The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-05 00:00:00

11V111 O'CLOCK LITCTRYI.

Season tickets
By payment

41,215

4,244
44,985

49.229
By this it will be seen that 20,000 people entered
in two hours.
These numbers—increased by a later return—are
the greatest we have yet had to record in connec-
tion with the Exhibition, and they seem to have
astonished no one more than the managers of the
two refreshment departments. It says much for
the resources of these gentlemen, that they were
able to cope on the whole so satisfactorily with an
influx that was evidently unexpected on a fine
Derby day, and to make as much as they did of
their cramped and crowded space. No waiter can
do his work well unless he has plenty of room, and
half the complaints—many of them unfounded—
which have been made about attendance in the
English and French dining rooms, would never
have been heard of if those rooms had been twice
their present width. The visitors appeared gene-
rally to belong to a very respectable class, and the
fact that they were new to the place was proved to
some extent by the large sale of catalogues.
1 Dr. Chipp performed a selection of music at 4
o'clock on Messrs. Forster and Andrews'
which drew a large crowd to the neighbourhood
the north eastern annex. This performance will
be repeated on Saturday. We cannot honestly say
that we admire the decorations of this o
faultless as they may seem to persons of medirryt
11 taste. The pipes look very much like rows GC
I Roman candles in a firework-maker's window. 11
The visitors, as usual on the shilling days, were
pretty equally dispersed about the building—the
machinery annex being filled to overflow-
ing. The large proportion of children of
all ages present on these shilling days is
a noticeable and gratifying feature. Judging
from the jammed appearance of the building at
3 o'clock yesterday, and the difficulty of moving
along many of the chief avenues, when at least
40,000 persons were present, crinoline has asserted
its power, and it will be no easy matter to peek
away the large numbers who will doubtless present
themselves on such days as Whit-Monday. The
crinoline of the middle and lower classes is not quite
so expansive and dome-like as the dresses of the
aristocracy, but it is sufficiently broad and unyield-
ing to impede the circulation of mums.
The hardware courts, from some cause, are still
oompsratively deserted, much to the loss of the
visitors. The display here is valuable and inteeest-
Mg, the passages are wide, and the courts lie near
the eastern entrances.
Amongst the distinguished visitors yesterday
rzenumes—
were the two young royal • Arthur and
Leopold—who, under the ' ce of the Duke of
Buckingham and Captain owke, spent several in-
-1 structive hours in the Exhibition. Lord Elcho, the
Duke of Cleveland, the Duchess de Nemours, the
ex-Queen of France, and Lord and Lady Shaftes-
bury and family, were also visitors during the day.
The numbers admitted on Tuesday show an in-
crease over the numbers on the corresponding day
in 1851 of about three thousand. The door pay-
ments on the second shilling day in 1862 were about
four thousand more then in 1861. The third shil-
hag day in 1851—corresponding with yesterday—
showed admissions by season tickets estimated at
5,000, sad by payment 37,384—total 42,394. This,
it will be seen, is under the total of yesterday. The
Derby Day in 1851 (May 21) was a five shilling day
at the old Exhibition, and the receipts amounted to
3,512/. The season ticket admissions were 14,500,
and the payments 14,049.
The total number of visitors yesterday was as
follows :--Season ticketa, 4,899 ; by payment,
45,688 ; total, 50,585.