The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-25 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The attendance of visitors at the Exhibition was,
as usual on Thursday, very good. The total admis-
sions were 59 467, of which 5,130 were by season
tickets, and 54,337 by payments. The numbers for
the same day in 1851 were 45,721, giving a conspi
cuous minority as compared with the attractions of
the present display. Yesterday all the domestic
and farm servants employed on the estate at Osborne
visited the Exhibiticn, the entire expenses of their
trip being defrayed by her Mjesty. The children
of the Infant Orphan Asylum, Wanstead, and the
children of the Woodford Parish School were afforded
a similar day's enjoyment at the expense of their
respective managing committees. Mr. Scholefield
paid the expense of the visit of the children of the
Wraysbury School; Lady Palmerston sent up the
children of the Rorasey National School, and the
Governors of the Romsey British Salo& paid for
the visit of their young pupils. A determined sea-
son ticket holder has summoned all the Royal Com-
missioners to the County Court at Brampton, on the
6th of August, to recover from them the sum of one
penny, charged for the care of his umbrella while
the owner was in the picture galleries. The Com-
missioners have accepted the summons, and will, of
course, defend the justice of the charge. They are
empowered by their charter to make such rules and
regulations from time to time as may seem to
them expedient, and this charge of one penny
for taking care of articles of any kind,—cloaks,
sticks, parcels, and umbrellas—is one of themrand
thousands cheerfully pay their penny every day
Supposing, however, for argument's sake, that
season ticketholders or the public generally could
establish their right to take their sticks and um-
brellas into the picture galleries, what would be
the result ? Before such a right had been exercised
a fortnight half the pictures would be removed by
their owners. It must not be forgotten that during
the first week or 10 days after the opening the com-
missioners did allow sticks end umbrellas to be
taken into the picture galleries with a view of see-
ing if the experiment could be continued through-
out the Exhibition. During the very first week of
the permission it was seen that the experiment had
failed,and before the first week was over the owners
of the most valuable works of art remonstrated
agaiest the danger to which their masterpieces were
exposed from enthusiastic admirers who would
trace out their beauties with a walking-stick held
within half an inch of the canvass. It was then,
and then only, and entirely out of consideration for
those who had entrusted those priceless works to
their care, that the commissioners decided that no
sticks or umbrellas should be taken into the pin
tate galleries. If it were possible to overrule their
decision we believe, as we have said, that the gal-
leries—certainly the Englishones—would be almost I
empty in a fortnight afterwards.

The Feuillet of KiAklala publishes the following
statistics of the trade of Russia with China, in 1861:—The
exports from Russia amounted to 7,629,069 roubles. The
importations from China into Russia r. ached the value of
7,785,415 rubles, of which 7,405,428 were of Chinese mer-
chandise, 333,255 of Mongol productions, and 20,333 of
European articles.

PITHY AND TRUE.—Henry Ward Beecher says:
"Life would be a perpetual flea•hunt, if one were obliged
to run down all We inuendos, the inveracities, the insinua-
tions, the suspicions, which are uttered against him."
GROSS MILITARY BARBARITY. Considerable
excitement now prevails in the town of Woolwich arising
from an act of refined cruelty which has taken place at the
garrison, and is now under the consideration of the mili-
tary authorities. It appears that a few nights since a man
who had been apprehended by the military police, on sus-
picion of being a deserter, was conveyed to the guardroom
at the Royal Art:llery Barracks. Whilst there it is stated
that he committed some act which offended Prov st Sergeant
Ashton, the chief officer of the force named, who thereupon
took upon himself to order that the priscner should be re-
moved to the cells, stripped naked, and scrubbed with sand
and water. This abominable abuse of authority appears
to have S been carried out to the fullest extent—the
task of " scrubbing" being delegated to two marines, who
were also prisoners, and who so exerted themselves that the
unfortunate sufferer was completely covered with abrasions
and sores, being in fact in such a sad condition that he was
removed to the hospital. Here the facts of the ease came
to the knowleage of one of the medical officers, who at once
reported it, and the result was that Major-General Sir R.
llacres, the commandant, immediately ordered Sergeant
Ashton to be suspended from his duties and confined to his
quarters pending a representation to the superior military
authorities and their decision thereon. It is said that the
man upon whom the cruelty was inflicted has not turned
out to be a deserter, and although he has now been under
careful treatment for three days, he is still in a dreadful
state of suffering at the Ordnance Hospital.
SIR RICHARD MAYNE AND THE OMNIBUSES.—
The Chief Commissioner of Police and the directors of the
London General Omnibus Company have come into violent
decided tone was iv
collision, and all sorts of hostile proceedings are threatened.
It is known to those who are in the habit of ascending
omnibuses and taking their seat on the " knifeboard" that
there is an iron railing running along each side of the car-
riage against which they generally place their feet. This
part of the omnibus the directors determined to utilise, and
accordingly they turned it to advertising purposes, so that
nowlqrge boards are placed against this iron railing on the
top of the omnibuses, giving the carriage the appearance
immense height, and making them look like huge s,d°
tising vans. Sir Richard Mayne in the first instance gently
upon
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of income.
CRYSTAL PALACE. One Shilling day.—Yester-
not forego so profitable a source
day the adraissionsßB
.payment were 8,876; by seal"
tickets, 812; total, 9,