The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-28 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The number of visitors at the Exhibition on
Saturday was 26,353, of whom 9,779 were admitted
by season tickets, and 16,563 paid their half-crowns
at the doors. The Crown Prince of Saxony and
Prince George, his brother, spent some time in the
building, examining more particularly the Eastern
Annexe and the Austrian Court. The Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz and her son Prince
Adolphus, the Duke of Cambridge, Princess Mary
of Cambridge, the Frince de Joinville, the Count of
Paris, the Duke of Chartres, and the Prince of
Orange, were also among the visitors. Messrs. Hol-
lingsworth, the papermakers of Maidstone, treated
400 of their workmen to the Exhibition on Satur-
day. This is the first body of workmen which has
visited the Exhibition on a half-crown day, and
Messrs. Hollingsworth justify the extra expenses to
which they were put by the selection of this day on
the ground that their people see twice as much of
the contents of the building es they would on a
crowded shilling day, and that by sending them on
Saturday they only lose half a day's labour instead
of a whole one. This sensible view appears to have
been taken by other employers, for we understand
that Messrs. Betts, of Aylesford, propose to send
500 of their men next Saturday,
The singing bullfinch still continues to exercise
his talent for the benefit of the distressed cotton
districts very profitably. Ho seld( m continues long
without an audience, and on Saturday he realised
more than £lO. His contributions to the fund
during the 'week have exceeded £3O. Few people
seem to experience much difficulty in finding their
way to him, but, for the benefit of strangers, we
may point out that he is to be found at the back
of the Swiss Court, under the gallery. Messrs.
Aube and Linton, the exhibitors of the bull-
finch, have just added to their display a won-
derful piece of horological mechanism in the
shape of an astronomical and geographical clock,
which, though very little larger than an ordinary
drawing-room timepiece, gives 35 different de-
monstrations on 26 separate dials. Besides striking
the hours, half-hours, and quarter-hours, it shows
he revolution of the sun, the solstices and equi-
noxes, the months, days of the month, and days of
the week, the equation of time, the changes of the
moon, and the time of day at 22 of the principal
cities in every quarter of the world. The pendulum
is a most ingenious and complicated contrivance.
It is a compensation formed of nine branches, and
carries at its lower extremity a dial which indicates
the variation to the eight hundredth part of half an-
inch, and by its own internal mechanism regulates
itself to the temperature. The clock is the work
of M. Gretillat, of Confranc, Switzerland, and occu-
pied 23 years in its construction.
Among his numerous purchases at the Exhibi
tion, the Viceroy of Egypt has carried off the
beautiful globe of cut glass exhibited by Mr. Brock-
well, and has ordered several others of the Barna
pattern as ornaments for the handrail of the stair-
case leading to the state cabin of his yacht.
Preparations have already been commenced for
the closing ceremonial, which will be one of un-
usual splendour. The price of admission for the
day has been fixed at £l, so that it will be good
economy for those who wish to attend to purchase
30s. season tickets at once. The following return
of total admissions for last week and the corres-
ponding week of 1851 speaks well for the increas-
ing popularity of the Exhibition :

1851. 1852.
Monday (U.) 70,640 67,562
Tuesday (Is.)
Wednesday (ls.)
Thursday (Is.)
Friday (2s. 6d.)
.. 26,882 .. 27,850
Saturday (55.)

274,139 296,715
A comparison of the payments is, even more
favourable to the present Exhibition.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—A most inter-
esting and instructing little brochure upon Paraffine
is being gratuitously circulated at the stalls of the Messrs.
FielC of Lambeth, in the eastern annexe; it therein de-
tails the discovery and history of this wonderful product,
and ft would seem that no other exhibitor of it has ventured
to place candles made therefrom perpendicularly into
chandeliers, thus proving that the one great difficulty
which presented itself in its early development had been
luccessfully coped with and overcome. We are further
informed by these gentlemen now that these candles are
being imitated in so many quarters, it is their intention to
stamp all of them with their trade mark and their name for
the future.