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 rMJ 
 
 l)ul while llic ^rivivt (l"l<o lJu)\' appears \\ eentre (if 
 iictioii — an impulse ami a power iiioviiii,'' inulti- 
 liulcs — a coiiiinaiuler swaviiijj the wills oF his 
 fellow-inen, or ernshin;^ their purposes — a spirit 
 toweriii-^' in majesty above all the rest who throiig- 
 the lieids of eariia^'e ; here we see hiin as the 
 centre of another kind of interest — ])assive, resist- 
 less, impotent — the hand that held the trnncheon, 
 stifl^ — the eyes that shone with siieh a ealni spirit 
 of connnand. for ever elosed — the lijis wliieii sp(;ke 
 with authority, silent — and the Ibna which was 
 annnated hy such a i tron;; mind and steady will, 
 nioulderini,^ into dust. What a sermon on tlie 
 weakness of man ! " No man liath power over the 
 spirit to retain the spirit, and there is no ])ower in 
 the day of death, neither is there any disehar^'-e 
 from that war." Wellinprton's eoflin passes liy as 
 a pletl<;-e of the mortality of all who ^^a/e on it. 
 
 One thinks of Wellin^'ton's triumphal entries. 
 There was the entrance to Madrid, when the houses 
 were covered with taju'stry, laurels, and flowers, 
 and all the popidation of the S[)anish city crowded 
 the streets, and the air was rent with the shouts, 
 " liony: live the duke of Ciudad Rodri^'o I lonfjUvo 
 Wellin^'ton !" There wa.s the entrance to Paris, 
 at the head of the allied armies, with all the pomp 
 of militai'v ijrlory, when the duke was calm and 
 diii'nified, restraining the impetuosity of JJlucher, 
 and respoctin<^ the rif^'hts of the vanquished. 
 There was his visit to the city of London, on the 
 7th of July, ISl 1, another triumphal entry ; when, 
 on the ritiiit side of the Prince Hegent, he was 
 escorted with almost regal honours to the Cathe- 
 dral of St. Paul's, there to acknowledge the provi- 
 dence, and return thanks for the protection of the 
 Lord of hosts. And now along the same street he 
 is borne, not in triumph, but as one stricken at 
 last by a mightier hand. The conqueror is con- 
 (|uered. The gay procession is turned into a, 
 funeral. The scene to-day is, after all, a humili- 
 ating confv-'ssion, however disguised, of the strength 
 of the last enemy. What wo see is professedly in 
 honour of the hero of Waterloo ; it is really a proof 
 tiiat there has come over this world a power 
 mightier than the mightiest of heroes. 
 
 Rut war is terrible, and thoughts of it are re- 
 pulsive, especially at an hour which invites to 
 pensive and profitable reflections. With greater 
 interest the mind reverts to the old d, 'ce as an 
 instrument of Providence in another way — as a 
 statesman and a councillor, with his strong under- 
 standing, elcin- judgnu'nt, sharp fbresiglit, keen 
 sagacity, iron-hke will, and self-control. These 
 qiialilies of his mind came out even more con- 
 spicuously in the history of his peaceful days, than 
 in that of his memorable wars. Though liis con- 
 stitution became enfeebled, and his form drooped, 
 and the silver hair told of coming dciath ; though 
 there was a manifest loss of strength as he mounted 
 his horse at Apsley-gate, or tottered along I'icca- 
 dilly ; though, physically, the man whom we saw^ 
 leaning on the arm of the marquis of Anglesca, at 
 the opening of the Exhibition, was not the man 
 who had fouglit by his side in the battle-field, yet 
 mentally how little did he alter, if at all ; how strong, 
 clear, vivid,' forecasting, and firm was that mind of 
 his to the very last. The lamp of intellect was 
 burning bright, when the earthen vessel that held 
 it had bccoine decayed and was on the point of 
 
 ' crumbling to pieces. Is tlicre not something sug- 
 gestive in this h Does it not indicate the distinct- 
 ness, superiority, even indcijcndence of the soul ^ 
 AVe camiot hxik on that great man's soul as dead, 
 but only as (Icjiarted. What remains of him is but 
 the emjity fortress ; the garrison is gone, 'i'hc mind 
 which )iiit)iii<<l tiie material portion of his nature is 
 living" SdilH'irhtrf il.ir, 
 j 'i'here is a book written by the Creator of souls 
 which tells us the history of souls. It takes np 
 man's story at tlie jioint where reason must stop 
 in wi'iting it. Yonder there stands '• a city which 
 hath foundations, whose builder and maker is (Jod." 
 And there, far down, separated from it by a gulf 
 impassable, there lies " a land of darkness, as dark- 
 ness itself, where tlie light is as darlniess," and 
 where there are " spirits in prison." Into the in- 
 '■ visible dwelling-place, whither another soul of no 
 common order has been called, the soul of him who 
 reads this jjaper will soon be sent. Each soul is 
 on the way already. The distance of the termina- 
 tion every moment lessens. Mow very near, amidst 
 these emblems of mortality, which are as the clouds 
 of death ])assing over the heads of the living — 
 how' very near at this solemn hour does the eternal 
 future seen to be ! All of us seem t()uching on it. 
 The departed duke has been .justly held up to 
 honour and imitation as an extraordinary example 
 of loyalty. Looking at his power and rank, at his 
 victories and his infhu'nce, surely his attachment 
 ' to the throne and government of his native land 
 , is ino.st noteworthy. '" Jly duty to the crown" 
 \ was a sentiment wiiich lay d(>ep in his mind, and 
 moved him with the force of supreme principle. 
 One asks what bribe could have sufficed to shake 
 his loyalty for a moment P That loyalty which 
 presents a pattern for every Englishman is the 
 ; image of a higher kind of allegiance. What Wel- 
 : lington was to his earthly sovereign, we should be 
 ; to the King of kings and the Lord of lords. A 
 breach of loyalty, however, in its highest form is 
 the sin of all. The virtual displacing of the Ruler 
 ' of the universe, and the elevation of an idol to his 
 throne — the world or self, wealth, jjower, or plea- 
 I sure — that is the crime of every fallen child of 
 man, and that is treason. It is a capital oHcnce, 
 entailing capital punishment. Love as a husband, 
 tenderness as a parent, fidelity as a friend, cannot 
 be pleaded in bar of judgment, when a man stands 
 arraigned for treason, nor can the fairest morahty 
 i prove our innocence when appearing before God to 
 
 meet an indictment for relR'llion. 
 I Mortals have apostaii/.ed from their Maker. The 
 * spiritual relations of mankind are all deranged and 
 out of order. The world's confusions are a proof 
 of that deejicr and still more fatal disturbance. 
 War — which Wellington and the greatest martial 
 heroes have been fain to confess as a frightful 
 scourge — war, which has swept round the world 
 more times than we can mn iber. like the pale horse 
 and his rider, with hell following behind — could 
 never have had place in a world which was not a 
 fallen one. AN'ar among men is only the fruit of 
 man's first war with God. 
 
 Wellington, at the commencement of his Euro- 
 pean career, fbinul the continent overshadowed by 
 a dcs])otism which had broken up prior-existing 
 governments, and thrown society into disorder. 
 He found havoc and desolation on every side. He 
 

 TIIK LEISURE llOUIf. 
 
 I'ound iniirMudiiii,' j'nnios travcrsiii'/ tlic i'liircst 
 sci.'iic's and li-aiiiplin^' down (Ind's liiiiuliCul j;-il'ls. 
 His iiv()\vi;d oliji'ct was to restore (irdcr and jicai'i'. 
 Wiiatuvcr may lie tliuiurld of tlie iiictliod and the 
 result, so the pniposcd end sliiijied itself in tlic 
 warrior's inind. Tiiinldn^' of tliat, we are led to 
 reflect U))on (!od's incDiod for tiie restoration of 
 (;rder and jieaee. Andliow beaulifnl is tlu; con- 
 trast ! jMan seeks lo put down disorder In' I'oree, 
 to subdue confusion by violence, to creiite peai.'e 
 throu'rh war. (ioil \an(inis!ii's einnily by bis own 
 love, destroys sin by bis Son's suil'erinirs, arid 
 restores obedience and tran(|uillity tbron;,''li tiie 
 Spirit's |)atienceand^'raco. "Jlavin";' made ])eacel)y 
 the blood ol' his cross ;" so runs the divine oracle 
 of truth, as it explains the mystery of our salva- 
 tion. I'lood is spilt, l)ut it is not ours, it is His. Law 
 is maintained, exalted, honoured above everythini.;'. 
 and stands i'orth thi; most sacred bond of sfrenn'tli 
 and order in the mn\erse. but it is not throui;-h 
 oursacriliee. it is through His. .Justice, ri;^'bteous- 
 uess, truth, stand anjuud His throne, in venerable 
 majesty, ehallenuin^- the reverence of all intelli- 
 j,''ent being's in all worlds, but the vindication of 
 their rii^'hls is not threiiirh our death, it is throunrh 
 Jfis: He, lliej'ust one, dii'd for us, the unjust, liiat 
 He mi!4'lit brin;.,'' us to (tod. Tiie restoration ol 
 ])eaee between us and the ^lost Hii^'h must, then, 
 b(! throu;4-h faith in the redi'mption which is in 
 t.'hrist Jesus. Ueliauce upon Clirist, the atonin.u' 
 3Iediator, is indis|)ensable to the recovery of our 
 rin'hl ])lace under God's li'overnment. Unbelief in 
 him puts us out of the way of Divine mercy, and 
 kec,)r> us in our original state of rebellion and yuilt. 
 It is a very dill'erent thin^' from mere mistaken 
 opinion. It is an olli'iice not a^'ainst tbinj^'s but 
 persons, not au'ainst creeds but Christ. It is in- 
 <Hli'erenee to His word, it is contempt of His au- 
 thority; as if an ollieer in WelliuLrton's army, on 
 receiving a messat^v from him, had thrown it 
 aside, and i^^-norcd its existenae. Would the com- 
 mander-in-chief have deemed that an expression of 
 harmless o]iinion, or the otrerinn' of criminal insuiti' 
 To reject the pispel is to reji'ct ','iirist ; to reject 
 Christ is to reject God. To disl)elieve the ji'ospel, 
 then, is to repeat, conlirm. deepen, and afi'iiTavate 
 one's orif^inid disloyalty. Here, then, is the li'rand 
 turning; point of character and destiny in the his- 
 tory of man. '" Men love d'arkness rather than 
 lij^'ht " — this is the crime : liij'ht comes to us under 
 these circumstances — this is the crisis. It sup])lies 
 a critical te>t ])roviiin" what you arc. It all'ord.-; a 
 critical occasion, briu;.';ini;' out si;i'ns of what you 
 will be. To receive the jLTosjiel, to trust in Christ, 
 is to i^(.'i back to one's rij^ht place in ( iod's universe. 
 It is lo secure iierl'ect fori>'iveness ami everlastinij; 
 .sonshi]), tojj:( ther with btrenji;th, comfort, joy, and 
 victory in all liie's sorrows and strui^vU";. It i-j to 
 have inward jjcaeu, lue pieil^'e oi'elernai peace. And 
 were that Captain of salvation belie\ed and trusted 
 in by manlciud at lari^'o, there would come over the 
 world a jLceneral peace iniinitely better than what 
 Welling'tou's sword won nearly forty years ayo. 
 
 iNJi'TirEa.^II' a lice stiiiLis yoa, will \mu ho to the hive 
 anil ilostvoy it P WoiiM not a tlio\i;!Miil I'oinc upon you ;•' 
 If yon ivi-civo a trillinir injury, do not li-o aliont tlie streets 
 proclainiinL; it. ami lie anxious to avi'ii^'c it. I/ct it lirop. 
 It is wisiioni to say littlo ros[)L'cliiiir tlie injuries you iiiiiy 
 liiive rouoivci-l. 
 
 TIIE PI!01!.M;LH ItOUTE i)V SIU 
 JOIIX Flt.VXKLlX. 
 
 In t!ie seventh and ninth numbers of the '■ Li'isure 
 Hour," our readers were ))ut in ))ossession of tho 
 history of the various efforts which have already 
 been made to recover our lost countrymen, and 
 were inform^'d of the traces of their lirst 
 winter cncamiiment, which had at last lieen dis- 
 covered. Tlie imlilication of the Journal* of the 
 voya^fe ])crfiirmcd by the sliijis under the coniiiiand 
 of (.'aptain William Penny enaiiles us now to do 
 more justice to the siiij.;'nlarly interestiuLr {.••eosjra- 
 phical discoveries of this brave man in \\'ellin;4'ton 
 ChaniKd ami the seas beyond it. 
 
 Mr. William Penny has been an arctic- sailor 
 since the twelfth yiar<if his aire. When intrusted 
 with the " Lady Franklin," In; had been a.lready, 
 tiiouLrh only forfy-one years (,f airi', in command of 
 a whalin;^ ship lor sixteen years. His was almost 
 iuvin'iably the Icadin,:^' ship in the whalintr s(iua- 
 di'on, In; entei'ed into the most minute detail of ice 
 navii^'ation, and was usually the last to leave tho 
 whalino- oromid when any hojie whatever remained 
 that sui'h a course would advance the objects of 
 the voyao'e. His brother commanders had i;reat 
 confidence in his opinion, and " \\'hat does Penny 
 think of it y was a common (pu'stion amom;' them 
 in reference to the intricacies and ])er])lexities .so 
 iiviiuent in their calling;-. Penny has made several 
 voyag'es to other jiarts besides those visited bv the 
 iiitreiiitl whaler, and, thoui;'h brave even to darinsj-, 
 wc are told that no ship while under his command 
 ever made any claim upon an Assurance Comjjany. 
 No one will wonder that the sailor who has been 
 buH'etiii;^' the waves and the whales for thirty years 
 from his boyhood, .should be delicient in literary 
 attainment and in ..onvcntional polish. L'ut (•■ery 
 one will see the iitness of his trai'.iino^ for the 
 sterner duties and rouo'her work of the exjieditiou 
 to which, thou'.;'h holdino- no commission imder the 
 seal of their ollice, he was appointed by the Lords 
 of the Admiralty in tho sprino' of ISoO. 
 
 The " Lady Franklin" and '• Sojihia" sailed from 
 Aberdeen, in the iircsenco of immense crowds of 
 well-wishino- spectators, on the al'ternoon of the 
 l:}th of April, JSoi), and on the 2'.)th they were 
 within sio'ht of the bold and ruo'ji-cd coast of AVest 
 Grc. nland. The part which Penny had (and it 
 v.-as a i)rincij)al ])art) in the discovery of Sir John 
 Franklin's winter (juarters at I'eecidy Island, in 
 Auo'ust. ISoO, has been already detailed, and our 
 space will not allow us to I'ecord the employments 
 and exiieriences of the sunless months which the 
 searching- cxiiedition spent in the same neighbour- 
 hood. We ])roeeed at once to the researches of 
 the followiui;' siirino'. 
 
 IJy the 17th of A))vil, oio-ht sledires were in 
 readiness. The intensity of the cold ai this period 
 maybe jud.o-cd from a single fact. A doy- atti;nii)t- 
 iiii,'' to lick a little fat from an iron shovel stuck 
 fast to it, and drau'y\'d it by means of his toni,''ue, 
 until, by a sudden eifort, he got clear, leavhig: 
 
 I * .7oiirii;il of a Vovan..' in liiillln's l!av and narrow'.'! Straits 
 
 ■ in the years IS.iO.ls.'.l, perforine.l \,y tf.M.S. •' Laily Kranlt- 
 
 lin" anil "Soiiiiia," utiiler I lie command id Mr, ' William 
 
 I'enny, in searcli nl' llie iiii-isiiij,' crews ot' II. .M.S. " ICrchus" 
 
 and ■' I'eiTor." l!y t'cler C. SiilUorluiid, li.u., surgeon to tho 
 
 i cxpedilicii. 2 vols. 
 
TIIK LETSTTRE IIOUH. 
 
 iU 
 
 :■. 'Viral iiiclifK of <1il skin :u;il sul)jiU'ciit lissiii' on ' 
 till' f'lld iiii-ImI. One iif llio sinuncn indciivdurinfr 
 to clmni,-!' till' size of tlic I'Vc of tlie s])li('i' in liis 
 lnu'k-ro]ii'. jiut tin- nuivliim'-spikc, after the true 
 sailor I'lishion, into liis inoutli ; the result wiw, that 
 he lost a pniit jiortion of tlie skin of his lips Jinil 
 toiifjue. Within ten (lavs it «as t'linul ni'eessiry 
 to return t" the shi|)s In nuik' their jireiiiiriitious 
 lor travellin;^' more eflleient. ...iil on the <'pth of Muv 
 they ri'-eointueneed their explnratioiis. Kiieh party 
 hud its alhitted work ; hut if we follow that whieli 
 ^vils conitiiandeil hy Captain Penny, the reader will 
 ohtaiii the hest idea of the results. Alter seven 
 days' Iravelliiif;'. this party found the iee too de- 
 cayed to sn])]iort the dojrs. The snow lieeanie very 
 (leej). and they were oliliu'ed to sto)). Captain I'enny 
 ,ind ]Mr. I'elerson (a Danish ^■enllenian) set otf to 
 a point several miles liu'ther alonir. niakinfi' sure 
 thiit tiiey should lind traces of the nnssinir sh;])s 
 iu the shape of a cairn. 'J'he point was a wry low 
 one, and there was immensely ])iled-up ice upon it. 
 !ii;t to their suriirise u strait, and nolhini;' liut 
 clear water, oi)ened up before them. The tide 
 x'l-'ined to he ii'oinj; at a very ni])id rate, not less 
 than lour knots. This channel or strait was about 
 ciu'ht miles in bre.'idth and ten miles in leiiLi'th 
 from east to west. The ])oiiit on which they then 
 stood, they called I'oint Siirjirise, from the sudden 
 appearance to their view of so larfje an extent of 
 water. .South-west from Point Surprise there ap- 
 peared to be an island, whicli they named after Sir 
 Francis T. IJarin^'. the tirst L(/rd ot' the Admi- 
 ralty. To the north and north-east the land could 
 be seen very b Id, at a distance of about twenty 
 "i.iiles, and its U' '> bays could also be distiii;,''uislied 
 very clc'arly. Tl. land was named I'rinee Albert 
 Land. At a eonsii. I'able distance from the coast 
 line in Prince Albert Land there was a ranj,''o of 
 ;ui,''<,''ed hills, which iu one part rose hit,''h above 
 the ordinary level. This elevation they named Sir 
 .)(^l;n Harrow's Mimnment, out of compliment to 
 one who durinir forty years' oltieial ecMmection with 
 the Admiralty devoted his utmost zeal and interi'st 
 as widl as most distiii<;'uished talents to the ad- 
 vancement of arctic discovery. 'I'lie moment they 
 })assed over Point Surprise, Captain Penny, in a 
 momentary (it of chagrin, exclaimed : " No one 
 will ever reach Sir .John I'^ranklin ; here we arc, 
 and iKrtraees are to be found." 
 
 Our travellers returned to tlieir sledpres much 
 disaii]iointed. and at 'J A.ii. (for most of the tra- 
 vellin<; was accomplished by night, to jjreveut 
 snow blindness) they turned into their sleepint,'' 
 baji's. Next niorniii<r they ascertained the lati- 
 tude of I'oint Surjjrise to be about 70 '. '" Sir 
 flames C. Ross," says Captain Penny, " said he 
 would Lcive one thousand pounds tor ten days' ]n'o- 
 visions : I cevta-nlv should have ijiveu live thou- 
 sand ]).fund> I'm .M n.p..l I 'oii'iw up liie si'are.! .ur 
 Sir John Franklin." While they were kiyiny- 
 down the bearintrs of the various points and 
 islands, and makinji' a tracintj of the coasts, two 
 walruses sailed past upi^n a ))ieee of iee, at the rate 
 ■n at least three knots. Two elder ducks :uid 
 lome " burj.!'omasters" t!ew past at the same time. 
 This was remark;ibli', because here they had crea- 
 lures which they could oidy have expected ten 
 decrees farther south at such an early date. They 
 could now see distinetly twenty-five miles of open 
 
 water: and from the api>earanc.' of the sky, they 
 judued there were at least "io miles more of open 
 water bey)nd the north ))oint of the strait. To 
 have proceeded northward could only be accom- 
 ]ilished by making' a very larjre circuit, and for 
 this they had barely two days' provisions for the 
 doj^s. They mi'^-lit shoot seals or wa.h'uses and 
 birds in the water, but v.hcre was the Imat to ]iick 
 them U]) in such rapid tides!' No i.lternative 
 remained but to return to the ships, and see if in 
 any means a boat could be <:n\ into the open water 
 which had been so unexpectedly discovered. 
 
 llaviuir reached the shijis once more, a sled<re 
 was ]irepared with all speed to receive the larL;-est 
 .six-oared whale-boat of the " I.,ady Franklin," and 
 in a fortniirht 'une ■{} our travellers were aiz'ain 
 on the ice. 'J'he softness of the snow and the in- 
 creasing" ipiantity ol v .ti'r on the iee. from the ad- 
 vance of the season, made their iirocrress the more 
 ditlii'ult and their danprers the more imminent. 
 Rut on the 17th of .June, after three hours' tra- 
 velling' and running- after deer. Captain Penny 
 ascended a hi^li headland, and " behold 1 the water 
 was within 'J.0 miles of the boat! clear open 
 water!" At five the foilowint,' evenin;^'' they 
 reached the water, and launched theii- boat, and in 
 an hour it was loaded with provisions for flirty 
 days. 'J'he " fatiirue ])arty" was sent back to the 
 ships with all the dof,''s. and with instructions as to 
 the necessary di'pots for provisions. 
 
 Our voyajA'crs were scinvely end)arked on this 
 northern sea, when contrary winds and thick' snow 
 ('om])elled them to seek shelter in a bay on the 
 south shore of the channel. The next niorninji- 
 tlie ice ])(iured into this chainiel, and what was open 
 water the day before, was covered with ice to an 
 extent of twenty miles. In the distance, however, 
 the water could be seen in the direction of the 
 newly discovered Raring' and IJaniilton Islands, 
 and beyond them asjain there were appearances in 
 the sky which indicated to the practised eye of the 
 arctic mai'iners the existence of water to the 
 utmost liniits of vision. Winds from the north- 
 west, it was soon discovered, brouf^ht down accu- 
 mulations of ice, which renden d navigation ex- 
 tremely danjrerous, and often altotrether impracti- 
 cable, while easterly winds cleared the channel. 
 The former winds prevailed most, greatly to the 
 distress of the party. For nearly a week the 
 cxjilorers were able to make but short excursions, 
 and they left a record of their feeling's in their 
 ]ihice of shelter, by calling it I)isap])ointment 
 Ray. Dm'inir this period, seals, walruses, white 
 whales, and narwhales were seen in the water, 
 and occasionally in the small openini;-s amoiiLT the 
 pack-ice. They were very inimcrous, and could 
 be counted in numbers of twenty or thirty at a 
 time. 
 
 Vii I'lu ::ith of .June. Captain Penny succeeded 
 in reacliin<;' Jlamilton Island, which was fnund to 
 be 12 or 1:1 miles due north from Disappointment 
 Ray. The next mornin<j every one started over 
 the island, eairer in the search for the missing ex- 
 ]iedilion. 'J'he points atid headlands were examined 
 carefully without finding anything, not even so 
 much as a bit of wood. On the ■'Jtl: of July, how- 
 ever, ii bit of English elm. quite fresh, was picked 
 up. and also a piece of driftwood. The elm had 
 not been loug in the water, but it was much 
 
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 THE LKIfeJllE IIOUH. 
 
 rcclticed in w!'ij,''lit, and wcuthiirwoni by exposure to 
 tlic iihuosplRTO. On tlic 17t'i of .Inly, liarini^ 
 Island was riiaclicd, and I'onnd to lie ninvards of liO 
 miles Ijcyond JIaniiiton Island. Itiit hero, tno, 
 were no traces of the ^^avat olijcc' in pnrsuit. Tin's 
 island is ten miles lon^ and live l)road. Us liei!4:lit 
 is about 2(Kt feet, and tlie to]) is Hat, with several 
 lakes upon it. In one of its bays several pieees of 
 driftwood were linnid. TIu! boat liad not ))roeeeded 
 far on its passa;j;e from llarin;,'' Island to tli(; north- 
 ern slion; of the ehannel — a disfanee of liO miles — 
 when two sea-horses were observed close at hand. 
 The party innnediately ijore down u]mn one of them 
 to secure it for the sake of fui'l, and puttin;;' u ball 
 into its mouth they j,'ot fast to him with tlie har- 
 poon and line. A ^ood deal of firiuir ensued ; but 
 the halls took no elleet, except to increase his lieree- 
 ness and their danv :• in a))proaehin<;' him ; they 
 were coii'pelled, tnerofore, to draw close up and 
 run a lance thronj^li him. They required to be 
 very cautious hi their operations, for his lar^'c tusks 
 mifjjht easily have torn a ])lank out of their boat. 
 The blubber pro .'cd of ^reat value as fuel, and some 
 of the seamen thouu'lit the thick hide suitable for 
 mocassins, as their shoes were very nearly done. As 
 regards the flesh of the animal, t'ajjtain Penny s:iys 
 he relished it so loni,'- as it was fresh and sweet. 
 
 After twelve hours' plyinj;'' with the oars, they 
 reached land, and the commander hastened to tlie 
 top of a hill to examine a cairn which they had 
 seen from the water. It was a real cairn — but 
 alas ! not one of Sir John Franklin's. It had been 
 erected a short time before by Captain Stewart, of 
 the '■ Sophia," >vho, in command of one of the 
 sledi^e parties, had travelled to this point alonj^ the 
 eastern shores of the channel. It was the farthest 
 point he was able to reach before he was compelled 
 to return to the ships. Five miles farther north. 
 Captain Penny I'eachcd a s])lendid bay, which 
 would suit well for a winter harbour. From an 
 elevation hi its neij,^hbourhood, six or ei^^ht hun- 
 dred feet high, nothing could be seei. to the north- 
 west but open sea and a watery sky. The coast 
 was bold and led away in a northwest direction. 
 The most distant part of it that could be seen, the 
 discoverer named Cape Sir .John Franklin, and it 
 appeared to be a few miles beyond latitude 77" and 
 longitude 100°. Several islands also were seen 
 and duly designated. IJeforc quitting. Captain 
 Peimy erected a cairn, and took anotlier view of 
 the expanse of water that was before his eyes. 
 " Oh ! to have been here only with my two little 
 vessels," he says, " what could we not have done in 
 the way of search .^ but I greatly fear, it we had, 
 the missing ships are beyond our reach. That 
 there is a large arctic sea beyond tliis channel, in 
 which the ice is constantly in motion, there can be 
 no doubt ; for where could all the ice have gone 
 to ? where docs the comparatively fresh driftwood 
 come fi'om ? It nuist be from America or Siberia, 
 and that through a body of drifting ice." 
 
 To have proceeded farther with oidy one week's 
 jirovisions left would liave been foolhardy. But 
 it rc([uired a severe struggle to relinquish the 
 search. On the 2()tli of July they began their re- 
 turn journey, and in fifteen hours they reached the 
 southern shores of the channel they had been 
 exploring, having in that time sailed over eighty 
 miles. From the state of the ice along shore it 
 
 was soon found necessary to abandon the boat, and 
 to attempt tiw; journey to tlie ships l)y tlie coast, 
 over a (iiNtane(; of upwards of 1( ii i niiles. Abandon 
 l!ay, as they ridled the place where they left the 
 boat, was not far from tlieir old retreat, Disap- 
 l)ointment I>a^,. 
 
 There were fresh dilliculties now to be encoun- 
 tered. The rivei's, whose lieds cdnlained nothing 
 two monliis |)reviously. but ice as hard as liie rock, 
 were before the end of July discliar;;!!!;;' continu- 
 ous streams into the sea, and were often so swollen 
 alter heavy lains that it was ditiicult to cross 
 them. All the other exj/iorers had already re- 
 turned to the ships after their hard but fruitless 
 toils, and were filled with anxious fears for the 
 safety of their commander and his seven compa- 
 nions. Two days alter aliandoning his Ixjat, Cap- 
 tain Penny readied a dei)r)t of provisions which 
 his felhjw oHicer had laid down in Iiis track. 
 Some days later he found a boat hauled up at the 
 mouth of a large run of water, placed tliere by the 
 same considerate foresiglit. 15y the ^oth of July 
 the fears of their frie'iids became fpiite ojipressivc, 
 from tlie winds and violent storms, the rainy, 
 thick, and gloomy weather which had ))rovaiied 
 for some time. At 10 v.m. of this day they were 
 retiring to rest, when a jiarty was observed in the 
 distance. " For a few minutes," says Dr. Suther- 
 land, " we thought it w.as composed of some of the 
 men, who often, in s))ite of bad weather and fatigue 
 from their day's work (in ballasting and prejiaring 
 the ships for their summer voyaging), toolc an 
 evening excursion to the eastward ; i)ut as the 
 jiarty approached, and a telescope was levelled upon 
 it, Captain Penny was recognised. Fp went the 
 St. Ge(n'ge's or llritish ensign, and in a few 
 mil ces we were among the jiarty. He at once 
 told us he had seen nothing of the nn'ssing ships 
 except a bit of elm which might have belonged to 
 them, and that his opinion was they had gone 
 away to the northwestward, far beyond his reach. 
 The men and their commander were drenched to 
 the skin, and most of them had cither their toes or 
 heels exposed through their boots to the ice or the 
 rough and sharp-pointed fragments of which the 
 surface of the land is composed, over which they 
 had to jierform their weary march for whole days. 
 AVitli his arrival, the last of the travelling parties 
 in sca'-ch of Sir John Franklin came in, and the 
 same dismal shade which veiled tlie mysteriou.-. 
 fiite of our long-lo.st countryman still remained as 
 it had been when we commenced imr travi;!ling." 
 
 The sefpiel is soon told. That the missing ex- 
 pedition had g(me by the route recently exidored, 
 Captain Penny had no manner of doubt. Still he 
 could not produce sutHciently palpable reasons to 
 convince othei's to the same extent that he Ininself 
 believed the fact. But even if it were certain that 
 they had, the question occurred, was it prudent, 
 and would it be of effective service, for him to re- 
 main a second winter with only his present re- 
 sources, for further search P He soon felt that 
 steamers were essential to the accomplishment of 
 anything of importance. 
 
 He was thus in a dilemma. " He had on the 
 one h.and to contend with the possibility and even 
 the probability that much ought still to be done 
 in search of the missing ships, and on the other 
 hand he saw coming upon his shoulders the 
 
 
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 .1 ! 
 
 TIIK LEISUKH Hon:. 
 
 !■( -l)i)iisil)ility t'(ir tlu; lives of iill ciiffaircil in both 
 i<|ii'(litii/iif. Aj^'iiiii iiiul iiirJiiii ln' said tlmt lie 
 would luitlicr bo ri'spoiisililc lor hi'iii^jiiiif tlio 
 ^'•arcli to a dose, nor Hir jfoiianli/'.iii'.r the lives of 
 ii)i\viir(is of 221) incii by li'adiiii; llii'iii up tlu! 
 U'l'lliiiL'ton Clianiicl in llic \fvy foo1>lfps, as he 
 lirlii'vcd, of th(^ iiiirortuiiati! Fraiililiu iiud his 
 adventurous ('oiii])aiiioiiH." Accnrdiiiu'lv, at an 
 t'urly iiici'tiii;,' with ("aplaiu Austin, tliu superior 
 in t'oniinand of the larirer of the two seiircliinfr 
 ex])<'ditious, he ju-oposed a eontinuatiou of the 
 searcli by means of one of the steamers and the 
 '• Sopliia," so soon as the ice in \\'ellinj,'ton 
 Cliannel should open. Hut nil he could say tailed 
 to (-(invinee Captain Austin (,\' even tlie "faintest 
 ])robaiiility that the missini^' ships had taken that 
 route. 'J'lie ])ieee of elm was put in ve(juisition, 
 liut in vain. Without Captain Austin's eo-opera- 
 tion, Captain Penny's exixdilion, dried up in its 
 resoinres, cotdd elli'et nothing' by remaining' out a 
 second winter. And thus hrave imn, who were 
 willing' to hazard their lives in the cause of 
 humanity, had no alternative left tlieni hut to 
 abandon the hope^jf rescuinLf their lost country- 
 men from the icy wastes and chilly waters of the 
 pole, and rettn-n to Kn^'laml. IMay a happier issue 
 follow the toils and perils of their si:ceessors, in an 
 enterprise which the civilized world watches with 
 the throbbini? interest of a most painful suspense! 
 
 Since the jn-ecedinij: was written, the " Prinee 
 Albert " has arrived at Aberdeen. She spent bist 
 winter in Hatty Hay in I'rinee l!e|;eiit's Inlet. 
 The i)rinci])al result other voyau'e i;; the discovery 
 of a ehannel, distant <i(i() miles westward from the 
 ship's winter quarters, o])em'n^'' up a bay by the 
 northern coast of Xorlh Somerset. This ehannel 
 was ex])lorcd by j\Ir. Kennedy, the director of the 
 expedition, and a party of men, who walked and 
 sledo;ed it, traversinir the north side of Somerset, 
 round by J'ort licopi Id— a journey of not less than 
 1200 miles. On the return" of the"'' J'rince Albert " 
 eastward, \Vellini,'ton Channel was found open and 
 free from ice as f.ir as the telescojje could conwnand. 
 The searching'' squadron, under Sir K. Belcher, had 
 j;one up the cliannel; and it is the opinion of Mr. 
 Kennedy, and of the oflieers of the " Xorth Star," 
 wdiom he saw, that, from the I'emarkable openness 
 of the season, it would occu])y a more .-.dvanc'cd 
 position than any of the ))revious expeditions could 
 reach. Describiiiu' the state of this channel to 
 Captain I'enry, at Aberdeen, that <j:entleman ex- 
 pressed his firm conviction that, if the steamers 
 are pushed forward with eneriry, they mif^ht get 
 throujih at liehrin^-'s Straits. 
 
 The "I'rinee Alb(;rt" has brou<rlit home de- 
 spatches from Sir K. IJelcher. down to the Itth of 
 Aug^ust. From what Sir Edward has discovered 
 lloating down Welliny-ton Chann(d — remains of 
 whales, bears, and other animal substances — his 
 party have been led to the conclusion, that not only 
 is there food for mankind in that direction, but 
 that the floatiiif^ portions of whales and bears form 
 the relies of what have been actually consumed by 
 human being's. " Sir E. I'elchcr," says a morning' 
 journalist, " has by this time, most probably, ex- 
 plored the rep:ions pronounced to be accessible by 
 Captain Penny, but injudiciously abandoned, and 
 has thus confirmed the trutli of Penny's testimony. 
 
 It is fearful to contemplate thi' eciusecpiences i;!' a 
 year's delay in fbllowinir thi! track presumed to 
 have bei'n taivru by Frindcliii; as, of coiu'se, hopes 
 til' ell'eefMal succom- must be dindnislied Ijy the 
 year's jiostponi'ment of that search wiiieh I'eimy 
 so warndy suL,'';ri'sted on tlie spot, and uliieb lie so 
 nobly volunteeiiMl to undertake on his ivtuni to 
 J'hiLi'Iand last uutiimn." The inte'lliu'eiice thus 
 referred to, still preserves from extini'lion the hope 
 that at least a remnant of our missin<; eountrynien 
 may yet he discovered and rescued ; and moreover 
 eiieiiura^es the expectation lliat the lon;r-souyht 
 north-west passajje will ultimately be ellected. 
 
 THE Yorxc, cii e:\iisT; 
 
 OK, .M;vr.!'. iii:seAii!. 
 
 A Tvi.i:. 
 
 ! " WiFAT a terrible incident ! " said I, layiiur down 
 a letter jusi received from the noitli. 
 
 '■ What is it i-' " asked my aunt i^leanor, without 
 ! raisin _r her eyes from the newsiiaper she was read- 
 
 j '■ Do you remember a ^Ir. liO^'an whom we met 
 
 last year in Scotland !' " 
 i " Oh yes ; — a tall, handsome man, w ith a very 
 i fine expression of face. I remember him well." 
 I "And 1 think-, aunt, you will be as much 
 I shocked and surprised at what has occurred as 1 
 am. Vou know that 3Ir. Lof^Mii was one of the 
 mann'jjers of a bank. It iippears that he has of 
 late been speeulatiiiti' in railroad shares, and that to 
 meet the calls made u]ion him he ajipropriated 
 money not his own. hopiiii,' to rejiay it belorc! any 
 discovery could be made. However, it was found 
 that there must be a mistake somewhere — that 
 there was some error — and this was easily traced 
 to i\Ir. Lofz^an. 1 believe at the time there was no 
 blame or even suspicion iitlached to him, but it 
 was deenu'd desirable to send a clerk with him to 
 his own house, where, he said, he could produce 
 documents which would clear up the whole afliiir. 
 He lett the bank with this man, and they pro- 
 ceeded together thronijfh the town and tov.ards his 
 bouse, which is about two miles b(>yon(l the bridye. 
 1 dare say you remember that bridj;'e, built so 
 liisrh up because of tlii" swollen streini that rushes 
 thr()u;;h it in the siiriiiLT; and the rocky bed of 
 the river, which may be seen quite clearly at low 
 water. Well, they reached the bridge, and as they 
 were passin'r over it Sir. Loiran said, ' Tliis is 
 : rather a hiyh parajiet, is it not i' ami yet I should 
 not wonder that with one le-; on this side I could 
 I rest my other foot on the outer ledji-e of it.' 
 
 " • 1 should not wonder, sir,' answered the clerk ; 
 ' you are so very tall.' 
 
 •' • I will tr^>,' said he ; and in an instant his foot 
 rested on the outer ledire. Just one sprinfr, scarcely 
 time for the man to start forward, and there was ti 
 splash in the water below, and the body of a man 
 rose to the surface and floated down with the 
 stream. He had struck his head upon a rock, and 
 instant death followed." 
 
 " What an awful thintr ! " said aunt Eleanoi-. 
 '• And to think that a man should thus enter into 
 the presence of his Creator, and cut off from him- 
 self also all chance of rejiairiu'j: the wrong which 
 he had inflicted on his fellow-creatures." 
 
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 7'Jl 
 
 THE leisuup: hour. 
 
 " Well, jt'H," I miMWcrcd j " liiit stUl otu- can- 
 not lii'lp l()ol<in;f with a kind of respect on tlic intiii 
 \\]t() holds his ;,''(j()d iiaiiir dcan'r than iiis lir<'. iuid 
 thiiiliH tliiit this last is hut tiic scttiiiu' ol' ii iioblu 
 btoiu — vahiiloss wiiiii the jrwil is ^roiu'." 
 
 " 1 don't iiiiow wliat voii nil an hy tlinst' (inc 
 words," said uuiit Kleauor, rather sliarply — at 
 least bliarply lor one wiio was always so gentle. 
 " Surely tlie ' jjood name ' you speak of is only an 
 outer and visible si^,'•n, and it' the hitter is wantin^c 
 the other is valueless. A man is content to lose 
 liis honesty and inteL,''rity — the liumdation of his 
 ^■ood name; hut he cannot hear that his tellou-men 
 should point at him the tin;;cr nl' >ciirn and til' re- 
 proaeli. (Jod and his own coiiseieiiee spnil; to hiui 
 iw vain, hut a isinj^le whisper I'mm mortal lips is 
 more than he pai' hear. I sliould not have 
 fhou^'ht," she added alter a pinise, "that Mr. 
 Loj^aii had been one of the wdrldlin;;s, there was 
 so mneh ol'nnndy eonrap' in his whole hearing'; I 
 had lielieved him ea[)able of hiylicr tidn;;s." 
 
 " l'erha))s," said 1. "it was a momentary 
 despair which sei/e(l him, and then the place, 
 the opportunity — • — " 
 
 " I'erhaps it was," she answered ; " (iod Icnows 
 our own stren^dh is but wry feebleness. Yet how 
 much nohh'r, when a man has fallen into temjita- 
 tion, to seek I)y (Jod's aid to recover himself than 
 to yield thus to rash despair. J..et me tell yon. 
 however, as a easo in jioint, a jiassaiTc in the early 
 historv (jf. one whom vou well know — vour unele 
 Alfred." 
 
 '■ Jly uncle Alfred !" I exclainu'd ; " why, he is 
 the must noble nam I ever knew, and the very 
 j^Teatest physician. 1 should think, in all En<;'land. 
 1 reallv don't thiidc he ever eould have been guilty 
 of a fault." _ : 
 
 " Yes," said Eleanor. " and of one which misjht 
 have embittered tlie lii'e ol'any man of so sensitive 
 a nature as himself. You know that he lpe;.;'an his 
 career as a))prentiee to a <'hemist in the City, but 
 he was tin- too active and intellij^ent to be content 
 with merely mi.xinj; druiys and .standing' behind a 
 counter from morning till riij;'ht to retail them. 
 He soon busied himself in tryinii' to ascertain llic 
 nature of every drutj and chemical in the sho)), and 
 the eflect that was produced by their combination; 
 and then he turned to the customers : he was so 
 quick to understand, so willing; to help, and showed 
 such ready sympathy with all trt)uble and afflic- 
 tion, that he was soon beloved and trusted by all 
 the poor of the neighbourhood. There was one 
 policeman in particular, who said not only that he 
 was cleverer than liis master, but that he would 
 much nither trust liim than Dr. S(jnills, wlio lived 
 in a lar<;e house in the next street. And yet 
 neither the policeman, his wife, nor one of his 
 children, had cvtr entered the shop of Alfred's 
 master when lie made this assertion : but the boy 
 Lad shown that he possessed a brave and tender 
 spirit, and our };ood jioliceman took all the rest on 
 trust. 1 will tell you how this happened. In the 
 middle of one uii.fht there was a cry of ' Eire.' 
 Alfred jumped out of bed, and saw the ilames 
 rising from a house in an adjacent street. He 
 was quickly dres.sed and out of doors. Arrived at 
 the scene of the fire, he found there was no chance 
 of saving the house in which it brif;'inated, and 
 scarcely any hope ibr the one adjoining it. This 
 
 latter b(.]onge<l to a jioor widow woman, who was 
 standing at some little <listaneo : her frightened 
 <'hildren Wire er_\ing round her. while she gazed 
 vacantly at the Ilames, which ^^ mid s(poii destroy 
 all that she h::il to (Icjiend on for the maiijtenance of 
 hir liimily and hers( If. .Mfied said a lew words 
 to her, but she only shook her head, ami tunieil 
 again to watch the lire. He made his way throngli 
 the crowd, and asked a lireman whom he knew, 
 what ehanee tliere wa.s of savuig Mrs. Thompson's 
 house. 
 
 '•'Weill' said the man, 'it aint eau^rht yet, 
 but you s<'e it is so hot you can't stand on the 
 roof, else with wet blankets and buckets ot w.'iter 
 1 don't wonder we should save it. lint t lice's ever 
 .so many tried, and they can't keep tluir lie;ids up 
 nohow.' 
 
 '■ ' Let me jiass,' said Alfred, ' and I'll tr\.' 
 
 " ' !Sir,' said the ])olieemau at the door, ' 1 don't 
 think you'll stand it.' 
 
 " ■ 1 mean to try,' answered your unele. jind he 
 s|)oke in sneli a determined manner that the man 
 took courage and caught him by the arm. 
 
 '■ • .In>t wait a minute and Kll go with you, for 
 really it makes my heart afhe to see the joor missus 
 there at the corner.' 
 
 " So they went together, and Alfred jiroMil him- 
 self a perfect salamander : but then I do believe 
 the elotlies minht be burnt off his back before he 
 would move, when he has determined to do a thing 
 and believes it right. At lirst the heat was most 
 oppressive, mid the burning embers fell in showers; 
 but he spread (Jut wet blankets, and ])oured over 
 them the water whieli was handed up in buckets; 
 then the policeman came to his assistiince : they 
 worked a great part of the night, ami by their ex- 
 ertion the house was saved. And it was because 
 of this incident that A\'illianis — that was the name 
 of the policeman — said he would rather any day 
 trust Alfred than his master, or even Dr. Scpiills. 
 Mrs. AVillianis was of the same opinion; so, after 
 that, she always went to him lijr atlviee and medi- 
 cine whenever her children were ill; and, what with 
 stomach complaints in the summer, and coughs 
 and colds throughout the winter, he had a good 
 deal of experience with the whole family. 
 
 '■ A few weeks before the time of w hich T am 
 about to s])eak, I went to see him, and could not 
 understand the change that seemed to hiive I'omc 
 over him. He had grown careless and indill'erent, 
 and several times I heard him reprimanded by his 
 master for mistakes and omissions ; so I said. 
 'Alfred, life and death are serious matters.' 'Oh,' 
 he answered, ' you girls always make a fuss about 
 everything. H' yon had made up as many doses 
 of medicine as 1 have, yfni would not think so 
 much about them ; you are frightened just because 
 yon know nothing,' 
 
 ■■ ■ li ma_, oe so," J replied ; ' but it s<'ems to nic 
 that there is great responsibility attached to your 
 })osition, and all the more because you are so 
 young.' 
 
 " ' 'Well,' he said, ' I had just the same feeling 
 until (|uite lately, but now it has entirely worn oft".' 
 
 '■ You may be sure that I was much grieved .at 
 the change indicated by this conversation, and the 
 more so because it was dc'cided that All'red was to 
 be a surgeon instead of a chemist, and my father 
 was trying to make arrangements for cancelling 
 
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