The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDM, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1862.

STAMPS AT ONE PENNY FOR DRAFTS, RECEIPTS,
DEtutitt ORDERS, &C. &C.
THE BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE give
notice, that an impressed Stamp of One Penny, and an
Adhesive Stamp of One Penny, have been provided for the
purpose of being used indiscriminately for Drafts or Re-
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that hereafter supplies of these stamps will be issued for such
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tinue to be sold so long as the present stocks last.
THOMAS SARGENT, Secretary.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House,
.9th April, 1862.
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HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Winchester Road, Dollow and Kilmore Commons
Inclosure, Cirencester Districts Road, and Much Wenlock
and Severn Junction Railway bills were read a second
time.

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The Reading and Reading Union Gas Companies Bill
was read a third time and passed.
NOXIOUS VAPOURS.

The Earl of DERBY gave notice that on Friday neat
he should move for the appointment of a select committee
to inquire into the subject of noxious vapour arising from
manutacture of certain ft: utiles ataLthe laws relating thereto.

the sect committee appointed during the last session, to
inquil into the claims of the Baron de Bode. _ _

Mr DENMAN replied that he did not intend to do so.
THE EDUCATION CODE.

In leply to Sir J. PAKINGTON,
1.011 PALMERSTON stated that he was afraid the Go-
verment could not give up another Government day for
the liscussion of that subject. If, therefore, it did not come
on al Monday, they could not give up another Government
night They wished to let it stand as now arranged,
nanely, that it stand for Monday, and if it did not come on
thei,he could at present make no ariangement about it.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The Exhibition was the sole great object of attrac-
tion yesterday. Of course the attendance was not
equal to that at the great opening ceremony, which
will be so long remembered with pleasure by all who
were fortunate enough to witness it, but still the
number of visitors was very large. Every part of
the ground-floor and annexes was tolerably well
filled, and throughout the day there were probably
not less than from 15,000 to 18,000 season-ticket
visitors who entered toe building. This, considering
the number of season tickets sold, is just about the

attendance that might have been anticipated ; but
what was not so confidently expected was, that
there was a fair proportion of visitors yesterday
who paid their sovereign for entrance at the doors.
In our account of the opening ceremony we rather
under-estimated the number of visitors in the build-
ing on that occasion. The returns given from the
entrances show that the admissions on that day

amounted to upwards of 32,000 visitors; and when
it is remembered that there were probably 1,500 or
2,000 favoured persons in the building before it was
opened to the public, that there were upwards of
2,000 persons in the orchestra, and a very large staff
of officials, police, &c., it is calculated that the total
number in the interior on Thursday was not much
short of 37,000 in all. Under any circumstances
this would have been a very large number to ac-
commodate, but to do so in such a way as to give
entire satisfaction to everybody was more difficult
still. Yet on Thursday this appears to have been
done, Of course, among such a number there must
be some who have their individual grievances and
complaints, but these have not yet come to light,
though, on the other hand, praises and congratula-
tions on the perfection of the arrangements have
come in from all sides. The police—high authori-
ties on these matters—state that they never had a
great public ceremonial which gave them less trouble
or went more smoothly from first to last. It was
emphatically a great success, and, as being on the
greatest scale which has yet been attempted in this
country, we may reasonably be proud of it. Not-
withstanding this very great number and the im-
mense concourse of carriages, the building was
empty before dusk, and with nightfall labour again
commenced in the interior, under the superintend-
ence of such few members of the Staff as had had a
night's rest this week. That there was a great &al
to do, and that a great deal was done, could be seen
at a glance when the building opened at 12 o'clock
yesterday. The magnificent orchestra was almost
completely down, and the last of its massive timbers
were to be carried out last night. The rapidity
with which this huge fabric has been removed seems
almost magical. When it was built Kelk and Lucas
undertook to have it down again within three days,
but in this, as in many othc r more important matters,
they have never hesitated to depart from the mere
letter of their contract when the interests of the
Exhibition could be advanced by its infraction, even
though at their own cost. In addition to this work
all the temporary barriers had been removed, the
seats arranged and distributed (there are 'seats for
30,000, so that this distribution was in itself a heavy
labour), and the building was thrown open and clear
from end to end. Visitors were admitted at the
time we have stated, and from that hour till past 4
they continued to pour in rapidly. As might be
expected, the picture galleries were the chief objects
of attraction. These were crowded, the English
gallery especially so. The visitors preferred this
gallery, partly because it was finished and clean,
and the cocoa-nut matting which is laid along it
at least diminishes the dust. In the foreign gallery,
on the contrary, the pictures are not all hung,
and the floor is not only not matted, but appa-
rently not swept; and such a dust is caused by
the presence of even a few visitors as aketually
deters many from entering, and all from remain-
ing long. If not for the sake of the public, at least
to preserve the pictures, this nuisance should be
abolished at once. Except in these galleries there
was no particular crowd anywhere. Visitors went
where they listed, and found something to admire
at all points. Yesterday the Koh-i-Noor made
its appearance for the first time. It attracted round
it almost the same crowd of visitors that used
to throng about the case on shilling days in '5l,

But the Koh-i-Noor will not be alone in its glory
this time, for a great rival, exhibited by M. Cos-
ter, and said to be worth a million sterling, has
come in from Amsterdam, and also made its appear-
ance yesterday. This is " the Star of the South," a
single brilliant of immense size, and weighing no
less than 1.25 carats. It is set in the centre of a
magnificent star of brilliants, each of which, though
large and valuable, is a mere foil to the glittering
centre stone. Its colour, however, is by no means
so good as that of the famous eastern war prize.
Around the stand on which " the Star of the South"
is shown is a most interesting connection of dia-
monds from various mines, in every stage of pr -
gress, from the rough stone to the finished brilliant,
and a brief printed description at the foot of each
makes the whole method of cutting and polishing
as clear as if the process, now only practised at
Amsterdam, took place before the eyes of the visi-
tor. But the whole Exhibition is most unusually
rich in precious Stones. Emanuel shows an enor-
mous emerald set in diamonds, a noble cross cut from
a solid topaz, mounted in gold and enamel with other
costly jewelry. But the great blaze of gems comes
from Hancock's case,where the Devonshire emerald

(the largest in the world), and the Devonshire
jewels, said to be the rarest and most artistic col-
lection of antique gems in the world, are shown
amid a perfect crowd of pearls, opals, rubies, bril-
liants, and topazes. In this case are jewels to the
value of £300,000 sterling, and, as a matter of
course, it is thronged round about with ladies all
day. Close by this fine show Hunt and Roskell con-
tribute a collection of silver trophies which rival

everything in the building for perfection of work-
manship, and quite eclipse the less artistic display
of the same kind by Garrard. The Roman Court,

filled with its exquisite statues and mosaics, was
crowded to inconvenience yesterday. Storey's two
great works, the Sybil and Cleopatra, are exciting
a sensation infinitely greater and infinitely better
deserved than that so suddenly awarded in '5l
to Power's nude figure. In the Glass Court
some wonderfully fine specimens of household glass
ware are shown by Pellat. Cups, tumblers, and
jugs of the most beautiful forms, and covered with
a perfect embroidery of exquisite engraved designs,
are exhibited. Some of these articles deserve the
very highest praise, and there really is nothing in
the building, English or foreign, which can com-
pete with them. But the great ornaments of this
Court—the colossal chandelier and candelabrum
exhibited by Defries and Sons—are still unfinished.
The former is being slowly built downwards from
its massive frame in huge prisms and lustres three '
feet long ; but the candelabrum, which is to bo 20
s
feet high and for 160 lights, has hardly been com-
menced. These when finished will be the gemtin s of
glass work in the court, and perhap p g
Osler's great crystal fountain for '5l are the largo t
structures, if we may so call them, that have ever
been executed in glass in this country. Beneath
woftl:l
manufacturedoftyconcave prismatic
by Defries
the
mirrors,chan chandelier ioefr s u
whiche
were
for the alcoves in the drawing room of the Sultan's
summer palace on the Bosphorus. They are ex-
ceedingly rich in citect,but rather too glittering to
please anywhere but in the East. Among other
objects of interest the Armstrong guns almost
rivalled the Koo-i-Noor in the crowds they brought
about them. An attendant from Woolwich was
with them to open and shut the breech and explain
that most simple of all processes, how to load and
fire them. These guns, and the Naval and Military
Court generally, attract immense amount of atten
tion, though not more than the objects in them
really merit.
4 On the north side, the courts which are allotted

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to our colonies, though not crowded, had a long
train of visitors passing through them all the day.
Th cotton staples exhibited in the Queensland-court

were very closely inspected; and the highly polished
woods, too, exhibited in this department seemed to
attract great admiration. There were not many
edie[txvtaenl department,extensively
discovered
as yet, which does
not visitorsseem in
t o thebevery medieval
but when the manifold beauties which it contains
are more fully known it cannot fail to have some
zealous students. Speaking generally, the British
and Colonial end of the building is much nearer to
completion then the foreign departments. Travel-
ling westward, it is only whin we have crossed the
line which geographically cuts the building in two
that we come to any very remarkable signs of un-
readiness. Switzerland, for instance, at the present
moment, is virtually unrepresented ; aDa in the
Turkish department there is nothing to be seen but
a long array of unopened cases and unpacked bales.
France has made marvellous progress within the last
three days, though the treasures which she exhibits
are not yet sufficiently unfolded to allow of any
judgment being passed on them as a whole. Sevres
certainly shows some magnificent works, but even
from the cursory view which we have as yei been
able to take, the Imperial department is not to be
congratulated on its departure from its recognised
types. The imitations of Messrs. Minton's majolica
ware are decidedly not successful. Autria and the
Zollverein, though some 'blanks yeti remain to be
filled up, are ready for any amount of visitors, and
the Austrian department, apparently from the signs
it at present shows, will be as popular as it was in
the Exhibition of 1851. The Brazilian collection
appears to be very admirably arranged. The
Eastern Annexe, which contains some very inte-
resting articles in the chemical and mineralogical
departments, was not as crowded as it deserves.
Mr. Rimmel's perfumed fountain has already begun
to play, and Mr. Breidenbach and Messrs. Piesse
and Lubin are also preparing to distil sweet odours
through the air of their court after the same
fashion. The fine statue of Shakspeare by Mr.
Thomas has been at last unveiled, and though most
unfavourably placed, it shows well, and relieves the
very prosaic neighbourhood in which it finds itself.
The canopy and throne erected under the western
dome, have not yet been removed, and yesterday
they were closely inspected by crowds of visitors
who had no opportunity of approaching it on
Thursday.
The name of Sir Roderick Murchison was acci-
dentally omitted in our list of the Royal Commis-
sioners of 1851 who took part in the procession of
Thursday. It may perhaps also save some misap-
prehension if we state that the gentlemen who wore
the Albanian costume on Thursday was not Mr.
Drummond Woolf, the Chief Commissioner for the
lonian Islands, but Mr. Spiridion Morcorou, the
Assistant-Commissioner.
The Juries of the International Exhibition begin
their labours on the 7th inst. The Council of Chair-
men, which regulates the affairs of the Juries, and
which forms the only court of appeal in regard to
their awards, meets to-day (Saturday) at 12 o'clock.
The following is a correct list of the Council, each
nation having chairmen in proportion to the space
occupied by it in the building.
President—Right Hon. Lord TAUNTON.
Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgy, and Mineral Products—
Sir Roderick Murchison, G.C. St. S., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Chymical Substances and Products, and Pharmaceutical
Processes—M. Ballard. Member of Institute, France.
Substances used for Food—M. Boussingault, Member of
Institute, France.
Animal and Vegetable Substances used in Manufactures
—M. Chevalier de Schwarz, Royal Commissioner for
Austria.
Railway Plant, including Locomotive Engines and Car-
riages—Duke of Sutherland.
Carriages not connected with Rail or Tram-road—Gene-
ral Morin, Director of the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers,
France.
Manufacturing Machines and Tools--Mr. W. Fairbairn,
F.R.S.

Machinery in General—M. Michel Chevalier, Senator,
and Member of the Institute, France.
Agricultural and Horticultural Machines and Imple-
ments—Marquis de Pereles, President of the Cattle Club,

Spain.
Civil engineering, Arelitectural and building Contriv-
ances—the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G.
Military Engineering, Armour and Accoutrements, Ord.
nance and Small-arms—General Sir J. Burgoyne, Bart.,
G.C.B.
Naval Architecture, Ships' Tackle—Mr, Robert Napier,
shipbuilder, Glasgow.
Philosophical Instruments, and processess depending
upcn their use—Professor Dove, Berlin.
Photographic Apparatus and Photography—Baron Gros,
Senator, France.
Herological Instruments—Viscount do Villa Maior, Por-
tugal.
Musical Instruments—Sir G. Clerk, Bart., P.M., Pre-
sident of the Royal Academy of Music.
Surgical Instruments and Appliances—Professor Syme,
F.E. S.E

Cotton—Mr. T. Bazley, M.P.
Carpets—His Excellency M. van de Weyer, Belgium.
Woven, Spun, Felted, and Laid Fabrics, when shown as
specimens of printing or dyeing—Professor Bollet, Switzer-
land.
Tapestry, Lace, and Embroidery—M. Fred. Fortamps,
Member of Senate, Belgium.
Skins, Furs, Feathers, and Hair—M. Gabl. Kamensky,
Commissioner for Russia.
Leather, including Saddlery and Harness—Earl of Bess-
borough, Master of the Buckhounds.
Articles of Clothing—M. Joseph Gunkel, manufacturer,
Vienna.
Paper, Stationery, Printing, and Bookbinding—Earl
Stanhope, F, R. S.
Educational Works and Appliances—Marquis Gustavo
Benso di Cavour, Member of Italian Parliament, Italy.
Furniture and Upholstery, including Paperhangings and
Papier-mache—Dr. Beeg, Principal of the Industrial School
at Furth, Zollverein.
Iron and General Hardware—Dr. von Steinbeis, Director
of the Royal Central Board of Industry, Stuttgardirt.
V
Steel, Cutlery, and Edge Tools—Lord tal:no!' e.
Woiks in Precious Metals and their Imitations, and
Jewelry—Lord Stratford do Redcliffe, O. C. 8., late Amba s •
Bader in Turkey.
Glass—M. Pelouze, Master of the Mint, Paris, and Mem-
ber of the Institute, France.
Pottery—Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.
Dressing Cases, Despatch Boxes, and Travelling Cases—
Sir Thomas Phillips, F.G.S., Chairman of the Council of
Society of Arts.
' The following regulations have been issued with
regard to the admission of visitors :-
6, The Exhibition will open at 10 in the morning (except
on Saturdays, when it will open at 12), and will close at 7
in the evening in May, June, and July, and half an hour
before sunset after that date. Bells will be rung a quarter
of an hour before closing,
" The Royal Horticultural Society having arranged a
new entrance to their gardens from Kensington-road, the
Commissioners have agreed to establish entrances to tho
Exhibition from the gardens, and to issue a joint ticket,
giving the owner the privilege of admission both to the
gardens and to the Exhibition on all occasions when they
are open to visitors, including the flower shows and fetes
held in the gardens up to the 18th of October.
"There are two principal entrances for visitors—one in
Prince Albert's-road, two in Exhibition-road, and zfour
secondary entrances. Three of these are from the Horti-
cultural Gardens, for the owners of the joint tickets, Fel-
lows of the Society, and other visitors to the gardens, and
one in Cromwell. road f, r the picture galleries. There are
several exit doors.
"Admittance to the Exhibition will be given only to the
owners of season tickets, and to visitors paying at the
doors.

" SEASON TICKETS.

"There are two classes of season tickets—the first, price
£3 35., entitles the owner to admission to the Exhibition at
all times when the building is open to the public; the
second, price £5 58., confers the same privileges of admis-
sion to the Exhibition, and further entitles the owner to
admission to the gardens of the Royal Horticultural So-
ciety at South Kensington and Chiswick (including flower
shows and fetes at these gardens) during the continuance
of the Exhibition.
" PRICES or ADMISSION.
" On the Ist of May admission is restricted to the owners
of season tickets.
" On the 2d and 3d of May the price of admission is
for each person ; and the Commissioners reserve to them.
selves the power of appointing three other days when the
same charge will be made.
" From the sth to the 17th May, ss.
" From the 19th to the 31st of May, 2s. 6d. except on the
Saturday in each week, when the charge will be ss.
"After the 31st of WY, the price of admission on Mon-