The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

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Again during Wednesday a large accession was made to
the funds of the Commission, amounting altogether to
upwards of £2,500. On Friday the building remained
open till 7 o'clock, and that arrangement will be conti-
nued, and probably extended if such be found desirable.
On Thursday the receipts from visitors rose higher than
ever. The ss. contributions amounted to £2,430, and

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swelled the total sum taken to £3,3G0. Even the Execu-
tive Committee are astonished with their own success, and
it now seems difficult to say at what point their financial
fortunes may stop. Professor Cowper gave his first lec-
ture to the students of King's College yesterday within
the building. He explained to them the construction of
\Vilkin's lighthouse, and then took them into the depart-
ment of machinery in motion, the principles of a variety
of objects in which he illustrated by diagrams. The first
experiment in turning the Exhibition to educational uses
has been very successful, and the Executive Committee are
determined to persevere in their efforts in that direction.
They have received applications from the National Schools,
and from other bodies, for facilities with a view to a prac-
tical course of instruction, but as yet have not decided
what course they should pursue with regard to them.
On Friday morning before the doors were opened to
the public her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied
by their royal guests, again visited the Exhibition, several
sections of which they examined minutely during their
stay. The receipts from ss. admittances amounted during
the day to £2,554, and from the sale of season tickets to
£676 ; so that the total sum taken was £3,230. These
increasing indications of popularity and success must fill
the managers of the undertaking with much anxious con-
cern for the suitable accommodation of visitors when the
present entrance fee falls, as it will do on the 26th, to is.
The building it is calculated will hold 60,000 people—a
large number certainly, but hardly sufficient if the hum-
bler classes show a curiosity about the contents of the Ex-
hibition at all proportionate to that displayed by their
superiors. Not only are the masses of the metropolitan
population waiting for low prices, but the summer excur-
sion trains will bring the artisans and mechanics of the
north in upon London like an inundation, and, consider-
able as the importations have been from abroad, they
form, we have every reason to believe, but a small van-
guard of the vast army of visitors that may shortly be ex-
pected. The question therefore arises how these immense
bodies of spectators from town and country and from
foreign parts are to be received should they present them-
selves in greater numbers than the Crystal Palace can
hold. As the t difice cannot be expanded upon an emer-
gency of the kind, it seems inevitable that some limit
should be fixed to the admissions. Suppose that that is
fixed at 60,000, then other difficulties present themselves.
There is a risk, for instance, that on such occasions as
Whitsuntide the ingenious denizens of Cockaigne may
flock to Hyde-park in such numbers as to exclude, in a
great measure, country visitors who have come a long way
from home, sacrificed time, paid railway fare, and encoun-
tered the formidable expenses of life in London for how-
ever short a period, in order to gratify their laudable de-
sire to see the Exhibition. Now, there is an evident
hardship in this ; and when they take the subject into
their consideration we trust that the commissioners will
fully protect the interests of provincials and foreigners in
this matter. The metropolitan population will have ample
opportunities for seeing the wonders of the World's Fair
vri:Loui; great sacrifice either of time or of money.
They will, therefore, we are sure submit without repining
to such arrangements as the necessities and justice of a
case like that which we have imagined will impose. As to
the nature of those arrangements no difficulty ought to be
experienced in rendering them satisfactory. The coOpe-
ration of the railway companies will be required, and will,
we have no doubt, be readily granted. They have it in
their power to regulate, to a certain extent at least, the
influx of visitors, and by this means, and by an issue of
cards to passengers as. evidence that they have come up to
town to see the Exhibition, the claims of our provincial
population and of people from abroad might be amply
provided for. No time should now be lost in the con-
sideration of this very important subject, for the 26th is
close at hand, and it will never do to trust to chance in
such a matter.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal party at the
palace, visited the Exhibition on Saturday morning before
the public were admitted, and were chiefly occupied in
inspecting the departments of Spanish, Italian, and French
contributors. After their departure the area of the build-
ing was thronged throughout the day, and no less a sum
than £2,472 was taken in ss. at the doors. The sale of season
tickets at length begins to show symptoms of a declining
market, and the amount received thence on Saturday was
only £557. The total receipts of the commission were,
however, £3,029.

Upwards of £25,000 has now been received at the doors
of the Crystal Palace for admission, and we imagine that
nearly twice that sum has been received for season tickets.

Ar;ong the curiosities at the Great Exhibition, one of
the strangest articles is a coat of Irish frieze, from the
establishment of Messrs. Kearse and Co., Limerick, which
may be altered into nine different and distinct shapes !
On Tuesday, it was discovered that a robbery had been
committed under mysterious circumstances, in the Ame-
rican department of the Exhibition. The article, a rifle
pistol, was all right on the day of the opening, but on
Tuesday it was found to be missing. It is thus described—
" A slight magogany case, containing a detached breecher
rifle pistol, with stock to form a gun, with a trap at butts
composed of German silver, and an ornament of the same
metal on the opposite side; maker's name, D. W. Wisson,
Hertford, Connecticut."
On Friday a second robbery in the Exhibition building
was reported. The article now stolen is a lady's dagger,
of a very unique description. It is only six inches long,
in the form of a cross, having steel blade, ivory handle,
and silver cross ornamenting it, and enclosed in a purple
case. The property was seen safe shortly before 10, and
at a quarter past it was found missing. The loss was
immediately made known at all the entrances, and extra
constables stationed, in order to catch the guilty party ;
they, however, got clear awa:-.
DOM MIGUEL DE BRAGANZA.—On Friday, this Prince
paid a visit to the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park. A
remarkable incident occurred during the royal visit. A
Portuguese nobleman had requested to be presented to
the Prince ; and while he was offering his respectful
homage, it was observed that a gentleman remained at a
few paces from the illustrious visitor, apparently much
engrossed with the scene. That individual was no other
than Costa Cabral, Conde Thomar, who had only just
arrived in London, a fugitive from popular indignation !

TIIE GREAT EXHIBITION AND TEL BIBLE.:—A writer
in the Times, congratulating the country on the astonish-
ing magazine of human genius and skill shewn in the
Bible deposited at the Great Exhibition, in no less than
130 different languages, justly complains of its treatment
by the acting managers of the Exhibition. " When the
agents of the Bible Society first applied for permission to
exhibit their extraordinary work, they were met with a
flat refusal. Subsequently, when it was found impossible
altogether to reject so just a claim, a place was alloted for
the work ; but the place was a bad one, and the space was
not one-third part as large as was required. But, even
this place was subsequently usurped for the purpose of
occupying it with a staircase. Room was, however, af-
terwards given to the Bible ; but, by way of compensa-
tion, I suppose, it was thrust into a by-passage, where
one can hardly discover it. It is at the back of the room
which contains the Prince of Wales's cradle. Finally, in
order that there should be no mistake about the spirit in
which the Bible was treated, the number in the crtaloguo
which ought to have contained an account of this won-
derful national work (for it is a national work) was printed
blank. I cannot help contrasting the very different
treatment which Mr. Pugin and other exhibitors who
profess the Roman Catholic faith have received. They
have had their specimens of medimval art set off to the
best advantage. I don't complain of this. I don't be-
grudge to any exhibitor, whatever his creed may be, the
most advantageous room for his works. I ask for no fa-
vour. I ask only for justice and impartiality. I say it is
a national disgrace—l had almost said a national sin—that
the Bible should be so treated."

WHERE IS SUNDERLAND ?—The editor of the Sunder-
land Herald was last week at the Exhibition. He sought
everywhere for the collection of articles sent from that
port, but they could not be found. How many miles of
counter we surveyed (he says), how many courts we en-
tered and ransacked, how many inscriptions on flag and
showboard we toilsomely deciphered, we will not stop to
say,—but all in vain. There was no such place as Sun-
derland in the United Kingdom ! The third shipping port
of the kingdom was suddenly blotted out of the map !
" Canny" Sunderland had ceased to be. It was very dis-
tressing. We applied to a policeman—to many police-
men—to sappers and miners. " They heard it—but they
heeded not ;" or, if they directed us, it was to where we
had gone already, and found nothing. At last, one blue-
coated superintendent, more knowing than his fellows,
bade us look in the " United States." " But Sunderland

is not in the United States," we ventured to suggest.

" No, but you'll find it there, all the same," was the only
reply vouchsafed us. So we went a weary journey all the
way to the United States, and there. sure enough, some-
where between Michigan and Massachusetts, we found
canny Sunderland—her models and her clock-work, her
glass and her coal, figuring innocently amid murderous
bowie-knives and many-barrelled revolvers—one of the
most heart-rending cases of wholesale emigration of a
flourishing port, with all its industry, to the New World,
that every roused the wrath of a Richmond, or awakened
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g:1t1;orp. Oh ! Sunderland—oh ! our native tow,—that
ever we should find thee in the United States ! And now,
perhaps, somebody can tell us whose fault it is ?
POPERY AT THE EXHIBITION.—Mr. Rochfort Clarke
in a letter to the editor of the Record, complains of the
indecent and superstitious imagery at the Great Exhibi-
tion, and Fays—" How long will the Church of God tamely
submit to this thraldom ? The Church of Rome has tried
to make a compromise with the world. It melted down
1 the head of Jupiter Capitolinus, and brought out another
head and called it Peter; it melted down the hand that
held the thunderbolt, and brought out another hand that
held a key, and gave it to its Peter. It has cast a cloak
over the naked Venus, and calls the image, in its new
dress, Mary. For every god that Rowe pagan would
furnish, Rome papal can supply a saint. What has been
the result of this compromise ? The porpetuation of
heathenism. If you would see Venus in perfection, go 1 to
apostate Rome, that corruption of the universal Church,
where the Priegts have such crooked idea: of chu 9titY, that