The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-02 00:00:00

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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Yesterday was another good average day at the
building, the total attendance being 62,336, of
which 56,770 were by payment and 5,556 by season
tickets. There was music in all the side courts
and under both eastern and western domes, so that
there was always as much to hear as to see, and the
day passed off with even more than usual eclat.
The preparati?ns for the fete of Friday, the 11th
'of ley,' when Abe deeiaratiotil of- pifizeli tb the ;''' , -
various exhibitors will take place, are going actively
forward, and no effort is being spared to make this
one of the most imposing pageants of the year.
Official invitations have already gone from the
Foreign-office to the various Continental Courts,
asking for the honour of Royal or distinguished
personages to represent their countries on this Oc-
casion. We believe there is no doubt that in nearly
every instance these invitations will be accepted,
among others, on the part of France, by Prince
Napoleon; for Belgium, by the Duke de Brabant;
for Austria, by the Archduke; for Russia, by the
Grand Duke Michael (who is on his way here from
Baden) ; and for Spain, by the Duke de Montpen-
sier. The Prince of Prussia will not, we believe,
be able to attend, but will name a distinguished
officer to represent him, as also will Italy, Portu-
gal, Switzerland, and the Duchies of the Zollve-
rein. Invitations have also been issued to France,
Austria, Prussia, Belgium, Holland, and Italy, ask-
ing each of those countries to send a representative
military band. As a matter of course, this invita-
tion will be accepted, and each of the countries we
have mentioned will send a corps of about 100 per-
formers, the very elite of their military bandsmen.
With these will be ten British military bands—
those of the Horse Guards, 2d Life Guards, Royal
Artillery (two bands), Royal Engineers, Grenadier,
Coldstream, and Fusilier Guards; Royal Marines,
and that of the South Kensington Volunteer En-
gineers. These 16 bands will be placed in groups of
four at different parts of the Horticultural Gardens
and in the Exhibition building; but at the close of
the ceremonial they will all be brigaded into one,
under the conduct of Mr. Godfrey, to play the
National Anthem. On the occasion of this cere-
monial the Exhibition building and the Horticul-
tural Gardens will be treated as one, the season-
ticket, or ticket purchased for that day, admitting
to both. The visitors, as at the opening of the
Exhibition, will be admitted from 10 a.m. till 12
30, but no later. At 12 o'clock all the jurors will
assemble in the South Court of the Exhibition ac-
cording to their classes, each class being indicated
by a banner carried by a Sapper, and thence they
will prcceed across the nave to the upper terrace of
the Horticultural Gardens. Her Majesty's Mini-
sters, with the Royal Commissioners and the mem-
bers of the Council of the Society of Arts and Hor-
ticultural Society, are to assemble in the Conserva-
tory before 12 30, and at this place the RoyaLCom-
missioners will receive the members of the-Diplo-
matic Corps, all of whom have been invited to attend.
At 1 o'clock the Royal and other international re-
presentatives, some of whom we have mentioned,
will be received by a guard of honour at the North
entrance to the Gardens, where the Royal Com-
missioners will also be in waiting, and will conduct
them to the dais in the Gardens, where they will
receive the awards of the juries of the various
classes for each of their respective countries. Her
Majesty has named his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge as her representative to receive and
distribute the awards to the exhibitors of the
colonies and United Kingdom. The juries having
delivered their awards, a procession will be formed,
which will enter the building by the Eastern An-
nexe, and, passing down the nave, return through
the Western Annexe to the dais in the gardens.
During the progress of this procession the
medals
and awards will be distributed. At various stations
on the English side of the building will be assem-
bled the national and trade committees, with
the mayors of the great manufacturing towns,
who will receive the English awards from the Duke
of Cambridge. On the foreign side each foreign
commissioner will receive the award from the
special representative sent by his own country, or,
in his absence, from his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge. This ceremony, unless
done in a wholesale manner, is likely to occupy
11,000 medals have been voted
Throughout the whole route
bsoymtehetivmaerloausonjeuarrileys.
of the procession a
broad avenue
kept,bseease
which will be marked by seats,anp llaWcthei, the
es these
t
are glad to say are to be occupied by ladies only.
has taken
la
proces-
sion returns to the dais, where the bands •
will all be
assembled together to play "God Save the Queen,,,
and for the rest of the afternoon wi •
ll perform vari-
ous national airs. This is a rough general outline
of the programme for this
-4-* occasion, and if the
weather is only propitious—a
' more than doubtful
matter when the Horticultural G
cerned—the whole f ardens are con-
-1 ete ought to be successful,

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

GREAT INTERNATIONAL SHOW.
-Yesterday 38,000 persons paid their shilling to
enter the great inclosure where the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of England and the Highland Society
of Scotland present the combined attraction of all
our native breeds of animals, and all our best forms
of rural mechanism. A throng of eager sightseers
all day crushed to get a glimpse of a smart pony, a
Chinese sheep, or a monstrous snoring bacon, and,
crowded equally around the Duke of Atholl's prettily
dressed milkmaid to watch the novel process of fi .3
ing a milk-pail or the feeding with rich white milk
the little negro calves that have, for the first time'
an
visited us from beyond the Tweed.
event of much interest will be the sale of the eFi
nre the
and Swiss dairy cattle by Mr.
Stafford,
te foreign
show-yard, at four o'clock. Somre.:es,
one French
sheep have already realised goodop
gulineas, to go to
merino ram being sold for
foreed
et 0
haveo, t to
Pomerania ; and three Salton merinos
be shipped for Australia.
ion;
sold many head of atstoc_klk
rSa
no me
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aLuidu
into o 1
horses, short-horns, and
in the classes of Suffolk
silinetoepF.
long-wools are also 5
k rs are doing a large trade,
the Southdown andSColodtstwoogldo
ploughs have found many customers.
NoTrhtheeirmnpGieetermenatu.ye; e
days
sf
12 sets of their apparatus ; and
of the meeting Messrs. Iloward
have
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sstpthoeesaeni a
Mr. Fowler has taken a great number of orders, a
considerable proportion of them from German,
Hungarian, and other continental customers.
Financially, the present meeting will be a loss
to the society of several thousand pounds, but
morally, it is already a great gain; and irrespective
of the credit which agriculture has now earned for
itself with the citizen population, the list of new
and influential names on the society's roll of meal
ly
-
bers and candidates for membership is
enlarging. rapid

eis-at-faCottom of this quarrel ;' and th ittiq
determination it depends whether the pow
deriiieSits r th from slavery shall be TAW .41.
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resources and increased prest 14:1477,4 tfikiNL,
be now, once for all, effectually broken." Sue
the deliberate conclusion of a thinker who has sur-
veyed the wide field before him in all its parts, with
an eye on the past as well as the present, and. with
an eye to the future as well as the past ; and in this
conclusion we cordially agree. Bat we do not
agree with him in his opinion, that even in " some
degree" it has been a " gratuitous task" at this
moment to demonstrate the soundness of this con-
clusion, and to show that neither in the true inte-
rest of the millions inhabiting the South, nor
in the true interests of the millions inhabit-
ing the North, neither in the interest of
Europe nor of the world at large, espe-
cially the African continent, is it desirable that.
the Southern Confederacy should gain its ends. It
is still needful to sho w that the present outbreak
is not an isolated phenomenon, but the " crowning
result, the inevitable climax of the past history of
American polities," foreseen, dreaded, staved off bS
her statesmen in a score of vain concessions to the
slave power. The events have occurred in logical
sequence, and the fatal principle, allowed to retain
its vitality by the victors in the War of Indepen-
dence, has acquired a magnitude which involved
the War of Secession.