The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather yesterday 64,298 persons visited the build-
ing, and the receipts amounted to 3,0801. 12s. 61.
Among other arrivals came thirty boys and twenty
girls belonging to the Ragged-school, Pye-street,
Westminster, who obtained admission by subscriptions
from the benevolent. There were also eighteen old
people from Bletchingley, whose expenses were de-
frayed by the rector and other gentlemen in the
parish, and whose joint ages amounted to 1,141 years.
Such facts, but the former especially, taken in con-
nexion with the daily incidents of a similar character,
place beyond possibility of question the propriety of
that decision which refused free admission to our
charitable institutions. Had the numerous applica-
tions made upon this subject been acceded to, we
should not have witnessed those delightful and grati-
fying efforts of private benevolence, the statistics of
which, when collected at the close of the Exhibition,
will furnish one of the most interesting and remark-
able features of the many connected with its diurnal
history.
We are happy to hear that numerous and va-
luable presents are being made by exhibitors to the
Royal Commission for the formation of a permanent
museum after the present display in Hyde-park has
terminated. An opal of extraordinary beauty from
Hungary has just been added to the Austrian collec-
tion by Messrs. J. Goldschmid and Son, of Vienna.

BLOWING UP OF THE OCEAN MONARCIL—For
some time a number of experienced divers have been en-
gaged on the wreck of this ill-fated vessel. It will be no
doubt remembered, she was one of the Boston line of
packet ships, 1,300 tons burden, and caught fire in a few
hours after her departure for that port from Liverpool. No
fewer than 170 (out of 399 emigrants who were on board)
perished by the calamity, and the hull went down in 70
feet of water in the Bay of Abergelly, on the Welch coast,
about six miles from the land. There was on board of her a
large general cargo, valued at 16,0004, a great quantity of
which the divers have succeeded in saving, and there is no
doubt but that the whole will be got up. It is the intention
then of blowing up the wreck on the same principle as was
pursued on the occasion of the removal of that of the Royal
George at Spithead some few years since by the Sappers and
Miners, under General Pasley.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly
general meeting, held yesterday at the society's house in
Hanover-square, Mr. J. E. Gray, vice-president, in the chair,
Professor E. Forbes and Mr. W. 0. Dimond were elected
fellows; and the Rev. B. Winthrop, Mr. F. J. Bladon, and
Mr. R. W. Crawford, proposed as candidates for the fellow-
ship. The report of the council stated that several interest-
ing animals had beeniadded to the menagerie, and that a
new building was in progress for the reception of the Elands
bequeathed by the late Earl of Derby. Mr. B, Hill, corre-
sponding member, had forwarded some reptiles from Jamaica,
of which one serpant was entirely new to the collection. Cap-
tain Fulton, R.N., and Mr. 11. Manifold, had also presented
valuable additions to the reptile-room, which has been
greatly improved during the present summer. The increas-
ing interest with which thie branch of the garden establish-
ment is visited has determined the council to provide for its
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afflicted with toothache, who on their way across the graves
pick up an old skull, which they carry with them to drink
from, the doing of which they assert to be an infallible cure.
Others merely resort to the place for the purpose of pulling
a tooth from a skull, which they place on or over the hole or
stump of the crown tooth, and they affirm that by keeping it
there for a certain time the pain ceases altogether. There
is a young woman at this instant in the employment of my
mother, who has practised these two remedies, and who tells
me she knows several other 4 who have done the sane.—
, Notes and Qucrics.