The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-19 00:00:00

SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT.

The annual report just issued by the Science and
Art Department of the Committee of Council on
Education states that in science schools or classes
there are now 3,147 persons under instruction, of
whom 2,272 are in schools under certificated teachers
and consequently receiving aid in the form of pay-
ments on results ; 76,303 pupils in parochial and
public schools, and 15,483 in central schools, in con-
nexion with this department, received instruction
in art in 1861; and 91,836 persons were taught
drawing in the schools of art. The South Kensing-
ton Museum was visited by more than 600,000
persons in the year; 8,884 photographs, unmounted,
were sold ; the amount received being £715. Mr.
Redgrave reports that the pictures in oil are being
by degrees secured from injury by glass, and most
of those more particularly susceptible of injury
from their delicate execution, and which are on a
level with the spectator, have been already so
guarded. Ventilation and the regulation of the heat
have been carefully attended to, and every precau-
tion used to preserve these valuable works from
deterioration. The collections, as a whole, are under
the best conditions for insuring their per!ect pre-
servation, and in the instance of the few works in
which change is to be apprehended its progress has
been arrested by the precautions adopted. Mr.
Sheepshanks has added to his munificent gifts a
picture in oil by W. Mulready," Mother and Child,"
painted expressly to add to the series of that artist's
works. Under the head of institutions subject to
the superintendence of this department, Sir R.
Murchison reports the progress of the geological
survey ; 1,430 square miles in Great Britain were
surveyed in the year. The Government of the King
of Italy have resolved to commence a geological
survey of that kingdom, and to carry it on upon the
plan adopted here ; and M. Sella, of Turin, has in a
recent visit to London been supplied with all the
necessary information for the development of this
scheme. The botanical gardens of the Royal Dublin
Society have been open on Sunday since the 18th
of August, 1861, and on tl e remaining Sundays of
that year they were visited by no less than 80,655
persons, upwards of 15,000 being present on one
occasion. The visitors were chiefly of the humbler
classes. Not a flower appears to have been plucked,
nor a plant injured, with the exception of some
potted plants thrown down in the conservatories in
consequence of the narrowness of the passages.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Monday, as usual, brought its great influx of visi-
tors to the building, the total number admitted up
to 5 O'clock being 60,401. Of this number the sea-
son tickets were 3,895, the payments 56,506. Those
most indefatigable of Royal sightseers, the Duke
and Duchess of Brabant, with the Count of Flan-
ders, were admitted shortly before 8 o'clock, and
remained in the building till the afternoon. As yet
the numbers of workpeople, &c., sent in by their
employers bears but a small proportion to the num-
bers in 1851, when scarcely a day passed at this
time of the year that some 2,000, or even 3,000 were
not present. There was yesterday a very large
number of visitors from the country in the building,
all, as usual, from the west and south-western dis-
tricts. The railway returns show nearly all the
excursion traffic to be from these points. Scarcely
any come from the north. The relaxation of the
former stern rule of the Commissioners, that no ale
or sandwiches should be sold by the refreshment
contractors in the building, has already had a good
effect in mitigating the inconvenience which arose
from the introduction of hampers and stone jars of
beer. Additional space has also been granted to
the contractors near the Horticultural-gardens, and
the refreshment department is now apparently con-
ducted to the satisfaction of everybody.

SINGULAR DEATH FROM WEARING FALSE
TEETH.—Yesterday Mr. Langham hald an inquest at St.
George'a Hospital, on the body of William Warde, aged 25,
a police-constable, who lost his life under the following
extraordinary circumstances:—George Lansford, 321 X,
said he knew the deceased, who resided at No. 3, Dean-
street, Westminster. On Saturday last witness, de-
ceased, and another police•constable were returning from
the Exhibition at about eight o'clock in the evening.
They were in the Cromwell-road, and as it was
raining hard they all started off running to catch
an omnibus which was standing at the corner of the lixbi-
bition-road, deceased being in advance. Suddenly be
stumbled and fell, his head being in the road and his feet
and legs on the north. b inding he did not rise witness andit
his other companion went to his assistance. He w"qoue
St.
insensible, and a cab being procured he was taken
pronouncedt .m
George's hospital, when the medical officer pronoun
snalid
dead. Frederick Wm. Hall, assistant house sur e
he saw deceased on his admission on Saturday. H ay. was
quite dead, and there was nothing externally to account
for death. He had since made a poshg mortem examination
of the body, and he found
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to the glotti., causing suffocation, and producing instant
death. All the organs were bealth
summed up, the jury immediately returned a verdict of
it appeared in evidence,
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