The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-21 00:00:00

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No. 1,505.] [No. 26, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.]

But who, this peerless palace, hath designed 3
THE Fit place for such a varied, countless throng,
To view the priceless treasures here enshrined EXHIBITION With lowly working men, he ranks among,
Toiling, midst floral labours, late and long.
EXPItESS, By right of genius, he has claims to be
Linked with the future story, and the song,
That will embalm the lofty destiny ;
FOR THE WEEK ENDLNO Of this transcendent scene,—this glorious jubilee.
Nor quickly will the world forget the Prince,
The lover of each gentle, graceful art ;
For though on this world's stage, sot ages since,
His icareeavas deemed a fitting royal part;—
By seeking thus to win a nation's heart,
He'll leave his son a heritage secure;
Bequeath his children an unfailing chart,
To guide them o'er life's ocean safe and sure:
When other thrones are fall'n his children's shall endure.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21.

THE great tide of visitors has now fairly set in.
Every train from the country brings its load.of holi-
day makers. The Channel steamers are alive with
gay passengers on their way to Kensington ; the
hotels are last tilling; the theatres are receiving
crowded audiences; the proprietors of public gardens
count their visitors by thousands; foreigners are no
longer stared at in the streets; and even Chinamen
are passed in the Strand with very, little notice.
Bronzed countrymen in smock frocks, and buxom
countrywomen in their bright holiday dresses, may be
seen early in the morning plodding their way to
Hyde-park. Innumerable omnibuses from all parts of
town meet in Piccadilly, laden inside and out
with Exhibition visitors. Flags of all colours
Lag frau the 1601=114i
faurants for Spaniards, Frenchmen, and Germans
offer their viands to the stranger, and eager touters
invite foot passengers to refresh themselves, on their
way to and from the Palace of Glass.
Within the great building the number of visitors
has been larger throughout the four shilling days of
this week than it has reached before ; upwards of
seventy thousand persons having passed within the
ease walls on Monday last. It cannot be denied,
by persons who have visited the building about one
or two o'clock on any of the last four shilling
days, that an inconvenient crowding is experienced,
especially at those points where there is an
extraordinary attraction. Near Hunt and Roekell's
stand, in the south gallery, for instance, the crowd-
ing on all the days has been excessive : and to the
minds, even of persons who are not afraid of ordinary
difficulties, the thought has arisen whether the time
Lad not arrived fur limiting the number of daily ad-
missions.

Several remarkable additions have been made to
the vast collection within the present week : that,
however, which has been most noticed, is, undoubt-
edly, the table, in pictra dues, from Tuscany, now
placed in the nave, and valued at 1,0001. ; it is
already sold. The Russian contributions have been
objects of particular curiosity throughout the week ;
and the inquisitive have been speculating as to addi-
tions to lw placed within the hoarding recently
erected across the eastern end of the great machinery
room: they are probably tho Indian contributions
from Her Majesty the Queen.
Lectures have been delivered at intervals on vari-
ous groups by Professor Ansted and others through-
out the week ; and Mr. Nasmyth, the brother of the
great engineer, now attends in the machinery-room
to afford explanations of the uses and mechanism of
the various engines. Visitors should also know that
the authorities have been lately engaged pasting ex-
tracts from the " Official Catalogue upon the objects
to which they refer. If this plan is carried out, it
will fairly do away with the necessity for carrying
a ponderous, uninteresting catalogue through the
building.
It appears that in pursuance of the regard pro-
mised to the convenience of foreigners, interpreters
have been placed at intervals throughout the build-
ing. This is a wise provision. Another regulation is
urgently calkd for, and that one is to compel omnibus
proprietors to write legibly upon their carriages the
limits of their journey. As the case stands, the
object of the proprietor is, having filled his vehicle
at the park gates, to discharge the cargo at sixee per
head as soon as possible, and race back to the building
for another load. The consequence of this eagerness to
make frequent journeys is, that on arriving at
Charing-cross visitors are informed that they can go
no further; but if one or two sturdy Saxons, bent
upon having their fair pound of omnibus horse-flesh,
remonstrate upon the dishonesty of calling?' stoppage
at Charing-cross " going down the Strand," the con-
ductor slams the door and shouts over the roof to the
driver that there arc one or two cranky old "gents"
inside who trill go to Waterloo-bridge ; and, accord-
ingly, enlivened by the way with a few muttered
curses from the two officials, the stud defenders of
their rights are conveyed to the bri . But poor
foreigners in such a case are leftr to chatter hotly
before Northumberland-house.
The public may fairly call upon the police autho-
rities to interfere in this matter, and it would even
be well to station a policeman at Charing-cross to
take note of those omnibuses in which passengers are
thus cheated.

PARIS, Jess 20.
The workmen delegated by the city of Paris to
the London Exhibition have been divided into seven
categories, each of which is to pass in succession a
fortnight in London. The second detachment set
out yesterday, by way of Dieppe, and is composed of
12 delegates, representing the following trades :
gold-smithery, plated ware, fine and false jewellery,
watch-making, bronzes, prints and engraving., but-
tons, tin goods, and lamps.
The French steamer Paris, from Hamburg, landed
on Tuesday, at Havre, 48 Swedes, who are visiting
Paris on their way to the London Exhibition.

STANZAS
Bs ♦ Woltz's() MAN.
A glorious vision ! Never once bath man
Beheld such trophies of th' immortal soul,
Nor seen, since human life and art began,
The treasures of the intellect unroll
Themselves in sash a great and gorgeous whole.
Here, on this spot of earth, all human kind
Appear assembled at a splendid goal,
To see the strife of toil and skill combined—
The elements subdued—the triumph of the mind!
Ti mental seers, by what mysterious laws
Is art progressive ? now the skill of him
Whose labour's prompted by ignoble cause—
Whose faculties arc circumscribed and dim,
To those which would adorn a seraphim ;
The glorious fruits of which we here behold !
How oft exerted human brain and limb—
How many ages o'er man's head hare rolled—
Ere sight like this the world could to the eye unfold ?
The reason of God's curse, is now revealed ;
"That man should lire by labour." It bath made
The earth its hidden wondrous treasures yield;
And through it man, with self assisting aid,
Bath Godlike art, and Godlike power displayed.
By it he can from savage ways remove,
And ever shun the warrior's bloody trade ;
Can taste below, the bliss that is above ;
Meet here his fellow-man, in peacefulness and lore.
Sheltered by crystal walls and roof, we view,
All products of the earth, the air, and seas,
Assuming every texture, form, and hue,
That can a man's corporeal senses please,
And gladden Beauty's sense to scalene&
Art unto man is a magician's rod,
Prolonging life, absolving from disease ;
Extracting good from out the meanest sod;
Rivalling Nature's works, sad making him a God.
Here from the inert masa, are forms evolved,
Which ell but living fanetirma can omanumd ;
Their notion, into which their power's resolved,
Con be controlled by infant's they hand;
Now, each, that form tltaale anal withetsnd,
Now crushing not the tweet's bluest home.
- Her forms of living things their charms expand
Which lynx-eyed critics dare not owe denims,
At lighted up they sees, with litt's instating lase.