188 LOW TEMPERATURE OF THEATRE. [December, 



occasion. Having, during his recent travels, observed the highly elastic 

 properties of ice, he has, without hesitation, decided to construct his 

 stage entirely of that material, and he trusts that no misconstruction 

 (such as scarcity of deal boards) may arise from an act certainly original) 

 and based on scientific principles. 



Tke Hanayer and Sole Proprietor also takes this opportunity of offer- 

 ing his acknowledgments to the Public for the very liberal support he 

 has already received at their hands, and ventures at the same time to 

 remind his friends (for such he must always consider the Public) that 

 for the consummation of his fondest hopes, (viz. the realization of a 

 moderate competency wherewith to retire into private life,} he still looks 

 to them ; and, relying on a discerning people and conscious of his own 

 deserts, he will not desert the stage while a. plank of it remains. 



The House will open at 6.30, the Performance commencing 

 precisely at 7 o'clock. 



Tickets may be had of H. BKIANT, at the Arctic Printing Office, 

 Winter Quarters, Northumberland Sound. 



N.B. The business of the Printing Office is considerably retarded, in 

 consequence of the ink free:iny on the rollers. Printer's Devil. 



BY AUTHORITY.] [H. Briant, Printer. 



Commander Richards, the indefatigable Proprietor of 

 Her Majesty's Theatre Royal, supported the establishment 

 and his character with his accustomed spirit and effect, 

 and was most rapturously and warmly applauded, par- 

 ticularly at the customary royal message, but this time 

 varied to home-brewed Allsopp. That name will live for 

 ages in the recollection of all Polars. 



Sir Edward Parry mentions that the zeal of his mana- 

 ger produced representations even when the thermometer 

 fell below zero. In the present instance the tempera- 

 ture was 34 outside, but the after-deck thermometer 

 is registered as low as 37. It was, however, to my 

 feelings, uncomfortably cold, even in Her Majesty's box. 



Great dissatisfaction appeared to prevail at some por- 

 tion of the speech of the now Proprietor, intimating an 



