The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-25 00:00:00

ROYAL AG.

SOCIETY.

GREAT INTERNATIONAL. SHOW.

Although nothing could be finex than the wea-
ther yesterday the public manifested quite as much
shyness in paying their half•cro vi as for admission
as on the day previously, when the entire receipts
did not amount to £5O. Each day the majority of
the visitors have been foreigners, who, it is to be
presumed, contributed the greater portion of the
money taken at the doors. The remainder must
have consisted, therefore, chiefly of members of the
society, implement exhibitors, and the holders of
gratuitous admissions. We do not, however, see
in this fact any cause for the despondency with
which some of the officials appear to be animated as
to the ultimate results, or reason to believe that the
show must turn out a failure. Hitherto all that
the public have had access to is the implement de-
partment, and, vast as is its magnitude, its main
attraction undoubtedly consisfa of the yard where
the agricultural machinery is in motion. Besides,
the newest, best, and choicest inventions or improve-
ments have already found appropriate places in the
eastern annexe of the Great Exhibition building,
where they can be viewed on four days in the week,
in conjunction with the many marvels collected in
their neighbourhood, for the popular shilling. Who,
then, but the agriculturist and the mechanical engi-
neer, is likely to pay half-a-crown for entrance to the
implement stalls at Battersea Park, varied and use-
ful as their contents may be ? To-day the barrier
will be removed which now separates the cattle from
the implements, and the two yards will be thrown

into one ; but another Handel Festival day at
Sydenham will again prove a magnet whose posi-
tive influence the expected presence at Battersea of
the Prince of Wales, the Prince Napoleon, the
Pacha of Egypt, and other distinguished person-
ages now sojourning amongst us will be of scarcely
sufficient power wholly to negative. The guineas
will, therefore, we apprehend, flow into the society's
o.ohaquar but alowly , and, after all, thp prnha-
bility is that the success of the meeting in a pecu-
niary point of view will have to depend upon the
shillings of the masses, who on Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday next may be expected to flock in
in large numbers. Should the exhibition turn out.
a failure the society will have to thank their own
arrangements for it, which, conceived in the spirit
of the steam boat and omnibus proprietors who ply
for passengers to and from the International Ex-
hibition, treat the occasion of the holding the show
in London as an exception to their ordinary annual
gatherings in the provinces, and one on which a
high and exclusive scale of admision is to rule for
six days, and the low rate for three only. In an-
ticipation of a bumper attendance on the shilling
days, it would be wise if measures were adopted to
open at least two more entrances to the show on
opposite sides of the park, seeing that at present
the ingress is confined to one which, however
convenient to the river, is not to the road, and
poople do not like to perform the circuit of two-
thirds of the inclosure before they reach the inte-
rior. On Monday when visiting the show we own
we were astonished at the immense police force
which had been assembled in the park, although
there were not a hundred idlers to be seen in the
neighbourhood. If F. M. the Chief Commissioner
had had to provide against an irruption of all the
rascality of London his preparation to meet the
emergency could not have been more imposing. It
struck us that such an overwhelming display was

simply ridiculous, and others in authority appear
to have formed a similar opinion, for yesterday,
even if there was the same amount of force at hand,
they were not " massed" together in the same con-
spicuous manner, and the few police on duty had
little or nothing to do, and of course found no diffi-
culty in helping each other to do it.
Resuming our notice of the show of implements
and machinery, particular attention may be directed
to Clayton's brick and drain-pipe machines, which
are at work in the engine yard amongst the ma-
chinery in motion. One of these, adapted for
working by a 6-horse steam or water power, per-
forms at once the operation of crushing, pugging,
and brick-making, and turns out equally well solid,
perforated, or tubular bricks and pipes, at the rate
of 10.000 to 12,000 per working day of ten hours.
Another machine of this description is constructed
for working by.hand, and is capable of producing
from 5,000 to 7,000 bricks, tiles, or pipes per day.
Both machines are in their way perfect triumphs of
mechanical skill.
In this department of the show also Mr. Collin-
son Hall exhibits two patent sectional drums and
steel rope for steam cultivation, to be . used with
locomotive engines of from 10 to 30 horse
power. The object of the invention is to supersede
the costly wire rope and round drums, with a
simple, cheap, and durable substitute; and its
utility, we understand, is to be tested at the trial
of steam cultivators at Farningham to-morrow.
The rope is formed of round steel rods, half an inch
in diameter, and 18 inches long, and by means of
4-inch plates riveted one on each side at the end of
the rods a rope is obtained of any required length.
In fact, the rope consists of a mere multiple of rods
and plates, which are then passed round a drum
having a number of flat sides to correspond with
them. There can be no question about the simpli-
city of the invention ; but its strength and dura-
bility, and consequent economy, are matters which
Mr. Hall admits time must determine-
A very useful kind of wrought-iron gate, the
invention of Mr. Webb, of Smallwood Manor, Ut-
toxeter, is shown by Bewley, who is its manu-
facturer. It consists of the orthodox number of
bars, which are united to three uprights by means
of rivets, on which they turn. A balance projects
from the top bar, which being pressed by the hand
the gate rises with the greatest ease. It fastens of
itself on falling into its place, and it is obvious that
it cannot bo opened by horses or cattle. Such a
gate must be invaluable at a level crossing, or for
a field which opens on a railway.
Considerable gloom was on Mondry created
amongst the persons superintending the working
machinery in consequence of a man in the employ
of Messrs. Cresskill having had his arm torn from
his body whilst in the act of feeding a bone-
crushing machine. He was immediately conveyed
to St. George's Hospital, but the injuries he has
,received are so serious that no hopes are enter-
tained of his recovery. The poor fellow has a wife
and two young children dependent upon him for
I support.

THE CASE OF MR. WATSON TAYLOR.