International Exhibition Of 1862.

moral courage , industry , and labour of his Eoyal Highness , the Exhibition of 1851 must have been a lamentable failure ; and his attendance at the meeting that night was an important and most influential indication of the great interest which was felt by his Eoyal Highness and her Majesty in the success of that of 1862 . Mr . Dillon remarked that while the Exhibition of 1851 was an

experiment , the present movement was an attempt to make that Exhibition a decennial census , not of the numbers , but of the wealth , the talent , and the industry of the people . He trusted that one of the results ivould he that foreign nations as well as ourselves AA'Ould turn their sivords into pruning hooks , and learn the arts of war no more .

Sir 1 . Phillips congratulated the President and members of the Society of Arts on the successful result of the preliminary measures by which the present position of the Exhibition of 1862 had been achieved . The three wants of the Society had been—first , a site ; secondly , a fund ; and thirdly , a body of managers in which the public AA'ould have confidence . The site Ai-as given hy the Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition , the public and the Subscribers , and the Society was fortunate enough to name fii-e noblemen and

gentlemen whose nomination secured the public approval . In conclusion , Sir Thomas thanked his Eoyal Highness for the valuable assistance he had given to the Society by his counsel and advice in the removal of difficulties .

Ihe Prince Consort spoke as folloivs—After having heard the interesting observations Avhich have fallen from the gentlemen AA-IIO have addressed the meeting this evening , it is not my intention to trouble you Avith any lengthened remarks of my own . Lord Granville has referred to the tact of my presence as affording au evidence of the interest which I feel in the success of the coming Exhibition of 1862 . I should be sorry to leave you to draw , as it were by inferencethe conclusionfrom my presence alonethat I feel such

, , , interest , but I ivish you to hear from my oivn mouth that I do take that interest . ( Cheering . ) With regard to what Sir Thomas Phillips has kindly said as to my having been able to start you in the right path , I may assure you that ivhat I have been able to do I havo done with great willingness . ( Cheers . ) Ifc has been a real and true privation to mo to be prevented by the avocations and duties of my position from giving the same amount of time and

labour to this Exhibition as it was my privilege to give to that of 1851 . Gentlemen , you will succeed . ( Hear , hear . ) You are in earnest ; and being in earnest you will succeed . ( Cheers . ) I can but congratulate you on the steps you have taken . You have an able body of managers , with all of Avhom I am well acquainted , and I knoiv , from personal experience , that they aro thoroughly conversant with the work you have confided to their care . ( Cheers . ) You

have an able architect , a young officer of Engineers , a gentleman who has shoAvn by bis works , Avhich ivere opened in the Horticultural Gardens to-day , that he is capable of vast designs and novel contrivances , and that he is possessed of great taste . Lord Granville and Sir T . Phillips have both referred to foreign nations . I happen to know that foreign nations look with favour on the coming Exhibition , and that they are ready to come and measure their strength with ours . ( Hear . ) I need not repeat the warning

and encouragement which Lord Granville has thrown out to the manufacturers and artists of this country to do their utmost in order to maintain the position wliich they so gloriously secured on the last occasion . ( Hear , hear . ) The duty which I have IIOAV to perform is a short one and a pleasing one , that of proposing to you to join me in returning thanks to Mr . Halves for his able and valuable paper . ( Cheers . ) It contained a comprehensive review of all the

points ivhich are of importance to us to consider with regard to the great undertaking before us , and he has expressed his hopes for the success of the undertaking based upon what I believe to he a perfectly true picture , and ivhat I may be alloived to say ivas a most gratifying picture of tho progress of this nation . ( Cheering . ) I beg , gentlemen , to propose the thanks of this assemblage to Mr . Hawes for his able paper . ( Cheering . ) Mr . Hawes briefly returned thanks .

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

A market in Africa is thus described b y Mr . Consul Petherick in his Egypt , the Soudan , and Centred Africa : — "Afc about 9 a . m . the market was established , and a motley group of some six or seven hundred people were assembled . Having vicAvcd the arrivals from the spacious doorivay of the shed , where our couches had been placed since the rising of the sun—the ground lirst having been sivept and amply flooded with waterfor the

, double purpose of keeping down the dust and cooling it—Ibrahim Ell ' cndi and myself noiv strolled down to the scene of general attraction . The booths , in two I-OAA-S , formed a wide street , some thirty yards across , in continuation of AA-hich innumerable dealers spread their goods on hides or mats upon the ground , the vendors in most

instances exposed to no tender sun , whilst others glorM itt extravagant imitations of umbrellas . Between these lines the crowds of spear-hearing Arabs moved unceasingly ; while both extremities of the lines were occupied by cattle of all kinds , horses and ! asses included , for sale . On the plain eastward , the donkeys and camels , pinioned by the fore-legs , were turned out to rejoice in the riddance of their loads . The greatest crowds were collected around the stalls where coral and amber beads , ivory and horn bracelets ,

glass-head necklaces , hedjas , sandals , small looking-glasses , and a variety of brass trinkets , were displayed . Crowds of young men and women frequented the vendors of gaudily-striped handkerchiefs , white , grey , and blue dyed cotton Manchester goods , and plain white red-bordered plaid scarfs . Saddles for all kinds of beasts , cords , bridles , swords , lances , hoes , hatchets , cowry shells , needles , brass thimbles , oil , odoriferous herbs , spices ; antimony , called 'kohl , ' for tinging the eyelashes ; pepper , salt , onions , garlic , tobacco , grain , and a thousand other things , formed the objects of trade . "

Tbe Athenanim remarks of the late Professor Porson : — " His character , one unfortunate point excepted , was worthy of his fame as a scholar . All the good he did , and it was not a little , he did to others ; all the harm he did , and that not a little either , was done to himself . He deserves a merciful sentence as a man , and a high pedestal among scholars . "

The Eev . E . Paxton Hood , the popular Temperance lecturer , is noiv editing the Eclectic Review , which is to be enlarged in bulk to the same size as the Cornhill Magazine , and reduced in price from half-a-crOAA-n to a shilling . The late Chevalier Bunsen is thus noticed in the April number of the Journal of Sacred Literature-. — "This eminent personage has

recently passed away . It is seldom that a foreigner has acquired so large an amount of esteem in this country as the functionary so long knoivn as the Chevalier Bunsen . We believe that he ivas a greater general favourite here than he was in his own country . Many , ivho ivere far indeed from harbouring his sentiments on religious subjects , admired him as a scholar and loved him as a man . But of these they were not a feiv , considering his critical eccentricities .

Who laughed that such a man should be , Or grieved that Atticus was he . On Biblical and historical subjects , to AA'hich he devoted a large share of his great industry , his despotism as a critic was absolute and quite unparalleled . His delight was in the paradoxical , and he appears to have entertained a real antipathy to all conventional modes of thinking . History appears to have existedAvriters sacred

, and profane to have put forth the fruits of their genius , merely to furnish materials for a kind of phantasmagoria for the amusement of Baron Bunsen . That he had a kind of faith in Divine verities ; and that this influenced his life , is more than probable . AVe believe it is no uncommon a thing among his countrymen , even when their speculations go the length of theoretically destroying all the foundations of reliionfor the heart to accept what the theory ignores .

g , And , though among the mass of their countrymen these speculations have been most disastrous in their influence , it does not appear to he supposed among the theorists themselves that these speculations are things to he believed ; that there is any objective truth in them when there is none in nature . And thus the idea of any one of these independent thinkers pinning his faith upon another Avould

appear ridiculous . This habit of mind lias not as yet established itself in our oivn country . We cannot trust our important interests , whether material or spiritual , to anything Avhich does not appear logically trustworthy and real . And hence when the English mind adopts a theory , that theory becomes a creed , though it may be only a belief in nullifidianism . " Mr . James Augustine Sfc . John has HOAV nearly ready two volumes

of his History of the Four Conquests of England : Roman , , Anglo-Saxon , Danish , and Norman . Mr . St . John , Ave understand , has availed himself of the valuable information on important points of English history afforded hy the Chronicles published by direction of the Master of the Eolls . Household Medicine is the title of a work just on the

eve of publication , by John Gardner , M . D . The work is to be similar in character to the famous Buchan's Domestic Medicine , of which its title is an imitation . Jlr . Thomas Ellison , E . S . S ., has a work in the press on Slavery and Seeession . A fancy fair on behalf of the Eoyal Bramatic College is to be held at the Crystal Palace , on Saturday , the 20 th of Julv .