New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-21
CHANCES AT EUROPE. No. KILL
Leaving the Exhibition.

Editorial Correspondence of The Tribune.
LONDON, Friday, June 6, 1851.
THE great Exposition (as the French
more accurately term ny has now been more
than five weeks open, and is nearly complete
You NAV wander for miles through its richly
frlnged avenues without hearing the sound of
saw or hammer. except IN the space allotted to
Russia, which is now boarded up on all sides,
and in which some twenty or thirty men are at
work erecting stands, unpacking and arranging
fabrics, &c. visited it yesterday, and inferred
that the work is pushed night and day. since A
part of the workmen We're asleep (under can
vas) at . o'clock This apartment promises TO
be most attractive when opened 10 the public.
Its contents will not be numerous, but among
thcnr are very large and snowy manufactures OF
Porcelain, Bronze, &c, and tables of the finest
Malachite a single piece weighing Il think nearly
or quite half a tun Not half the wares are yet
displaycd. but Russia will be the center of at
traction for some days after It Is thrown open.
The Exhibition has become steady busl-
ness-Ike concern. The four shilling days OF
each week are improved and enjoyed by the com
mon people, who quietly put to shame the specu-
lation of the ATlStOcratlc 6Tacles as to their
probable behavior in such a magazine Of wealth
and Observation-Disclosures they might not make a
general rush on the precious stones, gold and
silver ware and other valuahleS here staring
them m the face, with often but single police
man in sight-whether they might not refuse %
leave at the hour OF closing, &c. &c. The gates
are surrounded little before ten IN the morning
bv a gathering. deepening crowd, but all friendly
and peaceable and when they open az the
stroke OF the clock, a dense column pOurs III
through each aperture, each paying his shilling
as he passes, mo tickets being used and no
change aiyen-the holders of season. jurors and
exhibitors tickets have separate entrances,) and
all proceeding as smoothly as rapidly Within halt
an hour. ten thousand shillmgs will have thus
been taken: within the next hour, ten thousand
more thence the admissions fall on but the
number ranges pretty regularly from Forty 70
Fifty thousand per day making the daily re-
CENTS from $4,000 TO Sl2, COS. Yesterday was
great Race Day at Ascot attended by the Queen
and Royal Family, as also by most Of the
hahitual oilers, with multitude beside, (and
niserably raw, rainy, chilly day they had OF II,
with very poor racing) yet ] should say that the
attendance at the Exhibition was greater than
ever before Certainly not less than fifty thou
sand shiuings, or $4,000, can have been taken.
For hours. the Grand Avenue, which Is nearly
or quite half mile long and at least thirty feet
wide. was so filled with the moving mass that
no vacant spaces could be seen from any position
commanding an extensive prospect, though small
ones We're occasionally disccyerable while
threading the mazes Of the throng These were
constantly turning of into one or another de-
partmeni according 10 their several tastes, but
their places We're as constantly supplied either
by newcomers OF by those who. having COM
ple:ed their examinations IN one department,
were Fastening TO another or looking for one
especially attractive. Turn into whatever cor
ner YOU might, there were clusters Of deeply IN
ieresied gazers, intent on making the most Of
their day and their shilling. while IN the
ouieter hooks from 10 o'clock might he seen
families or parties eating the lunch which
with prophetic foresight OF the miserable
quality and exorbitant price Of the vianls
served to you IN the spacious Refreshment Sa-
looms, they hal wisely brought from home But
mo XII beng Of less transient interest WI, iDlow this
On Moaday