The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-04 00:00:00

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A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the
proceedings.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION,

It is to be presumed that the heat of the weather
or the counter-attraction of the great review at
Ascot must have exercised an adverse influence on
the number of visitors to the building. Certainly
they were lower on Saturday than they have been
tor many weeks past, the total for the wh)le day
being only 23,820, of whom only 15,185 were by
payment and 8,635 by season tickets. Latterly
there has been rather a steady diminution in the
Saturday attendances, and as, with a hot autumn
and the prorogation of Parliament, the receipts on
those days are likely to get worse instead of better,
there is no doubt that after the lapse of a week or
a fortnight, the plan which the Commissioners
have long contemplated of making Saturday
a shilling day will be adopted. What the
financial results of the change will be we,
of course, do not pretend to say; but it must cer-
tainly be a great boon to the great mass of city
clerks and others with whom Saturday is a half-
holy-day, and to whom the reduction in price will be
an important consideration. The results of the
past week as compared with the same week in
1851 are, as usual, in favour of the present Exhibi-
tion, the total number of admissions, whether by
payment or season tickets, on each occasion being ,
as follows :

1851.
Monday (Is.) 67,170
Tuesday (Is.)
Wednesday (Is,)

1862.
.. 62,830
.. 64,229
.. 58,782

Thursday (Is.)

55,699

Friday (2s. 6d.)
Saturday (55.) ..

288,519

292,922

On Saturday the Crown Prince of Saxony visited
the Exhibition, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Cavendish, and inspected the English jewellery de-
partment, the French Gobelin tapestry, and the
machinery department, where he was met by the
Saxon Commissioner and Mr. Clarke, superin-
tendent of the department, who explained the work-
ing of the various machines.

The Exhibition has certainly done something to
develop peculiar modes of competition—one of which
is shown near Cadogan-pier, Chelsea. Two boys
are placed with boards to direct the stream of visi-
tors to South Kensington by two different routes,
the rival traders in each line of thoroughfare pay-
ing the cost of this human finger-post.

FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—A dreadful accide
occurred yesterday about nine miles from Preston. A. rtt
ber of factory operatives left Ashton Quay in a boat Zll 1:181.n
excursion. On the return the vessel came into contact
with a schooner and capsized; eight of the unfortunate
Only two of the bodies have
excursionists were drowned.
been recovered ; the others have drifted out to sea.
THE ALPHABETICAL TARGET --. ilr. Dempster's
alphabetical target, an account of which appeared in. our
columns a fe w days since,
into the Military Engineer'
has since then been admitted
mg Department at the Great
International Exhibition.
A Berlin letter states that, on the 31st alt.,
.the
Prince Royal was about to start from Potsdam tots he eaFtal, to inspect a body of trop swhen he suddenly ent word
that he should not leave! It ears that the cause of his
whose
absence was th.e critical situationapp of the Princess,
accoucheruent was hourly expected.
TriE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Queen
will hold a council at Balmoral on Tuesdoyanoenxot
f(to-mor
row), when the royal speech for
the
aplrorogti Commission issued.
Parlia-
ment will be settled, and the Royal
As these cannot arrive in London until the following day,
the close of the session will probably be postponed till
Thursday.—Observer.
Teacher—What part of speech is the word egg P
_what is the gender ?—Can't say, sir,
Boy : Noun, sir
till,
till it's hatched.—«' ell, then, my
lad, You can't tell me
the case P---Oh, yes, sir, the shell.
'DIE LATE CASE OF CRUELTY.—The man, Wm.
Bishop, has so far recovered from the effects of the cruel
punishment inflicted on him by being scrubbed with sand
and water at the garrison cell, that he has left the hospital,
and is now confined at the guard-room, until it is ascer-
tained whether he is a deserter from
Sergeant-major Ashton, chief of the
military police, who
the Ronal Artillery
was reducedby order of the Duke of Cambridge for having
caused the illegal punishment, has been
superseded by
Garrison Sergeant. Major Osborne.