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It appeared from the terms of the regulations issued by the Exhibition Commissioners last week, that the ceremony of opening the building by the Queen would be a sort of Eleusinian mystery, at which only certain persons having the odour of official sanctity would be present : we were told, with an awful and suppressed significance, " the doors of the build- ing will not be opened to the public on that day till one o'clock" ; and were left to infer in dark disappointment that the Queen would have pri- vately come and secretly gone before that hour. The exclusiveness, if not even the suspicion and distrust which seemed to have dictated such an arrangement, were felt as a wound on the national sentiment of frank loyalty, and a loud and indignant protest was almost unanimously raised. The protest has drawn a response from the quarter whence it can come with the utmost possible grace ; the Queen herself; said the Times of Monday, has interfered to "remove and amend whatever seemed defec- tive and unpopular in the instructions " devised by the timorous loyalty of the Exhibition functionaries, and has " signified her pleasure that arrangements should be made" to allow the public to be present at the ceremony with which she will open the Exhibition. A meeting of the Royal Commission was summoned " to consider the programme of the ceremony, and the regulations under which the holders of season-tickets will be admitted to the interior of the building at the time of her Ma- jesty's visit."

The following programme of the State ceremony with which the Queen will open the Great Exhibition was issued by the Royal Commissioners on Thursday.

"Examinees OF 1851.

"Her Majesty having signified her Royal pleasure that arrangements should be made to enable her Majesty to gratify a wish very generally ex- pressed on the part of the public to be present at a ceremony by which her Majesty should open the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations on the 1st of May, her Majesty's Commissioners hereby give notice that the programme of this ceremony, and the regulations under which the holders of season tickets will be admitted, are as follow. "Exhibitors' attendants who have been sanctioned by the Executive Com- mittee will be admitted between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, at doors specified on their cards, and will immediately take their places by the counters or objects exhibited by their employers. " Holders of season tickets will be admitted at all doors on the East, South, and West of the building, between the hours of nine and half-past eleven o'clock, and will be allowed to take their places, subject to police regulations, in the lower part of the building and in the galleries, except the parts railed off in the nave and transept. "A platform will be raised to the North of the centre of the transept, on which a chair of state will be placed. "Her Majesty's Commissioners will assemble at half-past eleven o'clock in the transept, opposite the platform, together with their Executive Commit- tee and the I oreign Acting Commissioners, in full dress or in plain evening dress.

"His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, her Majesty's Ministers, the Great Officers of State, and the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, will take their places on the platform to the right and left of the chair of state, in full dress, also at half-past eleven o'clock. "Her Majesty, proceeding in state, with the Royal Family, foreign guests, &c., and her and their suites, from Buckingham Palace, up Constitution Hill, and down Rotten Row, will enter the Exhibition Building by the North entrance precisely at twelve o'clock. She will ascend the platform and take her seat in the chair of state. • "On her-Majesty's-arrival a choir will sing God Have the Queen.' " On the Queen taking her seat, his Royal Highness Prince Albert will join the Royal Commissioners ; and when the music has ceased proceed at' their head to the platform, and read to her Majesty a short report of the proceed- ings of the Commission up to that time ; which he will then deliver to her Majesty, together with the catalogue of the articles exhibited. Her Majesty will return a gracious answer, handed to her by the Secretary of State ; after which, his Royal Highness Prince Albert will take his place again by the side of her Majesty. "The Doyen of the Corps Diplomatique will read an address to her Majesty on behalf of the foreign nations who have contributed to the Exhibition ; to which her Majesty will return a gracious answer. "His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury will then say a prayer, in- voking God's blessing upon the undertaking, followed by a short anthem sung by the choir.

"A Royal procession will then be formed, preceded by the Commissioners ; which will turn to the right, move to the West end of the nave by its North side, return to the East end of the nave by its South side, including the South end of the transept, and come back to the centre along the North side of the nave ; thus enabling all those present, who will be expected to keep the places which have been assigned to them, to see her Majesty and the procession.

"During the procession the organs appointed will play marches, taking the music up at the Queen's approach. "On her Majesty's return to the platform, the Queen will declare 'the Exhibition opened' ; which will be announced to the public by a flourish of trumpets and the firing of a royal salute on the North of the Serpentine; whereupon the barriers, which had keg the-naveclear, will be thrown open, and-the public will be allowed.to eirculke.

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"EDGAR A. BOWRING, Acting Secretary. "Exhibition Building, Hyde Park, April 22."

The effect of the announcement of a State inauguration to the Crystal Palace was, say the offieiel.e.enounts, so wonderful a stimulus to the sale of season-tickets, that in four days the number sold rose from 7000 to be- tween 11,000 and 12,000. The demand became in fact "so overwhelm- ing that it was necessary to put a-cheek on-it" ; accordingly, the-power expressly reserved has been exercised, to raise the price from three gui- neas and two guineas for a gentleman's or lady's season-ticket, to four guineas and three guineas respectively.

In reference to the proportion-of wares exhibited by different nations, and to the progress made by the exhibitors in the arrangement of their possessions, the Times of Tuesday had this convenient summary of• ex- tensive tabular returns— "The United States, which at first had assigned to it. only 10,000 superficial feet of space less thanFrance, and.which was ranked second in consideration by the Royal Commission, has only contributed 878 packages, while the States of the Zolverein send nearly 1600. Again, the consignments of Hol- land and Spain are nearly equalled by these of Tunis, and somewhat ex- ceeded by China. Belgium strongly asserts her manufacturing, and produc- tive energy by forwarding 1039 packages—a.quantity which places her above Austria and the United States, and on a par with Prussia. Brazil, New Granada, Persia, and the Society Islands, each send a solitary contribution ; Mexico and Peru four, and Western Africa nine. These figures cast a cu- rious light upon the commercial enterprise of the world, and bring out in re- markable relief the extent to which- political power and industrial energy run in parallel lines or diverge from each other. With reference to our Co- lonial possessions the data supplied are not less significant. Our young Aus- tralian possessions send nearly three times as many. contributions as the West Indies, and from the latter the name of Jamaica is altogether omitted. From Canada we have promised us a display of 345 articles, and from Nova Scotia 35. India-sends 436 contributions,—a small quantity, perhaps, com- pared with countries younger in the practice of the productive arts, but great when contrasted with the contemporaneous offerings of other territories pos. sessed of as old a standing in the world's history. The total number of Fo- reign and Colonial packages received up till Saturday evening-was 10,082; and the present state of the preparations for the opening may be pretty well estimated from the fact that only 1500 empty cases have as yet been sent out of the building."

The death of the venerable Sir Claudius Hunter, "father of the City," causes a change in the senior ward of Bridge-without. Sir Claudius Hunter was a grand-nephew of Sir Hans Sloane. He was elected Alder,- man of Bassisbaw in 1804, was Lord Mayor in 1812, and became senior Alderman in 1835. The ward of Bridge-without has no constituency, and by custom the senior Alderman is transferred to its representation: Alderman Thompson now succeeds to this respectable sinecure.

In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Mr.. Roundell Palmer appeared on the petition of Lord Edward George Fitzalan Howard, praying a refer- ence to the Master to inquire whether Lord Edward is a fit person to marry Miss Augusta Talbot. The petition stated that Lord Edward Howard has been acquainted with Miss Talbot for some time:; that the acquaintance had produced an attachment ; and that the application now made was made with Miss Talbot's entire consent. Mr. Rolt appeared to express the entire con- sent of Dr. Doyle, the testamentary guardian of Miss Talbot. The Lord Chancellor, without. any comment, made the usual, order for a reference as Prayed.

George William Downing, described as- a person of dissipated habits and irregular conduct, and who has been several tames in the handsof Policeman Harris for drunkenness and disorderly behaviour, was tried at the Middlesex Sessions on Thursday, for assaulting Harris. The officer had been, the means of having Downing imprisoned for misbehaviour to a woman; there had been something irregular, and Downing was set at liberty a week before the ex- piry of his sentence ; but the Police Commissioners refused to entertain a complaint against Harris, and referred Downing to the Clerkenwell Magis- trates. Mr. Tyrwhitt dismissed the complaint. Downing assailed the officer in the street with .blows, called him a perjured villain," and spat upon him. At Clerkenwell Police Office, he was very violent towards the Maps,. trate, Mr. Combe, and to Mr. Mould, the Chief Clerk. At his trial on Thurs- day, he again abused Mr. Combe; till the Judge stopped him. He was found guilty, sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and ordered to give sureties to keep the peace for a year.

The war so vigorously commenced by Alderman Wilson on behalf of the public against the illiberal omnibus-proprietors, who give so much leas than the legal share of room and convenience in their vehicles, has already pro- duced a capitulation. The proprietors of eight hundred omnibuses which ply to and from London on short stages appeared:at the Guildliall.on Satur- day, by a representative attorney, and agreed that in two months from that time, all the 'buses shall be made as convenient as a particular specimen which was brought to the door of the magisterial hall and placed 'under judicial inspection. It was confessed that ninety-nine out of every hundr of' the existing omnibuses give an illegally small allowance of room ; and pleaded that two months are required for the alteration of the whole number employed. On the engagement thus made, fines of only a nominal amount were inflicted upon the owners of a number of omnibuses against which informations had been laid in terrorem. Alderman Wilson pledged his word, that on that day two months he should send round inspectors to measure, and that he would fine in the full penalty of 101. the owner of every vehicle not then comply- ing with the engagement. Meanwhile, as the owners of not many more than half the omnibuses in London were represented before Alderman Wilson, it may be well to repeat, that every citizen has the enforcement of the law in his own hands. By the Police Act, the inside seats of omnibuses must give an average length of sixteen inches for each licensed passenger ; and this length must be measured along the front edge of the seat. The inconvenient corner seat, which has no front edge—it being a diagonal which springs back- ward from the reentrant angle formed by the meeting of a long and'a cross bench—or which has only an inch or two of edge cribbed from the seat to its right or left, is in the eye of the law no seat at all.

An accident, attended with fatal consequences, occurred at HerMajesty's Theatre on Saturday sennight,- during the performance of Masasiello. Several Tallies of cannon were fired in the course of the piece ; each volley consisted of seven cannon, placed in a wooden frame, and fired by a piece of touchlight-paper running under the cannon. They were loaded with powder fastened in with corks. Samuel Drewell, a firework-maker, had to fire the vollies; he was in. the habit of steadying the frame by 'putting his foot upon it On the night in'queation, his foot seems to have slipped over the mouth of one of the cannons at the moment of explosion, for the foot wits shatared to pieces. Amputation, wasTerffirmed at the hospital;. but the patient sank under the shock, and died in less than a week.

ileman was killed at the Great Exhibition building on Monday after- noon—the third fatality during its'conetruction. He was on the roof with others preparing the canvass covering; his foot slipped, and'he fell back- wards upon the glass, crashedthrough the framework, and was killed on the floer: Itis supposed that the boardle stood upon was slippery from recent rain: