The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

liability of the guarantors. The daily returns of
money taken at the doors show a total received of
nearly £315,000, excluding, of course, the admis-
sions by shilling day tickets. The season tickets have
it is said, realized nearly £BO,OOO, and the shilling
tickets also a considrable sum. Altogether, the
receipts from every source, including refreshment
and photographic contracts,waiting-rooms,umbrella
stands, sales of catalogues, &c., have been, we
believe, up to the present day within a very
small amount of £500,000 sterling, and are not

unlikely to be £510,000, or even £520,000 before
the final closing of accounts after the distribu-
tion of prizes by the Prince of Wales. The ex-
penses of constructing the building according to the
original plan have, it is stated, been within the
£200,000 originally advanced by the Bank of Eng-
land, though, of course, the Commissioners have in-
curred the usual supplementary estimate in the
way of extras, such as the annexes, gilding, foun-
dations for machinery, &c., which bring the total
cost up to nearly £70,000 more. The office and
staff expenses have been unusually, indeed almost
parsimoniously low ; but road-making and hire of
police account for large sums, as do also the charges
for receiving goods, &c., in the building, the rede-
livery of which outside the Exhibition will be about

as much more. In short, therefore, if every claim-
ant were paid in full, the guarantors would be liable
for some 9 or 10 per cent. upon the amount they
individually. underwrote. But both the Commis-
sioners and the contractors have done their utmost
to avoid such an unpleasant call, and will endea-
vour among themselves to cover whatever small
deficiency may be found to exist at the final set-
tling.

As compared, then, with former Exhibitions, tha,
of 1862 will be found to be the greatest both in the
number of its visitors and even in the amount of its
gross receipts. That of 1851 was open during five
and a half months, and was attended by 6,039,135
visitors, including staff and exhibitors' attendants,
as estimated daily by the police. The total amount
paid at the doors was £356,800. The produce of
the sale of season tickets amounted to £67,600, and
the gross total received from all sources was
£505,107 ss. 7d., including the £67,400 which was
subscribed before the undertaking commenced, and
which was afterwards carried to the capital ac-
count and made to swell the gross total. The
actual money taken from all sources, less this sub-
scription, was therefore only £438,000.
The Paris Exhibition of 1855 was attended in
six months by 3,626,934 visitors to the industrial
department, and by 906,530 visitors to the fine
arts department—in all 4,533,464, who paid for ad-
mission to each department the sum of £117,666.
This display left a deficit larger than our surplus,
and which had to be made good by a grant from the
Imperial Government.
The present Exhibition has also been open six
months, or 17 days longer than that of '5l. The
total number of visitors, excluding the staff and ex-
hibitors' attendants, has been 6,117,450, or 87,000
over the gross numbers on the first occasion. The
comparison between the two English displays, how-
ever, to be perfectly fair, should include on this
would
d
occasion the staff and exhibitors' attendants, which
were used to swell the total of '5l. This -
give the Exhibition that has just closed a majority
.
gross receipts will, we believe, eon £BO,OOO
of quite a million over its predecessor, while its
and £90,000 greater than on the first occasion,
r 67 400
we exclude from the total of 1851 the •••• '
first sub-
scribed throughout the country at the
is lute needless to
concep-
tion of the scheme, and which it
ckbers.
say was never returned to the be between
if
subscritherefore, feel
The Commissioners may
justly proud of having schietyl:e:Eatensuccess in the
threatened to be fatal
very teeth of obstacles whiehh b
if one tithe of them
to all their hopes, and which,
led to the postpone-I
uld ha"
now two years age,
wdoertaking to some less calami li
-
had bean foreseen when their plans were arranged,l
ment of the whole the famine in the menu-
tourine of the worst kind, as
enforced idleness of the
death of the great originator
people ;
factuerrina.gNdoisttsvrtihicteht:tilidfaining
arising from
the
absent and in m
depression as it has seldom been
mourning,
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nofottwheitphlsatanent..2a
abed harvest, and trade generally
a wet
this coun ry,ftthe Exhibition has in
a state of. t
ja such
and practical results
popular surpassed the hi-
therto unapproachable standard by which all simi-
larlBsl; That this result will be a bitterthe
efforts have been judged,
ion before in
grievance
to
of
the prophets of evil is likely enough, but h
when these could injure it
isnowlongptasteday
past,
and
the Exhibition of 1862 will find in its results an
ample answer to all detraction and

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