The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

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THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The receipts on Monday amounted to £2,129. The num- '
ber of persons who entered was esti m ated at from 45 t 050,000.
It will be remembered that the honour of a personal in-
terview by the Queen was promised the contributors
about the time the building was opened; and it was
deemed proper in fulfilment of that promise to give her
Majesty's gracious patronage of the Exhibition a more
decided and positive character. Accordingly, when the
royal party presented themselves at the Crystal Palace on
Monday some 300 exhibitors were in their places to re-
ceive them. The public, we fear, hardly do justice to the
extreme sensibilities of this class; jealous as they naturally
are, each in his own department, for the maintenance of
their several excellencies, it is an extraordinary event with
them to be brought face to face with the royalty of Eng-
land. Lips and tongues, that before ordinary mortals
Iwould run freely on in the labours of explanation, become
confused and falter when the Queen asks what they have
to shew. There were many manifestations of that kind
on Monday ; and one distinguished contributor, a manu-
facturer of warlike weapons too, fainted under the excite-

ment.
The number of those who paid the shilling admission
fee on Tuesday was 48,302, and besides these there were
present the season ticket holders, and exhibitors and at-
tendants.—The Morning Herald of Wednesday says—
" The floodgates of the population were apparently set
loose yesterday, and filled the building to overflowing.
People may talk as they please about its capabilities, but
it was crowded, and no mistake. The transept swarmed,
and a dense human stream, in which there were many
currents, eddies, and obstructions, poured along the
naves, rendering locomotion extremely difficult. The
great bulk of the visitors were evidently strangers, and
had made their appearance for the first time—their undis-
guised admiration of the wonders displayed around them
was quite refreshing, as contrasted with the insouciant
conduct of the fashionable visitors on Saturday. As might

be anticipated, there were many_" lost muttons" among

the crowd and in a remote colonial settlement we en-
countered a hulking country lad of twelve or fourteen
years old, blubbering at a rate which put Eugene's ini-
mitable statue of ' The Unhappy Child' quite to shame.
He had lost mother,' land his fright was still greater
when placed in charge of one of the police. A suggestion
was made at an early stage of the Exhibition for a bureau
des objets perclus, including babies; and it may be neces-
sary, if the crowd continues to increase in the present ra-
tio, to establish acme such department."
On

.„est number of visitors on any
single day entered the Palace. They amounted to 55,000.
Thursday was bleak and blowy, but above 50,000
persons entered the doors during the dal. During
these two days more than £5,000 was received.
Colonel Sibthorp was observed in the Crystal Palace on
Wednesday, evidently highly interested in the magnificent
display before him. He paid particular attention to the
American and French departments, and was apparently
astonished at the ingenious production of Colt, the gun
maker, so celebrated for his six barrelled revolver pistol.
He was also much pleased with the splendid articles of
vertu displayed in the French department. He spent
nearly the whole of the day in the building.
MR. HOPE'S JEWELS.—The attractions of the nave re-
ceived a great accessio❑ on Thursday in the magnificent
collection of jewels exhibited by Mr. A. B. Hope, M.P.
Among them is a wonderful pearl of almost fabulous di-
mensions and splendour. It is set as a jewel, and is the
size of a small pear. There is also a very large emerald,
and a fine specimen of the precious stone called cat's-eye,
formerly the property of the King of Candy. Then we
have the handle of Murat's sword cut from a single beryl,
and a diamond cut curiously against the grain in the form
of a cross. There is also a magnificent opal, a jacynth,
and an immense ruby, both with faces carved on them,
besides which there are several rare stones from India, a
curious topaz of two colours, the under side amber, the
upper red, with several other gems of nearly equal beauty
and value. The cage in which all this precious treasure is
confined was all day surrounded by eager crowds; and if
the munificent owner should have happened to be there
incog. he must have been highly gratified at the frequent
encomiums passed on his taste and liberality.
The price of admission on Friday was 2s. 6d., and the
weather, though on the whole fine, looked for some time
uncertain and threatening; but notwithstanding these
rather adverse influences £2,558 lls. was taken at the
doors, and 26,134 persons entered the building.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert and the
Royal guests at the Palace, resumed their survey of the
Crystal Palace an Saturday, and their personal interviews
with exhibitors. The portion of the building which they
examined was the western half of the space devoted to
machinery in motion, and as this is, perhaps, the most
important part of the whole collection, the attention
bestowed upon it was commensurately great. The illus-
trious party were attended by Mr. Cubitt, President of
the Institution of Civil Engineers, and by Mr. Hens-
man, who has conducted with so much ability the manage-
ment of this great department. Mr. Dilke and Colonel
Reid also accompanied the Royal visitors, while Mr. Cole
took the young Princesses by a different route through
the interior. Her Majesty examined with great care and
interest the varied display of beautiful machines for the
manufacture of cotton and wool, listening most patiently
to the explanations given of each, and receiving exhibitors
with a condescension which must have gratified them im-
mensely. At twelve o'clock the public were admitted,
but from the attractions of Chiswick, or the doubtful ap-
pearance of the weather, or from some other cause, there
was an unusually small influx of visitors. The numbers
were only 12,986, and the receipts, notwithstanding the
ss. admission charge, fell to £1,560 10s. Nothing of any
interest occurred during the day, except the accidental ex-
plosion of one of Phillip's patent fire annihilators in the
eastern division of the building. How it went off no one
can tell ; but had it taken place yesterday, instead of on
Saturday, great alarm, and even serious consequences
might have resulted, for from the immense mass of vapour
evolved, everybody would conclude that a fire had broken
out. As it was, beyond the first start no harm was done.
The fire annihilator being itself considered a fire, vigorous
attempts were made to extinguish it with water.
The gross receipts of the Exhibition up to the present
time are :

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Total amount from daily visitors up to 31st
May £57,990 1 0
Season tickets up to 31st May 65,871 15 0
Monday, June 2 2,129 1 0
Tuesday, ~ 3 2,412 2 0

Wednesday, „ 4.
Thursday, „ 5.

2.500 16 0
2,566 16 0

Friday, - . ~ 6
Saturday, „ 7 .

2,558 11 0
1,560 10 0

£137,592 13 0
Season tickets during the week..
Subscriptions..
For privilege of printing the catalogues 3,200 0 0
For privilege of supplying refreshments 5,500 0 0

Total received up to this date...... £210,741 13 0
The liabilities of the Royal Commissioners are : .
For the building complete £130,000 0 0
Management, printing, &c..
Police
Prize fund ..

£185,000 0 0
There are some other incidental expenses that cannot
yet be ascertained with accuracy. _
A pork butcher at Nottingham supplied, a few days
since, above a ton of pork pies for a single day's consump-
tion in the refreshment-rooms of the Great Exhibition.

The Goldsmiths' Company have resolved to spend
£5,000 in the purchase of some of the magnificent plate
exhibited at the Crystal Palace ; and the London Com-
mon Council has resolved to expend the same amount for
some of the works of art adapted to decorate the city.
The Dean of Windsor has invited the whole of his
tenantry and the principal tradespeople of Burleigh, to the
deanery of Windsor, in sections, that they may have an
opportunity of availing themselves of day-tickets for see-
ing the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, returning
to Windsor in the evening.
Amongst other illustrations to explain the magnitude
of the glass palace in an address given at Car Shield,
West Allendale, on Saturday last, by Mr. Sopwith, it was
mentioned that if each inhabitant of the parish (between
six and seven thousand) could take to it a cottage of five
thousand cubic feet the exhibition building would contain
them all.

Among the passengers from India by the Ripon, which
arrived at Southampton on the 26th ult., was Mr. Robert
Young, surgeon to his Highness the Newab Nazin of Ben-
gal, with rich presents for the Queen, which are to be
displayed at the Great Exhibition. They consist of a
native throne, a " jahpan" or howdah, with poles, the
state trappings of an elephant-howdah, jhool, &c. Alto-
gether the value of these articles is estimated at a lac of
rupees. Mr. Young, who is, perhaps, the greatest buff,lo
and tiger hunter in Bengal, also brings with him a great
variety of hunting trophies. He is a tall, powerful, and
athletic man, and wears a formidable beard, an essential
part of the costume of a " hakeem" at a Mussulman
Court. Mr. Young is a nephew of the late Dr. Thomas
Young, who was celebrated for his hieroglyphical and other
discoveries.

The Builder notices among the curiosities of the Indus-
trial Exhibition, " a model of the Great Victoria Pyra-
mid,' connected with a projected national cemetery on
Working Common, and designed to contain 5,000,000
coffins, and when completed, to be 100 feet higher than
the great Pyramid of Egypt ! A section exhibits. 94 stages
of catacombs on a base of 18 acres, which multiplied by
the several stages, will realise nearly 1,000 acres, to be
redeemed from the cloud-land overhead, as the building
progresses upwards into the void space above the earth.
The material of the pyramid is to be brick, with granite
facing, and the approach through a lofty Egyptian portal.
Zigzag planes would lead by gradual ascent to the top,
and there would be a central shaft with tubes, to ventilate
the catacombs. The pyramid is to be surrounded by ce-
notaphs, columns, obelisks, groves, and terraced walks.
" Not five years' travel," says the Times," nor a thou-
sand pounds, could enable a man to see what one shilling
has now brought before his eyes. The spectacle was in-
tended to be little mere than a magnified ' exposition' on
the original French pattern. It has turned out to be such
a wonder as the world never saw. We read in Arabian
fables that magicians could place before enchanted spec-
tators visible treasures of the universe. These very trea-
sures are now laid bodily at our feet by no other magic
than that of nationa: power. These contributions
are literally the offerings of the world. From all quarters
of the universe has the Exi:ibition attracted its treasures.
The only king in India sent kis crown, the coronet of his
eldest son, and the turban of his prime minister. In the
northwestern provinces of Hindostan resides a remote and
unsophisticated community engaged in mining for iron.
These primitive people have a worship and temple of their
own. The temple contained a larop fashioned with rude
ingenuity, and regarded as partak:og of the sanctity of
the place. It was begged for the Exvhibition,' and wil-
lingly surrendered, to be transported teil Thou and miles
191- the edification of Londoners at home."