The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-06 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Anyone who looked up at the sky yesterday
might form a tolerably close idea of what would be
the attendance at the Exhibition. It was indeed
sparse, and Mr. Godfrey and his band discoursed
their " most excellent music" to an exceedingly
select audience. However, people who bad huffi-
ness, that is to say, those who meant to purchase,
came, and a very excellent business was done.
The foreign exhibitors are quite elate, and say
that, with the exception of the very heavy
goods, they will have nothing to carry away.
'rheae is this difference, however, between them
and the British exhibitors, that whilst the latter
are selling at greatly reduced prices, MM. des
Strangers consider themselves justified in putting on
high prices, of which one element is the value of the
article, and another the fact of its being a memorial
of the Exhibition. The great majority of the British
exhibitors made their.goods especially for the Ex-
hibition, and are anxious to dispose of them before
I the close.

The number of visitors at the Exhibition to-day
was 5,000.

LONDON MECHANICS INSTITUTE.

Last evening the distribution of prizes and cer-
tificates granted by the Society of Arts to members of this
institution, under the competitive examination system, took
place in the theatre, Southampton-buildings.
Mr. HARRY CHESTER, vice.president of the Society of
Arts, presided, and opened the proceedings with an address,
in which, as one who had had much to do with the origina-
tion of the competitive examination scheme, congratulated
the members of the London Mechanics Institute upon the
results they had each year achieved, and upon the promos
in the prosperity of the institution, which bad no doubt been
largely contributed to by those results. During the last
four years, of 48 candidates sent up to the examiners front
the institute, 47 had primed, one only having failed ; and
during the past three years, of 39 candidates sent up, all
had paned and obtained certificates. This, he submitted,
MA a most satisfactory proof of the kind of education
afforded. (Hear, hear.) The great majority of those who
were now about to receive certificates had been successful
in one or more branches of knowledge in the examinations
of previous years, and one of them, Mr. Macdonald, who
now took first class certificates in book-keeping and pray
tical mechanics, together with a second class certificate in
theoretic mechanics, with money prizes of 51. and 21., had
been nominated by the council of the Society of Arts for •
clerkship in the Educational department of the Privy
CounciL The chairman dwelt at some length upon the ad.
vantage of the competitive system in wonetion with those
popular educational establishments which, he said, provided
for the middle and lower classes advantages similar to those
which the universities conferred upon the nigh born and
the wealthy. He added, that shortly before the death of
the Prime Consort his royal highness, at his suggestion, pro-
mised a prize of twenty-five guinea' each year to the candi-
date who obtained the greatest number of certificates. Of
course that prize had been awarded and paid in respect to
the last examination, and be was happy to say that her
Majesty had intimated her intention of continuing it.
The following is the list of the candidates, and of the
certificates obtained :—Alf red Thomas Rees, botany 3rd
class ; Frederick Aumonier, French, 2nd ; Henry Teller,
history, 2nd; W. Stewart, arithmetic, 2nd, book-keeping.
2nd ; J. IL Howard, French, 3rd ; W. L. Raisin, German,
3rd 11. E. G. Kirk, history, '2nd; W. Waters, history,
3rd; G. M. Norris, geography, Ist; James Kennedy,
practical mechanics, 2nd; Isaac Joseph, algebra, 2nd
James Symon, aid, domestic economy, Ist, with Ist
prize of 51. ; J. C. Douglas, arithmetic, 3rd ; Martha
Smith, geography, 3rd ; A. S. L. Maoilonald, book-keeping,
Ist, with Ist prize of Si,. practical mechanics, let, with 2nd
prize of 31., theoretic mechanics, god.
The load board having, with prizes obtained by them
from the Society of Arts, supplemented by some voluntary
donations, established a fund for the distribution of book
prizes to the principal classes of the institution, awarded
prizes as under :—Geography, G. M. Norris ; writing,
Alfred Page and Caroline Hoare • arithmetic, F. Norris;
grammar, Walter Kelly French, E. M. Beard and Fanny
Beard ; andscape drawing, Hen Mullett ; mechanical
drawing, Charles Moody ; shorthand, A. C. Frisbee.

THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE NORTH
EASTERN RAILWAY.

This shocking accident, which resulted in the
death of one person. a Mid Dickinson. and the injury of
Dearly every paseenger in the passenger train with which
the cattle train came into collision at the Moulton Station.
on the Richmond branch of the North Eastern Railway,
was fully investigated on Tuesday by a coroner's jury. A
man named Hall, who is from Westmoreland, was fearfully
crushed ; and although he presents but slight appearance
of injury, he endures much internal pain, and fears are
entertained lest the intestines may have been ruptured in
such a manner as ultimately to mud his death. Mn.
Prest, the wife of a farmer at North Cowton, in the
North Riding, was shockingly mutilated about the face, and
received injury to her legs. She was taken home on a
stretcher, and now lies in a dangerous state. Mr. W.
Robinson, formerly mayor of Richmond, where he carries
on the profession of a solicitor, and who until recently was
well known in sporting circles for the quality of his racing
stud, was dreadfully cut about the face. Mr. Severs, a
young man, and many women were likewise hurt. The
driver of tho passenger train, which at the moment of the
collision wee standing taking up passengers at Moulton, was
pitched head foremost on to some iron rails, and bled pro.
tamely. The principal cause of the accident, am appeared
from the inquiry, was the dense impenetrable fog which
prevailed, but even with this untoward circumstance the
accident would not have occurred had ordinary caution
been used. The jury found that the accident was the re.
snit of grass negligence, which negligence had caused the
death of the deceased. James Dixon, the driver, Robert
Atkinson, the guard, and Mr. Drown, the Scorton station.
master, were then committed in the usual way to take
their trial at the ensuing assizes for the county.

Some of • the Shropshire landlords have taken
offence at the freedom with which the tenant farmers have
condemned Sir Baldwin Leighton's Gamo Bill, and two
landlords bate withdrawn their names from the lists of the
Ludlow Agricultural Society. The prime mover in the con-
demnation of the Came Lew Bill was Mr. Matthew Evans,
a tenant farmer ; but he seems to be well supported by his
agricultural brethren, who, at a meeting held on Moods),
passed a resolution that "no studied insult to.the gentle.
men" was intended by Mr. Evans, or the ;farmem, in the
remarks they made on the obnoxiou►

MR. DEEDES, M.P., AND THE REPRESENTATION
OF EAST KENT.—For some time a rumour has been in cir-
culation that it is the intention of Mr. Ihedes at the rime
of the present parliament to retire from the representation
of the Eastern Division of the county of Kent—a post
which he has occupied almost without interruption since
the retirement of Sir E. Knatchball in 1845. Accompany-
ing that report was a further rumour that the retirement
of the hon. gentleman would be in some measure forced
upon him by difficulties in which he had become involved.
At a meeting which has just been held at Sittingbourne,
the hon. gentleman referred at sonic length to the state-
manta which had been made. lie said the paragraph which
had gained currency in reference to his intention to retire
from the honourable post he now filled had appeared with-
out his sanction, authonty, or knowledge. Ile also denied
the truth of a rumour which, he was informed, bad been
spread abroad, to the effect that he was a oonf.nned
gambler. lie never bet on Lone. racing, and the extent of
hiagambling was, be said, sixpenny points at whist.
RUSSIAN ENCROACH]LENTS IN C IRCAKSIA. —A
public meeting to receive the Circassian chiefs who are Dow