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NUMBKIt OF PERSONS ADMITTED AND MONEY RECEIVED. 



Total number admitted, 99,444. 



The charges against the Exhibition cannot yet be reported, as the carriers' 

 accounts in England, and one or two others, have not yet been received ; 

 but, from what is known, I estimate the total outlay at £1180; thus 

 leaving a balance of, say £460, to be laid aside, according to agreement, 

 for future exhibitions of a similar kind. The outlay now reported is 

 considerably more than was expected; but the receipts have also exceeded 

 anticipation, even in a much greater ratio. It may be proper to mention 

 that the outlay was increased upwards of £200 by the Exhibition being 

 kept open for fifteen days, the period originally intended being only eight 

 or ten days; but during this extended period receipts were obtained 

 amounting to £680. 



It is well known to many, that the primary object of the original pro- 

 jectors of this Exhibition, and of the Philosophical Society and the Town 

 Council in promoting it, was to amuse and instruct the working classes 

 during the New- Year hoHdays; and by giving gratuitous admission, 

 insuring a numerous attendance, to determine the disputed point as to 

 whether they would conduct themselves with propriety when admitted 

 indiscriminately, and in large numbers, to such a place, where valuable 

 articles must necessarily be laid out openly, and comparatively unprotected. 

 The result has shown that they can conduct themselves with propriety in 

 such circumstances; and that they are worthy of the trust we put in them, 

 for not one article, during the entire period of the Exhibition, was displaced 

 or injured by the visiters. And after it was closed, and an inventory was 

 taken, I am able to state, that not one article was found wanting. 



The number of persons admitted was at the rate of 2000 per hour 

 during the days when free admission was given; and on the evenings, 

 wbeo the charge was threepence, nearly the same number. On these 



