The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

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SUN OF.FIOE, Seven o' Clock.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
(THIS DAY.)
The last week bids fair to prove the most remarkable
in the history of the Great Exhibition, for never was it
so besieged will wondor-seeking multitudes ;as it was
yesterday and to-day. It would almost seem as if half
the world had put off its visit to the latest possible mo-
ment, and as the time approaches when it was supposed
the people would have had enough of the Crystal Palace,
it becomes more popular than ever. Even at the very
moment we write, thousands are hurrying across from
the Continent to catch a glimpse of its contents, while
the various railways conveying to the metropolis daily
pour in upon the streets countless crowds of provincial-
ists. The leading West-end thoroughfares are there-
fore just as much thronged now with overloaded vehicles
and pedestrians as they
.ware in the middle of summer,
when it was erroneously ima.-yined that the Exhibition had
attained the ztnit'a of its ;lory. To-day the interior
of the buildieg has presented another of those as-
tonishing scenes which, during the last four
or five months, have created such a mighty interest
not only in Europe, but in every pert of the civilised
globe, no less than 109,039 pers:Ais having visited the
Exhibition up to four o'clock this evening. Several
charity schools are included in the number; but it is
large without counting them, and jud4ing from the pre-
sent aspect of affairs, the number bids fair to go on in-
creasing until the final closing of the doors to the gene-
ral public.

GERMAN Y.
The French Journal of Frankprt publishes the
following note on.the candidateship of Prince de Join -
'Julie ; it is considered in Germany as a sort of semi-
official declaration of the great powers
It is more than probable that Prince de Joinville
will present himself as a candidate for the Presidency of
the Republic. We do not yet know the programme of
the Prince, but we deplore a project which can only
serve to divide the party of order still more, and which
will give a fatal blow to the monarchical principle. All
the accounts from Paris agree in representing as doubt-
ful, and under a sombre aspect, the conflict which is
about to take place. Europe will consequently be forced
to be on her guard, in order not to be taken unprepared.
We have no right to mix ourselves up in the interior
affairs of France, but we should act inconsiderately if
we did not take energetic measures to prevent these
affairs from sooner or later compromising European
affairs. It is in this point of view that the Northern
Powers keep themselves. They feel that the precarious
situation of France will yet be of long duration, inas
much as the ambitions of persons, and the passions of
the masses, rival each other in leaving the field open to
all possible chances. France will yet remain whole
years in this revolutionary crisis, which neither Napo-
'keen nor Louis Philippe could set aside—neither could
thy' Bourbons, because they did not succeed in finding a
legal form for re-establishing the monarchical principle
on solid bases. Accordingly the policy of the powers
at this moment makes abstraction of persons and poli-
tical principles, and keeps only to the social principle
of order, which almost all parties in France have lost
sight of. They perfectly understand that the preca-
rious situation of that country cannot be replaced
from one day to another by stable institutions, cor-
responding to the monarchical tendencies of the rest
of Europe; but they understand also that anarchy is
abo,it to spring from the very sources which have
hithe,"to been considered as those of order. They
unders'anel that, if the Prince de Joinville be elected
Prebsliicd.en'e, the monarchy will be lowered to the Re-
They understand still better that the Prince
public
not any great chance of being elected ; and, in
that case, it would be an increased humiliation for
the monarchy. We repeat that, for the moment, the
powers leave this question aside; but they will take
measures to prevent the monarchies of Europe from
being injured by the experiments which the younger
brauch of the Bourbons is about to attempt in
France."
The _Prussian Gazette says that the reply of Lord
Palmerston to the notes of the Continental Powers
on the refugees in London is not of a nature to satisfy
then', and that others, supported by collective mea-
aure,, will, in e:11 probability, shortly be presented.
The police of Berlin arrested on the 3d the di-
recting committee of a secret democratic association.
Its object, according to the confession of one of its
members, was to supply arms and ammunition to the
democrats in the event of a revolutionary rising.
Lists of members, books, and accounts, together with
a quantity of arms and ammunition, were seized. A
nucohlr of domiciliary visits were made.
The Assembly of the States of Wurtemberg are to
meet on the 15th at Stuttgardt.
The New Gazette of Prussia states that the Go-
vernment of Saxony has refused to give its assent to
the customs treaty between Prussia and Hanover,
concluded on the 7th ult., because it was not con-
suited respecting. it ; and it adds, that the Saxon
Cabinet has invited tne other Governments of Ger-
many not to give their consent without having come
to an understanding between themselves, and made
an attentive examination of the propositions sub-
mitted to them. The Corre.spondeece of Hamburgh
and the Cologne Gazette state that the Cabinet of
Mecklenburg has, by a vote of the .36th ult., positively
refused to enter into negotiations on the subject of its
accession to the Z )llverein.