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at a glance the hopeless improbability of any ship not
chartered for the occasion sailing out of her way, break-
ing; her articles, and forfeiting her insurance for the
feightage of a few stores from the Falkland Islands.
Painful and unsatisfactory as my report of the fete of
the party is, I trust it may be considered conclusive by
their Lordshils, and setting at rest any further anxiety
en the part of their sorrowing friends.—l have, ,
,d W. H. MORSREAD, Captain.
" Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8."
" Her Majesty's ship Dido, Valparaiso, Feb. 21.
" reference to my letter of the 23d of January
last, relating to Captain Gardiner and the missionary
party, I have the honour to enclose two unfinished letters
written by Captain Gardiner shortly before his death
(found in the cavern, end addressed to his son and
daughter), for immediate transmission to England to
await the disposal of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty. The remaining books, papers, and other
articles found near the boats are enclosed in a case,
awaiting any opportunity you may deem desirable for
sending them. I enclose a list of these effects in the
ease, one packet addressed -10 yourself as my Com-
mander-in-Chief, being theiiiiginal documents on which
my letter is founded, and I suggest it should be retained
until you should be satisfied with the correctness of the
statemeats of the above letter, dated 22d of January,
1852, and, as none of these articles can be claimed by
the Missionary Society, I also suggest the propriety of
their being forwarded to the Rev. E. G. Marsh, Ayles-
ford Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent, friend and executor of
Captain Gardiner.—l am, &c.,
" W. H. MORSHEAD, Captain.
" Rear-Admiral Moresby, C.B.
" A list of articles belonging to tho late Captain Gar-
diner enclosed, viz. :—A mahogany case, containing two
silver pencil-cases, two halfpence, a piece of a thermo-
meter, a half-crown, a silver watch, and two memoranda
regarding his effects; a spyglass, a piece of a quadrant, a
leather case containing letters and papers, a sketch-book,
two pocket-books, one Patagonian vocabulary (manu-
script), manuscripts, three memorandum-books, 22
books, a few pamphlets and periodicals, an atlas and
chart. Eight letters addressed to the mission party, in
Captain Morshead's care, all having been exposed to the
air and sea for months, are nearly valueless in them-
selves, but may prove of interest to their friends.
W. H. Monsmn, Captain."

MISSIONARY MADNESS.
A most appalling
story will be found in another
colnmn of our impression this day. An English officer,
Captain Gardiner, of the Royal Navy, who bad proceeded
with six companions upon what was called the " Pater)...
nbeianen death—he,Mission'.*rilne
with him. Neither reverence for
do e toodf, tohre
smother
leaderot
he r cause in which
danodf ChipcolfmnranCbasons'
they were engaged nor
the unutterable folly admiration
. the
of
the
earty can blind our eyes to
ofthetheex expression of natural indigna-
tionration of the lofty quali-
ties
enterprise as it was cone
valuable lives on so hopeless expedition. Surely
wantonlyan risk so many
against those who Jul
there is distress and agony enough
within
thehome—surely
there is ignorance and vice enough
of the four seas. When this distress shall havelindaqes
missies's, to
alleviated—when this ignorance shall have beenbn
enlight-
ened—when this vice shall have been extirpated, will .
not be time enough to think of dispatching
Cape Horn? There is such a thing as subordination
even among acts of duty. What are we to think of that
charity which disregards the claims of the suffering
thousands who speak with English tongues, but can
find sympathy and money enough when there is a
question of affording assistance to a parcel of scarcely
human savages, separated from us, we may almost say,
by the diameter of the globe? True, thy may be
living in the midst of savagery and bruttihty of the
wildest kind, but at least they are not afflicted with that
1 worst species of suffering—conscious degradation. They
have not present before their eyes at every moment of
the day a standard of comparison which adds intensity
to every pang they suffer. We should be perfectly will-
ing to accept the argument against the promoters of these
wild schemes from their own point of view. We should
be prepared to show them in our own large towns, and
in the very centre of British civilization, persons as ig-
norant of the first rudiments of Christianity as the
wretched savages who persecuted Captain Gardiner and
his companions amidst the tempests of Cape Horn. The
reports of the various commissioners connected with the
.Associations for the Promotion of Christianity by va-
rious means in the populous districts of English towns
will supply them with all requisite information. Let
them go to the Bishop of Louuon—let them go to Lord
Shaftesbury—let them go to the nearest inspector of po-
lice, and they can soon supply themselves with facts
sufficient to quicken their missionary zeal. We, who
may be supposed to entertain the question rather
in the spirit of statesmen or politicians, would
say, " Why do not you, who are blessed with
abundant means, rather pluck a few hundreds or thou-
sands of your suffering countrymen from certain de-
struction than waste your energies upon a horde of
savages separated from you by every line of demarca-
tion which Providence can set between human beings?
What would you say to the wild Patagonian who would
with a dry eye abandon his unfortunate countrymen to
their ignorance, their brutality, and their storms, and
devote his life to the purpose of procuring painted glass
for the windows of St. Bernell:a in Belgravia, or sub-
scriptions tor the erection of district churches in Bolton
or in Sheffield? Is it not in your power, by a slight
exercise of your superior intelligence and a slight
expenditure of your abundant means, to remove many
an English family to Australia or the Canadite, to lands
where they will grow up without the awful temptations
to which they must inevitably be exposed at home, and
where their children will meet with all profitable in-
struction and teaching? Your sympathies are not with
them. Their sufferings are a common and everyday
matter. It requires almost the pungency of a romance
to lash your sluggish zeal into activity. The Patagonian
and the negro are your brothers—not so your poor
English fellow•coantrymen." Strange as it may appear,
this is a lamentable truth, and the result is neglect at
home, and misdirected energy abroad.
It is unnecessary here to reproduce the particulars of
the story, which will be found in ample detail in Captain
Morshead's report. Suffice it to say that the ill-fated
party landed on Picton Island towards the conclusion of
the year 1850. From the first they seem to have been
annoyed, in some measure, by the natives, and to have
been huntedbackwa.rds and forwards from the little island
to what may be called the mainland of Tierra del Fuego.
About the middle of April, 1851, Captain Gardiner
begins to record in his diary, which has been preserved
have provisions en cu
last for two
months,
at du sa,.
itihe
lab:no f
but some are very low."- They have but a flask
rollsto take refuge
They shoot an occasional fox, which serves them for food;
powder; their fishing-net is washed away.
Id do his best to steal the remainder of their
base of which
wanodu, besides, if they did not destroy the animal, he
little stock of provisions. The scurvy breaks out
in, and
ianmonag thoesrpearrnty; Thuhtey
cate-
chist, are obliged to swim out toraneir lives, and
Captain Gardiner and Mr.' Maidment,.. the
take
theare Bideeven
the waves of the South Atlantic are breaking. Upon
this rock the two poor creatures kneel down in prayer.
refuge upon a clump of rock. round the
John Badcock, a Cornish fisherman, dies, y,
eq July 4
the party have been seven weeks on short allowance;
their only hope is in the expected ship from the Falk-
lend Lewes; but no ship comes, They greedily
penguin, a
Six m shag, a hull-devoured fish eat a
washed upon
the shore, ice are spoken of in h
dainties. The garden-seeds have be t e journal as
been used for broth,
and aro all spent. Muscles and lim
ceurse—and then rock-weed is boiled
dts are the next re-
Erwin ' a carpenter, and Bee down to a jelly.
man, die. Two of theean t, another Cornish fisher-
surgeon, and Pearce, a third Cor"ty, Mr.
Williams, the
enishm
away from the main body an, had gone
of the art for some
object or other, probb'
py,
.
food. Their dead bodies a w Y for the discovery of
River, some distanceffere discovered at Cook's
must have died about the The presumption is they
the same time as Captain Gar-
diner •
himself, who b
pro ably expired on the 6th of Sep-
tember. The last
and
in entry in his diary is on the sth of
September,
this he mentions that he had not
tasted food or water for four days. Mr. Maidment, the
catechist, had died a f days before. As it was the
6th of January, lg 59 ,e hv in
f a ro Csa
o is ;
oi dorshesd arrived
at the island, we leave the value of precautions which
had been taken for maintainingexpedition to the
the
public judgment.
Poor Captain,Gardiner's diary, in which he records
day by day the slow process of his agony, brings the
scene very vividly before us. In its naked simplicity it
far exceeds the wild ravings which Victor Hugo has
placed in the mouth of the condemned criminal who is
supposed to record his feelings day by day between con-
demnation and execution. Surelythis should be a severe
lesson to the friends and advocates of distant missionary
enterprise. What had we to do in Patagonia and its
inhospitable islands? In Patagonia itself, as far as we
know from the little information we have derived from
the South American Governments, there are some
hordes of wandering Indians—but of their real condition
perfect We are in ignorance. The very lines of the
coast were mere guess work upon the charts until the
surveying expeditions of the Beagle and Enterprise in
1826.36. Surely it is unjust, impolitic, and unnecessary
to devote the great sums which would be necessary in
order W carry out any missionary expedition of an ef-
fective nature in such a region to any ouch purpose
while we have so much destitution and ignorance et
home. At any rate, the thing should either be tee_ll
or it should not be done at all. We ct, wal
anno
done,
reason, incur the expense of doing it well. The fate of
Captain Gardiner and his companions should prove a
ufficient
terrible warning against any unadvised and
expeditions of the like kind for many a year to come.
5 The ro-
Let us hear no more of Patagonian
in
Inissirnred a responpsi-
meters of the scheme have already u_
t° for poignant re-
bility which should give them subjec_tmes.
gret, to cease only with their live.—i

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LONDON, THURSDAY• /IPRIL 29, 1852.

Never, perhaps, was there a financial statement
looked forward to with greater interest, we may
almost say more intense anxiety, than that which is
announced for to-morrow evening. On it will mainly
depend the future position of parties in this country.
The really independent electors, those who ree not
the mere serfs of some aristceratic patrons, or who
have not surrendered themselves to even more cor-
rupt and degrading influences, will naturally decide
in accordance with the views then enunciated.
The just and !wintery principle of " measures not
men" is now very generally recognised, and valuable
boons will not be rejected because they are tendered
for acceptance by men who have not hitherto ar-
rayed themselves on the popular side. There is no
reason why any proposition of Mr. DISRAELI'S, if
desirable per se, should be less acceptable than if it
emanated from Sir Criaam-es WOOD. There could
not by any possibility be found, either in or out of
the House, a greater stickler for ancient abuses, a
more inveterate opponent of all improvement, than the
Right Honourable Baronet sh owed himself to be,
during the five' or six years that; he mismsnaged the
national finances; so far as he wos concerned, any
change must necessarily be for the better. It would
be difficult, indeed, to produce :more melancholy ex-
amples of fiscal imbecility thvee the " brick-dust
Budget" or the " precious Budget," notwithstanding
the numerous alterations and emendations to which
they were subjected during their progress through
Parliament. With Mr. DISR.A.I.LI, however, the
case is different. Ha mol be mistataken,
but he cannot be contemptible. His propositions
may be objectionable, . but they will not excite the
unmitigated scorn of friends as wall as foes. Should
he Whig forward anything opposed to the w7shes of
the people he will be steadfastly cnd resolutely op-
posed.
Ha may bring defeat, but he will not bring
shsma and disgrace upon his collefigues.
It is by no means improbable that every notion of
a b
read-tax in any shape or form .01 be definitively
abandoaed.
The Right Honourable. Gentleman very
Prop"ly refused to answer the unfair and
uneormit ~
He
woutill:7a.l. interrogatories. of his opponents.
it expedient to b •
But there is nn why
L nied hinlself es to what he might deem
that t:er:11
g forward in a future Eiriiiment.
he shoul_d refuse to ex-
plain the
siews- on the all-important
too ablreaPidly
queatioc, so
a. t
the rapidly
of the country may be
taken thereon.
approaching gene/A
iesa robin not to perceive
tehleectiiomn.m-einisee isedvanta
islation of 1846 to be
a voluntary declare..
Lion, that he bslicaed
final and conclusive, earl
thet°hl:
whatevert his private
opinions might be, he would not
venture a retro-
grade policy, or attempt the resuscitation of the
defunct monopoly. It would be a e
legitimate
opportunity for such a statement in showin—
g that
e, "
the Customs' duties would not again be au-ri '
'. en
by an incresed tax on grain or flour, and we believe
him to be by far too acute not to avail himself
thereof.
Next in importlnee to the commercial, policy is the
principle on which the direct taxation of the country
is to be maintained. It is but too painfully notorious
that a property or income-tex cannot be dispensed
with. It must be retained in some share or form,
d ourslves with e hope
end it is useless toed elu e
.
gt /id of ine any fixedth periej.
that it can be
There are very few of the existing imposts
that would not be tele cte3 for repeal, rather than the
properzy-t-x, if a judicious and bane' fide attempt
I were marls to render it es equitable as practicable,
insuperable objections
i and to remove the grave r.nd