The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-31 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

All hopes of a 100,000 attendance for this Exhi-
bition are now at an end, unless the commissioners
should see fit to do what every one thinks they ought
to do, namely, give the great sixpenny public one
week before they commence the bazaar. There
were upwards of 63,000 visitors registered by three
o'clock yesterday, and they were sufficient to make
every portion of the building populous, but not so
much so as to interrupt the circulation. The
company was swelled by several excursion trains
from various parts of the country.
The following is the day's list of schools and or-
ganised parties : Privates, Scots Fusilier Guards,
Wellington Barracks, expenses paid by officers, 5 ;
agricultural labourers from Great Wigborough,
Essex, subscription, 15 ; inmates of Hampstead
workhouse, subscription, 30 ; privates of 23rd com-
pany of Royal Marine Artillery, from Portsmouth,
Captain Gladstone, 31 ; employes of Messrs. Ward,
naturalists, Very-street, employers, 10; workmen
from the Metropolitan Alum Works, Bow Common-
lane (second party), A. A. Croll, Esq., 50; several
workpeople from Messrs. Crease and Co's. shilling
clock manufactory, Oxford-street, firm; St. Philip's,
Stepney, National School, Mr. J. B. Walmisley,
130 ; Oatlands, Surrey, ditto, J. G. Sheppard, 34 ;
St. Andrew's Middle (Croydon), ditto, Rev. J.
Fitzwigram, 15 ; Hans-town Industrial (Sloane-
street), ditto, subscription, 6 ; St. Pancras (Lon-
don), Industrial, ditto, Mr. G. Weeks, superin-
tendent,.2o.

The highest temperature attained in the building
yesterday up to 3 o'clock p.m., at which time the
readings were taken, by Zlegretti and Zambia's
patent thermomei.ers,was:—ln the nave, 52.3 deg. ;
in the galleem, 54.0; in the western annex, 58.1.
The atmosphere yesterday morning was exceedingly
humid, but became less so as the day wore on.
The number of visitors at the Exhibition yester-
day was :
By season tickets
By ditto for one shilling days 1,860
By payment OUR

Total

.. 68,701

FLErr-Hrazrr.--Johnson and Boswell agreed in
preferring Fleet-street to Greenwich. " Fleet-street " was,
in their estimation, " the most cheerful scene in the world."
Had they lived in these days, we might have been less
surprised at their opinion. In no part of Loudon has there
been an improvement so marked. One instance is the
handsome building which now unites Fleet-street with
Chancery-lase, and which, as the home of metropolitan
eulioary, is not unsptly designated "The London." Ex-
ternally the building would bear comparison with some of
the recently erected edifices which the Third Napoleon has
caused to arise in the thoroughfares of Paris, end in the
interior we have all that good taste and skill suggest. In
order to get a good dinner it is not now a necessity that the
visitor should leave the metropolis and repair to the hotels
of Greenwich, Blackwell, or Richmond; "The London," in
Fleet-street, will give him all he can reasonably defers in
the way of generous dietary, good wino, and pleasant
rooms.

THE EDINBURGH :BOTANIC GARDEN.—SOMO time
MgO a petition of 14,000 persoos, chiefly belonging to the
working classes, was presented to the Lords of the Trwoury
praying that the Royal Botanic Garden should be opened to
the public on Sundays after church hours. The proposal,
as we formerly stated, gave rise to strenuous o 'lion in
religious circles, sad, in addition to memorials from the
ecclesiastical bodies of different denomiusiticas, a petition
against the opening was circulated for signature from house
to house and exhibited for signature at church doors,which
has now, it appears, received 34.000 names. lAA week a
deputation waited on the Lord• Advocate, and presented a
memorial against the proposal signed by above 100 clergy.
men of different denominations.