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THE EXHIBITION OF 1851

... TIE 1lXHIBITION- OF 1851. * .TH1E BI p Lpn)T 17 Wewere againl on the gruonod yestray.' rept ~ prgres hasbeei made In avevry porton of thewossic !4 ut`nt vilit. Nearly~ 2,liiO m Otter work. Tie ?? of the operaitions, which we have lhitherto oledi O 0g broken by the clank of hamers. of.erya anwigt 1Thirl Woherfstieae oW much is'done by~the aid of steam.i~ dhreis. Ther iteam'puttyfag macelifie, ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... THER l-REAT EXHIBITION. r THE CUSTOMS IN THE EXHIBITION. p CUSToMs DEPARLTMENT AT THLE CRYSTAL Pa.iuoa.-The di Board of Customs have by minute appointed the following 01 gentlemen for special duty in Hyde Park during the ensuing Grand Industrial Exhiibition :-Mr. Rolls,of the Laniding Surveyor's office, as chief;l Mr. T. Fairman, searcher, comp- ya troller of accounts; and Mr. M. D. Cresbie, ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... WHE G REAT EXHIBITION. :~ %. : -- 7s -- - .Iauttendance, - yesterday, although many thou- saa4q'.elow the monstfr gatheringof the preceding day, wasyet considerably beyond the nurd ber of previous Wed- nesdsSy`:. 68,000 persons were admitted. on Wednesday fwee, hile yesterday the. numbers' considerably exceeded 61,PQ0. Iler Majesty was, as usunl, one of the earliest visit jdtpa ceeded to ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... The Derby day made little impression on the; ap- pearance of the crowd in the Crystal Palace. There were people enaogh in London bor the Derby aud the Exhibi-i 1 tion, and it surprised foreigners that a concoursa of eleganceO and fashion could be found in both places. In the after- noon the navy was, as usual, the scene of favourite resort,'! and in the promenade we noticed several leaders of ...

MUSIC

... - &ngs of FrantO. - Composed by CIHARLM3 GouroDU zE .The quality of th'ese 'ga, 'nd' ,theiir recoption i iboth in Paris and London, have settled the question started by some of our musical critics as to the young author's 1- e character as' a tobmaposer. The cold reception of 'his' Sappho at thQ Grand Opera, and (in its Italian drqqs) a . at Coveixt-gariednwa4' Lndeniably owiing to tbe, ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... On entering the building yesterday, it was satis- factory to find that the daily complaints of the public and the press on the subject of ventilationhadnot been left wholly unattended to. The whole of the glass in the east and west galleries has been removed, and such light airs as generally blow in that direction have free ingress and egress. A similar change is contemplated with respect to ...

DRAMA

... PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The entertainments at this theatre last night con: sited of ,The First Part of King Henry IV., and a new afterpiece, called Tender Precautions, or the Romance of Marriage. The play was strongly cpst. Bartley's Fasft was an excellent and; successful performance. It was, perhaps, a little too elaborate. He seemed studiously desirous to make I points; and his anxiety not ...

LITERATURE

... LITERA TUBE. * Money and Mlorals, a Book for the Times. By JoHn! LALOU. J. Chapman. Mr. Lalor states in his preface, that his work is an attempt to overthrow one of the fundamental prin- ciples of the reigning system of political economy. After explaining his views on capital, currency, and trade, he goes on to vindicate the title of his book by -showing the connexion between morals and money. ...

LITERATURE

... LIT)ERA TUBE. Civil Wiars and Mfonarchs, in Francee irs *iho Sizteeatl and atventeentbsh ACenturiecs. By LEDOPOLD B~E; XI.Z A current liter 'mithorir lis i~ef rkte~dthat the perfecat hi stori an would rtu lt from a 9oembjnatio~ a f Germnan and of Fr'ench genius; the''Geriinar' to' el-. leet the mnaterials, and to suggrest.'to~ theories, and the Frenchman to describ, to systematise, and to ...

LITERATURE

... LITERA TUBE. Sam Slicik's Jise Saws a'rd Modewn Instances. Hurst and Blackett. The author of 4Sam Slick isa writer who has kept up his popularity as well as any of his contem- poraries. We are used now-a-days to the exhaustion of good notions; so many men first give genuinely the very best of their creative and inventive abun- dance, and then, finding that attractive, dilute it, and give ...

DRAMA

... 2. ADELPEI. E The legitimate drama, transplanted here from the y Haymarket by Mr. Webster, has of late almost superseded s- that class of piec s for which the Adelphi has so long been x- specially renowned. That the old spitit of the place, how- !, ever, is not quite extinct, was proved last night by the pro- Y duction of a new melodrama, ?? with real Adelphi effects a (to quote the play ...

LITERATURE

... LIT.ERA TUBE. 2we Last Ftruit off r. ?? Tree. By WALTER SAVAGE LANnon. Moxoa. i18I. ave. 'Under this somewhat pathetic title, Mr. Landor puts forth a very miscellaneous collection of poetry and prose, in which his usual characteristics of a most noble style, conscientious finish, and fine ima- gination, in combination with a judgment proud, and at times hasty in its praise and blame, are mani- ...