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

Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS ETENING the performances will commence with
AS TOUT IKEJaques, Mr. Howe ; Orlando, Mr. W.
Farren ; uchstone, Mr. Compton ; Rosalind, Miss Amy
fiedg-wick ; Celia, Miss M. Ternan.
After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND
goW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers,
Mrs. B. White, Sir 4. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
And HALLOWE'EN.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
(Bth time) a new Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled
IVY HALL. Messrs. H. Bland, H. Widdicombe, Frank
Matthews, Graham, Garden; Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Weston,
Miss Kate Saville, and Mrs. Charles Young.
To conclude with a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours,
by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE.

-MEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHL
A-1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING will be performed THE WILLOW
COPSE. Luke, Mr. B. Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ;
Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford.
Followed by LOVE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Mice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, new comedy, THE WIDOW'S WED-
DING, supported by Messrs. S. Emery, Barrett, C. Young ;
Mesdames Katharine Hickson, Murray, Arden, Menders, &c.
New burlesque, by Leicester Buckbagham, Esq., entitled
VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond Papa, in which Messrs
Barrett, C. Young, Francis ; Mesdames Frank Matthews,
Clara St. Cease, Lydia Thompson, and a numerous Corps de
sallet will appear.
To conclude with A DEAD SHOT.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
fro:n 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform-
s
ance commences at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR ; or, An-
ether Retreat from Moscow.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7 o'clock

ANTERBUR NT HALL CONCERTS.—
EVERY EVENING.—The ilinsic of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public In
ances of the England at these
cele-
Con-
lerts), the extraorainary Violin Perform
L_rated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual
'focal Concert.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchileld, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are 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
nights of the metropolis.
Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection', from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINORAH.

sr THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, °mosEa 3.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
66--highest since noon yesterday.
64--lowest this morning and during the night.
69—this day at noon.
_

automETEn-30.12.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with fine sunshiny
weather.

HIGH WATER:AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, sh. 53m.—Afternoon, 6h. 16m,
To-Mom:taw-Morning, 6h. 43m.—Afternoon, 711. 16m,

Now that Arctic expeditions may be presumed
to be over for the present generation, the time for
I
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 Arctic of knowledge
lap to the present 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 TIRESIAS 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 boctor
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 had 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
cuffed, 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 impanelled on the skeletons found by
Nl`CLlNTocic'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 Expedition 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 subsequent 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,
who went on an overland expedition for the Hud-
son's Bay Col npany in 1854, denying the possibility
of finding any traces of the lost ships in the predicted

-----___
V g.
ye
4-4 S ~T.CLU l• MA
.2 \A VNII
C

THE SUN.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1869.