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AN ILLUSTRATED CYCLOPAEDIA OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION OP 1851.
THE LAST DAYS OF THE EXHIBITION.
The last days of the Exhibition have passed off in a manner at once
gratifying and surprising. Everybody was prepared.for a great accession
of numbers to the usual average of shilling visitors, but the most extrava-
gant expectations could hardly have anticipated anything so remarkable as
the actual reality. On Monday, 107.S15 people entered the building, and
51757. 16s; was taken at the doors. On Tuesday, there were 109,915
visitors; and 62312. 10s. taken at the doors. On "Wednesday, 109,760
visitors, and 52832. 3s. taken at the door. On Thursday (a very wet day),
00,813 visitors, and iZ&il. 7s. 6d. taken at the" doors.
Facts so astounding speak for themselves, and derive no additional force
from expatiating upon them. "Were it not so, we should despair of
describing the scene which the interior presented. Popular demonstra-
tions are always grand. Taking place in such an arenathoy exorcise a
transcend ant and overpowering influence. In the. presence of such an
assemblage of human beings the highest triumphs' of industry and art are
forgotten, and the mind has only time to think of that great mass of
humanity tendering its homage at the shrine of Labour, and vindicating
the nobility of toil. If any lingering doubts have been entertained that the
Crystal Palace has not been* popular among the masses., its closing hour*
will set them completely at rest. That nearly 110,000 people should
withiri one day and under one roof have enjoyed the grandest spectacle
that the world has ever witnessed is of itself a sufficient marvel, but that
they'Should have done so without a single known casualty to life or pro-
perty.is almost incredible. Wo. however, it is, and wc leave to revolutionary
and discontented minds the study of facts which place in so clear and
unquestionable a light the love of order and the genuine kindliness of spirit
which pervade all classes of our population.
THE LAST DAYS OF THE EXHIBITION.
The last days of the Exhibition have passed off in a manner at once
gratifying and surprising. Everybody was prepared.for a great accession
of numbers to the usual average of shilling visitors, but the most extrava-
gant expectations could hardly have anticipated anything so remarkable as
the actual reality. On Monday, 107.S15 people entered the building, and
51757. 16s; was taken at the doors. On Tuesday, there were 109,915
visitors; and 62312. 10s. taken at the doors. On "Wednesday, 109,760
visitors, and 52832. 3s. taken at the door. On Thursday (a very wet day),
00,813 visitors, and iZ&il. 7s. 6d. taken at the" doors.
Facts so astounding speak for themselves, and derive no additional force
from expatiating upon them. "Were it not so, we should despair of
describing the scene which the interior presented. Popular demonstra-
tions are always grand. Taking place in such an arenathoy exorcise a
transcend ant and overpowering influence. In the. presence of such an
assemblage of human beings the highest triumphs' of industry and art are
forgotten, and the mind has only time to think of that great mass of
humanity tendering its homage at the shrine of Labour, and vindicating
the nobility of toil. If any lingering doubts have been entertained that the
Crystal Palace has not been* popular among the masses., its closing hour*
will set them completely at rest. That nearly 110,000 people should
withiri one day and under one roof have enjoyed the grandest spectacle
that the world has ever witnessed is of itself a sufficient marvel, but that
they'Should have done so without a single known casualty to life or pro-
perty.is almost incredible. Wo. however, it is, and wc leave to revolutionary
and discontented minds the study of facts which place in so clear and
unquestionable a light the love of order and the genuine kindliness of spirit
which pervade all classes of our population.