The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

TUESDAY.—The total amount taken at the doors was
£2,828 195., the number of visitors being 68,554.
WEDNESDAY.—OnIy one season ticket was sold. The
money taken at the door; amounted to £2,264 10s.,
making the total receipts £2,265 10s. The police report
gives the number of visitors as 47,817.
THURSDAY.—X2,3BO was the amount taken at the
doors, the police return of visitors being 49,452.
FRIDAY.—The receipts from half-crowns amounted to
£2,051 75., and the number of visitors was 20,859.
Among them came a party of four Iricaris Indians, who,
besides inspecting the interior of the building, had a "pa-
laver" with the executive committee, and were less re-
served and more sensible than from American romance
might have been expected. They expressed great aston-
ishment, not at the Koh-i-noor itself, but at its value,
and the whoop which they raised when Mr. Catlin, their
guide, told them this, for a moment suggested misgivings
for the safety of the policeman who guards the treasure.
The machinery in motion also produced a strong impres-
sion upon these wild men of the woods, and when one of
the self-acting " mules" was suddenly arrested in its
course, " the manitou" or " great spirit" was the cause.
Their " palaver" with the executive related, we hear, to
some things which they had brought over with them from
the other side of " the Salt Lake," and which they wished
admitted into the exhibition.
SATURDAY.—Season tickets £29. At the doors
£1592 7s. 6d. Total £1621 7s. 6d. Police numbers
16,741.

Within the last few days an unoccupied space at the
west end of the building, close to where the agricultural
implement display terminates, has been filled up with
specimens of those descriptions of goods which form the
staple manufactures of Manchester.
In strong contrast to these Manchester goods are con-
tributions from China by Major Edy, among which is in-
cluded a setof remarkable bronzes saidto be 5,000 years old.
It is said that a meeting of the Royal Commission
will be held this day (Tuesday), to settle finally as to the
exact date on which the building should close, and the
manner in which that event should take place. On the
first point, it seems probable that an early day in October
will be fixed for the purpose, as otherwise contributors
from the north of Europe may have their goods overtaken
by the winter ice ; and, under any circumstances, at that
period, the pleasure-seeking season of the year is over.
We may, therefore, fairly take it for granted that the
building will close on some day before the middle of
October.

The following letter has been addressed by his royel
highness Prince Albert to M. Dupin. President of the
French Commission, in reply to a note addressed to the
Prince on the occasion of M. Dupin's duties terminat•
ing

Monsieur le President,—l have received with much satis-
faction the letter of the 27th of this month, which you have
addressed to me in my quality of President of the Royal Com-
mission for the Exhibition of 1851, in the name of the French
Commission, on the occasion of your return to France, after
having terminated your labours relative to the Juries. I fully
appreciate, together with all the Commissioners of her Majesty,
the great devotedness displayed by you and by the Commis-
sion over which you preside. I appreciate the incessant zeal. nd
scrupulous attention with which, during three months, you have
accomplished, together with a great number of the most eminent
men ofall countries, the extremely laborious and responsible duty
of jurymen. The best recompeuse you will have to receive will be
given to you by the general approbation of the public, when the
results of your labours shall be known. The royal commissioners
Commissioners the reul ati o n
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are not insensible to the readiness with which the members of
the French Commission have conformed to the regulations
imposed on the subject of the conditions on which the first
asjaeysty's that
medals were to be accorded, though your experience of French
exhibitions caused you to consider those conditions as not
necessary.
after the most complete consideration of the peculiar circum-
s
stances of the Universal Exhibition; all their desires were to
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act in the way best calculated to obtain the success of the en-
terprize. I cannot let this occasion pass without expressing
our sentiment of the great advantage we have derived from
France having formed by her productions such an interesting
and precious portion of the Exhibition; and at your govern-
ment having taken care to send so many chefs d'muvres, the
character of which will certainly exercise a happy influence on
the sciences and arts of our own and other countries. I con-
clude by expressing to you, both in my own name and in that
of the Royal Commissioners, our thanks for the part which
you have personally taken in our labours, both as president of
one of the groups of juries, and as vice-president of the supe-
rior Council of Presidents, as also for the impartiality and
urbanity you have displayed on all occasions on which you
have fulfilled those functions. Accept, &c,, ALBERT, President
of the Royal commission of England.