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     Aes af ' ae ~ oe ; ° perty. Whenever any of the Proprietors, and especially the 
     
    

    
     laughs at sears, not beeause he has never felt a wound, but | zero ; four of them got their feet frost-bitten, and were te ly Us P . ida a 
     
    

    
     because he has felt so many that leuhter is for the time his disabled by the cold ; three of the others set off to return to @ c x aniner, __F absentees, manifest a disposition to relieve themselves of estates 
     
    

    
     Ouly resource against weeping over them. \the brig by a forced march ; aud one, Thomas Hickey, ST that have been more a source of annoyance than of profit to 
     
    

    
     But we mast ture to the history itself. The districts} Irishman, romained to care for the men who were disabled.) CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E. 1, JANUARY 26, 1857. | them, the resident agent who has grown rich by his clever . 
     
    

    
     b was one which, till his| After fifiy hours of almost continuous walking, the three men management of the property, will contrive to throw so many 
     
    
   
   
    
     which Dr. Kane proposed to seare 
     
     explorations, was almost entirely uaknown, Qu turning to! arrived at the brig; but they were so worn out that they 
     
     any of the commou maps of the Arctic Regions, it will be/cauid hardly give any kind of account of the matter, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     observed that the vast body of water which lies between | their story, such as it was, was to the last degree vague. 2 ee vay) 
     
     A-verica and Greenland, which is known as Baffin’s Bay, | De. Kane and the remainder of the crew instantly fitted out | As the time is close at hand when two Estates of this little | patience of the owner, make him sick of the whole affair, and 
     
    
   
   
    
     strapped upon it the least exhausted of the Realm shall be ealled on to resume their powers and responsi- enable the cunning Agent to add to his hoard. We allude to 
     
     north, aud hitherto explored only at its southern extremity. | ( had returned, and set off to rescue their com- | no individual—we speak of a class, and we are confident we do 
     
     Dr. Kane's plan was to pass up Smith's Sound, and thence | panions, through a temperature of 46 deg. below zero. It . ; es nletemetnstabalihl babl 
     
    

    
     to make his way to the North, alony the shore of Greenland. | was sixteen hours before the man strapped on the sledge was | ; a ata ws overcharge the picture in 8 . hing eir probable proceed- 
     
     He considered that the land would be easier to travel over, | sufficiently recovered to walk; and when he could, be was | deliberations may take, and the good or evil results that are ings, Speculators who may indulge the hope of realizing 
     
     sudden fortunes, by cleverly hoaxing some septuagenarian land- 
     
    
   
   
    
     and would afford more provisions than the water}; and from { delirious, The party were therefore ordered to disperse | likely to follow. And first let us congratulate our friends of 
     
     a variety of analogies afforded by physical geography, he! themselves, im hepe of falling in with their comrades’ | the Opposition on the groundlessness of their apprehensions | Jord to part with his broad acres for fair promises of cash, to . 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE APPROACHING SESSION. difficulties in the way of a sale, that a transfer will be either 
     
    
   
   
    
     No. 1. altogether prevented, or delayed s0 long as to wear out the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     terminates in a passage calied Smith’s Sound, running due ; another sledge, 
     
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     hree men who bilities, it may not be inappropriate for the Fourth to offer a 
     
    
   
   
    
     few observations and suggestions, as to the turn which their 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     inferred that Gre-nland stretched further north than any | footmarks; but, what with the cold and the excitement, they | 
     
     other land. Tis materials for carrying out this plan were aj were quite unequal to the exertion. Dr. Kane bimself 
     
     ewal! brig of 144 tons, manned by seventeen men---to whom ‘fainted twice, and the others gave in ina similar manuer. At 
     
     an eighteenth, au Esquimaux hunter, was afterwards added last they hit upon tracks which led them to the missing party, 
     
     —several sledges, and more thon fifty dogs to draw them, | after an unbroken march of twenty-one hours, without food 
     
     amongst which were a team of Newfound!ands, presented to | or'water. Each man now took two hours’ sleep, and then 
     
     the expedition by the Goveruor of the island. Afiertouching| they prepared for their journey back. The sick were 
     
     at several of the Dunish settlements which are sea‘tered! placed in a sort of large buffalo-skin bag, magg of four skins 
     
     along the coast of Greenland, the expedition finally took leave | sown together at the bottom, but open atghe lop, their limbs 
     
     of the last faint traces of civilization at Upernavik in the! being wrapped in reindeer skins. They were then laid 
     
     latter part of July, and for just two years from that time/on the sledge. This operation occupied four hours, the 
     
     they saw not a single civilized man except eachother. After! temperature being lower than 50 deg. below zero, The 
     
     many of the ordinary difficulties incidental to Arctic! weight of the whole load was 1100 Ibs. For six hours the | 
     
     navigation, they reached that part of Baffin’s Bay which is / sledge was dragged, top-heavy with its living burden, over 
     
     usually clear of ice, and which is known to the whalers by | the eracked and uneven ice, but then the strength of the 
     
     the name of the North Water. Standing across this, they | whole party gave way. They ceased to complain of the cold, 
     
     entered the hitherto unexplore] part of Swith’s Sound, and | and earnestly begged to sleep. Their leader in vain tried to 
     
     continued their course without any very serious difficulty until rouse them by wrestling, boxing, running, arguing, or jeering. 
     
     the 1%th of August, when the appearance of the sky and the | They accordingly halted without food, tor they were too tired | 
     
     gambols of the walrus seemed to fourebode a storm. Ou the/ to light a fire, and all the provisions, even the whiskey, were | 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘imminent a month ago—a General Election. “O no, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘gentlemen o 
     
    
   
   
    
     regarding an occurrence which they seemed to think was so | 
     
    
   
   
    
     present House can never meet again— the new Election Bill 
     
     has become the law of the land — it must go into operation at 
     
     once, and then we will see what we will see.”’ A General 
     
     Election would be a very distressing thing to some of those 
     
     f the Opposition whose seats they could never hope 
     
     to warm again after the fiat of dissolution had gone forth ; — 
     
     Thirty, chosen of the people, bad taken the 
     
     places allotted to them, it would be painful to find that the 
     
     cold shades of opposition had been rendered still eclder to 
     
    
   
   
    
     and when the 
     
    
   
   
    
     be realized by further and no less clever manceuvres—will also 
     
     put their wits to work to prevent the Government and land- 
     
     owners from coming to an understanding regarding the transfer 
     
     of property. 
     
    

    
     While sueh are some of the obstacies which the Government 
     
     will have to encounter, we need not fret ourselves, with the 
     
     reflection — if there be any thing in it to produce fretfulness 
     
     — that the sales of land will be so rapid and extensive as te 
     
     absorb at once the whele £100,000. It is more than probable 
     
     that not over a tenth of it will be required in any one year, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and the Government will surely not draw for more than they 
     
    
   
   
    
     period of their career, a larger share of the confidence of their 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     2Vih, the wind rose toa perfect hurricane, and the Advance | 
     
    
   
   
    
     Was moored to an iceberg by three hawsers, one of them of 10- | 
     
     inch Manilla hemp. First the 6-inch cable, then the whale 
     
     line parted ; and last of all, the 10-inch eable broke with the | 
     
     noise of a shotted gun, and the brig “drifted out into the | 
     
     narrow ice-clogged waterway, driving a quarter of a mile 
     
    

    
     wide between the pack aud the shore.” Sometimes they 
     
    

    
     grazed floes, one of which was by measurement forty feet 
     
    

    
     thick. Once a floe smashed in the bulwarks, and droppeJ 
     
    

    
     halfaton of ice on the deck; and at last they neared a 
     
    

    
     group of icebergs, which were being borne down by some 
     
    

    
     under-current upon the floes. Tovey must have been crushed 
     
    

    
     between them if they had not managed to plant an anchor 
     
    

    
     ou a low water-washed berg which passed alongside, and 
     
    

    
     which towed them through the midst of the others into 
     
     something like open water. They were forced at last into a 
     
     little pool between a cliff and an iceberg, where they were as 
     
     sufe as men could be who were every moment expecting the 
     
     berg which protected them to be overturned by the pressure 
     
     of the ice outside it, and precipitated on their heads. ln 
     
     this position the brig was repeatedly “ nipped.” The iceberg 
     
     which protected her eaded in an inclined plane whieh 
     
     desceuded deep into the water. Another berg, coming in at 
     
     the side, fuirly drove her up it, and she was ouly saved from 
     
     falling over to seaward by some broken ice which grounded 
     
     alongside: “The immense blocks piled against her, range 
     
     upon range, pressing themselves under her keel, and 
     
     throwing her over upon her side, till, urged by the successive 
     
     accuwulations, she rose slowly against the sloping wall.” 
     
     When the bergs parted, she sank duwn again into her former 
     
     station, During this gale, four men and a boat were lost 
     
     upén a floe on which they had landed to fasten an anchor, 
     
     but they were recovered two days afterwards. By great 
     
     efforts the ship was got out of her icy prison, but the release 
     
     was of slight importance ; for aftera few days more of effort 
     
     and danger, she reached a bay called Van Renssellaer 
     
     Harbour, and was speedily frozen in. There she still is, in 
     
     the midst of eternal ice nine feet thick. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The latter part of the autumn and the beginning of winter 
     
     passed away in excursions over the ice with sledges and dogs, 
     
     the establishment of the ship in her bed, and the construction 
     
     of two observatories, in which, throughout the winter, a 
     
     series of observations were carried on. Amongst the 
     
     incidents which took place during this part of the expedition, 
     
     was one which very nearly brought it to a premature con- 
     
     clusion. Being greatly annoyed by rats, the crew tried the 
     
    
   
   
    
     frozen. Dr. Kane and a man named Godfrey pushed on to_ 
     
     a place about nine miles off, where some provisions aud a 
     
     tent had been left the day before. They walked in a sort of 
     
     stupor for about four hours—* some of the most miserable,” 
     
     says Dr. Kane, “ that I ever remember to have spent.” “ We 
     
     kept ourselves awake,” he adds, “ by imposing on each other | 
     
     a continual articulation of words.” Neither of them was 
     
     entirely in his right senses on reaching the tent. They 
     
     reached it just as a bear attacked the bags of provisions, but 
     
     they enly remembered the fact in a dreamy way. They 
     
     crawled into their furs, and slept intensely for some hours, but 
     
     woke in time to make some soup apd melt some Water before 
     
     the arrival of the others. The extreme cold relaxed, and the | 
     
     thermometer rose to 4 deg. below zero; and at last, falling 
     
     asieep repeatedly on the road, they neared the brig, which 
     
     they reached in a state approaching to unconsciousness, after 
     
     an expedition which had lasted seventy-two hours, of which 
     
     eight ouly had been passed in rest. They had travelled 
     
     between 80 and 90 miles, dragging a heavy sledge most of 
     
     the way. One of the party had been out no less than eighty 
     
     hours, and had travelled 120 miles. Le lay in a state of’ 
     
     torpor—occasionally waking and eating with great verocity 
     
     —for two days and a half. None of them had any clear 
     
     recollection of the latter part of the journey, and two died 
     
     of the fatigue, whilst others lost paris of their feet and toes. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The spring and summer were passed in a variety of explora- 
     
     tions, some of the results of which we hope to notice on a 
     
     future occasion. For the present, we confine ourselves to the 
     
     circumstances immediately connected with the fortunes of the 
     
     expedition. After an ineffectual attempt to communicate 
     
     with some of the English expeditions to the south-west, it 
     
     became obvious that another winter must be passed in the ice, 
     
     or that the vessel must be abandoned. Dr. Kane determined 
     
     on the former course as fur as he was concerned, but gave full 
     
     leave to those who were with him to take the other if they 
     
     chose, offering to share his provisions with them, Nine left 
     
     the brig, and eight stayed with Dr. Kane, The provisions 
     
     were running very low, they had little or no fresh meat, and 
     
     their arrangements ‘for the winter consisted in turning the 
     
     ship into asort of Esquimaux but. A kind of closet, 18 feet 
     
     by 20, was enclosed by bulkbeads in the middle of the 
     
     vessel, and was made air-tight by a thick outside wall of 
     
     moss. No opening was left, except a tunnel 12 feet long, 
     
     3 feet bigh, and 2! wide, closed by all sorts of doors and 
     
     curtains, through which a circuitous connexion was maintained 
     
     between the cabin and the open air. In this wretched box 
     
     the winter slowly wore away, amidst ayonies unspeakable. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘merly expressed by some of our opponents for the latter, both 
     
    
   
   
    
     require when about to effect a purchase. We have no doubt 
     
     that this view of the subject will be more fully and satisfac 
     
     torily exhibited when the Loan Bill shall come before the 
     
     House. In the meantime, it is well that the people, whose 
     
     interests it will so materially involve, should be prepared for 
     
     some of the nonsense which its opponents will scatter round it. 
     
     2. The second objection we have noted is too hacknied to 
     
     require much notice. So Jong as there is a Governmeat and 
     
     an Opposition, the latter are pretty sure to charge the former 
     
     with dishonest acts and inteutions. But to make a charge is 
     
     All the twaddle we 
     
     are likely to hear about corruption, peculation and dishonesty, 
     
     will be no more than a second ediiion of the trash which has 
     
     occupied 80 prominent a place in the Obstructive organ since 
     
     the purchase of the Worrell Estate. The details of manago- 
     
     ment and the accounts connected with that property, are evory 
     
     year submitted to the scrutiny of the Legislature. If dis 
     
     honesty to the extent of one shilling had disgraced the Execu- 
     
     tive control of the Estate in question, it could soon be detected, 
     
     exposed and punished. A case of fraud on the part of an 
     
     official would be a god-send to the minority. No Government 
     
     that practised, or conniyed at anything of that kind on the 
     
     part of its servants, could hope to retain the confidence of the 
     
     of regret to those who love to see a regular set-to, that in the people ; and without the confidence of the people we know 
     
     how small their power and influence would be. Things were 
     
    
   
   
    
     quarter indicated, the enemy is too weak to manifest any | : : 
     
     inclination for fight. And as regards the general public, as dierent in olden times. Less than ten years ago, men *‘ dressed 
     
    
   
   
    
     before intimated, they have given so many proofs of their good in a litte brief nnthority’’ could + pley.cach fantestio tricks 
     
     will and confidence, that it would be an insult to them if the acti — nen” ac ‘their cosreps, desizes:tnight prompt, 
     
     Government prematurely doubted the faith that is in them. wane ener ing Peapndives “ - opptetnnsiogn abeus 
     
     We de not kiivMibat any progritnats of miiaisidiig] sedwates being called to account for their misconduct. But a public 
     
     has yot been prepared for the forthcoming Session, but our man, under the ae system of administration, lives by the 
     
     readers are aware, from an intimation previously given in this pablie Raga. She pewne “hia ae oe te cay een 
     
     sidiee, Shak boo very. inspettniis: duse at least, amonget other bien and he can only hope, to retain bie position, be it ever so 
     
     things, are likely to be submitted to the Legislature at an early high, “7 es nae his “ integrity to heaven’* end 
     
     poriod., It will be seem that we refer to the'Loan, under the his fidelity to his constituents and coadjutors. While this is 
     
     guarantee of the Imperial Government, for the purchase of - nai = intelligent people may well emite at the impate- 
     
     ccapeiotary tithes; waRaies’ ol otellbhlah coent:y tions of dishonesty. Whe the Opposition will take the 
     
     Kotsithabiating ‘tek veteiiied Mine’ Se- trouble to prove the existence of fraud, if they ever can, it 
     
     will be quite time enough to make an alarm about lt. But if 
     
     we were to act on the presumption that, human nature being 
     
     frail, all men must be dishonest as soon as they are placed in 
     
     the way of temptation— there would be no such thing as 
     
     confidence in the world, and every man would be putting his 
     
     ingenuity to the rack to brand his fellow as a rogue. 
     
     3. With respect to the third objection, we have neither time 
     
    
   
   
    
     those who are doomed to shiver there, on witnessing the ex- 
     
     ceeding scantiness of their number, and noting the absence of 
     
     some cherished companions in distress. The public pulse 
     
     never throbbed more healthily than it does now — the existing 
     
     Government, always popular, never enjoyed perhaps at any 
     
    
   
   
    
     constituents and of the community generally than they do at 
     
     present, because the policy they have steadily pursued is just 
     
     now beginning to be understood and appreciated, and the 
     
     great measures by which their conduct of affairs has been so 
     
     pre-eminently distinguished, haye been so far and so successfully 
     
     worked out, that there can be no longer any doubt as to their 
     
     While the people are, therefore, in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     one thing — to prove it is quite another. 
     
    
   
   
    
     necessity and eflicacy. 
     
     mood to do ample justice to their rulers, the latter would have 
     
     every thing to gain and nothing to lose by putting their claims 
     
     to the test of public opinion. But wherefore embroil the 
     
     country in the turmoil of a general election at a most 
     
     inauspicious season, and long before the time which the law 
     
     assigns for it? In the Lower House, notwithstanding all that 
     
     has been and may be said to the contrary, the Government 
     
     will receive the support of a respectable majority,—in the 
     
     Upper House it would be difficult, we think, to organize an 
     
     opposition of any force whatever. Indeed, it may be matter 
     
    
   
   
    
     municipalities. 
     
    
   
   
    
     questions will be assailed with the fiercest animosity by the 
     
     minority and the press which echoes their sentiments, and the 
     
     discussion of their merits or demerits crammed with misrepre- 
     
     It is easy to anticipate the objections that will be 
     
     raised against the loan. We will be told that the whole revenue 
     
     of the Colony will be absorbed in paying the interest of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     sentation. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     experiment of destroying them by car bonic acid gas. They nor spece.to expose. the utter usclesmness. and folly of 
     
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     accordingly shut down the hatches, pasted up all the crevices, | ‘The party who had attempted to escape across the ice failed] | one borrowed, and the industry ‘of the peopti parghyest By |... - pane 
     
     ae and barnt a quantity of charcoal between the decks. By | to doso, and returned to the ship, adding to their companions’ ie i. ile y ‘ bor, P j a 3 M4 so Y | tinuing or reviving the Escheat agitation. Most of those who of 
     
     at some means the lower-deck caught fire, and the flames'were | miseries. For a detailed account of what the winter was B Hew axes Hnposed on Hhem, 1 MAKE Boom Me CHANT >) profess to be favourable to this measure, know right well that hi 
     
     at only extinguished with some risk and trouble. Dr. Kane’s| like, we can only refer our readers to the book itself. The | and provide for the ordinary expenses of Government. We | i¢ js a perfect delusion. If Township Larids could be wrested . 
     
     rs general plan of operations was to establish, during the winter, fresh provisions were soon exhausted, and seurvy broke out | will, no doubt, be further told (and indeed we believe the| fom the present claimants for non-fulfilment of certai b 
     
     he several depots of provisions to the north of the position of | in its wost frightful form, The dark, fetid and smoky den, | Js/ander has already on more than one occasion indulged in the | ditions annexed to the original grants aii TSRID COD~ me li 
     
     Sh bis brig, and by their means to make an expedition of much|in which seventeen persons were crowded together, Was} |) mnious vitudbekiia)' thas, Cie boksiqed: ubokaiy” Witt ‘Yel menor iat ginal grants, there is seareely a poor mn 
     
     greater extent during the spring, by the help of his dogs. | lighted and heated by twelve lamps, fed with fat—no other deund tn. oe enna ak F tl mer in the country with his fifty or hundred acres— pur- - 
     
     It was no easy matter to acquire the art of driving them, ligt or heat was to be had for 140 days. Occasional | 84°82 - y, and applied to t o yrivels ones o § 1e members | chased by hard earnings, and improved by incessant industry ul 
     
     . for the whip used for the purpose is six yards long, and has | supplies of walrus meat were the only luxury, and sometimes | of the Government. Another objection which will, no doubt, | and toil — who could venture to say he had a good title to his “ 
     
     oF a handle of which the length is no more than sixteen inches, | the only hope, of the party. Whenever the could obtain | be strongly urged against this measure, will be heard from the | far : . : tr 
     
     a nd! g ( xte rt Jy hope, © pary : y . sly urged ag m. He purchased his occupation from the proprietor 
     
     34 and it is necessary to be able to strike with this instrument | It, they greedily ate it raw, as a protection from seurvy. The | few who really think that Escheat is not so impracticable a/or his heirs, whom the Escheat Court la deci be - uo 
     
     g! any ove dog out of a team of twelve. The drives which ouly means by which the whole party escaped death was the | 11:14 as they ave told i 30:'hb woll ap those this Willny Whs'Reta) weuepess : a8 , rt would declare to Li 
     
     wy were taken with these animals were occasionally most | circumstance that Dr. Kane contrived to communicate | as it ’ ans : : pers, and if they had no right to sell, he was only a fool tu 
     
     “4 dangerous, for the dogs jumped over the cracks in the ice, oceasionally, by means of a dog-sledge, with an Esquimaux no faith in the doctrine o eat, but who use it as mere clap | to buy, and must abide by the consequences of his folly. But 
     
     = at great risk of throwing the driver into them ; and on one | tribe, at a distance of nearly 100 miles, from whom he obtained | trap, to secure the political support of a section of the old | even supposing that the titles to all property could be thus dis- om Si 
     
     Ff oceasion Dr. Kane hiwself, with all his dogs, fell through a| some supplies of walrus meat and blubber. These journeys | Liberal Party. These people will declaim against burthening | turbed, would the tenantry and others who fayour the Escheat - & 
     
     eT mass of rotten ice, breaking a hole which he ouly enlarged | were somietimes made at temperatures of 50 deg. and 60 deg. ‘the country with a loan to purchase property from individuals | movement, be placed in any better condition than th eo 
     
     + by his efforts to extrieate himself, below zero, but with such extraordinary variations, that, ou : ; . ey are at di 
     
     s ‘ 3 nae - ine the {one occasion, after being snowed up in a deserted Esquimaux who have no honest title to it, and they will vry out, in the| present? Most assuredly not ; for no man can beso silly as to ob 
     
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     : ek»! ° wt enelaadine ts e vas : a a esebies hut, at a temperature of 44 deg. below zero, Dr. Kane was cant which has of late days crept into the agitation for Escheat | suppose that because a large proprietor has been stripped of on 
     
     - Was detached to the northwards, which succeeded in burying waked by the dripping on his sleeping-bag of the snow |— Establish a Court of Enquiry first, and if it be found that | an estate which has been held by his family for generations, it - 
     
     é considerable quantities of provisions at three points, in which | melted by a warm south-east wind. Dr. Kane could not | the landlords have a right to sell, why then purchase from | is forthwith to be cut and carved out in small pieces, without 
     
     ai they would be useful for future exploring operations. After “— = nn for or ee se  fghpbetenen them !"’ price or consideration, to all who may be foremost in the 
     
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     + accomplishing these objects, little remained to be done during , mont f > er to go abou ae went eh arZe | These objections are all so transparently silly, that it requires Scramble for it. If the title to every township in the Island 
     
     1 the winter, with the exception of making observations and all the functions of commander, cook, sick-nurse, and general} her i : logic to d - futil; : 
     
     4 juventing expedicnts for passing the ia Ueki babe “ servant, and had to cut fuel for the day’s consumption. To neither ingenuity nor logic to demonstrate their futility. We | were once more vested in the Crown, not an acre would be 
     
     R well enough, though, as there were but eighteen of them, it | O™plicate all these miseries, a sort of mutiny broke out. Two | may, however, examine them seriatim. given without a price put upon it, and that price would be re~ 
     
     t must have been a wost severe trial. The E-quimaux hunter, | of the men tried to desert to the Exquimaux, and one actually | 1, ‘There is no doubt that if the whole amount of £100,000, | Slated according to the present standard, and to the situation 
     
     4 who had left bebind him at - of = ae colonies a ema ie s aet sae sae me sterling, proposed to be borrowed, were taken up at once, the oe value of the land. But all these considerations are quite cil 
     
     £ irl to wh he was engaged to be ied, , , arly ane "i; : tile in vi > 
     
     Or eik 7 Lod * hive Dr. Kane,“ I aie him wthenltat, hearted commander still held on. Their previsions ran so interest would be a very considerable charge on our small | ‘Wl"© tn view ot Cafe, aa nop one no cecheat. If the ma 
     
     : es i tp st . antiti , reyenue, and yet not so very heavy as to require the imposition n a right to im certain conditi its 
     
     E by giving him a dose of salts ‘apd promotion.” For 129 low, that Dr. Kane ate quantities of rats. For fuel they d yes not y heavy as to require the impositi ——- ee ‘_ ght to impose tions i 
     
     ; days the eun was below the horizon, and owing oa sihied were reduced to burn as much of the ship as could be spared ; | of new taxes. But no one who has ever given a thought to the | °? the original grantees, it had an equal right to modify or a 
     
     + of hills, the noonday twilight, which generally relieves the und when no more could be spared, they burnt the cables. subject, and can discuss it on its own merits, and without pre- abrogate them. It has done both. It has told us more than ne 
     
     : darkness, was intercepted. The absence of light was veoh eee on ntaiy Ae ys es ee judice or party feeling, has, for one moment, supposed that the | # hundred times, in language which cannot be mistaken, that Be 
     
     iy nord i: anarte _ + eves died es 7 eg eae did oon dares dee nabeacale iss the Government would be so very imprudent as to take up the| the grantees or their heirs are not to be tied down to the bar 
     
     at isease Which it produced, and which resembled in it , , : : p a a : ; 
     
     5 symptoms, not h yarophobia, but Selsey: Thetllogs beara came, he made another expedition to the north, accompanied whole amount at once, unless all the proprietors were prepared original eentian, and that the question of forfeiture cannot be 
     
     H oye appatites and thele treniith, bat by degrees lost their ‘this time only by Esquimaux. Having thus completed, as to make a simultaneous rush into the market, and offer their | be entertained. It is a wicked humbug to tell the people that bal 
     
     iF nodersianding. They, “ barked inevasantly at nothing, and far as human eudurauce could complete them, the objects for | estates to the Government on terms agreeable to the latter. If this declaration is merely the subject of a ministerial despatch, , 
     
     walked in straight aud eurved lines with unwearying per- which nn he Mcaabtoa to abandoa ae fe the this were the case the £100,000, sterling, and more, should be which does not bind the Crown. Every despatch from a ve 
     
     severance. . , . - Their most intelligent actions seem |*PTME sevanced, a sledge-party was Orgaulzed Over Vie Ice. : : sh 1 : + : . : 
     
     au‘omatic. .. . . Sometimes they Teale kd hours in scab After a long and painful journey, in which one of their best press oo Spree nn 9 Oe eee ara % aaa <i Saetanvary. fe er our me ‘ = 
     
     sents, and ined stats a SURE vol qutbell edd tun 4s |= died of a strain, they reached open water ; and after a such a thing occur, we would be glad of it, because proprietary | W°™* ° t e individual who pens it, but is an expression of vet 
     
     and down for hours.” ‘his is, we believe, an almost unique most adventurous passage, in which they alternated between | thraldom would be brought to a termination much sooner than the opinions of ithe whole Cabinet respecting the subject of tha 
     
     instance of true mental disease in a brute. The symptoms | S#rvation and feasting ou raw birds and raw seals, they | we have ever jet ventured to hope it would,—every day which whieh i treats, and not only of the Cabinet, but of the o, , 
     
     generally terminated in lockjaw. On the human frame the Texched Upernavik in July, 1855, just two years afler they’ toreafter elapsed would witness the conversion of land into Spvereign who appoints and controls tt: : 
     
     same cause Operated with terrible effect, The whole of the! left it. As they neared the settlewent, they fell in with a shia : From the time of the Prince Regent, afterwards George the a” 
     
     ecw, with twe exceptions, were more or less affected with 220e Davigated by an acquaintance of oue of the party. PANO 5: WAP ARED- BORN AP PURAIOAS. SEPT FD eee Fourth, to the days of her present Majesty, nume i “ Te 
     
     the scurvy by the conclusion of the winter. “Don’t you know me?” cried the explorer; “I’m Carl) ment would be good for the money remaining unpaid. But cati i eal d S th hake Gon Pip Sie ® bie 
     
     As the spring advauced, the exploring operations were | Peterson.” _* No,” was the answer; “ his wife says he’s we all know, unfortunately too well, that, with very few ex- a asta dale <> canine — 
     
     resuwed. Hight men were sent forward with a sledge to dead.” Indeed, their emergin from utier solitude was ceptions, the proprietors are not disposod to rush into market ways—by Bill, Petition and Delegation—for the establishment = 
     
     make au additional depot of pemmican and other provisions, ost like a resurrection. The first news they heard was, pi. Land Ageuts and speculators ha direct i , (Oh a Rachaas ; Sad ste, Sepemenaee Perr en a . 
     
     ten days’ journey to the North. For the first eight days, that “Sebastopol was not taken.” ‘* What and waere is. ba dhe e 6 pias ont crated: formly and peremptorily resisted. Why, then, should we con- ‘ 
     
     th-y trayeiled without material accident through au ayerage | Sebastopol ?” was Dr. Kane’s reply. ceping them as far off as possible from it; and we may be | tinue the worse than useless agitation? If we were all Eschea- Sor 
     
     ~ temperature of 27 deg. 13 win. below zero; but on the) We hope, ona future occasion, to say something of the i that no strategem will be tof untried — no misrepre- | tors to a man, we could not coerce the British Government into cap: 
     
     = ninth day they met with a disaster which led to what seems’ scientific results of this wonderful expedition—the most Sentation spared on the part of individuals so deeply interested | an adoption of our views; and we only render ourselves the 
     
    
   
   
    
     thoroghly ridiculous and contemptible when we begin to talk 
     
    
   
   
    
     to us au exploit altogether uvexampled. A heavy gale daring and the most terrible in the records of matitim e as the Agents, to prevent their Principals from entering into 
     
     largely on this subject, while we have the power to do nothing. 
     
    
   
   
    
     dwoke upon them. The thermometer fell to 57 deg. below adventure, any vegociation with the Government for the transfer of pao-