The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-11 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Yesterday was a fine day, after a previous
night of incessant rain, and the company mustered
more numerously than on any previous day since the
opening. The turntables gave a return of con-
siderably over 63,000 at five o'clock, and people
were dal coming in. Amongst the number were
nearly 1,000 10e. ticket holders, who evidently
mean to lose no time in availing themselves of
their privilege. The foreign bands, as promised,
played under the domes, and each attracted a tre-
mendous crowd ; they, no doubt, having also
been the main cause of the increase in the
day's attendance. The Gendarmerie arranged
their orchestra on the esatern platform and,
under the direction of M. Riedel, played the fol-
lowing tastefully selected programme : 1. Over-
ture, William Tell-2. La Vierge des Bois,
Valae- 3. Fantaisie varide cur La Bomnambule-
-4. Marche Militaire-5. Fantaisie cur Norma-
6. La Savoyarde-7. Fantaisie sur La Tra-
viata-8. Marche Militaire. The last piece was
the composition of the conductor, and was much
relished by the company. When the band of the
Gendarmerie had finished, the company gave them
an impromptu ovation, leaving a passage so narrow
that they were obliged to retreat in single file, and
run a terrific gauntlet of cheering and shaking hands
as they passed along. The Zonaves, with
their picturesque costumes and breasts decorated
with the medals of a hundred battles, were also great
lions in their way, although their music was
thought to be not quite so good as that of the
Gendarmerie. One of them, a tine-looking man
with a tremendous black beard, wore the Legion
d'Honneur, and half a score of other decorations.
The most admired piece played by the Zouaves was
a fantaisie on Fra Diavolo. As they left the build-
ing they had also an ovation similar to that which
had been accorded to the Gendarmerie.

The highest temperature during the day, as
&hewn by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermo-
meters, was—ln the nave, 64.5 deg. ; in the gal-
leries, 68.4 deg.
Tba following is tbe official return of Um number
of visitors yesterday:—By season ticket% 8,476 ;
by payment, 57,738; 1644 66,213.

. then presented Mr. Peabody with the
freedom of the City contained in a gold box, of the value
of 100 genius, expressing a hope that Mr. Peahody's
tura to his satire land might be the harbinger of returning
car peace--peace hued upon the lasting foundation of freedom
PrasoDY, who was loudly cheered, proceeded to sew
knowledge the eompliment. He said he accepted at the
buds of the Chamberlain, with deep sensibility, the vary
west honour bestowed on him by the City of London, bet
he was conscious that he did not altogether deserve the
praise which bad beak lavished epos his.
ger =oat unmindful of the fact that his ability to
make a gift for the benefit of the poor of London
wiz less due to his own merits than to the kis&
Providence which had so highly favoured him, end be should
hive neglected au obvious duty if he had failed to au*
• portion of his means to the advantage of others. It use
but just to say that in his effort to do good he less not the
pioneer, but the follower of many public benetheters
whose munificent character had illustrated the blower,
of this country. He had always held the optimism that
among those who bad an especial claim to partieipate in
whatever good fortune he might enjoy were the ecocimael-
tile in which he acquired the means of being useful to his
felloivmen, and he should be indeed unfaithful if in carry.
lag out his long-cherished design be forgot the great city
where he had experienced so much kiedoess and passed so
many years of happiness and prosperity. (Cheers.) The
fulfilment of his reeolutien as as AMMALISI2 citizen resident in
London was particularly gratifying to him. He remembered
with gratification and satisfaction the kindly relation.
which had foi inch • length of time subsisted between We
native land and that anouset city. From the birth of the
nation until the present day America had seldom failed to
dad in this country, the stronghold of civil and religiose,
liberty, a willing response to.its own emotions of paternity
and goodwill, sad it was likewise to him • circumstance of
unexpected happiness if
.he gift, by reason of the particular
time at which it was made, Seeded in any degree to soften
the asperities of teeth% which have unhappily arisen between
the two great minas of the Anglo-Suon family. (Cheers.)
if it reminded the people of both countries of their
COMM= origin and manual sympathy, he should be
(enemata indeed, and should be more than repaid.
He was gratified to leans that in banishing dis-
thietions of party sad of creed from the application of this
;EA )tchad m* with 101 approval of their distinguished
Nay. Bach distinctions faded away In the preemies of the
comma) claims of human nature. and it would be uneatural
indeed if he were to exclude from his regard on such narrow
grounds any portion of those with whom his early die-
advantages ought to place him in perpetual relations of
sympathy and goodwill. (Cheers.) He had never forgotten,
and never could forget, the great privations of his early
years ; and to encourage and stimulate the exertions of the
youth of this great city and country who had no reliance
except upon their own character and exertions to raise them-
selves in society, he might be allowed to say that there were.
few individuals amongst them whose opportunities for a
prosperous life were not better than were his own at that
sge. Let him, then, once more acknowledge the signal honour
which they Nei bestowed on him, an honour grateful to
hire both as a citizen of the United Banos and as resident
in the great city by whose corporation it was conferred.
He reciprocated most sincerely the friendly sentiments the
Chamberlain had expressed with regard to his native land,
and most heartily did he respond to the hops that its pre-
sent trials might result in the permanent triumph of liberty
and good government. (Cheers.) Most firmly did he pray
that his country, governed in the spirit which animated the
illustrious Washington, and England, under the guidance
of its good and beloved Queen, might advance through
coming years In promoting these great interests of civilise-
tan and humanity which had ever been espoused by those
two great and kindred nations. He thanked them also far
their good wishes for his bealthand happiness ; and although
he could desire that their generous praises were better
deserved, be could not refuse to swept the kind words they
had addressed to him. The remembrance of them, together
with the memento of the good wishes they had presented to
him, would ever be present to himself and those near to
him, and so long as Heaven preserved lie life and gave him
power of free action, it should be her aim to attain to the
excellent character which the Chamberlain, on behalf of
the corporation, had been pleased to associate with his
humble name. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. KEDLAY, the chairman of the Linde Committee,
moved that the address of the Chamberlain, and that of Mr.
Peabody, should be entered upon the records of the court.
The motion having been seconded, was unanimously
adopted amidst loud cheering.
The proceedings then terminated.

A banquet was given to Mr. Peabody in the evening at
the Mansion-house, by the Lord Mayor; about 200 persoos
sat down to dinner, among whom were Mr. Peabody, Mr.
Adams, the American Minister, Lord Stanley, M.P , Sir
Emerson Tennant, do. The Lord Mayor proposed the
health of Mr. Peabody in appropriate terms, that gentle.
man briefly responding. Mr. Adams replied to the toast of
" The Trustees of the Gift." He said Mr. Peabody had
drawn a legitimate benefit from the expanding trade of the
eastern and the western world. His prosperity wee
the type of the recipreoal benefit which the respective
nations have gained from mutual intercourse. The moral
which his career taught was the advantage of exchanging
good will. In practisieg habits only of kindness cod
courtesy equally to the people of both nations he inaugu-
rated a policy which promoted their useful ends at the
same time that it advanced his own. That policy was
essentially one of peace. By his name a feint idea might
be formed of the unity as well es the magnitude of the re-
spective interests which that peace protects. Lord Stanley
replied to " The Howes of Lords sad Commons." Sir E.
Tensest proponed the "Health of the Lord Mayor," and
Mr. Peabody the " Health of the Lady Mayoreu. " The
Fortis' Strangers" was responded to by M. De Franqueville.