Visitors to other Sights-Receipts and Payments. 537

Award to Messrs. Mundays,

Extra Clerks from Law Stationers,

Travelling Expenses and Expenses of Committee,

735 4 10

22,357 17

9

1,220 12 4

8,869 1 11

169,998 15 2

4,877 19

7

6,916 10 8

2,106 7

1

5,707 1 4

Interest on do., and other Interests, Contingencies, &c., 2,695 9 0

The First Report of the Commissioners, from which we have abstracted these interesting details, contains a great number of curious facts, which, had we space, we would willingly transfer to our pages. The average expenditure of each class of visitors on refreshments (the receipts for which were £74,349, 15s. 3d.) wasVisitors at 5s. and upwards, 4s. 4d. per head.

2s. 6d.

4s. 8d.

2s. 4d., the general average being about 3s. The following was the average amount expended by each visitor, including his entrance fee, catalogues, refreshments, and waiting rooms:

* Among the expenses incurred, we find a loss on light gold, £218; on defaced and foreign coin, £232; on spurious coin, £90; and on lost coats and umbrellas, £7, 3s. 6d.

The most interesting portion of the Commissioners' First Report relates to the contents of the Exhibition, the value of the articles exhibited, the number of persons that exhibited them, and the rewards conferred by the Juries. The following table shews the nature and value of the different articles contributed by the United Kingdom :

BY THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Group A-Raw Materials.

Class I. Mining and Mineral Products,
II. Chemical and Pharmaceutical do.,
III. Substances for Food,

IV. Vegetable and Animal Substances for

V. Machines for direct use, Carriages, &c.,
VI. Manufacturing Machines and Tools,
VII. Civil Engineering and Architectural Ar-

ticles,

£21,623 12 10

3,279 16 4

3,565 4 3

3,974 15 10

108,115 5 11

44,976 6 10

20,123 18 11

VIII. Naval Architecture and Military Engi

neering,

30,079 4 5

IX. Agricultural and Horticultural Machines
and Implements,

13,426 8 8

X. Philosophical, Musical, Horological, and
Surgical Instruments,

63,976 12 7

Group C-Textile Fabrics.

XI. Cotton Manufactures,

XV. & XII. Woollen and Mixed Fabrics,
XIII. Silk and Velvet,

XIV. Manufactures from Flax and Hemp,
XVI. Leather, Saddlery, Harness, Skins, Furs,
XVII. Paper, Stationery, Printing, and Book-

binding,

XVIII. Specimens of Printing and Dyeing,

XIX. Tapestry, Carpets, Lace, Embroidery,
XX. Clothing for personal use,

Group D-Metallic, Vitreous, and Ceramic
Manufactures.-

XXI. Cutlery and Edge Tools,

XXII. Iron and General Hardware,

XXIII. Precious Metals, Jewellery, Articles

of

539

Contents of the Exhibition, and their Value. Group E-Miscellaneous Manufactures.— Brought forward, £833,118 5 1 XXVI. Furniture, articles in Papier Maché, Japan,

XXVII. Mineral Manufactures, Marbles, Por

phyries, &c.,

45,925 7 11

8,628 2 1

XXVIII. Animal and Vegetable manufactures,
XXIX. Miscellaneous, and Small Wares,

1,000 0 0

Egypt, Greece, Persia, Mexico, New Granada,
Brazil, Society Isles, St. Domingo,

2,649 0 0

The Commissioners, including all the expenses of the building, have stated that the value of the Crystal Palace and its contents was fully Two MILLIONS. Adding the Koh-i-noor at a low value, which ought to have been done, the value of the whole amounts to TwO AND A QUARTER MILLION.

From the articles exhibited, we must now pass to the exhibitors, and the rewards which they have received. The Commissioners have published a very curious table, occupying eight pages, shewing the number of exhibitors from each country to each of the thirty classes of articles, with the quantity of space, horizontal and vertical, which their articles occupied; but it is only the following general results which we can give :

Space occupied by Exhibitors-Medals, &c., awarded. 541

On the same scale the Commissioners have published a list of the awards, given to exhibitors of every nation, and in every class. The following is the general result:

After the Exhibition was closed, the medals were sent to the Commissioners from different foreign states, and we presume have been given to the exhibitors with some solemnity and form at public meetings held for the purpose. In France, where all such duties are performed so as to confer honour upon the promoters of science and industry, the medals were distributed by the President Louis Napoleon, and the decoration of the Legion of Honour conferred upon the most distinguished exhibitors. Within the last month, on the 27th June, the medals awarded to the Tuscan exhibitors, thirty-two in number, with 25 honourable mentions, were distributed at Florence in the Hall Dell' Buonumore, by M. Baldasseroni, minister of finance, commerce, and public works, having on his right hand the minister of Great Britain, Sir Henry Bulwer.* The Grand Duke had desired that the distribution of these honourable awards to the genius and talent of his subjects, should be conducted in as

* See the Times of July 7th, 1852.