The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

THE ,GREJIT EXHIBITION.

TIIESDAY.—The number of visitors was 69,346, and
the amount taken.X3,3o3 4s.

WEDNESDAY.—The receipts amounted to £2,830 lls
the number of visitors being 55,050.

THIIRSDAY.—The number of visitors was 64,298, and
the receipts £3,080 425. 6cl.

FRIDAY.-31,95,1 persons entered the building, and the
sum of £3,354 3s. was taken in halfcrowns at the doors.
SATURDAY.--There were 29.640 visitors., and the
receipts amounted to 42,862 14s.

A lady in Bloomer attire made her appearance among
the crowds of visitors during the day, and the new costume
and the fair wearer of it, as may be imagined, attracted no
small share of attention.

The contractors for building the Exhibition have re-
ceived notice from the executive committee, to commence
pulling down the Crystal Palace after the 11th proximo.
THE CLOSING SCENE..—The programme of the tlosing
is So far settled, and circulars are about to be issued to
exhibitors informing them that the building will be closed
to the public on Saturday. the 11th of October; that on
the 13th and 14th they will have the privilege of going
there with two friends, and that on the 15th they are in-
vited to be present at 12 o'clock at the meeting of .the
Royal Commissioners. By this arrangement the exhibi-
tors will have the farewell view, af the Crystal Palace, and
a deference is thus shewn to their. labours and their sacri-
aces on its behalf, which. we are sure, they will not be
slow to appreciate. With a view to rendering the cere-
mony of the 15th as imposing as the circumstances will
permit, Mr. Fox, the eminent contractor, has addressed a
letter to the Executive Committee, offering the services
of the Sacred Harmonic Society in assembling 1,500 per-
formers on the occasion, the whole to be conducted by
Mr. Costa. As the period for the closing approaches, the
propriety of some respectful observances of form to ac-
company it appears to be more deeply felt, but the Royal
Commission make no sign upon the subject.

MURDER AT FROME.—lntelligence has been received
at Bristol of a shocking murder having been committed at
West Woodlands, Frome, upon the person of a young girl
named Sarah Watts. It appears that the deceased, who
was 15 years of age, was left in charge of the cottage in
which her parents resided on Thursday week, and that in
the course of that day she was found dead under circum-
stance that leave no room for doubting that she was mur-
dered by some person who has as yet contrived to escape
discovery. From appearances it is probable that the villian
first ravished his victim, and that he then killed her by
striking her with a hammer, club, or some heavy instrument.
TOTAL Loss OF THR SHIP HINDOSTAN, AND Loss OF
LlFE.—Advices have been. received communicating the
distressing shipwreck of this fine vessel, 554 tons burthen,
belonging to Whitby, while on her passage across the
Atlantic, for Reviero-de-Loup, St. Lawrence, from
Portsmouth, accompanied, we regret to say, with shock-
ing loss of life. She encountered a heavy gale on the
25th of August, which continued with great force for
several days. On the 27th the crewdiscovered that she
had sprung an extensive leak, which soon rendered her
completely unmanageable—this was in lat. 4.47,
54.36—the water increasing fast, and the ship settling
down by the head ; the launch was got out,. and the
into
it Captain Roallans, ordered the crew to get
it ; but though every persuasion was used, only six men
with the mate could be prevailed upon to do so, the re-
maining nine, who seemed panic struck, remained on'
board. The boat could not lay by the ship but pulled
after her in imminent peril, shipping heavy seas con-
tinually, and frequently full to the thwarts. While fol-
lowing in her wake the mainmast suddenly fell, and in
the next moment the ship gave a lurch and went to the
bottom. Nothing could be afterwards seen of the un-
fortunate fellows who went down in the vessel, they all
i
perished. The survivors n the launch were picked up in
the course of the following day by the crew of the
schooner Martha Grenoe, which safely landed them at
Shelburne. The Hindostan was, we believe, fully in.
sured ; her Joss and cargo imowlt to several thoaaand
poupds,