The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-25 00:00:00

THE mrzieNarioNAL EXHIBITION OF 1862.

DITZBRUPTION TO THE IGIOGBIBB OF TEE BUILDING.
The works for the new building for the Inter-
national Exhibition of 1862 have not been allowed to proceed
without interruption, as objections were taken to the mode
in which it is proposed to be constructed, by the building
surveyor of the district, who refused to sanction wooden
staircases or a felt roof, as both being opposed to the as.
suiremests of the act of parliament. A power, however,
is seated in the Metropolitan Board of Works, under the
116th section of their act, to give their ruction to works of
an exceptional chanicter, and this sanction was readily and
unanimously given on Friday fret, but it appears the dis-
trict surveyor denies the authority of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, and will require the magistrate of the
district to give his opinion upon the question. There is
no doubt he will confirm the Board of Works in their
decision, and it is gratifying to know that little delay will
be caused by this interference, as the time lost in actual
building is employed in collecting and preparing mataiale,
which will on resumption facilitate the progress of the
works.

Up to yesterday evening the guarantee fund amounted to
404,0001.
Her Majesty's ecUlMiaiiolloll yesterday received in-
formation that Beremen had appointed • commission to
superintend the srta and industry of that country, formed
of a joint committee of commerce and trade. Dr. Viehter
Barnet, Syndicate of Chamber of Commerce, had been
Dominated to conduct the correspondence.
Ineuspect to South Australia, G. G. Walters, Esq., of
-court, London, has been nominated to superin-
tend the interests of that country.
For Tasmania the commission will coosist of Fred. A.
du Cross, Esq., Joseph Milligany, Eaq., and dimes A.
Y oul, .
The legislature of Belgium will in the course of nest
week consider a bill to authorise the application of 250,0001.
for the purposes of the coming exhibition, and it is rumoured
that the Emperor of the French will ask from the French
Chamber a large sum for a similar object.
Her Majesty's commissioners have received information
that local committees have beam farmed ia the following
additional places of the United Kingdom : Gloucester,
Hertford, Hartlepool, Ipirwiels Kidderminster, Newark,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northainpton, Oxford, Stafford,
Walsall, sad Worcester.
no demands for spas for the United Kingdom far
exceed what ma passiMy be pasted, as half theintilding
will be reserved for foreign exhibitors.

We regret to hear that the health of Mr. M. D.
Hill, the Recorder of Birmingham, is in such • precarious
state uto necessitate his leaving England for Germany for
• time.

A festival iu aid of a proposed monument to
John Banyan will be held in the Polytechnic Institution,
Regent-street, on Monday next. In addition to the usual
attractions of the Polytechnic, • number of Bunyan relics
will be exhibited, with a model of the intended restoration
of Banyan's tomb in Banhill-fields burying ground.

Mr. C. Horsley's Gideon will be performed at
the St. James's Hall on the 12th of next month. Mr.
Mellon is to conduct. The band will be that of the Musical
Society, and the singers will be Miss Stabbach, Madame
Laura Baxter, Messrs. Sims Beeves, Champion, Henry, and
Weiss.

Mr. W. Searle has taken the Surrey Theatre,
and will assume the management nn Saturday, June 1.

Miss Marriott has undertaken the direction of
the Standard Theatre, and commeoees her season no Mors
day nest.

The pairomgere to and from the London-bridge
Station on Monday numbered 54,38 t, and to and from the
Victoria Station 18,304; making, together with 4,500 season
ticket-holders and others, the enormous number of 87,188
passengers in and out of the London ends of the line in one
day.

On Monday we bavo the M.C.C. and Ground
v. " The Colt.'" at Lord'a, the Gentlemen of Kent v. the
Players of Kent at Maidstone, the All England Eleven
v. Twenty-two at Bedford, and the Surrey Club v. South.
gate at the Oval; and on Thursday. the M.C.C. and Ground
v. Staffordshire Hunt at Lord's, and the United All
England Eleven v. Sixteen of the University at Oxford.

ZOOLOGICAL G • RDENS. —Tile total number of
visitors to the prices of the Zoological Society, in the
Regent's-park on Whit•Mnnday, was 115,979 ; this was the
largest number of persons that has ever been admitted to
the gardens in one day since their opening to the public in
18'34; the nearest approach to this number having taken
place on Whit-Monday, 114-57, when there were 23,014 visi-
tors. It is gratifying to learn that, under such extraor-
dinary eircurnatances,no accident of any kind took place ; the
animals were in no way disconcerted by this great addition to
the nand number of spectators, nor did the garden sustain
any damage. It may be added, as en interesting incident of
the day, that a fine female giraffe was born during the fore-
noon, and seems likely to do well in spite of its first appear.
lance at so inconvenient unoment:—,4 thew/was.
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MR. A. STZUAZT, M. P.—A long letter from this
gentleman, dated from Itaoffshirei, May 20, appears in the
estsibridge CAroairk of to-day. la the course of it he
says: —" It was right in medical advisers to say that
lights, a crowd, and late boon might do no good.
Happily they were wrong. I returned that night to
Dr. N inslow's establishment, merely because I was in-
, formed that it wee contrary to their rules for patients
to sleep out. Steps had already been taken to obtain a
regular discharge ; and as I foresaw that public Red-Tape-
ism, and that alone, might cause • few day's delay, I left
four days following on my own responsiliilty. My friends
at Cambridge may be satisfied to learn that since
then I have, in my native air, and giving moderate atten-
tion to my private business, been enjoying the best of health.
• • • I should not be slow to ewe& to any intimation from
old supporters either that I bad failed to express their senti-
wrote, or sou likely in future not to be what they would
wish their representative to be, otherwise I have no menet
intuition of resigning into their hands the trust committed
to me. as by the first week in June at latest, and sooner,
should I foresee a vote of first-rate ouneequence, it is my
hope to he in my place at Westminster, with every con-
fidence for most of the remaining weeks of the session, with
at lust ordinary regitlantv."
THE FINE ON MIL. ALDZILMAN FERNAND/Z.—The
lee of raw . impued upon Mr. Alderman Fernandes, of
Wakefield, for refusing to answer certain questions in the
ease of " The Queen v. Cluoienworth," has been paid by
that gentleman during the present week to Win. Gray, Faq.,
the Ceder Sheriff of Yorkshire, on behalf of the Crown.
Mr. Fernandes, as our readers are aware, was ordered to be
"detained and kept in safe custody" in York Cattle fee the
term of six calendar months, and ie now in prison on that
commitment.—Yorkshire Gazdte.