The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-03 00:00:00

Commence at 7 o'clock

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
verts), the extraor..inary Violin Performances of the cele.
trated Infant DELEVIEURE FAMILY, and the usna'
Vocal Concert.

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Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Uoison (the Trish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures arc added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection: from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINORAH.

tat THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 3.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
64—lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.

BAROMETER—SO.I2.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, kith fine sunshiny
weather.

lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY.—Morning, sh. 53m.—Afternoon, 6h. /6m.
To-Monuow-Morniug, 6h. 43m.—Afternoon, ih. 16m.

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1859.

Now that Arctic expeditions may be presumed
to be over for the present generation, the time for
review will come. It cannot be long before, as
we may hope, some competent person will con-
dense, into a fair-sized octavo, the results and the
interesting facts of the whole, and give us a classic
on the subject. The fuller accounts of each indivi-
dual undertaking must be left for the study of
special inquirers, but the public must have in clear
description, illustrated by a progressive series of
maps, the gradual accumulation o Arctic knowledge
up to the .resent time. Such a work must do rigid
justice to all. Its pages must be the in memoriam

for all who have deserved to be remembered ; and
sometimes the sad story of official dulness and per-
versity must be inexorably told.
_

Whenever this is done, the name of Dr. KING, the
companion of Sir GEORGE BACK, and the unceasing
but unavailing monitor of the Admiralty cannot be
omitted. He was the TIB.ESIAS who-told the plain
facts of their mistake, before it was too late, and,
after it was too late, to our CEDIPUSES of the Ad-
miralty ; but, alas ! they would not believe that
Lords of the Admiralty could err, or that a Loctor
of Medicine could know better than they, till the
irresistible evidence of events proved that they,
not he, were the blind. Probably many of our
readers forget that Dr.KING had told their Lordships,
before the party of 105 had left the Erebus and
Terror, where they were to be found. He insisted
earnestly, with the earnestness of a man entreating
for his own life, to be sent on an overland expedi-
tion to the great Fish River, predicting that the
crews must have been compelled to leave their
vessels somewhere on the western side of North
Somerset, and proving his point 'by his special
knowledge of those regions. He also predicted
that it must be for the great Fish River, whose
estuary is partly formed as it were by the shore of
North Somerset and King William's Island, that
the crews would make, and that such as survived
would be found. His arguments were snubbed by
my Lords—worse than that, mercenary motives
were hinted, as actuating a man whom all who
know him would pronounce a perfect enthusiast
for his object. He had• travelled the country, he
had health, youth, strength, ardour, to travel it
again ; he bad an overpowering conviction that if
he went he could save the lives of 138 noble men,
(and had he gone he could have saved the 105) ;
and this, was the man whom Admiralty Lords
"Fred, or at least turned the cold shoulder,

and sent about his business with shabby in-
sinuations. The result is that a coroner's inquest,
could one be impandled on the skeletons found by
M'CLlNTocx's party, must return as their verdict,
" Died of cold and starvation, caused by the Board
of Admiralty refusing to send Dr. KING to their
relief in 1847."

In the Doctor's " FRANKLIN ExpGdition from first
to last," Churchill, 1855 (observe the date), there is a
letter dated 10th of June, 1847 (note again the date),
and this letter predicts the facts we have just men-
tioned in specific language. Let the reader now
turn to the conjectural map by which he sustained
them, and to the subsequant Admiralty chart, and
mark how wonderfully his geographical arguments
were proved true by the vouchers of the Admiralty
itself. Let them next remember that Dr. RAE,
went on an overland expedition for the Hucl
gany in 1854, denying the possibility
the lost ships in the predicted

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