The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

EXHIBITIONS, &c.

The extreme fineness of the weather yesterday caused
the various exhibitions with which the metropolis
abounds to be crowded throughout the day by the holi-
day-makers, who conducted themselves with the greatest
propriety and decorum. Among the exhibitions:—
THE NATIONAL GALLERY was crowded throughout
the day by a very orderly company, and by far more nu-
merous than on any previous occasion. In order, how-
ever, to prevent the rooms .from being over crowded, the
number admitted at a time was limited to 300. These
paintings which attracted the greatest notice were,
Hogarth's series of" Marriage n la Mode," which were
painted exactly a century since, the palette under the
portrait of himself and dog bearing the name " William
llogarth, 1745 ;" and Wilkie's " Blied Fiddler," and
" Village Festival."
WESTMINSTER AM:MT.—Since the reduction in the
pr'ce fur viewing the various chapels and tombs in the
ancient Abbey a ‘Vestuainster, the number of persons
anxious to see them has gradually increased, and on no
occasion have there been so many visitors as yesterday.
Instead of going round with three or four as formerly,
the verger who shows the tombs, &c., had a company of
from forty or fifty at a time during the day. The principal
points of attraction were Henry the Vll.'s chapel, with
its b4autiful roof, and the brass tomb of that monarch,
the shrine of Edward the Confessor, and the coronation
chair, in which many pretty young girls sat during the
day, inquiring of their lovers, who gen, rally accompanied
them, if' they looked like queens. In Poet's Corner,
Many persons during the day had a grateitous peep at
the monuments raised to the memory of England's poets.
THE_ CHINESE EXHIBITION.—Yesterday, the Feast of
Lanterns, with an addition of many hundreds of lanterns,
was reproduced at this unrivalled collection of all that
relates to tl:c Celestial Emaire, with great !plendcur.
The room in which the " feast" is held was well
attended, and every person appeared delighted with the
treat they had experienced.
THE Barrtset MUSEUM.—The number of visitors to
this national institution yesterday was 15,316, being a
decrease in the number, as compared with Easter
Monday lusty ear, of 6,023, when the number was 21,359
MADAME TUSSAUD.S.—The number of visitors who
attended this talented lady's admirable exhibition yester-
day, was far greater than has been known en any
pre virus occasion. From the hour the rooms were
opened to the public until their close last evening they
continued densely crowded. The last new group, the
House of Brunswick at one view, was the most admired.
The figures of the Bishop of Exeter, Mr. Cobden, and
Toni Thumb, were highly spiken of by the visitors.
PANORAMA, LEICESTF.R -SQUARE —'l'he view of the
city and Bay of Naples, by moonlight, with the eruption
of Mount Vesuvius, recently opened at this exhibition,
was visited by a large number of holiday folks yestei day.

THE FAIRS AT GREENWICH, STEPNEY, AND
THE TUNNEL, THE RIVER, &c.
Two years ago Stepney fair, which had laid under the
magisterial interdict for twenty-five years, was revived
with great success. This year it haa been laid out on a
Mos: extensive scale, and deserves the first notice. Two
large fields have been appropriated to the fair, which
are separated from each other by Charles-street. In the
'first, called Manor Fie il, behind the Prince of Wales
Tavern. facing the Thames Police-court, is a splendidly-
: decorated booth called the Crown and Anchor, belonging
• to Mc. Stevens, the celebrated Essex higgler. It is just
350 feet in length, and 50 feet in breadth, and after
sunset was illuminated with variegated lamps and de-
vices ; and in the evening, when the Polka was being
danced by more than 200 with great rigour,
and the place was lighted up, the effect was very brilliant.
The band is a u2oz t excellent one. Tu do justice to the
_„..„=.,411,1115e5e ,ifijiey did not dance the Polka with the %ale*
11 fait .14121b1y at Almacles, they were sore led us-
.' f -tiloos;a4ififten had recourse to the ham and beef and the
-- bottled ettlittyto recruit their exhausted 60engtb. The
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1101' AL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Crowded as was the attendance, and varied, novel,
and magnificent the objects of admiration and the vehicles
of instruction presented last evening at this centre of the
world's wonders, it is yet a pleasant variety in our
holiday notices to have something to fie,d fault with—
positive omission to complain of—in the Easter arrange-
ments of the Polytechnic Institution. We advise Young
England to raise one eager and irresistible demand for
the speedy repetition of Professor Bachhoffner's Lectures
upon Astronomy, to which, and the beautiful transparent
series of orre ries with which they were illustrated, the
unprecedented pressure of Parliamentary business during
Lent prevented anything like justice being dune by the
press. It is to be hoped that the call will be earnest
and general, and that no access of novelty, however start-
ling or abundant, will prevent an early resumption of the
learned and eloquent lecturer's admirable discourses upon-
the most sublime of sciences. Under the name of popu
lar lectures upon astronomy we never heard anything
equal or approaching to Professor Bachhoffner's, either
in the clearness and comprehensiveness of the instruc-
th,n itself, or in the leanly of the dissolving pictures of
the heavens, by • which each lecture was optically de-
monstrated. There seems no sufficient reason for con-
fining such attractive and exalting lessons to the one
season of Lent. Of perhaps greater importance, as re-
gards the immediate and practical effect upon the every-
day occurrences of human life, are the lectures of Dr.
Ryan upon " Phillips's Fire Annihilator," the limita-
tion of which to one day of the week (Monclay) might
lead us to suppose that already almost every one in the
metropolis—the great storehouse of destructive con-
flagrations—had been as thoroughly convinced of the
prodigious efficacy of the invention, as those who had
the good fortune to hear its pavvers explained, and to
see its operation exemplified by one of the fittest
men living for the noble task. But we
think it scarcely too much to say, that as
the apparatus has not been yet brought into
universal use, as the attention of the authorities
has not been awakened to a sense of their duty as re-
spects the "Fire Annihilator," it continues part of the
duty of the directors of the Polytechnic, and an un-
finished part of Dr. Ryan's duty, to exhibit daily to their
thousands of admiring visitors and pupil-e, that there
exist, ready prepared en I instantly accessible, the means
of extinguishing a fire in any building, however ex-
tensive, and of preventing the loss of a single life by fire,
even in London, where such calamities are so frequent
and deplorable. There is one most interesting part of
Dr. Ryan's lectures upon this invention to which it is
always desirable to revert—the model apparatus dby
the learned doctor does not occupy more span than the
size of a quart bottle, and in any bed room, provided
with it, the endangered sleerer, awaking amidst flames,
could, instantly and by the slightest effort, Overcome the
appalling enemy, and be placed in perfect safety.
We trust that every one who has not yet witnessed the
convincing experiments of this inappreciable invention,
and who values the lives of his fellow- creatures, will re-
member that Dr. Ryan exhibits them still on Mondays.
111-natured and grumbling we may, however, be fairly
deemed by the many hundreds, (the thousands two or
three)who yesterday participated with us in cur surprise
at the fresh display of the institution's inexhaustibee re-
sources, and the untiring skill and ingenuity of its pro-
fessors, artists, and contributors. Dr. Ryan commenced
a- new course of lectures upon " The Chemistry of Do-
mestic Life" worthy of his reputation, and abounding
in those elegancies of diction and felicitous perspicuities
by which he makes the most abstruse subjects intel-
ligible and the dryest attractive and interesting. Every
one who regards the comforts, economy, and security of
" domestic" life should attend this course. Professor
Bachhoffner in the course of the day gave several lectures
upon different branches of natural philosophy in ad-
mirable style, and illustrated by varied and brilliant
experiments. The excellent inventions of Mr. Long-
bottom, the highly talented secretary, the Physioscope,
&c., were exhibited as usual, and the Dissolving views
are enriched with new attractions of extreme beauty.
A valuable little work, entitled " The Companion to the
Lecture Rooms of the royal Polytechnic Institution," by
H. Ault, Esq., of Gloucester House, West Ham, was put
into our hands. It is a complete glossary of all the
chemical and other technical terms made use of in the
lecture rooms with their meaning, derivation, and appli-
cation, with an alphabetical and descriptive signification
of the principal terms which are applied to the arts and
science. A careful examination of the book convinces
us That it will be found a most useful companion, or book
reference, after a visit to the institution.

" Polka at Stepney Fair," then, must be a new dance for
the Court after this. There are other booths fo:• dancing
and refreshments, neatly fitted up, belonging to young
Stevens, the Essex phenomenon ; and Beckett and
Hicks, of the Cricketers, in London-street. They were
all filled to overflowing. Price's equestrian and gym-
nastic company, and the veteran Clarke, well known at
Bartholomew Fair, have each pitched a large tent in this
field, and the performances were witnessed by admiring
thousands during the day. The scenes in the circle, the
horsemanship, and evolutions of the Acrobats, tight-
rope dancers and others, at both place, were uncom-
monly well done. The rivalry between Price and
Clarke was carried on noisily ; but with the greatest
good humour. Leaving this field and its amusements for
the adjoining one, the scene baffles description. A
space, as large as Lincoln's Inn-fields has been laid out
with great taste by Messrs. Peterson and Johnson, whose
theatrical establishments—the Covent-garden and Drury-
lane of the place—are the principal attractions.
On the opposite is Hylton's large menagerie of
wild beasts, with the wonderful performing elephant,
an animal of colossal size. This sagacious creature,
which appeared to be a great favourite with the
visitors, had its patience severely tested. It exhibited
great fondness for its keepers. Hylton's menagerie is
the beat thing at Stepney: Exhibitions of wax work,
national curiosities, works of art, legerdemain, learned
pigs, swings, ups-and-downs, puppet-shows, and posture.
masters, were to be seen in profusion in this field, and the
noise of many bands of music playing against each otla r,
the sounding of gongs, the shouts of the people, and the
bawling of showmen, was quite deafening. The scene was
a most animated one. At bight the fair was lighted by a
jet of gas from the main of the Commercial Company's
works, towering high above the people, and rendering
every object distinctly visible. This light, projected by
Mr. Peterson, contributed much to the safety and conve-
nience of the people. The number of persons who visited
Stepney Fair during the day ..vas not less than 200,000, and
equine o'clock there were at least 40,000 in end about the
fair. The gambling tables were broken up in the morn-
ing by the police, and the owners dispersed. --Two- of
them then retreated to a street near the London Hos.pital
with their " over seven, under seven" tables. They were
again routed, taken befure Mr. Broderip, and committs d
to the !louse of Correction. Tho police of the K division,
under the direction of Mr. Maynard, the superintendent,
and Inspectors Rutt, Home, and Julian, performed their
arduous duties to the satisfaction of every one.
GREENWICH FAIR.—The park, the toe n, and the
hospital were as usual crowded with the holiday folks.
Each place in turn was successively visited by the Lon-
doners, who went down in the steamers and per rail-
way, to forget toil and trouble amidst the amusements
and attractions of the place. The park. owing to the
recent heavy rains, was very damp, and did not boast of
se many promenaders as usual ; but the fair was filled
to overflow ; and Richardson's Theatre, conducted by
Nelson Lee and Johnson, rerfurmed an excellent melo-
drama and a Pantomime twelve or thirteen times during
the day. much to the satisfaction of the visitors. Alger's
great Crown and Anchor booth, which exceeds in di-
mensions one of the sam3 name at Stepney, was as
usual the main attraction of the place. The trains of
the Greenwich Railway were in requisition from an early
hour, and took down upwards of 12,000 persons
during the day. At night, when the people began to
return, the station at the Greenwich terminus was
thronged with people. The steamers also came in for a
share of the harvest. The Waterman's Company, with
eleven vessels running, carried the extraordinary number
of 30,000 persons between the Watermen'e, Adelphi
Pier, Strand, and the Floating. Pier at Garden stairs
during the day. The old companies, with their nume-
rous steam -vessels, carried as many to and from the
various piers. We did not hear of a single material
accident.

There was a fancy fair and baz tar in the Thames
Tunnel yesterday, which is to he continued during the
week. The stalls were neatly arranged with fancy
goods, works of art, and decorated with flags, banners,
and Chinese lanthorns. The shafts were also brilliantly
illuminated with gas, and dressed out with the flags of
all nations. The cosmoraina and saloon of arts in the
liotherhithe shaft, the temple of magic in the Wapping
shaft, the electrifying apparatus. and various exhibitions,
afforded much delight to the various promenaders under
water. Fifteen thousand passengers went through the
Tunnel during the day.
The Tower was visited by the curious in great num-
bers, and the armouries, or at least what remains of
them, and the Crown jewels, are as attractive as ever.
More than 8,000 passengers availed themst Ives of the
cheap excur.ion trains to Dover and Brighton. The
holiday was a general one among the working classes.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YEsmtruv.
NORTHAMPT( Ni HANDICAP.
4 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Napier
6 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Lord Saltoun
7 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Discord
7 to 1 agst Sir. Berrington's Father Mathew
8 to 1 agst Mr. Hook's Bastion
10 to I aget Mr. W. Sadler's Sparsholt
Even between the first four and the field.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
5 to 2 laid, to asmall sum, against Idas, and 20 to 1 againsl
Lis winning this and the Daby.
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst the Irish lot
11 to I agst Mr. Jaques's Semiscria
12 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract
13 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's The Era
35 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland
40 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Portrait—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Ilesseltine's Fitzallen—taken.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Patriot
3000 to 36 agst Mr. Armstong's Extravaganza—taken.
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Liutott's Cabin boy—t. .and aft. ofd.
DERBY.

12 to 1 agst Forth's lot
14 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas
16 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-way—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Fuzbos—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Titmouse—taken
10(X) to 10 agst Mr. D. Cooke's Yellow Boy—taken
1000 to 8 agst Lord Warwick's Roebuck—taken
500 even on the field agst Alarm, Idas, Kedger, Pam,
Clear-the-way, Miss \Vhip c, Newsmonger, Pantasa, Doleful,
and Titmouse. Offers to take 1,000 to 45 about Cobweb
colt, and 40 to 1 about the Laird-o'Cockpen.
The attendance was thin, and business so flat, omitting
many of the principal favourites altogether, as scarcely to
deserve the quotations we have given.
We are authorised to state that there will be no races at
Hoo this year.

DEATH OF ALEXANDER BLACKWOOD, ESQ.-- W'Q
deeply regret to state that Mr. Alexander Blackwood
died yesterday, at his house in Great Stuart-street. This
event will be learnt with sincere sorrow by a numerous
circle of truly attached friends, to whom the deceased
was endeared by the manly sincerity, the warm cor-
didlity, and genuine worth of his character. Much might
be properly said of the excellent qualities and talents of
Mr. Blackwood ; but we shall now simply observe that,
as a member of the eminent house of William Blackwood
and Sons, in which capacity he was known to the public,
he uniformly maintained the high position acquired by the
habitual sagacity, enterprise, and integrity of his late
distinguished tither. We had hoped that a long career
of usefulness and honour lay open to him in conjunction
with those who, alas ! can now only deplore the great
loss they have sustained in his early removal from
amongst us.—Edinburgh Evening
M. WALLACE, M.P.—We regret to learn that the
Honourable Member for Greenock became seriously un-
well last week, in London, IN hile attending his Parlia-
mentary duties, and that he has returns d home to Kelly
House. We hope the fresh air of that beautiful locality
will sown restore him to his wonted health and vigour.
We are afraid Mr. Wallace has been ov, r- working him-
self in the House too early this session ; and certainly
he has undergone more drudgery and fatigue than any
of our other Scotch Members.—Scuts Reformers' Gazette.
COMMITTEE-ROOM, STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 19,
1845.—At a Meeting of the Committee for General Pur-
poses, held this day, it was Resolved, " That the hours
of business in the Stock Exchange be from 4 past ten to
4-past 3 o'clock, with the exception of. Saturday, when
the House will close at 2 o'clock ; and that the Com
mittee will recognise no b7.rgains that may not be done
within those hours. The above to commence on the
26th inst."

TILE WILL OF TIIE EARL OF MORNINGTON.—
Limited probate cf the will, as far as relates to the pro-
perty in England and Wales, of the Right lion. William
Wellesley, Baron Maryhorough, of the Unitei King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Earl of Morning-
ton in in Ireland, was grunttd on the 20th inst. to the

Right lion. Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset,
K.C.8., and John Parkinson, of Lincoln's lan-fields,
Esq., two of the executors. A power is reserved to the
• Right Hon. Catherine Elizabeth Dowager Lady Mary-
borough, Countess of Mornington, to prove the will
hereafter. Ills Lordship died on the 22d of February
last, was formerly of Saville-row, and late of Grosvenor-
square. The will is short, dated 23d April, 1844, signed,
"Mornington." Personal estate within the province of
Canterbury sworn under 100,0001. Directs that 2,0004
shall be immediately paid to the Countess, and leaves
her all the plate and household furniture absolutely.
Bequeaths several annuities to be pai 1 out of the perso-
nal estate. Devises and bequeath; his freehold, copy-
hold, and lea,eliold estates, and the residue of his per-
sonal estate to trustees, Lord F. Somerset and Thomas
Parkinson, to convert into money, and inve:it the same
in funded securities ; the dividends and interest to be
paid to the Countess for her life, and gives her a power
of appointment over the principal to his three daughters,
t'ie Countess of Westmoreland, Lady Mary Charlotte
Anne Bigot, and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, in default of
such appointment in trust for his daughters.
SCARCITY OF VEGETAIILES.—Within the last three
weeks there has been experienced a greater aczreity of
vegetables in the London markets, than has been known
to hay. been the case for the last nine years past. This
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Arcum,:tance has arisen from the severe frists, whieft,
until within the last thr,e days, has continued for up-
ward of three weeks. Parsnips which were being re-
tailed at this season last year, at from one penny to
three halfpence a piece, are now selling at from twopence
to fourpence. Carrots are proportionably dear, whilst
turnips scarcely fit for use, are being sold at sixpence a
bunch. Greens of all kinds are excessive ly scarce, and
very indifferent samples are selling at high prices.
Savoys, which at Christmas might be obtained at one
penny each, are now fetching fourpener, whilst brocoli
sprouts and other coleworts aro completely dried up by
the Lite frosiS.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT AT LIVERPOOL,--At
the Liverpool Police-office, on Wednesday last, a young
man named Williana T. 'Munro, an arprentice to the ex•
tersivc establishment of Sandbach, Tirane, and Co., was
brought up on a charge of having embezzled various
sums of money to the amount of beimeea 3001. and 4001.
Ou being taken into custody the prisoner confessed to
having never aocounted for the tuony, but stated that
he had been robbed of it at the bank, and had never
dared to confess it. He was fully committed for trial.