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STATISTICS OF THE EXHIBITION. 303
shilling day, when more than £3,000 was taken, and the
lowest being on the 2nd and the 30th. During the
month of September the average take was still smaller,
but the 29th and 30th were great shilling days, and
brought in £3,000 each.
Of the money received at the doors, £275,000 was in
silver, and £81,000 in gold. The weight of the silver
coin so taken (at the rate of 281bs. per £100) would be
35 tons, and its bulk 900 cubic feet! The following are
the total receipts arising from the various sources of
income in connexion with the Exhibition :—Keceived at
the doors, £356,757 12*.; season tickets, £67,000; sub-
scriptions in aid, £67,298 lis. 4d.; refreshment contract,
£5,500; catalogue contract, £3,200; retiring-rooms, &c,
£3,350 13s.; interest upon Exchequer bills, £20,566
12s. 4^.—Total, £523,673 8s. 8rf.
Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Paxton, the contractors
of the Crystal Palace, severally received from her Majesty,
on the 23rd of October, the honour of knighthood in
acknowledgment of their eminent services.
Our task is done. "We have noted down the leading
features of London, and have endeavoured to show the
accumulative power, influence, wealth, and extent which
it has acquired in the course of successive centuries.
Such is the magnitude and merit of the subject which
we have attempted to sketch, that it forms an inex-
haustible theme for the writer; that voluminous details
might, in connexion with it, be discussed with interest:
but, in order to render our book not only portable, but
easy of perusal and reference, we have been compelled to
satisfy ourselves—and, we trust, our readers—with a
tolerably comprehensive bird's-eye view of the metro-
polis and its adjuncts. London, one of the most vene-
rable capitals in the world, has been gradually pro-
gressing from barbaric darkness to the highest points of
refinement and civilization. Not to go back to those
remote times when our unsophisticated ancestors deve-
shilling day, when more than £3,000 was taken, and the
lowest being on the 2nd and the 30th. During the
month of September the average take was still smaller,
but the 29th and 30th were great shilling days, and
brought in £3,000 each.
Of the money received at the doors, £275,000 was in
silver, and £81,000 in gold. The weight of the silver
coin so taken (at the rate of 281bs. per £100) would be
35 tons, and its bulk 900 cubic feet! The following are
the total receipts arising from the various sources of
income in connexion with the Exhibition :—Keceived at
the doors, £356,757 12*.; season tickets, £67,000; sub-
scriptions in aid, £67,298 lis. 4d.; refreshment contract,
£5,500; catalogue contract, £3,200; retiring-rooms, &c,
£3,350 13s.; interest upon Exchequer bills, £20,566
12s. 4^.—Total, £523,673 8s. 8rf.
Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Paxton, the contractors
of the Crystal Palace, severally received from her Majesty,
on the 23rd of October, the honour of knighthood in
acknowledgment of their eminent services.
Our task is done. "We have noted down the leading
features of London, and have endeavoured to show the
accumulative power, influence, wealth, and extent which
it has acquired in the course of successive centuries.
Such is the magnitude and merit of the subject which
we have attempted to sketch, that it forms an inex-
haustible theme for the writer; that voluminous details
might, in connexion with it, be discussed with interest:
but, in order to render our book not only portable, but
easy of perusal and reference, we have been compelled to
satisfy ourselves—and, we trust, our readers—with a
tolerably comprehensive bird's-eye view of the metro-
polis and its adjuncts. London, one of the most vene-
rable capitals in the world, has been gradually pro-
gressing from barbaric darkness to the highest points of
refinement and civilization. Not to go back to those
remote times when our unsophisticated ancestors deve-