The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-23 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION OF 185'

THE BUILDING. '
On Saturday two thousand two hundred mew were :
employed upon the works. The great operations throughout
the week have been the flooring and glsniog. At both ends
of the building there is yet a large mean unglued; but this
work is retarded by the limited supply of glass. The work-
men calculate that they are able to fit upwards of eight thou-
sand panes daily ; but the supply of materiel has fallen short
of this quantity. The members of the executive committee
took possession of their apartments on Friday last ; and in
future their labours will be carried on within the building.
A large extant of Boring bee been laid down since our last
resit ; and throughout the week the serpent, rs have been em-
ployed boarding in the building. The nob ben of the transept
have been fixed; and today the gluier, commence upon
this important part of the structure. By the nth tam
it is confidently expected that all the Onto; will be finished
and that the exterior of the building will be complete.
We have recurred once or twine to the reports which have
been propagated, that puts of the building were not mfir ;
we also stated that these portions hod been bread to give
them additional streneth. This addition of strength led
certain men to amen that the promptitude with which the
authorities yielded to their directions wee evidence of the
carelessness with which the plans of the building had been
drawn up. It will be satisfactory to the public to learn
that when the engineers of the building committee inspected
the alterations in question, they unenimously pronounced
them to be utterly superfluous, so that the originator of
the plans and the contractors are exonerated bvl the high en- 1
.i• a .
gmeeriog esttionties from any &tupelos of wota,ng in an us.
scientific °toneless manner. V iaiton continued throughout last
week to flick to the grounds, and to swell the amount of the
widest relief fund. It is remarkable that up to this time only
ens fatal accident has incurred, and this was attributable to
the earelesiness of the solderer. The contractors, to restrain
the daring of the workmen, have made a regulation,
wholeeome in its effect, of prohibiting the labourers from
placing themselves in dangerous attitudes, on pain of (Bs-
miesal from their employment. We may add that the
Athenaeum, in a timely paragraph, hos drawn public atten-
tion cam more to the con- &dims( the Serpentine, suggesting
1 that it should be cleared belme the Bilibi-ion open..

BITTLOYIIIIIT OF MILITARY AT TIC INDUSTRIAL Bs-
sisretos.—A number of the mast iatelllient sad well-
coadwited soa-mmialiMemed °facers and private, of the
Royal Sappers sad Misers us being employed as clerks
seder the committee for the Ilaktibidon to take place sem
year.
AT • MIIRTINO OF THR SOUTII•NPTON TOWN COUNCIL
on Friday, it WAS neolved to roast sit address to the
President of Americo, with a view to Southampton Wag
minted for the destination of a goverment vessel charged
with meaufacteres end productions of that country to the
great Exhibition of 1861.
Tie Nattintak Corson. or BWITZIRLAIO. in the sitting
of the 18th, voted 6.0001. for the expenses of the Ezhibition
yt London. The Federal Assembly, In one of its recent
amiss., sanctioned the treaty lately concluded with the
United States of America.

ST. BARNABAB CHURCH, PIMLICO.—This cbtirCh
was Nola opened for divine ludo yesterday, the impending
notice having been quietly mowed in the course of but
wei k. Mr. Bennett took no part in the wadi= of the
service, which tees perforated by the Revs. G. F. de Orz and
W. Fyfe. The rites end symbols appear to lays undergone
no modifleation, ease that the audios on the altar remained
unlighted after the chanties of the litany. Mr. Cowie, of
Putney College, preached the airman, in which the peculiar
views of the its party on baptimn were 'dewed.
RUMOURED SAFETY OF SIR Joliet FlatilELTH.—
The Musser of yesterday says: "A rumour wee very pre-
valent lest night of the safety of Bir John Franklin, and of
his expected arrival in London within a fortnight from this
date. This rumour was strengthened by an aneenticemeat
from the stage of the Haymarket Theatre soon after ten
o'clock, on the sawdust= of lb. play of " Henry the
Eighth." Mr. Froderick Webster, the stageh ma
acid
r,
announced, amidst great applause, the news, wich
he had bona goad authority. We have made inquiries,
however, at the Admiralty, et the Home Ofibu, at several
of the clubs, at the electric telegraph °Mose, and every plus
where the intelligence was likely to he known, but hays
not succeeded in muting with a tingle person likely to be
well informed who knew anything whatever about the
matter. We are therefore bound to express oar opinion,
with regret, that the rumour rests on no better founded=
than the authority tea have stated. Would to God that it
in•y tun out correct."
POST-OMCZ NOTICE.—CHRISTMAIHNLY.—Agtos-
abIy to annual emu= there will be no delivery of bitten
within the limits cif the London district post on the afternoon
of Christmasiday. The °dilution of letters and aewspapers
from the difirant resolving houses be delivery b 1
the
03anaral Post sod to be deepatebei by the foreign mat will
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