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

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claimed with the needy knife-grinder, " Story ! GOD
bless ycu, 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 nation, bound hand 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
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 fasuscitate " Protection," that the un-
seemly monster gill be suffered to remain in the
tomb to which it has been long since consigned, amid
the execrations of those who had so Ion? suffered
under its baneful influence. Nay, more, we are
informed that for a considerable time past there has
been no intention of making any si:ch useless efforts.
He avers—that " for one whole year before their as-
sumption of office, they did not es 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-
%-erted carried it through, as well as the rather con-
fus ad rigmarole respecting " the rabble" who were
not Li possession of the elective franchise, and thereby
unable to bestow their most sweet voices on the
Right Ilon. and Gallant Gentleman.
In public speeches it sometimes is well to note not
only what is said, but what is left unsaid. Major
BERESFORD, fraDk 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, JOHN
FRAIL, the Salopian ba.7ber, who, by the way, was in
full feather on the Grand S: and, 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 revs llings 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 Joarr 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 pre." Major BERESFORD keeps corn•
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 he 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! we can wait.
The question will come before Parliament, by
and bye.

Those were not his words, to be sure,
but they were exceedingly like them, for his answer
was merely the bitter and ironicel expression of his
very natural indignation. Well, the expedition came
back, and there was an official inquiry, and Captain
AUSTIN was very decided, and " Mr." 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, M.!
Another expedition was authorized by the Govern-
ment. It was prepared elaborately, and at
last sent "out under the command, this time,
of Sir Envraup BELCHER. But, happily be •
fore then, a non-official expedition had been dispatched
to the northern seas by the dauntless and indefati-
gable Lady FaAremer. 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 avoudied his
" conviction"—turns out, after being pooh•poohecl by
Captain AUSTIN and the Admiralty Committee, to 13
a thing veritably in "existence." Still further has
the truth of this been verified. Sir EDWARD BEL-
CHES, accompanied by his gallant young colleague
Lieutenant SHERARD 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 from one extremity to the other,
and penetrated northward, through Penny Strait—a
name which will henceforward attest very signifi-
cantly to after navigators 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 BELpIER has been enabled to avail
himself of it now, why may not the same have
cccured long since to Sir JoRN FRANKLIN and his
missing expedition ? The mere question reawakens
and revivifies the hope that the long lost explorers of
the Arctic sees 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 JoRN FRANKLIN may at length receive,
however tardily, assistance from his fellow-country-
men, end that assistance, it muat be added, all will
owe in a great measure to the intelligence of Captain
PRNNY—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 JOHN FRANKLIN. It is rumoured that

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Government has received the following tele-
graphic dispatches :
" Rochefort, Oct. 11, Six in the Evening.
" Everywhere the populations had quitted their vil-
lages to see the Prince on his passage, which was a tri-
umphal march from Angolime to Rochefort, where the
Prince arrived at halt-past five in tho midst of the
loudest acclamations, and cries of Vive l'Empereur I'
Vive Napoleon "

" Ten at Night.
" His Highness made his entrance into the depart-
ment of the Charente-Infirieure in magnificent weather,
and was received from the limit of the department to
Saintes with the greatest enthusiasm. His Highness
arrived at Saintes at one o'clock, and found collected
there the populations of the three arrondissements of
Saintes, Jonzac, and St. Jean d'Angely. It is calculated
that upwards of 50,000 persons had collected on his pas-
sage. lie was received with transports ofjoy, and, accord-
ing to the declaration of the Prince himself, his reception
there was without contradiction the most brilliant and
the most energetisally sympathetic that he has yet met
with. Similar transports met him at Rochefort, where
the day terminated by a brilliant Pte. His Highness,
whose health continues excellent, appeared delighted
with the unanimous acclamations given to him. The
only cries heard throughout the whole extent of the de-
partment were, " Vive I'Empereur!" " Viva le Sauveur
de Is France!" " Vive Napoleon IIL!" In two words,
the Charente-Infiiieur, so completely devoted to the
Prince, has rendered this part of his tour an absolute
ovation. The proceedings of to-morrow promise to take
place under similar auspices, and the crowds, which
have come in from ten, fifteen, and even twenty leagues,
are bivouacking all about, whilst waiting for the moment
to be able to renew their acclamations at the review
w hich is to be prssed by the Prince to-morrow at nine
o'clock."
Tbe Presse, after giving the speech of the PRINCE
PRESIDENT at Bordeaux, says—
" This speech is not important solely on account of
i:s announcing as decided a change on which little doubt
could have existed in the mind of any one, but it is'more
particularly so from the positive and solemn assurances
it gives of the maintenance of peace. These assurances
and these declarations, which are so formal eud so cate-
gorical, and which every friend of France end of huma-
nity must eagerly notice, will certainly appear to the
foreign powers of a nature to calm their apprehensions,
England will doubtless now regret the hasty creation of
her militia, and the Germanic Confederation will re-
nounce the idea of increasing its military force. Such,
we are pleased to think, will be the results of the speech
at Bordeaux,"
The Poyo has a highly eulogistic article on this
important speech, concluding as follows :
" Whatever we may be, Republicans, Legitimists, or
Orleanists, have we not all sought a Government more
noble than our preferences, more national than our con-
victions, a Government noble as the country, firm as
the conscience, resolved to do well, iniexible in truth
and in justice, having neither prejudice, nor rancour,
nor antipathies, and placing itself energetically at
the head of the nation to utilise all its strength and
realise ail its hopes; of that Government we have now
the programme before our eyes. The future will say if
we are to have the reality of this in the Empire ready to
be re-established. The hour, marked by the Rill of
Fiance, will soon strike. The speech at Bordeaux will
Major BERESFORD has been " starring it" in the stillw
which
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the and
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provinces. The Right Hon. Gentlemen came out in h
immense force before a select audience, consisting of
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nearer
country
the members of the Hinckworth Agricultural and which awaits him. Everything is ready, and the future
r
Conservative Club, assembled in solemn conclave at Emperor has only
from to bend his head to receive the
offers
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Castle Hedingham, and elicited rapturous andsovereignty
dofathe people
enthusiastic applause from his delighted au- cwrhoinrchn
be accomplished! God, who protects it, will inspire him,
ditors. Whether it was the distinct and who, after having had sufficient courage to govern, will
positive assertion that the Ministers bad not have, we hope, sufficient virtue to reign."
The Municipal Council of Vaugirard, in a recent
come into office en the " of
principles •' ring, adopted an address to the PRINCE PRESIDENT
protection," or the satisfactory announcement vouched :81C 1 ‘-':, him, is return for the services he has ren-
dered his long experience as a whipper-in—that " a Imploring ...m, an
dered to France, and for the sake of stability, to
decided majority of Members in the Lower House found, in compliance with the national wish, a new
were inimical to the feeling and measure of protec- dynasty, es NAPOLEON 111. Emperor.
tion to agriculture"—and the shrewd suggestion as In the department of the Peg de Calais 802
to the utter inutility of "kicking against the pricks," communes out of 903 have already signed petitions
that produced this agreeable result, we know praying for the re- establishment of the Empire ;
petitions.
might be that it was the contempla-
in the Dordogne 450 communes have signed similar
not. It
tion of an excellent dinner and the abundance Saturday next will be observed as a holiday in the
of the creature comforts so liberally supplied, that public colleges, but the Bourse will not be closed.
public &c.
In the evening the PRINCE PRESIDENT will receive at
produced the good humour which
mexahrkibsitoefd
niptsperlofbian.
" vehement cheering" and other the Tuileries, the ministers, the generals, the great
the sp.!ec delivered by the PRINCE
PRESIDENT at
dent of the
lion. Whatever might be the inducing cause, it is
_h.functionaries,
certain that the friend and tonnes cadent _ Bordeaux has been placarded in all the streets of
" Shrewsbury barber" obtained a very cordial recep- Paris, end was eagerly read by the public. It is also
lion in his two fold capacity, bath as a member of her .to hps stuck up in every one of the 37,300 communes
in
Gern"ercel. M
czesaßEDo, Captain-General of the
atsque rProvinA
MAJESTY'S Government and 3 private individual—
first, when speaking of the Ministerial policy ; and,
The daughter of M. CARL::
takingh leave of the PRINCE
secondly, when endeavouring to explain away his T
.2RESIDENT, receisvedonf tehxe.
pr
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of Cordonpolic oe
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rather unfortunate allusion to the unrepresented the Legion of Honour.rom
w'i'g yesterday married at the church of Saint Rocb,
"rabble."
On the first branch
to M. FOUSSE of Ser s The ceremony wag attended
of the subject the worthy
by several p2rsonag.e.s of distinction, and amongst
bucolics were unquestionably very easily contented.
No persons could have received less information as ,
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director
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them Administration of Fine Arts,
to the various matters " looming
1 M. HEURTIER, director in the department of
which were to carry with them speedyia t
relief
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Major might have ex- A
Commerce and Agriculture. The priest
agriculturists. The Gallant
who..cele.
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in their progress through the clear water up the
Queen's or 'Wellington Channel, towards Penny
Streit, 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 Joni FRANKLIN has survived, with
the majority of his followers. It is stated even that
the portions of flesh thus discovered drifting south-

wards betray evidences of having been partially de-
vouted ! 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 Josar FRANKLIN. For
asserting as much, Captain PENNY was
laughed at as an " impertinent," or at least es a
" visionary." Well—an inconsiderable period has
elapsed, end Captain PENNY'S "conviction" is proved
to have been in 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 onwards with all dispatch, if we wish
indeed to convey assistance to the heroic sailors of

England, who may otherwise be perishing, under the

command of their dauntless leader, the veteran Sir

JOHN FRANKLIN. Again, therefore, and yet again,
it should be repeated, if only in furtherance of the

principles of simple 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 most of all such an event seemed to be alto-

gether hopeless—being enabled to penetrate to the
frozen retreat of the FRANKLIN expedition.