The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The police returns of yesterday show an attendance
of visitors at the Crystal Palace quite up to the general
average. The following are the numbers up so five
o'o'clock
At 11 o'clock
At 12 o'clock
At 1 o'clock
At 2 o'clock
At 3 o'cicck
At 4 o'clock
At 5 o'clock

... 20,894
. . 33,449
... 50,156
... 56,320
... 59,145
... 61,329
... 62,265

The number of season tiekets disposed of realised the
sum of 221. The money taken at the doors from the
other visitors amounted to 3,006/. 183., making a total
receipt of 3,0281. 18s. The total number of ♦isitors
was 62,631.
The thermometer stood throughout the day at 80.

PARIS AND ROUEN RAILWAY.
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders
of this company took place in Paris on Thursday, M. de
l'Espie, the president, iu the chair. Near him were
seated the following directors :—Sir John Easthope, Mr.
Reed, Mr. Geo. Lawrence, Mr. Blount, M. C. Laffitte,
M. de Kersaint, M. Simons, and M. N. Duchdtel.
The meeting being declared duly constituted, M. Tin-
BIUDEAII, the secretary, preceeded to read the report:—
This document commences by stating that the esta-
blishment-account, np to the 31st of December last, had
amounted to 67,222,3921. 98c. Since then there has
been expended a sum of 1,1261. 75e., and received
from sale of ground, &e., 4,8831. 25c. ; so that, up
to June 30, the whole amount is 67,218,631 f. 48c.
The question of the indemnity for the devastations
committed in February, 1848, has not yet been regu-
lated. The committee appointed to estimate the
amount of damage done, conceiving that it was called
on to examine only what had occurred in the depart-
ment of the Seine, and finding that part of the injury
done to the railways had been inflicted in other depart.
ments, had resolved that the documents relating to these
matters should be transmitted to the Minister of Public
Works. The Minister had, in his turn, referred the
question to the central railway committee, which had just
issued an opinion favourable to 'the claims preferred,
and so the matter rested at present. The approbation
of the Government had been at last obtained for the
changes voted at the general meeting of Jan. 31, 1850,
relative to the sinking-fund. In consequence of these
modiffcations, the sum to be now set apart annually for
the sinking-fund would amount to only 25,000 francs, in
place of 360,000 francs as previously. Fifty shares were
to be paid off every drawing, with a sum of 500 francs
each, and in place cf each of these shares was to be
given an action de jouissance, entitling the holder to a
share of all dividend over 5 per cent., or 25 francs per
share. The shares to be paid off wore to be drawn
by lot, and the company had determined to adopt
for the purpose the plan practised by the city of
Paris, in designating such of its bonds as
were to be reimbursed. The first drawing was to take
place in presence cf the shareholders then assembled.
The report next refers to the results of the working
during the last six months. The receipts from
January 1 to June 30, 1851, mounted to 4,053,2011.
65c. ; and the expenses to 2,862,4101. 6e. ; leaving a
profit of 1,190,791 f. 590., which, after the payment
of interest of the sum kept back for sinking-fand,
foundation shares, &c., gave a dividend of 16f.
per share. As the interest of 5 per cent. on each
share would amount to 121. 50e. for the half-year,
the dividend for each action de jouissance would amount
to 31. 50e. Comparing the results of the working of the
last six months with the corresponding period of 1850,
the receipts of the half-year of 1851 show an augmenta-
tion of 120,1761. 20c., of which sum passengers give
80,1301. Sc., whilst the expenses of the half-year of 1851
show an augmentation of 123,726 f. 34e., of which sum
the greatest portion is down for increased interest be-
come due to the state. The report then remarks
on the constantly increasing tendency of the
working to lower the goods' tariffs, that course
being necessitated by the competition arising both from
other railways, and by the river navigation. The in-
creased facilities of communication between Dieppe and
Brighton, and Havre and Southampton, are next alluded
to, and are stated to have been attended with such suc-
cess, that from 30 passengers per day for the former
line, the number had increased in June to 177, the goods'
traffic having also augmented very considerably. The
report remarks on the annoyance which passenger* meet
with at the custom-houses of Southampton, and New-
haven, arid contrasts with the delays caused the infi-
nitely greater liberality of the authorities in France. The
plea.ure-trains had not succeeded in so marked a manner
as in 1850, and the experience of June had induced the
company to suppress the Wednesday trains, only one now
leaving Paris on the Saturday. The lawsuit which had
been pending for upwards of fire years between the Rouen
company and the boatmen of the Seine has been lately de-
cided by the Court of Appeal of Orleans in favour of the
company. The circular railway round Paris, to connect
the various lines together, had now been definitely decided
on, and would be shortly commenced. Mr. Charles Law-
rence, one of the directors, had given i❑ his resignation
for private reasons, and the board had previously elected
his son, Mr. George Lawrence, in his place. M. Paul
Benoist d'Azy had been designated by lot, as the other
outgoing director. The meeting would have to decide
whether the two gentlemen just named should not con-
tinue to serve.

Te report having been read, the accounts were ap-
proved of, and the dividend of 16f. voted, payable on
and after August 4 at the office of the company.
The meeting having to decide on the nomination of
two directors, confirmed the appointment of Mr. George
Lawrence, in the place of his father, Mr. Charles Law-
rence, who had resigned, and re-elected M. Paul Benoist

A Shareholder expressed a desire to receive some
information relative to the working of the Dieppe line.
The Chairman replied that the arrangement with the
Dieppe Company was as yet of too recent a date to
allow the ultimate results to be exactly estimated. Yet
he could affirm that up to the present moment there was
no reason to complain. The receipts on the Dieppe line
bad, like those of the Rouen line, felt the effects of the
uncertainty of political affairs in the country. Every-
thing languished to a certain extent, and railways
suffered us well as other enterprises. Still, up to the
present time, he could repeat, the arrangement in ques-
tion held out favourable hopes for the future.
The drawing of 50 shares to be paid off, as stated in
the report, was then proceeded to, when the following
were the numbers announced:-11,257, 29,573, 43,361,
57,449, 21.536, 55,289, 50,135, 65,667, 47,006, 27,285,
29,253, 5,087, 202, 2,155, 65,476, 37,228, 68,228,
9,623, 6,965, 6,321, 23,833, 55,984, 20,715, 46,506,
25,544, 62,782, 66,870, 12,836, 16,575, 57,074, 41,419,
40,189, 9,432, 30,936, 2,625, 71,376, 61,116, 29.576,
58,514, 2,231, 19,473, 35,590, 7,719, 4,841, 55,976,
5.../,052,
oi 60,899, 34,334, 284. The meeting then
separated.

CHANGE OF AIR AT HOME.
Patients who go abroad for benefit of health too often
forget that change of climate can do little more than
place them under circumstances more favourable to
their efforts, by fit regulation of their time and diet,
and by use of prescribed remedies, to re-establish
health. They embark for &me at Nice, throwing the
doctor overboard, expecting climate to du all : climate
then fails, and as a rumedy, it comes to to pro-
nounced a piece of quackery. As a specific, as a
sole remedy, no doubt it is, on the whole, as much a
quack remedy as :orison's Pill; that pill contains in-
gredients of use in their right placer Quackery con-
sists, not in any thought or thing, but in the method
of employing ir. We say, then, that the Sanatorium,
proposed by Mr. Paxton, though not wanted by the
healthy, and of use only to some among the sick,
are institutions which may be established as most
valuable auxiliaries to the doctor. They will not super-
sede all travel among invalids; although we call it
travelling. " for change of air," it is not change of
ce tar
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air alone by whichh the patient who can travel
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improvesprocess,in health. The sea-sick-
causing a constant action of the
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of the voyage to amuse the mind. Travel involves, then,
change of scene, a constant invitation of the mind to
look without, and to forget to porn over the body's ail-
ments. Sights are strange, and sounds are strange ;
the English ear is plunged into a bath of French or
Italian chatter. Settled abroad, the patient's climate is
not shut up in a glass-house, with a collection of plants
soon familiar ; he wanders under open sky, in town
streets, among picturesque and novel costumes, over
hill and dale, by sea and river side. He takes the diet of
the country so far as it suits him ; eats the birds and
fishes, or the fruits, perhaps, of the climate he
has sought. To be sure, coots might supply each Sa-
nitorium with an ordinary of the dishes of the climate,
for those patients not under peculiar regimen; but the
house and the glass building, with the flowers, the
food, and air of Italy, walked into from a street door,
must inevitably want a very
ofcatdhiolse
accessories to travel which are
to many invalids the most important elements of
large perhaps
numberin Piccadilly,
ic
ly,
cure. Not even ten miles of panorama in the hall,
starting from London-bridge, exhibited before the neo-
phyte, would be a substitute for the preparatory jour-
ney. A " Madeira Sanitorium" near Regent's-park,
would poorly imitate the ripple of the waves and the
warm sea- breezes of that very wholesome island. This is
not said, however, with the least feeling of discourage.
ment towards the propositions made by Mr. Paxton.
His project is no complete substitute for foreign travel,
no encroachment upon foreign innkeepers, or invasion
made on our domestic doctors. It simply professes,
that if change of climate be auxiliary to medicine in
certain cases of disease, that change can be provided
here in England, here in London, for those patients
who either are past bearing the fatigues of travel, or are
too poor for the expense of travel, or who cannot travel
without losing the advantage of that medical assist-
ance in which they have most reason to repose their
trust. This proposition could not have been made fifty
years ago, or if made, the necessary arrangements could
not have been carried out. It is made now, when it is
strictly practicable, and deserves of all men serious at-
tention.—Dickens's " Household Words."

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST.
(From La Follet.)
Independent of the mania for locomotion which
prevails in all quarters of the world, and 'covers the
ocean with vessels bearing the anxious travellers to
the Crystal Palace, the moment has now arrived when
the fashionable watering places, with their sea-baths,
are completing the migration of all that was left
amongst us of elegant society.
Boulogne, Dieppe, and Trouville, have the privi-
lege of attracting the greater number of Parisiennes,
who would unite, with the benefit of sea air and
bathing, the charm of society and fashionable amuse-
ments. It is for these destinations that the present
charming variety of elegant toilettes are being pre-
pared.
Morning negliges are composed of peignoirs with
their vestes, or pelernies chales of jean, quilting, va-
lencia of toile cashemire, in shades, grey, dust-
coloured, and pale brown ; the greater part are
trimmed with broad braids, and lined with pink or
blue taffetas. A second slecAre is worn under the pagode
of the redingotes of the same material, but tight, with
a small turn-up cuff trimmed with braid ; the same
trimming iu two or three rows forms a ruche round
the throat ; a small plaid cravat, fixed with a large
enamel or frosted silver brooch ; and an embroidered
muslin cap, richly trimmed with strings of the same,
or ribbon to match, the toques, which takes the place
of the bandeaux until the hour of dressing. Capelines
of taffetas, embroidered muslin, or coloured jaconot,
with large curtain, protecting the face most suc-
cessfully from the sun or wind, are much worn in
morning promenades. Large scarf shawls of plain
cashemire in blue, green, or grey, trimmed with a
deep fringe, surmounted by a very broad velvet,
with two or three rows of narrow on each side, either
black or of the same colour as the shawl, but of a much
deeper shade, completes this toilette. As it is often
cold at the sea side, the mantelet scarfs are slightly
wadded.

At the hour of promenade the sea-side nearly re-
sembles the grand walk of the Tuilleries, ladies and
children displaying all the richness and grace of the
Parisienne toilette. Robes of chine, pekin pompa-
dour, taffetas d'ltalie, grenadine, or barege, have
flounces printed in designs of wreaths of roses, honey-
suckle, lilac—indeed, all kinds of graceful flowers,
whose colours harmonise so well on grounds of grey,
white, or sea-green. With this style of robe is worn
the mantelet. Maintenon, with its triple garniture
of black lace upon dark-coloured taffetas, or white
lace upon lighter shades; the Mathilde mantelet,
with its drawn ribbons mixed with guipure of the
same shade as the mantelet, the cut of which so
gracefully delineates the waist, that it appears an at-
tribute of all young and elegant ladies. The mante-
let Valerie of white taffetas, or gerenadine, with its
beautiful embroideries in silk, or mixed soutaches,
with deep headings which float as light as lace; or
the mantille and a louse of black lace, with a wide
trimming. This mantille, both for shape and elegant
negligee' is suitable for all toilettes. We must not
forget the large square shawl of black lace, or rounded
in front, forming a shawl behind and mantelet in
front being Equally fashionable this season.

MOst ofihedresses are now made with two bodies,
in order to form double dresses, yet not to greatly in-
crease the luggage.

The low body has a berthe descending en cceur,
the front trimmed with bows of ribbon, passemen-
terie and bouillonnes, matching the trimming on the
short sleeves and skirt. The high bodies are often
made with basquines, cut in indentations • the sleeves
match, and are sometimes upon the whole length of
the arm, and fastened at intervals with bows of rib-
bon or buttons. This kind of Spanish sleeve is a very
pretty novelty and an agreeable change to the uni-
tbrenity of the pagodes, which, however, are still the
fashion.

When the btrquines bodies are open in front a
small embroidered waistcoat is added, the buttons of
which are of pearl, amethyst, turquoise, or eme-
ralds. These waistcoats, which appeared at first
rather venturesome, derive all their distinction from
the happy manner in which they are combined.
Their shades should never be striking, but soft, and
harmonising with the dress. The most elegant are
open en cceur, embroidered, with a double row of
buttons on each side. This style, which is rather
Oriental, has a good effect. A very clear muslin chemi-
sette, or one composed entirely of lace, with large
bouffantes under sleeves, with narrow wristbands,
accompany this toilette.
We must now speak of bonnets which have their
importance at the seaside, being made for all cir-
cumstances, for heat, cold, wind, and sun. First,
there are the coarse straws, the simplicity of which
is relieved by the magnificent bows of plaid ribbons,
double curtains, and broad strings, giving them the
seal of distinction and fashion. Some are trimmed
with dark blue or green velvet, mixed with open
straw ribbon. The upper curtain is of velvet, the
under one of straw. The strings are of broad velvet,
and the inside is trimmed with toques to match the
outside trimming, mixed with corn and straw foliage
iu straw.

Other bonnets, of coarse straw, are simply trimmed
with a ribbon of straw ; curtain and inside alike ;
the strings only being of taffetas, either white or
straw coloured. This trimming has the advantage of
withstanding the ill effects of rain or sun.
For more recherche toilette, Leghorn and Swiss
straws are worn. The manner alone of placing the straw
curtain requires a talent which is confined to our
great houses, and renders these bonnets quite a-la-
mode. The trimming is composed of a single bou-
quet of garden flowers, mixed with lighter flowers of
the field, which fall gracefully on one side of the
bonnet. The inside is trimmed to match. Some of
the bouquets are of very dark poppies, mixed with
ribbon grass ; others of rhododendrum placed on each
side, and buds of the same flower inside ; or bouquets
of roses, May jasmine, with a wreath to match in-
side. We have never observed the strings to bonnets
worn as wide as they are at present. In order to
render to render the light and drawn bonnets more
serviceable in windy weather, a kind of lattice-work
of fine whalebone covered with ribbon or taffetas is
placed inside. The colour of these auxiliaries is the
same as the tips of the ostrich feathers which trim the
outside.

We must now mention the cavalcador. Here is one
of those sonorous words with which the Castilian lan-
guage abounds. It is no longer the casaweck of the
north, the English jacket, the juste. au• corps of Louis
XIII., or the casaque dieppoise, that our fasbionables
decide to wear with the waistcoat before mentioned ;
for it is necessary to have some kind of pardessus
with this novelty ; but this time the pattern has been
sought in the sunny zone of Andalusia—it is bor-
rowed from the graceful cavalieres of that poetic
country, and produced under the name of cavalca-
dors, very open. on the uppgr part of the chest, and
buttoned at the waist with three buttons only ; short
sleeves a la Grecque, displaying the under sleeves,
formed of three graduated puffs which reach the
wrist, round which it is fastened. The cavalcador is
generally of the same material as the dress. The
buttons are small and banging, of steel or engraved
or chased silver.

Travelling dresses of alpaca are trimmed with one
very deep flounce over, and on which is placed rows
of narrow v"4vet.

Ti'e peigiloirs of jean are fastened with narrow
velvets and 'orandebourgs. The foulards, which are
in great reviest at the present moment (and justly
so, for their I:7E:shness and novelty of design is exqui-
site), are trims ned with deep picked flounces; has-
pines are adc ted at will to the body, and are very
becoming. Tt le heat of the weather has inspired the
wearers with tt to idea of raising the sleeves of these
pretty dresses ; they are therefore turned up as a
cuff, leaving fin I liberty for the sleeve to float loosely
round the arm.

The bayadere of silk, in dark shades, with bright
lines, are still worn Its fancy dresses.

Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yes•
terday from the Governors of the North American
colonies. Dispatch ea were also received from the Go-
Telll3 of aittsPoir