The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-23 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

As will be seen by the subjoined return, there is
considerable uniformity in the attendance of each
successive half-crown day. The numbers yester-
day were rather lees than on the previous day, but
the aspect of the interior was quite as lively and
bustling. Mr. Mayo's plan of selling tickets in
packages seems likelylo turn out a great success,
for we find that her Majesty's example, which we
mentioned yesterday, has been quickly followed by
the directors of the Bank of England, who have
purchased 160 tickets for their establishineut. There
is little doubt but that a similar course will be fol-
lowed by all the great banking-houses in Loudon.
Considerable alarm was created amongst certain of
the exhibitors whose goods are either very valuable
or very combustible, by the appearance of several
new gas pipes run up the pillars of the nave. It
was quickly rumoured that a night exhibition was
in contemplation, and, except in the case of the
nervous exhibitors aforesaid, there was a general
expression of feeling in favour of such an arrange-
ment.

The eastern platform continues to increase in
attraction for the loungers and makers of appoint-
ments, and will now be more popular than evert
seeing that the great pillar of gold from Victoria
has at length been unpacked and set up under the
eastern dome. People can now see what eight
hundred tons of gold is like, and how much is re-
quired to make a hundred millions of sovereigns.
Better still, if they multiply in imagination the
golden obelisk by eight, they can form an idea of
what it would require to get a receipt in full for the
national debt. That yellow column, nothing very
imposing to look at, represents at once a wonderful
discovery, a social revolution, the rise and fall of
hundreds of great fortunes, and the ten years' labour
of hundreds of thousands of Englishmen. If broken
up it could be carried all round the world in a de-
cent sized ship, and where it stands it is not half so
much in the way as any one of the unsightly
trophies of the nave. In our judgment, that column
of gold would be worth paying ball-a-crown to see
if there were nothing else in the Exhibition.
Amongst the visitors yesterday were the follow-
ing :—Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of
Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Cambridge, the Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Earl of
Kenmore, the Bishop of Chichester, the Mar-
chioness of Normanby, and the Marquis of Hart-
inston. . . . .

The number of visitors admitted yesterday up to
o p.m. was as follows :—Sesson ticket', 5,473 ; on
payment of 2s. 6d., 12,490 ; total, 17,963.

LIFE BOATS •T THZ INTBRNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
—Some of the executive officers of the Isteniatienal
Exhibition have suggested that the present time, when
some of the articles in the building arebeing re-ernmged,
might be • favourable opportunity to bring in from the
Horticultural Gardens the lifeboat of the National
Lifeboat Institution. They state that abundance Cl TOM
oan sow be found for her. It is therefore hoped that the
commissioners will at last ooment to admit an English
lifeboat—for there is • French one there—into the Exhi-
bition.

iOOLOGICLI. SOCIETY or LONDON. —At the
monthly general meeting, held yesterday, at the society's
hoar, m Hanover-square ; the Right Hen. Sir Geo. Clerk,
Bart., preeideot, in the chair ; Lord Braybreolus, Sir H.
Cotters% Bart., Sir W. Armstrong, Colonel C. A. Amoy,
and Mews. Murray, H. Johnson, H. Buckley, H. Waite,
J. Mod Nichol!, P. Phipps, P. Cumin, H. C. Dedley Long,
H. Ventre Richards, and F. Monier. were elered
fellows. Lord Londeeboregb, Lord Proby, M.P., Mrs.
Lacy, and Means. J. J. Lewis Ricardo, M.P.. R. L. Pem-
berton, J. Pander, W. W. Collins, T. Gooch, R. A.
Hambro, H. Hussey Vivian, M.P., T. W. Evans. M.P., J.
Bailey, jun., J. Dent, T. W. Wood, end F. B.
Hamson were proposed r eseditintse for the
fellowship. His Excellently P. B. Work/wean O. R,
Governor of the Cape Colony, Arthur Grote, BR., of Oil.
cotta, Major H. T. Bartlett, of the Bengal Stag Corps, and
Colonel A. P. Phayre, Commissioner of Pao. were pro.
posed as corresponding members, and Proffer %online, of
Wurtsburg, as a foreign member of the society. The report
from the pinned stated that the total number of visitor to
the Order np to the end of April had been VIAL It
was an that the silver medal of the ariciety bad been
minted to Dr. George Bennett, of Sydney, New Boer
Wake, b acknowledgment of that gentleman's neeerees
donations of nn animals to the merged& Among tie
additior made to the society's collection daring*, pest
month were included a pairof Brahmin cattle aides traded
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