The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-11 00:00:00

done that lay in the power of man to accomplish, it
is impossible not to see at a glance that such was
literally not his opinion upon " second thoughts,"
his first request to Government on his return home
having been for a powerful steamer to enable him to
return and penetrate further in the direction above
indicatsid. There cannot remain, indeed, any doubt
that all was not done that could be desired in the
way of scrutinising the whole of 'Wellington
Channel from one extremity to the other.
Captain PENNY, in truth, appears to be seriously, im-
pressed with the belief that Sir JOHN FRANKLIN
having wintered at Cape Riley, had proceeded up
Wellington Channel, being after that movement un-
expectedly blocked up by the ice, the frost being
so severe as to have since then prevented his
escape from this confinement. There can be no
question, all things considered, that the conjectures
advanced by the officer here alluded to, are. the most
reasonable that have yet appeared ; and it is therefore
veey earnestly to be hoped that he himself may be
enabled to carry out his views immediately on
the return of spring, so that a last and crowning
effort may be adventured on for the salvation of the
missing expedition. A disposition to depreciate the
merit of the ideas thrown out by Captain PENNY
seems to be betrayed by those who are infatuated
with a confidence only in officers capable of inditing
the magical letters R.N. after their signature. Any-
thing like this we would here most strongly repro-
bate as not:only ungenerous but unjust, and we cherish
a belief that the authorities at the Admiralty will
at the first favourable opportunity, evince by
their conduct a magnanimous anxiety to for-
ward the projects of Captain PENNY without any
regard to the circumstances of his not holding a de-
finite commission under Government. By so doing,
those servants of the Crown would be best advancing
the interests of humanity we are fully satisfied, and
be doing honour at the same time to that navy which is
at once the pride and defence of England. It appears
to us, in fine, that the first decision which has to be
arrived at by the Admiralty is, by comparing the
narratives of all those who have hitherto gone in
search of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN, as to whether any one
among those individuals have penetrated to 112 de-
grees W. longitude, and 71 degrees N. latitude ; and
the next desirable resolution is that of empowering
Captain PENNY, immediately on the return of spring,
to proceed with a powerful steamer up the Welling-
ton Channel, in the hope of at length by that means
carrying assistance to the long-lost expedition.

The Great Exhibition will close, according to pre-
sent appearances, this evening, and the glories of the
Crystal Palace will from henceforth be numbered
among the things that have been. We say, according
to present appearances, for we cannot but yet hope
that when her Most Gracious MAJESTY shall have
become acquainted with the ardent, the unanimous
wish of her subjects that the Exhibition, which is even
now at its zenith, should be kept open to the latest
moment allowed by law, she will be pleased to accord
to them the sailors' fourteen days' grace, and to
direct that the final closing of the Exhibition
shall be delayed until the Ist of November.
We are the more desirous that this delay should
take place, because it will afford an opportunity for
reconsidering the question as to whether or not there
should be any ceremonial observed at the closing of
the Exhibition. We are ourselves strongly in favour
of the observance of some such ceremonial—that which
was solemnly opened by prayer cannot be fittingly
closed without thanksgiving to the Great RULER of
the Universe for having vouchsafed to grant so abun-
dantly the blessings which were then craved at his
hands. If there be none of the magnates of the land
present at the closing, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY
should at least be there to return thanks in the name
of the people, and we doubt not but that his presence
would insure the presence of almost all those who
were present at the opening, and thus render the
ending of the Great Exhibition worthy of its com-
mencement.

Even should our hopes be realised, the days of the
Great Exhibition are numbered ; in less than a month
at the farthest it will cease to be. Not so, however,
we trust, with regard to the Crystal Palace. That
will, we hope, be suffered to remain as the Palace of
the People, in which they may take their enjoyment
for ages to come. We hope it may be continued on
its present site, but if the private influence of interested
individuals should so far prevail as to procure its re-
moval from Hyde-park, of which it is the greatest
ornament, we trust that it will be erected in some
other portion of the metropolis (liatterseaufields
has been mentioned as a good site) where, as a winter
garden or a museum, or a picture and sculpture
gallery, it may still continue to be the pride of the
metropolis.

To consider the effects industrial, moral, and po'

tical, which the Great Exhibition cannot fail to pro-
duce throughout the world would require not one
article merely, but a series of articles, and these
matters can be more calmly, at all events more
fittingly considered whBn the Exhibition shall have
closed then they can be at the present moment. We
cannot, however, close this article without being wit-
ness to the exemplary manner in which all our foreign
visitors have, without exception, conducted themselves;
they have proved how false were the accusations
which the reactionary bigots recklessly brought
against them, how absurd were the terrors of the old
women of the SIIITHORP brigade, how transparent
the falsehood of those who contend that it is necessary
for continental Kings to keep up a large military
force to maintain order. The conduct of our foreign
guests since the Ist of May has proved that order can
be maintained without the presence of a military
force, and that when the rulers honestly trust in their
people, the people never betray that trust, but are
their own best maintainers of order.

An admirable suggestion, emanating from one of
our most popular tragedians, will be found elsewhere,
having reference to the surplus of the funds of the
Exhibition, and the most judicious and desirable
medium of its appropriation. Now that the Crystal
Palace has received the last gathering of its millions
of visitors, it is but reasonable to find proposals ad-
vanced from various quarters for the employment of
the funds remaining, after the payment of every ex-
pense, in the hands of the Royal Commissioners.
Among the whole of these proposals not one, we are
satisfied, will be advanced with larger claims upon
general attention than that which has here been ad-
vanced by Mr. JAMES ANDERSON.

We would direct the attention of our readers, more
particularly of those of them who chance to be de-
pendent upon their exertions for their subsiatence, to
the letter of Mr. Gronas THOMAS, which appears in
another column. It is a great credit to the mercan-
tile clerks of this great commercial country, that
they should, by their own unaided efforts, have suc-
ceeded in organizing such an excellent association as
the Provident Clerks, and we hope that the day is
not far distant when every clerk in the kingdom
will feel it to be a duty to bo a member of it.

COURT OF CHANCERY.--It is stated that MT. James
Parker, Queen's Counsel, has been offered one of the Vice-
Chancellorships in Chancery, consequent on the promotiontof
one or both of the present Vice-Chancellors to the Lord
Chancellor's Court of Appeal. Mr. Parker has, we are in-
formed, accepted the offer, and will be officially nominated
to the office now that the question of Vice-Chancellor Bruce's
promotion is finally decided. The Learned Gentleman was
called to the bar in 1829, and enjoys the entire confidence of
the profession for his profound knowledge of the principles of
equity, and his vigoroas intellect.—Morning Paper.
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MR. FREDERICK WEBSTER S BENEFIT.—The an-
nual benefit of Mr. Frederick Webster, to whose admirable
taste and untiring perseverance the visitors to the little
theatre in the Haymarket are under greater obligations than
perhaps they are aware, for the perfect manner in which
when he will be assisted by not only the whole of the distin-
guished artistes who compose the Haymarket company, but
VTheatre, of the members of the corps of her Majesty's
taruea,dr.iwee;couet.
appearupon the stage, takes place on Monday next,
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entertainments this occasion, andill c
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withhis
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Sheridan Knowles's play of Love, after which there will be a
grand opera, then
with The
Pas de Deux, and the whole
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worthy and excellnt
Frederick Webster has long been a
masons, and there cannot brother of the ancient order of Free-
will muster in strong force at e
the
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Blayrnarket on Monday.
MURDER AND SUICIDE
respondent states that yesterdaysic
ERMONDSEY.—A nor-
retire took place in George- afternoon a horrible occur-
named Mary Newman, who, George-street, Bermondsey. A woman
girl about six years old, lodged
alither husband and child, a
paroxysm of insanity inflicted fatal No. 23 in that street, in a
her child with a knife. The persons in upon herself and
neigh-
bourhood were attracted to the spot by
immediate
little girl, whom they found in a • the screams of the
dying state, the mother
being quite dead. A coroner's inquest will
bodies to-day. be held on the