The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-28 00:00:00

Till INIWATIONAL EXHIBITION.

MUSIC.

There were a good many royal and distinguished 1 CRYSTAL PALACE.
visitor* mewl tho company at the Exhibition on The concert of Welsh national music, of which
Saturday, whim they found the temperature very we had roman to make favourable mention noes tins
much elevated, if we are to believe our own sense. hark when it wax given at St. Jamee's Hall, was no-
tions and the daily report of Mears. Negretti and Portedd on `Saturd•Y, at B,tbuthinl, to the delight of a Sr."
&umbra. There were the Grand Duchess of Meck-
assemblage of routers. The singers were, Mai Edith
Wynne and Miss lesoelles. Mr. LawL;es tame was in the
lenburgh Straits, whom English people will still programme, but for some unexplained rem= he did not
affectionately Gall the Princess Augusta, her young appear. Miss Wynne, as before, pleased greatly by the
sou, the Prince Adolphus, and Hia Royal Highness unaffected simplicity of her singing. It will be her own
the Duke of Oambridge. There were also the
fault if she d 3 not take a high place in her prefewrion ; for
Princess Mug and party, the Prince de J°invutar she has a beautiful voice, an engaging manner, intelligence,
Coyote de Paris, Due de Chartres, and Prince of feeling, end • cousiderable share of musical attainmeet. The
Orange. Sir Wentworth Dilke had the honour twenty harps, headed by Mr. John Thomas, Mr. Baler
of escorting the distinguished visitorsover the build-
Chatterton, Mr. Wright, and other eminent performers,
lag. A not less interesting, although humbler
came out splendidly. "The march of the men of Harlsch''
, were the 400 workmen of Mr. Hollingsworth,
—certsioi one of the grandest wartunce in existence—
ot Maidstone, for whom that gentleman with conai-
derate liberality had purchased half-crown tickets, createde a t sensation, and narrowly escaped a double
; and the soft, subdued manner in which the choir of
in order that by going on one of the less crowded
the Vocal Association rendered " All through the night,"
days they might have the better view of the contents
wu ce
of the Exhibition. Mr. Hollingsworth also prefers greo:tsimpronvoetmfeanat
toongiviete
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sending his men on Saturday because on that day
taste for the music of the Principality.
the mill closes earlier, and there is less loss of
labour. Messrs. Betts, of Aylesford, have
followed the good example, and have pur-
chased 500 tickets for their people on Saturday
next. We trust that the generous epidemic will
spread, and that this glorious opportunity of edu-
cating the working classes will not be allowed to
pass by by any great employer of labour. If any of
the latter were in the building on Saturday, they
sued have seem how amply Mr. Hollingsworth
found his reward in the happy, pleased, and grate-
ful countenances of his workpeople. As yet the
provincial manufacturers have had a monopoly of
liberality, but we trust that their metropolitan
brethren will not allow themselves to be left long
behind. Time presses now, and the weather is
propitious. There is an active organisation at work
for the advantage of foreign workmen, why not get
up something of the same kind for the skilled and
unskilled labourers of London ?

Some of the foreign exhibitors, with a narrow
huckstering spirit which does them no credit, and
which in the end will not pay, are making strenuous
endeavours to spoil their market in London. Some
of them, filled with the idea that John Bull is at
ones a drones and a fool, affix the most extraordi-
nary priors to articles which can any day be seen
ticketed for a few shillings in the shop windows of
the Strand. Others, still more culpable, contract
to give duplicates of the exhibita, which when sent
home turn out to be a very inferior article. The
Zollverein people are most complained of in this
way, but they are not alone, as we have found the
exhibitors of mock jewellery in the French depart-
ment asking prices for their chains and bracelets
which would have gone a very considerable way to-
vardspurehming the genuine article. Such practices
will soon work their own cure, but it will be at the
expense of our continental friends, to whom
nobody in this country wishes anything but well.
The following are the total numbers admitted on
Saturday, compared with the corresponding day
it 1851 :

1881.
&tardy, July 26 (Hatt4-Crown Sauce baste
Day Papmeat

14513

Total

26,3 U

1861.
Wards,. Julyll6 (Fivelltilllng I Berm tictiolB
DAY) 'Parma

... •,487
5.918

Total

.... 10,399

Total number of visitors to the Exhibition com-
pared with 1361, from the let of May to the 26th
of July (inclusive) 13 weeks, 75 Exhibition days :

&WM tlekeis

Sisson tickets
rienseni

573,742
2.740.770