The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

IRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1862.

Hungarians are just noW a good deal depressed, and
the opportunity is good for arriving at an arrange-
ment with them. This, however, would have to be
done on a liberal footing. If Vienna, beholding
them downcast, were to flatter itself with a belief
that they would accept any terms offered, and were
to act accordingly, it would soon find that it had
been greatly mistaken, and that the Hungarians
were as far as ever from giving in, tut as, in
Hungary, there is no wish, except on the part of a
very few, for a total severance from Austria, and as
the duration of the present state o! things is mani-
festly highly injurious to the material interests and
progress of the country, so if overtures were made
in a generous and frank spirit, they certainly would
be gladly entertained. It is probably this state
of feeling, for the existence of which I think I
may venture to answer, that has lately given
rise to various rumours of a coming recon-
ciliation and agreement. A moderate amount of
concession on both sides might enable these to be
attained; but the great preliminary difficulty seems
to be to find a paint of contact, and to set negotia-
tions on foot. It will always be matter of regret
that a mixed commission was not appointed last
summer, composed of a few persons named by this
Government, and of others deputed by the Hunga•
rian Diet, to discuss and try to reconcile the exist-
ing differences. Much good might have been done
by such a council of notables, and even now it might
not be too late to carry out the idea, That some
progress is likely soon to be made towards the ad-
justment of the long-pending differences is the fa-
vourite belief of many, and in this sense consider-
able importance has been attached to Count Ap-
ponyi's recent decision definitively to retain the
office of Judex Curiae, which he had long insisted
on resigning. This decision, which he is under-
stood to have come to after numerous audiences of
the Emperor, seems looked upon both in Pesth and
here as of hopeful significance, although it cannot
be said to be equivalent to any real progress. It
is not the olive branch, but it is hoped that it may
prove to have been its forerunner.

A letter of the 26th of February from Venice, in
a Vienna paper, says that the Carnival there is end-
ing with the same utter want of animation with
which it began. The writer, who is completely anti-
Italian, represents the Venetians as having been in-
timidated by the party of agitation—as longing to
frequent balls and to wear masks, and to dance and
amuse themselves, but as being so fainthearted that
they fear the daggers with which anonymous cor-
respondents threaten them. This is in the style of
Count Palffy's persuasion that 12,000,000 subjects
of the Hungarian Crown are maintained in a state
of chronic resistance to Vienna by fear of some half-
a-million of their fellow-countrymen. The Austrian
Governor of Venice, Chevalier von Toggenburg, has
given a magnificent ball, at which were present the
pick of the foreign aristocracy and rather a re-
markable collection of Royal personages, the latter
including, besides the Archdukes Albert and Joseph,
the Duke and Duchess of Modena, the Count and
Countess of Chambourd, and the Bavarian Princes
Louis and Leopold, who were overtaken on their
way to Athens and brought back on account of
the insurrection in Greece. The Venetian aristo-
cracy, says the letter, were very feebly represented.
The health of the Empress continues good, and it
was expected she would go to one of the last Carni-
val balls. There is a great deal of sickness in Venice,
owing to the great and sudden variations in the
temperature, and a peculiar malady has for some
time past prevailed there. Persons who have gone
to bed in perfect health awake after midnight
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From Rome, under date of the 24th inst,, we are
informed, by way of Trieste, that 500 Bourbonists,
who had passed the winter in Terracina, have gone
to the province of Frosinone to reinforce Chiavone's
bands. In Rome the National Committee bad issaed
a manifesto to the people exhorting them to keep
aloof from Carnival amusements.

THE EXHIBITION OF 1862,

The contractors for the great building seem
during the last week to have awtkened from what
looked very much like a trance. Spurred on by
commissioners, superintendents, clerks, exhibitors,
public opinion, and a regard for their own reputa-
tion, they have made gigantic strides towards com-
pleting their overdue task. The division of labour
and the pressure of work have now become more
apparent than they ever were to the visitor, simply
because they are concentrated on fewer points.
Scaffold poles and timbers seem to drop like thawed
icicles from the unfinished transepts. The flooring
in the nave and the northern courts seems to slide
out over the ground like an iron shutter ; and the
painters, under the energetic direction of Mr. Croce,
lay on their colours and ornamentation with more
than scene-painting rapidity. The spacious picture
gallery for British art, the length of Which can only
be fairly measured by walking through it, has been
decorated, and well decorated, in two long working
days. The dome scaffold at the east end is being
pulled down—the painting of that singular part of
the building being completed, and the scaffolding
of the western dome will begin to disappear at the
end of the week. Mr: Ashton, the superintendent
of the iron work within the building, has cot-
strneted a wooden slide, somewhat like the once
celebrated slide of Alpnach, and down this the dis-
engaged timbers will glide from roof to floor with
a rapidity not to be attained by ropes and pallet's,
We are sorry to have to record another workman's
death o
making 10 fatal accidents since the
commencement tday,
of the building,

The arrivals of goods are still not numerous,
partly owing to the backward state in which many
of.the home manufacturers find themselves. Dublin
has delivered a small cargo, and the model of the
screen of Hereford Cathedral has come in, but the
British department cant only laßast possession of
about half a dozen cases up to the present time. In
the foreign department the Russian collection has
partly been delivered, along with some 20 cases of
Frankfort furniture, and nearly all the foreign
commissioners. When the rush of goods in this
department comes on, a number of temporary holes
will be knocked out in the Cromwell-road wall,
under the picture galleries, whre the cases will be
put through with as much speed as possible. At
present the courts under the British picture gallery
are, crammed with pictures of almost fabulous value.
Amongst the things expected is a fine collection
of raw materials, fabrics, tissues; &c., from Siam,
sent from Sir. Robert Schomburgk. A valuable
cargo of woods from Dominica, comprising about
one hundred and seventy valuable and ornamental
samples, has also arrived at Southampton. The
Indian collection also promises to be unusually vast
and complete, if room can be found for it; but in
1851, and in Paris in 1855 this department suffered
very much for want of space.
The Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Walsall
'manufacturers have hardly yet got over their dis-
content at the tardy arrangements of the commis-
sionets, although they are determined to make a
good show. The space set aside for the Birmingham
court is an oblong piece running off one of the main
avenues, and as it extends from this avenue to the
outer wall of the building, part of it will be beneath
the gallery. The permission to hang chandeliers
has been withdrawn, as the engineers of the building,
without mistrusting its strength, will not allow any
heavy articles to be suspended from walls or
galleries.
The Wolverhampton exhibitors have also received
a court, of which the Walsall exhibitors of saddlers'
ironmongery are to occupy a- small part. Special
courts in the hardware section have been allotted
only to Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and
Walsall ; and for goods of more than 1 cwt, per
superficial foot the commissioners require a special
foundation.

One department of the Exhibition—the chemical
and pharmaceutical section—which was far from
being prominent in 1851, promises this year to hold
a very important position. It can hardly hope to
be popular in the broad sense of the term, but those
who have feasted their eyes on the brilliant colours
of the textile department may like to see some of
the unsightly agents by which such gorgeous effects
are produced. Thanks to the energetic manage-
ment of Mr. C. W. Quin, F.C.s., there will be
such a British collection of drugs and chemicals
in the south-eastern portion of the eastern annexe
as the world has never seen before. The exhibitors
will number upwards of two hundred of the first
manufacturers in this country, and hardly a
name of any eminence will be missing. Several
collections of great importance will be exhibited.
A complete system of drugs, systematically ar-
ranged, is in course of preparation by a committee
of the most eminent members of the Pharmaceuti-
cal Society, assisted by Professor Redwood. A very
interesting collection of chemicals, illustrating
the improvements made in calico printing and dye-
ing since 1851, is being formed, at the suggestion
of Dr. Lyon Playfair, by Mr, Robert Rumney, of
Manchester, whose combined knowledge as a che-
mist and a manufacturer renders him peculiarly
fitted for the work. In no depatment of applied
chemistry has such an advance been made within
the last ten years as in dyeing and calico printing;
and in the history of these useful arts perhaps no
period has been so fruitful in good results. A col-
lection of products illustrating the discovery of the
coal-tar dyes formed by the first workman in this
fertile field, Mr. "VV. H. Perkin, will also be exhi-
bited, and the various dyes will be remarkably well
represented.
The display under the British textile division
will be of a very practical and useful character.
Glasgow will be the chief manufactured cotton ex-
hibitor, Manchester, as in 1851, having scarcely
made any effort worth naming.
In woollen and mixed fabrics, Mr. Wallis reports
a more satisfactory series of exhibits. Leeds, Hud-
dersfield, Halitax, and Bradford will all show in a
collective form. Glasgow will shine in lace, em-
broidery, and mixed fabrics ; and Paisley, Norwich,
and Dublin will keep up their old reputations.
This part of the display being very effective in co-
lour and texture, will be arranged near the eastern
dome, and the whole of the textile division will be
placed in the south galleries.
The heavy woollens and tweeds of Scotland, the
blankets of Witney, and the Rochdale flannels will
occupy good positions in one of the cross galleries,
the lace being placed in the other. Here Notting-
ham will take an important position with a very
effective display.
The silk manufactures will be placed against the
north wall of the picture-gallery, thus getting a
good north light. London, Manchester, and Mac-
clesfield will probably be combined here, and, with
a few exceptions, all the best houses will be repre-
sented. The Coventry collection of ribbons in this
exhibition, in consequence of the transition state of
that particular trade, will necessarily be very
limited.

The linen manufacture will follow the silk in this
part of the building, and the staple of parts of
Scotland and the north of Ireland will be well re-
presented. It is here that the Belfast committee
will exhibit a large trophy. The class for clothing
is to be placed in the gallery at the back of the
picture-gallery, so arranged as to commence with
boots and shoes, passing through trousers and coats,
and finishing with hats. The exhibitors' space for
textile fabrics will suck up eighteen thousand square
feet of floor, independently of all passages, and the
vertical space occupied will probably amount to
one hundred thousand square feet more.
The proposed supplementary exhibition—if we
are to judge by the silence of its promoters—seems
to be given up. If the scheme had been carried
out, we have no doubt that many rejected and dis-
satisfied exhibitors would have filled the building
with goods, but we question very much whether
the expected flocks of visitors would have appeared
either as purchasers or loungers. The two and
twenty acres of the Great Exhibition, to say no-
thing of the galleries and stairways, will doubtless
satisfy even the most hungry sightseer, and there is
no chance of the present commissioners ever turning
money away from the doors. In 1851 a timid policy
prevailed, and officialism seemed to regard the
people as dangerous wild beasts. The army and
the police were gathered in and about the building
as if to smother a revolution (we believe the navy

was not drawn upon), and not one,half of the
visitors were at first nervously admitted who
swarmed into the Exhibition unchecked as official
confidence increased. Commissioners, like other
people, however; grow wiser as they grow older,
and while Sir Richard Mayne has had a very liberal
order for about 450 choice policemen, we should
hope that he till instruct them not to make them-
selves offensively active. The exhibitors, without
whom the great building would be hardly an attrac-
tive shows are even now suffering in mind, body,
and goods from over-drilling ; and the visitors, who
are to pile up a money-surplus for the Royal Com-
missioners, would like to escape the strong arm of
authority as much as possible. This same tendency
to over-drill the public will only raise a real diffi-
culty out of the narrow approaches question. A
stream of people seldom gets into a dead lock and
confusion without the aid of the police ; and while
' it takes a Duke of Wellington to move 60,000 men
out of Ityde-park, six times the number will get
themselves out in half the time if they are only
quietly left to act for themselves.
Old Swan-wharf, Chelsea, has been licensed to
land goods for the Exhibition. Being very near
the building, this place will prove very useful to
exhibitors, as lighterage is much cheaper than car-
tagei The wharf is very extensive, and eontains a
large number of sheds, to which more are being
added by Sfessrs. Morgan Brothers, who have
secured the whole area for the purpose of storing
the empty cases of exhibitors.
We believe that the latest decision of her Ma-
jesty's Commissioners is to set aside about 30,000
reserved seats on the opening day far the use of the
earliest taken of the season tickets.