The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

THE IN'TICANATIONAL EXHIBITION.

• curious coincidence was observable yesterday
in the temperature of the interior of the Exhibi-
tiers building, the glass giving only half a degree
more than that of the return of the preceding day.
The attendance bad also increased, but in much
greater proportion, and the visitors continued
pouring in down to a very late hour. A company
of the 60th Rifles came up from Aldershott,
the first instalment, we believe, from the
camp, sent by Captain Carleton, and all expenses
paid by that officer. A detachment of the sth
Lancers were sent in by their colonel, Lieutenant-
General Chatterton, and amongst the general
crowd were 550 provincials, from Cuckfield, Sussex,
franked by local subscription. The vicar of the
parish and a highly respectable local deputation
accompanied and took care of the visitors. They
had their band, a juvenile one, and their
badge—an oak leaf in each bat—and went
through the building with great delibera-
tion, order, and solemnity. Amongst the schools
were : Christ Church, Bloomsbury, 40, sent by the
Rev. G. Hamilton ; Emanuel Hospital, West-
minster, 70, franked by Mr. Harry Emanuel ; the
ColebrookNational, 91, Rev. C. D. Goldie ; and
Hungerford Union sent in by Mrs. Cherry. Thu
Goodwood cup, which for some days has been au
attraction in the case of Molars. Hunt and Roekell,
was yesterday despatched to the race-course. The
design and execution had been much admired ; the
subject, "Scenes from Ivanhoe," being generally
understood, attracted a great many persons to the

We have more than once taken occasion to no-
tice the attractiveness of the Process Court, with its
die sinking, pipe-making, velvet weaving, and
sewing by machinery. We have now to ascend into
a more mysterious region, and to call attention I,a
the process by which that eminent magician, Mr.
Cromer, jun., explains and makes easy
to a wondering public the whole of his
black and fear-inspiring art. Awful secrets
of the conjurer's art, such as the "Inexhaustible
bottle," are here revealed in the most reckless
manner, and the delight of the juveniles is so
much excited by this and the large collection of
out-door games and amusements which Mr. Cremer
exhibits, that a little gentle assistance from the
police is sometimes required to preserve "the
circulation." Toys are not perhaps the most im-
portant objects of the Kensington exhibits, but
they have their uses, and not unimportant ones, be-
cause they make the young people happy. When,
as in Mr. Cremees case, they are made with great
care, taste, and fitness for the object in view, there
is no reason why they should not have their page
in the Exhibition chronicle, as well as the toys
which the jewel court offers to the children of •
larger growth.
The highest temperature yesterday, taken by
Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers, was at
2.30 p.m. :—ln the nave, 69.9 ; in the galleries, 72.6.
The following are tke total numbers admitted yes-
terday, compared with the corresponding day in
1851 :

Season tickets
Tuesday, July 4D Ten shilling, season
tickets
Pa) went

Tuesday, July 29....

Total 64,2S

.r81;41011 tickets
1 Payment

Total 40,036

MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.

For many years peat there has existed an institu-
tion for the education and maintenance of the orphan
children of seamen engaged in the mercantile marine, and
it has been well and adequately supported. Still, owing to
the growth of our mercantile marine, the asylum hitherto
existent in the Bow-reed, near Stratford, has been found
too small to meet the requirements of the charity, and so it
became necessary for the governors to erect a new and more
commodious building. They accordingly made special efforts
to remedy the difficulty under which they laboured, and by
dint of perseverance, dictated by philanthropy, succeeded in
obtaining • fund sufficient to enable them to erect a new
building, which they fixed in the salubrious locality of
Snaresbrook, in Epping Forest, and yesterday it was
in due form opened by Earl Russell, K.G.,
who has been at all times • firm and manificen
supporter of the charity. This new building is • handsome
specimen of that somewhat hybrid style of architecture
which is now technically known as " North Italian-Gothic,"
and has been constructed from the designs of Mr. G. B.
Clarke. After Earl Russell had been received at the
entrance to the building by the vice-prasicienta, trustees.
treasurer, committee, architect, contractor, and calms of
the institution, he was conducted to the reception room,
where he recorded his name as the first visitor. The guests
were then introduced by Mr. Richard Green, the shipowner,
and an address was read stating the objects of the society,
to which his lordship made • brief but appropriate reply.
The company afterwards sat down to a dtjeil err, at which
Earl Russell presided, supported by many of the most emi-
nent shipowners of England. In proposing the tout of the
evening, " Success to the Merchant Seamen's Orphan
Asylum," Earl Russell, after expressing his regret at the
unavoidable absence of Lords Palmerston and Mattes-
, bury, stated the pleasure he felt at seeing so m•iy chit.
dren well cared for, and his hope that their number
would soon be largely increased. It had been said, in
• Latie phrase, which in the presence of so many
ladies who graced the board, he would forbear to quote,
that the greatest reverence was dee to boys. He
would add, "and to girls also." Of whatever class in
life their parents might be, it was most desirable—it was
moat needful—that the little children should be tenderly
cared for. Whilst in every occupation men must feel
that their success depended, upon providential favour,
there were some instanoce in which this feeling must be
unusually deep. The husbandman at harvest-time felt
how his fortunes and the fortunes of his country depended
upon the skies of the next few days; but above all must
the seaman feel that with Providence it rested
whether he should reach the port in safely, or be
overwhelmed in the depths of the see. At one
time exposed to the tornado sad the hurricane of tropical
climes—at another compelled to go aloft in the vain
endeavour to furl sails in • Baltic storm, with fingers
frozen by the cold of that region—the seaman should at
least have the consolation of knowing that, in case of his
death, hi widow and his children would be at any rate de-
livered from the fear of want, and from the necessity of
applying for • pauper's mite in the workhouse. After urging
upon all shipowners present the duty, not only of support-
ing that asylum, but also of sending their ships to sea well
found and in good condition, his lordship concluded by ex-
pressing in a few earnest words his conviction that it was to
the navy, and so its constant recruiting ground, the mercan-
tile service, that we must look to maintain that power
which many envy, that freedom which many abominate, and
that national independence which was one of the anchors
to which the interest of the whole world was barely moored.
It had not been intended to make a collection. but hand-
some donations were spootaneously offered, and • large sum
was realised for the benefit of the charity.

THE MURDER OF MR. FITZGERALD.

LIMERICK, TOLISDAT.

The grand jury of the county of Limerick have
found a true bill this day spinet the two Manes, for being
aooessories to the murder of Mr. Fitzgerald. The trial of
Walsh (Against whom a true bill has been found) has on the
application of the crown, been postpooed until tomorrow.

COTI'ON GROWING IN Jeatuice.—Tbe &deices
received by this mail by the Jamaica Cotton Company coo-
arm their conviction, not only that very superior cotton
may be grown io that colony—far superior indeed to ordi-
nary American, Surat. or Brasilia's, but that in many dis-
tricts of the country (where sugar-cane growing has been
abandoned) there are thousands of labourers requiring em-
oymeot, sod that they ire auger to work at wages varyingfrom ls. 3d. to 4gd. for • day of nine hours, or ten, if the
wages are in proportion. Mr. Codrington writes from Man-
ehiueal that as he is now preparing land for cotton on the
company's estate at Elmwood. numbers of persons, some of
them walking ten miles at the beginning of the week and
returning at the end, being no longer required at Minster
(where they have bees employed in planting 170 acres of
cotton), am applying for work on the new estate.