The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-15 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1851.

could to secure the passing of the audit bill, but be,
for one, thought there was no necessity for legislation,
and he was not sorry that the Bill was thiown our.

The motion for the adoption of the report was then put
and carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then moved the declaration of the
dividend after the rate mentioned in the report.
Mr. PUNCHARD moved tie an amendment that the divi-
dend be five-and-a-quarter per cent., free of income-tax.

No one seconded the amendment, and it consequently
fell to the ground.
The original motion was then agreed to.
A resolution was then passed, declaring the forfeiture
of certain shares which were in arrears, after which the
Audit Committee for the ensuing year was appointed.
Some other financial business was next disposed of,
and thanks having been ♦oted to the chairman, the meet-
ing, which was numerously attended, and occupied up-
wards of two hours, broke up.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION
(THIS DAY.)

The number of visitors to-day at the Crystal Palace
appears to be quite up to, if not beyond, cue usual ave-
rage of the half-crown day. The police returns up to
four o'clock ar© as follow:-
11 o'clock ...
12 „

::: 105:416122
... 13,386
... 15,533
... 17,455
4 „ ... ... ... ... 19,242
The thermometer was in the course of the day from
72 to 74.

Her Majesty has been pleased to relax her usual rule
of not receiving presents from her subjects in the case of
Mr. Joseph Harrison, of Blackburn, machinist, who has
presented her- with two calico pieces woven on the looms
exhibited by him, which are upon the first principle,
and are propelled at the astonishing speed of 250 picks,
or throws of the shuttle, per minute. The pieces, after
being woven, were printed by Messrs. Hargreave, Bro-
thers, and Co., Accrington.

The alteration in Keith's silk trophy has a most pleas-
ing effect, and excites great admiration.
The British Plate Glass Company have introduced a
long slip louking-glass at the end of each of the four
projecting arms or wings on which the silks are dis-
played. The extreme brilliancy gives a lightness of
appearance to the trophy, by which it is greatly im-
proved; and owing to these glasses being fixed at the
corners of the trophy, they reflect diagonally objects in
the nave or transept, and the visitor is not a little per-
plexed to discover where the articles so reflected are to
be found.

Among the articles in the Fine Arts department (class
30, no. 296) is a painting illustrating the triangular and
equidistant arrangement of the features, the work of an
at tist named Llopley. This singular production pro-
fesses to present a scale of proportion borne out by the
finest examples of art. Nine equal triangles, at equal
distances from each other, and having one general base,
are shown to be an unnerriug guide to pure facial pro-
portions; under them, every important outline of
the features arranges itself, and the departure
from this order produces the existing variations.
Childhood, or the Pre.symmetrioai Period, exhibits nine
obtuse isoceles triangles; the Post-symmetrical Period,
or Maturity, develips nine acute isoceles triangle; it is
only at ihe interm, dia.°, the most 13* autiful, or Symme-
trical Period, that these nine triangles are equilateral—
demonstratieg that when tht-re is the greatest besuty
there is the greatest symmetry. The artist or sculptor,
observing through these fixed angles where features ac-
cord with or depart from this scale, will, it is said, be
assisted to the speedy realization of a correct outline;
thus saving valuable time, and securing a better oppor-
tunity to study the mental characteristics of his sitter.
The work has excited much curiosity amongst the artists
who have visited the Exhibition, and, it is thought, will
lead to results of a practically useful character. The
entire sum received by the Commissioners from every
source up to yesterday amounts to 389,5821. 3s. 10d.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

CROWN OFIICE, AuG. 13.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Downpatriels.— fhe Hon. Charles Stewart
Hardinge, in the room of Richard Ker, Esq., who hay
accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty'. Chiltern
Hundreds.