Genre:

Regular Feature, Proceedings, Drollery

Subjects:

Exhibitions, Commerce, Zoology, Agriculture, Hunting, Government

    Notes that Britain will buy the building housing the International Exhibition for £484,000, and hopes that Richard Owen will use it to 'afford space for the Whales and Dowagers'. Later, notes Henry Fenwick's call for 'a Commission of Inquiry into the sea-fisheries, with a view to increase the supply' of the food.