The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-05 00:00:00

ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.

Since the decision of the governors that the hos-
pital shall be removed and rebuilt elsewhere, the grand com-
mittee have been very anxious to make arrangements for
•nrryuig on the establishment temporarily for a year or
two. With this view • deputation, consisting of Mr. Bag-
galley, the treasurer; the chairman of the quarter seasions
(Mr. Johnson), and Mr. Tire, met a deputation of the
Chan° -cruse Railway direstors to arrange terms, if possible.
After • •n, the. Charing-awe company undertook to
cominunicate their views, and the grand committee of the
hospital was summoned to receive their answer. The de-
putation from the governors stated that if terms could
not be come to, it was their present determination to
build a temporary hospital, on the same plan as that con-
structed at Balakiava, on ground in the immediate neigh-
' bonrhoud of London, such as liFalworth or Camberwell.
On the 21.ith ult. the strand committee met at the hospital
to receive the propositions of the railway, which were read,
and were as follows :—That the hospital should pay 18,001.11.
a year, and, in addition, rates, taxes, and repairs; to be
liable for three years to this rent ; but on the other hand,
the railway company were to be at liberty to put an end to
the engagement at any time, at six months' notice. They
also asked the hospital to pay their own expenses of the
arbitration, which, roughly taken, might be 7,0001. or
8,0001. more, and for which the railway company) is liable.
These terms were at ones rejected, and the grandoommitthe
ed consider various propositions for a temporary
proceeded to
1. We understand that the governors are in treaty
with the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers for the use
of seven acres of land at Walworth for a temporary hospital,
which, there is no &oaken, could be easily erected before
August.-04scrver.

Mr. Junes Shoolbred, of Tottenham-court-road,
wu baited no Saturday. at Kemal-peso Ctay, at the
sae of IS. By the spoataomme request of the aeaefaeta is
the establishment of the deceased. about HO of the number
took a part in the funeral proessatoe.
Among the pasungere who landed at Southamp-
ton yesterday from the Brasil picket lisadaleass wen Mr.
.1. R. Croekey, who bas returned from Bassos Ayres, having
bees out there to make arraagerneate for the completion of
the bosom Ayres sad ilea Imam Railway.

when, on the opening day, he amen with his family,
he was refused admission to every portion of the
building where a view of the ceremonial could
be obtained, and at last was obliged to
take seats in the centre of the nave, where)
neither he nor any member of his family could see
anything but the roof during the entire day. As
this gentleman made an appeal to ourselves, as im-
partial journalists, to make public his grievance, we
trust he will see that we have done so not only in
the interest of the public but of the Zxhibition it-
self, which must suffer if an impression gets abroad
that published arrangements are not to be relied on,
but that the system is to "make the word of pro-
mise to the ear, and break it to the sense." I%e
other two gentlemen warmly supported this appeal,
and we pledge our accuracy to the fact, that in
almost every court which we visited in the course
at the day, there was one universal chorus of com-
plaint against what very many called the
iniquity" of the opening-day arrangement.
But a very practical man once said, "That if a
thing be intrinsically good and beautiful in itaslf,
it Ukase great deal of mismanagement to spoil it,"
and the axiom holds most truly of the International
Bahibition. It is quite impossible but that
such a wealth of attractive objects must attract
the whole world to its gates, and a very large sec-
tion of that world--at least of our own fashionable
world—was attracted on Saturday last. One of the
earliest visitors was the Crown Prince of Prussia,
who, having first inspected the Austrian court and
some portion of the Zoliverein which had escaped
his royal highness's notice on his previous visit, in-
timated to Mr. Nottage, the principal manager of
the London Stereoscopic Company, his wish to
have photographic portraits taken of himself and
some of the Prussian commissioners. His royal
highness was first taken alone, seated on the throne,
and afterwards as one of a group with the commis-
sioners, and both pictures were taken, notwith-
standing the dulness of the day, with great celerity
and capital effect. Shortly after his royal highness
had left, another illustrious stranger, namely, Prince
Oscar of Sweden, also presented himself to the
camera, and his royal highness was taken in the
name way—namely, first alone and seated on the
throne, and then as one of a group with three or
four of the Swedish commissioners. The company

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had on the previous night completed their views of
the opening, taken by express order of the Queen,
which were at once forwarded by cabinet messenger
to her Majesty at Balmoral

At a very short uitenal from the opening of the I
doors the general visitors began to pour in in such
numbers as to surprise any one who remembered
that they must be either season ticketholders or
persons who had paid a guinea for the day's admis-
sion. There were, in fact, people everywhere ; and
when we say "everywhere" in the Exhibition, it
may be imagined that we contemplate a very con-
siderable space. Dropping first into the "colonies"
in the desultory manner which, as yet, is the general
practice amongst the visitors, who will not, most
probably, settle down for some time to an onierly
inspection, we were surprised to find New South
Wales, although with its resources as yet only
half developed, densely colonized. A group of
ladies surrounded a painting by a Sydney artist, a
Miss Ironsides, and were in raptures with its bright
colour and irreproachable neatness of execution.
However, as its merits as a work of art will
be treated in another department of the,
paper, we shall pass on to another ad-
miring group—ethnologists of the rougher sex
who were equally intent on some photographic por-
traits of the aborigines, some preparing for war,
others evidently making attitudes for the manipu-
lator, and a third group dancing the national
" Corrobbery." It was a wonderful instance of the
value of the new art. Here were, almost alive,
people living 15,000 miles away, and to know all
about whom must be of immense importance and
intorout to *you Buollshutau. Thou data., was lobo
group of Llamas, which may become more profitable
to Australia than all its gold mines ; cotton of the
much-prized "Sea Island" staple, precious wood',
and coals, and last, though not least, the gold. The
auriferous column, which is to represent one ten
years' hard digging and washing, has not yet been
set up, but it will be in a few days, and the court
will be doubly attractive with its Lion d'Or. Buns
sienna looked wistfully at the bottles of Catawba
wine, and observed on the absurdity of showing
people a vintage without allowing them to taste it.
In the absence of the experimentum cruda they de-
cided, off hand, that ft could not possibly be
equal to Sillery nousseux. But the police-
man, one of the new X's, the creation
of the Exhibition year, says " Move on ;" so we
pass through a world of splendid furniture, of which
we beg to call attention to a very novel gilt screen,
containing a most ingenious arrangement of stuffed
humming-birds, the production of some Sheffield
artist, who, but for the Exhibition, could probably
never have made his bow to the great world ; and
rest for a moment at the lonian Islands, where we
should advise the general visitor also to pause. In
that sunny region of the Grecian Archipelago,
which, however, looked rather dull on Saturday
last, a bright, intelligent young Greek, and a dig-
nified and sententious old one, combine to give
you, in excellent English, full information about
the gold embroidery with which their case is filled,
from neat tobacco pouches up to the really
mitre of the septinsular archimandrite. gorgeous
mitre
alai Byzantine paintings, executed last year, but
exactly in the same style as those of the times of the
Comneni, pipes of ineffable suggestivenses, and all
sorts of modern Attic bric-a-brac. Here will be
found a case the size df a small drawing-room, con-
' taking a brilliantgroup, ladies and cavaliers, in the
picturesque national costume. You see the whole

thing at a glance, and conclude that human vanity
is tits same everywhere, and that crinoline is um-
venial To Japan and China is but a step, and be
sate you so as fast as possible past that vestibule
leading into the Horticultural Gardens, for the
east wind comes in cutting like a razor, so as to
mike you almost fancy it makes Thomas's fine
Siakespear monument shiver like yourself.
Everyone had made for Japan, with a vague notion 4
that it formed part of the recently-arrived em-
bassy, but so far it was not pronounced as coming
up to expectation. Great things however are pro-
mised. China was close at band, but it could be
" done" in • few minutes for we had long been
familiar with its rarities in Fenchurch-street, and '
in its immediate neighbourhood, Russia. How the
visitors rushed to where they saw this name printed
over a court. They remembered the gates of mala-
chite, the caskets of jasper, and the diamond
sprigs of 1851 ; but Russia now takes a different
hoe. She shows her gaudy pocket handkerchiefs
which you buy for forty kopeck each in the market
at Moscow, under the walls of the Kremlin,
her malachite in the lump, and her blankets
which on Saturday, at least, had a grateful effect
on the eye. Not without substantial, albeit some-
what, barbaric splendour, is however her present
skew. At the beck is a on picture of her patron
mkt Nicholas. Nobody looked at it at first, but
when the attendant stated that it was one of those
extraordinary mosaic paintings in which the Rus-
sians delight, and the British policeman added
diet its weight was seven tons, there was quite a
fever of anxiety to examine it. The great point of
miriosity seemed to be its alleged weight, and seve-
zal gentlemen booked bets on the spot to be decided
by an appeal to the Russian commission. Even,
however, if it should be short a few pounds, we
advise people to look at this picture. It is • beau-
tiTul specimen of a beautiful art, and the Laos em-
bodies with wonderful truth the Russian idea of
holiness of expression in the countenance. Then
there is in the glass case, the " Golden Bible,"
from the bask church, valued at 4,000 i., printed
in the old Sclavonic, which even the patriarch
Philaret himself finds it almost impossible to read,
and bound in precious metal, studded all over
with turquoise and diamonds and Siberian amethysts.
Beside it lies a Greek cross, said to be worth double
the money in the market, but of inestimable
worth to the curious siclesiologist. Norway con-
trasted humbly, with her peasant bride and bride-
groom, and her bottles of cod liver oil ; and Hol-
land appealed to the passers by with her beams
r aid 'sties, emblems of the national love of honesty
aid justice.
In the nave we found that the comparative
*mita of the Koh-i-noor and the " Star of the
Muth," had already risen into a party question.
The partisans of the former said it was of the
purest water, but the exhibitor of the bitter
affirmed that his gem had the most fire, adding,
the truly British proof of excellence, that it was
worth • million. He did not say whether florins
or pounds sterling, and hence we imagine that some
misunderstanding has swim°. The Star of the
South" is certainly a wonderful brilliant, but it
has a yellow tinge, whilst the sparkle of the
Kob-i-noor is purely prismatic. The star weighs
125 carats, and has been for six years in the pos-
sersion of the great house of Costar of Amster
the cutters of the Koh-i-noor. There is much to be
said on both sides and 'the debate may go on very
harmlessly until dctober next. Going alittle further
on, we found that there was something in the candle ,1
trophy after all, for we ascertained that it had been
erected by the home of Brandon of Amsterdam,'
which can afford to export the best stearine
equal to spermaceti in apnce, to London,
thence put them on boar,e of all charge, for
Audi:tabu re therateof lls. 6d. the dozen pounds of
16 oz. a fact which, knowing as we do that a con-
siderably worse quality costs la. Bd. the lb. with
us, we commend to the wives and mothers ci
England. The French show consisted on Saturday
principally of Frenchmen in various stages of ex-
citement. There were a few 'adieu, who looked on
anxiously as the cases were opened, and the rich
velvets, grenadine, and mousselaines de sole were
being opened and hung up. Our gallant neighbours,
with all their national politeness, seemed to con-
eider their compare y as rather in the way ; and
perhaps it would be better to postpone further
inspection of this court until its contents have
been properly arranged. The gold and silver
and precious stones' in the English court,
we found in the full tide of succems. It was
impossible to get near either Garrard, or Hunt
and Roskell, or Hancock, so attractive were their
wares found by the company. We noticed a dis-
tinguished member of the clerical profession loot in
admiration of the Shakeepear Vase, • triumph of
Monti's art, which Mr. Hancock has had made at a
cost of 6,0001., especially for the Exhibition. It is
in oxydized silver, a beautiful adaptation of the
metal, which we have to thank the French
goldsmiths for introducing amongst us, and will
amply repay a careful inspection. In this court
will also be found some specimens of the new metal,
aluminium, so celebrated for its lightness. It is
said to be very valuable, but in appearance it
strongly resembles pewter.
It will be hardly necessary to say that the series
of ship models sent by the Admiralty was • centre
of attraction. Everyone's thoughts now run on
Merrimaca and Monitors, and the beat means of
resisting them. Let them go to Mr. Piercy,
the intelligent expounder of nautical mys-
teries, and their minds will soon be set at ease.
He will show them the queenly Northumberland,
of 6,500 tons, plated all over with 4}-inch plates,
and, unlike the Warrior, invulnerable both at stem
and stern. In juxtaposition to her, the last
triumph of the shipwright, stands the quaint old
"Great Harry," a dreadful sea king in its day,
end, in the same range and in progressive aeries all
our great ships from the time of Mr. Penn, the
master shipwright of the Merry Monarch, down to
the present time. There are cupola ships, and
rams, and double screws, and amongst other things
a very beautiful model of the Victoria and Albert
yacht, constructed by Mr. Piercy himself, and as
accurate as a photograph. And why eltwald we
not be interested in everything that relates to our
ships, and foster everything that tends to their im-
provement d Putting war out of the question, we
lost 60 war ships and 11,000 men in nine years,
solely because we were content with iron fastening ;
for from the moment the use of copper bolts was
discovered, all danger of " the pitchy seams " being
" rent ' in the storm disappeared.
Towards the end of the day the two picture gal-
leries became inconveniently crowded, but all we
have left ourselves space to say of either is that the
English one had comparatively a clear atmosphere,
but that the French suffered under what the Aus-
tralians call a regular " brickfielder," which made
the place unbearable beyond a few minutes. A
suggestive commissionaire was of opinion that a
few watering pots well charged would have laid
the dust. Let us hope that this simple idea may,
some time or other, be adopted by the management.

LONDON RIFLE BRlGADE.—Lieutenant-Colonel
Warde, the newly-appointed commander, has issued a
brigade order with reference to the field-day at Brighton,
stating that the seemsl of division had expressed hie warm
approval of the meow a which the brigade executed all
the manoeuvres on that occasion. The colonel elm records
his extreme satisfaction with the conduct of all maks
throughout the da , and coecludes by declaring that he is
proud to the regiment.
Culturaz Paraca.-131oudin will give a perform-
ance on both the hligh sad low rope ea Wednesday next.
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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YO.EK, Azus.24l, Emma.
Exchange, 112 i. Stocks steady. New Mirk
Centrals, 83 ; Illinois, 601; Erie, 361. Cotton
firm and advancing. Sales in two days, 2,000
bales. Middling upland, 20Ic. to 29j0. Flour in
good demand for expert, bc. higher. Wheat dull.
Corn firmer, and in moderate demand. Provisions
quiet. Coffee inactive. Sugar in good demand.
Molasses steady.
QUEEN TOWN, NA: 4.

The royal mail steamship Asia, from New York
on the 23rd ult., arrived here at 5.45 p.m. to-day,
with 157 passengers and 157,226 doles in specie.
She landed 81 sacks of mails and 13 passenger,
and proceeded at 6 p.m. All well.