The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-26 00:00:00

THE IN2ERNATIONAL EXHIBITION,

The Commissioners are sparing no efforts to
make the opening ceremony as grand a spectacle
as has ever been celebrated in England—grander
even, and more widely public, than that traditional
pageant, tho coronation of George IV. The Royal
personages who are to be present on this occasion,
the Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Oscar of
Sweden, and the Duke of Cambridge, will leave
Buckingham Palace in State, each attended by his
own suite, in state carriages, and accompanied by
escorts of cavalry. They will proceed up Constitution-
hill and along Hyde-park into the Albert-road, and
thence to the Southern entrance in the Cromwell-
road. All this route will be kept by mounted
patrols of the Household Cavalry. The time of
departure from the Palace will be so arranged that
this state cortege will follow close upon the great
procession from the city, which will turn off from
Piccadilly into Hyde Park also. This civic display
will consist of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs in their
state carriages, accompanied by their municipal
officers, and followed by the members of the Court
of Aldermen and Court of Common Council also in
their robes of office, uniform, or Court dress. This
part of the procession will be escorted by the mem-
bers of the Hon. Artillery Company to the number
of about 500. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, the
Lord Mayors of York and Dublin, and the Lord
Provost of Edinburgh will also come in state, and
form no inconsiderable portion of the splendour of
the show. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Chamberlain,
and Speaker of the House of Commons will, of
couse, be in state, the two former surrounded by all
the official paraphernalia allowed them by the con-
stitution, which in the case of the Lord Chancellor
is no less than seven official attendants. As part
of a pageant the Speaker in state is also capable of
great effects, and he likewise comes attended by his
officers. Nearly 200 ,Mayors of the various great
provincial towns have intimated their intention of
assisting at the ceremony, and all these will like-
wise wear their insignia and robes of office. Peers
will not attend in robes of state, but-in official uni-
forms, uniforms as Lords-Lieutenant of counties, or
in Court dress. The same rule will apply to mem-
bers of the House of Commons taking part in the
processions. There will also be about 200 officers
of various Volunteer corps in uniform, and each
branch of the service—Household Troops, Infantry,
Cavalry, Artillery, Marines, and Seamen—will be
represented by detachments of officers and men.
These representative corps have been chosen in regu-
lar order from the various branches of the service
stationed nearest London on that day. All her
Majesty's Ministers, the Commissioners for 1851,
Commissioners for 1862, and the Special Commis-
sioners for the opening will, of course, appear in
official uniforms.

These invited guests will enter under the western
dome, the south entrance from the Cromwell.
road being reserved exclusively for Royal personages
and the Special Commissioners. The invited officials
will assemble in the South Court in the open space
between Minton's Court and Benson's great clock.
Around this opening are arranged various fine works
in marble, from the Italian and Roman Courts, and
the effect of these will b 3 further heightened by a
splendid collection of the finest plants and flower-
ing shrubs from Kew.

The general visitors will be admitted between the
hours of 12 and half-past 1. The various entrances
at which the public will be admitted were examined
yesterday, and from calculations made as to the
number of ladies and gentlemenwho can pass through
aLy single turnstile in an hour, it appears that a
sufficient number of turnstile entrances are provided
to enable upwards of 100,000 visitors to enter in
less than an hour and a half, What the number
will be on the Ist of May it is of course impossible
to foretell, but it is certain it will be far larger than
was at first anticipated, when only 20,000 or 25,000
were counted upon. Already the amount received
for season tickets exceeds by £5,000 the amount re-
ceived up to the same time in 1851, and the sale is
proceeding in a still more rapidly increasing ratio.
At Exeter-hall alone yesterday the sale of tickets
exceeded £l,OOO, and it is evident as the day d n 17.;

near that the demand will be irnmcme. Tao three
bands of the Greradicr, Coldstream, and Fusileer
nards• will be brigaded together, under the conduct
of Mr. Godfrey, at 11 30, and these will play until
1 15, while the public are taking their seats. The
whole ceremony is expected to be over about half-
past 4, and at its conclusion the military bands will
assemble in the orchestra and play till dusk. The
orchestra being thus used again brings up the ques-
tion why it cannot be retained for the performance
of the same bands during the following Friday and
Saturday. The admissions on those days, it must
be remembered, will only be by season tickets
or payment of a sovereign, and as even the most
enthusiastic sightseers will sit down during some
portion of the day, the bands will be no incon-
siderable attraction. In fact, the Commissioners
will scarcely be justified in having gone to the great
expense of erecting this large orchestra, unless it
is turned to good account during the two days fol-
lowing the opening.
The heat yesterday in the building was very
great, and the dust still greater, and more annoy-
ing. Of course the latter nuisance will be remedied
before the first of next month ; but the temperature
of the interior is always likely to be high—quite
as high, perhaps, as in 1851. The foreigners still
continue to bo much behindhand, and the French
the most backward of all, though they received
their space nearly three weeks before that allotted
to any other country, English or foreign, was ready.
One of the great ornaments to the screen frontage
of their court—a most magnificent sheet of plate
glass, about 16 feet high by 10 feet wide, from the
works of St. Gobain—was accidentally destroyed
tho day before yesterday. While being raised into
the frame provided for it the rope broke, and in a
second this magnificent sheet of glass was shivered
to a thousand fragments on the floor. Unless much
greater progress is made with this court, it is not
likely that the public will be admitted to it on the
opening day. Just now it is a mere mass of straw
and packing-cases, all, apparently, in the most lope-
less confusion. To do M. Roquet, the French super-
intendent, justice, none of this backwardness is due
to him. On the contrary, had his advice been
attended to the French Court would
,now be the
most advanced of all ; and, hoping against hope, he
is still labouring night and day to overtake the time
lost by the dilatoriness of the French exhibitors.
But, as we have all along said, this court, though
late, will, when finished, be one of the greatest at-
tractions of the building. Especially we can com-
mend' to the notice of visitors some most exquisite
specimens of paper-printing in colours•--paperhang-

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ings, in fact, printed in large views to resemble oil
and water-colour landscapes. These are richly
framed, like large paintings, and it is only on a
close inspection that the difference between them
and costly works of art can be detected. Yet the
price of each of these is only 50 francs. In jewelry
also, in bronzes, articles de Paris, Sevres china,
French shawls, leces, works in agate and marble,
carton-pierre furniture, &c., the whole Court -will
be full of the most superb examples. Some of the
vases, balustrajes, • candelabra, &c., carved ffrova
massive pieces of A,l,:zerian agate and jasper, wllll ba
without rivals in the hoileling-, both for the be e.uty
of the stone and the taste of the fittings. 1. fhe
jeweller sends a very magnificent gteld centrepic CO
or shield, hung round with the finest eit. quiptions
of French gold work, and the mere value L:.O the
metal and work in this small piece alone is upwarjs
of £O,OOO. A great clearance was made of packing
eases yesterday, but the result of the labour only
showed the magnitude of the task of really cleating
the buil6ing ; for, though an immense number of
cases was got out, it made not the slightest percep•
tible difference in the number still remaining, all of 1
which, unfortunately, are filled with goods.

FATAL _RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT

ILL W CX.

A serious accident attended with fatal conse-
quences occurred at Hawick railway station on
Wednesday night. A mixed train of goods, coals,
&c., from the north ran right through the goods
shed and the boundary wall of the station. Two
trucks, one loaded with freestone and another With
grain, standing on the line in the goods shed, were
forced forward by the engine, and the progress of
the train stopped by the rising ground on the side
of the turnpike opposi,te the station. The engine
remained on the wheels right across the road, the
tender waa thrown sideways, and lay on the road
parallel to the engine; the trucks in front were
smashed against the hillock in front of the engine,
and two trucks laden with coal immediately behind
the engine were lodged in a damaged state on the
broken wall which bounds the station from the
turnpike-road. There were four men in charge of
the train—the engine-driver, stoker, guard, and
assistant-guard. The driver found he could not
stop the train while it was approaching the station
and leaped from the engine before it entered the
goods shed. He escaped with a few scratches. The
stoker also jumped froth the train a short time be-
fore the driver, and sustained some injuries to the
leg, though no bones were broken. The assistant-
guard was found lying dead in a pool of blood about
200 yards below the station, and :n leaping from the
train must have rebounded from the embankment on
which he landed, as the train had passed over his
right arm and right leg, both limbs being broken
and shockingly mangled. His name is James Dick-
son, and he belonged to Galashiels. He had been
employed as assistant guard for about 12 months,
but had only been connected with the Hawick end
of the line for 10 days. He was a single man, and
about 22 years of age. The other guard remained
in the van at the end of the train till it was brought
to a stand, and escaped unhurt. The driver, whose
name is Handyside, has been taken into custody,
and Sheriff Russell and the Procurator-Fiscal were
engaged on Thursday in an examination into the
circumstances of the case. A strong force of men
was employed to remove the engine, tender, and
debris of the smashed trucks from the road, and it
was cleared on Thursday forenoon under the super-
intendence of Mr. Harrison, C.E., and the com-
pany's engineer, Mr. Bell. The accident was
almost unknown in the town till Thursday morning,
but the scene was visited by great numbers of
people during the day.—Scotsman.

TIIE LATE FORGERY ON COUTTS'

BANK.

Mary Gibson, who when apprehended had stated
that her name was Mary Aylmer, was brought up
on remand at Bow-street, on the charge of being
accessory after the fact to the forging and uttering,
by William Gibson, of a cheque for £445, purport-
ing to be drawn by Mr. Butler, a solicitor,
Mr. Mullens attended as before to conduct the
prosecution on behalf of the London Bankers'
Association ; and Mr. George Lewis, jun. (of Lewis
and Lewis, Ely-place), defended the prisoner.
From the evidence at former examinations it
appeared that the cheque in question had been
tendered at Messrs. Coutts' by a female, and paid
in gold and bank notes. A number of these notes
had been passed at various linendraper's, bootmak-
er's, &e., in different parts of London, by a female,
supposed to be the prisoner, wno, indeed, had
been apprehended upon the occasion of tendering
another of these notes. In most of the cases
where these notes had been passed the witnesses
were unable to identify the prisoner as the
person who had passed them ; but in one instance
the witness (a shopman) said he was sure she was
the person, though when he first saw her he had
expressed himself as doubtful, and had even said
that he thought she Was not the person. He ex-
plained the discrepancy by saying that ha had only
seen her sitting at the time when he failed to re-
cognise her, but that when he saw her standing he
knew her readily. t
At the third examination of the prisoner, on
Thursday, Mr. Mullens stated that the charge
which had hitherto been stated in the most general
terms, would assume the form of an indictment
against the prisoner, as accessory after the fact in
the forging and uttering, committed by Gibson.
Upon the charge being stated in these terms,
Mr. Lewis said that the prisoner was Gibson's wife,
and therefore could not be charged as accessory
after the fact.
Mr. Hall said there could be no doubt upon that
point. A wife might, in some cases, be an acces-
sory before the fact but not after.
Mr. Mullens fully concurred in the magistrate's
view. If Mr. Lewis could show that the prisoner
was married to Gibson, then the case for the pro-
secution was at an end.
Mr. Lewis said if the case was adjourned to the
next day (yesterday, Friday), he could prove the
marriage.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Fri-
day (yesterday), when she was again brought be-
fore Mr. Hall.
Mr. Henry Cooper, registrar for the county of
Surrey, in the Lambeth district, comprising the
parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, stated that on the
Ist of May, 1861, he solemnised a marriage be-
tween two persons named William Gibson, batche-
for, and Mary Monday, spinster. He produced a
certificate, being a copy of the registry of that mar-
riage, and being signed by Mr. Lcgan, the super-
intendent registrar. He could not identify this
person.
The certificate produced related to a marriage
between William Gibson, batchelor, described as a
surgeon, and Mary Monday, spinster, the daughter
of Charles Monday, of Brighton, a re tired brewer,
the bridegroom being described as of 31 years of
age, and the bride as of 27.
Elizabeth Monday, the prisoner's sister, was re-
called, and Sarah Monday, her mother, was exa-
mined for the first time, upon certain points of de-
tail, showing that the description of the persons
married applied to the prisoner and Gibson. The
prisoner's father was a retired brewer. The address
given as the residence of both parties was that
where the prisoner lived with Gibson. Mrs. Mon-
day stated that she first heard of the marriage in
May, when the prisoner brought her a certificate
similar to that produced.
Mr. Mullens thought there was not sufficient
identification of the parties, but
Mr. Hail thought it was unnecessary to demand
as strict evidence of marriage as would be required
in a case of b'garny or criminal conversation. The
mere fact of the prisoner and Gibson living together,
reputed to be married, though not conclusive, was
important, but the further evidence was such as no
reasonable man could resist. It was utterly incon-
ceivable to suppose that there had been a marriage
between two persons of the same names as the pri-
soner and Gibson; that those two persons had been
married in the district where the prisoner and Gib-
son lived; that those two persons resided in the
same district and at the same address as the prisoner
and Gibson ; that the father of the wife was of the
same name and profession as the prisoner's father;
and that the prisoner was so well aware of all these
strange coincidences that she was enabled to get a
copy of the registry of mairiege a few days after
the actual marriage took place, and to take that
copy to her parents at Brighton, so as to satisfy
them that she had been married to Gibson. Rather
than accept so improbable a theory any jury of 12
men of ordinary intelligence would come to the
conclusion that the prisoner was really married to
this man Gibson. If so she could not be held to be
an accessory after the fact in any offence committed
1 by Gibson. He (Mr. 11111) did not believe that any
jury would convict under such circumstances. Ho
should be stultifying himself if be were to commit
a prisoner for trial with a full consciousness that
a conviction was impossible. Ile should therefore
discharge the prisoner.
Mr. Mullens said he was bound to admit that the
magistrate's view of the case was pefcctly correct.
The prisoner was then discharged.

,SOSP_ECTED MURDER OF A I'OCT.WG
1110.11.4 N IN TILE REGENT'S CANAL.

Yesterday morning, at tcn, an ndjourxied inquest
1 rpon the body of Margaret Elizabeth Halliday,
iged 23, who was found in the water of the Regent's
I ...anal, last Tuesday week, under circumstances
which have given rise to an impre.ssion Chat she had

teen murdered, was resumed by'lNlr, H. R. Walthew,,
the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, at the. New
Globe Tavern, Mile-end-road.
Wm. Warren, a gardener, residing in the vicinity
of the canal, said that about 2 o'clock on the =m-
ing of last Tuesday week he heard a shout or loudi
exclamation, followed by piercing scream,. The dogs
i'n the neighbourhood began to bark furiously, and
he went out to see what was the matter, bat in the
darkness he could distinguish nothing. The 13,%dy of
deceased was found in the water five hours afterwczds.

Emma Halliday, 9, Cleveland-street, Mile-end-
. road-1 am sister of the deceased, who was a bupie
j rimmer, residing with her parents. I last saw her
a live on the Monday evening previous to her death
.nd she was then quite cheerful and happy. She
la, 9.(1 been beeping company with a young men named
Charles Wm. Webb, who said he was an enjineer,
but whose address he always kept concealecf. I
always told her that I thought he was a manied
man—he had such funny ways. (Laughter.) About
t bree weeks ago she said that if she found out that;
h e was married and had deceived her she would
re venge herself. I last saw them together in the
sh. ?p on the Saturday night previous to her death.
IV the Coroner—She sometimes said she would
hang, herself, but she said it in a joke, and I never
auppolsed she meant to destroy herself. She was a.
veryciirrect moral girl. Webb and she were in the
habit of - walking oui; together. She certainly
h,ad no idea of suicide on the Monday evening.
sfroe t he inquest was adjourned we have found out
Webb's address, and that ho has a wife and child..
mr,5,3 Patience Halliday said that deceased went out
Tonday evening about 8 o'clock, and upon wit-
onr):s `tia aes il
k 'g' her to make asmall purchase she answered.
that he 'A
'ould not be in time as it was. Witness
that she was going to meet Webb.
t.'
er's officer here put in the two following'
'ellya
ysdtoen naeirg eo lit,
ing''
notes res
i coyrlo e 0i I
',:lad been found in docoaco'a room, they-
lib
on
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date
which'. t:
a
, ,but the second was marked Monday%
Fe-iend,—l am sorry I did not see your
alone
but I suppose the wet night pre-.
vented
o'
Meet me to-night at the same
Do come, there's a good creature,
lorly to see you. If you fail to come
saps olt
want a t 7o
p'calretcike. u..
you. Do not forget the book.--r
Iysohuarsll
veryandtr.uftleyc: 71 "
WILLIAM."
The second ran as follows : " Monday.

My dear Friend,- me this evening at &
"
o'clock by the church. Don't forget to bring that
book,—Yours very truly.,
Witness continued-I'l3o not know the handwrit.-
ing of those notes, but dectNased had in her posses-
sion a book of Webb's. Webb had brought a com-
panion of his to court a sister of deceased, but ho
was found to be a married mai', and was turned out
of the house. Deceased had bought some furniture
in anticipation of her marriage vv,!th Webb.
Charles Webb, 53, St. Anne's-road, Stepney, was
then examined, and said he knew the deceased for
the last nine months. Did not consider he was
courtii.'g her, but used to go out with her. He had.
not regelarly promised to marry her, for he had.
been married 12 months to another.
The foreman—What, within tb ree months of your
marriage you begin to court this poor girl, repre..
senting yourselt as a bachelor ?
By the Coroner--He had seduced her. He did not
write the two notes produced. He did not meet her
on the Monday night. He would swear he was not
out of his own house that night. The last time )
met her was on the Saturday previous, and he them
informed her that he was a married man. The man
whom he had brought to court her sister was also
married. (Sensation)
Mrs. Webb deposed that her husband returned
home at 6 o'clock on the night in question, and re-
toained within all night.
Dr. S. H. Freeman said that he had made a pot
morteo examination of deceased, but he could not
undertak.,
to say that death had been caused by
drowning, though he could not detect any other
cause. Deceased had been enceinte 9 weeks.
Some further evidence was taken, but it failed to
throw any additional lien: upon the matter.
The coroner then summed up, and remarked uped
the suspicions circumstances with which the caso
was surrounded.
The jury returned the following verdict, " That
deceased was found dead in the Regent's Canal, but
how she came by her death or how she came into
the said canal there was .no evidence to show."

COUNTBI I. 6.

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DERBY-A2BIL 25.

At our market this morning the show of wheat wag
only moderate, but samples were rather improved in qua-
lity. A quiet demand took place, at the rates of the week
previous. The show of barley was small, and sales were
at fully is advance upon late rates. Oats and beans at ex-
treme prices. Super flour, 46s to 50s.

LIVERTOOL—Arnm 25.
We had to-day a fair ,attendanco of dealers and mil•
Icrs, and wheat met a slow sb:le at Id to 2d per cental de-
cline. Flour also met a very ;slow sale at Gd per sack and
barrel decline on last Friday's rates. Indian corn com-
manded a moderate inquiry, at 6,d to 9d less money.

WAKEFIELD—AritTh 25
To-day the attendance Ni as middling,. Wheat sold at the(
prices of last Friday, with a moderato Dusincss. Barleys
beans, oats, and shelling fully as dear.