The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-02 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The returns of visitors to the building yesterday again
show a decrease, the numbers being 51,069, and the
amount taken at the doors 2,4291. 10s. The interior was
exceedingly cool and agreeable during the day, and
there would no doubt have been a larger attendance but
for the showers that fell during the morning and the
afternoon.
We would strongly recommend all who come as
strangers to the Exhibition, on entering, to examine
carefully the large plan which is displayed at the south
side of the transept, from the information contained in
which they will be enabled to find their way much more
easily to the points which most engage their curiosity.
This plan has been chiefly prepared by Corporals
Baker and Mack, of the Sappers, and is a most
creditable performance. Indeed, that body have ren-
dered invaluable services, not only in the general
arrangements of the interior, but more especially in
making those nice measurements which were essential
with reference to the question of space. The training
whicb, under Sir C. Pasley's system, they undergo ad-
mirably prepares them for this description of work, and
they have brought to it the practical experience acquired
during the Irish, Scotch, and English surveys, which it
wilt be recollected they were employed upon in compli-
ance with a most valuable suggestion to that effect made
by Colonel Reid. The plan to which we allude is a
highly creditable specimen of the skill which the Sappers
have attained to in the art of surveying.
A curious accident occurred yesterday near the east
enmities of the building. The heavy rain which fell in

the morning caused a b-ranch of one of the large trees
there to give way, and descending upon a boy who bad
taken refuge beneath it for shelter, it killed him on the
spot. Two men were apprehended in the afternoon by
the police picking pockets.

FINE Ann.—Messrs. Reeves and Son, of Cheap-
side, a firm honourably identified with some of the most
important improvements in artists' materials, has con-
tributed to the Fine Art Court of the Exhibition

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several excellences well deserving of a special no-
tice. Their Cumberland black lead pencils, prepared
by Mr. Brockedon's process, supplies a want which
the exhaustion of the once famed plumbago mine has

occasioned, and in doing on we are informed by those m-_.
conversant with the virtues of black lead, that the success Fr.oops IN WESTMINSTER —Yee eraw afternoon
could not be more complete. Their wax water colours keep
considerable alarm was occasioned to the inabitants in the
moist under the infliction of the greatest heat, and to the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, by a sudden and
value of these we find the testimony of almost every, if not extraordinary inundation of water into their dwellings. In
all artists of name and fame throughout Great Britain, and Charles-street, Gardener's-lane, King-street, &c., it poured
indeed of Europe. in steadily and uninterruptedly for more than an bout, the
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Holloway's Pills an infallible areas, courts, and basements of the buildings were quickly
Remedy for Liver Complaints and Diseases of the Sfelnach'7 flooded and laid several feet under water. The police-station
Copy of a letter from Mr. Henry Woodward, of Richuiorid,, and barracks in Gardener's-lane were quite swamped, the
dated 25th May,lBsl. "To Professor Holloway. e Dear d S
st`er. men driven out of the mess-room, and the fires put out.
I suffered for many years from a most obstinate 1 r This sudden visitation was occasioned by the waters of the
mach complaint, and although I triod various in'tievdaleritnse3ofptrho' Thames forcing the flood-gates of the recently constructed
scribed by most eminent medical men in Ire!
Adi despair I had ree great Westminster sewer, up which it ascended, penetrating
country yet I could obtain no relief and
a inude that I ack . the houses cn either side. Considerable difficulty was ex-
course to your Pills, and it is with 9.
mtitDi vine Pro
health that I nevveirLecnocuel )
• , n°w: fines
in getting rid of the water ; in some instances en-
ledge that they have been the means (under.fines had to be got to pump it out.
of restoring me to a state of goot,ruggists
d ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. .--• The follow*ng
and at Professor
have anticipated."—Sold by all
Uolloway's Establishment 244, sal. having
Strand, London. gentlemen, undergone the necessary examinations
,
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college. at the
HIGHLAND Dec
INDUSTRIAL RELIEF OF -
A meeting of the directors of the Royal Patriotic and In- Messrs. George Whitley. Durham; Edmund Chapman,
dustrial Society of dwas yesterday Charlesth Hants •
Scotland erday held in the hall Tooting, Surrey; Joseph White, Poifsmou , f
of the Scottish Corporation,Captain
Aslown, Hon. East
in the chair. The meeting was attended by Cluny Pontypool, Monmouthshire; Jacob Williams,
George Bain, Esq
Macpherson, ., &c. Very distressing state- India Company's service ; David Thomas
.... ,
ments wer • e received of the progress of Highland destitution. then ; Robert Bohun Kidd, Norwich ; William George
Captain
• Forbes, the treasurer of the " Special Highland Eacot, St. John's-wood; Thomas Russell Johnson, York;
Industrial Relief Fund," having reported the receipt of vani- , and John Pearson Nash, Calcutta.
ous donations, and the dispatch of several remittances to the
FOREIG I VISITORS TO TSB TOWER OF LONDON...
destitute districts, the meeting empowered him to forward,
The alarm fever has not quite yet subsided. 'Will it be .
custom
be-
without delay, such sums as might be received, accompanied , lieved, it is now the that whenever 300 visitors a' e
by urgent recommendations to the committee of the society s , in the fortress the gates are immediately closed, and a pick
Hebridean branch, that, consistently with the primary ob-
of 30 men of the guard are turned out, and remain niter
jest of preserving life, they should seek, by employing the
arms until the war(iers report the clearance of the illustrious
recipients in trenching of land, and the females in knitting,
bearded foreigners? What a farce this appears to be...why
to secure some useful returns, and avoitl the evils induced
the warders a one are competent to watch the above number.
by former systems of relief, in exacting a grinding test, or in
We hope the Governor will discontinue this foolery, or he
the demoralisation attendant upon the dispensation of elee- will become the laughing-Stock of the whsle Contuaeut.--
mosynary aid. United Service Gazette.