On Wednesday the grounds were thrown open to the public free of charge, but as the price of tickets had already fallen to one penny each, the concession was not an enormous one, and the disinherited took no advantage of it, the crowd being, all appearance, just such as might be seen op any ordinary day. The grounds were almost deserted during the morning, and in the afternoon and evening there was no difficulty in making one's way about. Nearly all the foreign government buildings in the Rue des Nations had been closed by order of the respective Commissioners-General, and the visitors in this section found themselves confronted by an array of locked doors, A few people protested, but there was no real distuchanee here or in any other part of the grounds. Many of the hawkers who sell tickets outside the gates took the opportunity of going inside for the first time; not to see the exhibition but to sell Droadsheets instead of tickets, the said sheets being deeply bordered with black and containing a burlesque "lettre de faire part" announcing the demise of the exhibition.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.