A CREW FOR THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 1090, 8 December 1857, Page 4

A CREW FOR THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.

{From tU Borne Newi.) > Gahbai, the great gold»robber, f« for some yean the lender of convict ion in Bermuda. His associates ttgardwl Him with admiration; he was the master, •pirft of their yellow-coated confederacy. Ultimately, Mr. Kir wan, condemned justly or not) for the murder of iisiwife in Ireland's Bye, arrived in the colony. tf arratt at once resigned the lead, and said, courteously, he jjpuld not think of refusing precedence of Mr. Jiirvran. the same principle, the banks of the Swan, in Western Australia, may be expected to become the scene of a social fiutter { for an aristocracy is to ba planted in the soil. On the 25th of August a good ship will sail frdm England, bearing to the Swan Sir John Dean Paul, Mr. Strahan, Mr. Bates? Mr. Leopold Redpath, Mr. Robson, Mr. Saward, Mr. Agar-three celebrated embesislers, three celebrated forgers, and the in* imitable vengeful Agar. With the exception of Agar and Saward, between whom an antipathy may naturally be supposed to' rankle, many mutual feelings will harmonise this aristocracy of detected crime. Common reminiscences and a common fate unite them What strange contrasts in Their lives! Paul looking back through the gratings of Millbank to that happier time when he sat with Baron Alderson on the bench of jus tice ; Strahan to his "elegantly planted park and residence in perfect taste j" Bates to the hour of gratifiedambition, in which he became the partner in a farm with a baronet at its head. Through Redpath's dreams may flit the auction at which he bid suecesai'ully against the French Emperor for a wondrous work in buhl 5 through Rob-on's the triumph of his dramatic productions—

Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it now, the glory and -the dream r Neither Agar nor Saward can have sympathies with men or with regrets like these. The latter was for 20 years a miserable Jonathan Wild, a matter forger, a burglar's agent, whose nightmare was Newgate J to the former penal discipline has been the routine of years ; he knows what it is to labour in the hulks ; he must hare calculated, half a life ago, upon no euthanasia better than a ticket of leave. But, in some respects, Redpath and Robson stand upon a level with him 5 they gambled everyday, and hazarded liberty for luxury; they could scarcely have looked for perpetual winnings. Depend upon it, many a time and oft did a prophetic shadow of penitentiaries and the Australian settlements obscure the glitter of Chester-terrace, and the gaiety of Kilburn Priory. We do not believe that the three bankers ever imagined such a possibility ; breaking the old bank in the Strand and losing their commercial reputation— that wa6, no doubt, the climax of fear in the minds of Paul, Strahaw, md Bates. With 400 inferior criminals they go— these social bankrupts— to Western Australia. Well, there is something upon which to congratulate even this criminal crew. It is a change— irom the monotony of that hideous desert of brick and whitewash at Millbank, from the wnrda of Newgate, from the motionless hulk in the Thames. They cross the ocean ; they have a new life before them ; there will be freshness in the sight of the Australian shores ; there is the prospect of tickets of leave. But how the population will crowd to gape at the convict baronet, and revive the story of Redpath's "glory," upon which ballad-singers have so unctuously expatiated ! How will the old "leading men" of the Swan River Settlement resign their precedence in favour of five gentlemen so accomplished, and, up to a certain point, so flattered by society ? Agar and Saward will not be similarly respected, having only their distorted talents to recommend them ; they have never been gentlemen, or 9at on the bench, or inherited estates, or outbid Louis Napoleon, or achieved a dramatic success. But let the captain of the vessel chartered at Lloyd's look well to his navigation. There is a story that the Flying Dutchman has for ages been wandering in search of a crew. And would not the seven great convicts prefei the perfidious bark, built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, to the grey soup, canary- coloured jackets, and dull severities of a penal colony ? Never, perhaps, was a more remarkable band of criminals embarked together, or one in which mutual recognitions were more likely to take place. The five "respectable'] individuals move pretty much in the same "sphere" except that their sympathies were different. Robson, although a poet, had not the delicate tastes of Redpath, and as for Sir John Dean Paul, his "seriousness" kept him apart from turfmen and philosophical virtuosi.— •Leader.'

Louis Blanc and the French Elections.— A pamphlet by Louis Blanc is circulating privately, in which he strongly urges the opposition candidates who may be elected not to take the oath. His advice is, that they should not content themselves with a simple refusal, but state their reasons— that if interrupted, they should persist, and if threatened, resist until they are turned out of the Chamber by physical force. Then, he says, the Government will either prosecute them, or it will not, If it do not, it will suffer a moral check, and if it do prosecute them the people's representatives will have the glorious consolation of joining their fellowcitizens, who are refugees in London.

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