The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-20 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The attendance yesterday, which considerably ex-
ceeded 20,000, was pronounced by the officials to be one of
the best Friday's " companies " they bad seen for some
week•. The visitors were evidently of the higher classes of
society, especially the foreiguas. The building was delight-
fully cool and pleasant, and being much less crowded than on
the shilling days, formed one of the most delightful prome-
nades in the world. Mr. Hobbs lectured to numerous and
distinguished audiences on the virtues of his lock, and the
great Swedish gun was an object of much curiosity to the
military vision. The general opinion is, that the breech
would not stand repeated discharges. Two additions have
recently been made in the Milan sculpture room, which
from the homely and easily understood nature of
their subjects and beautiful execution, attract con-
tinuous crowds, especially of the female visitors. One
is the Italian maypole, with its circle of prizes
round the top, and a group of children round the base, all
stru4gling to ascend. The attitudes of these latter are so
natural, and depicted with so much humour, that the ladies
constantly surround the group, and sympathise with the
li.tle girls who are pushed away from the prize by the
more vigorous male candidates. The other novelty is a
statuette: representing a little girl selling Cupids out of a
basket. The figure of the girl is full of ease and nature,
and the details of costume are worked out with much deli-
cacy of handling. This figure, although placed in a corner,
is much admired and inquired after. A good deal of en-
tertainment was provided for the visitors, yesterday, in the
musical department, of which it is refreshing to add the
great organs took no share. We believe we may add to our
list of medal-holden Prince Albert for his conception and
patronage of the Exhibition. Mr. Paxton receives a similar
reward for his design of the Crystal Palace, and
Messrs. Fox and Henderson, fot the efficient manner in
which they carried that design into execution. Messrs.
Hibbert and Platt get a great medal for their beautiful
display of the whole process of the cotton manufacture, and
one each has been awarded to Grey and Davison for the
English, and to Ducroquet for the French, organ. We
trust that the ambition of these exhibitors will be now
satisfied, and that they will permit their huge instruments
to sleep for the remainder of the season. We believe it
was proposed to grant one to the East India Company, for
their magnificent display of Oriental luxuries ; but the
proposal was resisted by souse of the jurors, on the grounds
that th•r Company are neither manufacturers nor dealers
but obtained their rarities either as tribute, or by conquest.
The Emperor of Russia must content himself with a silver
medal, and the Sultan is put on the same footing.
and 0 (furs, leathers, Ike.) have no
great medal, the most distinguished exhibitor in either,
Mr. Nicolay, of Osfurd-street, being a juror, and thereby
disqualified from candidature. This gentian-in must there-
fore content himself with the general award of public opi-
nion, which pronounces his furs to be the finest display that
has been seen for many years. The whole number of
British exhibitors who have obtained great medals is 79 ;
and as the French have 3.1, the remainder must be tolerably
well scattered among the rest of the foreign exhibitors.
Grouud has ut length been broken in the way of ex-
pressing public opinion as to the disposal of the surplus by
the local committee of 'kitten, who, at a meeting held ini
the Borough-court of that town, on the 17th inst., Robert
Heywood, Esq., J.P., presiding, passed a series of resolu-
tions, copies of which were yesterday in the hands of the
executive committee, and arc given be:ow. It is cousi-
&reel highly probable that this step of the Bolton com-
mittee will be followed by similar demonstrations from the
ether local committees. Thu Duke of Devonshire, Duchess
of Inverness, Earl Fitzwilliam, Viscountess Torrington,
and Mr. Wyld, M.P., were among the visitors yesterday.
The police numbers were 21,458, and the receipts
2,2271. 24.

The following shows the temperature yesterday, as re-
corded by Mr. lienuett's thermometer, being the mean
result of 100 readings:-1U o'clock, rut; 12 o'clock, 61 ; 2
o'clock, 61; 4 o'clock, 63; 6 o'clock, 61. Mean tempera-
ture, 61.4.

The following is the document above alluded to :
"At a meeting of the local committee for Bolton, held in
the runistrates liorougli Court, on the kith Sept.,
1611, Robert Heywood, Esq., J.l'., in the chair, the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously agreed to: let. That
her Majesty's Colllllll3tiOoCra be urgently and respectfully
requested to express and record the warm feelings of grati-
tude and admiration universally entertained towards his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, by the erection of a column
and statue of the prince as president of the royal CUTIIMib•
siunen, in bronze or other metal, and in civil costume, with
a suitable inscription, either in the centre of the space now
occupied by the Crystal Palace, or in some other appropriate '
I situation. 2nd. That the royal commissioners and the exe-
cutive committee be respectfully requested, in the event of
the removal of the Crystal Palace (which this committee
would greatly regret), to purchase so much of its materials
as may be required fur the erection of a building in one or
other of the new parks for the people, or some other con-
venient situation, adapted to receive all the specimeus, mo-
dels, drawings, engravings, printed books, manuscripts, and
other docunieuts relative to the Exhibition, which it may be
thought desirable to preserve for the use of the nation.
That admission to the said building should, under suitable
regulations, be tree to the public : and that so much of the
surplus funds derived from the Great Exhibition of the
present year as may he requisite for the necessary expenses
of keeping the said building in repair, and for moderate
salaries to the necessary °Ricers, should be invested for that
purpose. 3. That her Majesty's Commissioners for the
Great Industrial Exhibition be respectfully requested to
solicit from the Lords Commissioners of the M ends and
Forests permission to mark the site and dimensions of the
Crystal Palace, by placing at each corner a monolithic block
of granite or other stone, with appropriate inscriptions
deeply incised recording the date of the opening and closing
of the Exhibition, the year of our Lord and of the reign of
Queen Victoria; its purpose and success ; the names of the
president, and members of the royal commission ; of the
executive committee and principal Akers ; the designer of,
and contractors for, the building ; the number of visitors,
and the amount received for admission, with such other
facts as may be considered of interest to future generations;
and that it be further suggested that the said monolithic
blocks might be made ornamental as the bases of statues
embiemstic of the lour great divisions of the Exhibition, or
of the four continents which have contributed to it."

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—WOOLWICH, SEPT. 19.
—The Lady Franklin, commanded by Captain Penny,
arrived at Woolwich yesterday afternoon, and was brought
up at moorings alongside the Saßette receiving ship, oppo-
site the dockyard, and the Sophia, her sister vessel, is daily
expected at this port. The Lady Franklin has come haw
sate and sound, in excellent condition and remarkably
clean, and with as healthy and robust a crew as ever sailed
in any region, and without a single complaint amongst the
men on board, if it is excepted that they say they cannot
now eat so much mint as they used to do of fat pork and
other rich edibles, their appetites having greatly abated
since they lett the Orkneys for Woolwich. The Danish
interpreter has returned with ti hem, and appear to be a
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still safe.
IRON RULING ROUND ST. PAL'L'S CATHEDRAL.
—la the new City Sewers Act appears .the following im-
portant enactment (14 and 16 \ het. c. 91., local), " And
wherein it may hereafter be thought deeiraide to open and
lay into the public street the ground, area, or space, in the
west front of the cathedral church of St. Pants, now en-
closed with an iron rail or fence, or some part thereof, he it
therefore enacted. that it shall be lawful for the commis-
sioners to treat and agree with the Archbishop of [...enter-
bury, the Lord Bishop of London, and the Lord Mayer of
London, the trustees for the fabric of the said cathedral
church, or any two of them, and with the Dean and CheD•
ter of the said cathedral church (who are hereby several)r
authorised and empowered to contract, if they shall think
fit to do so, with the commissioners accordingly), for open-
ing and laying into the said public street all or any part of
the ground, area, or space lying westward of the great steps
leading up to the said church (except that part encompassed
Iwith an iron rail whereon the statue of the late Queen
Anne is erected), and in the event of any such agreement
being entered into as to all or any part of the said ground,
area, or open space the commissioners are hereby autho-
rised and empowered, by and outof the monies arising from
the consolidated rate, to make such compensation for the
same to the said trustees as shall be mutually agreed upon,
and thereupon to cause the said ground, area, or space (ex-
cept as before excepted) or so much thereof as shall be so'
' ogneed fur, tole opened and laid into the public street, any
law or prescription to the contrary there if in anywise not-
withstanding. ' By virtue of this act, which is now in
farce, means may be adopted for the removal of the iron'
, railing round the eathednil.