The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-22 00:00:00

Earn3st ; W. G. Hughes, let class assist.-engineer,
to the Fisgard ; George F. IVilliams, lat class
assist.. engineer, to the Cormorant; Wm. Birks, Ist
class assist.-engineer, to the Racehorse ; J. Baptist,
let class assist.-engineer, to the Asia, for the
Cracker; A. Martell, Ist class assist -engineer, to
Asia, as supernumerary ; W. Crow, acting Ist class
assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary ;
James Templeton, 2d class assist.-engineer, to the
Racehorse; Robert Findlay and T. W. Dearden, 2d
class assist.-engineers, to the Cormorant; and J. S.
Pidgeon, acting 2d class assist.-engineer, to the
Racehorse.

Mr. Edward Hight has received the appointment
of honorary lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve.

lIIE ARMY.

The headquarters and service companies of the
83d (County of Dublin) Regiment arrived at Chat-
ham yesterday from India, having disembarked at
Gravesend from the transport King Lear, 1,970
tons, Capt. W. S. Crondancc, belonging to Messrs.
Somes Brothers, Blackwell. The strength of the
service companies is rather less than 400 non. com-
missioned officers and men. The foLowing officers
arrived at Chatham yesterday with the regiment—
viz., Lieut.-Col. E. Steele, C. 8., Capts. E. Meurant,
J. Wakefield, and C. C. Gore, Lieuts, T. G. Coote,
P. C. Browne, W. H. Ivimy, N. Pennefather, and
H. C. Whitlock, Major J. D. Swinburne (paymas-
ter), Quartermaster P. Hayes, and Surgeon R.
Browne. The 83d Regiment arrived at Chatham
by special train on the South Eastern Railway,
and in the afternoon proceeded to Dover, where
the regiment will be stationed for a short time,
after which it will be removed to Dublin. The
invalids of the regiment are daily expected to
arrive at Gravesend in the Cospatrick, which
sailed from Bombay on the 24th of January
last. The depot oompuniez of the Q2a, we Chat-
ham glrriaorz number nearly 400 men of all ranks
volunteering for the depot having been opened from
the other regiments. About 250 men, together with a
proportionate number of officers, will leave Chatham
in a few days for Dover, to join headquarters, but
the depot will continue at Chatham for the present.
Only a small proportion of the officers and men who
embarked for India with the 83d return with that
regiment.

The detachments of Royal Marines and Royal
Marine Artillery for the Cormorant, 4, and Race-
horse, 4, screw steamers, fitting for service in China,
left headquarters, Catham, yesterday afternoon,
and embarked on board those vessels. A party of
lads from the training ship Wellesley, 72, at Chat-
ham, also embarked on board the same steamers.
Yesterday a portion of the 2d battalion of the 25th
King's Own Borderers, numbering 214 non-com-
missioned officers and men, with eight officers,
passed through Chatham, en route from Shorncliffe
to Gravesend, where they embarked in the after-
noon on board a steamer for Edinburgh.

TILE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Nothwithstanding the damp, cold weather of
yesterday, the returns from the turnstiles showed a
considerable advance on the admissions of the day
before. The Horticnituralfete would no doubt draw
a large number of season ticket-holders, but the
numbers paying at the doors increased in an equal
ration ; and, considering the very uninviting aspect
of the day, there can be no more satisfactory proof
that the attractions of the Exhibition are at last
beginning to receive that attention from the public
which they deserve. The total number of visitors
yesterday up to six o'clock was 23,345,;0f whom
12,378 paid at the doors, and 10,967 were admitted
by tickets. Though there were heavy showers at
intervals during the day, the leakage was very
trifling ; and we may take it for granted, therefore,
that the chief defects in the roof have been traced
out, and to a great extent made good. The chief
novelty of the day was the preliminary trial of the
pipes of the majolica fountain, which were found to
act perfectly, and when the cement has all tho-
roughly hardened, and one or two little omissions
disclosed by the trial are made good, it will be set
to work permanently, and no doubt will form one
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mediately in the rear of it preparations are now
being made to raise the Australian gold trophy,
which is to represent the accumulated mass of
nuggets and gold washings collected from the
Australian diggings during the last 11 years.
In our brief summary yesterday of the chief ob.
jects in the colonial collection, we omitted to men-
tion the display from the colony of Queensland,
which is very complete, particularly in specimens of
raw produce. The samples of Sea Island cotton
grown here will no doubt be very carefully exa-
mined, as well as the wool and silk, samples of
which are also exhibited. Of woods from this colony
there is an immense variety, many of them of great
beauty, and to show how well they work up Mr.
Justice Lutwyche sends a very elegant set of chess-
men and a table of myall and Cypress wood mixed.
One of the handsomest pieces of colonial furniture
is a table inlaid-with various woods at the entrance
to the New Zealand Court. Lady Cooper contri-
butes a case of Queensland jewellery, the chief ob-
jects in which are a pearl of great size, mounted
in gold, and a brooch of white topazes. There are
several cases of Queensland birds in the court,
among which the varied and brilliant plumage of
the parrots and parroquets will probably attract
most admiration. The half dozen photographs of
the aborigines, male and female, which. hang by
the door, do not invite a second look—except indeed
it be to decide to which sex the palm of supreme
hideousness ought to be given.
.The sale of the chief objects of art manufactures
still continues very considerable in almost every
court. For instance, almost every article exhibited
by the Omyx Marble Company in the French Court
has already been disposed of, and some of the larger
pieces have fetched very good prices. This beauti-
ful material is quite a novelty in this country—in-
deed, its discovery in Algeria scarcely dates back
more than six years, and its first introduction here
at the Exhibition has been a very profitable venture
for the exhibitors. The ease with which it yields
to the fancy of the artist is shown by the great
variety of articles into which it has been worked
up, from the magnificent chimneypiece, with its
concave shafts and bevilled mirror, to the smallest
tazza medallion or even inkstand. One of its
greatest beauties is the highly transparent polish
whioh it will take in all its varied gradations
of colour and shade, ana it blends most harmoni-

ously with bronze or enamel. If the supply is of
sufficient extent to keep down the cost, there is no

doubt that the marble will hereafter be largely
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11 used in decorative arts. The jewelry, we hear, in
this court, does not find so quick a sale as other
objets d'art—probably the high prices asked may
have something to do with it.
There is no country represented at the Exhibi-
tion which, all things considered, makes a more
ejeditablefigure in art manufactures than Denmark.
Copenhagen is the Paris of the North, and some of
' the articles exhibited in this department are
scarcely inferior, either in design or workmanship,
to the productions of the most famous makers of
' Paris or London. It is pleasant to see, too, that
the Danish artists, instead of servilely following
French models—which we find too often the case in
tho hest productions of other countries—preserve a
speciality of their own which is much more effective
than the finest copies. Almost all the copies noticed
here are from classical models. The twolrsetaadnydsaot!
porcelain exhibited in the nave have
a
tracted much attention, and the works are certainly
of a high order. Nothing can be more beautiful
than the paintings on the vases and cups exhibited
by Messrs. Bing and Grindhallse, and the combi-
nations of biscuit and porcelain are executed with
great skill ; one in the style of Christian IX., and
another lent by the present King, challenge admi-
ration by the quaintness of their forms and the
richness of their decoration ; but perhaps the gem
of the collection is a breakfast service, ornamented
with copies of Thorwaldsen's bas-reliefs. Another

service of a similar kind illustrates the heraldic de-
vices of the Danish monarchs. The works of the

Royal Factory at Copenhagen excel also in exqui-
site ornamentation, and the services in the old

Danish style aro very interesting. O„ in particu-
lar, with flowers on a white ground,. is particularly