The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN

claimed with the needy knife-grinder, " Story ! GOD
bless you, I have none to tell." He hoped that the
Government may in a short time mature measures
(to which he is not admitted) which may rectify the
class legislation—alluding to the monetary code
that placed the cation, bound band and
foot, at the mercy of the moneyocracy. We hope so,
too. A sound and judicious measure of currency re-
form would indeed be a boon of no ordinary magni-
tude, one which would induce the industrious and
productive classes to regard with leniency many
shortcomings and omissions. Major BERESFORD has,
however, given no information that can be relied on
on that all-important subject ; nor indeed on any
other. He is totally silent as to the nature
of the measures by which the DERBY Ministry

Those were not his words, to be sure,
but they were exceedingly like them, for his answer
was merely the bitter and ironical expresNion of his
very natural indignation. Well, the expedition came
back, and there was an official inquiry, and Captain
AUSTIN was very decided, end " Ur." PENNY was
snubbed, and the Arctic Committee felt highly satis-
fied with its labours, and a portly blue-book appeared,
containing the whole of the treasures collected to
gether by this investigation. What came of it ?
Why, from first to last, the insinuation that Captain
PENNY'S notion was altogether ridiculous. " Clear
water" beyond Wellington Channel was preposte-
rous, according to the view of Captain AUSTIN ; and
the learned and gallant Committee at the Admiralty
evidently thought, in their heart of hearts, ditto !
Another expedition was authorized by the Govern-
ment. It was prepared elaborately, and at
last sent out under the command, this time,
of Sir EDWARD BELCHER. But, happily be
fore then, a non-official expedition bad been dispatched
to the northern seas by the dauntless and indefati-
gable Lady FRANKLIN. That expedition, it has been
observed by the public, has now returned to Eng-
land, and the intelligence brought by the " Prince
Albert" must gladden the hearts of all those who can
feel one throb of sympathy for the brave unfortunate•
Yes ! The reality is shown clearly enough already.
The open water beyond Wellington Channel—or as it
may be termed Queen's Channel—that open water
about which Captain PENNY so long ago avouched his
" conviction"—turns out, after being pooh- poohed by
Captain AUSTIN and the Admiralty Committee, to be
a thing veritably in " existence." Still further has
the truth of this been verified. Sir EDWARD BEL..
elm, accompanied by his gallant young colleague
Lieutenant SHERAUD OSBORNE, have actually pro-
ceeded, with the " Assistance" and the "Pioneer"
steam tenders, up that clear water into the Queen's
Channel. Possibly long before this time they have
traversed that Channel frbm one extremity to the other,
and penetrated northward, through Penny Strait—a
name which will henceforward attest very signifi-
cantly to after navigator 3 the eminent services of
that brave and intelligent captain of the whaler who
was despised for a while only, to be the more fully
appreciated. How the vindication of Captain PENNY
has come to light thus rapidly is not the least curious
portion of this surprising narrative. It was effected
by a single vessel, and that one of merely 90 tons
burthen, with a proportionate complement of men,
making but a small number altogether. Such was
the little expedition dispatched by his heroic wife to
the relief of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN, an expedition sent
trustingly to those terrible regions of _ everlasting
frost, where the boldest hearts have been filled with
awe before the majesty of Nature in all her wildness.
Like the bread thrown upon waters, however, the
little barque has returned, after many days, scatheless,
and: to a certain extent also, be it said most
thankfully, successful ! Successful it is impos-
sible to deny that the expedition has been,
so far as it has proved the existence
of those clear waters up the Queen's Channel, which
were deemed when first spoken of by Captain PENNY
nothing less than simply chimerical. Through that
channel Sir EDWARD BELCHER has already actually
proceeded. There is an opening, therefore, as Cap-
tain PENNY felt convinced, in that direction; and if
Sir EDWARD BELCHER has been enabled to avail
himself of it now, why may not the same have
occured long since to Sir JOHN FRANKLIN and his
missing expedition ? The mere question reawakens
and revivifies the hope that the long lost explorers of
the Arctic seas may yet be discovered and brought
back to old England, to receive the reward of their
gallantry and the recompense of their sufferings!
Yes ! Sir Joie; FRANKLIN may at length receive,
however tardily, assistance from his fellow-country-
men, and that assistance, it must be added, all will
owe in a great measure to the intelligence of Captain
PENNY—a navigator the accuracy of whose impression
has within such a surprisingly brief interval been to
the fullest extent attested.
It is related of COLUMBUS, that after his little
group of vessels had been traversing the Atlantic for
days and nights, during an interval that seemed to
his mariners almost interminable—his own almost
despairing anxiety was relieved by flights of land
birds, by floating masses of seaweed, and ultimately
by drifting branches, by branches of ripe berries, and
even—like the sign of a human hand beckoning them
on in their sublime enterprise—by a piece of wood
scored over with grotesque carvings! It is some-
what thus it seems with the last—almost despairing
—expedition sent to the Arctic regions in search of
the brave Sir JOUN FRANKLIN. It is rumoured that
in their progress through the clear water up the
Queen's or Wellington Channel, towards Penny
Strait, fragments of "whales, bears, and other animal
substances" have floated by the ships of Sir EDWARD
BELCHER and his companions—proving beyond the
possibility of further dispute that there is nutritious
food—food capable of sustaining human life—in that
direction, and reminding us betimes in a startling
manner that there is likewise that additional proba-
bility that Sir JOHN FRANKLIN has survived, with
the majority of his followers. It is stated even that
the portions of flesh thus discovered drifting scuth-
wards betray evidences of having been partially de-
voured ! Everything unites, in fact, in urging us
onward to increased exertions, in the hope that relief
may at last be afforded to those who have been, du-
ring such a frightfully protracted interval, denied
the chance of all human assistance. Captain PENNY
asserted long ago that this should be the direction
taken by any one really anxious to afford
timely aid to Sir JOHN FRANKLIN. For
asserting as much, Captain PENNY was
laughed at as an " impertinent," or at least as a
" visionary." Well—an inconsiderable period has
elapsed, and Captain PENNY'S "conviction" is proved
to have been ia no, particular an extravagance. On
the contrary, the open channel is there, the clear
water is there, and even—what Captain PENNY had
not ventured to- conjecture—fragments of partially-
eaten food floating in the clear water, as if to tell
those who have, proceeded so far, yet more plainly,
that there it is, in that particular direction, that we
must hasten on wards with all dispatch, if we wish
indeed to conve y assistance to the heroic sailors of
England, who n say otherwise be perishing, under the
command of the; it dauntless leader, the veteran Sir
Jon's FRANKLIN . Again, therefore, and yet again,
it should be reps sated, if only in furtherance of the
principles of sun pie justice, that, supposing the de-
sired benefit at last result from these national exer-
tions, it will be :mainly to Captain PENNY that the
Country will be indebted for at length—in the hour
when moat of an such an event seemed to be alto-
gether hopeless— -being enabled to penetrate to the
frozen retreat of the FRANKLIN expedition.

are prepared to stand or fall. But there is no such
reserve as to what they will not do—and we have it
now on unquestionable authority, that there will be
no attempt to resuscitate " Protection," that the un-
seemly monster will be suffered to remain in the
tomb to which it has been long since consigned, amid
the execrations of those who had so long suffered

under its baneful influence. Nay, more, we are
informed that for a considerable time past there has
been no intention of making any such useless efforts.
He avers—that " for one whole year before their as-
sumption of office, they did not as a party, nor did
any individual acknowledged as a leader of that party,
bring forward one single motion in which Protectionist
measures were in the slightest degree involved." It
might have been supposed that such a statement
would have excited some expression of displeasure,
but the soothing influences to which we have ad-
verted carried it through, as well as the rather con-
fused rigmarole respecting " the rabble" who were
not in possession of the elective franchise, and thereby
unable to bestow their most sweet voices on the
Right lion. and Gallant Gentleman.
In public speeches it sometimes is well to note not
only what is said, but what is left unsaid. Major
BERESFORD, frank as he is (rather too much so, per-
haps, for his party's views), has not said one syllable
about his friend, agent, and correspondent, JoaN
FRAIL, the Salopian barber, who, by the way, was in
full feather on the Grand Stand, and in the betting circle
at Doncaster, on the St. Leger day. We do sincerely
assure the Gallant Secretary at War, that his expla-
nations about his share of the election doings at
Derby would be much more valued by the public
(electors and " rabble") than his revealings concern-
ing the Derbyite policy, about which he seems to be
in a blessed state of ignorance. What we want from
him, and what we care for having, is not
his opinion of what Lord DERBY will do or leave un-
done, but some idea of his own dealings with FRAIL.
We want to know how Major BERESFORD, a cousin
of the Marquis of WATERFORD, a Member for North
Essex, and Secretary at War, came to pick up not
only an acquaintance with Join' FRAIL, the
barber, but such an intimate friendship that he corre-
sponds with him about sending a " good and safe
man" to Derby election. " Tell me your com-
pany," says the old adage, "and I will tell you
what you are." Major BERESFORD keeps com-
pany with a Shrewsbury barber—corresponds with
him—employs him as a private electioneering go-be-
tween ; and, as Major BERESFORD is a member of the
Government, the public have a right to know how,
and why, and for what reason, he frater-
nized with FRAIL, who, to judge by his ap-
pearance and his occupation (with manners to
match), is about the last person one of her MA-
JESTY'S Privy Councillors should be intimate with.
Not one word amid the many be uttered at
Castle Hedingham about his Frail friend—
not a word to explain the employing
MORGAN as " a good and safe man" to
go to Derby election ; not a syllable as to the cause of
his so going. That information is what we want
from BERESFORD ; that is what BERESFORD can give,
in his individual capacity ; that is what BERESFORD
cruelly declines giving us. Well iwe can wait.
The question will come before Parliament, by
and bye.

Major I.lEuEsi ORD has been " starring it" in the
provinces. Tho Right Hon. Gentlemen came out in
immense force t ,efore a select audience, consisting of
the members o c the Ilinckworth Agricultural and
Conservative Cli ib, assembled in solemn conclave at
Castle Hedix ip,ham, and elicited rapturous and
enthusiastic applause from his delighted au-
ditors. Wh ether it was the distinct and
positive ass( :;tion that the Ministers had not
come into office on the " principles of
protection," c r r the satisfactory announcement vouched
by his long experience as a whipper-in—that " a
decided majcl ity of Members in the Lower House
were inimical to the feeling and measure of protec.•
tion to egric ulture"—and the shrewd suggestion as
to the utter i nutility of " kicking against the pricks,"
that produce this agreeable result,
contempla-
tion know
not. It ni fight be that it was the
of an, excellent dinner and the abundance
of the cre,l ,ure comforts so liberally supplied, that
produced s good:humour which exhibited itself in
vehement cheering" and other marks of approba-
tion. Whst ever might be the inducing cause, it is
certain that the friend and correspondent of the
" Shrew shur y barber" obtained a very cordial recep-
tion in his is 7o fold capacit.e, both us a member of her
illaJEsTy's ( -loverurnent and a private individual—
first, when ep 2aking of the Ministerial policy ; and,
secondly, wk en endeavouring to explain away his
rather unfar tunate allusion to the unrepresented
" rabble."

On the fi cst branch of the subject the worthy
bucolics e unquestionably vary easily contented.
No persons
ould have received less information as
to the var io u,9
matters " looming in the future,"
which were t 0 carry with them speedy relief to the
agriouitur; sti
Gollant Major might have ex-
,

LONDON, THEIRSDA_Y EVENING, OCTOBER

brated the marriage eulogised, in the course of a
touching address, the immense services rendered to
society by the father of the bride in very difficult
times.
The electric telegraph from Paris to Bordeaux will
be thrown open to the public on the 15th. The dis-
tance is 577 kilometres (about 360 miles). A dis.
patch of twenty words is to cost Of. 96c,, on every
additional ten words 2f. 49c. A further sum of lf. is
to be charged for delivery of the dispatch in Paris,
and 50c. in Bordeaux.
The rage for speculation at the Bourse is increasing.
It was almost impossible to make way through the large
hall, the crowd was so compact. The Four-and•a-Ball
per Cents. opened at 107 f., and closed at 107 f. 60c. for
the end of the month• the Three per Cents. closed
at 81f. 80c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,5001.; Rouen,
922 f. 50c.; Havre, 425 f.; Great Northern, 790 f,; Avig-
non, 552 f. 500.; Basle, 3301; Paris and Strasburg, 7881.
75c.; Paris and Lyons, 9571. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon,
6721. 50c.; Western of France, 6901.; St. Dizier to
Gray, 547 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RMLWAYS AT THE

TI-1E SH

.itKETS,

EMITISH ILAXZWATS

Railway 3.

Aberdr en 1001. paid
Amb., Not., Bost. & E.
Junc.
Bir. , Wolv., and Stour
Valley . . all pd.
.&
Birk., Len., Ch. Jet.,
late 33/. 69.8 d., 28/. pd.
Ditto, Chest. & Birk.,
504 & 25/. Cons., all pd.

Ditto, ditto 1814 pd.
Brist. & Exet., 100/. pd.
Caledonian ...1001. pd.
Chest. & Holyh., all pd.
Cork & Bandon, all pd
Dub. & Belf. Jet. 45/.pd.
Duudlk & Ennis., all pd.
Dundee,Perth, & Aber-
deen June. all pd.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Our. 13.
Charleroi and Erquelines, 161/4—Dijon and Besanccn, 43/8
—Grand Junction of France, VA—Luxembourg, 45/8
Lyons and Avignon, 11—Namur and Liege (with interest),
7L,4—Ditto (ex interest), 6%—Northern of France, 307;1
Orleans and Bourdeaux, 19—Paris and Lyons, 271 A —Paris
and Strasbourg, 31—Rotien and llavre, 17%—Sambre
and Meuse, 10—West Flanders, 4%—Western of France,
13V:.
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Isusioot+s done
to-day.

Nominal Prices.

Ditto, New ... all
East Anglian (251 L. &
E. and L. & D.) all pd.
Do (18/. E. & H.) all pd.
East. Counties ... all pd.
Eastern Union, class A,
late E. U. shrs., all pd.
Do. do. do. 6/.pd.
Do., do., B. & C., all pd.
East Lancashire all p
E. & W. India Docks
and Bir. June., all pd
Edinb. & Glas.,loo/. pd
Edin.,Per.& Dun. 1001.
Glas. & S.-West., 100/.p
Great Northn., 100/. pd
D 0.% s. A Stk., 100/. p
Do. % B Stock,lool. p
Gt. S. & W. Ireld., all p
`..ireat Weatn., 1001. pd
Lane. & Carlisle, all pd
Do. Thirds, 1103.4 pd
Lane. & York., 1001. pd
Do., Fifths l5 pd

Do.;W. Rid. Un. 11
Leeds Northern, all pd
Liv.Crsby & Sthpt. all p
Lond. & Blackw., all pd
London, Tilbury, and
Southend l% pd
Lon.,Brig.& S. Ct.loo p
Lon. & N.West., 100/. p
Do. Fifths 12/. pd
Do. 101.,M &B (c) lip
Lon. & S.-West 100/. p
Do. New 50/., 42 pd
Do. New 401 341. pd
Lon. & Enniskil , all pd
Man. Shef. & Lin.,loolp
Do. Manch. & Lincoln
Union 41.25. pd
Midland 100/. pd
Do. Bir. & Derby 100/.1
Mid. Gt. Wt. (Ire.) 47;4
Do. % Shares, 17 % pd
Newcas. & Carl. all pd
Newmarket lOOl. pd
Newport, Abergaven.,
and Hereford ...141 pd
Newry & Ennis). 7% p
Norfolk 100/. pd
Do. New 20!.... 201. p
North. Coun.Un. 3 %pd
North British ...100/. p
Nth. Devms,No.l,l3/.p
Do., No. 2 6% pd
Do., 1,4 A, def....a1l pd
Do., % B, guar. 5/. pd
North Stafford. 171,4, p
North-Western...all pd
N. & S.-W. June. 81.fe p
0xf.,W0r.,&W.,1001. p
Scottish Central 1001. p
Scottish Midld., 100/. p
Shrews. &
Do. do.
Shrew. & Her ..81. p
Shrewsbu. and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) all pd
Do. Halves all pd
Do. Oswestry all pd
Shrop. Union _6% pd
Do. A, B, C, & D fully
pd. up at per cent....
South Devon all pd
South-Eastern 100/. pd
South Wales all pd
S.York. & Riv. Dun 151.
Do. Do. 51. pd
Stirl. & Dunferm. all p
Stock. & Har. 16/2s. 3d.
Taff Vale pd
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway —l9/. pd
Vale of Neath 17/. pd,
Waterfd. & Kilk all pit
Waterfd. & Lim all pd,
West Cornwall 131. pd
West London ...all pd
Yk., New. & Ber. 100/.p
Do. & New. Ex. 20/. p
Do. G.N.E.purc. 101.
York & N. Mid.loo/.pd

PIECE:

Aberdeen all
Do. No. 2, 7 per ct. al
Bris. & Ex., 4 p. ct. Stk
Do. 4 p. c. Shares, 5/. pd
Caledonian, 10/. 100/ p
Ches. & Holyhd. all pd
Cork and Bandon, 5.4
per cent. p
Dundee, Per., & Aberd.
Junction all pd
E. Ang.(3/ 10s)6 pc. all,
Do. (al.) 7 per ct. all pi
Do. (i/ 17s) 7 p. c. 2 p
Eastern Counties Ex.,
5 p. c., No. 1 pd
Do. No. 2 all pd
Do. New p. c. Stk. all
Eastern Union Scrip,
Guar. 6 per ct....a1l p
Do. 10/. Deb. Sh. all p
East Lancashire, 6 per
ct. Quar. Shrs. r" pd
East & West Yorkshire
J unction, 5th5...a1l pd
Edin., Per. & Dun. 5%
per cent. all pd
Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 p.c.
Gt. North. 5 p. c.lOO pd
Do. 5 p c. red. sc. 100 p
Great South. & West.
(Ireland) Bths all pd
Gt. West. (Berks &
Ex. 5 per cent.)...6 pd
Gt.W. fixed 4% 100/. 13
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 20/. —.6/. pd
Do. 6 p. c. Stk. 1001. p
Leeds Northern, 6 per
cent. No. 1 I3L pd
Do. Qrs., 1848 ...91. pd
London & Brig. guar.
5 per cent. ...100/. pd
Do. Pr. 5p c. Stk. 100/.
Do. Con. 5 p c, 1852 all
Do. N.Gr. 6 p c 100/. p
Lon. & N.-W. (Coy. &
Nunet.) 5 p. c. 1001. pd
Ln. &, S.W. Co.3ds. 5/. p
Lon. & En. % Sh. all p
Man., Shelf., & Lincn.
Qr. Sh., No. 1...a1l pd
Do. New, 10/....a1l pd
Do. 6/. 3l. pd
Maryport and Carlisle,
4 per cent all pd
Do., 4% per ct. P
Mid. Von. 6 p c St. 1001.
Do. Con. Bris. & Bir.,
6 per cent.... 100/. pd
Do. Erewash Val. all p
Do. Leic. & Swanning.
8 per c. Guar. 1001. p
Do. Pref., 4it p.c. Si. p
Norfolk Exten... all pd
Do. Gr. 5% pct. all p
Do. W.Ve'. 5 p.c. all p
North British 1001. pd
North Stafford.— all pd
Oxf. Wor. & Wol., 15/.
6 per cent.... 1001. pd
Ditto ditto ... 31. pd
Shrews. & Bir. N.G. all
Shrews. & Ches. (N.W.
Min.) 8 per c all pd
Do. 5 per cent. 101 pd
South Devon all pd
Do. New pd
St.-Est. (Reading An-
nuities)...l/. Os. 6d pd
Do., 4% p c 1001. p
Sth. York. 4p c gd. all
Stock. & Hart. gd. 5 p
until July 1,1856, all p
Waterford & Kilkenny,
6 per cent. 3/. pd
York, New. & Bar. all p
Do. Do 5/. pd
York & N. Midland H.
and S. Parch. 101. pd

LINES LEASE:

Railways.

Bdf. 8 Bit h., all p
Bir.& OZf. gua. all
Do. womout, all p
Bir.Wolv. & Dud.,
guar all pd,
Do. without, all
Buckinghash. all p
Clydsdale Jc., all p
E. Lin., gna. 6 pert
cent 100/.pd
Gloucet. & Deanl
Forest...... all pd
Hartlepl. Dk. &
Rai pd
Hull & Selby, all p
Do. Halves., all p
Do. Quarts., all p
Leeds & Brill., all p
Lon. & Grenw., all
Do. Pref....all pd
Lowestoft., gua. 4
per cent...all pd
Do. 6 p. et., all p
blanch. Buxtn, f
& blatick, 51,4 p
beliddlesbe & Red-
car, 6 p. c., all p
N. & E., 5 p. c., all
Presto. & \Vyre, f
all paid
Ditto, Halves, A,
1001. pd
Roy. & Hit.,loo/.p
Do. Shep. Ex., all
Shf. Rth. & Goole,
5 p. c., 18.11.6 p
S. Staffdsh., 9 p
Wear Val. 6 p c., all
Ditto ditto, all p
WillA S&P. IW4t