The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-14 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Saturday was, as might have been expected, a very
quiet day at the Exhibition, and showed some
symptoms of exhaustion after the hurry and excite-
ment of the previous day's festival The oompany
were not numerous, but those who were present had
ample amusement in listening to the fine playing of
the French and Belgian bands, which filled up the
middle hours of the day. Amongst the Exhibition
ample occupation was found in discussing the
awards of the previous day, all those who had been
posited over murmuring against the awards, and
all those who had been distinguished ticketing the
award upon their goods. It is, perhaps, too soon to
criticise the decision too minutely, as we believe that
the book contains many errors, and that the com-
missioners and their staff are now buoy making
corrections for a second edition. One fact has,
however, given some satisfaction, and that is the
impartiality which has been shown as between
British and foreign exhibitors. It had been appre-
hended that the strangers were to be treated with
undue preference ; but it is now found that, nume-
rically speaking, the distribution has been pretty
equally divided. It is the intention of some of
the more important exhibitors who have been, much
to their own surprise, overlooked by the jurors, to
petition for medals, and it is therefore not im-
probable but that more than one of the awards will
undergo re-consideration.
Much surprise has been expressed at the
seeming smalluess of the return of numbers
for Friday as compared with the appearance
of the interior, and some persons have gone so far
as to assert that some thousands were surreptitiously
in of whose entry no record was kept. We
lieve, however, that this supposition has no
foundation, for according to our experience a
return of 44,000 would give a very fair representa-
tion of the apparent number of the company. It
is true that on entering the building the eye was
met by the appearance of an immense crowd, but
this was on the eastern platform, into which the
most frequented entrance opens, and in the nave,
where every visitor sought to put himself, in order
to obtain a good view of the procession. But the
courts were empty, and all the back portion of the
galleries, whereas on the great 60,000 days all parts
of the building were densely thronged. The fact is
that the admissions are now most carefully watched
and every care taken that nobody shall get in
without the officials knowing " the reason why."
Our reporter, whose duty it is to visit the building
every day, is obliged to submit to a careful exa-
mination of his ticket at each time of entrance.

The ten-shilling tickets are selling very rapidly.
The number of medals and honourable mentions
is 12,300, divided amongst 25,000 exhibitors.
The highest temperature during the day, as
shown by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermo-
meters, was—in the nave, 65.5 ; in the galleries,
67.6.

The following are the total numbers admitted
during Saturday, July 12, compared with the
corresponding day in 1851 :

1802.
&noon tickets
Saturday, July 12
trayroeut 19,899

Total 2D.667
1861.

live ShWing day. liras tislisla
Saturday, July 14
Total ll,lBl

Among the many sovereigns who have taken a
lively interest in the International Exhibition, none is mom
anxious for its success than the venerable King of Wurtem.
berg, now bordering on his Slit year. He has always re-
garded the Exhibition as a mighty step for the advancement
of art, science, and civilization, and his government have
afforded every possible encouragement to the manufacturers
of the kingdom to make a good exhibition of their indus-
tries. The result is, that there are in all 144 exhibitors from
Wurtemberg, and that of these, the half have received
medals, sod one-fourth more bad honourable mention made
of them. So gratified was the King on learning the distin-
guished position achieved by the manufacturers of his
kingdom, that when her Majesty's Commissioners requested
that some special international representative be sent for the
ceremony of awarding the prises no Friday last, he sent his
own son-in-law, his Highness Prince Hermann of Saxe-
Weimar Eisenach, to assist at the ceremony, in addition to
Dr. von Steinbeis, the President of the Board of Trade and
Industry, the acting Commissioner.

141.1)ALL.1 ON IFORTRATT OF THE LATE PRINCE CON-
soßT.—Boon after the lamented death of their patron, the
kW Prime Consort, the council of the Statiatsoal Society
emismiasiosed Mr. T. Bathe to eremite for them a medal.
lion portrait of the Priam, to be placed in their meeting
roan. This work is now finished. sod accent fail of giving
satisfaction to the council. The bkerseas is admirable, and
the effect of the medallioe, with its black frame sod simple
band of gilding, is very pleasing. As a work *feet it is highly
creditable both to tie soeietty_aed the senlyror.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—IiALF -A- CLOWN DAY..--
SATURDAY JULY 12.—Admiarions on payment, 24004 dilto
es
isea this* 1,845; total, 4,750.