The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-24 00:00:00

-- -.A • • • • .. ' . .•• • 0f,),4 rts% No. 1,481.] [No. 22, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.] EXHIBITION EXPRESS, FOR TIIE WEEK ENDLNO SATURDAY, MAY 24. The juries w:10 are to award . ..he prizes to the competitors in the thirty sections of the Great Exhi-i bison have becu busily at w ork throughout the week. Their route has been t :seeable be the confu sion in which they hare left the good; they have inspected. Thus in the we allen fabrics court a huge placard, announcing that the condition of the cen tral Passage was attrile.able to the visit of the ju roes, was considered n e cessary to account for the tumbled appearance ,f the clothe' and elpacas. In the hardware courts, .4..0, visitors were nt times prevented from proceeding up certain pas sages while eae jurors were there some thoughtfully Passing the polished razors and knives across the palm of their hand ; others paying nose attention to scisoors. The 30 . 'Fors la r frallihrbe g aMetta il l i°ll4l e two medals to award; but before the decisions of the separate juries can be acted upon, they will be severally referred to the group to which each jury belongs, and finally to the council of chairmen. The small medals will be distributed by the royal commissioners. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal children, have continued their early visits to the building, but have had to complain grievously of the rudeness of the general visitors in hounding them from one square to another. The curiosity to nee the royal visitors is natural, and would be doubtless a source of gratification to the objects of it if accompanied with that decorum which teaches all refined people to respect the privacy of the humblest and the greatest. Already aunouncements begin to crowd the adver tising columns of the public journals calling upon the public to join in various festivals comintmorative of the Great Exhibition. All people who havo in the least degree helped in the great work will un doubtedly have their festive acknowledgments in the course of the season. There will probably be the jury diniwr, the royal commiteionene dinner, the foreign exhibitors diuner, the British exhibitors' dinner, the local committeemen's dinner ; banquets to workmen, English and foreign ; ten-meetings for the teatotullers of all nations; fruternal fruit meet ings fur vegetarians, and other meetings, soial and convivial. Already one leinquet has been held at Rich mond,withmarkedeuevessaildenthueiasm —that given un 'Tuesday Lest by the Metropolitan Lund Commis sioners to the Foreign Commissioners. At fide banquet M. Van de Weyer made an enthusiastic speech ; and M. C. I hipin, well known in connection with the French exhibition, worthily represented his colleagues. As an illustration of the good-will with which foreign , powers have aided their manufacturers and artisans, the vote lately made by the diet of Stockholm of 12.000 mix dollar. to pay the expenses of one hundred clever workmen to the Great Exhibition, is a signi ficant fact. Throughout the week, the building has been thronged with visitors. On Saturday last, no less than 10,129 visitors paid 3s. at the doors. One subject of genend remark is the calmness with which certain exhibitors proceed to cover up their melds with arms of brown holland, long before the hour of closing has arrived. Whether or not this proceeding--betraying great disrespect fur the public —be intended us u mark of the coolness said to exist between the body of British exhibitors generally and the executive authorities. is a point upset which we arc not comp: tent to decide, but it is clearly unfair that people who have paid their money to Nee the contents of the Glass Palace should be favoured in stead a ith un undieturled view of the brown holland cases ',tumour neatly executed) of prudent manufac turers. The absents. of dust throughout the building is us remarkable as it is plea-ant. At the Richmond banquet, Mr. Paxton suggested that the public pro bably owed this cleanliucss to the long skirts of the ladies which served the purpose of the most effectual pan la sweeping machints. Among the bodies of people for whom free admis sion has - been claimed we have this week to include the charity children of the metropolitan parishes. That it is urgent to admit these poor children no. preen will deny ; but how far it is prudent, just now, to establish a precedent of gratuitous admis sion, is n question open to keen debate. It is to be hoped that, before the Exhibition closes, the great bulk of the people of England will have inspected it, and at a later period it may reasonably be conici . dived bow far it is advisable to issue gratuitous ad missiune ; lint, at the pn sent time, it is to be feared that such ' - ssions could not be grunted to any body, however desersing of sympathy in itself,with out raising jealous clamours throughout the country. ltuseiu is still the Desert of the interior of the building. The two imperial vases still stand alone, and hardly a visitor has the curiosity to penetrate the empty quadrangle. Turkey, on the contrary (for a country where the opeuing of a letter is said to be an arduous day's work for a secretary), has made great efforts throughout the week; and now their space abutting on the northern part of the transept, is covered and filled with various gorgeous manufactures, including a specimen of a Turkish carriage builder's taste and skill. 'rhe great I.yons case, which runs along the south-eastern gallery, has also been finished, and is now a conspicuous object from the eastern main avenue. On Monday morning the dour' will be thrown open to the 'chilling visitors—the great bulk of the people. The orderly behaviour of English visitors in the various gratuitous exhibitions of the metropr fis is an tamest of the decorum which is expected to mark the proeeedinge on this occasion; the only fear entertained in any quarter as to the issue of the experiment is that the scenes which take place at the pit entrances to the Opera-hams on a great night, will be imitated un an extensive scale, and with a little extra vehemence, in Hyde-park. Whether or not this fear has any grounds is a matter which will so soon receive the test of experience that specula tion upon it would be trivial; but it is very certain that Ilycle-pnrk is a large space to cover with holiday makers, each with a spare shilling in his pocket. The ah%eure of the Queen and her royal guests did not appear yi.terilay to diminish the attractiveness of 1 the Exhibition, the crowd which thronged the Crystal Palace being as large uon any previous occasion. At mid a..y every approach to the building was crowded with car 'Wes, horsemen, and prikstrians. Within the palace the , scene was equally animakil. Many visitors doubt -114... had come to behold fur the first time the i wonderful spectacle, while it might be seen in compara the qui. t ; others seemed to be taking in new impressions from often-visited objects. Notwithstanding the obvious impracticability of carrying out further internal decorations and arrangements under the strong pressure which will im mediately he brought to bear upon the interior space, many ealiibitocs are still making improvements and alterations in the display of their goods. The arrangements of the Royal Commissioners for ad mitting the public on Monday with facility and seen rity are believed to be progressing favourably, although, of course, where certain data as to the extent of accommodation likely to be required by the public are wanting, these arrangements can only be tested by their result. The Royal Commissioners appear to be satisfied of the capabilities of their edifice to receive ail who may be expected to claim admission on Monday at the charge of Is. Outside the building barriers have been erected at the entrances, so as to obviate the inconvenience of the expected rit.h, and within the police will endeavour to secure the comfort of the crowd by carrying . out new re gulations which have been devised for the circulation of visitors. The number of foreign visitors is already sensibly increasing. The receipts at the doors from Ss. payments amounted, I"terdoY, to 4,09.51. 10s. From the sale of season tickets 34t. Ss. was taken, so that the total mum added to the fiancees of the commis:ion was 4.22W.15.. WORDS FROM THE EXHIBITION. Already the directors of two or three sections have published catalogues of their contributions-- already, in addition to the official catalogue and Mr. I Hubert Humes Synopsis, we have distinct publica tions in the Indian Catalogue, the Saxon Catalogue, !the British Guiana ('atalo"ue, a Catalogue of Arti -1 eles exhibited by Messrs. 'hunt and Itoskell, and a Brief Survey of the Objects of Graphic Art exhi bited by the Imperial and Government Printing Ea itablishMent at Vienna. These vilifications arc is sued to supply further information on the articles to which they refi:r than is given in the official shil ling catalogue. They are evidence of the vastness of the building ; a building in which industries like those of India and British Guiana assume only a minor importance, and are compelled to appeal-di rectly to public attention. The endeavours of in dividual exhibitors to obtain public notice and receive a fair share of patronage, are appa rent in every avenue of the building. The Aus trians conciliate visitor* by dipping their handker chiefs in a fountain of Eau-de-Cologne—the Ameri cans daily supply a loaf made ti-urn Indian corn for public consumption (and the readiness with which visitors help themselves shows that the idea pros pers)—other enterprising exhibitors air almanacs to the ladies—Messrs. De la Rue give away en velopes made before the eyes of wondering visitors— bee yea me elf red a card with a list of priers-- there an elaborate pamphlet. Exhibitors aza everywhere issuing their separate words • from the Exhibition, seeking to disentangle themselves from the industrial Babel, and to engross a distinct share of I public attention. Mr. Henry Bigfurd has distributed • full history of the advantages of his improved detector lock; Mr. Milner comes forward with a pamphlet on the importance of placing public does meats and deeds of all kinds in patent, fire-et:elut ing cases, and the following extract from the tramp actions of the Liverpool Polytechnic Institution re lative to this subject, gives a lucid view of the scientific arrangement neceasary to effect this ob ject : In their jprosp:ctus they thus describe the merits sal nature of tlwir plan—Milners' Pateut fire-resisting Print ciple is applied, in their beset and safes, between plate-iris cow., calculated to conduct or retain as little heat na possible. These chambers arc filled with an alkalised vegetable ma. conductor, possessing extraordinary powers of resistance w the transmission of heat, eumbined with an amusgetaewt for the vaporisation ot steam into the interior, so soon as the boa or safe attains the temperature of 212 degrees (boil ing heat.) From each inch of fluid is slowly evolved near two thousand times it. own volume of steam and vapour, which passes into and i. successively coudeu-ed in the con• tents of the but, rendering them damp and humid, as a newspaper front the press. By this menu 1,040 degrees of heat is neutralised, and rendered latent and harmless, (one- half of which temperature would char the contents of the best safe or box that could be put together of dry anhydrous mate rial.), whilst the papers are made difficult of ignition—the whole process and principle being throughout conducive, in the most extraordinary manner, to their preservation. For a much longer period than that during which a box would be in direct tontwt with fire, in the successive conflagra tion of the part. of an ordinary building, no greater heat than 212 &gni, will pass through this medium into the box, a temperature pertectly harmless to book., papers, parchments, or even bank notes. The cause of the exhan. Son of the moisture being sit protracted is its being sheathed and protected from rapid vaporisation in the absorbent non conductor. In lung-continued heat the non-conductor discharges it, pyroligneous arid, which, combining with the alkali, terms a carbonaceous crust or pyrolignate of potas•—the worst con ductor of heat known : awl from within this shelter the papers or books slowly give out again the large volume of strain that has hem passed into and condensed in them, re acting most favourably in keeping down their own temix rature' that of the box, and the surrounding fi re. To the best arrangemeut of non-conductors, which thirty years' practical experiments have suggested to the paten tees, they have superadded the mitigating power of es apt ration--the principle of the tea-kettle on the fire—rest heat outside, boiling water at 212 degrees in-ids, one-fourth of the outer temperature, the principle whereby the loaf, by its self-contained moisture, is kept soaking but uncluirred in the oven. 'rho same principle was exhibited by Mr. C. W. William., to the Polytechnic Society, although with a different object, when he boiled water over an argaud gas bonier in a pun with a pasteboard bottom. From the French department Hadrot issues his word on the merits of has lamps, tells us that they have neither pumps nor wheels, that they will burn for eight hours without the least aid. Front the north-western gallery comes a word from Mr. Holt, of Hastings,bidding the world to notice his collection of locoweeds. From Section 19 Mr. Saunders cautions visitors against forgetting his newly-invented pro cess of introducing watermarks into 'oiler ; and from the British machinery department, Mr. . Lee Stevens has much to say on the beauty of his fan paddle-wheel for steamers, and a broad illus trated sheet is offered illustrative of its efficiency. Then a pretty pink pamphlet, issued by Messrs. Tapper and Carr, conveys an idea of the infinitude of 11114:8 to which iron is applicable, but more im mediately of the excellencies of their gulvaniaed iron ; and words—illustrated words—from Mr. French, of Bolton, arc issued to visitors, with the request that they will notice his church furniture. From the south-eastern gallery words are sounded to the effect that Dempater's equilateral telegraph is now in a complete working state; from the ole prurient where British silks are exhibited words are heard to the effect that Messrs. Lewis and Al lenby's contributions should receive particular atten tion. Mr. Nelis, of Omagh, hopes that his Omagh pearls will not be forgotten mud the fiery brilliants exhibited by other parties. Illuminated words draw popular attention to the gold enamelled and jewelled vase executed by Messrs. Wathenton and Brogden ; and Mr. Dimohne, of Bristol, prints words descriptive of his improved pianos. Front the north-west central gallery the words " serial navigation " are sounded, and the visitor is entreated to notice the self-propelling rotary bal leen ; while from another ILarter, Mr. C. Bell re gigots ladies to observe his new ladies' saddle. Vs oodoo are also issued to visitors from the Low Moor Iron Works—from the furniture stand of Messrs. Hunter—stud from Mews. Penn, of Greenwich. Other words arc• doubtless in preparation ; and soon visitors will be found issuing from the building la den with little descriptive libraries of the various ' industries of all nations. PROPOSED ENTERTAINMENT TO PRINCE ALBERT AND THE EXEC*: TIDE COMMITTEE AT 11:1111INGH An influential meeting of manufacturers, merchant•, and others, Has held in the Town Hall, at Birmingham, on Wed , nesday, the mayor (William Lucy, Esq.), in the chair. The Ineaiug took place in consequence of a circular issued by his worship, from which the following is an extract : "As the labours of the Exceutic!.` Committee for the Ex• hibition of the Industry of All Nations now been brought to a most successful termination, and their v . :7v arduous. duties basing been discharged in a manner which entitles them to an expression of approbation and thank, from the manufacturers of this town and district, I feel that some decided mark of our appreciation of their exer tions is due to them, and propose that a meeting of the exhibitors be held to determine whether any, and what steps shall hr taken to express our obligation to the Execu tive Committee for their very valuable services:* In opening the business of the day, the Mayor said lie was happy to be uhle to announce that the object fur which he had invited their attendance was looked upon most favourably by all the principal manufacturers of the town and district. After a brief discussion, in which Mr. Alderman Lowden, Mr. Osier, Mr. John Aston, Mr Goddard, and Mr. T. C. Salt took part, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted That this meeting is fully impressed with a deep sense of the eminent services of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with whom the exhibition of all nations ori ginated, and of her Majesty's royal commissioners, and also of the talent, perseverance. and courteous conduct of the executive committee of the said exhibition appointed by them; and duly appreciate the benefits received from the executive committee by the exhibitors from this borough and the neighbourhood." " That his Royal Highness l'rince Albert and her Majesty's royal commissionen, with the executive committee of the Exhibition, he invited to a public dinner in the Town Hall of this borough on an early day." A committee was subsequently appointed to carry out the Mews of the meeting. Tim MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE has decided that the great hall of the Conservatoire des Arts-et-Metiers, Paris, shall be apted to the exhibi tion of the which that iMat may purchase at the Olinda. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1851. INTENTS OF THE GLASS PALACE. of two sizes at 121.125. and IW. 164. each respectively. 1..* In our notice on Saturday lust of the " woollen and worsted goods," we inadvertently omitted to prefix the name of Messrs. Brown and Foster, a. the exhibitors of some Talpalque or goat's-hair cloth; cloth made of China grass; some beautiful specimens of embroider•, &r., of all of which we spoke in high terms of enninendation. The same firm also exhibit the " commodore drill," some very ►eautiful fabrics for waistcoats, and a variety of new at terns for trowsers. SHAWLS. Without desiring to attach tho smallest blame either to individuals or to '„tie superintendents of departments we cannot but regret the unsatisfactory manner in which the Grer.t Exhibition catalogue has been prepared and arran•ga It would surely have been better to have delayed its publication for a few days, or to have streerseded the first issue by an amended edition, ;.n preference to disseminating hundreds of thou..ands of most erroneous and indeed nearly useless vo%umes. To prevent increasing the confusion to which the above untowr.rd circumstance necessarily gives rise, we shall cemtinue to notice the textile tissues and fabrics in the order in which they arc found in Messrs. Spicer and Clowes's work, though the refer ences there are only calculated to mislead, and, we propose, in pursuance of that intention, to invite our readers to follow us from the re gion :pf worsted and woollen at the south side of the nave to the shawl department, situate in the south-west gallery of the transept. The different cases here arc many of them of tasteful structure, and their contents are prettily arranged and grouped so as to be displayed in a good light, . and with some regard to the harmonious juxtaposition . of colours. . . . . SILVER WORK. The brilliant array of wrought, chiselled, and embossed silver-work now collected throughout the principal compartments of the Great Exhibition, seems to indicate that this noble art has been shorn of none of its pristine lustre, since the days when kings and princes, popes and cardinals, were sole patrons of the handicraftsman. Precisely three centuries have elapsed aim* the art of chisel ling silver was at its zenith. On looking round and seeing the prodigious number and beauty of the works exhibited, one almost fancies that the many hammers which b,at in such unison at the command of Cellini in the " Petit Nesle," had never ceased to resound on the banks of the Stine. England, on her side, strives with the wondrous aid of science to keep up the ..lusion, particularly by the dazzling brightness with which she invests the precious metals. In both Eng .., The skilled eye of a connoisseur is not long in de- land and France will' be found tacit acknowledi tecting the excellence of the goods of Mr. It. Kerr, of meuts of the eminent fitness of the Renaissance Paisley, which may be assumed as the most perfect sty l es o f wor k mans hi p over a ll ot h ers es p ec i a lly th e specimens of this department of British art. One classical, which is just at present under a complete cabinet, enclosing a neat model of a shawl weavers ban. If we inquire further into the possible loom, contains some really beautiful productions causes, from which have arisen the present taste for in great diversity of graceful patterns, chiefly imi- all that appertains to the sixteenth century, we find tenons or combinations of the designs of Caslinicre. that, as has ever been the ease, the minor arts are in- These are of course susceptible of endless variation, fluenced by the prevalent taste in architecture; as it to suit the taste of different denominations of pur- i s a fundamental principle of ornamentation that the chasers. It is curious to observe the diversity in this component parts which serve to adorn any structure, respect even in different parts of this metropolis. o'ol its furniture, should necessarily partake Thus we have in this one case shawls intended for somewhat of its character. To Mr. Chenavard, able 1 shops in the eastern and western districts of tronised by the late Duke of Orleans, and an ILondon, not varying greatly in texture and architect, the French ascribe the honour of driving quality, but !marvellously contrasting ill ex - them out of the classical slough in which ternal appearance; whenceit would . seent that G a lli c art was so l ong imbedded. The British silver. those who, in the eastern districts, array smith, on the contrary, has seldom allowed himself themselves in this species of apparel, delight at the to be influenced by ate fluctuations of fashion, but same time to deck their persons in dazzling hues ; has steadily, perhaps too steadily, adhered to time while, on the other hand, the fair denizens of the honoured traditions and old sculptural forms. We western regions seek for quieter and less brilliantly fancy we recognise the hand of Flaxman even to this coloured drapery. Every spectator of refined and day, with its pure but somewhat quaker-like concep cultic:dial taste would, in accordance with this view, tions. One cannot be too thankful that the human immediately select from the extended bale of Mr. and vegetable kingdom should have been the only Kerr's ('aslimere shawls, two perfectly snow-white, source of inspiration ; and it is difficult to conceive with a delicate filagree border of green and rose, as all the vagaries and waste of metal, which the the purest and most pleasing of the whole, thout straight lines of our perpendicular architecture in all probability a much more rapid sale would and its Flamboyant traceries might have led obtained for some of their gaudy neighbours. us to. But if timidity has hitherto been the The cashmeres of Messrs. Morgan, of Paisley, may besetting ,A„. there is at present rather an be classed next in order of merit to those of Kerr ; opposite tendency, which is evinced in the some indeed, it is only a very practised eye and hand that what audacious rejection of all wholesome rule. Sit would venture to assign precedence to the latter ver is expanded over large surfaces, and made to house, so closely do these celebrated manufacturers branch in large chandeliers which would have made vie one with another in the beauty and softness of the old artificers stare at the lavish expenditure of their fabrics. Messrs. Robertson, of Paisley, exhibit t h e precious metal. We believe it is no exaggeration cheaper qualities and showier patterns, as do Messrs. to say that the compartment of Messrs. Hunt and Burgess, amongst whose shawls . we must not omit to Itoskell, late Story and Mortimer, alone contains no notice particularly two; one with a white, the other less than three tons' weight of silver. Nowhere was with a centre of cobalt blue, both surrounded by a the pressure greater throughout the whole of Satur deep border of Indian character and of very chaste day, arising in a measure from the 1* 'ted width of design• the gallery, than round this compartment, which Descending from these again, we come to a por- contains, besides jewellery, the precious stones ob tion of the southern wall, decorated by Messrs.. tained lately from the collection of 11. P. Hope, Holmes, of Paisley, with every tartan, whether of e a.• arl., at such an enormous outlay. Highland or Lowland elan, from the Royal :quart It is almost a relief to turn from the precious to the more homely Buchanan. The texture of these stones whose intrinsic value escapes mental evaluation, shawls is fine, and we apprehend from their appear - to the more tangible merits of human workmanship. luxe that they are woven from Scottish wool, Contrasted with the bright and finished groups in with an admixture of Saxony; to the feel s i lver, two wor k s , executed by A. Weide, in mingled they are very light and warm, while the brilliancy iron and silver, stand out prinninently by their sub of their tones naturally attracts many beholdera• clued tones. The first is a shield, which; though' as Among these, of course, are a large preponderance yet unfinished, promises to be a most exquisite piece of our northern friends, many of whom we of traleesed workmanship. It represents Sluik observed indicating with pleasurable exultation the spore, Milto.:, and Newton. surrounded by their chin-tartans they were proud to call their own. embodied emir:options. 'flu: style of the figures is al Passing from the woven shawls we come t o those singular medley of Raphael and Buonarroti's designs; which have received their pattern by block-printing.Rua is, rather * calling to mind the conceptions of Swaisland of Crayford, stands pre-eminent in this the great Italians than closely adhering to them. department; the beauty and variety of his produe' The tame may be said of the " Vase of Etruscan tions may indeed challenge ecanariso' ri with any form," also executed by the scum artist, and repre house. Messrs. Gen and Macheire have also brought sorting Jupiter hurling thunder at the Titanic host. this branch of art to high perfection. The anatomy is worked our in a manner which Of the cost of these articles we may give some would bear extension on the largest scale. idea when we inform our readers that one set of yaws, salvers, and centre ornaments, presen blocks to produce a shawl exhibited (the value of which is probably between 255. and 305.), cost the nation cups, &c.. fill up the remaining portion. Messrs. It and S. Garrard shine in bellicose groups, proprietor upwards of 5001. Nor are the new patterns among the woven shawls brought out with- executed mainly in entire relief by the able designer, Mr. Cotterill, who has identified himself with ' out a large expenditure. We understand that Mr. bull fights, boar hunts, and hunting meet- Kerr entertained at one time the intention of ex- hibiting a magnificent shawl; worth from the labour logs. Ever full of spirit, his groups are some times marred by a want of finesse in' to be expended upon it at least 400/., but was de terred from doing so, in a great measure, in souse- detail-work; Mr. (lateral is too much at the mercy lof the polisher; we need only point at the otherwise quence of the heavy duty on pa lor, which would pleasant performance of the rider entrap have ndered the pattern so costly, from the era- ping the I re wild home by the latsu. A perforated chandelier !noise number of cards requisite to produce it. attracts as much notice by its size and polish as the I Messrs. Jamison and Banks and Messrs. Webber a ii eu ,„„ y and Hairs have contributed some very flue silk testimonial" by its massive effect. In the printed shawls. assembled company are of engineers whose portraits Messrs. Roxburgh have contrived a novelty for here gracefully collected together, we fancy we see the heroes of speed, which has its tardy counterpart this season, in the form of a circular shawl, which in the progresses of Omen Elizabeth, who is eve has a light and graceful aspect. Similar shawls of this form arc to be obtained at Holmes's, in Regent- dentiv a favourite with the silversmith. There are 'two effigies of her ; the first has been street somewhat modernised by B. Marochetti, for Mrs. Messrs. Kerr and Scott have two magnificent Hancock, who has other meritorious productions on silken shawls, one white and one green, of new de- view, The next, of somewhat exorbitant dimensions sign, but displaying the combination of many Indian for silver, has been worked under the direction of patterns with which we an! familiar. Mr. Morel, from the great seal of the time. The Messrs. Rowat, of Paisley, have some beautiful way in which the minutia of dress have been worked latrge shawls, and Mr. John Baird, of the same show how far embossed work may go; those who place, shows great taste and simplicity in the are curious in technical peculiarities may notice noti with arrangement of his goods. They consist of white satisfaction that there is no trace of . subsequent shawls of Chinese silk, delicately but most elaborately soldering, her Majesty being daintily fitted, as be embroidered by hand. Three dresses of fine French scented her precious person, on the barb or state merino also similarly adorned. horse. Her weight is considerably above a thousand Messrs. Forbes and Hutchison exhibit a beautiful ounces. Mr. Morel also exhibits a centre piece of black shawl, embroidered with crimson, as well as children playing with panther, which displays one of scarlet, and one of ultra-marine blue, both cm- all the fancy of Poussin in the juvenile attendants of broidcred in white. Bacchus. The frosted imitation of the flesh texture is novel and pleasing. Caps of agate and lapis-lazuli of Messrs. Blakely, of Norwich, display some elegant unusual dimensions, and convivial weapons show corn lace scarfs, and some shawls of beautiful design , but blind taste and art.' As defenders of the powers of we think that the patterns scarcely equal those from electro-metallurgy, -, Messrs. Elkington and Mason, of Scotland. course' reign supreme. It is well known that in Every one passing through this portion of the cm- the ordinary methods of electro-plating it is usual hibition pauses to admire, amongst . the chan.ning to construct a plated article as far as possible from specimens from 'Messrs. Towler, Carom'', and C . 0., of plated sheet metal, while the edges and ornamental Norwich, a magnificent rich white silk grenadine, so parts are completed by soldering thereto parts either beautifully embroidered that the work will bear the stamped in plated metal or in silver. By this method searching scrutiny of a powerful lens. of manufacture the design must necessarily be Mr. Hutchison, of Paisley, is the patentee of a limited, being confined to such ornamentul forms as very ingenious machine, to be seen in this portion of could be produced by stamping or otherwise fashion. I the "gallery , whereby patterns in cheeks, stripes, and ing sheets of metal. The pernicious process of gild tartans m a y Ise coin'bined and displayed by means of ing by an amalgam . of mercury and gold is super-1 s wi ng m i rrors am : !dips of coloured glass. The scaled by the voltaic reduction of gold; and the principle is a modification, or rather an extension , of voltaic precipitation is effected with far greater the powers of the kaleidoscope ; adi Gertanaly the economy . than the mercurial process. Messrs. results are must pleasing and satisfactory. Amongst ' Eit , meten and Co., though their patent has re its primary advantages we must count the cxtraor- ccivedwide eVension by tke grant of licenses even divary facility with which the idea of a pattern can to French finns, ma:atem their supremacy, and s be momentarily realised and modified or changed. sorely puzzle their imitators by the great brilliancy When finally approved of, it is moreover unncecs- of their gold and silver work. ut it m:' be dmbted sary to paint the pattern upon paper, as brass scales whether the merits of the voltaic precipitation o. affixed to the sides of the mirrors indicate at a glance metals are not more conspicuous in the larger scope the exact number of threads of each colour, and how afforded in its application to sculpture. In this re many repeats are requisite for the breadth of the spect it is to be regretted that fitter models than the web. It shows too, not only the repeats, but lively Cupids of Flamingo or the dull effigies lately the whole breadth, and a considerable portion of applied to the houses of parliament were not se the length of the cloth at one view. The patterns lected . to inaugurate the processes of electro thus originated can be enlarged or diminished at bronzing. In the nave will be found a pleasure. Another great ment of the invention is horse's head executed life siz e by electro-deposit ;it is the surprising simplicity, ease of adaptation, and from the hand of Marochetti, and interesting by the the perfect manner in which the effect of variation of its tone. It has always leen an acknow finished cloth, the crisp transparentcloth, surface of silk, ledged . fact in electro-metallurgy that the cost of the and the soft opaque texture of wool, are severally reduction of iron; far more than counterbalanced the rendered. It is not easy to calculate the importance original cheapness of the raw material : whether to manufacturers of so simple an apparatus, giving, this is the case . in the present instance we had no ea it does, the means of realising without expense means of ascertaining. The East Indians, who on any new idea that may occur, opening at the same Saturday laid bare the gorgeous inlaid of the time a wide Acid fee the numb° of ingenuity. The e= Lin of Onde, display in the gold ot their tents, crowns and horse trappings, ail that barbaric splendour which charms the eye by the natural and choice harmony with which colours are blended, regard less alike of the inroads of science on one hand, or cal culations of novelty on the other. The sceptre and the fly-flap, as other accessories which fill their tent, show that a spirit somewhat akin to that of the an cient Assyrians, is still ahroad among these Indians. The transition from these vestiges of primitive splendour to the nicer discriminations of the present day is rather an abrupt one, but the same may be said of every stride taken in the Great palace. It is singular to find our neighbours, the French, doing their utmost to extinguish the brightness of the metals which the English handicraftsman does his utmost to preserve. it is well known that not only a certain dulness of tone is the natural COM quence of the continual hammering and oiling of the silver necessary to bring it to completion; but, not content with this, it has been the fashion, for the last year or two, of oxidising most part of the I silver-work, which thereby acquires preuciturcly the sober and dusky veil which time has east over all the brilliant sleights of hand bequeathed to us by the artists of the sixteenth mutury. Greater durability . ' and a more permanent defence against the inroads of time, are also said to be secured by the present pro cow. The system adispassi••ssstaowtegat• • • T ianni, ?g the groups into acids,whenee they emerge with their pre sent sombre hue. Mr. Froment Meurice continues to attract crowds. A yet later installation is that of Mr. Durand, whose " Thciere a grande reception" must be accepted as the greatest compliment yet, paid to England's favourite beverage. It consists of seventeen' pieces, which combine chiseiing. niello, and even oxidising. Though Diane de Poiticisi has made way for an allegorical figure of charityand her children,the whole work smacks of the gusto prevalent in the reign of Francois 1., in the imitation of the Florentine architecture and its in crustation of small figures. Thu whole design and its adaptation to its purpose is excessively ingenious, and was, we believe, originally designed by Kingman. The Louis XV. stele, which the French now desh,niate as "rocoi//;," is splendidly represented. Mr. Durand exhibits a table-orna ment of assembled Cupids, with decorations in this style, which shows how far a skilful hand can reconcile one to the wildest vagaries of fancy. The firm of ltudolphi seem to have made oxidising their specialty, and scent bent on proving that the process is equally well adapted for the largest or mi nutest proportions. A circular table, or " gueridon," ornamented with Cupids and slender leaves at the base, the top part consisting of an inverted shield, with the embossed head of Medusa. There is a sal ver with one of those nymphs Jean Goujun has made us familiar with. M. (idiot makes the purpose of his ornamental work at once plain by chiselling fish, flesh, or fruit, with perfect freedom, decking his richly worked specimens. [PRICE (DOUBLE SHEET) FOURPENCE. dently possessing great eapabilities, ie ' , cry usr NI and in teresting. The S,yssel Aspholte Company exhibit their flooring, rooting, ere., and at the east entrance a large space is covered with the former. The Royal Dublin Society has 4rot excellent specimens of the carboniferous deposits ot Ire land. Mr. Kennard exhibits a very remarkably bitumiuotts mil from the neighbaurhood of Edinburgh. 'flier., is also a case of the coals so extensively used in the steam navy of different countries, the produce of Ireland, and which were recommende l by the Commi ' , nen of the Lord: of the Admiralt• The exhibition da it generally exmo.. of coals is rally speaking very complete, and has received that :mount of at tention which, as one of our must importent mineral prodne tims, it caned fur ; there are several exhibiors, and the speci mens are arranged so us to illustrate their geological position. Two immense obelisks of coal, from Aberearn—one being a navy coal—are exhibited by the Aberearn and wythen C. 1- lierte6 Company. Caunel coal, and the applications of it, arc well shown. Among the numerous carvings front it is &model of an edifice which was raised to the memory of the Earl of Durham. Models of col! mines, showiog the methods of working and ventilating, arc contributed by C. L. Wool, lletton Colliery, Durham. A working model of a :few matte coal-pit by J. Wales, of the same company, with sec.- eel other models and diagrams, make rtitogether a scrim which for extent and felicity of illuetrati sn has certainly nevi r yet been broneht together, and cannot f til to be a source of great gratification to those who either ;.ref ,sionally or as am..teurs take any interest in the study of one natural resources; they will recognise in the black and smutty piles of blocks one of the mainsprings of that ener4etic industry which, exerting itself upon every specie, of natural produc tion, has raised our manufactures to the high position they hold. tearing the coal department, we next come to the space set apart for the different metallic ores; those of iron occupy a prominent position; one large table is Careered with specimens of the various ores, labelled with the names of the localities frost which they are obtained, &c. The I'entwyn Iron Compauy scud specimens of different kinds of iron; the Ebbw ` - ale Company models of their smelting work. and of their estate+, showing the vological position of the iron ores, &c. Mr. Beceroft, of Leeds, exhibits railway iron in different states. From the Wingeworth mines and works in Derbyshire there is au extended senes of specimens of all kinds, from the ores to every description of manufactured articles ; near this is a very interesting and instructive case of steel preduets from the redhiematite ore of Low Furnese, Laneashire, showing the differences of tex ture. &c., exhibited by Messrs. Schneider. A mutates of specimens of iron ores have been sent from Dealt finest. apparently sere rich. From the Crecv,ll mines, county Li itrim, Rev. ). Page has sent specimens of the ors. Mr. Stirling's patent iron and alloys arc well worthy of notice. Mr. Blackwell contributes a huge collection of iron errs. illustrating the extent of the national ironmaking resources. This important branch of industry ha, grown up very rapidly ounce the practical application, in 17.10, of land Dudley's process, of smelting with pit coal instead of timber. In 1750, only 30,000 tons of iron were nude in Great Britain. in 1825 the quantity hail reached 000,4100 bets, and since the removal of the duty on foreign iron in the following year, it still went on inereasing, and at the present timo amounts to 2,2141.04 e) tons. South Wales, Stalforashire, and Scotland, are the chief state of our iron workings, and the whole history of the manufacture will be found admirably told bv the speeimens contained in this divi.ien. .51orewood and Itogers xhibit their gals aniscil and lead, ,I metals, and theVieille Montague Company theit application, of zinc to various purposes. Mr. Berger, of the 'fro. Mines , Copper mines, Cornwall, exhibits three t nortnous slabs of native copper, She largest ever found in England, contain ing 96 per cent. of metal. Hulett* and Sons, of Penzance. have sent au admirable model of tin works and specimens of all the preduets of the smelting. Opposite this is a stand of product. obtained by the heroics of Mr. lane:maid, for extracting metals front their ores. by which* great Paving is etileted, and what would other woe be considered a. refuse is made available. '11,.' mineral productions of c o r nan n ce hibis e d b y th e l oca l committee occupy considerable space. Mr. Lowe 's process fir smelting copper, us en tetiwd at Penelawald. 0: or Swansea, is shown here. N ivian and Son exhibit a series of copper ores, and specimens descriptive of the smelting p ro ce s s carried on at Swansea, where the copper OM not only of Gnat Britaitt, bit of almost all parts of the world, are brought for the purpose of extracting the metal. in conacqueuce of its advantageous situation in the neigh bourhood of coal and other deposits necessary fur tin, process. The great mineral wealth of Cornwall and Devon is well shown. The valuable tin, copper, lead, and Min gauce.e mines, is the working of wltielt such a vat, amount of capital is invested, and nearly one bun dud thousand perseus employed in smite way, the beautiful granites, serpentine, the data •, china clay. &e., which are met with in this district, utak,• it p.ctiliarly interesting. M-. Garland and Mr. Jenkins exhibit spec' •n* of the Contiah mundies 311.1 the prepa rations of arsenic, which are interesting, f. ..s the fact °rite being a comparatieely recently-developed branch of our industry. Mr. Jordan, of Manchester, a tidbits a can of metals and alloys. Mr. Oxland, of l'lyinouth, samples at' tin ores, and illustrations of his process of smelting. by which the tin is obtained free from iron, whi, i. injures its quality. The table is this division is devoted to the ores of lead, of which there is a very good collection from all parts of the county. The principal exhibitors are Mr. I'attinton, of Neweahtte npon-Tyne, and the Duke of Buceleuch ; the former, of his process for separating silver from lead ores, a great number o f specimens; two 'urge s of silver, one weighing 12,14;2 lbs., value 3,!:14/. The latter exhibit* models of his lead work, at Wanlocashead, Dumfricsaltire, showing the whole of the apparatus used in the condensation of the fumes which arc evolved Ilgring the smelting of lead ion's, they arc extremely poisonous, destroying the vegetation fur miles round the works, and are very detrimental to anima! life. By this ..ry ini. Maus process of 'el:Wens:l6mi they are made prufitnble, and the country round the woi les, which had formerly the appearance of a wilderness, has again resumed its natural aspect. Mr. Pattinson's process is a very s:rikiue illustration of the unplication of abstract science t , i practical purposes. It is based upon the fact that when a mixture of had and sneer are melted, and then allowed to cool, the lead crystallises before the silver Ilia which may be separated by allowing it to drain out; this is efiirted by menus of Large perforated hail!, or eulleuders the operation is repeated several times, until at last the lead has been so far separated us to leave the silver in the pi as portion of 300 or 400 ounces to the ton ; it is then entirely separated afterwards by cupellation. All the silver found in England occurs only in combination with the lead ores in very small promation. The foriner method of retreat:en was costly, and uuprotitable when the ores contained less than 20 unities of silver to the ton. Mr. vatinsou is en abled to extract the silver with advantage from ores a hid, do not contain more than 3 ounce ato the ton. The impor tance of this application is self evident. On the same table is a very line crystal° of sulphate of barytes, some excedMaly tin:specimen% of galena, the eolath 1 1 urea of Cornwall and Cuathertatiel. Mr. Johnson has here a case of platinum, ores, and vessels made of the metal. On I the outside of the building are sonte of the mono bulky spe cimens of marble., flaarne. granite, &e. Mr. Pnutklin es hiLits a new kind of ft ,g from the county Clare, which is coin. ing much into use, ail a very beautiful block of C mars m ,rble. The whale of this a coon Is a proof that the exhibitors have been :waled in their endeavours to place before the world a suitable repreacntation Of mineral riches and the way in which the different contributions have been pare,; si.ow that neither Money, trioxide, nor tine have been spa: +i. It has no rival in the Eshibition, fur, though the tunic:ails of foreign countries have not yet been sufficiently arranred to allow of descripti nn, they do not, as far as it is pllsilile now to judge, appear to lie ot' arrest practical value, although containing many beautiful specimens. PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS. Clams X., which professes to be devoted more especially to the illustration of scientific subject., comprises a great varit tv of heterogeneous articles. Philosophical apparatus of all kinds. Daguerr,otypes, clocks and watches, surgical and musical instrument., are classed together. It is evident that the,. admit of several distinct divisions and subdivisions. Sepa.-atiug, fur the present, philosophical instruments from taee rest, they will admit of being sub divided into those used fur expetimental purposes, those fur observing anti indicating the phenomena of nature, and those delicate practical applications of science which stare( ly require any mechanical force. In this order xe shall - pamtely consider them, commencing with the APPAILATV, eon ElrliliblniMrs.--In all Chelnieta inves tigations the balail.re proves an essential instrument, the h. ginning and end of ovary exact process in chemistry being stud to consut in weighing. The importance of having balances of great sensitiveness and accuracy has long been appre ciated. The Itoyal Society's balance, which turns mt st • t edges upon planes of polished crystal, and has lot:}; It considered as ono of the must delicate instruments, yield the palm of sensitiveness to a magnetised balance in vented and exhibited by Mr. It. W. Fox, of Falmouth, which is stated to be capable of weighing to the ten-thee sandth part of a grain. Specimens of very delicate balances are exhibited rlso by Mr. Venting, of Store-street, Btd ford-square, which turn with one-thousandth 'aura of o grain when the beam is loaded with 1,000; and by clears. De Grave and Co., of fit. Martin's•le-Grand. The blowpipe is an important instrument in chemical analysis, and several very convenient arrangements fur its use are exhibited. The great fusing power of it coalmen blowpipe depends upon the conceutratipn of th, heat of a largo flame into a mall point, where the object to be examined is :operated on. A. sere powerful blowpipe of this kind is contributed by Mr. Collins, of the Polytechnic Institution. The flame is produced by the issue of coal gas through a tube about an inch and a half in diameter, the top of which is covered with wire g u auze. The flame of the carburetted h y d roge n g' above the wire gauze is scarcely lumi nous, an., is free fromg smoke. The blowpipe, which is fixed near the top of the gauze, is supplied with air by a email pa of double bellows acted on by weights, and in this manner a very regular blast may be obtained, and the whole volume pt lium W 414 tan the win ;suss ma] bu steadily MINING AND MINERALS. This class, though well represented, occupies n com paratively very small space. The mineral pro dUce of Great Britain is situated at the S111101•West silk of the building, and commenees with a very floe niinerabilieal collection et.hibited by Mr. Tennant, among which we observed some very choice specimens of rare minerals, a very large me rahl the property of the Duke of Devonshire, geological collections for educate al purposes, &c. Next are two cases of most elaborate crystallographic molobs exhibit:al by Dr. Lecom, of St. Thomas'. Hospital, and the Rev. Mitchell ; and further on some fine s:u.eintena of polished agate., and jet in the roitah and minufartansi state. On the adjoining table is a rase of very b.autiful Scotch jewel- lery exhibited by 0. Jamieson, of Aberdeen, made from native granite, and crystal, beryl, ike.; the "Lora brooch" and "Quaigh" among odors. The Marquis of Brcadalbane exhibits specimens of copper, silver, and lead ores, from Perthshire and Argylexhire, awl Mr. Cook, a large crystal of cairngorm, from Ilenmaelhue, Abenksoishire. There is also a very useful and instructive grou? of sulphur specimens, showing the different states in with:a it is roma native, nod the mineral: from which it is extracted are exhibitid by Mr. Ilighley. On shelves at the end of this compartment are arrampal spenitnen. illus:rative of the geology of the country round Bristol. A very complete collection of precious stones, rough and cut, the property of Mr. Thackthwayte, wan also pointed out to us. Standing near the door io a small stand of specimens of the mineral productions of tit: county , Tip perary-, exhibited by Mr. Fabie. Mr. E. Lance, of Fritoley, exhibits a very interesting' collection of minerals used as manure, showing the process of manufacture and the results obtained from their use in :agriculture. There is also an illustration of the gradual formation of arable land by the disintegration of rocks. Mr. Teschemaeher exhibits spe cimens of artificial and mineral manures, and Mr. Neshit of the different phosphatic fossils which have receutly been discovered and so largely used in the manufacture of manures. These collections cannot fail to be of interest to agriculturists. who may perhaps derive much real benefit from the proof which is given of the advantages to be de rived front the use of these substances. Specimens of Ful ler's earth in all stages of preparation are followed by some pieces of atone supposed to be applicable to lithographic purposes, from the Purbeck beds, exhibited by the the. I'. Brodie. Mr. Worthington exhibits illustrations of lid processes of salt manufacture at ; Mr. Hills, of Dublin, samples of the various qualities of salt made in Ire land. These are t xceedingly good in appearance. On the same table is a ease of specimens of the soils surrounding Newbury, Berk., cousisting of clays, ochre., sands, peat, Hints, chalk, &c. Mr. Brockedon exhibits an extended series of specimens of black lead from all parts of the world, in various stages of preparation, according to his patent process. WWI. Reeves, Wolff, awl Adair each exhibit similar objects. Next to these is a ease of sands and earths from the Isle of Man : some bottli s containing sands arranged so as to show th- stratification of the 11l different coloured varieties as found at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, exhibited by T. Claxton, Veutnor. Specimens of moulding sands and glass from various localities, clays, wands, &e., from the Shannon district are arranged in the mine compartmunt with a cal lection of whet and hone stones front trot,. Mr. Meinig exhibits an extensive series of grinding and polishing stones. Further on are contributions from several persons of the China stones and clays used in the manufacture oilman-c -laim among which those of Messrs. Winte,say and Watts, W. H. Jenkins, of Truro; the We-t of Enoland Chino, Stone, and Clay Company ; T. Thriscutt, of the Candle Down Clay Works, Cornwall, are deseraing of tqwcial notice. _ _ . King and Co. exhibit Stonrbridge clay, erueildes, glass pots, and a model of a glass furnace; W. Phillips, of Plympton, very beautiful Parkin caste. Then follows a variety of fire clay, crucibles, tiles, drain pipes, from seve ral contributor; specimens of earthenware from the Bovvy Tracey Pottery, Devonshire, remarkable as the only instance oflignitc'a being effectually applied to the tiring of pottery in England,—and it has ouly been used at Elbogen when mixed with other coal. As large deposits of this material exist in England, France, and Germany, and its price is low, it may perhaps become important. Specimens of the Berry Tracoy lignite arc exhibited ; by their side are drain pipes and tiles from the Leitri:n manufactory, made of the Irish clay, so well ad ipted to the purpose. On the side wall are beautiful specimens of the application of ce ments and stucco, and on the floor opposite, pavements, Ike., which in their resemblance to marble arc quite won derful. The different stones producing these cements, and contrivances for showing the strength of the manufactured article in various ways, a very beautiful table stone, and a table inlaid with different marble, make up the collection of Mr. J. B. White. Blyth and Jacobs exhibit specimens illustrative of the manufacture of plaster of Paris. Slabs, and blocks of granite from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, together with 110112 C sandstones from the same locality, are shown here. Near these are specimens of mountain limestone. from Ireland; some very fine marbles from the Shannon district, nearly all of which are from un worked quarries, although, as we were informed by an English exhibitor of marbles, several of the kinds were in great demand here. Mr. Freeman exhibits a very complete collection of building stones, one of the best of the whole class ; and, from the admirable way in which they are labelled, with the locality they were taken from, and the buildings in which they have been used, will be found of groat practical value tee those persons more particularly in :•srested in this department. Equally well arranged and of s l a t p e ce s, and the various applica tions fine variety from comple te tlnsof this hest7tl;l!e:llt7 The Delabole, Cornwall; these from Wicklow, Wales, are all adequately represented. A considerable space is devoted to the exposition of the various products of peat, shale, and allied substances. Among the exhibitors are the Bituminous Shale Com pany, whose products arc derived from the strata at Eimmeridge, Dorset—oil, tar, and several others. Mr. Stone exhibits hi+ patent peat end it+ products, Mr. Orland the Dartmoor, and Mr. J. Rogers the Irish peat+, and the substances derived from them ; Mr. Lyon, of Swansea, his patent fuel made from refuse coal ; Mr. Cob bold the products from his patent process for condensing peat, so as to form a substitute for yet, ebony, &c., apt-h -e-able to a variety of useful purposes , also the fibre extracted during the process, used for making roofs, &c. This col lection of the products of a substance of which we have Jur quantities in all parts of the three kingdoms, aryl *Ala has hitherto bra sanely sad at all, though eel-