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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 4, 1862.

The Exhibition having been duly brought to a
close on Saturday evening, the let of November,
according to lop, previous announcement, we may
venture at lenr,sth to express a deliberate opinion as
to its suceer.m. That success, under the circum-
stances, ve cannot but regard as something remark-
able. It should be remembered that from first to
last the enterprise was carried out under the most
gloomy and depressing auspices, at the most inoppor-
tune time of all for the fortunes of the Exhibition.
The illustrious pers
'llitangde, who was the approver not
sme•rely of this last
grandest of all the Great
International Exhibitions, but the originator of the
whole scheme of these
gigivatie displays of accumu-
lated specimens of the
art and industry of all coun-
tries, and of products, both
the ends natural
and artificial,
brought together from
nat
ofth the earth,nd
tropical, from
all the various climates, temperate
arctic and antarctic, in
both the
western hemispheres—ALßEßT eastern and
Prince Consort of,
the Queen of ENGLAND breathed his last, to the
profound grief of the whole empire, and •
amidst the
unaffected sympathy of surrounding nations. His
Royal Highness's demise in the very flower of his
age, in the very noonday, as it seemed to us all, of
his career, in the full and recognised maturity of
hiE, powers, must under any circumstances have
fain as a bitter calamity upon the Qum and upon
her 1-‘yal people, Omurring at the particular
pAriail at which it did, it appeared to come as an
all bat irreparable disaster to mar the fortunes of
H.R.lf.'s latest and noblest undertaking—The
Great International Exhibition (for 1862) at South
Kensington. It happened, this lamented death, pre-
cisely at a time when it was altogether and indeed
quite obviously out of the question to dream of

anything like a postponement of the enterprize.
The treasures of art and industry, summoned to
England from the uttermost extremities of the
habitable globe, were already—when the Prince
most unexpectedly expired at Windsor Castle—
either actually arrived upon our shores, or they were
hastening to those shores across the various seas
and continents. Deprived of the inestimable ad-
vantage of the guiding mind of his Royal High-
ness the PRINCE CONSORT—the rare value of whose
capacity for this kind of administration (appreciated
though it had been to the full, as we had all of us
thought, throughout) was never so appre-
ciated, it became apparent, as when it was
lost to us for ever—deprived, we say, of the im-
mense advantage of that one wise and guiding
mind, whose very instinct was taste, :the Exhi-
bition had to be carried out as best it might,
under those deplorably altered circumstances. And it
has so been carried out. With what results we are
now enabled to recognise. These results being, we
would again premise, as already intimated, some-
thing marvellous—under the circumstances ! For,
added to the depriving influences attendant upon
the year set apart for the Exhibition—a year over-
shadowed by the death of his Royal Highness--
there was that vast storm-cloud to the west, the
Civil War in the once United States, now split
into opposing armies of Federals and Con-
federates! And there was visible in the opposite,
in the exactly opposite direction that other storm-
cloud which, during all the earlier months of 1862,
brooded—though " no bigger than a man's hand"
(shall we say NAPOLEON'S) most threateningly
over Europe—that Roman Question—that Italian
Difficulty, that might at any time, that may even
now at any moment, expand into a casus belli for
the Great Nations of the Earth, bringing the
principal armies and navies 'of the world
into direct collision. A war throughout
Europe was a possible contingency. A ter-
rible civil war in North America was a lamen-
table and formidable reality, a reality that has now
for months past desolated the northern counties of
England, especially Lancashire, with a destitution
amounting in certain districts to absolute famine.
Our Sovereign having been but so very recently
widowed, the metropolis was deprived, throughout
the whole year of the Exhibition, of the customary
attraction and advantage of a Court, the central
point, the actual source of what is called, and of what
is at all times of so much value and importance to the
capital as—the Season. Under these sinister auspices,
the Exhibition at South Kensington was opened.
Under them it has been conducted. Under them it
has been closed. And yet the success achieved, all
things considered, we may regard now as having
been unmistakeable. Is evidence of this wanting—
evidence, that is, of a conclusive character, and not
only conclusive but conclusive at a glance ? It is
here ready to hand in the following reliable sta
tistics ?

Total number in 1851, to closing day
Number to 11th of October of pre-
sent Exbibition
Week ending 18th Oct 244,039
„ „ 25th Oct 240,066
~ „ Ist Nov. .. 319,041

6,116,640

Majority in favour of present Exhibition ... 77,445
Those three additional weeks, it will be perceived,
having made all the difference ! Pulling the
Commissioners through, so to speak—transforming
a falling off into an increase, a deficit into a surplus !
Alas! that we should have to add—in the number
of visitors—not in the satisfactory balance of returns
against expenditure. There the story runs quite
differently—in the contrast of the result of the 1862
Exhibition with that of the 1851 Exhibition. Out
of the proceeds of the earlier, smaller, less
elaborate enterprise came, as we all know,
among other advantages, the very ground upon
which Capt. POWICES'S structure is yet standing.
Thousands of pounds sterling having remained
over " to the good," when all was done, with regard
to that first glorious venture, when the Crystal
Palace was removed from its temporary standing
ground near Rotten Row, when the grass
was again growing in Hyde Park, whence
all that accumlation of beauty and splen-
dour had passed away like a tale that
is told ! Thousands of pounds sterling still, I

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will be remembered, remained over and above
all that had had to be paid away in the liquida-
tion of expenses—gains that were eventually ex-
pended in the purchase of considerable tracts of
land down at South Kensington. Not such,
however, by any means has been the result
of the Second and Grander Exhibition now
but just completed. There, instead of a
surplus sufficient to purchase an estate worthy
of remaining afterwards as a magnificent and
substantial memorial of a Successful Enter-
prise, there is the tolerably plain probability of a
small deficit—say of about £20,0u0. Nevertheless,
in very despite of that fact, it must still be, rea-
sonably enough, insisted that the result, all things
considered, is really and truly and in the
highest degree satisfactory. When the for-
mer Exhibition drew the world to London
the attraction had a charm about it that it could
not by any possibility possess under any circum-
stances upon a repetition—the potent and patent
charm of absolute novelty. Again, eleven years
ago, H.R.H. the Prince Consort was still happily
surviving, and was yet to survive for the happiness
of the QUEEN and of the Country for ten full
years afterwards. Then, moreover, there was
no imminent possibility hanging over our heads
of an outbreak of war among the nations of Europe,
whether upon the plea of Italy, or of Greene, or of
Constantinople. Then, too, there was no cotton
famine desolating the north of England, in conse-
quence of a deadly strife among the Northern and
Sourthern States of the great Republic of
North America.
All was tranquillity in both
nhaPpiness, therefore,
hemispheres. All was industryll was
a
prosperity here at home. A
in-
stead of grief and mourning, in the Palace of the
Sovereign. Added to which considerations is the
undoubted and, indeed, indisputable fact that, in
the late instance of a great International Exhibi-
tion, upon a scale far larger, and more complicated,
than had been ever before attempted in
any capital of a civilised race, the Executive
Commission was not guided by that master
mind for organization of this kind so often
displayed &iring the last ten years of his memo-
rable lifetime by ALBERT the Good,
the PRINCE
CONSORT of England. Hence, indeed, we are per-
fectly well satisfied, the errors into which the Royal
Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862 have so
repeatedly blundered. Conspicuous among these
flaws in the administration of the affairs
connected with the grand enterprize just
brought to a close, being that flagrant case of a
Aristocratic (!) Jobbery, thus happily epitomised in
few sentences by our contemporary the
a terrible want of
Daily isi-ell'B, when remarking :—" There was
rapt French baker for the sake
a valuable refreshme
aristocratic follower of
sound shop principles when
at wasv , given to a bank-
. EILLARD—. of obliging an
amount of washing can wipe away this stain. The
...Ark uRANVILLE. No
those who have
creditors of M. ar
been his eiders and abettors not
ora--have a better Cause
of complaint against the Commissioners, who