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 2,491. 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 th? 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
which, 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
will 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
entrance of the building. The heavy rain which fell in
the morning caused a branch of one of the large trees
there to give way, and descending upon a boy who had
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 ARTS.—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
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 most
conversant with the virtues of black lead, that the success
could not be more complete. Their wax water colours keep
moist under the infliction of the greatest heat, and to the
value of these we find the testimony of almost every, if not
all artists of name and fame throughout Great Britain, and
indeed of Europe.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Holloway's Pills an infallible
Remedy for Liver Complaints and Diseases of the Stomach.—
Copy of a latter from Mr. Henry Woodward, of Richmond,
dated 25th May, 185 t. "To Professor Holloway. Dear Sir,
I suffered for many years from a most obstinate liver and sto-
mach complaint, and although I tried various medicines pre-
scribed by most eminent medical men in different parts of the
country yet I could obtain no relief and in dispair I bad w-
course to your l'ills, and it is with gratitude that I ,icl•ife"e) ,
r Professorcould
pifas,TITUTION.—
ledge that they have been the means (under Divine Paver"e"
. eiplotic and of restoring me to a state of good health that I
have anticipated."—Sold by all Druggists and at
liolloway's Establishment 244, Strand, London•
INDUSTRIAL RELIEF OF HIGHLAND
was attended by Cluny
A meeting of the directors of the Ro}•sl
In-
dustrial Society of Scotland was yesterday ll It. in tho ball
„n Charles Forbes, of
of the Scottish Corporation, tiaPte
Verb- distressing state-
menu
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Highland destitution.
baying reported the receipt of captainwelr,eorrbecese,iv
" Special Highland
vari-
ous donations, and the
Industrial Relief Fund."
dispatch of several remittances to the
meeting
destitute districts, the empowered him to forward,
theed o ft
treasurer progress
r ofe the e
emendations tort he committee of the society's
without delay, as t be received, accompanied
that, consistently with the primary ob-
ject of preserving life, they should seek, by employing the
rApients in trenching of land, and the females in knitting,
bde Hebridean branch, egg cb ,
to secure some useful returns, and avoid the evils induced
by former systems of relief, in exacting a grinding test, or in
the demoralisation attendant upon the dispensation of elee-
mosynary aid.

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DEATh of the EARL of DERBY, KG, F.L.5.17-->A4411
We regret to announce the decease of the li;iO4anlilen'
the venerable Did of Derby-, which took place htltireS;lkrby
teat, Knowsley Hal!, Lancashire, on Monde; last, in
the 77th year of his age, surrounded by his noble and
celebrated family.
The Right Hon. Edward Smith Stanley, K.G., F.L.S.,
Earl of Derby, Baron Stanley, of Bickerstaffe, and a
Bareaet, Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the
county of Lancaster, was born 21st April, 1775; mar-
ried, June 30, 1798, his cousin, Charlotte Margaret,
second daughter of the Rev. Geoffrey Hornby, by whom,
who died :June 16, 1817, he had the following issue:— issue:—
',Edward Geoffrey, Lord Stanley, born March 29, 1799,
summoned to the House of Peers in his father's barony,
as Baron Stanley, of Bickeretaffe, in September, 1844;
Henry Thomas, born 1803; Charles James Fox, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Grenadier Guards; Charlotte Elizabeth,
Louisa Emily, and Eleanor Mary.
The late noble deceased was the thirteenth Earl of
Derby, having succeeded to the title at the death of his
father, Oct. 21, 1834; he had been previensly created
(Oct. 1832) Baron S:auley, of B:eleerstaffe. lie was
Colonel of the Lancashire militia, Vice-Admiral of the
avast of Lancashire, and President of the Lierican and
Zoo!ogical Societies.
The f unily of Stanley, it is s.earcsly necessary to re-
mark, is °ea of the most illustrious :es it is one of the
greatest antiquity in the peerage. Adam de Aldithley
and his two sons attended Duke William of Normandy
in his expedition to England, and had large possessions
cont., rred upon him by the Conqueror. Sydelph, his
eldest son, was father of Adam de Aldithley, to hich
Adam was possessed, by right of his wife Mabelle,
danghter and heir of Henry btanley de Etoreley, ci the
manor ( f 6:end( y and Balterley, county Stafferd, and
was ancestor of the Barons Audley of Healey Castle,
county Stafford. Adam de Altiat, le,y, second son, was
father of Wm. de Aklithiey, to whom Thos. Stanley, of
Stafford, Kinsman of Henry Stanley, of Stoneley,
gave his only daughter and heir Joan. and with her,
as a marriage portion, the manor of Thalk, county Staf-
ford, he having exchanged Thalk for Stoneley, and half
the manor cf Balterley, with his cousin Adam, made
choice of Stoneley for his seat; and in honour of his
lady and of the great antiquit of her family (of noble
Saxon descent), who flourished in England many years
be lore the Conquest, assumed the surname of Stanley,
and became the immediate founder of the Stanleys.
The first Berea Stanley was summoned as such in
-nry VI. He was Comptroller of the House-
holdamberlain to that King, and from his third
son, Sir John Stanley, descends the present Lord Stan-
ley, of Alderley,
1456
bayud Cis
Lord,E
at.,
or
Stanley it was who married the
Richmond, and played so
conspicuous a part in the battle of Bosworth Field,
moTthheerseoefonHenry,a
having placed the crown of Richard upon the head cf
his victorious step-son, Henry VII. For his services on
this occasion, he was created
Earl of Derby. It was the
second son of the second Lord Stanley and first Earl of
Derby, namely, Sir Edward Stanley, Bart., of Hornby
Castle, Lancashire, who commanded the rear of the
English army at Fiodden Field, immortalised in Scott's
" Marmion."
Edward, third earl, great grandson of the first Earl of
Derby, was so celebrated for magnificence and liberality,
that Camden remarked " that with Edward Earl of
Derby's death the glory of hospitality seemed to fall
asleep." Henry, fourth earl, was one of the peers who
sat upon the trial of Mary Queen of Scots. The fifth
earl was poisoned by conspirators, in consequence of in-
dignantly rejecting a proposition to assume the title of
King, in right of his grandmother, who was coheir of
' Mary Dowager Queen of France, the sister of Henry the
Eighth.
James, seventh earl, was distinguished for his devoted
attachment to the Royal cause during the civil war.
Having been made prisoner atter the battle of Worces-
ter, he was beheaded at Bolton, October 15th, 1651. It
was his noble Countess who became so famous for her
gallant defence of Latham House, when it was besieged
by 2,000 Parliamentarians.
As we have before stated, the deceased was thirteenth
Earl of Derby; his mother was Elizabeth, only daughter
of James sixth Duke of Hamilton and Brandon. The
present Countess of Wilton was his Lordship's hr.lf
sister. The Noble Earl, although neither a soldier nor
a statesman, was a most worthy representative of his
illustrious house. His political career was noiseless and
unobtrusive, but his predilections were consistently in
favour of the measures of what was called the Liberal
party of the State. His chief characteristics were hos-
pitality and benevolence, and throughout a long life he
ever maintained most scrupulously in his own good
acts and deeds the family motto, " sans changer."
The Lord Stanley is now fourteenth Earl of Derby:
and again we have in the House of Commons, in the
Noble Earl's eldest son, a Lord Stanley, who has already
added no small distinction to the time-honoured name.
—Morning Paper.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

A new farce, under the title of the Fire-Eater, by
Mr. Charles Selby, was produced here on Monday night as
a vehicle for the exercise of Mr. Compton's peculiar hu-
mour. The plot is slight, and so are the characters, but
there is a vein of practical fun throughout the piece,
which supplies the place of more satisfactory recommen-
dations. The scene is laid in England during the civil
war of 1651, and the stry turns upon au episode in the his-
tory of the royalists and their opponents. The hero of the
farce is a village farmer, who is induced to enlist as a
royalist soldier, in order to avoid the suspicion of being
a spy, and in this predicament he is made to submit to a
variety of practical jokes which eiid in his proving him-
self a valiant men, and rendering some essential servics
to the party whose cause he is supposed to have em-
braced. These materials—lntermixed with a small
sprinkling of love between the farmer and a village
nati;el—;:ffirded Mr. Compton a good opportunity fur
keeping the audience in continutd laughter. lie exerted
his energies to a very satisfactory purpose, fur the ap-
plause was unanimous and the piece quite successful.

SOCIETY OF ANCIENT FORESTERS.
This venerable and philanthropic fraternity held a
" grand demonstration and coronation gala," in aid
of the benevolent funds of the various courts, at the
Surrey Zoological Gardens, on Monday afternoon. Tho
members assembled at a❑ early hour in the day, at
the Crown and Anchor in the Old Kent-road, and
marched in procession thence to the gardens, preceded
by an inspiriting band of music. A cold collation was
prepared for two hundred guests in a large tent of
Edgington's, pitched in the picturesque grounds, where
the functions of the presidential office were ably discharged
by the Worshipful Mayor of Southampton, Richard
Andrews, Esq., one of the most zealous and influential
members of the order. After the usual loyal toasts,
the President, in a speech replete with interesting in-
formation, and which elicited frequent bursts of applause,
proposed " Success to the Order of Ancient Foresters,
and to the labours of the executive committee," which
was responded to by the chief ranger. Several other
appropriate toasts were drunk and spoken to, and
at six o'clock, under the active superintendence
of Brothers Samuel, Wright, and fill, of the Court
of Sympathy, aided by other members of the ma-
naging committee, the tent was cleared
,for the votaries
of Terpsichore, who kept up the merry dance until a
late hour. The gay attire of several of the brethren, who
appeared in the full romantic costume of th© Order, was
conspicuous among the vast crowd which thronged the
gardens to enjoy the melody of Jallien's band, sad the
magnificent display of pyrotechnic skill which nightly
delights thousands at this admirable place of recreation.

SIGNOR ANELLI ON VOCAL SCIENCE.
The first of a course of four lectures on the art of
forming and cultivating the voice was delivered at the
Hanover-square Rooms, on Friday. Signor Anelli
erects a Temple del Canto, and makes intonation, tone,
pronunciation, elocution, expression, style, manner, exe-
cution the steps by which the aspirant may hope to
enter its hallowed precincts. His method, which has
been approved by the celebrated Crescentini, proposes to
enable students to sing with correctness, expression, re-
fined manner and taste, in less than half the time usually
employed. After dilating on the importance of a proper
cultivation of the human voice, not solely as a graceful ac-
complishment, but also as a means of preserving and im-
proving the physical health, and, according to Italy and
1 the Italian system of vocalization the palm of superiority
over all other countries, the lecturer introduced two young
ladies for the purpose of illustrating the exercises of h 1
system. The illustrators were Miss Livingstone and Mi's
Menville, two young ladies of considerable
tions. The former possesses a fine pure soprano voice,
her style and execution giving promise of future ex-
cellence. Miss Menville is a mezzo contralto of bheiacuh-
ttr.ac-
tifal quality, her lower notes indicating
Ras most satisfac-
aposer
she ,
with age and practice, under the
,st system e has
rtant
gi result of abut o adopted, must must prove a rich contralto.rers"l°exercisesof
appeared admirably adapted for
with great brilliancy,
tonation and expression,
~anned
Wthaetch
months' tuition, under the rystem,
torily evidenced by Miss Livine"tr, 'who sang
" Charming May" and
~ Brindisi" I L • .
" Non fu sogno," and the rom Ito ezza
and by Miss Menville, who sang,.
of a fantasia, by Mr. Frede-
Borgia. The performance
pianoforte, Which diversified the
Frede-
rick Anelli, on the
t favourable mention.
lecture, deserves roost favourable Watchful
and Bewarefe"w;

—Yesteraw afternoon
cexhtarraioersd.sitnraer24 Gardener's-lane, considerable alarm was occasioned to the inhtibitants in the
inundation, of water into their dwellings. In
FLOODS IN WOmuNsTEI,
immediate' vicinity of Westminster Abbey, by a sudden and
and uninterruptedly for more than an hour, the
s-lane, King-street, &c., it poured
and basements of the buildings were quickly
g‘reat
flooded and laid. several feet under water. The police-station
and barracks in Gardener's-lane were quite swamped, the
„„en driven Out of the mess-room, and the fires put out.
This sudden visitation was occasioned by the waters of the
Thamesforcing the flood-gates of the recently constructed
areas,ia steacdoialjr'ts,
Westminster sewer, up which it ascended. penetrating
the houses on either side. Considerable difficulty was ex-
perienced in getting rid of the water; in some instances en-
gines had to be gut to pump it out.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. The follow'ng
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 27th inst.:—
Messrs. George Whitley, Durham; Ednyand Chapman,
Tooting, Surrey ; Charles Joseph White, Portsmouth, Hants;
Charles Thomas Peace, Northampton; John Williams.
Pontypool, Monmouthshire; Jacob Williams, Hon. East
India Company's service ; David Thomas Morris, Carmar-
then ; Robert Bohun Kidd, Norwich ; William GForg,e
Will it
. be be-
Eacot, St. John's-wood; Thomas Russell Johnson, 1 ork
and John Pearson Nash, Calcutta.
out, and remain. natter
r.oIND 0 N . um
FOREIGN VISITORS TO 7H$ TOWER •or
The alarm fever has not quite yet subsided.
lieved, it is now the custom that whenever 300 vainsitod ar sr
pick
1 in the fortress the gates are immediately closed,
of 30 men of the guard are turned
arms until the warder' report the clearance of tho Illustrious
bearded foreigners? What a farce this appeari to be..why
the warders a:one are competent to retch the above number.
We hope the Governor will docontinue this foolery, or ha
will become the laughingstock of the whole contincite-
-1 United Service Gazette.