New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-25
LECTURES.

AN immense audience tnrOnged the ao'
erEacle, last evening, to hear Lecture from z K
Kane, one OF the Surgeons of the American Arctic
Expedition upCn the history Of the fortunes OF thai
undertaking and the character Of the regions into
which il penetrated. The audience hung with the
EXTREMIST interest upon the story Of tAe traveller
who had returned from the bourne of the undiscov-
eied country, which was told with simplicity and
directless which were the best assurances OF its
genuineI ess.
He began by saving that he vas not lecturer
that he came rather to move sympathy than impair,
new facts 1t is hard for us who know day and nigh.
and the sweet alteration of the seasons to picture
a cline clad in endless Right and winter. He d.
rec,td attention to the maps he had prepared illus
trave OF the geography of those regions stated the
vast extent of emptying INTO that vas. sea,
which has not less than coo mics OF coast AMI IN
olcsted the three entrances into the great archpel
sgo-lst, through Behring's Suslis ~, from the
Atlantic and 3D. through Bafia's Bay.
II now the question were asked IN relation 70 the
Moth. West Passage, Cm bon0-io What end he
would answer that the most splendid results had al
ways arisen from visionary ends, and although ihe
direct pecuDary profit not TO De accurately com.
putec, yet the scientific gan was Inc alcuaole ana
The Newfoundland Fishery and other discoveries OF
TIE most practical utility had been promoted oy SCH
entihc voyages The Lecturer admir- ably disposed
of point. He referred to Sir John Ross expe-
oltIon and 10 that Of Sir Edward Parry, and pro-
ceeeed TO say that Great Britain, always prominent II
not foremost enterprises OF this character, deter
mined upon still further effort and the Erebus and
Terror were accordingly fitted out, and Sir John
Franklin selected 10 command then. The name OF
the gaan! hero was received with sincere applause
by The aucielce.l He was not fighter, said Dr.
hare but an explorer. No better selection could
have betp made His former voyages had already
given to him high character as an explorer, and
ms fame WAS not confined only TO the country OF his
blttn but " as as vide as the world which he had
btneh.ed b. his discoveries. He united, also, to the
perseverance, al q daring specially required for such
an eIerpriSe, uany excellent traits OF character,
and was still remembered among the Indians as the
white chief aho would not xiii mosquito. To fur
tner illustrate IN some degree the character OF Sir
John Franklin, be cited his exploration OF the Rlyer
Copl ermlne, and the many penis and privauoas OF
tha. yoysge-thtir sickness and destltuton-the
Thermometer many ces rees below zsro-thelr rescue
ON many daIgers-ther final return, and the debt
OF sIatlIuGe TO which they were entitled,
In May, lS45, he sailed, and his first Imprisonment
Was among the pack ice Of Bafin's Bay, where he
was last seen. Time passed. and mems minds,
speculatDg upon his tate, grew anxious, ana IN
who had been five years In the ice. One mlnd d.
itcteS the movement and concentrated the enIhusi.
asm it was Lady Franklin. The audience greeted
the name with a hearty burst OF applause Great
Britain, Denmark, Russia aud the United States
united in the effort The next sentence was enthu-
siasllcally recelved.1
one citizen Of the United States, a resident Of
New.York, whose name Is inscribed on the farthest
extremity OF land vet discovered and recorded IN
the Arctic region, Henry Grinnel, offered to ht out
expedition for the search at his own expense,
asking only Of Congress the permission to sail under
tie cOuntiy's flag The permission was granted IN
h true spirit In which the application was made,
and the Advance and Rescue were fitted out. They
tet sail from Newly ork on the 23d of May, 1850:
% Gays after they deserted the rugged mountains Of
Greenland, and in a very short time thereafter were
embedded In the ice OF that frozen region.
DR.. Kane proceeded TO describe the discovery Of
the graves, the latest Of which bore the date April
1916, and IN the bay they saw before them, the ex
pecition was sure that Sir John Franklin must have
passed the winter. But mysterious as had been the
departure of Sir John from this point, we were des
I'll ed to follow. The lecturer described the motion
OF The vessel preventing fire on board, and ice form.
ing the table as they sat at table They drifted
ID this to latitude 75s 25 the highest point
ever attained by keel OF Christian ship, OF which
there is record and the highest point OF land they
oescried they named "GriBnelfs Land after the
patron Of the enterprise They unused as they
went of the brave navigator who had preceded
them, wondering if perhaps lie had emerged in
some open sea, whence it was impossible for them
unaided TO return lie regarded this as having been
SIT John FIanklins course, and said 1t now SIX
years since be had passed the recorded frontier Of
ibis world. The important question that presents
itself was the possibility of his having survived. He
belle we'd with many others that Sir John Franklin
did still survive. The ice which destroyed the
sells In these regions, always proved the refuge Of
the crews, and II was little remarkable tina. sell
dom, If ever, was both vessel and the crew lost
In the great destruction of vessels In 1882, when
large number of vessels we're DESTROYED nearly 900
men were thus thrown upon the ice, and out OF the
whole number only seven persisted Moreover, ves-
sells generally avoid the same proximity, so as to
avoid the same danger. He did not think, there
fore, that the Erebus aud Terror were both de-
sroyed with their crews for II the vessels even
were destroy ed, their crews might still survive He
spoke OF the resources of the region and the
means of sustaining life, and again declared his be-
lief that there still vas hope. High as they we're
to the North the reindeer went still farther There
Was also an abundance of fowl In four days the
united vessels saw % polar bears and without pccal
effort or pursuit OF them, succeeded in killing four.
There are, besides these, an abundance of foxes
and hafes, ard on the whole, he had rather take
bs chances OF supporting solitary life unaded in the
Polar zone than the center of civilized Europe.
Another question was can Europeans resist the ef-
1eCe OF the climate OF this region, heIscurvy &c!
lie said the evidence was that Europeans have re-
sisted 1t, and he cited the European residents of
SplIzheigen, where for many years they have lived
IN huts and subsisted upon the flesh of Polar bears,
the warus and seals. He had seen Also far within
the Arctic region, an old Dane, who for sixty out Of
eighty years had lived In sight OF snow, and except
iHs the brow bread of the Baltic had lived mainly
upon the flesh Of the seal and deer He cited the
eICurance OF Sir John Ross, in one of his expefi-
tioTs and The fact that when rescued, he had trav
eled Line hundred miles into these statements
he compressed his ideas, that further search for the
loit expedition was not one OF those things which
sound argument should reject. He then again re-
veited to his former view, that q few hours more
perhaps OF the wind which carried them to the
ueme North, may have carried Sir Jonn FraRkhn's
expedition into further region and into currents
out OF which, upaided, there no escape, and no
mesLs OF communication with other vOyagers who
may not pass into that re gIoD.
The lecturer DIRE q vivid picture NJ the marvel
lous scenery and the wild life OF the polar esions
tbe strange noise OF the breaking OF the ice-now
like The whining OF puppy, then like the calls OF
distress, and then again like booming cannon. The
zee, generally about five feet thick and much re-
seMbIIg glass, which before was level, is now
Pile in ridges and as the are forced upon
each other, every variety OF noise Increases Now,
low and plaiDtive now, shreking wildly. gradually
ming TO climax OF fearful intensity, under which
all language ceases, and then dying away into the
softs 81 cadeLcenolses 80 marked and o.tentimes
regular that they were regarded and called the pulses
OF The ice AND from these voices of the ice they
ere generally capable OF Judging Of Its movements
Enteiue Bsfhh's Bay, and stretched upon the ice In
Ter buffalo robes, an officer cal upon them 20
hasten up. The ice voices have been rene wed with