The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-09 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1862.

All, eveu to our moat distant dependencies. are
making such efforts to be well represented next year as
almost apparently to aurpaw the interest taken in the,
scheme at house. The Ca adian government has voted
4000/. towards the expenses of properly representing that
grand colony •Ca Colony will give 5,000/. ; British Co.
'amide, ,• Queensland, 2,0001. ; Tasmania, 2,000/. ;1
New South Wales, 40004, and 5,C30/. for m exhibition of
gold • Victoria gives 10,0001. • New Itrusewick 1,600/. ,•
dish Guiana, 1,0001., and proportionate sums will be voted
by nearly all the other colonial legislatures throughout the
world. For the lest time the English public will see a pro-
perly erranged sad classified exhibitioa of the various de-
posits d the precious metal, the discovery of which has is
ten short years raised Australia from the position of nu out-
lying colony and convict depot to a series of powerful and
wealthy stake. It is not to be a mere display of nuggets ;
on the contrary, the nuggets that are to be sent as specimens
are to be limited in weight to box. It is to be a display not
only of the various forms in which the rich auriferous yield
is found, but also of all the machines and implements by
which it is worked at the diggings. Thus there will be gold
earth and gold Nand, with the method of washing it, gold
quartz of every grade of richness, from Sox. to the ton till
the lumps of metal at last emerge in in eruption of pure
nuggets upon the surface at the earth. Towards this
display New South Wales gives 5.0001., and the
settlement of Victoria 5,0001, with 5,000 i. more for the
general purposes of exhibitors. Mr. Rutherford Al.
cock is sending home a superb collection of specimens from
Japan, principally of China lacquer ware, and textile
fabric.,with scientific and agricultural implements, raw
products, Sic. To this display her Majesty will contribute
from the Windsor armoury the magnificent weapons and
armour which were lately sent to her as a preaeut from the
Tycoon. Our Indian empire was last time represented by
the display put forth by the company. This time Dr.
Forbes Watson is entrusted with gathering together
Fraud collection of the staples of that great empire, sad
It is said that the collection will be one of the meet valu-
able and most varied that has ever been brought together.
The Indian empire does not come within the apace suiigned
for the colonial display, but will, as in 1851, have a separate
court to itself. In all, 12,000 feet of horizontal space has
been given up to the colonies proper. Judging from present
appliiatious st least twice that amount is demanded and
expected, and the commissioners apparently will have to en-
large the area at first decided on. There is not one-fourth
more space for exhibitors than in 1851, yet about ten times
the amount is wasted. England sloes has sent in demands
which amount to twice the contests of the whole structure,
and Francs complains that she has about a tenth of the space
ro:ad for what she roust exhibit.
12th of February next has been fixed on as the date
when exhibitors may begin to rend is their objects, and the
commissioners will receive them from that time till the 0011
of March. After March nothing whatever will be admitted
either from home or abroad, no matter from what cause the
delay may have arisen. There will thus be one clear mouth,
during which those in charge of the building can proceed
nointerruptedly in the proper arrangement and display of
all the works of arts sad mawidactures.

TIM FORTHCOMING CAD'? REVIEW.—On Satur-
day evening a strong muster of various of the Middlesex corps
midst companies took place at the Regent's-park Barracks,
Albanydrtreet, to go through battalion drill, this being the
last time for that purpose previous to the grand review, in
which they take part at the Crystal Palace at Sydenbam on
Wednesday next. The novel and ante-eating sight of these
juvenile volunteers attracted a large concourse of spectators,
and the military style in which they executed their evolu-
tiros elicited much admiration. The cadets of the follow•
ing corps will take part in this review :—The 33rd, the
nod, the 20th (Melodist; the Metropolitan), the 2nd
(South), the 29th (North), and the 7th and 40th Nkldlento ;
the tad, the 4th, and the Gth Tower Hamlets ; the Douro
Hones School (St. Joho'rwood); the lst &inv. the 3rd
sod 13th Kent ; and the London Rine Brigade. They will
be is two divisions, roe division under the command of
Captaie and Adjutant Jones, of the 29th (North) Middlesex,
and the other under the command of Major Mayne, of the
Tower Hamlets. They will muster on the eventful morn-
ing at the above barracks, and march from thence, headed
by their respective hands, to the Victoria Railway Station,
to be conveyed by toil to the Crystal Pekoe.