The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-16 00:00:00

THE IN2ERNATIONAL EXdIBMON.

Yesterday's most wintry weather exercised its full
effect upon the attendance of visitors at the building
—that is to say, it checked the steady and rapi
rise which the daily numbers have lately shown ;
but the diminution was, after all, not so large as
might almost reasonably have been expected. The
falling off was entirely among the season-ticket
holders, who were in a minority yesterday as
compared with those who paid at the door;.
On payment there were 3,568, and by season
tickets 3,376, or, in round numbers, 7,600 visi-
tors up to five o'clock, the hour at which the re-
turns are taken, though by no means the hour at
which the entries cease. As opposed to this falling
off in the number of season-ticket visitors, the sale
of season tickets themselves is still as brisk as ever,
and though, of course, nothing like what it was
before the opening, is, strange to say, proportion-
ately still ahead of the sale in 1851. The executive
were rather desirous of one good day's rain, to as-
certain how far their precautions against leakages
had been effectual, and the result of yesterday's
experience must have satisfied them. There were
a good many odd places at which the rain came in
rather freely, and most especially under the
western dome; but, on the whole, the annoyance
from this source was less than on the lest occasion.
In no part of the building is it niore necessary
that leakage should be guars! ,;d against than in,
the Sheffield Couit for ste',l goods. A few drops
finding their way in Ilere do more damage, in the
way of rust, than in any other class of goods. For
their own sakes we would recommend all exhibitors
to furnish themselves with oiled calico covers, both
for goods and cases, as the leakage which occurs in
the night has time to do its worst long before it is
discovered on the following morning.
The interior arrangements are fast being com-
pleted, and everything begins, though very slowly,
to wear its best aspect. This week ought to see all
finished and in place. A rigorous order has been
issued that under no pretence whatever is anything
to be admitted to the building after Saturday next,
and on that day all cases which may still remain
unpacked will be ejected summarily, whether full
or empty. If this rule is really carried out, it will
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have allowed themselves to be influenced by pres-
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one, in fact, seems to do
pretty much as he likes ; and when, every two or
three days, this culminates in
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Commissioners suddenly , the
rent disorder
wake up to a sense of their
position, and
issue a general regulation of such un-
mitigated st • ringene-
y that, like the laws of Draco,
none care to use it ; so that, after a few hours, it is
Consigned to the same oblivion as its predecessors.
There is, in short, a want of anything like individual
responsibility among those nominally in charge of
eri angement. Everything is departmental, and each
department works in independence, if not in con-
tradiction, of the other. But that the Commis-
sioners had the good fortune to secure the services
of a most able body of superintendents of classes,
who threw themselves into the work heart and
soul, the whole affair would have been a mere chaos.
The heat and labour of the day has been borne by
these gentlemen, by the contractors, and, above all,
by the most courteous and indefatigable secretary,
Mr. Sandford, who has had to reconcile the m_!..117
agement of the Commissioners with anythiing
order or regularity. It is time that there should be a
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end of all this, and we, therefore, hail the orderilsasign
everything shall be finished by Saturday
done their
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of a better system. The exhibitors haveoo
collection as has
part by massing together such sown
Commissioners now
never yet been seen. Let thehe to little expe-
dients theirs, and, instead of descending
or person that
dients to make money on everything
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opened an mg
Inn, Peckham, on the body of John Simmons, aged 33, the
master of the barge Fox, of Rochester, 'who it was alleged
had been robbed and afterwards thrown into the basin of
the Grand Surrey Canal at Peckham. It appeared that de-
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ceased had taken a cargo of cement to a wharf on the Peck-
ham cut of the Surrey Canal, and was found drowned as
above stated on Tuesday last, he having been missed since
the previous Friday. At first it was suspected from thed
fact of no money being found upon him that deceased ha
been robbed and then thrown into the canal, it being provedhn
that he was slightly under the influence of drintkhewap.t
last been. It was now, however. suggested,
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pearance of deceased's trousers that he had dhuenefi:
gone on deck for a natural purpose, and. t
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the water. The jury returned a verdict
death,