The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-28 00:00:00

ME INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The most remarkable circumstance to be noted for
yesterday in connexion with the Exhibition was the
great difficulty of getting to it in any vehicle, whether
carriage, brougham, cab, or leviathan omibus.
There seems to be but one avenue leaving to the
building from town, and nothing can be clearer than
that that avenue will be blocked up for the greater
part of each day next week, if some means be not
adopted to relieve and divide the enormous traffic,
The increase in our moving population is percepti-
ble in every part of the town, and there is an ex-
traordinary pressure on all our means of convey-
ance, the people complaining even in far-off Isling-
ton that the omnibuses are too few for the passen-
gers. But in the neighbourhood of the Exhibition
the inconvenience is becoming so manifest as to
require immediate remedial measures. There was
a dead-lock for nearly ten minutes yesterday at one
time opposite Albert Gate, the confusion being very
much increased by the private carriages which kept
constantly dashing out of the park. Two things
require imperatively to be looked after—first, a
better supply of cabs and omnibuses ; and second,
means of entry on all the four sides of the build-
ing. The first point will not be so easily
settled, because the parties most interested--
namely, the omnibus proprietors—did not take
the matter in time, and are now vainly endea-
vouring to make shift by starving all other
lines to feed the Exhibition. All Chelsea is in a
ferment, and indignation meetings are talked of
because the route from town has been changed,
and the " regular riders" are obliged either to get
down at the end of Sloane-street or submit to be
taken round three-quarters of a mile. To add to
our difficulties, the price of horses has risen enor-
mously, whilst the wear and tear of horse.•flesh is
double what it was a month ago. The Manchester
company have rendered good service, and the
General Omnibus Company promise great exertions
next week ; but of what use is any increase of
vehicles if there be no room for them to pass up
and down This second point is what the commis-
sioners and the police authorities will have to look
to, and the sooner it is done the better.

All this confusion, however, might be avoided by
taking advantage of the Iron Steamboats, and dis•
embarking at Cadogan Pier; for certainly it must
be admitted that a short trip on the river is much
more preferable to the close atmosphere inside, or
the inconvenience outside, of our metropolitan omni
buses. The advantage of adopting the river con-
veyance, besides being much more pleasant, is
more economical, for the fare from all parts of the
City to Chelsea is only 3d.
The interior of the building was not more than
comfortably full, but the company seemed to enjoy
themselves exceedingly. It is true that some
visitors to the picture galleries felt offended at the
rule which obliged them to leave their umbrellas
and parasols at the entrance. The British lion in
some instances clung to his umbrella as an institu-
tion, and the British lioness exhibited equal reso-
lution with regard to her parasol ; but a little

a wise and "necessary regulation. An umbrella
may be useful to paterfamilias when pointing out
the beauties of a Gainsborough or a Turner to his
admiring progeny, but if, carried away by his en-
thusiastic admiration of the master, the cicerone
should poke it into the eye of a portrait worth
perhaps a thousand pounds, he would only be
unwittingly inflicting an injury on the object of his
art worship. The parasols are most dangerous to
the sculpture, the statues being within reach of
a short weapon ; and we actually ourselves in-
curred the severe displeasure of an elderly female
yesterday by arresting the point of one in full
charge against the nose of " La Legatrice," one of
the most charming and delicate works of art in the
whole building. A touch might do irreparable
mischief in such a case, and therefore we trust that
the British Feral, both male and female, will submit
for the future to be disarmed before they enter the
realms of art. We were glad to perceive that our
suggestions respecting the pianos had not been
without their effect, Regular performances, by
competent hands, now take place at different hours,
and add much to the pleasure of a visit. Miss Ellen
Bliss attracts crowded audiences round one of Kirk-
man's powerful instruments by her brilliant play-
ing; and there are also some foreign performers,
whose names we should be happy to give if we
could obtain them. One of them played with
general approbation on an ebony cased instrument
in the front of the French court, and there were
others of more or less merit in nearly all the foreign
departments.

The number of visitors during the day was as
follows :—Season tickets, 5,227 ; by payment,
12,496 ; total, 17,723.

THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The mackerel fishery
has been commenced by the Great Yarmouth boats, and
tolerable progress has been made. The Lowestoft boats
will also begin operations next week. The spring herring
fishery is virtually over, and cannot be said to have been
successful.

Sir De Lacy Evans is on Friday to move, " That,
in the opinion of this house, no further postponement ought
to take place in giving effect to the promises of Government,
that the command of regiments should no longer be pur-
chasable, and that the promotions to that rank should hence-
forth be regulated by selection upon the responsibility of
the Commander. in-Chief."

SNOW IN SUMMER.—The weather during the
greater part of this week has been broken and uncongenial,
and on Thursday morning the mountains of Keeper and
the surrounding hills were actually capped with snow I
What :'an :appearance in the month of May I-IVenagh
Guardian.

The mercantile udvices from New York this week
indicate, amid all the speculative Wildness on the Stock
Exchange, consequent upon the flood of paper currency, an
increasing feeling of alarm and discouragement among the
leading merchants and financiers. Each new victory is
followed by the discovery that the people in the vanquished
district are unanimously opposed to the Washington Go-
vernment, and that no obedience can be obtained from them
except such as is enforced by strong military power. " Thus
far," it is said, "no Union feeling whatever has been dis-
covered in the South—and it is now no longer expected."
The loss of life, on both sides, was beginning to be felt
among the families of every part of the country, and it is
probable that for extent of misery there has rarely in the
history of the world been a struggle presenting more cruel
results. Speculators and contractors, however, continue
apparently in high spirits. No Tax Bill has yet been
passed, and the politicians, it is said, seem to have arrived
at the conclusion that any attention to that point is unne-
cessary. ' " The people, in fact, think that in paper money
they have found the philosopher's stone." In the absence
of the ordinary commercial demand money is universally
forced into Government stocks, which experience new in-
flation on every telegram announcing that the rebellion
"crushed out" in the course
must at length positively be
of a few further days. The deposits in the hands of the
New Yerk banks have risen to £23,000,000, an increase of
While in the
same interval the
£1,200,000 having ospcceucireredhaidn tehxepelraisetn
week,
deka decrease of
nearly £700,000. The importations of foreign merchandise
from the Ist of January had amounted to £12,373,000
against £12,820,000 in the corresponding period of last year,
and £17,140,000 in the corresponding period of 1860.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Tues-
day, May 27.—Admissions on payment, 1,343; ditto by
80580 n tickets, 531; total visitors 1,874.