The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-04 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The attendance at the Exhibition yesterday was
the smallest that has been collected within its walls
-owe the commencement of the season, so much so
that the place looked like a desert during the
_mater part of the day. A gross number of some-
where about 15,000 would hardly fill one quarter of
the building. 8o far, all anticipations as to increase
..f interest towards the close of the season seem to
lK eompletely at fault, and if things go on iu this
the final balance-sheet will become a docu-
ie.ut of considerable interest to the guarantors.
one fact, however, affords a glimpse of sunshine.
Her Majesty is expected to return to London on the
zit!' instant, in which case the Prince of Wales
may, not improbably, preside at the coming cere-
in..ny, and every effort will be used to make it as
imposing and attractive as possible.
'The exhibitors, especially the foreign ones, expect
_Treat things from the fortnight of sales, and the
French have already, it is said, asked for tenders
for turning their court into a baraar. Others of
the foreigners are believed to be making prepara-
tions of another description, namely, importing
large additional quantities of goods, which they
hope to sell in addition to those which have been
by them exhibited during the season. One thing
is certain, namely, that at a certain foreign colony,
not a hundred miles from the Exhibition, the receipt
of cases and packages from abroad has been rather
abundant within the last few days. A curl-
..us circumstance may be mentioned, as show-
ing how much better some of our foreign
friends have fared in the present Exhibi-
tion than they did in its predecessor of 1851.
In the first case the Prassians lost all
their packing-cases, and were obliged to provide
new ones when packing up their goods at the close
of the season. This time they took the precaution
t, build a store for the cases, and keep them under
lock and key, but now, when the close of the sea-
-5.41 approaches, they find that they will have little
or nothing to take home.

The only schools or organised parties visiting the
Eshibition yesterday were the inmates of Shorwliich
nor almshouses, 19, franked in by C. S. Butler,
E. 41., M. P., and the employes of Stanmore Brewery,
14, expenses paid by Mr. T. Clutterbuck.

- 'The highest temperature yesterday, as shown
by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers,
ras:—ln the nave, 67.7 deg. ; in the galleries, 69.2
deg. ; in the western annex, 73.1 deg. The read-
lugs were taken at 3.15 o'clock p.m.
The following were the total numbers admitted
Testerday, compared with the corresponding day
in 1851 :

Halts-Crown da7. 73esson tickets ONO
Friday, Oct. 3
Total 16,311

Half &Crown day. i Berne tickets
lay, Oct.. 3
Total 32,0111

We (Gazette of Bankruptcy) understand that Mr.
emmiationer Evans, who has for so many years, and with
6,, much ability, filled the office of Chief Commissioner

of the Court of Bankruptcy, in London, will not
gain take his seat in that court, but will retire
at the clone of the Bankruptcy year, on the
11th of the present month. The number of
commissioners of the court will thus be reduced to four,
sad one other resignation, whenever it may take place, will
Mace the judicial establishment in 13asiaghalkstreet to
the number limited by the act of 1861—that is to say,
three.

Messrs. Mappin Brothers will apply to the Corn-
minion& in Bankruptcy on Monday next that the bank.
rapt M. Veillard and the Hon. Mr. Cadqpn may be exa-
mined in open wart.

I Memoir of Professor Wilson (Christopher
North), by his daughter, Mrs. Gordon, of Edinburgh, is
almost ready. Correspondences are promised from J. G.
Lockhart, J. Hogg, Jeffrey, Do Quincey, Wordsworth,
Limb, Coleridge, Carlyle, and many others ; besides notices
of various individuals who made a figure during the age in
which Wilson lived.

Professor Huxley's volume of lectures or essays
on the " Evidence II to Man's Place in Nature" will appear
in the course of a week or so. It will comprise four
articles. I. The Natural History of Mac-like Apse. 2.
The Relation of Man to the Lower Animals. 3. The
Methods and Results of Palxontology ; and 4. The Fossil
I:maim of Man. This, with Sir Charles Lyell's forth-
ming "Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man,"
and Prnfessor Daniel Wilson's " PreeHiatoric Mao," should
furnish (says the Literary Budgelabundant subject-matter
t r many a lively and tough discumion during the coming
sinter.

A meeting in support of the Worcester Diocesan
Training School afforded to Lord Lyttelton and Mr.
A.Merley an opportunity of expressing their views on the
wield state of the education question. Lord Lyttelton
referred to the revision of the education code, which he said
bad placed the training school at a greater disadvantage
than it occupied before ; but he added that their institution
was full, and the teachers trained in it were in great de-
mand throughout the district. Mr. Adderley wee more
favourable to the revision than Lord Lyttelton, and assumed
to himself the responsibity of initiating the change ; but be
maintained that it was esiential to the proper working of
education that the schoolmasters should be trained, and that
the support of the training schools should be met by govern-
meat grant rather than by voluntary aid.

The annual meeting of the Bedfordshire Agricul-
Mal Society was held yesterday at Bedford. Lord Charles
I:swell, Colonel Gilpin, M.P., Colonel Flamer, and others
present. Colonel Gilpin was in the chair, and made
a rigorous defence of the system of priselitring to the
agricultural labourers.

It is rumoured that Mr. Boucicault has taken
Agtley's Theatre. The house (says the Athmurum) is well
tined for the style of pieces which he is likely to produce,
asdequally well situated in relation to authoress disposed
to be pleased with the spectacular drama.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERKENWELL

A LAUGHABLE APPLICE7IOII.-THE COEHITITWEN AVD THE

A young man, well dressed, who said he bad oome from
Yorkshire for the purpose of seeing the Exhibition, applied
to Mr. D'Eyncourt for a summons against an omnibus con-
ductor, under the following circumstances :
The applicant stated that he was riding home from the
Exhibition on the top of an omnibus, when he gave the
conductor a haffcrown to take his fare from. The cooductor
20.24 in change, and amongst it was a shilling of
the Fourth, date 1826, having on the back of
rt7rion. Fancying that the shilling was not all right, he
asked the conductor if it was so. The conductor began
scratching hid head, said that the lion-backed shillings
were very valuable, in consequence of their being so scarce,
and that he (applicant) might soon earn a fortune, as he
could get eighteen pence for every one he could get of
them. (A laugh.) He also maid that be was sorry be bad
given him (applicant) the shilling, but as it was done he
could not help it, but as be wanted one very particularly
to give to his sweetheart, he would give him eighteen
pence for the one he bad. He (applicant) said he
should at once have it, on which the conductor
gave him eight penny pieces. (A laugh.) He (ap-
plicant) told him that he was wrong, and that he had
promised him le. 6d. foe the shilling piece, on which the
conductor and the passengers outside burst into a roar of
laughter, and the conductor said he had done no such thing
all he bad promised he had performed, viz., given him eight
in pence for the shilling, and he might do what he liked for
the other Impales, for be did not care for the magistrate.
(A laugh.) Under these circumstances he had to apply for
a summons to compel the conductor to refund the fourpenoe.
Mr. IYEyncourt said the applicant seemed to have been
very foolish in the matter, and referred him to the County
Court. He thought applicant had better let the affair rest.