The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-10 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The Tadmor of South Kensington was visited
by many pilgrims on Saturday last, persons who
spent a pleasant and not profitless day amongst
its prostrated oolumns and half-dismantled temples.
The iron monsters of the western annex are being
rapidly removed, but they retire unostentatiously
from the scene of their triumphs. A jealous
hoarding shuts their once busy and vaporous de-
partment from the main building, and thus they
are spared the pain of parting scenes with friends
with whom they had been so popular during the
season. The Koh-i-noor has been removed—
churlishly and prematurely, as we think—from
the nave, but its crystal rival, which surpassed the
real gem in the estimation of thousands of estima-
ble old ladies, still exhibits its prismatic beauties.
In the galleries, the symptoms of departure are
numerous in some departments, but these not the
more interesting ones. The cloths and stuffs which
took up much room, but which few stopped to
look at, are rapidly disappearing, but the watches
and clocks, and philosophical instruments—the
last-named especially worth inspection—still hold
their ground.
The Royal Commissioners find the supplementary
fortnight of advantage in more ways than one. In
the first place, the receipts exceed 2001. a day, and
this helps to pay the taking down and packing ex-
penses. In the second place, through the briskness
of sales, the building may be said to be clearing
itself; and, thirdly, the further extent of time
enables the ordinary staff to do the final work,
whereas, under pressure as regards time, a number
of extra hands would have been necessary. Before
the fortnight is out all the heavy lumber will have
been cleared off, and the attractive objects having
been all sold, will be carried off by their respective
purchasers.
The preparations for the distribution file in
January are the subjects of constant consideration.
The interior will, &ape have before stated, be bril-
liantly illuminated in the evening, and nearly the
whole of the court and royal family are expected
to be present, including the Princess Alexandra.
The Duchess Dowager and Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Rich-
mond, the Duc de Nemours, and several other
persons of distinction, were amongst the company
on Saturday.

The following is a return of the number of
visitors to the Exhibition during last week, showing
figures far below the predicted 15,000 a day :

Monday - 6277
Tuesday, estimated 9,000
Wednesday „
Thursday ~6,000
Friday , •
Saturday ~

42,277

The return of the number of visitors on Monday
is no doubt correct, but the official estimate of the
attendance on the other days of the week may be
presumed to be over rather than under the actual
numbers. However, supposing the numbers to be
coned, and that one-fourth of the visitors paid at
the doors, the total receipts for the week, including
head-money, .be., would not exceed 1,4001., while
the expenses, at the lowest estimate, even now can-
not be under 2,0001. per week. This shows that
the bazaar has bean a signal failure, all far as the
guarantors are concerned, and has been conducted
at a direct loss of 1001. per day. It must, how-
ever, be borne in mind that the building will be
getting cleared during the term of the bazaar, and
it is possible that the commissioners find that the
staff required to wind up the Exhibition can watch
over the bazaar at the same time. If such be the
case, the fortnight's bazaar may not prove an
ultimate loss.
If the numbers for the last week are added to the
gross total of Exhibition visitors up to Nov. 1, they
will only reduce the daily average of 1862 still
further compared with 1851. That average, even
up to the former date, shows a loss of between four
and five thousand visitors a day at the present Ex-
hibition. An attempt has been made to show that
large numbers should be deducted for official and
free-list entries in 1851 and nothing at all under
these heads in 1862. The deductions in 1851 for
staff, jurors, and others not known to the police,
was from one to two per cent, on the season tickets.
We shall be very glad to learn that the season-
ticket entries of 1862 ought to be subject to no
greater reduction. Our impression is that the visite
of the cash-paying public in 1862, after allowing
the extra month to be counted, are as far below
the returns of 1851 as the cash accounts would
seem to indicate. The cash taken at the doers and
for season tickets in 1862 is at least ten thousand
pounds under the cash taken in 1851 in the same
way, and this would give a deficiency of more than
200,000 shilling visitors. The first Exhibition was
open for 24 weeks, or 141 exhibiting days ; and the
present Exhibition has now been open for 28 weeks,
or 166 exhibiting days.
We understand that a proposal will shortly be
made to Messrs. Belk and Lucas to purchase the
building for a railway station.

CRUELTY TO AR APPRMITICIL—On Saturday
John Robins, the master of the fishing smack Gauntlet, of
Barking, accused of cruelty to a pariah apprentice. ins
again brought before the Ilford Petty Sessions. It was
stated by various witnesses at the former examination that
the prisoner had repeatedly beat the boy, knocked him
down, and caused his back to be tarred and varnished. It
was further stated that he was kept for 24 hours without
food within two days of his death. On Saturday, the
bench 'caving intimated that the case must go to a jury,
Mr. Young, for the prisoner, said be should reserve has
Mums. The prisoner was then committed for trial at the
Quarter etesiose, ball being accepted to his appease/on