the New County Court Act, which will prevent landlords
from recovering the tenancy of any house which has
been sub-let, and from enforcing his claim for rent due,
unless the tenant to whom he let the house be actually
in possession. This appears from a case just tried before
the County Court at Bury, where the Earl of Derby was
the plaintiff, and the overseers of the poor the defendants,
for the recovery of some premises used as a poor-
house. The overseers were the tenants of the Earl of
Derby, to whom they paid the rent; the guardians of
the poor were the sub-tenants, and the actual occupiers
were the paupers. The court, after referring to the
122nd section of the act, declined to make any order, as
the overseers were not the actual occupiers. Hence, it
will be seen, that the landlord of any property has no
remedy if his premises have been sub-let, and any other
person is in possession.

The communication between England and France by
means of a Submarine Electric Telegraph across the
Channel, has now been accomplished. It will be
remembered that this communication was effected in
September last year, but that, in a few days, the cable
proved insufficient, and broke. Means have now been
taken to make the cable stronger and more capable of
bearing the strain upon it and the effects of friction and
stormy weather. The communication, which is between
Dover and the French coast near Calais, was completed
on the 29th ult., and copies of the printed message
containing the gratifying intelligence, were forwarded
to the Queen, the Duke of Wellington, and others.

The American Ambassador, the Hon. Mr. Lawrence,
has been making an extensive tour through Ireland,
and has everywhere been received by all classes with the
greatest cordiality. His Excellency has been
endeavouring to inculcate a useful lesson in his progress; for
at every place where he has had occasion to address any
assemblage of Irishmen he has invariably urged the
necessity of self-reliance, and advised them to bestir
themselves in effecting what they judged to be for the
advantage of their country.

The Great Exhibition closed on Saturday, the 11th
inst. During the last week, there was an enormous
and unexpected increase in the number of visitors. The
previous maximum on any one day had amounted to
74,000. But on the last Monday, the number of persons
admitted was 107,815, and on Tuesday it was 109,915,
and on Wednesday 109,760. These vast multitudes
conducted themselves with perfect order, and without a
single casualty of any consequence. The receipts during
the last week amounted to £29,795 4s. 6d.; and the
entire sum received, from the opening to the closing of
the Exhibition, amounted to £505,107 5s. 7d.—which
sum included the money taken at the doors, season
tickets, subscriptions, catalogues, refreshments, and
some small items. The liabilities, in so far as they have
yet been ascertained, amount to about £220,000, leaving a
surplus of above a quarter of a million. 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 28lb. per £100) would be thirty-five tons, and its
bulk nine hundred cubic feet! The rapid flood of the
coin into the hands of the money-takers prevented all
examination of each piece as it was received, and £90 of
bad silver was taken, but only one piece of bad gold,
and that was a half-sovereign. The half-crown was the
most usual bad coin, but a much more noticeable fact is,
that nearly all the bad money was taken on the half-
crown and five-shilling days. The cash was received by
eighteen money-takers; on the very heavy days six
extra ones being employed during the busiest hours.
From them it was gathered by three or four money-
porters, who carried it to four collectors, charged with
the task of counting it. From them it went to two tellers,
who verified the sum, and handed it to the final custody
of the chief financial officer, Mr. Carpenter, who locked
each day's amount in his peculiar iron chests in the
building till next morning, when, in boxes, each holding
£600, it was borne off in a hackney cab in charge of a
Bank of England clerk and a Bank porter.

The closing of the Exhibition, on the 11th, was not
marked by any ceremonial. At five o'clock, all the
organs in the building struck up the national anthem;
after which the ringing of a bell warned the assemblage
to depart. They dispersed slowly and quietly; and by half-
past six every person not connected with the building had
retired. On Monday and Tuesday, the 13th and 14th, the
privilege of a separate inspection was granted to each
of the exhibitors, with two friends. The Queen, herself
an exhibitor, was present on both of these days, early in
the morning, before the general company were admitted.
The numbers have not been officially stated, but they
are guessed at upwards of thirty thousand each day. It
is said that on these days enormous sales were made.
Wednesday, the 15th, was the day appointed to receive
the reports of the juries appointed to adjudicate the
prizes to exhibitors. About 20,000 persons were
assembled by twelve o'clock, at which hour Prince
Albert entered the building, preceded by the members
of the Royal Commission, the executive committee, the
architect, contractors, foreign commissioners, jurors, &c.
As soon as the procession arrived within the gates, the
organ and orchestra struck up the national anthem; and
the vast assemblage burst into enthusiastic cheers. His
Royal Highness took his seat on the magnificent throne
presented to the Queen by the Rajah of Travancore; and
Viscount Canning, on behalf of the juries, read a long
report detailing the manner in which they had
discharged their duties. The juries were 34 in number,
each consisting of an equal number of British subjects
and foreigners. In the event of a jury finding themselves
deficient in technical knowledge, they were empowered
to call in the aid of associates who acted as advisers
only, but without a vote. The juries were associated
into six groups, each group consisting of such juries as
had to deal with subjects in some degree of a kindred
nature; and before any decision of a jury could be
considered as final, it was necessary that it should be
confirmed by the assembled group. The medals awarded
were of two kinds, prize medals and council medals.
The prize medal was conferred "whenever a certain
standard of excellence in production or workmanship,
had been attained;" the council medal (the larger) was
awarded in cases of "some important novelty of
invention or application, either in material or processes
of manufacture, or originality combined with great
beauty of design."  The number of prize medals awarded
was 2,918; the number of council medals was 170. The
number of exhibitors was about 17,000, and the task of
the juries involved the consideration and judgment of at
least a million of articles. The reading of the report
being finished, and the voluminous reports of the juries
having been laid before Prince Albert, his Royal Highness
made a reply expressive of his satisfaction with the
proceedings. The Bishop of London offered up a solemn
prayer; the orchestra of the Sacred Harmonic Society
performed the Hallelujah Chorus; the Prince retired,
and the assemblage gradually broke up.

One of the most curious pieces of statistics connected
with the Exhibition, is the immense amount of Railway
Travelling which it produced. A statement has been
published, showing the number of passengers, and
receipts, of eight railway companies having their termini
in London, for the 24 weeks ending the 11th instant,
the period of the Exhibition, and for corresponding 24
weeks of 1850. These railways are the Great Northern,
Eastern-Counties, Great-Western, Blackwall, Brighton,
North-Western, South-Western, and South-Eastern.
The aggregate amount received for passengers in the 24
weeks of 1850, was £2,201,647; in the 24 weeks of 1851,
£2,952,802; increase, £751,155l The increase on the
receipts for carriage of goods in the same period was £98,460.
The numbers of passengers are stated on only four of
the railways; the Eastern Counties, the Blackwall,
the Brighton, and the South-Western. On them, the
aggregate number of passengers, in the 24 weeks of 1850,
was 8,671,300; in the 24 weeks of the Exhibition,
11,505,514; being an increase of 2,834,244.

A Telegraphic Congress has assembled at Vienna to
draw up measures for facilitating telegraphic communications
between different countries. It proposes to
establish a union between different states; to have
translators employed, so as to transmit all despatches
without delay; to have a uniform tariff; to pay their
receipts into a common fund, and to divide them afterwards
between the states, in proportion to the length of
their telegraphic lines, &c. The new arrangements