The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-16 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

Yesterday the receipts at the doors of the building
rose to 2,9331. 103. 6d., and 60,497 persons visited
the interior. By the sale of season tickets 1/. 10s.
was realised. Frcm this statement it will be seen
that the approaching close of the great spectacle
begins to make itself felt in a gradually increased
attendance.
While there are so many strangers in town anxious
to learn all they can about the most remarkable
features of the collection in Hyde-park, it may not be
out of place to draw attention to the series of popular
lectures at present being delivered at the Polytechnic
Institution upon some of our more curious industrial
processes. Yesterday, for example, Dr. Baclahoffner
explained to a numerous audience the art of electro •
type, so practically carried out by the Messrs.
Elkington, illustrating his observations by numerous
oxpenments, and by a very fine display of specimens
furnished by that eminent firm for the occasion.
.Shortly after the Exhibition opened an article appeared
in our columns describing the system of electro-metal-
lie deposits, and contrasting it with the mode of
facturing Sheffield plate. It is unnecessary, there-
fore, now to do more than to refer all who may wish
to have the subject explained to them in a clear and
simple manner to Dr. Bachhoffner's lectures. One
of the most striking points brought out by him in his
observations was that the process of electrotype was
discovered in 1839, almost simultaneously by Jacobi,
Spencer, and Jordan.
We have received from Mr. Bennett, of Cheapside,
who has placed forty of his standard thermometers in
various parts of the building, an interesting account
of the variations of the temperature therein, made
from numerous observations. During the month of
May and for a part of June the mean temperatures
continued below their average values as much as 4
degrees Fahrenheit ; on the 19th of June there was
a sudden rise, amounting to 10 degrees. This was
a shilling day, with 63,863 visitors, and matters con-
tinued to grow worse till the 26th, when the mean
temperature was 78 6 degrees, or two degrees above
summer heat. On that day, at 4 P.m., the thermo-
meter at the north-east corner of the gallery, among
the wax flowers, registered 97 degrees. In conse-
quence of the inconvenience and suffering to which
tee heated state of the atmosphere gave rise vigorous
means were adopted in order to secure better ventila-
tion, and with such success that since the 7th of July,
when the changes made were completed, the tenipere-
ture of the building has been well under the control
of the authorities.—Times.

DEATH OF ONE OF BURNS'S HEROINES.—A Glas-
gow contemporary records the death of one of the six
" Mauchline belles," on whom Burns confers the fame of his
verse. Mrs. Findlay, relict of Mr. Robert Findlay, of the
Excise, Greenock, was one of the very few persons, surviving
to our own times, who intimately knew the peasant bard in
the first flush of his genius and manhood, and by whom her
name and charms have been wedded to immortal verse.
When we consider that sixty-five years have elapsed since
Burns wrote the lines in which this lady is noticed, and that
the six Mauchline belles were then in the pride of opening
womanhood, it is surprising that two of them, who have often
listened to the living accents of the inspired peasant, still
survive. The fate in life of the six belles was as follows:
Miss Helen Miller, the first-named, became the wife of B urns's
friend, Dr. Mackenzie, a medical gentleman in Mauchline,
latterly in Irvine; Miss Markland we have already spoken of;
itxiss Jean Smith was married to Mr. Candlish, a successful
teacher in Edinburgh, and became the mother of the eminent
divine; Miss Betty (Miller) became the wife of Mr. Tem-
pleton, in Mauchline ; and Miss Morton married Mr. Pat-
terson, cloth-merchant, in the same village. Of the fate and
history of " Bonnie Jean " (Armour) we need not speak.
The survivors are Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Candlish.—
Scottish Press.

ESCAPE OF THREE CONVlCTS.—Yesterday informa-
tion was received that three convicts had succeeded in effect-
ing their escape from the Justitia hulk at Woolwich, by
seizing a boat and rowing to the opposite bank, on the Essex
shore. They were all under seutence of ten years' trans-
portation, and were all dressed in the grey convict suit.
Their names are John Clark, convicted at Beverley, 2d July,
1850; James Carr, at Kingston-upon-Hull, 4th April, 1850;
and George Hobbs, at Portsmouth, 22d July, 1850.
DINNER TO THE LORD PROVOST OP EDINBURGH.
—On Friday evening the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who
recently received the honour of knighthood on the occasion
of her Majesty passing through Edinburgh on her journey to
Balmoral, was entertained at dinner by upwards of 300 of
the most respectable citizens. The entertainment took place
in the Music-hall, the chair being occupied by Mr. Sheriff
Gordon, who was supported by the Duke of Buceleuch,
Major-General Riddell, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Cowan,
M.l'., Sir John K.C.8., Sir James Forrest, Sir James
Anderson (the Lord Provost of Glasgow), &c. The duties of
croupier were discharged by Sir J. W. Gordon, President of
the Royal Scottish Academy of Arts. The Chairman having
proposed, in highly complimentary terms, the health of the
Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir W. Johnston expressed his
thanks for the approval of his public conduct thus mani-
fested, and observed that the honour which had been con-
ferred upon him by the Sovereign proved that public ser-
vices, however humble, did not pass unappreciated or un-
requited. The health of the Duke of Bucclench, Lord-
Lieutenant of the county of Edinburgh, was next given.
and was acknowledged by the Noble Duke, and a number of
toasts of a local and general character were afterwards
proposed.
THE HARVEST.—The weather during the week
has again been all that could ba wished for the successful
prosecution of harvest operations. But little grain now no.
mains to be cut in the lowlands, and a large proportion of
that which has already yielded to the sickle has been stored
by in excellent condition.—Carlisle Jou, nal.
Two CHILDREN FOUND DEAD. —Yesterday, two
inquests were held before Mr. William Carter, the coroner
for Surrey, at the Six Bells Tavern, Paradise-street, Roth,er-
hithe, on the bodies of two newly born children found dead
under very suspicious circumstances. The evidence of the
first case proved that on Friday a labouring man was pro-
ceeding to work in a field near the St. Helena Gardens,
• Lower Rotherhithe, when he had his attention directed to a
parcel lying on the ground. He opened it, and found the
dead body of a female infant quite fresh, and apparently free
from external violence. The child could not have been dead
many hours. The body, which was wrapped in a piece of
black lining, was conveyed by the police to the bone-house.
The second inquiry was gone into at the same house, on the
body of another female child discovered by a Waterman on
Saturday, floating in the river off the platform, Rotherhithe.
The deceased was much decomposed, and several parts of the
body were bruised and injured. Mr. H. Gardner, the sum-
moning officer, said every possible means had been used to
find the guilty parties, but no clue of them had at present
been discovered. The bodies were generally brought many
miles. The jury in each case returned a verdict of " Found
dead."

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THE IRISH LINEN TRADE.--lIIISiIIttSS continues
dull both in yarns and cloth ; the latest intelligence from the
United States, though more favourable, leading to the belief
that further failures are not far distant. In Ballymena, on
Saturday, a good deal of cloth remained over unsold, and
there was a shade of difference in price in favour of the
buyer. In Armagh, both in cloth and yarns, the market was
fist. Drills are rather lower in price, and stock is accumu-
lating. In printing lawns, 26 inches.
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mand, with prices somewhat lower. Ilandkerchiefa are,B still
heavy in stock, though a fair demand has sprung up and
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