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

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ful attention was paid and the same cheering greeted
its termination, when again and again came the
heavy rolling cheer and calls for an encore which
made the building, large as it is, echo again. To
this fresh demand the members of the Society kindly
lent an indulgent ear, and, sang "Rule Britannia,"
and, to do them justice, the audience spared no ef-
forts to make them sing it half a dozen times more,
so loud and long-sustained was their applause. But
there was no response to this emphatic and vigor-
ous encore. Some concession was, however, made
to popular opinion by. playing "Auld Lang Syne,"
but even the plaintive strains of this fine old melody
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building, though it did not. Visitors sat
and promenaded though dusk was fully
on, and the great vista down the nave
was almost dark, and would have been quite
so but for the little jets of gas which out here
and there. It was quite 6 o'clock before the place
was clear, and for the last time, as an Exhibition,
given over to the custody of the police, who, from
the commencement have guarded its contents s.
well, and who, when marshalled in the centre tran-
sept and their last daily reports given in, openly re-
joiced that their long monotony of duties at the
building was at length over.
The practical question which will occur to every
Englishman's mind, now that the excitement and
the triumph, too, is done, is," Has it paid its way ?"
or, rather, will there be any such deficit as the gua-
rantors may fairly be called upon to make up ?
Without professing to have any official information
on this important subject, we may safely venture to
announce that, as far as the guarantors are con-
cerned,the Exhibition has " paid," and they will not
be called upon for a single farthing. There will be
a deficit on receipts as compared with expenditure,
as all in any way interested in this question have
known there would be for months past. But this
deficit, so far from reaching the enormous sum of
£BO,OOO or £90,000, as has been so repeatedly
stated, will, we believe, be less than £25,000, and
may even be under £20,000. This amount, we be-
lieve, will be mainly made good by Messrs. Kelk
and Lucas—that is to say, that in addition to what-
ever may be the shortcoming on the third £lOO,OOO
they were to receive under their agreement, they
will submit to a still further reduction to cover the
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 contraets,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, that
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 6,117,460, or 87,000
over the gross numbers on the first occasion. The
comparison between the two English displays,
exhibitors'owcecraesiuosnedthetostasffwealnldthehow-
ever,This would
to be perfectly fair, should include on this
whwilehiictlis
of quite a million over
give the Exhibition that has just closed a majority
total
its
predecessor,
roef s
or,
is quite needless to
gross receipts will, we believe, be between £BO,OOO
scribed throughout the country first occasion, if
and £90,000 greater than on the
we exclude from the total of 1851 the £67,400 su b-
tion of the scheme, and which it at the first concep-
ubscribers.
say was never returned to the s attendants,e:les.
The Commissioners may now, therefore, feel
justly proud of having
achieved a success in the
which threatened to be fatal
very teeth of obstacles
_ich,
if one tithe of them
to all their hopes, and wit
had been foreseen when their plans were arranged,
would have led to the postpone-
mentnow two years ego, -
to some less
calami-
tous of the whole undertaking
..
Notwithstanding the famine in the manu-
facturing era. famine of the
worst kind, as
districts--a .
the enforced idleness of the people :
arising from
the death of the •
notwithstanding great originator
Court
with aabsent and in
of the plan,mourning,
wet summer, a bad harvest, and trade
a
in such a state of depression as it has seldom been
in before in this country, the Exhibition has in
all popular and practical results surpassed the hi-
therto unapproachable standard by ' which all simi-
lar efforts have been judged, the Exhibition of
1851. That this result will •
i be a bitter grievance to
the prophets of evil is likely enough, but the day
when these could injure it is now long ast and
62 will
the Exhibition of 1862 will find in its p'
results an
ample answer to all detraction
and ill-will.

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