The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-03 00:00:00

TUE EXHIBITION YESTERDAY.

, If the scene in the Crystal Palace yeah.' wa
10.4 exciting it was not less beautiful than on the previois
day. There was no thrill of expectation, no outburst -f
• pent-up joy, but in return u diffused eharen, whie
radiated trent the thousand centres, and which the !vowed. e/
incidents of the opening fur a time had seemed to over-
' shadow. The storm of public excitement was past,
the wind had subsided, hut the swell still cemented
Thousands returned to refresh their tee le ilium ct
a spectacle which they well knew they could never hops
to see equalled in their time again. There ...semen to
be an overpowering desire experienced to inele ire
retloction, to measure accurately the character and value et
a pageant the course of which was too rapid, and the feel-
ing. which it evoked too powerful to admit a eaten r. xertiwi
of the judgment, to such a height had public admiration
and enthusiasm been Iramqu,rteel. l'e.terday the wearied
' contractors rested front their labours, the wounds of ham-
mers, thu rush of artimm, the bustle, the dia, and the
turmoil of preparation had ceased. The (offices of the
executive were no longer besieged by crowds of
anxious applicants. The active members of 010 COM.
mitten appeared to enter on a new era, win-re their
energy might safely be relaxed. Multitudes of people
flecked into the building, but of a far different ekcs
from the swarming bawls of workmen who have hithei
been its occupants. The noble, the learned, tend the %meld
came to parade its long avenues, and to meditate at their
leisure upon the grandeur of the preceding das s ceremo-
nial, and survey the field which opened an unbounded store
for subsequent inquiry. There was alio an evidem desire
to see the arrange me lets of the state opening ioedbre they
were removed, and to revive the impressions en an event
which every our who witnessed it will treasure carefully in
hi. memory.
The mind and vision of the spectator, undisturbed by
distracting objects, have now time to csonternplat, lad dwell
upon all the wonders of that marvellous int, ricr. The
grind design, the artistic deeorations, and the regular pro-
portions of the building, are all earefully observed. People
has, time to analyse their gen-se-al impressions iii admiration,
tee justify the conclusions at w icicle they had already arrived,
and to steely carefully every part of the picture presented
to their sight. When this source of enjoy-mem inal been
exhausted yesterday the throng of visitors examined closely
and in detail the immense number of striking object* which
make up the hod enseotb c of the nave.
The Koh-i-noor, M. Osler's fountain, Kis..'s Amason,
Schwanthaler's bronzes, and the Bavarian lion were so many
dusters of strong attraction.
The Executive Committer, notwithstanding the un'aus at
their disposal, will have boatel difficulty in clearing out
their e1...n0r, and shutting up shop, us they propose, at six
o'clock. Thu long summer evenings are lust apionewhing,
and the desire to linger where there is so much to delight
will show itself with more and more force every day.
As yesterday was the first pay-day, the public will be in-
terested to know the amount of money taken at the en-
' traincs of the building. It will lee recollected that the charge
for admission, except by season tickets, on the two days sue-
' evening the opening was fixed at lt. At this rate upwards
of &SM. was collected yesterday. The sale eds. vane tickets
has been resumen, and the demand for them, mow-Unstated
ing that the states ensiling is over, still continues very great.
Yesterday 219 were sold at the building, and this besides
those at John-street, Adenoid. The number of visitors yes-
Mislay was nut less than MOM.

CHEAP LODGINGS DrRING THE ENIIIIiITION.--
The excitement ran so high with regard to the Exhibition
of the Industry or all Nation% that a great doubt e:iisted as
to lio.v those who attended were to get lodgings. Some
thought they would be obliged to sleep iu the fields—
seine that they would be obliged to take the floor, and
mine that they would be thankful for a mattress in a coal-
hole. Great perplexity arose, too, as regarded the supply
of edible's and how those were to be served. Waiters out
of number would be requisite; and woad to any amount
would he essential. Where, too, were wash-hand basins to
be had; looking-glasses were wanted; the seap-netinuthe-
tareis must make a fortune; and as for thu laundry maids,
London could not produce a tithe of those that w, re neces-
sary. There was a difficult problem in all this, and a
townsman has solved it. Ur. Livingston, a tt. Enoeh-
square, the leader of the juvenile total abstaic.c.s of the
city, has taken a true view of the .u!,j...et, and
laid it before his own young world of impressible
hearts, a that not even a child can mistake its
charge, as compared with the advantages conferred.
Mr. Livingston has engaged the screw-steamer European,
now plying between Glasgow and London, Mr a senes of
trips durisq the " world's i.dr." The steamer reaches LOP-
dun-bridge—the centre of the city—and there it remains as
a home ter those who might lie wonderfully puzzled to se-
cure lodgings. The vessel is to its passengers a home on the
voyage—it is their lodging by day—it is their bou.t• for the
nig:it—and their "castle "at all seasons. The passengers
allied to the temperance cause have, iu truth, in this series
of tripe, a floating mansion where there is no Luidlord, no
waiter, no chambermaid, no bouts, nothing but tie ir own
marine palace, and themselves its masters. We do not
know of any idea, yet elicited, so well calculi:till to make
people, and especially the young, fuel so completely at their
vas-', or render them so c. ruin of being anything but
strangers in what is to thousands of our :,,uutrytueu a
foreign city.—Wasstele Daily Mail.