The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1862.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Although there were large excursion trains up
yesterday, both by the Great Western and Midland
Railways, the attendance at five o'clock had not
reached 50,000, including both the regular season
and the seven-day ticket holders. This does not
look well ; but it is owing to the total absence of
visitors from the North, which, under any circum-
stances, cannot be expected until a more advanced
period of the year. Next week a festival, called
Preston Guild," which occurs only once in twenty
years, will be held in Preston, and until that is over
no Lancashire people, however well off, will think
of coming to London. The local preparations are
immense, and excursion trains will be busy all the
week pouring the inhabitants of the whole of the
northern district into Preston. We mention this
,fact as a strong reason for giving the working
classes a somewhat longer day for the purpose of
seeing their Exhibition.
. . .

We believe that after all the Exhibition visitors
are not to lose their favourite red omnibuses. The
whole conoern, including twenty omnibuses and 250
horses, has, we understand, been purchased by the
General Omnibus Company, but it is their inten-
tion to continue them running, as at present, until
the close of the Exhibition' when they will be in-
corporated in their general arrangements.
The following were the schools, &c., visiting the
Exhibition yesterday :--Satfron Waldo!' National
School, 50, expenses paid by subscription •, Maryle-
bone Training School, 31, expenses paid by com-
mittee ; Stoke Newington School, 38, expenses paid
by committee ; Biggleawade Mead House ditto,
14, expenses paid by Messrs. Conquest ; Highbury,
Christ Church ditto, 80, expenses paid by Rev. Mr.
M'Alpin ; Farringdon-street British ditto, 11, ex-
paid by committee ; Parishioners of Pilton,
e-ie
Rutlandshire,e 22, expenses paid by Rev. J. B.
Brown ; Westminster Wesleyan Training College, 40,
expenses paid by Mr. J. R. Kay ; St. George's East,
St. Stephen's Home, 13, expenses paid by Sisters of
Mercy ; Thames arine Officers' Training Ship
Worcester, 24, expenses paid by committee ; females
from Peckham Lunatic Asylum, 26, expenses paid
by Dr. Armstrong.
The highest temperature yesterday, as shown
by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers,
was :—ln the nave, 68.3 deg. ; in the galleries, 71.0
deg. ;in the western annexe, 78.1 dug. The read-
ing was taken at 4 o'clock p.m.
The following were the total numbers admitted
yesterday, compared with the corresponding day
in 1861:

Wednesday, Aug. 27

Season tickets 3,950
1 Tess Shilling season
Whets
1. Payment and day tickets 48,158

Total 62,896

Wednesday. Aug. 27 Tliensan tickets
i Fa/ImM
Total 29,228

The London and North Western Railway Com-
pany are new prepared to make arrangements for the con-
veyance of bodies of workmen, with their wives and fami-
lies, in numbers of not less than 250, to London and back,
in covered carriages, by special trains, at the following
fares :—From Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington, Chester,
Birkenhead, Ashton, Oldham, Btaleybridge, Guide Bridge,
Huddersfield, Preston, Bohai, and Wigan, for parties of
not less than 230, tie. ; ditto, for parties of not less than
300, ss.

We believe the question of opening the Horticul-
tural Gardens during one or two days a week to visitors
from the Exhibition for the sum of 3d. is now under the
coosideration of the council of the society, and is likely to
result in this boon being granted to shilling visitors. Those
who now eater the gardens have the privilege of returning
to the building without repayment for admisake.
CRYNTAL PALACL —GRLLT POULTRY SHOW. —ONE
MULLING DAT. —WEDNESDAY, AUGUR? 27.—Admissions on
payment, 13,493 ; ditto by 'seem Skikda, 1,133; total,
14,676.