of some ten or twelve
directors, who are said to apply ita whshireaoarsis
to the private emolument of themselves and their'
immediate friss& The general establishment of
branch beaks etellaillstee te loudly called fbr, espe-
cially by pespriesid mrchants and manufacturers,
who have Wilma boss it the complete mercy of
private beim variraver they regain,' an advance.
The diastases billesen Amble and the Porte do
net appear yet te Ism been to any antis-
him etallieb; mei Omit , the hive.
del einbetWeise, still townies sway his pad
while implid, in weliainned am due
teir will he isaleaei viol Today enim the awl op,
lie et Weis
it has eat yet Lei ie.
aninnes
edged by the faer,eutai, la maypoe=
Keesish affair, as hie
b k Vienna, and receiving other people twice a
Week.

--
ilatber's opera of the " Prodigal Bon" has bean
brought out here and foiled.
Exchange on Loudon, 12.48 ; ?detalliques Five per
Cent., 911, 9li.
BERLIN, Doc. 6.
Government has lost no time in assuring the
public mind with respect to the remarkable an•
noancensent of the Chnstitutionitel, which I sent you
on the 3rd instant. In the sitting of yesterday, 31.
3lanteuffel, in inviting the First Member to name a
commission to report on the lianover treaty, said :
" Gentlemen, I call upon you for your support to
the government so much the more that external
events of the highest impmtanes make it necessary
to set our internal affairs in order, so that no outward
danger mass insitmeheatana and wise progressr Dangers do indeed of
our interb
menace us on ides, but this state of things
should not be allowed to urge. us into risk measures,
not dittatedby strong . We shall not mo-
bilise new troops, but we shall remain at eye posts
• at whatever time we may be &Unshed or mesecoL"
t The specific statement et the ametesettemeet is thus
disproved, while the erasion state el the arterial
I mind which it pressated is telly confirmed.
The papers hen express, with regard to the
• French oespereta, lamb sari asatimsnespre=
• have twos expelled boa their known
• The Chu stiholiwwwl aid 7stiesel4elarty bony
denounce the 'lady and pe*try of 11-sitto-
The New Prussian Gass& Melia his et
I supreme power a pbseemmen tbsosiming Get,
many. The isgitimist sad giversommt K
Zeitwef, however, while tree to its Detains hatred
I , of parlamentet, goverament, hoick up the Omit de
I, Chambord to micas emetempt