The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-31 00:00:00

THE IIVTE.RNA7IONAL EXHIBITION.

The last shilling-day at the Exhibition, though
it failed to realize the expectations whici2 were
formed as to great numbers, yet overpassed by more
than 2,000 the returns of any other shilling day
since the opening. The total admitted up to four
o'clock was 68,701, of which 5,894 were by season
tickets, 1,650 by shilling-day tickets, and 61,159
by payment at the doors. This, though a lower
return by at least 10,000 than was expected, brings
up the total numbers who have visited the building
since the commencement to 6,048,381, or just 18,000
more than the total numbers of 1851. As the at-
tendance during to-day and to-morrow is certain to,
be large, and during sale days by no means incon-
siderable, the present display is likely to close with
a respectable majority over the numbers of its pre-
decessor.

There was no particular feature to record of the
visit of yesterday. As usual, the picture galleries
and all beneath the domes and nave, with the machi-
nery annexe, were densely crowded, leaving the
side courts and galleries almost empty. Nothing
is more remarkable to those who recollect how
equally ttie crowds were distributed over the whole
area of the building in Issl, side courts, galleries,
and all, than the persistence with which on this
occasion visistors have congregated in the nave only.
It is this crowding in the main avenues which has
given such a thronged appearance to the building
with only 40,000 visitors in it, and has led people
to imagine that the present structure is smaller.
The fact is, that the present Exhibition is more
than one-fifth larger than that of 1851, and has
more than one-fifth more walking space allotted to
visitors. But on this occasion the galleries seem to
have had little or no attraction for the general run
of holiday folks; scarcely more than 10 per owlt
of their daily numbers ever penetrated to the upper
stories, except to visit the Indian Court, while even`
of a few
on the ground floor, except the
courtsPlass
foreign countries and such attractive
English side as the precious metals, glass and por-
celain courts, not many portions far remr on the
oved from
the nave have attracted
formed no exception to this general rule ; it was
attention.
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side courtsculty to
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pass down the nave, while
visitors could almost be
counted.
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of events, the ignorance dies out, and fair play is afforded
for sense to act, and reason to be trained. If we give up
for Protestant children the immense advantage of enjoying
the story of the reception of the Armada, and of the Revo-
lution of 1688, and many another heartrending chapter in
our history, because Catholic children cannot share in such
teaching, we might surely go one step further, and abstain
from rousing the prejudices and passions of those
Irish
his
children when they have become men and women.
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