The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-22 00:00:00

7HE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Again the past week shows a most decided fall-
ing off in the numbers of visitors as compared with
those for the same period in 1851. This is the
fifth week during which the balance has been against
the present Exhibition, though on this occasion the
diminution of numbers is greater than the diminu-
tion of the whole previous four weeks put together
—lB5l having a clear surplus of more than 40,000.
The returns on the two occasions are as follows :-
1851. 1862.
Monday (Is.) .
Tuesday (;s)
Wednesday (ls ) 53,757 47,866
Thursday (Is.) 5B 600 47,415
Friday (2s. 6d.)
Saturday (2s. 6d)

Total 273,330 236,421
A great deal cf this falling off is undoubtedly due
to the announcement that the time for the closing
has been extended beyond the periid generally an-
ticipated, and of course that portion of the public
which has not yet visited South Kensington takes
advantage of the days of grace to put off still later
their intended inspection. This is taking the most
favourable view of the case, as an important mino-
rity maintain that the building has already seen its
best days, and that, with the advance of bad autumn
weather, the decrease of the daily receipts is likely
to become more painfully apparent as each week
of the autumn droops coldly away. Now that the
time of closing has been fixed, the next great
topic of interest to be decided on is the fate of
the building itself. Upon this point, however,
curiosity is likely to remain ungratified for some
considerable time, as it is not at all probable that
any decision will be made public much before
the close of the present year. Of course, this will
be done by private arrangement, and will, if suc-
cessful, entirely result from the public-spirited
efforts of a few persons, who are anxious that a
building so admirably adapted to serve the pur-
poses of a great public museum should not be
causelessly destroyed.
The learned assailants of the frog in the coal
will, we think, learn with satisfaction that this
fertile source of ridicule upon the scientific know-
ledge of our Exhibition authorities no longer
exists, inasmuch as the little reptile himself
ceased to exist on Friday last. Whether he died
from old age, which if there was an atom of
truth in the account of his finding would be
most likely, or whether, being a common field
frog, accustomed to air and exercise, he died fiom
his confinement in a bottle, is not stated. Dead,
however, he is, and unless some other enterpri-
sing coalowner sends up a live pony or a man
as having been dug out of his seams the open
court of the Eastern Annexe will lose all favour
in the eyes of country visitors.

CIRCULAR OP THE ITALIAN GOVERN-
RENT ON TILE ROMAN QUILS2ION.

The following is the text of General Durando's
circular note to the Italian representatives abroad:—

TURIN, SEPTEMBER 10.
Sir,—The attitude taken by the King's government since
tie attempt of Sarnico afforded ground for belief that Ge-
neral Garibaldi would thenceforward renounce enterprises
incompatible with established order and of a nature to com-
promise Italy in its relation with foreign governments.
This expectation has been frustrated. Led astray by sen-
timents which respect for law and a juster appreciation of
the state of things ought to have restrained, and too ac-
cessible to the incitements of the sect better known
by its victims than its successes, he did not quail
before the prospect of civil war, and wished to make him-
self the arbiter of the alliances and destinies of Italy. By
favour of the recollections left in Sicily by the events of
1860, he was enabled to assemble in that island some bodies
of volunteers, but the populations, divided between the
sympathy which a claiming (revendication) of Rome could
not fail to awaken within them, and regret at seeing this
claim assume the character of a revolt, did not see him pass
through their midst without uneasiness and sadness. The
Parliament disapproved of his proceedings, and the King
himself, whose name he never ceased to invoke, called
upon him to submit to the laws. All was useless. He
traversed Sicily, and entered Catania, everywhere find-
ing a welcome full of salutary warning, wnich, however,
he could not understand. From Catania he at length
jrwaq~l Over to tho Innini and with 3,000 mon, thus
compelling the King's government to order an immediate
and complete suppression of his proceedings. it was then
that, met by a detachment of the royal army, he was
taken with his adherents.
The facts that I have just briefly recapitulated will
leave no other trace among us than a painful recollection.

The harmony of the public mind, founded upon % unani-
mous attachment to exalted principles, could not be
troubled. These facts have, however, a significance

which you will point out to the government to which you
are accredited. They are a testimony of the political ma-
turity of those populations whose freedom dates from
yesterday; of the desire of Italy to see its destinies ac •
complished by regular means, and of the indissoluble ties
which unite the nation of the constitutional monarchy,
the supreme expression of the will of the country.
They afford, besides, fresh proof of the fidelity and disci-
pline of the army, the constant and safe guardian of the
national independence. The European Cabinets must nut,
however, misunderstand the true meaning of events. Law
has carried the day, but it must be admitted that the watch-
word of the volunteers was this time the expression of a
want more imperative than ever. The whole nation claims
the capital; it has only lately resisted theincontiderate im-
pulse of Garibaldi, because convinced the King's Govern-
ment would be able to accomplish the mandate which it
has received from Parliament respecting Rome. The pro-
blem may have changed its aspect, but the urgency of a
solution only becomes more cogent.
In presence of the shocks, daily becoming more and
more serious, which recur in the Peninsula, the powers
will comprehend that. Italy has made a supreme and final
effort in treating as an enemy a man who had rendered such
signal services, and upheld a principle which exists in the
mind of all Italians. They will feel that the Italians, in
seconding the Sovereign without hesitation in the crisis
which has just been passed, understood how to unite all
their strength around the legitimate representative of their
rights, in order that enti a justice may be at length ren-
dered them. Atter this victory, obtained in some sort
over herself, Italy no longer needs to prove that her cause
is that of European order. It has been sufficiently shown
what sacrifices she, is capable of making, in order to keep
her engagements, and Europe is notably aware that she
will keep those she has undertaken, and which she is still
ready to undertake relative to the liberty of the Holy
See. Henceforth, the powera ought, therefore, to assist us
in dissipating the prejudices which still exist to prevent
Italy from finding rest and reassuring Europe. The Catho-
lic nations, and above all France, who has so constantly
laboured in the world in defence of the interests of the
Church, will recognise the danger of any longer maintain-
ing an antagonism between Italy and the Papacy—the sole
cause of which is to be found in the temporal power, and of
tiring out the spirit of moderation and conciliation with
which the Italian people have hitherto shown themselves
animat d. Such a state of things is no longer tenable, and
would end by entailing extreme consequences upon the
Government of the I ing, the responsibility of which could
net weigh on us alone, and would seriously compromise the
religious interests of Catholicism and the tranquillity of
Europe. * * * * Receive, &c.
.(Signed)
The Brussels Independance of Friday says :
Rumous, the echo of which come to us from Paris,
begin to credit the Italian Government with some faint
desire for energy. It is asserted that the Kattazzia ➢Tini-
stry is preparing a series of important measures in order to
put France in a position to evacuate Rome. The Cham-
bers will be shortly convoked, in order to vote with urgency
two bills—one decreeing that every Roman citizen shall
have the right to claim the position of a subject of the
King of Italy ; the other having for its object the admis-
sion of Roman deputies to the Italian Parliament. The
presentation of these measures will be preceded by an ex-
plicatory and justificative note, addressed first to the
French Government, and then to the other European
1 Cabinets.

DURANDO.

Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, after
visiting Liege, Namur, and the field of Waterloo, arrived
in Brussels the evening before last, and were conducted to
the Palace by d'Oultrement, orderly officer to the Duke de
Brabant. The Duke and Duchess were at the Theatre de
la Monnaie at the time, but the Duke, on learning the ar-
rival of his relatives, went to the Palace and returned with
them to join the Duchess at the theatre. The next morn-
ing Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres visited the
King at Laeken, and breakfasted there.
The Union says :--" Every one knows by ex-
perience that the prices of articles of food have increased in
a considerable proportion during the last few years. The
following statistics show one of the principal causes of that
excessive dearness :—Betweeh the 20th September, 1861,
and 31st August, 180,2, ware exporred to England 9,200,000
pounds of fresh table fruit ; 3,000,0.0 pounds of dried or
fresh vegetables; 2,000,000 of dried
preserved fruit; 2,400,000 pounds of nuts and almonds
potatoes; 2,600,800 of fresh salt
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of
pounds' weight of eggs ; 270,000
pounds of poultry ; and 24,000 of sweetmeats. Together
more than 40,000,000 pounds of provieiona."