The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-11 00:00:00

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THJE GREAT EXHIBITION.
(THIS DAY.)
So far as the world at large is concerned the Great
Exhibition is ae an end. Its doors are closed to the
general public, and it is now left fur the pen of the his-
torian to convey to future generations an adequate idea
of its magnitude, its grandeur, and its success. Philo-
sophers and politicians will trace its influences upon
the civilized portion of the human race; and as
hitherto monuments have been left upon the battle-
field to commemorate the physical triumphs of man,
so, hereafter, some pillar will bo set up to mark
the spot where the arts of peace were shown to be more
glorious than those of war. Long has Hyde-park dis-
played a memorial to the prowess of the sword, and
at length the period is arriving when a similar
tribute may be erected, to remind the world of
the time and place when and where the nations of the
earth struggled to show their superiority in the peaceful
art-. Hitherto the doors on Saturday have not been
thro' open until twelve o'clock. hut today the public
were admitted as early as nine o'clock. From the latter
hour until the approach of evening a continued stream
of visitors flowed into the building, almost without in-
terruption. Of course, the price of admission being
half-a-crown debarrtd the humbler classes of society
from taking a last farewtll of the gorgeous
spectacle ; but, aliehough generally speaking the
visitors were of the higher order, a few smock frocks
were here and there visible. The season tickets, natu-
rally enough, mustered in great force. Inside, every-
thing went on as smoothly as heretofore, and with the
exception of the notices thdt the Exhibition would close
to-day, there was nothing to be keen or heard that would
have induced a stranger to believe that in a few
days the vast and valuable collection of arts
and manufactures before him were to be again
distributed over the world. True, in some few
places symptoms of packing up were visible,
but the casual observer could detect nothing in the shape
of preparations for a removal. The sculpture rooms
appeared to be the chief centre of attraction to-day, par-
ticularly the one in the Austrian Department, where
2ifonti's exquisite figure of the " Veiled Vestal" as usual
came in for a considerable share of admiration. The
sculpture, indeed. seemed to engage general attention,
taut every part of the building had its multi-
tudes of visitors, and as each object. was examined and
admired, a feeling of disappointment or rather regret W 33
audibly expressed that the hour had come when the en-
chanting scene must close for ever. The numbers re-
turned to day by the police are as follow:
. _

Ten Oc'iock
Eleven ..

•.. 4,790
10,707
Twelve ..• ••• ••• 19,207
One ••• ••• ••• ... 27,311
Two ••• ••• ••• ... 34,841
Three ... 42,870
Four ••• '•• •• 49,731
A short while before five o'clock, a body of the exhi-
bitors assembled in the transept and sang the National
Anthem, which was rendered with great enthusiasm,
the organs serving as an accompaniment. At the time
our report left the utmost enthusiasm prevailed' and the
company were beginning to givo three cheers for the
Prince and Mr. Paxton.

GERMAN Y.
A letter from Leipsig of the 4th states that all the
persons arrested there on a charge of being connected
with a communist plot have been set at liberty except
one. On the other hand, however, a letter from Ber-
lin states that there are decided proofs of high treason
en the part of the persons who have been arrested in
that city.
It is stated from Berlin that the Second Chamber
will be convoked in November, and a new electoral
law be submitted to it.
The Lithographed Correspondence of Berlin, which
receives semi-official communications, asserts, in con-
tradiction to previous statements, that neither Prussia
nor the Germanic Diet has addressed notes to Lord
Palmerston on the subject of the refugees. Austria
alone, it says, has done so.

The Austrian Correspondent, a semi-official journal
of Vienna, declares that the English Government, in
tolerating the demonstrations in favour of Kossuth,
acts contrary to national propriety, and to the obliga-
tions of international law.
A letter from Vienna of the 6th states that the visit
of the Emperor of Austria to Gallicia has been defini-
tively fixed fur the middle of next month. It was
said that modifications in the Ministry were about to
be made. The retirement of the Minister of the In-
terior in particular was considered certain, and Count
de liartig was spoken of as his successor.