The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-01 00:00:00

i7/111 '0 • , ,oe . " 4 ,7;_s_ r~ e:/x , -4.• • W , ~4j t o ll t fl 3 rt 115 No. 1,385.1 [No. 6, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.] THE EXHIBITION t EXPRESS, FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1. PROGRESS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. To-night the Crystal Palace itself is to be com p! ted. The work of construction will, it is stated, be . bro . ught to a termination this evening. On Mon day next visitors will be afforded one more and only opportunity, between this time and the let of May, for inspecting the complete omelet semblance of the wonderful receptacle for the industrial products of the world, which during the last few weeks has grown up before them with an almost magical rapidity. On the close of this last stow-day, the building will be dosed, sad within it next week • series of tasks will temmecce, the successful socompliahment of which will involve the application of an amount of skill and Wiser soarcely interior to that required to rear the bedding itself. AmeasitimeinelOrdsee the wcacs which yet numa ' te he peeps masa of the interior of the building for tee reception of the articles of which the Exhibition will be composed—the arrangement of three articles in the places assigned them—the decorative piOnting of the structure, internally and externally, and the com pletion of a multitude of minor details. The Execu five Committee have already completed the division of the area of the building into the spaces in which will be arranged, in their various classes and locali ties, the articles sent in for exhibition, and have also minutely subdivided theme apsoes in accordacce with the requitement' of iudividual exhibitors. Oa and after 'lee edgy next, as we have already stated, the pubic lett' be rigidly ,:eluded from the building; and on the 111th of February it will be consigned to the keeping of thu officers of customs, who have re ceived ir structions to regard it u a banded warehouse, and to make their arrangements accordingly. Having made this announcement, it is scarcely necessary to point out to exhibitors the amusity of observing strictly the rata which have been laid down for their guidance by the Executive Commihee. Inietention to these regulations, will, under the custom-house regime, be followed inevita bly by disappointment at d inconvenience. Tempo rary hoardings are at present in course of construction round the various sections on the ground-tier, and several men belonging to the uppers and miners have bees engaged for some days past to marking out in red paint the various passages which are to be lef: clear. 'fee counters and fittings for the display of goods will be set up within these hoardings. The workmen who are to be employed, with the arrange moat of the articles mot in for exhibition, will be plated under a rigid surveillance; each man will have a special duty and place as signed to him, and the most trivial deviation from the regulations which it has been deemed ne cessary to devise for insuring the satisfactory carrying out of this arduous and responsible portion of the un dertaking will all down severe punishment on the offender. The great advantages which would be con ferred on visitors who arrive in carriages if an entrance from Rotten-row could be secured, have been already stated. There are many other obviously useful improvements upon the present means of access to the building, which might be carried out early, and at a trifling expense. The strip of ground whine runs from Prince's-gate to Knightsbridge barracks, and which at present is an utterly useless incloeure, should be appropriated for the puerile of widening the approach to the building. An opening from Bromptou-square to Prince's gate would also have the effect of relieving the Kensington-road from much traffic which It is feared will encumber It. The Executive Com mittee have received deputations during the week from I tuddersfield, Paisley. and other manufacturing towns. Amongst the topics discussed on these occa sions was that of the arrangement for admission to the Exhibition, and • universal feeling wee mani fested in opposition to any plan of gratuitous admis sion. The arrangements for the printing of the eatelogues are completed, and the Executive Com mittee are desirous of impressing upon the exhib.tors, that the fait ation of these indispensable adjuncts of the goat undertaking will be much facilitated by an attention to the prescribed rules when they furnish the descriptions of the articles as they wish them to appear in the catalogue. Exhibitors should also make their descriptions as brief as possible, and confine them as much as possible to facts. Illustrations of the articles exhibited will be inserted in the large cata logue, at the. expense of the exhibitors themselves. The Royal Cemmissioners have also defined the character of the refreshments which are to be furnished to visitors., and have altogether excluded wines, spirits, hese, and intoxicating drinks of all kinds. It is most desirable that all persons who let lodg her, and all metropolitan landlords and hotel-keepers, should know as accurately as possible the probable demand there will be throughout the coming summer for their lodging-houses mad tebJedluies. While the estimates of the anticipated inns: of visitors range from one to seven millions, it is extremely di ffi cult to make any legitimate ealCulations. Same estimate may, however, be made by taking as • starting-point two large periebes—those of 8:. Margaret's and St. John's, Westminster, of which the cooditioa has bean ascertained. They contain, it appears, about five bombed sleeping apartments in private houses, usually let as lcdsings. East of Sloane-street there are three more equally capacious districts, yieldirg to,,ether furrished lodging accommodation br about two thousand of the middle clues*. The same sm'ent will probably be afforded by Chelsea, also by Brampton; and New Kensington will hold about two hundred and fifty, making altogether accommodation between the parks sod the river for about seven thousand pemets. It is impossible to state the asuesat of rent which the landlords of these rums may requirewhen the throng has set in; bat, at, the present time, in most instar there are few of them who would not be satisfied with a weekly receipt of twenty abilliogs for each room, if this amount were guaranteed for fifteen weeks from the let of May. Already the more important agencies of the Westosud are movirg in the matter ; but as every lodging-hold er has his or her private opinion on the probable deemed fee lodging,, the amounts demanded vary hem ration to the most ludicrous extortion. At tae hump a respectable apartment may be had for thirty tinge weekly; whilst, next docr, a facia of similar pre teneion is a xpe wed to br "snapped up " at double that amount One lodging-house keeper thick, the Exhibi tion will be a failure, and that the prudent course is to mum a permanent lodger, at a moderate remunera tion ; while another, on the c )ntrary, cherishes a belief that ea the let of May no lees this a miilicn of strange beings will make • deicent upon the metropolis, and empty their respective purses into his lap, in the desperate hope of being allowed to preen the mattress of his two-pair heck. It is almost seedless to Mate that neither of these ex tremes cos be accepted as the probable state of Unmes lathe lint place it is to mem ber that th e Mau of visitors will"ZsgiNual, re and that the average metropolitan sojourn of ugh visitor wi ll not extend beyond a week; therefore, while the Immeward-bound packets are steaming to Loodoo- Wigs, with thir motley cargoes of excited foreigners, gowns& head vessels will equally beladen with ill eamtothil i t a ravellers. There will undoubledly b aa for lodgings, and rents will be =lB=4lllei esd but it is important to guard le re aliging in a golden vision whi c h ail am& ami ll ir mair lvandle_ Id and Horse have published the or a register of homes aced Weep, a glance at which must satisfy most people that, by clubbing together, respectable country and foreign families may secure to themselves comfortable, and *Tee Oltiats ibodig throughout the forthcoming season. For instanoe, at Notting-hiii ;:::'l ll Ae to obtain a well-furnished villa, making op eight beds, at five guineas weekly. This amount divided between two families would therefore MOM to them a resi dence at a meet reasonable rats; even in North Audley-street, Groevenor-equare, similar &commode tion may be secured at an equally low rentaL While at the West-end this accommodation may be thus cheaply obtained, a landlord, of an obviously imaginative tendetcy, demands no leas than ten guineas weekly Lr a house situated at Rotherbithe, and furnishing only four beds; while a *till more ex citable imagination leads a land:orl in Blackfrian to hold his tenement, consisting of drawing, dining room, and seven bedrooms, cheap, at 201. weekly. To correct these exaggerated notions, it is only necessary to show the vast lodgirg-capacity of London; and a knowledge of the amnia of accommodation, at area. sonable rate, which that snail portion of the capital situated between the perks and the ricer can aff ,rd, may check the flights of imagination in which many aleculative persons appear to be indulging. The conduct of the American government in refer ence to the c.immittes of the May:Exhibition is in direct contrast with that of the French executive. Whilst the latter has obtained in its Legislative As sembly the vote of 860,000*. irg the expresso to be, Mewed la eoneentratteg.ftexaSegoted traesport ing the French product. to the Exhibirica, and in reporting on the foreign articles exhibited there by other nations, the former has refused to give any assistance in money to the American Exhibition au thorities. State committees bad, according to the last advice., been formed in Massactineetts, Mississippi, New York, Vermont, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, Mary land, Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New J.reey, South Carolina, Alabama, Delaware, North Caroline, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Georgia; and through three state committees the citizens of the United States respouded promptly to the invitation to place specimens of their natural pro ductions, ingenuity, and skill, by the aide of those of , the nations of the Old World. For the transmission of these article, cmstwiso end a:room:he A , laotic, the , . American secretaries of treasury and of the navy afforded every facility within their control and nut inconsistent with Vide duty. A public ship, the Onio, ordered by the navy department for the conveyance of articles for the Exhibition from the United Stater, will bring them to England tree of expense. But when landed in England no person has been appointed to take charge of them, and the duty of the officers and crew of the ship that conveys them there will be at an end. The American committee., considering these facts, had hoped that some autho ised person would be appointed to superintend on the spot the arrangement and display of the articles sent. Tce application to that effect hu not been re sponded to, so that if al agent is appointed he must be paid by a subscription. France, unlike America in this, von d a portion of the money granted in order that a certain number of persons conversant in tech nical processes should be employed to examine and take note., whilst others were employed in watching over the interests of the exhibitors. We have already announced tact Belgium had taken similar steps. Th's example nu now Leen loilo.ied by Spain, which has appointed as repreiuntativre Don Andres Borrego, Don Romon de la Sagra, and Don Liao Vilaneuva; and by Bavaria, welch has appointed Professor Bchaffuaui l, a gentleman who is to reside permanently in London. Although the American executive refeures to accredit ea spat, the Americans have cot been idle, and already the central committee has issued certificates to upwards of one hundred of those who have sub mitted their specimens for exhibition. Amongst these we may mention a collection of autumnal leaves from Rhode Island, model fulling mills, portable mills, ludia rubber pontoons, a magnetic roach and insect exterminator, a model of an ocean steamer, an air exhausted c, ffio, besides various other articles ' among which dentistry is a prominent feature. Canada, the land of sleighing, sends us several elegant speci mens of sleighs. From Rome our correspondent writes that: The =oleic establishment of the Vatican will be repre sented in the great London Exhibition in a manner worthy of its fame, by a halt figure of John the : copied from Outrun° s calebiwed picture, and execuiPd in doe mosaic by the artist Castellini, one of the expo:wit workmen in the government studio. The exquisite colouring, the fine expression and real uustical helms of this production, the work of some years, will place it beyond the competition of any similar piece which the Eshibition may afro& It is now ',spored to pith. lie criticism in the sacristy of Bt. Peter's Church for a tow days previous to being runtiansed for its destination. In the line of landscape and faucital compositions in 'mosaic, the Chevalier Barberi and &icor Evichetti will stud sense works of first rate excellence. It is also reported that the government intends to fetid the twelve exquisite camel, en- graved by the Chevalier Oirometti on oriental gems, fur which Pope Gregory gars 8,000 dollars, and which us now is the Villein library. They would certainly be unrivalled in the Esnibition. %regret to state that those celebrated art-establish the' - and mate, _- foundry, glass painting, porcelain ma onfoctorits of Buena will be virtually unrepresentid at the forthcoming show. The glue painting cats luiliment of Munich is unrivalled in the world. Though it cannot compete with the old relics of glees painting in the simplicity of their colour,it beats them in the richness of ornamentation and variety of sub ject. It is said, indeed, that, rather than this art mu inifsctory should not be represented, the window lately finished, and a present from King Ludwig to the Dom of ltatiabon, will be sent to London, but this production, we are told, will not comprise all the power for which the establishment is celebrated. In the porcelain branch of art no specimens showing every perfection the art has attained will be sent. From the foundry we shall only hare one of the gi path lions destined to ornament the colossal statue of Bavaria, melted in the inGuld made by Schwan thaler, and two statues, seven feet high, that figure essaget the celebrated Bohemian heroes. Kaulbick has seat a picture of his to London for exhibition in the Glass Palace. Oa the 2nd of December a decree was issued in Lisbon, appointing a commission to promote the ex hibition of the productions of Portuguese industry in London. Count de Thomas and Viscount Carrels' are members of the commission. Already two announce ments base been published by this body in the Diori, do Gurerno, io the last of which the commissioners is., the following as the articles which should be sent from Portugal : Samples of wool, fits, Akkan cotton, Cape Yard ootf,e, oil, dried fruits, hooey, cheese, medicinal plants, timber, marble, minerals, salt, sad lime. With respect to maculae tared articles, the commissioners thus impress thenualves : " We can seed well finished arms from our arsenals, mule's of naval architecture; oar sailcloth, which his encoded that of Hamburg from our markets; our common printed cottons, which are daily diminishing foreign importations ; oar coarse woollens, and aupets." _ _ The Paris lioniteur contains a decree of the Minister of Commerce charging the members of the central jury of the Agricultural and Industrial Exhi bition of 1849 to proceed to the examination and deticitive &eh ction of the produc:e of French industry destined fur the Exhibition of London. The members of the jury are to enter immediately on their func tions on being convoked by their president, 81. Charles Dopio. It will be seen by all this that the prospects of the Great Exhibition are favourable both abroad and at home. The West Imola mail packet Treat. which arrived at Southampton lut week, brought two large parkegee, co.- Waive noel °mamma made of Mello for the Omit Eiki bittoa from Ni...., is the 80b..... They are now at the Southampton Imitom-how, waiting for orders to be de spatched unopened to Loadsu. Oar omereeieselent, waiting trim Naples ea the 24th mar: —" ♦ table of Neva Dare, that hat been in t►e wee of niemenhetnre he 120 yew, im to be lent to the Lssika Baltildtlem." LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1. 1851. COMMI LIMES. Great diffioalties still stand in the way of the easwat sowaittee of London. No day having yet been fixed V:7 of appeal., sitpliesaki eolainai 17 1 .toriat later• Bioko' to besiege the committos room in Cheepside with all kinds of explaaatione sad rouwastranoes. 8o confitsiag and vexatious ha this system beams, that the central committee have decided to moat the *iterative to state a day after which no appeas will be received. The variety Si remonstraaoes and appeals hes almost doubled the work of the secretaries. The Committee for Agricultural Im plements still delays the completion of its Monte; and it is impossible GYM now to Mate as precise number of Loudon exhibitors. This delay, it may be remarked, cannot be attributed to the cigars of the Central Committee, who have worked earnestly end uceessingly, bat is regarded as the result of the inch ficite period allowed for entering appeals. A meeting of the Fite Arts Committee assembled at the Allies*, Office, on Monday afternoon, by which the basis's' of this important section was brought nearly to a conclusion. Num.rous claims were brought under the unsiderationof the committee, and disposed of as the air- enenstances of the cues demanded. Sir Moms Montane, Bart, prodded es chairmen of the seirion. There were also present:—Mr. John Bell, Mtn. H. Burnell, Mr. C. 8.. Cockartll, B. A. (deputy chairman), Sir W. Clay, Bart. M.P., Rev. S. R. Cattley and Mr. D. W. Wire (hon. seen testes), Meson. D. Colnegki, T. Creswiek, LA., J. Davies, David Roberts, & A. Hart, ft A., G. Gadwie, Q. &Alm. 3..11. Gowen, W. P. Woodlncton, Heart Weeks's, Witham The, F.R.S., William Wyss, R.A., James Wyatt, W. G. Rosen, and T. H. Wyatt. A cab committee, elisposed of Sir Moses Montefiore, Bert., Mr. Crane, Mr. Morley, Mr. Maadesley, sod Mr. Tits, met oleos% the eomenitte•room of the City of London, 62, Cresplide, on special badness connected with the royal commission. The meeting was attecded by Mr. Cattleys one of the hon. secretaries. Oa Tuesday the Council of Appeal held a session at the Great Ryna of the Society of Arts, at which Lord Ashhisitm occupied the chair, and most of the chairmen of sections were present. Reid and Dr. Playfair attended on behalf of the executive committee. The council eat nearly three hours, sad Jiep nett of • veer ...mount of :mportant Dulness. Mr. Cattle, attended u honorary uneaten. PAPIE 'LAMMING/ tollon ing resolution has been come to by tea committee of class 27: " Itesolv.d. In allot. twig space to paper Ganging raanufsetaren ar.d deer raton, it be an instruction to then that no direct copies of foreign paper banging; or decoration, will be admitted for ezli bitioa." ?SOU A pasted oll4lotb. it be. teen ilia kisses autossra•at for alma years past of Mr. James Pitt, dancing master, Chay•troet; who, having at lenrh comple.ed it c hes pre. tamed it to the iweienic ledge '7:rer whkb be pres;,:si. The peesis.:::.."l l 6l, the result Of ooneeatric geometrical forms, squaresicebes, oMallelograits, tka , icookbleed with • iftWeial ottornatioa of 'glow, li i tht, and shade, make the work as atraordiaary, even to the artistic as to the ordinary eye. Toe Mori:4loth is 16 foot by 10 test; its centre is covered by the repreeentation of the sun, r ays; ia the metre, diverging iato lemon and orange coloured centres or stars, est% of 16 points, sad, by Its bright hue, gives great effect to the cheqcered squares and circles round it. Owe ate id large squares, set diamondwise, forming the outer border, and as many triangles to complete the border; and within these, 168 smaller squares, ailed by circles, each circle havieg its peculiar pattern, and being adorned by 18 smaller can. The eatraordinary effects are chiefly visible in ihe ester border, where chequered or tesselated pavements have gaits new forme gine, to them, being made spiral and concentric is various wept not easy to describe. In one of these larger 'quires, only 16 inches square, there are no line then 7,640 diamonds, diminishing as they approach the legatee till any become miners points. The work has been valued at 600 guineas PROM TUNBRIDGE WALL/. Speennens of Tunbridge Well. ware from three manufw tort re. 710 K OXFORD. Mime. Martin and Yullar, tear arirkot-bats, ono inlaid with c,rk; &coiner with a handle worked in " with India rubDtr. THINGS FROM ABROAD. The jeliewleg Waken/ are songseed meet the sped. sum essorshisdbie owtprodwestans Inderdry to be animated beet theseay :—Feals,esaskting of steamed seal, will be sent from Westphalia and the Rhenish provinces; antkractlM and coke from Easels, Warden, and Mulheim ; and peat from 6d:batmen in limes. Sods, chloride of 'odium, ensnaring and °that salts are annoanced from the Saxon ask works of Schonebeek, Dorrenberg, and Artern, from Roema,,in Wes phalli , and from Saliaasuien in He. Tag Royal Alum Works of bsbwernosal, in B.zony, will an 4 specimens of that product. Several Bavarian and lierian noun will send ultramarine ; a great number of chemicals, dyes, and pigments are announced. Mulattos', of Cologne, will seed @pedaling of fireproof stoves and clays In as. snick slaw, East and West Prussia, Btvatia. and Bracswitk, will mop 4t the reputation of Gram soy; Wag aer of Sulabach, and Bilgal of Bi. Wendel, are named u exhibinrs from the Rh , nuh provinces. P..irealaie will be swat by the famous royal manufactory at Meissen, the royal mar.uiactory at Berlin, and Irem animal Basilan sod Tan• ringian eimblishasitts. Minutoli, of Liaoning, will mud marbitil tablet god mosaic tl•ior ul.a. Pond and Mary rash, of Cologne, will send a marble chiganty.piet.e, in the renaissance style ; sods stci.na will hs forwarded '.ry Helen I if the gime city Masbropprea and Kohbe, of Coblents, send a highly ornamented marble table. Specimens of the manrttac lurlZif silk, gold, silver lace, and embroidery, native jewellery, Lebanon hero.; petrefec lions, oils, different sorts of woods, seeds, the apples of Sodom. &a. The Psche of Jerusalem sends a few specimens of the Bethlehem work in mother of-pearl, which is brought by the Hadj from Mecca, such as the ancifixion, and other Lay subjects. Mr. Consul : Palestine flowers or-, ranged in a box of olive wood, and some specimens of J,- runless marbles, rientained in a box made of ens of the stones of Jerusalem Colonel Rase, her Maiesty's consu!..enerat in Syria, sends with the Syrtan specimens a few m.ld anti quities. Ogle of them is • gold mask toned in • Greek sar cophagus near Gebel, which was placed on the face cf • female corpse, and stall ursine her features. T hu gawk is a great curiosity, as there is no record of the use or existence of it is archaeological history. PROVINCIAL COMMITTER. A mating of the sub sonainfitte for filling up the varied. lotted to Huddenfie.d was held on Monday at the commis. goners' rooms, at which it wee resolved to give notice to [p ending exhibitors under all the sections, except 11, 12, 16, and 18, that their productions mast be ready for the inspection of the local jury by the 20th February to insure their admis sion to the building. The committee then adopted, with some slight modifications, Mr. Pritchett's plan of fitting up the counters for the other sections, and requested him to draw up a epecificatioa to be submitted to immediate corn 'Wilton, in order that the space may be so prepared as to warrant the executive committee in allowing further time for the admission of the textile articles from the neighbourhood. Severs! other topic were discussed inter nun' that of aapointing persons to take charge of the goods dozing the whole period of the exhibition, who mast of course be parties qualified by pre vious experience for this duty, but the COSUllittile separated without coming teeny decision on the subject. On Tooaday • mostiag was held at the chief sionsiable's, Wm. Mellen's, q , when he, with Frederick Schwalm and Joseph Norton, &qrs., were deputed to go to London to confer with the executive committee on several important matters connected with the Exhibition. Two CVSTOII•HOVIDI AND 7111 EININITION.—The in terminable difficulties mid 001\111111011 which would certainly visit the Custowi•house officials, when tee foreign arrivals to me the great show had set in in earnest, have been pebliely pointed out. These difficulties are likely to fmt met by addition. to the staff, end we trust by a relaxation 0 the stringent regulations to which carpet bugs are generally subject** at the London•bridge w►arf. Although the cow miationen of customs have not yet approved of any regula tions with respect to the landing of visitors to the great eshibition, or the cleariume of their luggage, we havc authority for stating that the qatstion is now under their spcclal consideration. Tel BOARD OF MULTI( AND MN EXHIBITION,— It has beim cetfldently st►ted in more than one quarter that the Board or Health had perfected regulations for the protection of as health of London throughout the forth coming summer. This report prove. to be without sounds time. The board some two months ago offered their ser vices to the real commissioners for the purpose of inspecting the ludgi‘g ht.iuies that might be registered tor the reception of visitors to the exhibition. In reply, the commissioners expressed their readiness to avail the:wolves of the services of sanitary °limn, but stated that the cumber of houses then registered was not Isere enough to Tenth r it ntoerary to make say provision for their inspection at that time. THINGS TO BE EXHIBITED IN THE GLASS PALACE. Wo aostine• ow list of this's to be exhibited: )110/1 iltlll3lllll The specimens from tray district are to exhibit a complete view of the mineral products of the diaries.; first, in their natural state, and, secondly, in *air artificial are. The first department will consist of specimens of the various seams of coal, ironstone, limestone, freestone, fits-clay, dtc., which an employed for *mummies' purposes, also contained in the strata of the Lanarkshire etel.tald. Thais will pro bably be accompanied by • section of the strata, from the mean to the old red sandstone. The second department will consist of ate products resulting trots the Tamils pro tean of iron mAing, exhibiting the ironstone in its nataral state, and showie: tai various rages it passel throuph in iii trandtioli to pig troll, refitted iron, tut iron, malleable am—tracing it in fact from the rude state in which It COIWO from the bowels of the earth, through all its various forms, till it Sully conies forth in the shape is which it is prepared for sale. Mr. Wm. Bode, engineer, • pips ani tile wahine, whisk Ye has invented; Johnston., a manillas tatile•cloth, all sewed by himself, sad which, at the intervals snatched trots his regular vocation, has employed him Caring the last eighties years. ♦ doable vibrating cybader ueam•eagtne. the haadiwork of Mr. Wm. Hickle, one of slut enamor. fio small I. this assets that, after being wrapped op to paper, it eau be placed very colatortably it at ordinarpsiztd *Aleut shell The plans ea which this minute piece of worimenship stand, is about the sits of a slipence. Two inc►es or counter space wan applied for, and granted for this little work. PROlt ERROINOCI. Kr. Evans, • aunsznan, 'poems.° of workmanship. Mm. mil (weaver), a specimen of onoufsetart. 111011 COIIJ4WALL. The Truro districts : —Saw Materials : Tin and lead ores; Cornish minerals ; mandi,s ; Cornish hone. stones ; wolfram ; porphyries; clay.; bedding and road stones; sands; fire. sago; slate slab sad other specimens of Cornish slates; Cornish crystals; ochres; China-stone; freiorone for or namental building; Kendall'a giant straw prolific wheat; agricultural gr.dn sad ends. anufactursd Articles: Triirty inch tf Hader steam pussies engine (Parra Foun dry Company); as.,del for tM mare economical use of water power; model of an exhausting veatilat o r for coal mines, whereby explaion of firedamp may be prevented ; patent re-dressing machine ; slime ore. diming machine; floating breakwater; thermometer to measure heights; model of working MIMI' er gine foraying of fuel; blaring fare of vorimia kinds ; crucibles; fire.sseape ; slate-sistero, and specimens of Davy'. paten, ridge ruU; lubricators; anchors; baring stone for supporting upright shafts; cooking appa ratus; arsenical comp sad; normal gnu° ; homy table; chain of antique and modern forms; walking stick stool screw-driver, six times the power of the common screw driver; geological and mineral , gical map of Cornwall; maps of Cambers., Inman, and other mining distrait; sad the following from Mr. W. Pesos, statuary, Lemoamniet, True :—Table et pebble and porphy r y ; two sermatise sod sienna candelabra; three ntine columns; throe granite pedestals; ass pnihyry pedestal; gnats chantey pier; two porphyry columns; granite side table; steatite pedestal variety of sliatits sad se rpantia vow to stand ft selasat raosi cww addax. AWARE illamater block or (eathreeite) sad, lot the Eibi bitise,hes bra leaded et the colliery or Kirkwood, Esq., Waseamermses, seer Clem Alums. Ti.e blocks tibial lubilb absiellO esigisesaaltseriess, was raised fres a pit the dap* el yaide. TRAVELLING CLUBS. News of the formation of additional travelling clubs is continually flowing in. Been at Madrid, according to Go/lianas, a travelling club ti.s been formed, the members of which are to pass tureta,th France, say three dill. in Londan, sari thou return direct to their capital. Mr. P,ckvance, the author of the B Awn Prize E.say on the Exhibition, bet forwarded es an amount of the state of public opitdon amongst the workmen of his town, with regard to the Exhibition and Travelling Clubs to visit it. He declares that the people of Bolton ere generally indifferent about the local club, or the prutpect of being enabled to visit the greet show. They are nearly all following the end direction, " Shut your eyes and open your month, and see what Cod will seed you." The local com mittee have tried almost every means to get them to form club., but to little purpose; for I only &ad one lornuil at present, and that le at Mean. Bridson and SOUS' bleach works. Up to the 31et of December, in this club, 33 mem ben had paid 11 10s. each, end one bad sub.cribed 21. Messrs. Brawn, I should add, intend to make a gift to each subscriber. 'here are a few workshops that intend shortly to open clubs. One objection that a number of working men have to travelling clubs is, that they are formed under the eyes of the muter,, and all working men do not like to • save their money under sack circumstances. There are hun• duffs, nay, thousands of working men in Bolton who have every wish to visit the Exhibition, but who could not afford one quarter of the necessary subscription. Great complaints are made against the commi sionsrs for only contrac'ing for club members to be taken at the cheep fare, ae not one half of the working clues, who will visit the Exhibition will hr member, of a Bios club. It is the opinion of many persons here that the rues must be still hardier reduce d. The railway competition will be greet. For instance—the Lauceshire and Yorkshire Company will be taking people to different places for much less per mile than is fixed upon as the rate for Ealtibition visitors; they have several times taken passenger. more than 200 miles for be. 4d., and more than be tense for la. 3d." At Chard • travelling club has been formed in spite of a eery relit mint protectiouist demoestration trom local orators, who called the Exhibition " the child of free trade," and assailed it accoroingly. The authorities of the Bridgwater travelling club have latelj issued their second address. This club also calls the situation of its members to Mr. lierriuon's Mecimaics' Home, at Vauxhall; and it is well to caution them at once against relying for accommodation upon the capacities of this establishment, which has already been made the point of concentration by many large clubs. The thuthamptcn club will probably fill it for five or six weeks; howsver, oth r arrangements on a large scale are in progress for the accommodation of the members of trevelling clubs, to which we shall call public attention in due time. The cos. mitt,. of the Bridgwater club appear to have been actively engaged, as may be gathered from the tollowiag ex.rects from their second eddies' The com mittee :ye ascertained from the arrangements made by the railway companies, that the fare from Bridgwater to London and back for members of the association will not exceed Ils. Bd., and that • special-train for the whole journey will be provided for not lee than 250 palliator's, if required, the hour of arrival in London being made as convenient as pos sible tor the excursionist.% and the time of departure for the return journey Whig previously amazed according to cir cams:antes, but in no case to exceed six days from that of arrival. The railway companies have also evangel that they shall not be required to bring up any subscription chaise bens the first of July nut, nor Until the admittance so the imbibition shall have been reduceo to Is., and then only at each time as may bo specially flied according to the /easter conveuiecce of each company. Due notice will, however, be given , o the members of this association of the, future deeisious of the railway company. The progress of the emaciation is very satisfactory. Since its formation in October last, 369 members have enrolled their names : the ernotiot received by the treasurer from the weekly deposits exceeds 1001., which has been invested at 4S per cent. The interest of the deposits will he applied to the payment of the expenses incurred in printing and other incidental disburse menta, which it is hoped it will meet ; it not, the deficien oleo will be met by private subscriptions." Toe Liverpool travelling club is programing rapidly. The committee of this club have instrted the following sugges tion in their edictal announcement: "It is recimmended that each person should provide himself with a stock of pro visions, in order not only to cave expense, bat to put money I into the pockets of the shopkeepers of this town, which would othirwise benefit the metropolis to the injury of those et home." The *Moen of the Harrogate travails. slab, after Imola, held two local meetings, hay,' issued their proerctes, making the minima= weekly sn'uoription Is. Yesterday a meeting was held at Kaarseborough, to form • local travelliag club. Trardling clubs hare also been lately foamed at Di a, Ply mouth, Poole, aad Tram. MS. PAXTON'S LETTER.—The Norwich committee hare forwarded a formal nodes ti the Eternity. CJormatee, exprasive of their condemnation of Mr. Paron's enema doe, *muttered in his late letter to Lord John Rouell. Tate C.! ice wee agreed to at a meeting of the Norwich commithse held ca &Wedgy Um. - Tax CATALOOl7ll.—Every Exhibitor should 811 up the description of every article, err mho of articles be exhibits, oix printed forms, whiok nay be had of all local committees, &o. The 'bests or tam inset be written on one side only. the description extend beyond one page, each «musts sheet or fora mint be 'narked with tie exhibitor's name, sat cambered sampatively. To prevent errors in sonipilatinn sad priming, it la desirable the handwriting &mid Mwy 'lean nimbi eel* Wag takaa with all name aslltsshalrl Inten tea r&Ondispensable that sash =Maim should ileraiik the gartimiars, and thee linene Misr gresselted:—Fald Chris -14111 111111461111111 y, address (stating the lIIMMINS town), la Milk the Azhibitor aggesuu as Pro thro, neassfostarer, Ivelfaftir. or pre pri•ter; she us* and d inegi Wide spottiness or slam el ankles 1/; , (PRICE (DOUBLE SIIEET)9'OUIt PENCE. LEEDS DISTRICT. The Leeds executive have entered upon commo diou warehouses, lent by the Midland Rtilway Company, for the reception of goods intended for the Ethibition, and where they will be inspected by the local juries. Tee an nexed are the absolute and optional condiUous required from exhibitors: LODGINGS FOR WORKMEN. With regard to cheap lodging. for the vast num bars of the working classes who will endeavour to visit the z iabi t ion, 01.3ers are not in so forward u they should be. Fa middla•dsm visitors we Wilms there will always be sufficient room; but how accommodation is to be pro. 1 Tided for the thousands of workmen who will wive In ' London in large holies, Is a consideration which has not received much attention up to this time. New, bower. r, speculative men are beginning to examine the lents build ings of L'inion, with the view of turning them into mechanics' home. One or two speculators propose Ito fit up vast warehouse, with berths, ship-luhion ; while others ate bent upon providing palaces for working men at the smallest poesible cost. One firm (that of M . liversfield and Hoene; hu now lodging spars ter about LW) Mkelleilial, which his been approved of by Mr. Hedgrave, on betel( the Royal Commissioner.; but they declare that, even now, in the commencement of their operations, the find a difficulty in meeting with persons is conduct the management of each place, and undertake the fi•tiog up thereof. la Lunbetb, a meeting has been held this week, to hear suggestion. from Mr. Samuel Sidney, on the subject of lodgings for mechanics. His remarks, aid those of the etteizoteo,are wor.h some attention Mr. SIDNIT stated that be appeared on that occasion in his private capacity as a ratepayer, end although he had had the honour of being employes by the royal commissioners, they were in no way parties to the scheme he had suggested. He need not dilate ninon the feet that large crowds of possewovineaill iddt Landon during t►e exhibition, and therefore he would at once state, that the report which he had made to the commissioners upon the subject had met their approval. He had d elvered that clubs had been formed in various parts of England to bring the people to London is lug- maws ; but up to the present time no organised plan had been adopted with • view to supply these prople with lodgings during their stay in the metropolis. The consequence would be, that the householders of London would not derive that benefit from the exhibition which it ought to center upon them ; and he had therefore turned his attention to • plat. I .Dien he thought would be the inmate of Enabling persona who might have rooms unoccupied to make • profit by letting them. Lambeth being au extensive parish, con raining a large number of persons in an humble position of life who had rooms to let, but without the me.ens of ulvertisehg them, lee had thought it adviseble to me mien: nu views to the inhabitants of this dist•wt. His pho was, tilt the parish be divided into convenient districts, and that in Cacti of these districts • register should be kept by 'person, whose duty it woulit be, upon the receipt of • Mali fee, to register the s.:eominoiation in his own locality . When they had tilled up their registers thi y should give one regular return, and aft. r wards appoint a secretary to make • summary of tae SOZOMIAOCiIitiOn. and Waco himself in c..as munication with the v'•rioua travelling clubs. By such correspondence they would mutually ascertain what amount of accommodation wou'd be required by those who desired to obtain •temporary residence in the metropolis. He felt that if this spy em were properly organised it would be a source of comfort and gratification to the large euenbers of persons who would visit London tale year, and at the same time confer a gr.at benefit upon the peoter classes of persons in this Extensive parish. The CHAIRMAN said he thought the present plan was well deserving tneir attention, and he hoped it might re ceive the support of the parishioners. There were a large cumber of per,ons in the parish who had rooms to let at the rate of 61. or 61. a week, and it was with • view to benefit this clam of people that the plan had been brought lorw•rd. He did not think they ought to think lightly upon • subject of this nature, but to do all in their power to &acuities whether the plan was feasible, and it feasible to support it. borne con eeeee tion then took place as to the practicability of the scheme, and en opinion was expressed by Mr. Drummond, • licensed erietuaher, that it could not b e con• venienily carried into effect, inasmuch as the saatropolis (according to a statement which he had read in the news papers) was to be surrounded by soldiers, and many of them would be billetted upon the publichoutes, thus depriving the landlords of the opportunity of letting their vacant apartments se they might think proper. The CHAIRMAN assured Mr. Drummond that be did not think there was any ground ior such an apprehension on his part, unit that it there were, the matter was quite irrelevant is the question now under consideration. After some further rvaserks, the CHAIRMAN suggested that a committee be formed to &uremia whether the plan was practicable. and if so to adopt the necessary measures to carry lt into effect. Tait propositias being unanimously agreed to, the meeting separated. How far it is possible to cury Mr. Sidney's scheme is a question which a little experience will prove ; if it he fea sible, and be not injured by the action of class interests, it may satisfactorily wive the dithcul y in which the Exhibi tion authorities are placed. . - For foreign nekton a scheme on a gigantic scale Is being matured under the title of the " Foreigners' Purvey and Registry." From Germany, Imo*, and Belgium, it Is proposed to bring ov.r 100,000 visitors per month, to locate them, board them, and send them back to their ►omes for a given sum. The preparations for this undertaking are 110 a being made. We hear of confirms :e for the fitting up of a large mansion in PaU•mall to dine three thousand duly ; of houses being fitted up to hold five hundred beds ; of gigantic arraorments with railway and steamboat comps• Mee, and other movements which betoken something like a working system for the accommodation of foreigners. The exhibitors of France an about to form th:inselves into conifers of the vari , 1111 manufacturing interests they retire ' sent: thus the clockm Aura will come over in a holy, and lodge and sat together. However, the comparatively ad Tanned state in which the preparations for the reception of foreign visitors are, should only won people that tome corn ' prehensive and well matured plan is neceuary for the proper accommodation of native visitors. It appears to us, more. over, that the Commeseienen will be compelled in the end . . . . . _ to check charlatans by giving their officill countenance to legitimate speculators and purveyors. Loan WILLOUGHBY Mil o with his Renal libe rality, hired, at his own expense, a bons. is L,ndon for the accommodation of such of the tenants on his exteuive estates as may wish to visit the Exhioition. How many landlords will follow his example 1 Yesterday the Etututive Committee received, in the coon, of the forenoon, no less than four bushels of letters. For some time past their correspondence hos been suntan. latiog with great rapidity, but the Poet•office delivery of yes:erday Is the largest they have yet had. It was caused by intending exhibitors sending in, as required, epee ifications 2f what they intend to show for the ev.,.' vgim. va There. Me day upwards o; was taken at the door, ►nd for bone time past the receipts have been steadily on the increase. The fund thus formed now amounts to a very handsome sum, A portion will go as a donation to $t George's Hospital, where all the workmen who have met with injuries have been sent for medical advice. A portion has been absorbed as a sick and accident fund, and the remainder will be divided among the most deserving of the hands employes during the proem of the undertaking. The muses of material that have hitherto occupied the ground area having been gradually absorbed in the works, the whole space is now comparatively clear, and the first steps in parcelling off the allotments of each nation are about to be taken. The word "Franca," suspended to one of the gall ' of the centre aisle, rout of the transept, indicates the intended whereabouts of our nearest neighbours acmes the Channel in the great industrial show; one or two hoardings have been pat up en the boundary lines of other foreign countries, end the limits of oar own colonial prcduce begin also to be defined. Oa Thursday evening a singular accident took place at the new building. The wind, u night tell, began to blow heavily teem the sow h-west, bat was not nearly so high as it het been from about the same quarter slows the work commenced. Suddenly the glazing of about 1,000 square feet gave way, but not ice the usual way when glass is blown to, for it rather seemed to be the effect of an eddy than of a direct current of air. The afoot of breakage, though it seems large when stated in figures, is not so when exuained with the eye. The Gauss of it is now coder investigation, and will no doubt be satisfactorily explained ; but in the meantime it will be satisfactory to the public to bear that the columns, girder., and other important parts of the structure at t►e 'pot where the accident took place do not appear to have been in the least affected, and that, as far as we could amertals, the permanence and stability of the structure are not at all compromised by what has happened. It may be mentioned, as a marline fact eonneeted with thh subject, that when the glazing of the treasept arch wee in program, a large portion of the oat side bed bees &abated before the west side had been clamed in. While the work was in this state it came on to blow a gale from the west, and though the arch caught the wind as is a heed, sot e pane of ens gun way. ♦BNOL:TN CONDITION!!. Sec. 1. The exhibitor shall fill up a card, furnished by the local jury, with the hollowing particul are reletive to the &brie exhibited :—Dye : True or common co: ur. IC.i-ht: Tot el weight of the piece cr fabric in lbs. and t se., and w. nth, per yard in lbs., en, and decimals of Ise. 'Width: In inches. Length: In yards and qusrters of yards. N.B. Great nicety in all these pimento!" to be. Lbw rved. Pricy. 1. If the exieibiter be the manufacturer, the prime s:ate.l &hell be that at which he wou:d, at the time of exhi bition, contract to supply such goods in bulk, in tic fin shed state. 2. If the exhibitor be the merchant, slyer, er finisher, the price named shall be the cost of the finished 'acid° to such party respectivey ; end he stall state whether, at that price, he can purchase bu.k, at the time of Exhibition, in the ordinary course of trade. Pointe or compelitim : 'toe ex hibitor shall stme the specific qualities or merits of the (Aria exhibited,on which he ch►llenges cnmpariwin wit► other exhi bitors, say, in cue or more of the foil .wing :1. Superior beauty es fixedness ot rolour.—The exhibitor to state, it he chooses, whether attained at a greater or less cost th►n by the oral , nary methods, and the price at shirts be would aye such colour. 2. Superior manufacture, including, as elements of manufacture, every process from the selection of the r►w material and its combinations, to the completion in this milled or balk cute.—N.B. Spoof& *am of superiority to be named if the exmbitur ohonee. 3. Bug:wine finish: The exhibitor, if he chooses, to state whenever attained at a greater or leas cost than by the ordinary me•hode, and the per centage he would charge for such flisieh.—N B. The name of the dyer, manufacturer, and finisher respectively to be given in eac to of the cases of c nape:id...a Ito 3. 4. G e neral excellence of the article. h. Cheapness relatively to ex:ellenne of pro duction. N.B. The name of the manufacturer only ne dbe given in casts 4 and 5, unless the exhibitor chooses to add the names of the dyer and fimsh.r. It the exhibitor shows the cloth as a specimen of the results of new combinations of known raw cuwertals, or the upphoviou of O. W raw mate rials, in the manufacturing of the article, or in the process of dyeing ; or of the use of new m►csines in the pent:teases of manufacturing mid finishing respectively, he shallspscitiolly state the asm-; and ahell further indicate in what repeat .arch new mith.da and applies' iota excel thoe• in nrdinary tier, mid whether e rat is 1, rester or less per yard of the haished dolt. A'l w.. lien clo hs should be mulct uni formly a , 18 inches. Cssatmuss mull be lolled on 4i Molt flit boards. Or TION AL CONDITIONS, 2.—The exhibitor may, it he thinks proper, state the lollo•ing turih. r perticulais :-1. Deeeription of wool of hioh made :Srci,s: sheep's, •Ipa..a. &:. &c.—Geographi cal depiguar ion Saxony, &c. Bach u accurately described as p ,le. 2. If more than one kind of wool, the same particulors to be given as to each kind. The ex hibitor may state proportions of each, if he so chooses. 3. Manufacture. Spinning: On mule or on jeony. Weaving : By hand yr by power. Milling : By lulling stock or by rollers. Fieisnicg Methol ot, to bo partitularised, say by hand r,sing and cutting, by gig and machine cutters, steam-boded, or decattcd, as the Cew may be. 4. Wright of raw wool per yard. N.B. A swim,. of the wool (not less than lib. in weight) 113.1 y bet nu. 5. Wh, thor the cloth ur cloth. xhibited an specimens of his Lording,' y manufacture. 6. The scale of such manufacture—say, the annual production in Lumber of picots of 20 pull and up wards in length. 7. Whither that numbs represents his total annual production of cloth, and if not, what proportion of such annual production it fine 1.. NANNY OP TH■ EXHIBITOR, MANUFACTURER, DYNE, AND FINISHER RESPECTIVELY.—Sec. 3. imam of the szni tutor, togs her with the names of the dyer, manutac.urer, and finisher respectively (as each or all may be r.guired is conformity with the preceding stipulations) sh .0, be Nista in a seabd er.velope, bearing a mark and number correspond ing with a mark and number on the card accompanying the cloth. FRENCH GOVERNMENT ORANF FOR THE EXHIBITION. The report of M. Benoist d'Azy en the credit of 483,000 francs for the cop( nses of the &Whitt .n of London has been distributed at the Assembly. The committee not only ap proves the credit, and proposes to the Assembly to grant it d'urgenes, but demands a grant of 100,000 francs to the Minister of Agriculture sod Commerce for the purchase of patterns, drawings, and various matters, and a grant of 50,000 francs as a subvention to the woikmen and foremen who shall be au.kurised to go to the Ezhib.tion. The following ground. are s'e'ed by the eimmittee as justifying these grants :—" We have coarsely:, endeavoured to o Beet sdditioaal information, having received communicatims both from the memb.n of this committee and from the directors of the Conservatoire des Arts-et Metiers, that admir,ble institution which has rendered such great services to manufactures. It results from oar inves tigations and delib -ration, that all the advantages that may be derived iron this eznibition will not be eb.aroed by merely furnishing the means of acquiring from it some specimens of products that our manufacturen require as patterns either tor internal consumption, or to compete advantageously in forage markets. At the period of We inoibition of Berlin, one of the most distirguished mann facturen of France beught oat of his own peket 30,000 francs' worth of utteres, in the generous intention of pro mAing French manufactures. Is t►at which was at that time useful lees so on this great memos ? The Chambers of Commerce, and our great manufa,tories, will doubtless themselves mahatmas ascrilices fur that purpose ; bat should not mesas be provided for aiding them, or sup plying that which they du not feel bound to do ? It will also be assuredly necessary to commission a certain number of persons conversant in technic:l procredinge, to ruche short nixes by which they may remsuaber the catchiest' and pro- MINI we may have occasion to, copy, and of which we would furnish the details to our artisans and manufscturers, by adding to the riches of our collsciuu at the eotuervatoire. These notes would not in themselves occasion much expense, but the labour aftawards necessary on them would be not a little costly. In fine, we may be obliged to purchase some new and simple agricultural machines, whose price may not much exceed that of a draw ing, but which may be considered useful. For these differ ent objects we have thought a sum of 100,000 francs should be added to the credit and placed at the diaposal of the Minister of Commerce. This is seed which may produce valuable fruit. We have considered, in short, that it would Consist with tie g I wish of the French manufecturers Ito enable Our skilful workman ‘Zd foremen to au so products in the competition of which their lives ars passed. Throughout England subscription. are set on foot with a similar view. In other manufacturing countries a:so *hada gement. are waking. France would not certainly be left in the background. The chambers of commerce, she consultative chambers of manafactures, even the towns will seek doubtless the mesas of providing for this, the great manufactories will do it directly. But to encourage this movement, to show the interest we all take in its develop ment, we have considered that a credit should be placed at the diatom,' of the Minister of Commerce, a credit which must be used with great reserve, by not devoting it to those who can pay their own *sperm., but by aiding the poorest, imposing on them in every ease only a portion of the travelling expenses, which may be reduced by con tracts made with the °where of public conveyances. The state could obtain contrite s at reduced prices analogous to those of pliernre trains, which increase every year, to the great advantage of the population. S Mill of these workmate and foremen may be *elected from the superior workmen of the national rnaunfacories of Sims, the Ci .belina, Beauvais, the School des Arse et Metiers, or the ini , i.ary or neval workshops. This is not an idle matter, sad easureoly manufacture. will reap the useful fruits of this concourse of intelligerce, which will exhibit to each workman the perfection to which he should attempt to attain, arid the means of arriving at it. It is announced that several English manufacturen intend to place in just* vesidein with their products the rudest im plements successively abandoned. Every manufacturer may see if he be tome steps in advance, cr some points in arrear ; gad if the Instruments and the raw product be the same, he may observe what me; be effected by the band of the work man. We have considered that for this kind of subvention thareshould be Wowed a credit of 60,000 franc.. Now BRUNSWICIL CONTRIBUTIONS.—The ship Mary Boma has arthed iu the docks from Bf. Joita's New Bromwich, kraal's( some packages wraith an 04166117 stated to be for the Oreat Exhibition of the Works of In timacy of all Nations in ifyiliapark. This is the gist &IliVel of the kind from this British province of North Amman. Theseatats us algal, cooligsect to Qs Ironies ot the YAW iti A tr. - 1 1. - 'i ~. -~- y .~ 1'