The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

THE IVERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Though as yet still far from drawing its 100,000 visitors
a day, there is every promise, according to present appear-
ances, of that great standard of popular success being over-
passed before the close. Thursday has always been the
worst of the shilling days, following in this respect the fin-
ancial example set in 1851. For such days 50,000 has been
a high and very exceptional number, yet it was more than
attained yesterday. The total visitors up to 5 o'clock were
55,269, of which 4,198 were by season tickets, 926 by shil-
ling-day tickets, and 50,145 by payments at the doors. At
2 o'clock, when, as usual, the greatest numbers were pre-
sent, the building was very crowded, in the nave especially,
so much so as to make it difficult to move about. The pic-
ture galleries were also very densely thronged during the
earlier parts of the day. People now seem fully alive to the
fact that the building will positively close at the end of this
month. Only eight more shilling days now remain, and on
these next week, and, above all, during the week after, im-
mense attendances are hopefully expected. If these antici-
pations are realised, it will well repay the curious in th e
matter of strange spectacles to go up to the neighbourhood
of the building and see the return from the Exhibition on
these crowded days. Already it is a sight such as has not
been seen since the closing days in Hyde-park in '5l. The
building now shuts at 5 o'clock, and the ringing-out bells
begin their fearful clamour at half-past 4 ; so that now nine-
tenths of the whole day's visitors are still in the Exhibi-
tion when the hour of departure arrives, and have to leave
en masse. Then comes such an escalading of omnibuses
and fruitless search for cabs, such a wandering of distracted
parties among vehicles and almost under the feet of horses,
that it is with the utmost difficulty the police are able to
discharge a sort of drover's duty, and keep the people to-
gether like flocks of sheep, to prevent their being run over.
So many omnibuses have recently been taken off the route
to the building that there is not now, when the hour for
closing comes, half the number required for those who are
willing and anxious to ride. With the daily increasing
numbers, and the almost certainty of their being nearly
doubled before the close, this deficiency of conveyance is
likely to be a serious inconvenience.

DEATH OF DR. HAMEL.—Our obituary recorded
some days since the death of Dr. Joseph Hamel, a distin-
guished foreigner, who resided many years in this country,
and was well known in the scientific world, Dr. Hamel,
" Conseiller d'Etat actuel do S. M. l'Empereur de Russie,
Membre de l'Academie Imperiale de St. Petersbourg," died
in London on the 22d September, after a few days' illness.
He was born in 1788, at Sarepta, on the Volga, in Russia.
In 1807 he distinguished himself by the invention of an
electrical machine, and in 1813, after having finished his
studies, he was named by the Emperor Alexander member
of the " Academie de Medicine et de Chirurgie de St. Pe-
tersbourg." He soon after visited England for the first
time, and travelled all over the country, making himself
wall acquainted with it. He was appointed tc accompany
the Grand Duke (afterwards the Emperor) Nicholas, during
his visit to England in 1813, and in 1818 he fulfilled the
I same duties towards the younger brother, the Grand Duke
Michael. In 1820 Dr. Hamel made a well-known ascent of
Mont Blanc, when he lost several of his guides. In 1821 he
returned to Russia, and was attacbed to the suite of the
Governor-General of Moscow. He was elected, in 1828,
" Membre de l'Academie Imperial() de Sciences de St. Pe-
tersbourg." It was through his exertions that the first ex-
hibition of industry took place at Moscow. He was after-
wards employed in several other exhibitions in Russia, and
taking the liveliest interest in the progress of industry, he
visited all the great exhibitions which have taken place in
France, England, and even the one at New York in 1854.
Dr. Hamel published a his tery of the steam engine, a work
written with the precision and care distinguishing all his
scientific researches. He also published a history of tho
electric telegraph, which is very complete and full of interest
in a scientific point of view. Having studied during his
first visit to England the system of teaching originated by
Lancaster, he published an account of it in Russia, and this
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DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A FATALIST. Last
evening Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Elephant and
Castle, King's-road, Camden Town, on the body of Ann
Bush, aged between 60 and 70, lodging at 17, Chapel-place,
Little Coram-street. Mrs. Honchon, the landlady of 17,
Chapel-place, stated that deceased was a vendor of laces,
&c., of a remarkably eccentric and determined character.
She took snuff prodigiously, and, for the last four years,
had declared her intention to commit suicide, by, hanging,
because she had a deep-rooted impression that God would
have nothing to do with her, and that she was sure to go
to hell. This terrible impression witness often endeavoured
to remove, but totally failed in her endeavours. She ap-
peared to set her mind on hanging herself with a rope in
her room, and, when that was removed by Witness's hus-
band, she olasped her hands in despair, and exclaimed,
o Now, lam done. On Monday last, at six a.m., she left
the house, and that was the last time witness saw her alive.
The Lock. keeper at Hawley's Lok, Regent's Canal, said,
from information received from two girls he dragged the
canal for three hours, when he found the body. Mr. W.
Saul deposed that death took place from drowning, and the
jury returned a verdict of "Suicide by drowning, whilst in
an unsound state of mind."