The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

A fine Haunch of Venison every day at 6 o'clock.

N.B. Daring the Exhibition Seuon The London Dinner will be
served daily from two until nine o'clock. and Dinners in the
Oaf ee Room Ale carte from one until ten o clock.
Open on Bandage et four o'clock.
RAMYIIIII. Pragemlor.

BLONDIN TO-MORROW, at Four o'clock.—
In addition to his nameroas marvellous la on the
RIO Hope, BLONDIN wit introdasis his CHAIR
DRAT, balandng himself In MULL standing, and reclining
mutants, the chair resting on the rope by one kg only.

CRYSTAL PALACE. - ARRANGEMENTS
for TO•MORROW (Turday).—Open at Nloe.
Orchestral Band at
Great Organ Pe riormanes at LSO
Blondin at
Orchestral Bend at
Adana/oat to all. One Slinking. Pathan. Sixpence.

PHI LONDON PAVILION.-LITTLE
1 COWELL' is still the centre of attraction. her astounding
performance elkiting the most retheeinsbe deseonstrations of
dellOt. Wm Constance, the star of the Wed: Madame Loeeblni,
Madame Valckensere, dam Collins, and a host of talent, appear
EVERY EVENING at Ow LONDON PAVILION.
LOIRL and SON.76IIIAMMER, Proprietor.

AD. VALENTIN, Purveyor of Wines to the
French department at the International Zslllbltleo.
Beam-Beaujolais, 1868, 18s. per down Bordeaux, 1e55.
Orme', 1868, 111.: Obeid's, 1868. r7a ; Beaune, 1558, 568: Old
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Drawing-room Suites in Velvet L.IS • 0
Drawing-room Suttee, complete 36 0 0
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ALL the YEAR ROUND.
Containing the new Serial Story entitled
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The preoeding volumes are always to be had. They include
the following Novels:
A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectation& By Charles
Dickens.

The Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins.
A Days Ride, a Life Romance. By Charles Laver.
♦ Strange Story. By sir Edward Balwer Lytton.
All the Year Round is published also in weekly numbers, price
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THE INTERNATIONAL =BIB ITION.-

The ticket-holders on Saturday last formed one-
third of the visitors, and the numbers paying were
equivalent to a shilling audience of about 25,000,
whereas if it had been a shilling day, there is
little doubt but that, with the half-holiday system,
now so general, the numbers would have ap-
proached, or perhaps passed, 60,000, to the manifest
advantage of the revenue as well as to the con-
venience of thousands of the public who cannot
make time to go on any other day. The attendance
looked unusually spare, there being not the
slightest symptom of a crowd anywhere except in
front of the Koh-i-noor. _ _

The sustained attraction of this wonderful gem
is one of the most remarkable features in the Exhi-
bition. Twelve years ago it was first introduced to
• British public iu Hyde-park, and ever since it has
been open to their inspection along with the other
crown jewels in the Tower ;but still, from the moment
it was first set upon its stand at South Kensington,
its attraction has seemed to increase every day.
On shilling days there is always a considerable
crowd about the entrances as the hour of ten a.m.
approaches, and the moment the doors are opened,
the people makedirect for the Koh-i-noor, as if there
was nothing else to be seen iu the Exhibition. It
is the same on the fashionable days, and all classes,
high and low, linger before it as long as the police-
I man will permit, as if fascinated by its marvellous
brilliancy. The interest has perhaps been intensified
within the last few days, iu consequence of a
rumour which was industriously circulated, that like
" The Star of the South" it had been removed from
the Exhibition. The fact is that it was taken away
on Saturday week, but it was returned to its place
on the following Monday, and the public may
rest satisfied that their favourite will remain
faithful to the end. We have been informed that
the warders at the Tower tell the country people
that they have the real Koh-i-noor, and that the
one at Kensington is only an imitation ; but a
single glance at the latter will be quite sufficient to
convince the spectator that it would be impossible
to imitate it, and that there is nothing like it in
the world.

A plan has been arranged for sending the veterans
of Chelsea and Greenwich to see the Exhibition in
detachments, and on Friday and Saturday between
two and three hundred of the former completed a
very satisfactory inspection. To-day the Commis-
sioners meet to settle the closing question, with
every disposition to meet the wishes of the public,
and to hold the guarantors harmless. We believe
that, notwithstanding certain statements which have
appeared in print to the contrary, the great diffi-
culty lies with Messrs. Kelk and Lucas,who, relying
on the ambiguity of their contract, are driving as
hard a bargain as possible. We have heard
that, having ascertained that the probable
sum expected from keeping the Exhibition
open a few weeks longer was 60,0001.,
they at once demanded 40,0001. as the condition of
their consent, they having, it will be remembered,
already received 200,0001., with nearly another
100,0001. for extras, and being entitled to dispose
of the building at the termination of the season.
The Commissioners will hardly, however, keep the
building open merely to put money into the pockets
of the already so liberally paid contractors ; and
the taking of it down need hardly be looked upon
as a heavy national calamity, seeing that already it
shows in various places a disposition to come down
of itself, that portion which is devoted to the
officers of the staff especially displaying several
craclui of rather ominous dimensions. It would,
we have been informed, require a very large addi-
tional outlay to adapt it for the purposes of ally
permanent institution.
The highest temperature oniSaturday, as shown
by Negretti and Umbra's patent thermometers,
was :—ln the nave, 66.4 deg. ; in the galleries, 67.3
deg. ; in the western annex, 72.1 deg. The read-
ing was taken at 3 o'clock p.m.