The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-19 00:00:00

As the failure of this expedition was wholly
accidental, and its object, instead of being rendered more ditf.
Cult of attainment, seems on the contrary to have been pure
nearly approached than before, there is no doubt that another
vessel will be built or fitted up to replace the Fury,. and that..
early fiett,spring our enterprising navigators will return to en-
deavour if possible to preveit the disappoinment vrhich other-
wise Captain FRANX4I,N will experience who he reaohea the
Polar Sea. It appears that the expedition was delayed
the summer of 1824, getting across Baffin's Bay, by a
moat extraordinary accumulation of ice, and it was not before
the 9th of September that they passed that barrier; on the
13th of that month they entered Barrow's Straits, threigh
which they proceeded to Prince Regent's Inlet, at the enttahce
of which they arrived on 'the 26th ; after tiro or three ditYi of
bad weather and obstruction from the lee., they got into
,Port
Bowen ; and on the Ist Oct. the ships were safely placed in emir '
positions for the winter. During the spring of 182* parties of
discovery were sent, under Captain Hoppner, inland, to the
eastward; under Lieutenant Menu along the coast to the
southward ; and under Lieutenant Ross to the northward.—,
Lieutenant Sherar reached Fitzgerald Bay, in 72. 20., and
Lieut. Rose proceeded beyond Cape YUrk, in 73. 3d. They
also made excursions into the interior, sixty or eighty miles to
the eastward. The ships sailed from Port Bowen on the ?'Jth
of last July, and proceeded to examine the coast ; on the 22d
theyweee driven back again to nearly Prince Leopold's Islands,
in Lancaster Sound ; on the 24th they reached Cape Seppings,
on the western entrance of the Regent's Inlet ; they worked •
down the western shore till the Ist of August, when the Fury
was forced on shore by masses of ice ; she, however, was got off,
and hove down for repair a little further to the southward ; but-
on the 23d August, they were forced, in consequence of ineeeas-
ed severity of weather, to abandon her. Her Officeri and •
men were removed into the Hecla (which had also been
in great danger), and Captain Parry felt himself under the ne-
cessity of returning to England, and accordingly stood to the •
northward, and on the 27th anchored at Neill's Harbour, a little
to the southward of Port Bowen. After two or thiee.daY--
spent in refitting, they sailed again on their way homewards,'"
and on the 17th of September got through the ice iandpassed'
the Arctic Circle.—Various specimens of the animal, vegetable,.
and mineral productions of the Arctic regions, have been brought,
home in the Hecht, but few or none, we believe, of peculiar -
rarity. Many curious magnetic phenomena have been observed,
particularly in the course of experiments made with Pro- -
lessor Barlow's metallic plates. 'Phone plates are an
invention of great importance to navigation. In. Cap--
tain Parry's first voyage, when they reached latitude
73 deg. they witnessed for the first time the curious phenomenon •
of the directive power of the magnetic needle becoming so weak
as to be completely overcome by the attractive power of ti o •
ship, so that for all the purposes of navigation the compass es:
was wholly useless. Professor Barlow remedird this evil,. '
Which, in a less degree, exists generally on ship-board, by -
placing the centre of a small iron plate in the line of no attrac-
tion of the ship's iron, and at a proper distance behind.and
below the pivot of the compass needle; in conseqUence of
which the needle not only remains active and vigorous is•
the/Polar Regions, but continues to point to the correct magnet,
the meridian in other seas, uninfluenced by the attraction of,
the ship's iron. The general utility of the Professor's platee had. ..
been well established before Captain Parry sailed on his last
voyage, but we understand that his experiments on them have.
led to some entirely new and unexpected results in magnetic
science, and are likely to prove highly important to navigation._
—( Morning Paper.)