The southern press., 1851-11-01
Foreign Correspondents. Of Ms Boston Post.

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| The last day but one of the Great Exhibition
| Is now passing. The incentive which the last
one shilling days, knowing them to be the last,
has produced, surprising all belief stood
upon the roof of the exhibition at 1 o'clock on
| Tuesday, that might look down the Park over
the multitudes crowding towards the places of
entrance to the building. The sight was one
not often to be Witnessed perhaps never, In
times of peace, witnessed before Far as the
eve could reach, pouring into Hyde Park from
Knightsbrdge, through the Albert gate, under
the marble arch, round the noble mansion of
Apsley, from Camberwell and Brxton and Is
lington and Chelsea and Eaton, along every
path, in every kind of vehicle, across the bridge
of the Serpentine, along by the Horse Guards,
through Rotten Row, they came-that great
multitude which none could number, thronging
every avenue, pouring through every defile, issu-
ing from every street, till l09720 souls had en-
tered beneath the archways and stood beneath
the shelter of this building for all nations. On
Wednesday the number exceeded this by few
hundreds. On Thursday, the last shilling day,
they again fell below 100000 When Rome in
her palmiest days boosted of her Coliseum, il
held but 10000, and that number all seated
Here almost twice that number were gathered,
and all moving around in every direction.
The Duke Of Wellington entered the building
on Tuesday, and passed through the whole
length Of the nave. As soon as it was rumored
he was present, the people below crowded
around and cheered him enthusiastically. The
noise started the visitors in the galleries, and so
| great and sudden was the rush that much appre-
hension was felt lest they should not sustain
the immense weight The duke, whose visit
was certainly inopportune, seemed to share the
fear, and he submitted himself to the police to
be FASTENED as fast as his feeble steps would
carry him to the door Of exit Next to the
Queen, and hardly less than her, does popular
enthusiasm always greet the old duke. 1t is
not very uncharitable to find in his evidently
growing fondness for popular applause an evil
dence Of the mental infrmties of advanced
| years.
Among the visitors yesterday was Prince Ma
poleon Bonaparte, whose appearance, however,
excited less attention than that Of young giant
| from the Highlands of Scotland. The individual
in question seemed to be not over three and
twenty years old, and to have grown up ia some
remote part of the country; at least such might
be inferred from the establishment with which
he regarded the universal wonder that attended
the crowds around him. A policeman requested
the favor of his measurement in height, and a
rule being produced it was found that he was
z feet inches tall. His frame was very ath.
letic, his muscular sytem compact, and his
proportions of the hugest kind. Il is rumored
that he is on his way to that transatlantic rem
devious where the wonderful productions of ma
ture gain such world wide renown.
The receipts Of the exhibition for the last four
days have been as follows, viz:
Monday .E5,I75 Is o
Tuesday 5,23l 10 0
| "Wednesday 5,283 80
Thursday 4,344 TO
Several favorable notices of American works
of art have appeared in the monthly magazines
OF the last issue. One Of them thus speaks of
Stephenson's statue Of the Dying Indian, and
the Greek Slave:
"While ia France we thus find art an inse
parable element of that polished luxury which
is the EXTREMIST point Of social refinement, in
America it would be equally vain as unreason-
able to look for a similar result. 1t is crafty
ing, however, to see some of her citizens devot-
J ing their genius to the execution Of works by
which their fellow countrymen may be gradually
led TO that innocent and elevated source Of en-
joyment which they can as yet be scarcely ex-
pected 10 appreciate. The reputation Of Mr..
Powers is, we conceive, somewhat too great for
his merits. His Greek Slave is certainly grace
full and feminine, but il by no means displays
that yigor Of treatment which we should have
expected from rising sculptor Of compare
lively new country. We are bound TO confess
that the impression II has produced upon our
imagination is but feeble, and that we consider
its attitude and treatment at once stiff and nam
by panby.
De Bays Eve or Wyatt's 'Glycera, the meagre
ness of its proportions must be at once ap;a-
rent. Although, however, il does not convey TO
US pleasing sensation, Il may not the less fol.
low that 1t justly merits the admiration Of those
who are content with delicately executed and
refined imitation OF somewhat feeble nature
There are, perhaps few statues which have en-
| loved greater popularity than the Greek Slave
Casts of il in n variety Of materials are hawked
about the streets every Italian boy carries il on
his board and il was but the other day that we
recognized il in sweetmeat shop in Tottenham-
courtroad nicely executed in a species Of bar
ley sugar substance which not inelegantly
rendered, in glowing flesh color, its sentimental
gracss.
In the figure Of "A Fisher Boy listening TO a
She'll Uhe property Of Mr.. Robert Stephenson,
the eminent engineer,) Mr.. Powers has been
much more successful. Although there Is still
a want Of easy action about the figure, its pro-
portions are very good, and its forms are re-
fined and modelled with considerable dexterity.
"Mr. Stephenson, young American artist, 10
his Dying Indian rnanifests considerable pow.
er. Discarding altogether conventional arrange
ments, he has aimed only at producing vivid
realization Of a striking incident II Is indeed
work Of great promise, and although IL be.
trays a somewhat to- pre-Raphaelite imitation
Of MANURE, il still possesses degree Of yigor far
more likely 10 originate natural school Of sculp
ture for America than the more studied graces
Of Mr.. Powers"
The Morning Chronicle Of to-day gives body
TO rumor which has been current in the TOR.
eign department Of the Exhibition for several
weeks, in the following manner
@Inhnenced by the marvellous success which
has attended this great undertaking, and con-
vinced Of the benefits which must accrue 10 the
citizens Of the United States from an exhibition
Of similar character in that country, steps have
been taken for holding n preparatory one at
New York in the next year. II may be remem-
bered that some time since we published the cir.
| cuIar issued by A committee q ( gentlemen nj