Our Flag Was There.

expedition which they cannot but feel to be so fraught with hope in search of your long-lost brother , Sir John Franklin . " While they regret that the time of your stay is so short that personal friendship cannot draw

closer the existing tie between them and you , yet the universal sympathy that enlists itself in the noble cause that you are engaged in would rather urge that departure , which they deeply feel to be promjDted by the most generous and disinterested of motives .

" And they trust that when in the icy regions of the north , when the sun at this season of the year unceasingly pours down its genial rays upon that portion of the globe , it may please the All-Seeing Eye continually to watch over you , and that

Providence may pour his choicest blessings upon your undertaking . May He be a lamp unto your feet , and a light nnto your path ; Jaud when the orb of day shall sink below the horizon , and the starry heavens shall be a canopy over your heads , may

He be to you , as to the magi of old , a guiding star to lead you to your missing brother . " But much as they now hail your arrival and regret your early departure , all these feelings are absorbed in the prospects of that time when the

dangers and difficulties shall have been conquered —when rugged paths shall have been passed , and a hopeful 'Advance' crowned by a successful return . Brother , adieu ! "

'' Though you to other lands must hie , Through ice-bound oceans now to stray ; With melting heart and brimful eye , We'll mind you still when far away . " Receiving the flag , which bore on it the All-Seeing Eye , square , compasses , & c , Dr . Kane

made a very appropriate reply , the close of which we will quote for itsjoeautiful diction and touching pathos : — " Returning , now , to the subject of your address , no language that I can command could give

utterance to the feelings it has awakened in my heart ; to be thus received by brethren and Englishmen , and thus parted with ou leaving this portion of the British territory , perhaps the last we may touch at on our way , is , indeed , most cheering to my

spirit and encouraging to my hopes ; for the cause in which I am embarked is one which involves the feeling of universal brotherhood , bound by no limits and contracted by no sectarian views or national prejudices , for it springs from a sympathy that embraces the wide family of man , and

extends its efforts to relieve wherever suffering , distress , or want mark out a path for it to follow . " Such a feeling and such a sympathy is that which has sent forth one hundred and thirty-eight of your brave countrymen , who are now locked up

in those distant regions whither the course of our expedition is directed ; and should it be ourlot to pass a period of our time in the long night which , in those regions , succeeds the day amid a frozen wilderness , in the deep solitude of darkness

so palpably dense as to be almost tangible—where , over the wide waste of desolation , unbroken silence reigns — still even there , despondency will find no resting-place in our bosoms , but thecheering hope will animate them , that when the

day shall again dawn upon us , a bright and gloriousmorrow will again break forth , to be rendered brighter and more glorious still by the crowning of our hopes and the reward of all our anxietiesand toils , in the recovery and restitution to society

of England ' s nobly enterprising sou , yourcountryman , and mutually our brother—Sir John Franklin . "

With these remarks and bearing the Masonic .: the Masonic flag , the gift of friendship from strange but sympathising " brethren of the mystic tie , " Dr . Kane and his companions regained the brig . Early next morning she spread her wings

to the breeze , and with her bow pointing to the North Pole , sped her way on her fraternal mission . The mystic flag , with its speaking emblems , was carefully laid away ; but we shall hear of it again amid the perils of winter , of midnight , and of

storm , before our story ends . We shall not stop to follow the intrepid Kane on his voyage northward . He had made up his ; mind to find Sir John Franklin , or hold his

Christmas festival within sight of the North Pole , aud to this object all his energies were devoted .. Taking on board a large number of Newfoundland and Esquimaux dogs , for sledge-travelling during the winter , Dr . Kane , with the Advance ,.

pushed his way up along the Labrador coast , and through Davis' Straits , stopping occasionally at the Danish settlements on the coast of Greenland .. Still northward through dense fogs , icebergs , icefloes , and ice in every other imaginable shape and '

form , the little brig entered Baffin ' s Bay and at last , tracking the coast of Greenland , passed into and up Davis' Straits . We shall not attempt to . describe the dangers of the navigation , the hairbreadth escapes from instant destruction by storm