The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-05 00:00:00

No. 1,517.] [No. 28, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.]

THE

EXHIBITION
EXPRESS,

sions. By the police returns the numbers were —ll o'clock,
10,638; 12 o'clock, 11,178; 1 o'clock, 12,106; 2 o'clock,
5,793 ; 3 o'clock, 3,492 ; 4 o'clock, 2,980: making 49,189,
which the influx of the ticket holders for their usual lounge
would raise to nearly 52,000.
Cash account, July 1.
Season tickets
At the doors 2,429 10 0

Total receipts £2,434 15 0
WEDNESDAY.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the King of the Bel-
gians, the royal children, and the usual suite, visited the
Crystal Palace onWednesdaymorning,and inspected the goods
in the North German, Russian, and Zullverein compart-
ments. The royal party were conducted through the sec-
tions by Mr. Cole, Mr. Belshaw, and Mr. Edgar Burring.
The weather was oppressively hot in the course of the day,
and had a perceptible effect in keeping away the ticket-
holders, as will be seen by a glance at the numbers sub-
joined. The foreign exhibitors are in high glee in conse-
quence of the especial notice and frequent visits they have
received from the jurors, and the denizens of the
British nave exhibit proportionate depression ; but
it is to be hoped that the impartiality of the awards will
restore all minds to a proper equilibrium. Additions are
being daily made in the foreign nave, 'especially in Russia
and Tuscany. Some new malachite' are now to be seen in
the former section, and the latter is enriched by some new
and beautiful scagliolas. The French are also strengthen-
ing their department. M. Matifat, whose stand is in the
front of the nave, exhibited on Wednesday a beautiful persdule
in carved ivory, ornamented with miniature paintings
typical of the probable results of the Great Exhibition. Also
a beautiful medallion portrait lathe same material of the ex-
Queenof France,a striking likeness and beautifully executed.
Both articles attracted considerable notice during the day.
There were not many strong detachments present on Wednes-
day either from schools or factories, the most noticeable being
twenty of the Hull police and two inspectors, who had been
treated by the local authorities to • sight of the Exhibition,
being allowed three days leave and a sovereign each to bear
expenses. It is to be hoped that so good an example will
not be lost on the metropolitan commissioners, but that the
large and meritorious body of men who have so ably pre-
served public peace and order under very unusual ca.-
' cumstances, and withal have " done their spiriting " so
gently, may have an opportunity before all is over of seeing
the Exhibition along, with the rest of the world. As
things stand at present, even the men who are on duty in
the Crystal Palace itself have seen nothing beyond the
limited district apportioned to each individual. The poor
Koh-i-noor is literally on its last legs. The crimson drapery
has again been removed, but so have the crowds who
hitherto beset it. At one period of the day on Wednesday it
woe literally without a single spectator. Even the policeman
himself had time to go for a glass of water, a comrade from
the nave keeping a distant guard ad interim. Con-
siderable disappointment was caused by the cue
in which the Queen of Spain's jewels is usually
exhibited, presenting nothing but • dismal front of
black calico. It appears that the key of the ease,
in which they are deposited at night, had been lost on the
previous evening, and there was no remedy but to break it
open, the securities being of strength proportionate to the
value of the deposit. Repairs became of course necessary,
and the public were in the meantime deprived of one of the
lions of the Exhibition. It is gratifying to perceive that the
uses of the Exhibition in a commercial point of view, apart
from its office in beneficially gratifying public curiosity, are
beginning to be felt and acknowledged by the parties prin-
cipally interested. The French exhibitors state that trade
in Paris is quite brisk in consequence of orders for goods
similar to those which had been seen in the Exhi-
bition ; and it is also acknowledged in some rather
important quarters of the business section, that these
parties also had derived advantage from the great
publicity given to their wares. Out of doors, the
complaints of the effects of the Exhibition upon other
public amusements are rapidly dying away. The theatres
and public gardens are well attended, and money is circu-
lation much more briskly than wasnthe case a few weeks
since. And all this happens without any diminution of
the attractions of the Exhibition itself, as, excepting such
fluctuations as may be accounted for by the weather, or
other accidental causes, the attendance is as numerous as
ever. The numbers onWednesday, according to the police re-
turns, were :—Eleven o'clock, 15,771; twelve, 15,214 ; one,
7,665; two, 3,858; three, 2,618; four, 2,527; Ave, 1,147 ;
six, 632: total, 49,352.

Cash account, July 2.
Season tickets £ 11 11 0
At the doors

Total roceipta £2,375 9 0
TIICISDAT.

The enormous sosemblage at the Crystal Palace
CS Thursday, formed as owaplets sa epitome of the various
claws of which the great national family is asap wad, as

frisaildwiladoddiattorrwaos we were indebted for the eon- any one could desire to see on a summer's dry, There
fingmatslsut nowhitzbair and burly figures begin to prevail, were great numbers of the high aristocracy, scoops of the
showing that Germany is extensively supplying her quota, wealthy and middle classes, operatives and esteir families in
while visitors from more distant places arc constantly arriving, thousands, and, not the least interesting feature, large de-
One frequently ascertains by accident that his neighbour tachments of children from various institutions, whew
bias just arrived from Malta or Gibraltar, and on Tuesday a clean and healthy appearance, and most orderly conduct,
whole consignment arrived from Montreal, of course paying formed the best certificate of the care with which they were
their first respects to the Canadian der) trtment. The ten- nurtured. Among the aristocratic visitors were the Duke
posture was again exceedingly high, and produced evident of Northumberland, Marquis of Breadalbtute, Marquis of
oppression on many of the visitors. Messrs. Davenport and Ely, Earl of Listuwel, Earl and Countess of Leicester,
Co.,ofLongport,Staffordshire, have seta mostliberal example Baron Rothschild, Lords Dunboyne and Galway, Sir
to the large employers of labour, by -ending up 200 of their H. Fleetwood, the Bishop of Worcester, and a host
workpeople for a week, providing food and lodging for of others of equal rank, if an opinion might be
them during that time, and paying for a daily ticket for formed from the number of fashionable equipages that were
each at the Exhibition during their stay. It is to ho hoped continually setting down at the south transept. There was
that such • generous example may net be with- I also a distinguished party just arrived front Russia, consist-
out many followers, as u single visit is of little big of M. Alexis Lcustrin. Director-in-Chief of the Agricul.
use, and the funds of the posr man will not admit of a more I total Department, and Privy Councillor to the Emperor,
protracted inspection. By the way, it may be hero ob- , and daughter; M. Saimloff, President of the Council of
served, that the operatives in the provinces have many ad- I Commerce at Moscow ; and his Excellency General Wilson,
vantages as regards the Exhibition over their metropolitan head of the Naval Engineering Department, St. Peters.
hi/ow-workmen. Being generally employed in large file- burg. These distinguished personages have come over on
leeks, they can form ea-operative purses, and they aro a special mission connected with the Exhibition. Turning to
generally largely assisted by their employers in providing the other end of the wale, there was a grand muster of all the
the ways and means for their trip. They come and return national schools in, and within a short distance of, the metro-
by an excursion train, and contract omnibuses or steam. polio. Among them were the St. Paul's (Covent Garden),
Mats bring them ciao to the palace at so much per thou- Eltham (Kent), Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mortlake, Charlton,
and. The London workman, speaking generally, has no and All Souls. The children of theJews' School, 1 loundsditch,
each advantages. He must not only pay his shilling fur and the Jewish Free School, Spitalfields, were also present 1
admission, but the distance from his place of residence re- and lastly, a i.etachment of ik boys, from the Excellent,
quires an omnibus to and fro, making another shilling, gunnery ship, in smart duck frocks and trowsers, whose
and then a day's wage is deducted by his employer, perfect discipline and good conduct were the subjects of
making his whole expense six or 'siren shillings for a single very general observation. Immense numbers of provincials
• more actually than it costs the west-end fashionable arrived by excursion trains, especially by the Great
for his Saturday's lounge. This, of course, exclude., all Northern, which is daily emptying all Cambridgeshire and
consideration of a peep for the wife and children, whose the neighbouring counties into the Crystal Palace, at the
ease, under such circumstances, is utterly hopeless. We be- rate of 4s. each from Itoyston and back, with leave to stop
lieve the fact to be that but few of the real London artisans LS days in town. There was also a large contingent
have as yet seen the Exhibition, and that the London viol- from beyond sea, among whom no less than 18 gentlemen
tors of the working dames have been mainly supplied from came from one district in Canada West, passengers per
the domestic servants, and, what are technically called Pacific mail steamer. It may be imagined that, with all
chamber workers, who being generally employed by the this fresh blood, the interior of the building presented
job do not so directly feel tho loss of time. It were well most animated appearance throughout the day ; indeed, one
would have fancied it the first opening, so eagerly did the
that people in authority should set about devising some means
visitors rush from one object of interest to another. The
of remedying such a positive hardship. What arc the great en-
s Queen of Spain's jewels, again restored to public gale, were
gincere of Lambeth and Blackwell, and the numerous em
closely invested; and every statue in the nave, especiallyployers of fifties and hundreds of poor men and women in the
metropolis doing ? Have the heads of great City houses, Hiram l'ower's Greek Slave, had crowds of observers. Some
drapery and others, taken any steps to facilitate the visits of the country matrons discovered a case of India rubber
ef their assistants ? They are daily visitors themselves, and toys in the American department, and were wonderfully
struck with their infrangibility. They looked upon it as
sea therefore well appreciate the highly instructive charts- struck
great idea of the century to invent dolls which should
ter of the Exhibition. Of its instructive tendencies a
resist the efforts of the most determined juvenile iconoclasts,
furious evidence was afforded on Tuesday, in the presence at
the gate of several new cabs with "Cab de surete, breveta," But a very curious table of mental idiosyucracies
nonspicuously painted on the panels. When London cah- might be formed by ascertaining from each visitor
men begin to prepare French inscriptions for their vehicles, what had struck him most in the Crystal Palace. We
it surely may be inferred that the schoolmaster is abroad, heard the qumtian put to one grave looking gentleman, and
There was little to disturb the regular bustle of the Crystal his answer, after mature deliberation, was, " That was eer.
Palace on Tuesday, except a sad accident which occurred in tainly a very wonderful piece of epermaceti." Every one
the immediate neighbourhood. A pour little boy, caught has his own favourite wonder, but all agree that such •
collection of wonders never was seen in the world. Among
by the morning shower, took shelter under one
of the old trees in the park, near the east end the noveltieswhich every daybrings forth there wason Thurs.
of the building, and one of the decaying branches giving day exhibited for the first time in the western gallery a
way, and falling on him, he was struck down and dread- model of a vessel supplied with self-acting pumps, which
fully crushed. He was immediately taken up by the police the inventor maintains will keep the ship dry without any
and placed in a cab, but died on his way to the hospital, labour, working solely by the motion of the waves. The
Two men were detected in the course of the day picking model is placed in " a painted ocean" of canvas, and the
pockets, and were immediately sent off for trial to the see- sea motion is imitated by means of a handle placed

on the stern, and worked by the inventor. Under
these circumstances a continuous stream of water flows
from the pumps, but tho source of motive power
must be taken for granted, as the moment any one attempt.
a close inspection the exhibitor covers up all in a tin case. It
is but justice to him to add,that he gives as a reason for this
caution, that he is suffering under the beautiful complexity
and expanse of our patent laws, and fears to be robbed of
his invention before he has acquired legal protection.
Should it turn out all that he describes it to be, it will be
no doubt of the highest importance in nautical affairs. The
two great topics of discussion in the crystal republic arc the
awards, and the ultimate doom of the building. It is whis-
pered that some of the foreign jurors have not preserved the
secresy enjoined upon them in the most stringent manner.
Cabals between different nations are talked of, and bargains
about an interchange of first class medals, something
after the way in which chairmen of railway committees
were accused of passing each other's bills during the rail-
way mania. Many of the foreign exhibitors boast that
they have already secured the prize ; and, as may be ima-
gined, such gram want of discretion, to say the least of it,
is producing violent hearthurnings and dissatisfaction. In
addition to this, the British jurors are accused of being
over sensitive, to the suspicion of unduly preferring their
own countrymen. One thing is certain, that by far the
greatest activity in inspection is displayed by the foreign
jurors. With respect to the ultimate fate of the Crystal
Palace there is en outside and an inside public
opinion. The great omnibus public look upon its
permanency as a thing placed beyond doubt. If anyone
hints a doubt, they cast an admiring glance at the building
from the aerial perch as they drive up, and say They'll
never pull down that." Many of them draw a fancy
sketch of its future attractions and suggest flower shows
for the Christmas holidays. Inside, however, people better
informed, have many doubts and misgivings, and prophecy
that without some prompt and decided action on the part
of the public grass will, in a few months, be grow.
ing en the site of the world's gathering. Some
steps are in progress. A petition has been
placed for signature in the Stock Exchange, and
Mr. Paxton has summoned a meeting in Kensington for
Tuesday evening next to discuss the question with the in-
habitants. Whatever the public may think or feel on the
subject, they should lase no time in expressing it, as the
commissioners are bound to have everything removed by
November next. The temperature on Thursday was quite
pleasant, so that one of the most crowded assemblages of
this season did not suffer the slightest inconvenience. The
whole numbers admitted, according to police returns, were
65,646.

Cash account, July 3.
Season tickets £lo 10 0
At the doors

Total receipts.. £2,662 9 6
FRIDAY.

A fine day, a cool breeze, and the prestige of
fashion, combined to give to the Crystal Palace yesterday
an assemblage of nearly 26,000 visitors, being a very con-
siderable increase on the numbers of the preceding Friday.
We have seldom seen a more fashionable crowd. The
toilettes were of the gayest, the aspect of the place of the
brightest, and the promenading was kept up until the latest
hoar. The following are the names of a few of the persons
of rank and fashion whom we recognised during the day:—
Countess of Mulgrave, Lady Kensington, Speaker of the
House of Commons, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, Ex-Queen of
the French, Due de Nemours General Dumas, Earl Fitzwli-
limn, Earl of Darnley, Earl and Countess of Hardwicke,l
Lady Monteagle, Earl of Listowcl, Lady Ruthven,
Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, Lady Peel, Dowa-
ger Lady Barry, Sir George Grey, Hon. Mrs. Rowland
Smith; Sir Edward, Lady, and Miss Sugdcn; Lady
Dwarris, Lady and Miss Kerrison, and Lady Sykes. The
French are still enriching their departments, several cases
of plate having been opened for the first time yesterday,
containiag among other things a silver shield, given by the
President of the Republic to be run for at the Chantilly
Races. These and all other foreign goods are delivered
over to the consignees in bond, the Crystal Palace itself
being, in fact, a great bonded warehouse. There is a regu-
lar Customs establishment within the building, consisting of
a surveyor and subordinate officers, and they pass the
goods duty free to the exhibitors, with the understanding
that the contents of the invoice will be forthcoming
at the close of the Exhibition, or else the duty
paid by the proprietors. From the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, great difficulty was at first found
in making this system work, but by great activity on the
part of the customs department, and an honourable obser-
vance of regulations by exhibitors, all obstacles have been
smoothed away, and now goods subject to all classes of
duties are admitted for exhibition without loss to the reve-
nue or inconvenience to the importers. The Queen's jewel

eaaket, which is now placed in a conspicuous position in the
Hare nest the model of the town of Liverpool, was yester
day an object of mash interest. Th. portraits of her
lisioty, the Prints of Wales, and Prime Albert, ass the