The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-10 00:00:00

nins FOIL IP THE OLAS4 PALACE. , at Notwithstanding the care 'which the roya l corn. miesioners have testa to ensure to the n•iblie a cheap MR -64 catalogue to the exhibit...sr, the 'witness f the build ing and the be ilderment which seizes n visit in when errft Mid iitellaWittl for Ate tent three Kanaltyltn the cent,. o f the great transept, ',ender it necessary to lay drool WO. mfg and easily followed rules, by following which an ift.rit.t. ton of the enntents of the bwildinir stay be had, without undue labour. To lay down rules of this deocriptiem is not en easy task ; for at first sight the magnitude of the agile • and the multitude of olip et. appear to defy all power of concentration —all laws of order. On catering the building, however, at the southern entrance, two or three main pointa for future guidance may be remembers'. On the • right are the main avenue and galleries given op to foreign exhibitors; all that part of the edifice to the left is filled with the pr o d octaidllritish ind ustry exclusively. Bemiring them two rants in mind the visitor on entering the foreign depart ment will require title further guidance, since he will find the foreign countries represented severally named and parted; but on the British side the arrangement into seti.ms has been adopted more closely. theretoe the pro ducts of lends and York•hire. Birmingham and Sheffield, will he found together. In a small useful work, published within the huiklinst, entitled a " Synopsis of the Contents of the Gnat Exhibition," by Mr. Hilbert Hunt, the intrica cies of this half of the building arc lucidly and fairly ex plained. " The materials operated on, and the results of human industry, were found, upon careful consideration, to be very Early isimprehenilid within elms.", and although it has been t smedingly difficult, and in some cams imp...- table, to draw the line - Ix:mien the beginning of one and the ewiiag of !another. this adjustment has his non the who fairly .1 in the It h separtrnent. The exhibi tor..of the United Kingdom will themfort he found to he grouped rails r by the character of their productions than by the distrkt in which they were produced, although s o w i veistieas will he detected. In the colonial and foreign departnsents the grasping has been by district. ; bat within these the same system of classilieation, whieS is as swirly a natural one as could hi des iasl, lois been, to a grist extent, studied. There will not therefore he much aitliculty in tacking nut any morns of illu-trations of a simi lar charnel. T rte.= the home it.to the colonial and foreign departments, " It is important that the line adopted as the mint satins factory one along which to direct a visitor shnulil he briefly Mated. The trionsi•pt and the groups of articles belonging to the Cuiteil Kingdom and the taking" in the wester* main ~venue will first claim attention. Passing round by the western eel we pr.vill 01.01.11 by the south wall and examine the mineral prodoetions and mining, elm , . 1, and then lesving the agricultural i.e'.o for a opt-rise) meta*, procrisl in continuation of the name subject thmugh elms 22, in.'s and general hardware. From this we onscreen m o ldy into Pie woven materials, soil crinsing to the northern wall at MN , examine the machinery in motion by which these are prialoseil, returning towards the main artistic to inspert engines and other iii i 111 l inventions. In tie hays altuttiag can the stave, im.sing east, we Alan find tarriats• numulsrture, furs, and hathers, orna te Mal stoic- inanulacture, furniture, paper, and tine arta. We then purpose prising into thee worth and central north gallerii s, awl esatuilic the mirk. of our potters and our armortelurep., nasal architwiure, engineering, niusi gal iiistrieuents, and philosophical apparatus, and pass U. Ow ril callrri s, w here the preeion• metal.. tapestrv. silk, shawls, A,•., and the vegetable produce and eheinir . al butnufseture- are arranged, then disirentlintr by the southern stairs we proceed through the Sculptor Room and enter into our colonial departments." snl other rock, ing. fur sts of rerei. into' Uglily and some other C0r‘.....a reductions, The marbles of Derbyshire, in all their variety, from -the eatert-e..erestitier garish. to Ow Ilse black marble of that county, are exhibited. 'trues of Derbyshire fluor spar—the now wart* variety, Blue-Jobs, as it is locally called—of a beautiful amethystine colour; and all the Ohm varieties of this Inoride of oakum, are exhibits-J. TM ingenuity of the Derbyshire artist is the practice of inlisying has been long known, and the finest Florentine work is here most fairly rivalled. The beauty of some of thme specimens almost removing them from this into the tae arts department, cannot but attract admiration. Around this sec-ties will be found • great variety of odor productions of the United Kingdom; some exquisite servings in Caen stone, and numerous examples of similar works in slate, limestone, the Bath oolite, Portland stone, ibt. The series of tiles, many of them being new de.ititlut, sad others copies from the tiles of the Alhambra, will be admired. These productions, upon which much taste and shill was employed by the Itomans, and during the Mediwval period, are ibly revived. In those exhibited, some colours sr introduced which were not known to the ancients ; dies the moderns have a decided advantage in the colours they are enabled to Rive to ornamental pavement. Teasel= in great variety and colour are also shown. These are now principally manufactured by compressing the clay in a dry state in moulds ; the particles arc forced within the limit, of roh,..ive force, and are thus held together by the opera tin of this power; being afterwards baked, they acquire the firmness of stone, sod are excessively durable. 1 hese, and other examples, promise a new style of floor deco ration. _ . In the Mlles arreille4 arc the molt bulky specimem— irtistir and otherwise—rangol h. re to give full effect to their proportions. glass fountain is the object which occupies the ventral point of the building. This fountain ron.i.tsisf boor tons 4.r Hint glass, and is easily eons-ea-lil a ', int" a Carldt lalar iiiii . In tile northern part of the t rabscpt the iisitor will at law.. In. 4reirk w ith the• a qui...trims start., of Illaisen anal I*: in..- Albert and other work.- of oulpture, and in the southern port of the tr.oisept a . m onad vainest rian statue of her Moja sty will lie bound. In the main avenue of the British sole are many gigantic .111V1/11111 , of art -many cast ing.. and ounce remarkable olijects. .among those are the biome ,tatise Or the l/uke of Rutland, the Spitallielits trophy, tlie marble slog. the limo. and Wagon. Then Coate extroarilitt iry ti, Itarehelle Yaks, and tartrate. of pgavh and said... Then specimens in I h-volivliire m "tale, I'aa nst •, a carved trophy. of huge chiet.s, Leitrim, for hi:Miaow. -, splendid rivrinten, of varying 'machinery, the male) of the Liverpool ibiek., Eliy u mim aaa fountains, a ••ratial- of Sliakspelare, a granite radusian, n rolimsie of cool loan llonvor. 11..- mining se (jolt 11111,.. British department of Ow Exliiltitiosi, Mr. llunt furnish,. the following ear. Ileut •11111Ulary - Th.• lard thing rriptirisig uttoatioti an entering this tlepartin. id, whirl, a. tastentleal to furnish illustratio n. of the nittallib•nolv mud tactic minerals of the rniteal King doms, find the Its. tallurgical larnrt •••••••• ',Whist, to nj,,n u fb e . tun , in Mel-al, are manse at-ry instructive olua-ational set. of minerals, and a Wrirtt of nimbi. illustrative of • modified Py.telal et( eryvtallevraplay. Whether the Marnion. syrdein advoiruted Italy est ntually meet with the approlsittion of Melt of •eirne-e or not, the nisi, Is here t•xlidoiteal very pleusingly illustrate nature'. geoinetrr, av shown in the henn,.ious laws whirl' regulate the building up of crystals. This is forth• r illustrated by the specimens of gem., mane in the it natural rotialitiani anal others rut. (In the counters will be found sow line ilhestrations of plumttago and the manufarture of The largest q uantity o f this sairt.-rial being raised at the Ilorrowilale Niue, in ('um anal the quality of thin henot inaleol superior to alnoot any olitaistral in the uorltl, it nay n u t Lr uiii ll log 10 slat.' that it Itt vanillin -seal of nearly%) percent. of pure Ille rem.tilialer patina primipully silica anal oxide of lout. 'lhis niiiieral is pr.-slut-all in louto-hr. of army un ta•rt.sios as...urn-nee, but ge n erally of ronsialerable value, the 111 manual onssuisajnion Is ins taluill at near LINO/. A raw , of 1i01i.11.31 agate , , its whieli will he well null of the elalnialeol 1.1 . 1164 - ••••• Strottalat Sat Heat a11.1a114 the wall, and immediately adjoining it several bottle. emit. ' g the medicinal waters of Il itraw i tate, with Orlr composition, so shown by bans attaelosl. *hawing how. in the form of hydru-sul phatiir aeon. tin' sulphur i. held in •••111liate. .• A ter, inter-sting w•rie of aurtilicial stone. now claim warm. atientims. 'flo iglu-trace the ustful anal orminoutal applieation of .I . n real kiwis of Clint at. The cheniieal con stitution of !ht..• erinent. is somewhat variable, but tiny Islay lie Its general WM...tate,' to be silica tttiesti, alumina (alum), lime, magnesia. oxide of irn. and p t ash, or sala. 'Rom in et meat i. fornw I 11.111 eurious ft-slides called wietaria." found on the Italian clay, iii the of Wight, an-I taut the masts of Kent and Somensetsliire, which, with' r cement ‘tolow, ale rahilnta.l in this elepurtraelif. 'I lie, Of plaster tat l'aris. in enll4 Ca:1111111m ar t y h e r a var,led as the lose. I:y r•tion touslivr is exhibited h. re. White anal Sum', catenual anal internal stator°, hrl•na• • • ertau•nt anal veaglioLs, .examples of which, executed • tilt notch taste, ar.- ellielarall on the smith wall, an• I.ollk. t',tants th• s., with alum, limas, &e. (lit the wenle wall, ut -.mewled more toward. tilt' east. wi.l be found a very telit•ll4 r•.. 1111.1.• of another potent. in which it ail peer. Lorna t. V1800)1311 all rOlallnilArtani With an soul, the oboe, of the. lwaig to corset an alkalinity w high ha. been found, in • to Shr . ti'lit•art• 1 , 411111 , employed. Tha• •latiet.• And orot.tmcsst.il work. around, in (tweet's and woo r ream at., ar.• ..r a similar general chararter. - 'flo ea hallow lieeime at , of rhino clay., china stone. fullers Cattle. • 1,1111 Star 1041. Tv, building stolie., liMe steam,. sonal.towes.marble., porphyries. data., products from cowl, peat. th- 11nrhain atomism-tit in vaunt 1 cuul, British iron or e s, .I.a I proltwell at tote prots-r, a aloetel of the Ebbw Vale lout %Corks, forma.- ores, iron in.mulac tures. nuslel of e .al mine, the Bankart copper promell, min-r: tango. /in: mannaischirra, castings, safety lust-, lint ea s. of .1-paratin.: metal., usoi/el of furnace for tin onielting, wolfram. tuog-t, as and its salts. anotic, tin ore. cohnit, minas_ Plans. &e. Afar examining Ole taiieties ff of ...ptittUrat r 11110 St 41 111 the asst. na raid of this division. the •isitor shoubl pas. tiitlte section caned fir Moli.eval Court, which is W 1,4 with aerlesiastieal ornaments. mot ristimpt tat variant. kinds in the witali.rt al stj le. In this vicinity ill Ls' found rant-,d the gnat industries of Birmingham, laros•bauualiitz. st.tinpiiiit, casting, ormolu. countkvs but- I tons, *lra P-11•. sw"rls, musket., alaina.caming, papier machst, slot finder., kitchen ranges. ga.-tooking aiapara. tea, SKalti e l a l g.sl. in all varieties. On reaching the we,- tern wall. , while engaged in eAaMiniiig thi. gnat allel I portant ala-portiii• .u, anal turning to the north, we Ire led to departments in which are in elwkd Colton. le 4•411 e ri, and Max :" among these • wade spas-Miens indicating the n1011.4' Oar arrange. ment of the panorama 100 feet bang, illustrative of the calico milting of Nlatuliester. cam.isting "(geometric forms, • roitventional arrangements of halm al forms, and raiftvlta lave*. rolutanati4ns, alsel fonts derived f nature ;" Has inanufaietun-, table linen, sheeting, Ilrialport wamUcit cloth, merit., alieaa,. Iniu.y plaid., tartan. Shet land knittinz. & e . lhn Oae warth side will be litun d t'ar lode gingham..m.l lace. Mr. Ilunt then direct. the visitor to pas. twnos thi- north-west end to the north wall, when hr will find hint-al( in the miel.t of a display of machinery which could not c.rtainly be asjualled be any other country on the fare of the globe. Amongst thee, machinery for rotton Wearing. Iwo!: embellishing, cutting boiler plates, Sher-lam 1 making, warping and wearing. wand-rttnltinita wheel rutting, for Mix dressing. silk wrat togs .tram-print- Ina, hydraulic pier..-s, paper machines. maehtne for rettbOir ing .nut Irian corn mill.. striking medals, centri fugal • lane machines. harmaking machine, sugar house intiehiiiery, hydrant*. press. Bntannia-Frieda', anti WHAM engine. Pa.aug, under the direetion of Mr. Oust, from the court devotol to mine. rat skanufartiori ,, , the visitor will enter the carriage departmt nt, where he will livid aaa ridded all kinds of car razes. from the itrra4 coach to the street cab and ennui hon.- Ilene.., passing east. the visitor will enter the de panntriit whirr are ranged the products of the tanner anal the currier. Ilere arc Iluds.m Illy fur., beaver hat.. a hi.- tory of bude and shoes in illustrative specimen.. skins for himlinO, morocco,. rhinoceros anal hippopotamus hide., leather gloves and hantess. Passing now into Ili.. man o t ac . lured mineral department, Mr. Runt introduces its wonders in these word.: ▪ The num , mu. articles in terra-cotta, and in artificial • of different kind., arc too numernu. to notice. They will all well repay examination; ar will also several c um*. of ornamental con.tructions in conntsion with .f .e and cottace architecture." . . Dinctlyto the east of this intrcest i ng collection will he found the specimens representing British furniture. Among them are all kind. of chairs, tables, chitfunniery n, cabinets, sideboard., slab of Galway marble, parqueteric, buhl, inlaid tables, renaissance hedstead, • mirror eleven feet by seven, and bedstead.. To the east of the furniture section, and on the north side, lies that of fine arts, composing a very miscel laneous collection of ornamental manufacture. Amongthem art- specimens of papier-medic, type, gotta pereha, copper plate printing, artists' colours, ornamental paperand binding, map., paper in great lengths, architectural models, printing in oil, climmo-lithography, painting on ivory-, engraving by electricity on steel, seals engraved by machinery, ears lug. in ivory and wood, • looking-glass in Gibbons' style, trophy in carved wood, tortoise-shell frame. coins and medals, gum paste models, anatomical models, Mexican figures, and enamels. Immediately adjoining this section are those of Malta, Jersey. Guernsey, and Ceylon. Having inspected these department., the visitor is recommended to ascs•nal I the north stair., tarn to the right, and examine the ceramic s eries, whieh ineludes all kinds of pottery, and make. tap a brilliant display. Further on in the north gallery are pro ducts of a very miscellaneous character, including models, bridges, lighthouses, shop fronts, surgical instruments, cutlery, carving, moulding and carving by machinery, Indian-rubber. From beater the visitor is direetial to inspect the collection of glast in the central north gallery ; and in the same line of gallery, pass ing west ward, philosophical instruments, including all kinds of ehemieal apparatus, compasses, printing telegraphs, tice. Passing to the west card of the gal lery, the visitor will inspect the grand organ, which here forms the central object. Arranged almut this instrument AM various specimens of nasal architecture. Passing south wa,s4 by th e onama, splendid specimens of stained glass will Ire seen; also barometers, thermometer., clack., astronomi cal clocks, chnononi..ter., compensating pendulums, watches. the Goldsmiths' Company praxes, precious stone., and Sheffield plate ; while hanging above the central gal. krie. the visitor should not fail to observe the Axminster, Brussels, Masulipatam, anal other carpet., which are sus pended thence. The ladies' carpet, presented by the quern, pill is found at the corner where the central north gallery mat. the transept. In the central Routh gallery will Ise f lan extrionlinary sariety of tapestries; anti in the s oath gallery specimens of needlework of many kinds, litre also as the eelelinded state bed. Passing westward from this region the visitor will reach the chemi cal IM CliOn ; and after having inspected this divisi on he is nrommenaleal to puss to the section which includes all kind. of fowl, whence lie may proceed VI the engineering department. After this the visitor should des tote hi. attention to the agricultural implement., which he will rind grouped about the entire h-nuth of the 11VVIII1V, :111.1 then passing from the eastern end of this avenue hr will reach the ...ulpture room. Then follow the products of Van Dirmen's Laud, anal extending from this division to., wants the naive are n•pree mot the interesting industries of 4111 , 1,101. t IS, near the a meaner from the transept w ill I,: I found a rich collascion, of a most varied character, front the Lust Indies, In the foreign or ca.tern division of the build lug, the visitor will find his route easy, inasmuch as each country is complete ill itre-lf. In closing these few clime time. to visitor., we may fairly refer them to Mr. Hubert Iluut's lucid synopsis. Ti,,: Br ILDING, YESTERDAY, WAS thronged with visitors from the hour of opening till the gongs sounded at half-list six in the esening. Some additional attractions were displayed to public view in the southt rn galleries, in eluding a splendid counter of printed fabrics of all kinds, ar tistically grouped. Towank the easlern end of this trallery a huge stand, motbsttly veiled with green cloth, hiding pain ' fully accurate anal 00000 ieal specimens iu was, excited general curiosity. Near this the figure of a man, with a broken leg, scientifically strapped, was remarkable, and a little fur ther on, a man was busily employed thy oughout the day blowing a pair of bellows, to till the sails of sotne model seen',, ridded with revolving masts. Late in the afternoon Prince AlM•rt, attended by three or tour gentlemen, in spected 1•011)V of the [knish eauttstnintots. hi the British machinery tlepart went, cross& surrounded Applegarth's printing machine, which was working vigorously. and with great noise , . It in, perhaps, well. at tins point, to caution the authorities as to the danger in...inset by has ing only slight ropes round working chines. It is by no 1111,1114 a pleasant sight to see thousands I of people crowding between revolving wheels, steam saws, only roped istf by the frailest cordage. We arc alai to find that the authorities hare louts' a notice iu the building informing the public as to the place where they may deposit any ankles they may find, or n toyer any they 111-1 y during their visit. Visitors should also hear in mind that there is one entrants. to the building exclusively desisted to pedestrians, and that by entering at this end they may avoid the unpleasant emits tarot of scrambling brtwrsa rows of carriages, and under why noses of restive horses. The public may also b.• reminthsl that on Saturdays the building is not accessible to sisitors before noon. • THE COl-"ML 01-* (11%1831EN OF TIIE iI:RIEs of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 met on Thursday, at the Exhibition in II yde park. Present—Clam l, I Sir Ili nry do la Berke, C. 8., F.R.S. ; Clan 2, Mimsieur I A. Durun; Class 1, Professor:Owen, F.R.S.; Clam Ste,' Earl Jersey; (1... 7, Sir. I. K. Brunel, F.Ii.S. ; Clan 8, Baron Charles. (lupin; Class 9, Mr. I'. Paws., M.P., Fits. : Clan In. sir David Brewster, F. 11.5. ; ClOl4 MO, Sir 11. Bishop; Clan 11, Sir James Anderson; Clan 12, IDr. Sehafhaolt. tor Prolessor Herrmann ; Clam 13, Mr. , G. T. Kemp; Clan 11, Count .on llarrack ; Clan 16, Ilan. Colonel Anson ; EL.. 17, M. Van de Weyer; Clam IS, Mr. Henry Tucker; Clam 19, l'rofessor Holley 7, ('la.. 20. Mr. William Felkin; Clan '2l, Lord Wharnclilfe; Clan 22, Ilon. Home (treat; ChM 24, Lord de Mauley : Clan 2.5, the Duke of Argyll; Clam 211, Professor Itoesnor, Air Chevalier de Iturn ; Min 27, General Manley, for signor l'istrucei ; ('lass 28, Don Itiunon de la Sacra, for Stioir lion Joaquim Alfonso; Chun 29, Viscount ('arming; Class 30, Derr son Vivhahis. Dr. Mayfair, Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd, and Lieutimant Ward attended. Tin' FIN %NIT CommirrEE of the Royal Commis sion for the Exhibition met on Thur.lay at the Eahibition Building, in Ilydelmrk. Prevent Earl Granville (chair man), Lord Overatone, Right Hon. 11. Labouthere, Sir A. R I B. arman Mr. Cubitt, Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. T. F. Gilson, Mr. Peto, M.P., and Colony' Reid (Chairman of the Executive Committee). Mr. Bowring (Secretory) was in attendance. Mr. Cole and Mr. llilke were priseut. THE GRIL‘T EXIIIIIITION scents likel• to prove beneficial to exhibitors. Mr. J. G. Lough ha; already re ceived a corninii‘ion to execute in marble his colossal group of the Archangel Michael as soon as it leaves thc Exhibition. .• Thy mineral manufacture presents a very striking ap pearance : nature has furnished in the rocks of our island, a weies of stone., as beautiful in coheir, as varied in design. and as capable of being wrought into Conn* of deli cac y, an any which are to be found in other parts of the world, and we hire evidence in this exhibition of our native industry, in giving elegant forms to our British marbles. '• The aerprotinee of the Lizard ilivtriet. in Cornwall (thew rock* are combinations of silica and in:at(n.-4a), will De seen to calubit a very iiten.eting variety; their eapav Ft:w TIIINGs IN THE CRYsTAL PALACE arc to our minds more intes•sting than the specimens of Colonial produce. They tell us of the condition of distant friend., and of the prospects of those from whom we arc about to separate ; they •leak unmistakeably of the relative value of nvions concerning which few can have any personal know lege, and of the future• destiny of countries which may one day become our rivals. They point, out, moreover, where our merchants. our manufacturers, our artisans an: to hook' for those raw materials, in the absence of which their in-' telligence and skill would remain without application. Looking in this way at Canada and the other British North Am e ri ca n eigonies. we perceive signs of • prosperity which nothing but fatuity ran destroy; and comparing them with the United States. we see no cause of regret at having lost the one while we stain the other. The corn of Canada is inferior indeed to that of Adelaide, and its minerals may sulfur bv comparison with those of the Burrs Burro, as its timber ;toes with the beautiful cabinet woods of British Guiana. the Bahamas, and Van Diensen's Land; never theless, its nearness to our own shores tvunterbalances such disadvantages, and its richness in all that constitutes the real strength 01 a country is abundantly manifest. Viewed in this manner, it is impossible not to see that Van Diemen's Land itself, much as it has suffered, and, low as it seems to have sunk in public estima tion. is. nevenheless, a mine of inexhaustible wealth. In its timber and fancy woods alone, it yields to no region that is represented in the Exhibition. The beauty of the !Nun pine. for example. excels that of satin-wood or bird's-eve maple; the black-wood equals rosewood; what is call;x1 dogwood, said to be • Bedfordia, is like the finest brown gnarled oak ; and the common musk bush (Eur!,6ia ergo-j pAyiloi), which in Van Dienten's Land becomes a tree. pro f:um, rennet, that are, we think, without a rival. There is a small work-table. No. 12, made of this material, which is not excelled by any similar piece of furniture in the building.—tiardener's Chronicle. „ I was not wired with that utter despair 1 j which 1 hare always experienced upon finding myself alone, I -...Dr*i t ) left entirely to myself in a ficeign town ; and whoever it was i .. at Iketialothent, amid this that the French house where I found a kindly asylum or 1 " t hal am i,. mat ° t all the au ih a , that the anticipated emotion at what I wax about W see. , hail ,mast t o at t wa „ ratetiwtw that protected sad staanhal me agoinat the first assaults of this high minded gentleman in despair, I have not lint murk fault to find with my inward _ _ e hapPy t Amok of civilised nations when frame of mind. And when morning name -a pale and gloomy aurora bearing yet in her unkempt hair • few stray they a, -moo themselves fr eely to the spirit, to the genius , to therfasyyration of labour. Behold, at last, u popular to- *leeks of the snow fallen on the eve -1 emerged bravely from my den awl walked through one or troy( the long through- molt Worthy at once of the contemplation 'nf the earth and a y walla from on hi g h . H ete t, „meth.,” revelations which fares of the sleeping city. Tlw l'ity slept, wearied with ant deserve our sympathies and command our respect. War is bitten and with toil, drunk with its smoke and with its waged with the most courteous weapons. Men op pose each glory ;it slept an happy nations sleep when they are certain to find on their awakening the laws, the habits, the belief, other behind barricades built up of mast e rpi eces; t h ere the customs, and the riches of their father.. !leaven ulnae' resounds from amid these nations in th e h ea t o f l a b our nothing but the din of the hammer descending upi n the and a few policemen watched over the sleeping city, ! anvil, and the sighs of the steam engine ha rnesse d to it s fiery and meanwhile on all sides, front the farm and the !ear. Listen to that sound as of cannon battering in the market garden, the day's proviaiona were on the road. walls of beleaguered cities -it is the b ang i ng o f l ooms w hi c h In another moment the whole population will lee awake and afoot like one man ; here no one halts, and every one is beard from one end of the earth to th e o th er ; i t i s t h e generous struggle of great nations unwilli ng t o b e vanqu i s h e d say* to himself what M. Arnault said to M. Nicoll.: when the latter 'deists' him to take a little rest ere death came in this immeaaurable strife of industry. B e h o ld! f a r i n t h e distance, swarming on every road, enc u mb er i ng eve path, i " neat," Mid M. Atnoult, " con you think of such a thing, rt " athwa seas and oceans, from the north to the snug, frost the rising to the Netting sun, over mounta i n pea k , , sir I Have we not all eternity for rest ? At mid-day, in a tolerable bunt of sunshine we at last through shadowy vale, front sunburnt pl a i ns an d f rozen , found our way, through that marvellous Hyde-park, to oho region., from the bosom of free chart er ,. an d f rom t h e fonnua Crystal Palace which is at this moment the general , steps of absolute thrones, from the twe„t of w hi te rendezvous of the whole world. in spite of oneself, on ap -1 pruching this solemn meeting-pinee of the results of so skim., and fora the sweat of black ; from the plough share and from the light gossun e r, spun by the silk many and such vitriol... labour., one is witted with that elleep and painful emotion which overcomes the spirit of a man worm in his last hour, there arise armies of toilers, wh ose occupation is to feed, to clothe, to defend, to protect, to at the approach of :some portentous event. A poet has well aggrandise, and render illustrious this world devoted to said that it was in itself a spectacle to contemplate, a wall behind which was being debated some important cause on contentions, this world delivered up a prey to chance, this world, abandoned for so long a space to dastard theories, to which the attention of the whole human race was directed ; firebrand gospels, to lazy evangeliate, to vagrant preachers how much more must all the strength of our vision, all the enetration of our minds, be impelled towards those brit to caitiff, who would transmute these tools to poniards, I these industrious fires to devouring torches, these Workmen h unt walls sheltering beneath their diaphanous slielow those trees astounded at the new part they are made to play. to rebels. Cowardly panderers to the vilest passions of be nighted men, let them do ; they will convert these hopes, y,)u see from afar-that is, provided the sun be pnipitieus a k i nd of LOUVTC, like to the palace of the suit which the these glories, these several coutentinents into a: man) • - poet sings of I lurnnies, blasphemies, perjuries threats, and conspiracit ' s ( . 3 Yes, sir, when one has passed, as we have panted, through Regis rolls erat subliedbus altacolumnis! these threats, and one lives, as we live, in the midst of these Around this fairy palace spreads the award of this en paradoxes, and when one witnnses the aubterraiieous work. chanted park, and already the charmed eyi•catchna glimpse ings of falsehood, monarch of the overturned and degraded of these eoilected wonders. You enter-ou aro tareivill in universe, it is an immense source of delight to find oneself a fairy region by an elm of many centuries, a cotemporary transported suddenly, and as though by enchantment, into of Queen Elizabeth; and never did worthier guardian this palace, this bazaar, this garden, this f a ct or y, thi s appear at the gates of a great temple. "'min the summit forge. In the palace rises a throne; in the garden the of this old tree, whose es ery branch has sheltered a new ancient elms boldly lift up them not. In this baraar are their heads toward + those re- generation, showers the light, and at unto you are, as it splendant arches mid touch were, inwanlly ailmonialied of the worth and graudeur of what you have warmly o bt a i ne d a g li mpse o f . A t one spread out with the profusion of the nations them.. len to step you are in the midst of that gloriou a tninsept, which which they belong, all the richness of nature, mingled with 'the wealth of the tine arts; iu this factory and in thi s f orge is like the vault o f th e P an tl ieon - save t h at t h e summ i t of this Pantheon is lost in th e d e pth o f th e bl ue s k y an d every sound is heard and every movement traced of liuman industry. What masses of iron, of copp e r, a nd s t ee l! what admits into the area which it shelters the light and heat of circling of wheels and wheelwork ! what a maze o f un ti ring the day. On either side of this aeri a l vau lt- to your r i g h t, to your left, above your load, and at your feet -appear engines and invisible horses. Itow many ev en t s -h ow many miracles! What prophetic announcements of a wondrous the zones, the latitudes, the spaces, the deserts, the sands, future are here set firth! and the oases of this chaos of machine,, of enterprises, of miracles in which by degree.. a tert.iin order is seen to pre- Let us endeavour, nevertheles s , t o i ns til a littl e or d er an d sequence into our narrative. '11:e confosion which the roil. Industry, also, in its turn, has fixed upon its word if comniand and its point of departure; in the depth of human mind embraces at a glance is certainly b eau tif u l, hut the French Mind MVP. order, and will not long put up t h ese abysses she has proclaimed, with a commanding with mere enthuakism; it loves explanation., and in the voice, " Let there be light," and there was light; and midst of the must justifiable admiration desires to husk about ainong these caravan., hastening from every quarter of the __ itself and find out where it in. __civilised universe, there have established themselves. an Well, then, we started from Paris, on Sunday, the 27th April, nt half-paat 7 in the evening, with rain and a fog of sufficiently ill omen. We sped rqffilly, and arrived at Calais so late that we could say we had never seen so decids4 a ease of morning. Item, if You have any idea, however alight, of getting into the steam boat immediately, friend traveller, I apprise you of a twofold latter; you lust 91) minutes in ob taining a . pass by the aid of your passport ; you One 211 minutes in recover your lugenge, loot in the contusion of your arrival ; and if, after all, you an favoured by fortune, make haste—run—at the end of the jetty —and the distance is not small—a little boat waits to convey to the packet, from which volumes of smoke silently arise and float away towards England. When I say that this inhospitable boat awaits you, I am int-tomer—it waits for no one at this hour of cloud-veiled skies and growling billows; from tile, threatening shores the errand of this little boat is not to fetch away a soone or so of traxellers, but the din, the tumult, the despair of France from slay to slay. Whether you arrive in time, ur whether you du not, matters little to this English veootel, as it count, each precious minute lased in these waters of France; it is despatched, by a poop!, greedy uf news wafted from Paris, that it may bring bark with the lams.: sloe.' what Paris said and what Paris thought that very morning. And this is why, having duly obtained its despatches, this English vessel starts off, taking scarce one or two of 1., and leaving the rest of the caravan behind with one leg in the water. Can you not see from here the impatience and rage of my tffimpanions in misfortune ? Can you not hear their cocks matffins—their interjectiona—their maledictions upon Eng land, and their appeal to the French govern neat ?—fur in all matters we call upon the governineut lout assiatauce as a child calls upon its nurse for help. The wisest had already made up their mind% to endure the results of this hasty departure of the Landon courier. seats d upon the shore they listened, as slid the priest of Apollo, to the sighing of the sleep sea, and bethought them of all the events, all the thunder claps which this courier had already borne away over the complaining wave. It rained; we entered Cahffit by a long wood-paved path, of a picturesque appearance. The Motel de Par., which is accustomed to these accident% and camp: ' nut thereat, had prepared everything for the due aecommodation of these win traveder% who thought to have started in despite of the Villa( ' of the title, and of the London courier. Little by little, our several anger. having abated, we nasog nised each other, and made up our minds that the best and simplest plan was to wait patiently for the ocean and th e boat of the morrow. We sat down to table, and fell into conversation. All thew travellers were attracted to London by the universal Exposition, and the greats r number ecru ("disked Of manufatt am. and workmen bent on rejoining the work of their lamas. Coald you known, Sir, how ad mirable is the goad sense which at this moment possesses these various mind% what a profound cuicseiouasitses of their slutiee ' what a desire tar order and obedience, what contempt and indignation they expressed, both our and the other, towards those who foster our discord, and with what vigorous hatred they pursue the wretches who have driv e n France into this a byss, you would rest persuaded, as strongly as one can be, that France cannot perish a second time, come what come easy; and that front the midst of these workmen would be raised an irresistible cry of " Out on them!" These men, wise and brave as they are, ask of heaven but for a little of its peace and of its goodwill; the rest they will seek for in their boil. They are content if they can but HI, before them a few year* of peace, and so deep, alt.! is the wound indicted upon France, that the most ambitious stare not hope for In years' exemption front fever and restless wakefulness. Only 10 years of peaceful toil! to this is now reduced all the ,ambitious longing of a great nation. Oh, misery' oh, vanity of all this troop of ire:oakum ! As the conversation pmceeded I inwardly admired the seal and ardour of these artiosans, inspired a ith all the lire and with all the ambition of the artist. Them were tasted about that table dyers, who explained to us, with the en thusiasm of • warrior at Marengo or Austerlitz, their re cent conquests user indigo, their batthw, their triumphs, their deleate, in their conflict with the purple of the East or the blue of Prussia. There were cotton and Mai spin ners, fanatics in their craft, who detailed to us, with all the forma of an epic, the various transformations of cotton and wool ; this one excelled in giving form and grace to the tissue of the other; that one, with the steel of his neigh bour, produced inimitable neatness and delicacy ; and all together, un the eve of the great struggle about to con. fUellee, were seised with the trembling and emotion which is felt by a tragic poet at the fatal moment wino the three knacks have been given and the curtain wrinkles up with a cold shiver. order, a disposition, an uniform law, a benuony, anal cor respondence so complete that they seem like the several parts of some great poem sprung from the bruin of our man. Ferret opus! The work grows and advances with giant steps. You have seen in the warm rain of the month of Marcia the bare tree clothe itself in one slay with budding leaves ; it seems as though we actually sass the tertian. grow. Well, so ir. the Crystal Palace is Well to spring up on all the walls, at the corner of every avenue, a crop of splendid works swathes' but a few moments hack in the holland and (maw,. paper of the hide maker. It is the effect of a magician's wand, and the French portion is espe cially remarkable for the case and rapidity with which the wand i. obeyed. The space, which hut now was empty, hen you pass a second time you final filled by France. Sfie waited till the lust moment--her invariable custom—anal then went ahead. At this very moment—and I have just left the spot—nothing is done on our side, nothing is ready, anal vet nobody appears anxious, so certain is it that we shall he ready to-morrow. This is our strength. Anal it is our mote," Toojoure The most complete branch or the Exhibition at the present moment is the American ; it is complete ;it is largely anal solidly established. Order reigns in the American exhibition ; but it is open to onte Ith jection—mun,ly, the want of obj,:ets to exhibit. The Ame ricans have sent, among other productions (I don't speak of raw productions for certain reasons), a great number of wig. and of beaver bats; among other hats were shown those of the famous hatter Geuin, celebrated throughout the universe for having purchased at the highest possible price the first ticket fur the first concert of Jenny Land. Sault is glory—the greatness of a Ilaillit To purehass• a great name for L2oof.—such is happiness. I say nothing of the English Exhibition; it is is truly for ini.lale ; firm at its post, England is represented by a swarm 'of machines formidable even when at rest. There are print ing presses striking off 7,0110 copies out hour, and men are astounded beforehand at the results which must flaw iu tho future. One tinselly worthy of interest LS, that all these machines, ~use MOtiollirsS, will at a Olen all begin working. TIICSC powers are placed upon a flooring. beneath which flooring circulates the powerful spirit of these inani mate wheels, am' the same breath will soon have inarkedout the work to be done. Quite a novel effect in my eyes is the name of each nation inscribed in the untonal language of the people who have hasten e d to join these great joitists. Russia and Poland here Misr to speak the same language! Germany anal Spain hare Irsral the Illiallaahrt prialarr to each ; and we tuay read in a fair Greek character the inscription of the Athenian manntacturers. Athens a place of trade; Ye gods anal goddesses! That .ttliens should soul her scarfs and tissues to the Came spot where the imperishable marbles sof the Parthenon languish beneath a cloud-veiled sky! Who had predicted this of the country of Homer and Not far from the trade of Greece stands the art of Turkey. Your 'lurk is indeed an artist. lie addresses himself to the rye ; that which he is curious of :dune all is splendour and rashness; the useful he Icuces to England, Or gineetUl to France. He believes iu embroidery, in purph., in pearls and diamonds ! Ile would give all the coal of Englund fur 'the famous litoh-i-noor—the Mountain of Light! I have seen hint, this honest 'lurk, seated in inelaneholywise within his little compartment, full of amber, musk, and carpets,:his ryes half closed, anal in the attitude of resignation. Doubt les. he asks himself what on earth has brought him here !emi t ! the infidels, among Christiana, protestantl. Jews. idolaters, renegades—the new prophets and tile old prophets of each nation. To what audit:lr he been dragged into this strife ? Ile would measure his strength with on man ! Why show hint your inventions and your machinery i Ile wants them not; he will lure nothing to do with tlwin. Ile leaves us our looms, our hummers, our anvils, together with the necessities implied in all these various labours. What is shunt to hint ? has he not his sun, his wine, his opium, his new Impel., his dreams, his poetry, his tobacco! Alas: worthy individual, he is at the present moment de prived of t h e everlasting festival of his tl ght. and of his lift.. Etiquette and custom hire ton t from his hands his faithful companion, his graceful dispcnst.r of the grateful vapour, his counsellor and !unlikable frieutl—his pipe ! Ors PIC froar pas iii"—sueli is the law of this carat itioserai of Itu . inan industry ; and, that each nation may be advised thereof, it is written in tst ry language, " (M its reinte pas "No smoking allow e d, "Non e poweesso afi (Oman.," anal so on to the end, and the poor 'lurk has keen con strained to obey. It is Gal's Will: It is the will of the Englishman! If the Exposition of Industry have its mar tyrs, this surely is 011 C! This Crystal Palace has been transported hen•—transported is the word—and each pert fitted to its ncighlrour by a man of genius —a gardener to the Duke of Devonshire, by name l'aztou.This r.l'xtun had smut his liteight the most rp a :m ' The night was spent in this fashion, each talking of his art, and without a word of politics. At sunrise we went down to the seashore and saluted there the vanished traces of on many kings and so many monarchies that had pressed those oblivious sands un their arrival or at their departure ; and when at last the ocean consented to take us it fell out • that the heavens showed themselves so kindly, and the waves so merciful, the horizon 0.0 vast, and those coasts of France and England so clear, that each congratulated himself that he was present at this magnificent spectable of the waters, f the heavens, and the earth in such perfect harmony. Already we had arrived, when it seemed scarce a moment since we started. Here is Dover, and here, again, I apprise you of a gc aced confusion of passports and packages. Yes! passports at Dover. But of late it was the triumph of Eng land over the foreigner landing on her shor es that he was . I not asked for his credentials (ars papist's). Thou bast official I voucher., friend—so much the better f u r th ee ; b ut f or our part they an• no concern of ours: hie thee to or fro—arrive, depart, as thou wilt—thou art master of thy movements. ' sow, between ourselves be it said, the Frenchman, at the 1 bottom of his heart, felt profoundly humiliated at not being '' asked by England to exhibit ifs 'rapiers. This time, however, the traveller landing from France will no long; r be exposed to this humiliating exemption from showing his passport. It i. asked for, and moreover it ' is scrutiniscd, copied into a register, which register you uro ' required to sign, and a certificate is handed to you which roll are to present, on quitting England, to the customs j house officer at the port of embarkation. Such are the pro-1 visions of the Alien Act, and all this would be without any ' gnat harm if the ceremony of the certificate and the etre. i mony of the custom-hous e were not so tedious to u n d ergo. While you are signing, and opening and shutting . your I trunk, the train, which wait s f or no man, sounds its nape stuns whistle, and you anise, after running yourself out of breath. just in time to s ee it vanishnur in the distance. These' are the laws of the custom-house and of steam; obey them you must. Front Dover, you start at 6 in the evening, and reach London at la, whereat you are astonished, seeing that it has taken you one night, one day, and half another night to perform a It) hours' journey, after expressly taking, with very laudable if not skilful precaution, the train by which the mail bags are despatched. Prospectuses may be classed with revolutions—they are not always to be relied upon; the promise is beautiful and vast, but the result mediocre ; nevertheless, once arrived in London, and in possession of that plaguey baggage which Julius Cassar justly calls imjasimication, we are easily consoled at the deceptions of the prospectus. j I shall not describe my stupor, or more correctly my awe,' directly I found myself in the midst of this immensity and of this tumult, of this smoke, and of this fog. So many objects moving backwards and forwards, and the hubbub of so great a city, produced upon rte the effect of a dream. I 'vented to lie sleeping with my ayes open. Neverthelms, rare and the most delicate flowers of creation : experience had taught him the art of placing in the finest situations these frail master-pieces of the Creator's handiwork. Suielline and shade were in turn employed by hint in his gardens, and ho knew well the all-powerful iIatUCIUT of a line day on those plants the children of a tropical clinic. When England began to till with the rumour of the universal Exposition, when all minds were in a ferment of anxiety respecting this admirable idea, the great problem to besolved was this—where to find a suitable localitv; and the locality found, what kind of edifice should be ereeted upon the c:iciscn spot ? and further, In constructing this edifice, how was it possible to dispense with a whole army of workmen? of a hat materials should it be built to be rid of plaster, timber, stone, and brick ? ' and it' we should find in our way any of those old trees, the pride of the pork, and the witnesses of bygone ages, what shall we do with these old trees ? All those questins pre sented as massy problems for solution. In vain was u coin , petition opened; the only results were bona file palaces, eternal edifice., imperishable palaces, specimens of the high sellout of srehitecture ; the ephemeral monument was yet to be discovered, the light and transparent walls, the lucid I roofing, the laud of which GOrthe sings " Know 4 thou the laud where the orange trees I,IOOM 111 short, that was not I done which was required to be done. M. lloreau, our fellow- countryman, a eau of an inventiue and enthusiastic mind, I was perhaps the only one of all the competitors who in any', way cone near the intentions mad ...pint. of the programme ; but the misfortune was that the programme appeared not to know exactly its own intentions. In this difficult juncture, with time pressing on the one hand and on the other au invasion of multitudinous pro blem., Mr. Paxton was struck with a plan which was destined to meet all the exigencies of the work, and overcome, or rather elude, every obstacle. It is n o t a h ouse t h at i s wanted here, soliloquised Paxton, but a eoueers'atory. My conser vatory shall be carried into Ilyde-park, in the most beau tiful spot, and the trees shall Ise respected and treated so though they were flowers. All shall be of iron and glass, and my iron shall come ready forged, and my glass ready fitted, and my work, once uprai ,, sl over this happy spot, shall show itself brilliant, light, and decked out both by its external beauty and the magnificence that is within it. Forthwith (the very day and hour in which he discovered his America is stated; it was on a Friday, June 14, 18.50, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon), behold, our man Stto to work, and in a vivid and hasty sketch points not his intentions I and his hopes. And on the morrow of this famous 14th day of June Mr. Paxton makes his appearance, bearing in his head and on a slip of paper this entire palace, derined to embrace in the space of one and the same day this work with a hundred thousand intelligent heads ; and such is the force of truth, so great is refulgence of the true splendour I reel, that the Paxton project is at once adopted with that calm emotion which only belongs to vreat nations capable I alike of spprvciating and executing great things. 4 .. . • It would be vain.to attempt a description of the noise, the tumult, the cries, the eagerness, the activity, the zeal, which are everywhere 101111ireldell. At the tower of Babel there were es MOO, 113rient• V611;01111 spoken. but people , wire far from understanding caul' other an well. No paltry riejtlries between nation and nation, bur situ 4.11 the scar trarv, striving fo assist the other. Daring the whole day the building is open to visitors, hut the sightseer., mingling with the workers, are found to impede nothing and no one The polio-men lend a helping hand to the foreigner ; the soldirn of the engineers' owl's—the only soldiers admitted into this pacific arena—are occupied in unpacking all the packages which ore teeming in with pellmcll haste. There en nailing and linnailing, unfolding rind tiling, hanging and j stretching, painting, scrubbing, and polishing, writing of and hot haste everywhere. In the finest place in the transept, between the two trees, buried in a massive group of thododendra and fresh blown roses, rises tit. throne of her Majesty the Queen. On each side of the throne springs up a jet of water, descending into a marble basin ; a range of statues forms both an avenue and a cur ; an amphitheatre of benches covered with selret await the spectators of this festival, which is about to revs. I der illustrious the month of May; the month of May sal dear to merry England —a mouth, as I conceive, celebrated titter tram a feeling of friendship than gratitude. Thu month of May is loved here as we lore thaw beauties of tun mind, and of our juvenile days, which we have nests' wait, neil which smile on us front distant ages--Aglaia, the youngest of the Graces, Lai., Isasthenet. Tyitilaris, and the three vernal Graces whom the poet Horace saw 'haring beneath the gentle beams of the May moon, and wh the poet Thackeray sang this very morning in the T ssies: "Gratis cum nymphi.. acwmwiur lOW drus 311111.4 Deere meta chone." To-morrow comes the Queen. I , llr 1111 l 10Ird (another 'war rel) with all the splendours of her thrill.' :11111 all the tjesty of a secular crown. She will MOO., nod we shall hear that glorious hymn resound which the fortunate nation. address to oho sons of the gods, as IA Ilrity..r.• iiwit to say. Already yesterday the Queen Cattle lOroyoirel ; and 01.1%, witl t enamor, came the other day to the Es position another Queen, the Queen of that great Frei-le nation, Wien lovnil her to adoration, and who nevertheli allowist her to depart -- the King and her, her husband and her children, inn' her children's children. Olt august tjtoest ! She has nM. • di to us, and to the end slii• will Is• our tineeit• All saluted her as she passed. Every 111.1411 was 111 . 11 t ice the presents. of elect beuevol-nt majesty and le•forc teat more than human courage. It has been said, however, that in the crowd our Or r%ll hroarne with gin, attempted to murmur the t` lars. - -illaise." Indignation silenced them and contempt chastised them. Yt,tvrthiy, vv., an levamilolage of thew • emigrants wlig ever• mooning/ nb:md•on r try and seek their broad in &Atm at the gates of the Exposition. Thu gates were onenesl 31114 old men and lht.,• children, this wri•tchishays. and lheM• tears, the .:• rag. and tin. , wanele•riu; youth, will hay.• had a glimpse• at least, ene gentling their *retire moil, of thosv mr•ma*lat••el mars., Is which one of us living in this vxlmit.tml century will evel.seu again. . . _ Waaaa it Faenevolowe or was it cruelly to show these unfor tunate wretches a veal:win respleuila tat with such w itnesses of greatness when they an ailollt to murmur ou the banks of None unknown Euphrates the plaintive elegy which i..uut with fah eating heart, anti streaming eyes th.t.ttOre we remain'. bar Zion? Such the first improiiiiion pniilueed upon me by the I.ixrtaelt: of thew• great things. I write of them us lam accustomed to u rite to the public, who read me mid trust in me I ICI :1 Wk . , if it ha. often Piunil iiie wanting in exactitude, it has always found me trite and sincere. To•morruw I go to the ceremony of installation, and I ',hall relate it to you on my return. MonEL OF MER MAJESTY'S THEATKE.—An ad mirably executed model of Iler Majesty's Theatre, intend.' for display in the Great Exhibit . ,is now ,m sieW at the residence of the modeller,Mr. I fightona,GnutCollegesstreet, Westminster. The idea is somewhat nnv..l, and has been carried out by Mr. Dighton alai a completentwn which is likely to render the model au object of considerable attrac tion when it takes its place in the Mann Palace. The work is on the seat of three-quarters of an inch to the font, the whole hying modelled with the most exact reference, on this Mule, to the beautifully balanced proportionn of the original. The view in from the intaginary hack of BE , stage and, *ma audience', the " picture iu little •' of the great theatre is perfect in every part. There are ` all the 1107(0i—the five tiers, with fitly-three boxes to the tier; every bench of the pit and gallery, with every curtain, almost every fold of the curtains of the boxes, and each and all of the exquisite decoration, (done in encaustic) presented in the most elaborate manner. The model in fact in the theatre itself " reduced," as if looked at from the stage through the wrong end of the' Nava glaas. To stranger. it will supply it precise and pleasing idea or what the celebrated theatre is. The walel ha; been einseuted for Mr. Lumley himself; and on it re moval tram the Exhibition will he placed as an ornament of the crush-neon in the Ilaymarket. NEW MEXst'IONE 3I ncIIIXE Eon THE EKIIIIII TION.—At the meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineer., on l'u , slav evening, Mr. Joseph Whitworth, of Man ck liter, exhibited a new measuring machine, for &term'''. 1 ing minute difference., of I. ngth. The accuracy of the ma chine was demonstrated by placing in it a ' , Madan' yard measure made of a bar of steel, about three quarters of an inch square, having both the ends rendered perfectly true. One end of the bar wan then placed in contact with the face 1 of the machine, and at the other end, between it and the other face of the machine, wan interposed a *mall ti it piece of steel, termed by the experimenter " the contact piece," whose silk% were al., rendered perfectly true awl parallel. I Ea c h division on the micrometer reprmented the .-mils lionth part of an inch, and each time the micrometer was moved only inc division fidward, the experimenter raised the contact Mace, allowing it to descend across the end of the bar by its own gravity only. Thi,, ...repeated until the closer atprOltilllatiOU of the surfaces presented the contact piece from descending, when the measure was completed, and the number on the micrometer represented the dead length of the standard bar to one-millionth part of an inch. Eight repetitions of the experiment in re quarter of an hour prmluccd identical result., there not being in any ease a variation of one-millionth of an inch. It in intended to place the instrument in the Crystal Palace. lim-rior el ,M NI 1." '.% IC ITION WITH TILE CRYSTAL , PA LAI•I:.—On Thursday 3 communication hy the electric tele graph was oomph:tett between the Exhibition Building an d Buckingham PaLice, the Admiralty, and the Chief Police Station a' Scotland-yard. Soc ET T OFAIIisCUNt-Eft3.tZlONE.—OnWedncstlay em g the first of a series of four (4111VersaZi011i, projected by the council of the Sticiety of Arto, for the purlmoe of giv ing the foreigner. whom the Exhibition has attracted to the metropolio a point of re-union, . •e* hat ao*imilating to zontinental custom., took place at the tokicietv-house, John stmet, Adelphi. The lecture-room was denuded of its seats, and with the entire range of apartments was Lige* fully decorated for the oecaoion. The walls were hung with painting. and oione tine engraving., lent for the oecuobin by er,,wiek and WiP., and the table, CilVered With portfolio. of magnificent prints, around which crowds of the fair vieitoro gathered daring the evening. A number ofchoice exotic, completed the deeorat ve arrangement*, and the music was supplied by the band of the Royal Artillery, who, at in tervals, played choice operatic morel:aux. The 1 . 001114 were very full, but the foreigners were not no numerous a, might hare beim expected, from the congeniality of the occasion with their tastes and habits. of the eontinental 1 eoutraisp , ioners were there; among others, th e Austrian nod French. M. C. Lupin was also present. It is possible that future meetings may be more fully attended by the parties fur whose convenience the series hat been projected : but it ! could not esenpe observation yesterday evening that the strangers present wandered about in a state of almost com plete isolation, and needed a friendly cicerone to enable them to enjoy the scene to which they had beat bidden. Toe KOll-1-NOOlt .t REAL " NfOUNTAIN OF LIWIT!' —A fatality has hitherto attended the possession of the Kuh-i-Nonr diamond; on which account, now that it has fallen into her Maj,ty's hands, superstition might counsel the Queen to get rid of it as seen as possible. A considera bly better reason, however, why our Sovereign might be recommended to dispose of this piece of crystallised carbon, is, that by selling it for what it would fetch, she might be enabled to spurt a much more splendid jewel in that crown, which may she wear long before changing it for a better! The Koh-i-Nuor would fetch a sum which might be in vested in a munificent royal foundation for educational pur poses. This proposal is more especi a lly seasonable just now that we are all—that is, all rational and honest men—con sidering how best to eoun.eract papal machinations. We cannot oppose the Pope and his servile emissaries more effectually than by disseminating knowledge. Ignorance is said to be the Mother of Devotion: which is quite true—though only true as regards that devotion 1 that venerates nail-parings, images, anatomical pre- I parations, and other things of a similar nature to the objects worshipped by aboriginal negres. But how is it, then, that so many " clever men," as Father Newman and his confederates boast, have gone over be Rome? In consequence of their stupidity, and not of their cleverness. Most of those who have turned papist. have hem persons whose acquirements are eontined to the ancient languages, and whose philosophy extends no further than the wordy speculations of the praters of old. ' A considerable number of these erudite converts may be very well informed on the subject of Greek or Hebrew roots, but it is questionable if many of them know the' stamens from the pistils of a buttercup. No Faradays, 1111 Brander, no Whewells, no Sedgwicka, have prostrated themselves at the feet of the Pope and Dr. Wiseman. An acquaintance with the sublime laws, and the masterly handiwork which govern and characterise the universe, will' prevent any one who has the least idea of style, from mistaking for other than human the imbecile ordi nances and clumsy fabrications of priesteraft. Oxford. learned only iu the learning of pedagogues: asinine in regard to natural science; has been the chief nursery fur Rome. The "clever men" who have joined the church of the inquisition have only done, lute in the day, what the slightest I initial perception would, with their principles, have made them do years ago. The royal com mission, it is to be hoped, will correct lise monkery of Ox ford, by forcing the study of creatioft's realities on that great grammar school. Still there is a large proportion of the working clauses, and a vast macs of pauperism, almost, if not quite, as ignorant as 0:fordo( those truths, the know ledge of which is the surest safeguard of the understanding against the delusions of Roman or any other imposture or insanity. Could the Koh-i-Noor be converted into the means , of dispelling this darkness, it would be indeed what its name implies—a true "mountain of light."—Pouleis ',4' THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY ETEXING, MAY 10, 1851. - .... .- .-•.. -•-• • • . .. f- timaroetital gargalell will b• ettanii upon i 'peat appll . yAzinkODl d : TlO:'EgaiysiTiox, ;,, .2 ' N. , toy, I was not seized with that utter despair it the obelisks, Twos, font, ca !! imne I s kWh hats alwaga experienced upon finding myself alone, i w.. I -, : other specimens; a caw of , . ' ',... , ' ([coal t w r sr..' ass , s ,vez , "• with impregnations ofigppey; Will fount, cre Thii i iiitie to Laidon at Ws int? ~ le ft en 'rely to mysalf in a fortir town ; and whothitt it was the French house where found a kindly asylum ( or The grooms or Coro on ligar seed noisy, bo y "4 . ambitiew teat pratil amid this that t the anti•Apated emotion lit what I was about to see, had .. ThhiThitPi no well 6 ld the traverse, is certainly the most glorious enterprise that protected and planted me against the first assaults id this very remarkable fcatur s high durability, it also now proved to be susceptible can be adventured upon by any high minded gentleman in despair, I hare not had murk fault to find wills my inward -resting elegant workmanship, and of being wrought love with the din and happy tumult of civilised nations when R. frame of mind. And when morning came —a jade and hhly toteral *raw. iw the lawle F"'"P rePhrie c h they *bulldogs themselves freely to the spirit, to the genial.. I y aurora bearing yet in her unkempt hair • few stray note other Cornish reductions, will be found. *leeks of the snow filen on the eve—l emerged bravely front to theisuadration of labour. Behold. at tsar. . nnrmia• to. . .. . . . NORTIECIIIIERLAND-110USk:. The Duke of Northumberland has followed the example set by other noblemen at this season, and opened his two mansions, N•irthuntherland house and Sinn-house, availed themselves of the privilege thu s extended. To all t N o on th i t public. ipumberl.nd-honse yssterday ; and many p erson s The public were admithal (by ticket) to • Londoners whose wont it is to p ass and re p ass Charing cross, Notthumberland-house, with its imposing front and rampant lion, ha, always been a great mystery, which the nom:vaulty never hoped to p.netrate, as loin.; something too awfully and austerely grand for the familiarity impli ed in a visit. We recommend curiosity to g ratif y itself with all espellition. The town house of the Northumberland family certainly does not present so many . points of attract' as others of the great metropohtsto man sions of the nobility. Neither, in respect to architco ! lure, art, or upholstery, is it one of the modern model.. But it is exactly the palace which a great English nobleman, not running after tip, last fashions, might be careens' to inhabit, and though nut claiming to be a ...ight," it is a place which all persons of taste will desire to be acquainted with. In point of antiquity, the locale is very interesting. On this site has been the London residence ' of the Percies (for ages they were the must fashionable of the I answer:Ley, for they were the most west) since the Penis, were first famous. The house, it appears, has been rebuilt half a dozen different tunes; and, now, its "latest im provemeots " are u howl-ed years old. The oldest portion of the present building is the portal towards the Strand; but even of this, urcording to Peter Cunningham, there is a growl deal that is new. The date, 1719, on the faeaile, as it at present stands, as we learn f the present authority, refers to the most recent reparation, which commenced in that year. When the stranger 'passes the demi-feudal outer walls, he finds him self in a quadrangle which is the court-yard of u handsome, comparatively modern building. That portion exhibited to the public consists of the reception-rooms —a suite on the din ing-room floor, and a second suite on the drawing-room. Hoar. The costly, beautiful, and elegant furniture—the rahincts, mosaics, embroideries, and hangings—the whole ✓ billed to give an impression of graceful and complete comfort—will attract attent• . But it is to the paintings the visitor will refer fur the reasons which have suggested the course taken by the noble and acromplished owner in inviting the public to an invasion of his ;males. The col lection is of a value enhancisl by the fact that very few have suspected it to exist. It cannot, undoubtedly, compete, in Claudes, with the Gravenor gallery, or in Raphael', with the Bridgewater gallery. It is exceedingly limited as to the number of its treasures, and it comprises hardly a single picture out of the Dalian and Flemish schools. Mrs. innefno lass neve r taken any notice of it in 11,r " private galleries," and Wangen has only one or two lines about it. It is, nevertheless, well worth seeing, if only for one or two cheja-d'irricre. The drawing-ruoin suite of rooms is prin cipally filled with portraits, some of them by eminent masters, the majority of these being of the forgotten heroes and heroines of the fa y. g the minority is a mar vellous portrait of Napol am—marked, as by Phillips. Delaroche never put on canvass so impressive a face—it is the " Child of Destiny," unmistakeable in the likens., delineated with wonderful power. Tho lower rooms are well filled with excellent subjects. Hero will b e f oun d conspicuous the "Curnaro Family" of Titian. one of the most celebrated of his ipaintingn by description - , and perhaps one of the least accurately known in Europe. This is the same picture which Evelyn saw in l6's, and which he mentions as "The Venetian Senators." There are one or two other works by the same punster, all suffering from cleanings. There :are also pictur, by 'Cohens, Van dyke, Snyders, Salvator Rosa, Caravaggio, Canaletto, Do menichi ~,,, Tintoretto, Emmett., Cuyp, others of Its% emi nence, but most of them of great eminence. Waagen (quoted by Cunningham) says: "Among the other pic tures, mime of which are much damaged, the following are the most deserving of notice: St. Sebastian, bound on the ground, in the air two angels ; a clear, well • d no, with a three :Ilwdl-ei bull-figure n• dfmb • h }do: u riftG n . iri t atue — ii:l;ter vste is w Si 131 pictu r e • r io; : fifi l • eg i b l itu e C i u : b t "im u ld r n2 i le s 7 , 7 b wi I: y lar sYi : k Frans inf;:as;; fox Snyderr. A genuine, but ordinary Holy Family, by J. Jordan.; a pretty girl with a candle, before which she bolds her 11111111 s, by U. Sehalken, of remarkable clearness and good impasto." The largest room shown is the ball room—built by the lute duke. This is superbly fitted up and adorned. In the centre is placed an ominous vase, pee ,entcd to the late duke by Charles Dix. Around the roomare full-sins' copies of -on' eelelirated paintings, which may be pronounced ns probably the next best things to the original. One of these is a copy of Raphael's " School of Athens," dono b y m cng s ; in 1775; it is a very beautiful work. The others are:—the "Bacchus and Ariadne " of Aninhal Carmel; I copied by Constanyi ; the " Marriage Feast of Cupid and Psyche" of Raphael, copied by Pompeio Batumi; the "Aurora " of Guido, copied by Massuccio; and the "Pre ' aeutation of Cupid and Psyche," after Raphael, by llama, There are numerous other objects entitled to examination; and what we have thus briefly stated will evidence that the l)uke of Northumberland, in his courtesy, has proferrtsl a general gratification to minim-ruts in art. I BANQUET TO ME FoHEWN COMM isqIONERS.—At ft meeting of the council of chairmen of the Metropolitan Col ttttt presidall over by their noble president, it was unanimously resalved to invite the Foreign Comousaionens to an entertaiiim eat. The levitation will be extended to the foreign ambassadors and ministers, and the principal members of the Royal Commission Executive. The ban quet is to he on a scale of great splendonr, and is intended to maintain our national character for hospitality. TIIE GREAT TOPIC, OE LITERARY Gossip just now is the new Guild ref Literofore nod id, started with such enthusiasm and personal sacrifice by gentlemen who have drawn out a well-considered plan for the improvement of the condition of authors. In general the reimpose of the press has been hearty. The Mors has distin g ui s h e d i tse lf by an insolent and ungenerous owes both at th e proposed Guild, and at the gentlemen who have undertaken to write and net Ns it. bitkrence of opinion on such a subject may well exist ; hut there is nothing to warrant sarcasm. Those who support the Guild w do so by voluntary gifts. No one will be forced to pay towards it. Why then impede the action of a charitable design, even should it not corn pas all that can be emasived ? Some misconception pre vails respecting the possible pod such a Guild may effect. To hope that it will foster anal develop art is to close our eyes against all experience. .tcademies and guilds arc good for professional men ; they hurt rather than en courage genius. LOT Tommie yoi coil de resprif commie goatee will never swerve from their conven tional route to recognise the eccentricity of the orbit of genius. This is true; but those who raise an objection upon it against the new guild, fiarget that genius is a thing excessiaely rare and exceptional, to be reached by no insti tution, and should, therefore, he left out of consideration in the discussion of the guild. Besides the small excel?. tiunal class of artists in the true Senn: of the word, there is at present a fourth estate of literary men, comprising talent anal industry of infinite gradations, men who are inces santly employed in developing, applying, modifying, popu larising the &cowries of science, the conclusions of plulo sophy, and the gathered information of research ; men who thus to a large extent may be considered as the workers of progress; the engines of civilisation. Of this clam. many are improvident because their work is pre carious, many because they are errant and reck less by temperament, but many more because they have no practicable means of being provident. How worse than useless—how ruinous it is for a man of letters to in sure his life, when he is nut certain from six months to six months that lie can pay the premiums, and than, perhaps, after years of saving, lose all because he is not ready with one premium. One of the objects of the Guild is to make men insure their lives—to give them an inducement to this in the shape of a claim upon the Guild fur membership. But, unless the insurance Alas. adopts some very different system, the inducement will not he strong enough to out , weigh the obvious disadvantages. With men who can command the sum naiuisite to pay the premium, in sumnee is an imperative duty ; with men who never know how lung they can command such a sum, it is perilous. Some scheme, therefore, to meet this difficulty—some assurance to the mat of letters that the amounts paid by him would not bo lost in the event of his being unable to euntinue—seems to us indispensable to the full realisation of the project Meanwhile, it is idle to say that because the Guild will not, cannot provide for the illustrious impro vident, that, therefore, it is useless. If it provide for a few deserving men whom age or ill-health have rendered unfit for the struggle with want—if it assist in the prose cation of some " work of noble note" which no publisher could pay for, but which a nein might accomplish as an associate—then, although it will leave England miserably behind France and Germany as respects the treatment of literary men ' it will, at least, do worthy wor k, an d jus tify the hopes of its charitable fuunders. There is nothing more impedes progress in every department than the spirit of small obj ec ti on . M en set themselves against a positive good, because they foresee that all the good they conceive will not be accomplished, or because there are with the good some attendant evils of minor character.— . Offer thew men the sun and they refuse it, because it will nut warm them during the night !—Thu Leader. WurrtntLL, Nl.tr B.—The Quinn has been pleased to constitute and appoint the ltight Hon. Robert Montgomery Lord Belhaven to be her Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of th., Church of Scotland.—Gazette. I !