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

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11.

THE Whitsuntide holidays have sufficiently
proved that, whatever it may be in a mercantile
or artistic point of view, the Great Exhibition is
a decided popular success. Within the last
two days more than a hundred thousand
working people from London and the neighbour-
hood—artisans, labourers, and small tradesmen,
with their wives and families—have spent the
greater part of their Whitsuntide holiday within
the walls of the Exhibition. They come early,
intent on seeing as much as possible, get through
the busbies& of the day in the solid, thorough-
going style peculiar to Englishmen, and
remain there till the hour for closing the
building arrives. There are no signs of lounging
or weariness amongst these peaceable crowds. On
the contrary, what strikes careful observers is
the unflagging interest of the holiday visitors in
everything they see, as well as the method and order
of their procedure. They move on from point
to point, and court to court, without the slightest
confusion or disorder, exploring with intelligent
curiosity the marvels of art and industry col-
lected from every country and corner of the world.
They are themselves, perhaps, the greatest and
most suggestive marvel of all. As a mere picture
such a crowd—so vast, so orderly, so full of life
and motion, and spreading like an advancing tide,
wave on wave, till every vacant space fills with
moving life—is one of the most wonderful and
impressive sights that could be imagined. Those
who surveyed it yesterday or on Monday from the
gallery at either end of the nave will not soon
forget the effect. The peculiar and inspiring
pleasure of such a marvellous spectacle is in itself
well worth a journey to Kensington. Were it
less common such a great picture of multitudinous
industrial life might well rank amongst the wonders
of the age. It is just the spectacle that would have
fascinated and inspired the imagination of a mediaeval
painter, and have so wrought with him as to be
reproduced as the jubilee of the world at Rome,
or in some other ideal but permanint and im-
pressive form.
But the moral significance of such a picture is
far more important and suggestive than its pic-
turesque effect. That a hundred thousand of the
industrial classes should have at hand, and be
able and willing to enjoy an intelligent re-
creation of this sort, is a great public
gain. There can be no doubt whatever that they
really enjoyed the holiday, and were thoroughly
entertained with what they saw. But at the same
time all associations connected with the spectacle
would be of the meet stimulating and instructive
kind. Those marvels of skill and ingenuity would
tend not only to excite the admiration and enlarge
the knowledge of the intelligent artisan, but to
quicken the spirit of emulation and enterprise
within him. Amongst these triumphs of industry
and skill he would instinctively recognise a field of
enterprise and action, of future development and
new triumphs, peculiarly his own. His own progress
must inevitably be identified with the progress of
agricultural industry and manufacturing skill,
and however defective in knowledge the working
classes may still be, they are acute and intelligent
enough to be fully alive to this. We need not be
at all surprised, therefore, to find that the two
departments of the Exhibition which specially
attracted these holiday visitors were the
annexes containing the machinery in motion
and at rest, and the raw materials from the
colonies. "The most popular part of the
" Exhibition," we are told, " was decidedly
" the machinery in motion, and the annexe was
" thronged all the day long." " The great pree-
" sure," our reporter adds, "was in this depart-
" ment, where, as usual, the working men took
" the greatest interest in everything that was
" going on. There seems to be, in fact, some
" mysterious affinity between an Englishman and
" a steam-engine, and once they get together they
" cannot be got to separate without the greatest
" natural reluctance." The fact is cm Minty true,
but it is not so very surprising. The machine,
and especially the steam-engine, is the symbol and
representative of that enormous development of
our industrial life and national resources that has
taken place during the present century. Inventive
skill is to the mechanic of our day what the dis-
covery of the Indies was to the Spanish adventurer
of three centuries ago--an El Dorado, a mine
of inexhaustible wealth, a future of assured occu-
pation. If any passing shadow lowers on that
future he naturally turns to emigration—the other
outlet and resource of surplus or ill-requited
labour. " The Colonies," says our Reporter,
" attracted considerable attention, and the work-
" ing men seemed quite absorbed in examining the
" products of such as they knew to be eligible
" emigration fields."
The advantages of spending a holiday in this
way are at once apparent, and scarcely need to be
pointed out. The working classes at the Exhi-
bition did not lose the special charms of a
leisure day. They had their rest and recrea-
tion, their beer and cheese, the company of their
wives, and the privilege of carrying about their
babies for some hours. But combined with the
usual domestic dissipation, there was a

useful and stimulating element. All they
saw was full of indirect instruction, and would
silently convey its own lesson. The natural effect
of studying these wonders in their own and other
departments of activity would be to quicken retleo-
tion—to strengthen the force of prudent and in-
dustrial resolve. Contrast this result with that
of a holiday spent in the too usual way at
ale-houses, in wrangling and indolence, or
with low companions in vulgar dissipation.
The effect of such a holiday is, in fact, purely
injurious. It tends directly to deaden reflection,
weaken the force of the will, and foster:that love of
idleness and pleasure, which is fatal in the long
run to self-respect, habits of industry, and manly
character. That the working men should in such
large numbers chooee to spend their holiday at the
Exhibition above all other places, shows
how largely they possess these virtues, and e
effect of the visit will naturally be to strengthen
amongst them the love of honest labour as well as
the spirit of independence and manly sell-control.

be Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Jcxz 10.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Alice
and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon. Major-
General Seymour was in attendance.
Princess Alice, attended by Lady Churchill and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Roe, went to Holland-
house to-day and visited Queen Marie Amalie.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.offiee
from the Governors of the North American provinces, the
Bahamas, and Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the
Governors of Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lahuan, and
to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wands.

COURT 110171LNINO. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S
Orrlca, Juan 10.—Orders for the court's going into
mourning on Thursday next, the 12th instant, for her late
Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Reese, viz.—The
ladies to wear black draws, white gloves, black or white
shoes, feathers, and fans, pearls, diamonds, or plain gold or
silver ornaments. The gentlemen to wear black court
dress, with black swords and buckles. The court to change
the mourning on Sunday, the 15th instant, viz.—The ladies
to wear black dresses, with coloured ribbons, flowers,
feathers, and ornaments, or grey or white dresses, with
black ribbons, Bowers, feathers, and ornaments. The gen-
tlemen to continue the same mourning. And on Thursday,
the 19th instant, the court to go out of mourning.—Gaxtte.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale's
Me, at Orleans Hone, wee erroaeonely enecinaced yester-
day to take plain on Friday, the 11th of July, instead of
on Friday, July 4, which ia the day for which the
invitations ars bawd.

Lady Leigh's evening party, originally fixed
for Friday, June 13, Is unavoidably postponed to Friday,
Jane 311

Lady de Rothschild's dance is fixed for Thursday,
the 26th lest.

lakly Murchison has left the Queen's Hotel,
Upper Norwood, for town.

Lord Vernon, chairman of Section C, Class 11,
at the Exhibition, entertained at dinner on Saturday, at the
Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich, most of the gentlemen be-
longing to that notion, as well u several of thou belong:ng
to the other sections, with Dr. Lyon Mayfair and M. Ls
Commandeur Brillant,

Lady Franklin, the widow of the great Arctic
Davigater. arrived at Calcutta lately by the steamer Fiery
Cress.

The Caleufta papers state that all Sir Bartle
Prere's valuable library, the papers connected with his
administnstion is &lade, and a great many other valuables,
have been lost in the ship Twos.

We take the following from a late number of
the Singapore Free Prue :—" According to oar accounts
there is some prospect of the Straits being visited by the
Priam of Wales en long. His royal highness, it was
said, intended to visit Qmetantinople, Egypt, Continental
India, and eventually Australia. As he will be conveyed
at this tour in men-of-war, he will probably prefer the
route to Australia by the Indian Archipelago, as it will
enable him to visit Java and other places of interest. The
intelligeoce of this visit of the Prism to India and Aus-
tralis is stated to be authentic, although as yet the news-
papers have only mentioned a visit to Constantinople."
_ .

Bombay has been for some time agitated by the
great "shoe question.' Alone of all ler Majesty's Indian
subjects the Parses say they are prohibited by their
religion from unooraing either head or fast. On serval
occasion* they have sot been allowed to enter the public
offices with their shoes os. As they most show some sign
of respect they are rommtnended to put off the glazed
cover of chintz, which heavily oppresses them, and retain
on their heads only the skull eap which they wear
ander it.

The Bengal Surkeiru says :—" It is with much
pleasure we notice that Baboo Chewier Coomar Dry, at
the late university examination, obtained the degree of
K.D., the first ever conferred in this country. The ex-
amination was of an exceedingly rigid character, and we
clogratulate this young man on the distinction he ban so
honourably gained. He has punned his medical studies
chiefly under the tuition of Dr. Goodeve. He is, we are told,
proficient in seven Legalises, and in 1856 translated a Ger-
man work into English. We shall always feel pleasure in
recording similar instances of ability and its rewards, afford-
ing, es they dq such example to the young students of
India."

The Sydney papers report the return of his Ex-
°enemy the Governor (Sir John Young) from a visit to
Norfolk Island, undertaken in accordance with instructions
from the Secretary of State, for the purpose of reporting
upon the program" of the settlement of the descendants of
the mutineers of the Bounty, who, on the breaking up of
the convict establishment in Norfolk Island, were removed
thither from Pitcairn Island. Ufa stated that his excellency's
intercourse with the isolated islanders has given hint •
favourable opinion of their character. The names of the
chaplain, the chief magistrate, and the schoolmaster are
mentioned in terms of high commendation. The charm,
facilities of the people mentioned by Sir William Denison
on returning from his visit—their uniform virtuous be-
haviour, and the primitive simplicity of their tastes and
manners—atill appear to be retained. The total number of
persons on the island at the date of his excellency's visit
was 265.

At the ceremony which has just taken place at
Rome, the :hutch of Frame was represented by slicerdi-
aals, nine archbishops, forty-two bishops, and two thousand
lower ecakeisatica.

Mgr. do Bounechose, Archbishop of Rouen, ac-
°amplified by M. Barthaemv, architect of the diocese, and
several mambos of the clergy, deposited three days ago in
the sanctuary of the cathedral at Roues the heart of
Charles V., which, it is announced, was found on the 26th
ult. in ► tomb where it had kin for the last five centuries.

The deipatch-boat Cuvier, which left Dieppe a
few days ago, has just returned to Fecamp, bringing in four
• oyster-boata, which had been raptured poaching on
the French beds. The guard•boat Emmanuel bad also
taken an English smack. The mete of these boat, have been
seised end confiscated, and the masters will have to mr,bear
before the English tribunals for an infraction of the inter-
national convention on oyster fishing.

A singular lawsuit has just come on in Paris.
The plaiotiff is a young actress of the Odeon, who demands
of the director of that theatre to allow her to make her
lint appeerance in tragedy. It appears that M. de la Hou-
ma', the defeedant, when beast by she protectors of the
young lady, actually engaged to do so. After having taken
lemons of a competent master, in order to perfect herself,
and having devoted all her time to those &WU whence she
expected to derive glory sad fortune, the young lady re•
quested IL de la Hennas to keep his promise. The latter
then directly refused, asserting that the young artist wee
labouring under a mistake, and that it was utterly impos-
sible for him to have mad* each a pregame, and that she
had so talent.

0011 RT or Qum:Ws Bzencu.—Tinvrr TERM, 215 re
VICTORIA, JUNK 9.—This court will hold sittings on Wed-
',today the 184, Thursday the 19th. Thursday the 26th.
Friday the 27th, anturdey the 2Rth, and Monday the 30th
days of June lenient, and co Tuesday, the lit day 01 July
next, and the four following days, and will at such Attune
proceed in disposing of the oases in the new trial, special,
and crown papers, and any other matters thee peedift ; and
will also hold • ritting on Saturday, the 12th day of
July next, for the purpose of giving judgments only.—By
the 001111.