The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-24 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The unfavourable state of the weather yesterday
sent the receipts at the doors of the Crystal Palace
down to 2,438'. 145., the number of visitors being on
50,599.

Every day is now marked by two features, not the
least striking i❑ the singular diurnal history of the Ex-
hibition, and to which from time to time we have called
attention. The first of these is the continued and steady
influx of charity and other schools within and around
London, for the most part promoted by private and
even individual benevolence. Nothing can be more
gratifying than to meet so frequently amid the swelling
tide of grown-up spectators bands of young children
moving along, and as they go giving vent to many an
exclamation of juvenile wonder. There are now halt
a dozen of these schools present in the building every
day, and the only regret one feels with regard to
them is that amid the bustle and pressure of so
many thousand people their opportunity for seeing
well a sight so instructive is necessarily much cur-
tailed. The other point to which wo have alluded
is hardly less interesting, and receives an apt illus-
tration in the fact that 150 of the Duke of Northum-
berland's people visited the Exhibition yesterday,
having travelled all the way from Ain wick for that pur•
pose. The great landowners are sending up their agri-
cultural labourers, and the great manufacturers their men,
fully impressed with the moral and intellectual influ•
ence which a spectacle such as that of the Crystal Palace
is likely to exercise on them. Even the adult poor of
our metropolitan parishes are not forgotten, and, through
the liberality of some wealthy neighbour, many of them
are allowed to see the Worle's Fair. As for domestic
servants, masters must be extremely indulgent to them
from the numbers of that class that are deify seen in the
Exhibition. This is all as it should be, and shows a
large amount of practical sympathy and good feeling
between the different ranks of society, between rich and
poor, gentle and simple. Yet one important considera-
tion remains, and the period is near at hand when
it must be closely and anxiously considered. The
vast majority of those who visit the Crystal Palace is
still the middle class. The place is unmistakeably in their
possession as yet, and has (speaking comparatively)
hardly been touched by the humbler orders. It is
quite ascertained now that the labouring man cannot
afford to go there, as he of course would wish to go,
taking his wife and family along with him. Strange,
therefore, as it may seem, a very large proportion of
the population of the metropolis has not yet been able to
see the Exhibition, and will in all probability never be
able to do so unless something is done to bring the
price of admission down nearer to their means. Such,
even in this wealthy city, is the power of one shilling.
As to the fear that a further reduction of price would
be dangerous to the property in the building, or to the
good order and kindly, honest, peaceable spirit of those
who flock there, we publish a document which throws a
curious light upon this subjest, and which will be read
with much interest. It is a return of things found in the
Crystal Palace, which was delivered over to the custody
of the police between the lit of May and the Ist of this
month, and were at that last date still unclaimed by
their owners:—

"271 handkerchiefs, 65 bracelets, 183 brooches, 118
parasols, 77 shawl pins. 4 bonnet shades, 14 silk um-
brellas and 9 cotton, 46 veils and falls, 2 shirt studs, 57
catalogues and other books, 35 bunches of keys, 44 neck
ties, I pair of goloshes, 8 lockets, 3 campstools, 16- view-
sines, 1 pair of slippers. 10 ladies' cuffs, 1 pendulum, 2
coats, 3 card cases, 15 breguet and other chains, 3
knives, 3 pincushions, 28 pair of gloves, 25 walking-
sticks, 10 pair of spectacles, 12 eyeglasses, 16 pencil
cases, 3 umbrella cases, 4 rings. 3 tans, 1 silver watch
and guard, 1 operaglass, 2 toothpicks, 1 thimble, 30 reti-
cules and baskets, 14 shawls, 2 boxes, 1 petticoat, 2 car-
penters' rules, 1 Prussian 5 dollar note, 3 scent bottles,
1 purse 6d., 1 ditto is., 1 ditto 2s. 7d., 1 ditto 2s. 6d., 1
ditto Si. 9s. 4d., 1 ditto 6d., 1 ditto 11d., 1 ditto 6s. 3d.,
3 empty ditto, cash found, 2l 108. Oid."
This miscellaneous list, it is amusing to observe,
shows that the weaker sex are much more care-
less of their property than men, for it will be seen
that the greater number of articles enumerated are
female paraphernalia. The list only gives those
things that remained unclaimed on the Ist of July;
and, in order to estimate the total findings, it would
be necessary to increase the quantity stated by about
one-third, for that is nearly the proportion in which
the owners have come forward. At present Mr. Pearce,
the indefatigable superintendent of police at the Exhi-
bition, has a stock of ladies' handkerchiefs, parasols,
eyeglasses, jewellery, So., on hand that would furnish
forth a respectably sized pawnbroker's shop ; and if
these miscellaneous stores go on accumulating. it will be
difficult to preserve to the station at the Prince of
Wales's gate anything like an official appearance. As it
is, ladies may be seen there examining with sharp in-
spection piles of materials for some missing parasol or
reticule, and constantly have those in authority to re-
mind them of the sinfulness of that practice by which on
a wet day, when a person misses his own umbrella, or on
the night of a ball when one can't find his hat, he unhe-
sitatingly takes possession of the nett best hat or um-
brella he can lay his hands on.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

The Maidstone Gazette of Tuesday give us the latest
.nformation regarding the hops. We subjoin our con-
temporary's account from a few of the more important
localities. The reports from other places represent the
vermin as still destroying the weak shoots of the bine,
and the plantations on the whole seem hardly to warrant
the expectation of even a moderate crop.
MAIDITONE.-The heavy storm of Friday afternoon,
whilst it cut some grounds severely, and levelled some
poles in exposed situations, has also cleared most grounds
of a considerable portion of the insect vermin with
which they were infested. The heavy rain, too, has
freshened the bine and improved the soil, and if kindly
weather ensue, although some grounds are still in a
very precarious state, in others there is a probability of
14 some hops being sown.

CANTERBURY.-It was hoped that the showery wea-
ther would prove highly beneficial in clearing off the
1" vermin. It is true that a considerable quantity has
. been swept away; but still, with the midsummer shoots
not growing out well—a great quantity of the bine turn-
ing black—and where the bine is short, vermin and fire
blast having entirely stopped the growing, the hops on
the whole are decidedly in a worse state. These appear-
ances induce the conjecture that the duty will not ex.
1 teed 70,0001.
,054

PEDESTRIANISM.
WESTHALL AND SPOONER'S TEN-MILE MATED FOR

251. I-SlDE.—Many hundreds of persons assembled on
Tuesday, in the enclosed grounds adjoining Copenhagen
House, to witness the walking-match between the cele-
brated Charles Westhall and young Spooner, whose re-
cent public appearances have raised him to the fore-
most rank of pedestrians. The betting was 7 to 4,
and iu many cases 2 to 1 on Westhall, a position which
his wonderful performances and self-confidence ap-
WO peared to justify. The ground being measured, it was
.
found to be 586 yards, and thrice round to fall a couple
of yards short of the mile. This circuit, therefore,
walked over thirty times, with addition of a score of
yards for the finish, would give the prescribed dis
twice. At twenty-five minutes to six the men were at
% the scratch, Westhall looking rather stouter than we
could wish, and, in comparison, a giant to his opponent,
es. who is a smart, well put together little man, of about
Bist. They went off at a tremendous pace, and were
together for about a hundred yards. Spooner then
Bs, drew away, and kept two or three yards in front ;
at the close of the mile he went yet further ahead,
1„, being nearly forty yards in front. His first mile was
3i walked in seven minutes and a half; a rare pace to begin
o a ten-mile match at. The seven miles were covered in
1% fifty-seven minutes and a half, or rather under. The
is distance between the men was now much increased. It
uwas asserted that Spooner had walked unfairly, and that
he had refused to turn when called on to do so. At the
ninth mile it was clear that Spooner must be in first, he
r" was almost a quarter of a mile in advance, and appeared
6d Ai if he could have overlapped his man by a little extra
exertion. In the tenth mile Westhall stopped, about
400 yards from home, Spooner being:then in, but at the
advice of his friends he walked another complete circuit
of the ground, to prevent cavil as to distance. The time
of the nine miles was lb. 13min. 30secs. Mr. Garrett,
the proprietor of the grounds, who held a considerable
amount of bets, received a notice from some parties not
to give up what they alleged to be their money, on the
ground that Spooner had walked unfairly, and refused
to attend to the directions of the appointed officials, Of
course he withheld them for the present, but will hand
them over on Monday next, after the decision of the
referee is given to the stakeholder, and the stakes duly
awarded.

CASTING OF BELLS.
The casting of bells is of great antiquity. The first
are said to have been founded at Campania in the year
400. But in the Jewish ceremonies of the tabernacle,
and afterwards in the temple, bells of gold were attached
to the dress of the high priests. The largest bells in
the world are in China and Russia, and at Nankin
there were four bells of such enormous size that,
when first struck with a wooden hammer, they
brought down the tower, and still lie neglected
among the ruins. The weight of one was computed at
50,0001 b., double the weight of the bell at Erfurth, said
to be the largest in the world. But in the belfry of St.
Ivan's Church, at Moscow is one weighing 127,0001 b.,
and it was starpassed by one cast at the expense
430,0001 b. This is,
bell in
undoubtedly, the largest the world. The
tradition is that the beam on which it hung was acci-
dentally burned; but this is denied. The Russians might
as well attempt to suspend a first-rate man-of-war with
all her guns and stores. It is 67 feet in circumference,
and more than 21 feet high. Its real history is this:—
A fire took place in the Kremlin, the flames of which
caught the building erected over the pit in which the
bell still remained after having been cast. In conse-
quence of this the metal became hot, and the water
thrown on the building to extinguish the flames fell
upon the bell, causing a fracture near the bottom, suffi-
ciently large to admit two persons almost without stoop-
ing. In value it is about 67.0001., and it has been for
more than a century in its prevent position. The largest
bells of England are those of Christ Church,
Oxford, weighing 17,0001 b. ; St. Paul's, Louden,
11,4731 b.; and Great Tom of Lincoln, 10,8541 b.
We may add to this outline of casting in brass and
bronze one fact relative to the necessity of great caution.
Towards the end of the 17th century there was a foundry
at Moorfields, and in 1716 the cannon taken by the
Duke of Marlboroagh from the French was about to be
recast there, and attracted a great number of visitors
and strangers, including one Scalch, a Swiss founder.
He observed that the moulds were not sufficiently dry,
and communicated the fact to the principals of the de-
partment; but, piqued at being diotated to by a foreigner,
they treated his warning with contempt. When the red
hot metal flowed into the moulds the moisture was con-
verted into steam and a fatal explosion took place. The
liquid metal flew in every direction, s greet part of the

building was destroyed, and sev-ral lives lost. In con•
,equence of this the• foundry was removed to Woolwich,
and the management of it entrusted to the sagacious
ly j Scaleh.

TIIE METROPOLIS IVAT.ER SUPPLY.
POSTPONEMENT ,OF THE GOVERNMENT

MEASURE.
Yesterday, this Committee re-assembled at the usual
hour, Sir James Graham in the chair ; present, Sir J.
Hanmer, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. ;Sanders.
The Right Hon. CHAIRMAN, addressing the various
parties, said—l have been directed by the Committee to
make a communication to counsel on all sides before us.
I hope that we have shown every disposition to hear
• everything that could be brought before the Committee
with diligence and with patience, but we have now ar-
rived at a period of the session when it is necessary to
call your attention to the short residue of time that
still can be given to this important inquiry. The Ap-
propriation Bill is introduced, and has been read a as•
cund time this day. It is clear, therefore, that
we are
within a fortnight of the termination of the session, and
there cannot consequently remain above seven sitting
days to devote to the further progress of this inquiry.
What has also transpired in the House of Commons
is notorious, and renders it plain that the promoters off
this Bill no longer urge with any pertinacity the pr
of the preamble which is now before us ; and, indeed, as
the inquiry now stands, we are in the midst of the ease
on the part of die opponents of the Bill. We have
not heard the entire case of the opponents, but
we have
heard the entire case of the promoters, and it would only
remain for us to hear a speech—no doubt an able speech
—on the part of the promoters of the Bill, in reply. UP
the whole case; but I believe I speak the unanimous
of the Committee, that, as the case now stands,
we shall not be prepared to declare the preamble of this
Bill proved. If we do not proceed to consider the pre-
amble of this Bill till we have finished that inquiry'
much less can we proceed to consider the preambles of
the other Bills before us. Therefore, as relates to the
proofs of the preambles, it may be considered that, tff;
preambles of the Bills now before us are disposee
but at the same time I have reason to think that the
House would expect that the evidence taken before tili
even as it now stands, should be laid before them, ej___!;
perhaps also the House will call upon us to e seawr;
opinion upon the evidence as it now stands. We
perfectly willing to sit to the close of the next 'gel,:
and I wish to call the attention of counsel for the
ferent water companies to this state of foots, tbe:'_.
may be very desirable with justice to their case Oa:
some portions of the evidence affecting their manage,
ment of the water supply of London should be rebuttteae
by the evidence now to be adduced by them boforti, Obese
evidence shall be finally laid before the Roust,. 240°
during yesterday and the previous days, we hi'velg
at large into the management of the water stIPP e
we
Scotland under municipal administration. Yesterday
we
also went into the case of Worcester, and to-del the
are to go into that of Southampton. I am directed hyoni.
Committee to point out to counsel for the rifiteFd?,e of
panics that it might be expedient to direct the re'l 11,, to
the time we can give to the inquiry more specet`beinds
the past management of the London supply io t'le;„ation
of the water companies. Of course this comm
and it
I was only directed to make a few minutes arD, a-ieos
may take the water companies for to-day mot
.say to
by surprise. We shall be perfectly willing t'3"jhat'ex-
pursue the Southampton case if it should be Wog— r
pedient, but perhaps this evening counsel for the wind
companies will consider the statement I have ion'd e'tbey
direct our inquiries after to-day to those poill', s their
think most pressing for the purpose of presenting bies
case to the House and to the public in a reannerares
they may think the equity and interests of the Para
demand. water
Mr. Sergeant WRANOHAM (as representing the
~i not
companies) said he was sure the Committee 'reel for
expect that any of those who appeared as couas
the water companies should say more upon a cern° ode
cation of the importance of that which had beeild,najoate
to them, and the Committee would neurallyea
that the disposition of those he represented wooloir.
carried out on the grounds suggested by the Hen' - of
man, and in a way that would occupy the rem to
the time in a manner that would be most conduca'
the interests of all, so as to arrive at a satisfactory °nod
,
elusion. He trusted, however, that the Committee and
the public would bear in mind that if they
were obligo
r
very much to contract their evidence, it would 1301
be
want of matter, but for want of time. itifl
Mr. JAMES, Q.C., Counsel for the Government - ;
said, on the part of those for whom he had the bribus
to_ appear, and in deference to the suggestion es! et
to theth e inquiryedvoe ee
y rathero t,u
Ctoommittee, they would be prepared to apply thennaelLa
particular ctuhl the
viewr A;d (01
measure. They e-., to
and certainly had conducted the inquiry with a i'e-Er
the supply and management of the water of the Inel°o.f
polls, so as to elicit from the witnesses a great dell'
material, which would be essential,thought' to
the advocacy of the Bill they represented.
as they
to investigation t--
Mr. TALBOT, Q.C., for the companies, entirely (If:
curred in the view stated by Sergeant iirang hen3'.,,r6
imputations bad been cast on some of the eon2P.--6
which they wished to have full opportunity to rebut. 10
The CHAIRMAN—It is our object to afford such
apportunity. We have only, however, a limited tite4
and we wish counsel for the companies to distribute
among themselves in such a manner as they may th'
most just to the interests involved. their
Mr. KEATING, Q.C., inquired whether, in giving the
opinion upon the evidence already before them, the Cont:
mittee would also report on that part of the case which
ex necessitate and owing to the interposition of the Cons"
mittee, the companies might be unable to continue er
contradict.
The CHAIRMAN had endeavoured to state, without
reserve, the exact position in which they were placed'
The Committee were the servants of the House, but 5
yet they had bo authority from the House to lay even
ed
the evidence before them, much less had they been eau,
on to present an opinion to the House; but be thong
u;
it right to mention to counsel representing the over
companies, that he thought it possible an order toil
the evidence before the House would be given, an", ld
was not impossible that the Committee might be ett'loe
upon to report their opinion on the evidence as it sic,d
He did not know that it would be so, but he thought tt
right to prepare the parties for that possibility. L t
Mr. KEATING said it was to be hoped in that eVenl
the necessity that imposed upon them the curtailment
their evidence would be taken into consideration.
The CHAIRMAN bad endeavoured, in ob • to the
obedience
wish of the Cum • mittee, to give timely warning es '-
what might be impending,
The Committee were occupied, up to their adjourn'
ment at four o'clock, with evidence on the water euPPI/
of Southampton.

, THE COUNTRV MARKETS' tt
LIVERPOOL, JULY 22. There was a large attendance IA
to day's market. A fair demand for both wheat and flour: 10
prices no change could be quoted. Oats and oatmeal sael'ait,
, very moderate demand, at last week's rates. Barley, rftbe
and peat's, rather lower. Indian corn in fair demand, and
decline of Friday recovered. but
LEEDS, JULY 22.—The arrivals of wheat were small,
_if
fully adequate to the wants of millers. The trade was 13"3,'„
this day se'nnight. Barley, oatmeal, beans, oats, and '
slow at scarcely Friday's rates, and fully Is per qr. lower tile].
lings, had a downward tendency.
e tber
... NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, JuLT 22.—The fine --a,
had its full effect upon our market. Little business was done
in wheat to-day, but in the sales made last Saturday's Pri
"u`
ce,
were fully maintained. Barley rather dearer. Oats 81
the Balm. Flour anti other articles unchanged.
„nn y Of
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JULY 22. The 1-1,1,,pi,
beasts about 200 head more than last week; quality seas"l-fia
good ; trade ruled ,
per stone. and part left unsold. The number of sheep 31:d
at a decline of from 3d to "d
58i ; sheep and lambs, 6,”7.
lambs not so large as last Tuesday; about 1,600 less ; delu„6,2-d
for both description, of stock active. Prices looking up,
Beef, 4°
to
all sold. Beasts,
6s 3d per stone ; mutton, 4d to sd; lamb, sid to 6d per lb.
~.
EDINBURGH .MEAL MARKET, JULY 22.—There were .''
the meal market to-day 9 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 28°1b/.
imperial ; 7 sold thus :-1 at 11 18s Od, 2 at It 17s Od, and
4at 1/ 16s Od; average price of the whole II 16s6d 10-12tt
3 sacks flour, whereof I sold at 30s, and 2at 27s 6d. 9 /i'le—d
pot-barley, whereof 6 sold thus :—1 at 28s, 2 at 268 6,3, and
3 at 24s 6d.
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, JULY 22.-'
Oat straw, from 6s Od to 98 6d per kemple of 16 stones Iron;
wheat ditto, 6: 6d to 73 6d; barley ditto, 7s Od to Os Od..
Hay, from 10d to Is per stone. I
DALLEITH MEAL MARKET JULT 21.—There were onl7
28 bags oatmeal, and lof barleymeal at this day's market,
which met a ready demand. Oatmeal up on the top is per
bag, and or, the second quality Is 6d per bag; that sold at
34s 6d was old meal; barleymeal up on the top 3d per bag.
imperial .. '" ... 363 Od 353 6d 34s 6d
Barleymeal, per ditto
... 22s Od —s 04 —s Od '
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third.
Peasemeal ... ...
...
....
sOd —3 Od —a Od '

Flour ••• ...
Pot barley ...

.••

—a Od I —a Od I —II- Od '
—s Od —8 Od •—a Od

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SALMON FaruNa.—Tbe Perth Constitutional or'
although the number of salmon taken in the river is still
very small, there has been a considerable increase of late is
the take of grisles—as many as a score having been got at
some stations during one night's fishing. The price of grise
is at present Bd. per lb., which may be considered very
moderate.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.
On the 22d inst., at Eton College, the wife of the BO*
Charles Old Goodford.
On the 21st inst., at Blomfield-terrace, Harrow-road, Mrs'
Edward J. Cole.
On the 18th inst., in King-street, St. James's, Mrs. Miller. •
OF A DAUGHTER.
On the 18th inst., at Tower-hill, the lady of Edward
Henry Moses. Esq.
On the 20th inst., at Park-hill, Clapham, Mrs. Joieph
Hanson, jun.

MARRIED.
On the 22d inst., at St. Mark's. Liverpool, Captain von
Hartmann, of the sth Cuirrasiers, Prussian service, to Apo!'
youngest daughter of the late R. Purdie, Esq., of Edinburgh•
On the 17th inst., at St. George's Church, Liverpoo,
Tyndall, third son of Robert Bright, Esq., of Abbots Lelg°'
Bristol, to Mary, eldest daughter of W. Fletcher, E'q"
Liverpool.

. -
On the 19th inst., at PDIED
entre, Pembrokeshire, Elizabeth
Mari +, the wife of D. A. S. Davie , Esq., M.P.
On the 19th inst., the Rev. A. Willis, M. k. master of
the Grammar School, and preacher of the town of Ludlow.
On the 21st inst., at Kentish-town, Harriet, widow of the
late Sir Charles Wentwoith Burdett, Bart.
On the 23d inst , at Portland-terrace, St. John's-wood,
Katherine Elizabeth, widow of the late R. Baily, Esq.
On the 20th inst., at Margate, Robert Wells, Esq., former*,
of North Down, aged 93.
On the 11th inst., at Rankeilour-house, Fifeshire, David
M. M. Crichton, Esq., of Rankeilour.
On the 15th inst., at Hampstead, Miss Mary Ann Gibson,
daughter of the late W. Gibson, Esq., of Pentonville.

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