The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-13 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The usual moderate attendance of Friday was
yesterday enlivened by the presence of more of our
fashionable world than one would have thought
remained yet in town at this advanced period of
the year. Amongst others we noticed the Earl of
Clarendon and the Hon. Mrs. Villiers, the Duchess
Dowager of Somerset, Lord Harry Vane, Hon. F.
and Mrs. Peel, Lady Rowley, the Due de
Chartres, Arm
The complete and revised edition of the Illus-
trated Catalogue is now placed for sale on all the
stands in the building. It forms two large hand-
some octavo volumes, and the selling price is a
guinea. The illustrations are very numerous, but
as they have been supplied by the exhibitors, their
merits as works of art are rather unequal. The
principal object appears to have been to give
the public as close an idea as possible of the article
represented without much attention toartistic effect.
As a complete and authentic record of the Exhibi-
tion of 1862 this publication is of considerable
value. Some of the exhibitors have availed them-
selves very largely of its pages as a means of pic-
torial illustration. Messrs. Platt occupy eighteen
pages with their machinery ; Mr. Harrison, the
eminent optician, has also a good deal of space for
his various instruments, with which the public are
already' so familiar. Thomas's needle factory is
preserved in woodcut, and Elkiugtou's noble de-
sign's in the precious metals are all pictorially re-
presented. The jewellers—Hunt and Haskell,
Hancock, Emanuel, Arc.—all occupy spaces with the
representations of their costly wares. Better than
all this, however, the errors and omissions of the
first catalogue are corrected in this edition.
The visitor to Class 25 will do well to stop
for a moment before the elaborate fancy
work in hair exhibited by Mr. Augustus Her-
mann. The design is most elaborate, but it
will be seen and speak for itself. It will be suffi-
cient here to note the marvellous neatness of the
execution and the taste and skill with which so
delicate a material as hair is worked into a variety
of forms.

In consequence of the indisposition of Earl
Granville, the further consideration of the clos-
ing question is postponed until Monday next. An
official despatch has been received from the court
of Turin, confirming the possession of Magni's
statue of the Reading Girl to Mr. G. S. Nottage,
of the London Stereoscopic Company.
The highest temperature yesterday, as shown
by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers,
was :—ln the nave, 65.2 deg. ; in the galleries, (36.5
deg. ; in the western annex, 70.1 drg. A rise
since Thursday of about 3 degrees. The reading
was taken at 3 o'clock p.m.
The following were the total numbers admitted
yesterday, compared with the corresponding day
in 1851 :

Friday. Sept 12 (b Id. day) .. t,...ymeus s,:asou tickets
Itytaa
Total 11,481

Friday, Sept. 12 ,2a.'6,1. day) .. 7
p, .4itla son tickets 2,rneut

Total.

17,969

WILLS AND BBQUINTIL —The will of Major-
General the Hon. Robert Bruce, of St. James's Palace, was
proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate
bthe executors,
Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, Bart., M.P., the testa-
tor's brother-in-law, and the Hon. Thomas Charles Bruce,
the testator's brother. The personalty wan sworn under
25,0001. General Bruce executed hie will 1860, and be-
queathed all the property of which be died possessed
in England, Scotland, Canada, and elsewhere, to his
relict for life, and upon her decease (there being no issue)
he bequeaths to his nephew and godson, the Hoe. Robert
Bruce, son of his brother the Earl of Elgin, K.T., late
Governor-General of Canada, the sum of 5,000/., and the
remainder of the entire property is to devolve to the
issue of his said nephew.—The will of Lieutenant-
General William Sutherland, C. 8., formerly of Nereids,
Invernessehire, N. 8., but late of Glenville Bittirne,
Southampton, was proved in London by the relict, sole
executrix. The penwsialty was sworn under 20.0001. The
general's will is of moderate dimensions, but contains seve-
ral bequests and directions, some of which are of a peculiar
character. The testator has bequeathed to his wife a life
interest in all his property, subject to the payment of some
small sums to entail) members of his family. Upon the
decease of the relict 5,0001., which the testator received
upon her marriage with him, the general has left to his
wife's father's family. The remainder of the property, with
the exmmtion of a few legacies of inconsiderable amount, is
to be divided amongst the female orauches of the general's
family.—Blustroted London News.
A CIIDSCH-RATA Cownter.—On the 4th inst. a
vestry meeting was held at Horecastle, Lincolnshire, for
the purpose of laying a rate for the expenses of the church
during the current year. The vestry-hall was densely
crowded by both churchmen and nonconformists. Mr.
Rd. Clitherow, the vicar's churchwarden. read the follow-
ing estimate .---Salaries, 351. ; repairs, 40/. ; visitation fees,
1/. 17s. 7d. ; regulating the town clock, 2/. ; cleaning, 8/. ;
gas, 141. ; bell ringers, ; stationery, lee.. 21. •t total,
105/. 17s. Ti]. To meet these expenses he proposed a rate
2/1. in the pound, which would realise 82/. 13s. 3d., making,
with wears of 221. ss. 5d.. a total sum of 1041. 18s. Bd.
Mr. Thomas Briggs requested the chairman to enter the
following protest cm the minutes:—"That there being •
considerable amount of arrears uncollected for the past and
previous years, I prated against another rate being made
until the said arrears be collected." Mr. Wm. Kemp,
druggist,
then moved that no rate be granted. and on •
show of hands this amendment was carried by 73 against
67. A poll was demanded by Mr. Clitherow, which closed
on Friday evening, when the numbers were—for the rate,
213 ; against it, 110; majority for the rate, 105.—Stamford
Mercury.

LsOos. —The Gazette of last night states that her
Majesty his been pleased to appoint William It cOo_ alvd
Co/Eward Le Gros. Begs., to be members of the Legislative
onseil of the settlasawat of Lego&