The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-11 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The receipts at the doors yesterday amounted to
2,3951. ss. 6d., and, strange to say, the sale of season
tickets produced Si. According to the police report,
50,106 persons visited the building. Among these
were 400 mechanics and labourers from Wilton, sent
by Mr. Sidney Herbert from his estate, the clergy-
man of the place, and others. Of that number 120
were from the carpet manufactory of Messrs. Black-
more, Brothers. They were chiefly girls, and many
of them had been employed in making the great
Windsor carpet exhibited by Prince Albert. Their
expenses were defrayed by the Messrs. Biackmore,
and by Messrs. Watson, Bell, and Co., of Bond-street.
The children at Wilton-park, and the National, Free,
and Union Workhouse Schools were also included in
this benevolent pleasure trip.
The council of the Society of Arts offers medals
and handsome money premiums for the best and se-
cond-best treatises they may receive on the objects
exhibited in each of the four sections of raw produce,
machinery, manufactures, and fine arts. They also
propose for competition a general essay on the Exhi-
bition, considered commercially, politically, and sta-
tistically. The;successful works aro to be the property
of the society, and the council, if they see fit, will
publish them, awarding to the authors the net amount
of profit that may arise on their sale after deducting
expenses. The rewards offered in each case—are for
the best treatise a large medal with 251., and for the
second-best a small medal and 101. Each essay is to
occupy as nearly as possible 80 pages of the size of
the Bridgewater Treatises.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, TUESDAY, SEPT. 9.
Her Majesty drove yesterday to the Pass of Bal-
lator, accompanied by the Princess Royal and Prin-
cess Alice.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert wcnt out deer
stalking.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
Dispatches were also received from the Governors o
Sierra Leone and the Gambia.

DEATH OF LORD RIVERSTON.—Lord Riverston
died at his residence, Flower-hill, county Galway, on Satur-
last. A correspondent of the Evening Post says :—" This
peerage was granted by James 11., when he was fighting in
Ireland for his Crown, but was not acknowledged by the
English Government. Lord Riverston was heir presumptive
to the Earldom of Westmeath ; he leaves two sons."

THE TRooPs FOR TAE CAPE.—Her Majesty's
steam-ships Retribution, Captain Wards, and Sidon, Com-
mander Gardner, with troops for the Cape of Good Hope, ar-
rived at Bahia for water and coals, and left August 21, for
their destination, which they have most probably reached by
this time.
SNOW IN AUGUST.—Upon the morning of Friday,
the 29th, the mountains of Benalder, Beneven, and Geal-
cairn, in Inverness-shire, presented a singular phenomenon,
being covered with a thick coat of snow, not only on their
lofty summits, but also half down their furrowed and rugged
sides, whilst the famed Shechaillion and other mountains of
Perthshire, within view, were quite free of it; and even Ben
Nevis and the loftiest summit of the Gruagaichean, only se-
cond to Ben Nevis itself in height, were free of any fresh
snow.— Scotch Paper.
REPAIR OF LAMBETH PALACE.—A correspondent
of the Builder says—l beg to call your attention to some
work which is now being proceeded with at Lambeth—l
allude to the repair of the gateway of Lambeth Palace,
Some time since, the western tower was repaired, and the
eastern is now undergoing that process. The building was
originally ornamented with coloured bricks forming different
devices on the face of the building, but I am sorry to say
that the greater portion of these have now disappeared, for
wherever the bricks have been decayed or removed new ones
have been inserted, and this without any regard to ornament.
I can scarcely believe that the Archbishop himself is aware
is
of the fact, and I trust that you will, ere it too late, say a
ord or two on the subject ; and if you are kind enough to do
so, it may lead to a " restoration," which will be better than
a repair, and this more especially as the new church adjoin-
ing is fast approaching completion.
THE WIDOW of THE ETTRICR. SUEPHERD.--
Everyone must be gratified with the mark of respect shown
sednr, known, to the talents of our countryman, Professor Wilson, the ce-
lebrated Christopher North of Blackwood's Magazine, by the
recent bestowal of a pension on him by her Majesty. It is
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which in part she has been deprived, has been quite inade-
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support. We believe that this re-
quires only to be known in the right quarter to be remedied,
and we trust that Scotland, which has been so often taunted
with having allowed her great national poet, Burns, to starve,
will not be reproached also with having neglected the family
of him who has always been considered Burns' most eminent
successor.— Ed.nburgh Advertiser.
BLOOMERISM.—Yesterday, two ladies, attired in
short black silk petticoats, reaching below the knee, louse
grey silk troweers
.fastened at the ankle, brown cashmere
boots, with a short jacket for the upper garment, over which
was worn a scarf, the head-dress being the bonnet usually
worn by fonales, app ea in Piccadilly, Saint James's-
square, and vicinity, their unusual costume attracting consi-
derable curiosity. They had a number of small handbills,
addressed to " mothers, wives, and daughters,"inviting them
to the ranks of Dress Reform, and to join the Association of
Bloomers, founded near Fitzroy-square (Literary Institution,
John street). These were left at milliners', dressmaker',
&c. The leader of the moyeraeat is said to be a Mrs. Dexter.