The Express. — London, England, 1862-05-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1862. and dressed leather, saddlery, harper, and whips and in this section one firm exhibits • haudiom! trophy. , The photographic section--Class fourteen—which is under the direction of Mr. P. Ls Neve Foster, M.A., divides the space of the central tower with the educational department. It may almost be said to form a new class, for although the Talbotype paper process was shown in 1851, the collodion process was not invented until the middle of that year. The old difficulty of defining the position of photography has been felt by the commissioners and the committee, and the result is that it is allowed to hover over the confines of art, more as an attendant than as a companion. The most striking objects for general observers will doubtless be the full-length portraits enlarged to the size of life ; and of these several exhibitors have sent specimens. The collection of coloured photographs and miniatures isvery fine, and also the portraits of " men of the time." Rejlander's composed pic tures, or subjects where a figure is taken from one canvas, a tree from another, and a building from a third, and combined in one high art whole, are very interesting, and show what may be done with photography, either in a serious or a comic vein. Classes fifteen, twenty-eight, and thirty-eight (a), comprising borological instruments, paper, sta tionery, printing, and bookbinding, and art designs for manufactures —the latter illustrative of British art from 1762 to 1862—are under the superin tendence of Mr. J. Leighton, F.S.A. In horology, the greatest novelties are Unproved designs rather than new movements, though several clocks are exhibited constructed to go more than twelve months. One exhibitor sends an astrono mical clock, impelled by gravitation, which requires no oil to the escarnient ; and another exhibitor has sent a clock which shows the time and longi tude at important places. A large number of electro-magnetic clocks are exhibited, with some mercurial time-pieces, some steam or speed clocks, a geographical clock, showing the time throughout the world, and a new balance constructed to resist all extremes of temperature. Under what may be called the fine arts of watchmaking, many manu facturers exhibit some very rich examples of heraldic enamelling and engraving. In chromo-lithograpby great progress has been made during the same period in the imitation — almost in the reproduction—of water-colour draw ings • and the improvement in steam printing and woodis blocks is almost as great. The publishers of London show together in a collective case, where may be seen some of the most , luxurious volumes produced by the leading houses. The reprint of the first edition of Shakespeare, the Bibles of Bagater and Spottiswoode, are also in this I collection. The specimens of bookbinding, both in hand tooling and blocking (for which England is un- rivalled) are very fine, particularly publishers' bookbinding, which has had the advantage of the best art. The designs of Mr. John Leighton, the superintendent, are very numerous in this depart ment. The art designs for manufactures comprise a fine collection of drawings and models in all depart ments of art industry capable of reproduction. Designs for glass and ceramic wares, precious and other metals, furniture and carving, plastic deco- rations, and other objects in relief ; also designs' for textile fabrics, paper-hangings, mural decors- 1 lions, tiles, mosaics, inlays, stained, 'stinted, and decorated glass, &c., are freely exhibited, and also a number of original illuminations. Class sixteen, comprising musical instruments, is under the management of Mr. C. Booed, and it pro miss to be as popular in 1862 as it was in 1851. Grand pianos are exhibited, some remarkable for the beauty of their cases, others for the richness of their tone, and they are well supported by every variety of stringed and wind instruments. An oak piano of the time of Charles the First is shown, and an historical series of pianos, from the old harpsichord—the favourite of our great-grand mothers—down to the improved instrument of the present day. In one part of this collection is a self blowing harmonium, the wind for which is supplied by clockwork ; in another part is a grout of Eolian harps, and in another corner is a double bass with a remarkably ingenious apparatus for producing enharmonic scales of harmonics. Many valuable improvements in the mechanism of pianos are ex hibited, and the inner machinery of these domestic instruments is shown from the first stage to the last. An oblique piano, with a new action, is a novelty in its way, and also some metal bag-pipes suitable for tropical climates. A new music time keeper is worthy of notice ; also an omnitonic flute, adjustable at will to any key, and the central object of attraction to listeners rather than to sightseers is the orchestrion, or self-acting organ, which fairly imitates the melody of a full orchestra. Class seventeen is devoted to the exhibition of surgical instruments and appliances. In the list of exhibitors in this class will be found the names of nearly all the important instrument makers of England ; and the objects exhibited will show how much ingenuity and skill can be exercised in the invention of instrument; to aid the surgeon in removing disease and in diminishing suffering and distortion. The superintendence of this class has been given to Mr. 'riser, F. R.C.S. ; and it may be advisable to state that whereas in 1851 surgical instruments were comprehended under " philoso phical instruments," they now worthily form a special class of their own. The textile division of the Exhibition —compris ing classes eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, and twenty seven—is under the management of Mr. George Wallis. These classes include cotton, flax and hemp, silk and velvet, woollen, worsted, and mixed fabrics generally ; carpets, woven, spun, fitted and laid fabrics shown as specimens of printing and dyeing ; tapestry, lace and embroidery, and articles of clothing. The textile fabrics of the United Kingdom are located in the south-eastern gallery, and thus oc cupy one-half of the space on the south side of the great nave, the other half being devoted to foreign productions. The arrangements commence with the class for printing and dyeing (Clams twenty three), and in Oda the productions of Manchester and Glasgow form the leading features, and in combination with the printed table-covers and ban dannas of the London houses, constitute the staple of the exhibits, the illustrations of dyeing not being very numerous. Cotton manufactures suo coed, and in this class, too, the manufactures of Manchester and Glaagow with the sewing threads of Leicester, Paisley, and Huddersfield, constitute the leading features. In the cross gallery leading from the gallery next the nave to that along the north wall of the picture gallery, lace, tapestry, and embroidery (Class twenty-four) are placed. Nottingham, London, and Dublin are here effectively represented by a remarkable display of lace goods of all kinds and qualities. The productions of hand lace-workers of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and North amptonshire, are also located here. The important class of woollens, worsted, and mixed fabrics (Class twenty) is arranged along the remainder of the gallery next tbe nave, and con tinued to the eastern dome, and thence along the cross gallery next the south-eastern transept The manufactur,s of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the West of Er gland, and the Metropolis, occupy spire to the staircase at the side of the dome ; Norwich fabrics being placed across the angle of the gallery, and at the back the poplins of Dublin and the shawls of Paisley. Glasgow manufactures in this class are plased next the transept, and the coarser woollens and mixtures of Scotland, together with the blankets and flannels of Rochdale and Witney, and a collection of yarns from various quarters, complete the arrangements of this department. Class nineteen—linen, flax, and hemp manufao tnres—follows woollens ; the coarser fabrics, with cordage, mats, Ace., being placed in the remaining portion of the cross gallery, and a portion of the gallery against the north wall of the picture saloons. 'Lire, and nu the western aide just named, the fine fabrics of linen, damasks, Ac., are to be found, finishing with a very extensive display from the north of Ireland. The silk manufactures of Great Britain have rangement. War in all its branches may be studied in an inspection of Colonel Shafto Adair's model of Lon don with its projected lines of defence for the great city , and also in the model of Fort Torr by Colonel Harness, with Captain Ducane's details of the same fortification. There are other fine models, all deserving minute inspection ; not the least interest ing is one of the Crimean Monument, by Captain Brine, Royal Engineers. In Class twelve there is a beautiful series of models, lent by the Lords of the Admiralty, illus trative of the progress in the construction of naval architecture from the time of the Great Harry, 1514, to the iron-clad frigate the Warrior. There is another large model of the Warrior, placed in the nave. Next to the Queen line-of-battle ship is to be seen a fine model of the Northumberland, illustrating prospective progress—a splendid iron cased frigate of that name being now under con struction on a larger scale than even the present wonder of the day, the Warrior. In this class are to be found many new inventions contrived to meet the apparent difficulty of keeping these leviathan ships' heads in the desired direction in rough weather. The National Lifeboat Institution exhibits some I interesting models of boats for improving this humane branch of the naval service. The commissioners of the Trinity House, of the ' Northern Lights, Edinburgh, and of the Ballast Board, Dublin, are exhibiting some very interest ing, handsome models of the danger bosoms of our isles, many of them originating in the scientific zeal of his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort. There is also exhibited a splendid model of the American system of boat building by machinery. This is a process by which we can obtain a boat ready for use, of any dimensions, turned out com plete from the log of timber at a few hours' notice. There are modelis of ships for steam under as well as over the water ; gun-boats and floating batteries, penetrable and impenetrable ; ships for commerce, and ships for war—in fact, naval archi tecture with all its appliances may be here studied by the most critical and scientific. Classes thirteen, twenty-five, and twenty-six are' under the superintendence of Mr. C. R. Weld. The first class (philosophical instruments, and the processes depending on their use) comprises all de scriptions of philosophical and optical instruments. electric telegraph apparatus, including M. Caaelli's pantagraph, which transmits autographic messages, thereby avoiding all risk of error, models of en gines, &c. Amongst the exhibitors are all I the celebrated makers of instr ument s, a nd many I private gentlemen. The great improvements and numerous inventions in electric telegraphy during the past ten years are strikingly shown by the various new instruments exhibited by the Universal ' Private Telegraph, the British and Irish, the Sub marine, and other telegraph companies. Mr. Wheatstone's ingenious and beautiful domestic telegraphs are shown iu working order, and many inventions and contrivances to utilise this valuable discovery are to be seen in this class. Class twenty-five (skins, far, feathers, and hair) is very full and complete, every branch of those special trades being well represented. The eentral object of attraction in this section will, oubtless be the great oetrioh-feather trophy, d another smaller trophy of hair work. Class twenty-six comprises all kinds of unarmed been located spinet the north wall of the picture mented couch or divan, for public use. Thc aides gallery • and a complete collective display of nearly are protected by l centre division iona of cast iron, the size of life, every clam of silk goods manufactured in Londoe, placed on pedestals of granite. Ita Macclesfield, and Manchester, together with the is surmounted by the imperial arms, and is deco ribbods of Coventry and the spun silks and thrown rated with flags. The entrances on either side silks of Leek and Derby, forms one of the great have chandeliers in bronze and gilt, inlaid with features of the textile division. crystals. The diameter of these chandeliers is six The class for clothing (Class twenty-seven)— feet. The four main columns of the portico entrancefrom divided into four sub-classes, viz., hate, millinery are hung with carpets of various exhibitors and artificial flowers, general clothing, and boots Aubusson and Pans. and shoes—has been arranged in the extreme angle Along the entire length of the corridors, on either of the south-eastern transept gallery. aide, is space for exhibitors' goods, divided off by a Passing from the flax and hemp manufactures, light fencing of cast iron. Here are exhibited boots and shoes are placed along the south end of carpets of various kinds, and furniture in ebony and the transept ; next to these, gloves and hosiery, other woods—eome of particularly light and fan and the variety of articles coming under the hea d testae design. The corridors are m some parts en of general clothing. Millinery and artificial tidied with paintings, and at intervals are menu flowers, and finally, bats and caps, complete mental mantelpieces in carved wood, bronze, and the arrangements to the end of the gallery next to ; marble, which occupy the central space of the oor the eastern dome• riders, like trophies in the nave. It may be, perhaps, well to remark here that the The French exhibition generally will show a great most defective parts of the textile division are those advance upon 1851, and a considerable advance of calico printing and cotton manufactures. Neither upon 1855. It is probable that the Treaty of Com of the displays conveys a fair ides of the extent and mere° will not have been without influence on this importance of these industries ; and although every display. Many manufacturers who make no sign exertion was made consistent with the functions are those who, right or wrong, believe the treaty to imposed upon her Majesty's Commissioners, to be against their interests, while those to whom the insure a properrepresentation in these two branches treaty is undoubtedly beneficial have made the of our national industry, printers and manufac- greatest exertions to be worthily represented. turers did . not move sufficiently in the matter About four thousand exhibitors have come for until it was too late, as, according to the early ward from the empire and its colonies (the colo demands in each class, the spaces had to be mien claiming nearly a thousand), of whom nearly allotted in the mans at a comparatively early date. one-half show under the head of raw produce. This practically excluded many producers who at a The machinery section is well filled by at least later period made proposals to exhibit, seven hundred exhibitors, and manufactures are The Educational section—Class twenty-nine—has in the hands of more than fourteen hundred exhi been planed under the superintendence of Mr. biters. The whole display is remarkable for the the J. G. Fitch, M.A. n umber of collective exhibitions, especially in The collection, though somewhat heterogeneous, wine and food class , more than fort y of these contains some noteworthy objects. One recess on being sent from various departments of the conn the north side of the room is devoted to the ex- try. Amongst the special exhibitions are the hibition of a collection of the most recent text- forest products of the Landes ; a collection of books and manuals employed in teaching. Another essays on the food of birds ; a collection of French contains—besides many miscellaneous articles of mammalia and birds both useful and mischievous; • school furniture—an interesting collection of models an exhibition of oak wood for ships ; a geological illustrative of the system pursued in reformatory and botanical collection ; the results of the labours achnol% and a beautiful model of one of the school- of the Society of Acclimatization ,• and a number houses on the Philanthropic Society's farm kt Red- of paintings of animals and plants for forage. hill. In the adjacent bay, which is wholly occu- The agricultural implements of France are shown pied by materials and models employed in teaching in a collective exhibition, and also the wines of drawing, the Department of Science and Art ex- Champagne and Burgundy, the wines and brandies hibits a complete series of the copies employed in of Montauban, and cereals and farinaceous grain. the instruction of pupils in the Government Schools A collective display of ornamental and general of Design• leather work is very interesting ; the textile fabrics The small court in the north-east corner of the edu- are rich and numerous ; art-furniture, china, and rational department is entirely devoted to the illus- glass fill prominent places •, and the Goliath) and tration of methods employed in teaching the blind. Beauvais tapestries have not been forgotten. Here will be found specimens of all kinds of em- Germany generally will be well represented both bossed or raised type, of writing and ciphering by Austria and the Zollverein (or German Free frames, of musical notation, and of maps in relief. Trade Union), through nearly 5,000 exhibitors. Morten yeah ego, day for day, the brightest A very beautiful embossed globe, used in the School Austria will make a great display of raw produce, and kindliest of May mornings shone on the busiest of the Indigent Blind, adorns the centre of this exhibiting rock and table salts (of which it pro- and mightiest of cities. Some half a million of recess ; while specimens of the work done in various duces 400,000 tons annually), saltpetre, mercury, happy human beings were moving betimes with blind asylums are displayed on the walls and on and coal, with some valuable geological maps. Its one accord to make festival, and to do homage to the screens. In the arrangement of the articles in grain display will form an important part of the the geniis of Peace, enshrined in a temp l e t h a t this division, the superintendent has had the ad- show along with a variety of vegetable prod= °- might have risen like an exhalation--• fantuy of vantage of the assistance of Viscount Cranborne, beet r oot sugar, wine, flax, wool raw silk, Mr. Edmund C. Johnson, and the Rev. B. G. Johns, woods. Hungary will hold the 'first pos iti o n i n light and air. In sunlight and soft airs, and all chaplain of the Blind Asylum, who have taken great the food and vegetable produce classes. the blooming promise of the spring, it was said to interest in the selection of the articles, and to The machinery display from Austria is small — be a May day of the old time, when the Seasons whom all the credit of the arrangement is due. distance having imposed obstacles in the way of its had a character to lose, and no Weather Office to The walls of the apartment are covered with transport, but a novelty is expected in the shape The heavens take note of their aberratio ns maps and diagrams, of which the most conspicuous of a mountain locomotive, with a very high rate . is a gigantic map of the British Isles. of speed, and a power of overcoming any difficulties joyou y, smiled, the earth beaked • al and all the Classes thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four, and of ascent short of an actual defiance of gravitation. influences conspired in a benediction on the thirty-five, under the management of Mr. J. B. In manufactures we may expect a tine show of good and gracious work. Nature looked Waring, consist of furniture, paper-hanging, and woollen cloths ; a good collection of cutlery from radiant with happy auguries, and the voice other wall decorations ; works in the precious Upper Austria ; some rare and valuable musical o f a metals and jewellery ; pottery and glass of every instruments, and some interesting works in leather people whose loyalty is affection Pte' metals In class thirty, the well-known and turnery, which are already popular in this flounced it a "Queen's day." For it was not d occasion, but unique, without pre names of all th e leading manufacturers guarantee country. The glass manufactories of Bohemia will m erel y • g r " a first-rate exhibition. About two thousand five be particularly well represented, and it is expected oedent, and destined to be without a parallel For hundred square feet are set apart for contributors that this part of the display will show a decided ad- it was the first of grand international festivals of in the Mediaeval style, and are filled with a series vanes upon 1851 and 1855. industry, and the next, however brilliant and of remarkable works, illustrating the great advance The Zollverein is determined to !make its mark complete, could only be a copy. It was a day so made in this particular branch of art since the in the mining and engineering classes ; and it has, formation of te/diseval Court, in the first Ex- therefore, sent a remarkable steel casting from - full of triumphs and felicities that the hero.' of it hibition of 1851. might well feel something of Üb e . sadness of all Krupp's factory in Westphalia, a cannon of cut- The arrangement of this court was carried out steel from the same quarter, and a locomotive mortal conquerors. So true is it that the cup of by Mr. Barges and Mr. Slater. engine from one of the 'but workshops in Berlin. all mortal joy brims with tear s. There is alwa y s In class thirty-five the leading firms are bent on A series of models, showing the size and shape something in extreme content that strikes the surpassing all former efforts ; some with majolica of ploughs in every century, exhibited by • learned thoughtful with a religious dread—a sense of and Pslissy ware, encaustic tiles, and a frieze by professor of Wirtemberg, promises to be very in- the unrem ,i n i tig , Lucca dells Robbie ; others with pariah and chins, teresting. the unreturning, the passing away. Perhaps without this deep and clinging from designs by Durham, Marochetti, Monti, The textile fabrics from these States will inclune . t his heart of all pomp, Foley, Gibson, and ManthelL One of the foun- a good display of silk, woollen, worsted,linen,and melancholy, which li es at the tains is a triumph of ceramic art, and the china settee fabrics, and the show of hosiery is expected and festivals, the celebration of to-day would lose trophy in the main avenue is a worthy pendant to to be very strong. Varnished leather work, works all the poignancy of emotion, all its dignity and one by another exhibitor. One firm contributes in the precious metals, jewellery and ornaments • charm. the main feature of the court itself, which contains porcelain from the royal manufactories at Berlin However this may be, it is difficult for those evidence also of the energy and advancing taste and Meissen • large ornamental works in bronze who were present at that marvellous scene of the principal fi rms of the Staffordshire potte- from Berlin a nd Hanover ; and specimens of high ries. Every description of glen is well repre- printing, will add to the effect of this section of the in Hyde-park to welcome a second great In vented in Claw thirty-four, ana in the stained-glass Exhibition. Amongst the collection of chased and termitional Exhibition with unmixed rcing. gallery, and the great northern windows of the east embossed silver works will be found the wedding This is no vulgar holiday to be hailed with and west transepta, the old and the younger rising present given to his Royal Highness the Crown boisterous acclamations. Who has n ot ex firms bear witness to the great progress ma de durin g Prince of Prussia =dale Princess Royal by the city perienced the difficulty and the dan g er of the last ten years in elaborate stained - glass of Berl in ; and amon g st the photographs will lea attempting to repeat some happy circumstance compositions, secular as well as eocleaisetical. Two portrait, life size, of his Royal Highness Prince the The result is almost inevitable failure. What handsome trophies of glee are placed in the nave. of Wales, taken on hiz journey to the Holy Land. Classes thirty-seven and ten (e), the one consisting Holland and Belgium will show through about the ancients called the "envy of the gods" was of architectural designs and models, the other of twelve hundred exhibitors in most of the industrial not all a fable. How many have there been in that large works remarkable for architectural merit, classes. The food display forms the backbone of Palace of Industry at South Kensington to-day, such as church doors, altars, pulpits, &c., both the Exhibition from the first country, although fur under the charge of Mr. Waring, will, perhaps more niture, iron and general hardware, and paper and ship that surround them, amidst all the dazzling than any other classes in the Exhibition sustain printing, have not been forgotten. Pipes and . . the well-deserved reputation of our countrymen in tobacco, of course, have an hoceured place, in spite visions and enthralling sounds, who have not with the art of architecture. If this art is not so at- of the strict orders of her Majesty's commissioners, a secret and sudden pang paused to look and tractive to the public generally as the more easily forbidding anything in the shape of such indul- listen for some faces and voices gone and silent for appreciated arts of painting, sculpture, and decora- genies. BelEtum is particularly strong in its iron evert Surely, to the thoughts and memories of ton, it will be acknowledged by all connoisseurs, display, and the mineral products shown by the her has been one great Absence present, foreign and English, to be that in which we exhibit Ministry of Public Works at Brussels. About the bitter sense of which, at the moment when the works of pre-eminent excellenoe. eighty apprentice schools have sent samples of . e In Classes six, thirty-one, thirty-two, and thirty- cotton and linen manufactures, and the Belgian go- musi was most thrilling and the "feast of the eyes" six,—oomprising carriages, iron and general hard- vernment also exhibits silk and velvet goods, and most enchanting, rushed upon these art like an ware, steel and cutlery, and unclassed manufac- woollen and mixed fabrics. The show of lace pro- icy wind in summer. Many were thinking then tares, —which are Under the management of Mr. milks to be very fine. of one widowed LADY, to whom the bright May T. A. Wright—the display has much of an art Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, each and all morning seemed doubly dark as she journeyed to her character. The prominent features in fClasses promise to do well for the extreme north of Europe, lonely home in the North, remembering it may be thirty-one and thirty-two--placed in the south end through between eleven and twelve hundred exhi how eleven years ago she stood upon the dais and of the south-eastern transept—are the screen for biters. The collection from Denmark will be spread Hereford Cathedral ; Bessemer's; specimens of his thinly over about thirty-two classes, food and fur_ received the Report of the Royal Co mmission from patent steel (a new product since 1851) ; a new niture standing prominent ; Sweden will shine moat one who should have been the hero of to-day I peal of bells, which are so made that they may be in a collection of woods and metals, nearly half of If comfort can be found for that gracious chimed by a child ignorant of music ; and a large its exhibitors (between two and three hundred) LADY, it should be found in the thought that to eless trophy, to which two firms have contributed being in the raw material section ;and Norway day the good work his death has consecrated as elaborate specimens of ornamental metal work ; sends a small but interesting collection, in whi ch the testament of a noble life is accomplished in and two others, equally elaborate specimens of clothing holds the chief place. Perhaps the most mediaeval metal work. Several separate courts and notable production from the latter country amongst the spirit and according to the purpose of t he g ood ' collections in this section are worthy centres of the food classes will be some curious cereals from Parma who wen c alledald to his reward before the attraction. Finmarken, grown in the latitude of 70 degrees labour of the day one. The Birmingham contribution to this collection north. His saltem. Let us now do our dut y to the contains a very complete representation of the vs.- Russia is well represented in furs " -a cereals, living, and join in celebrating another proud epoch rious articles in metal for which the town and dile and in a collection of minerals sent by one of the in trict has so long been celebrated. public administrations of the country. Amongst the am& of our free, peaceful, and laborious The collection in the Sheffield and Rotherham other curiosities it has sent a valuable sealskin England. Let us bid a cordial and respectful court—under Class thirty-one—comprises stove carpet. Its largest division of exhibitors will show welcome to all our guests from beyond the narrow grate*, fenders, fire-irons, hot-air stoves, kitchen in the wine and food class, and in the class for seas, and express the hope that they may return ranges, ornamental iron work consisting of hat animal and vegetable substances used in menu- home with a strengthened faith in the energetic stands, ballusters, eke, manufactured by most of factures. Under machinery it will have a good virtues of DOWD and liberty, and with no worse the firms who exhibited in the Exhibition of 1851. display of carriages, and its strong numerical point• opinion of "these Wanders " than they brought A portion of this court is occupied by Britannia. in manufacture* will be found in the skins, furs, to our shores rectal goods, brass goods, consisting of high- feathers, leather, and articles of clothing. Its . This will depend, no doubt, in pressure taps, cocks, hydrants, ha display of mosaics, china, and works of art will be some measure on our own behaviour, though Passing over the objects in the Colonial depart- very fine. Its industrial exhibitors will number at we cannot with the very best intentions make meet, but only for a time, we now come to the least 650. the sojourn ameng us as agreeable as we could foreign half of the Exhibition, and it is impossible, Switzerland has between 400 and 500 exhibitors, wish to strangers who have not taken the trouble within the limits of this summary, to do more than who will show in about thirty - t hree classes. Its give an outline of this important section. display of clocks and watches will be extensive, bit—uble to learn our language. Yet w e can all The French court and its approaches form a per - it promises no mechanical novelty . ; in fact, not and each do our best to gain credit at least fect exhibition of themselves undisturbed by any above four improvements on ending " move- for good manners. We can most of us in our jarring tints or effects produced by unsympathetic marts" will be exhibited in this class throughout private and personal relations add at least neighbours. Everything that human ingenuity, the building. one stone to that temple of international money, and taste can produce, is exhibited in this The S on g . Y Europe is wonderfully well repre- peace and emits which it may be the court, and it will be from no want of energy if seated by Spain and Portugal in the wine sod food happin ess , of the twentieth century to him. they fail to carry off the first prize. Our great class. Out of 2,200 exhibitors from those twin industrial rivals are determined to give us a royal countries, more than one-half make a display of Prate- We can all be civil, generous , attentive, entrance to their kingdom within a kingdom. The creature comforts. These comforts have a very considerate, if we cannot all be dispensers of hoe entrance of their court, which they have erected in wide range, both in fluids and solids ; and amongst pitility, or entertainers. e tc n all bear in mind the nave, is of cast-iron, and manufactured by the latter there will be almost everything from X. Barbarat. It forms a corridor seventeen feet acorn-coffee to sausages•during the next four deaths hat ia order to pro- Portugal promises to mote the peaceful and friendly intercourse of the in breadth, twenty-five feet in height, and extend- show some fine modelling in wax ; and Spain one nations, ,_,Tichini En gl is hmen , F renc h men, Mg east and west one hundred and fifty feet, exhibitor of machinery. Mai theentire length of the French court. The per- Italy and Rome will be represented by more than mans, Italians, and the rest, should seize the op tico in the centre has three divisions between four 2,000 exhibitors, showing almost everything except portunity of cultivating one another's friendship and leading columns. The east and west divisions, 10 naval architecture. The promise made at the good-will. In this regard it may be said that any feet in width, are entrances to the Exhibition. Florence Exhibition of last year will be kept at good turn which an Englishman may do one of his The centre division, 12 feet wide, is backed by a this, and in raw produce, machinery, manufactures, • roreign• guests is twice blest. Many of our °en noble sheet of spotless plate glass perfectly trans- and the fine arts, a vigorous attempt will be made tinental Mends travel go little, and are so little parent, manufactured at St. Globate. The dictum- t o w in the n ee. learned i n rious of this glass are 10} feet broad by 16k feet Greece is well represented by about 300 exhi - any o ther language than their own, high. At the foot of the glass is a richly orate biters, who show chiefly raw produce ; Turkey has that even a sojourn among a people whose per- sent a small but interesting collection ; Tunis de clines to exhibit, because it was to be placed under the management of the Turkish oommiasioners ; and Egypt bas sent its goods, but at present has 4iven no account of them. The South American republics are also very backward, although they promise to take a good position at the last moment. America has got about 5,000 square feet of space, and that will be well filled with useful and ingenious articles. China and Japan together will cover about 1,400 square feet of space. The collection from the latter country is peculiar and extensive ; and the exhibition from China is chiefly "loot," or spoils taken from that country during the last war. tie exhibitors num ber about twenty-three, and a 000 d collection is sent by the Hong Kong commission. Porcelain vaaee, ivory carvings, pictures and jewelled cups, form the most ornamental part of the display ; and a mixed collection of Shanghai products the most useful part. HA RMO NIII M EL-NEW MO DEL. CRAMS, MALL and WOOD. SOI, legeotatant. Ehe earortl4o. TO OOZE. PONDENTS. dverttssmenta intended Sacs he Express" Lasdos by taw, must be at thelo, Bouvertsateset, by Two o olt on the day of pabilagtoo. HATWAILINF. Tffts gyms°, JOHN JONI:S.—OM AMERICAN COUSIN. Moms. Potheru. 11/zoldatircll. 11.111sr•, sat Doors;. Young, Kiss 011ver.—VII1 SIAM OF ANDALUSIA. Peres Noma sodfamor likerdo.—Aad MT KIIBIUNDII GHOST. nuircrows. Tem Inerrwa, VIZ LITTLE TZZASIIII.—And THZ GOLDIN DAGGER& Moms Fecagar, H. IT.ddioornb, Jordon, Potter, J. 0. Shore, Gerdes, Cathcart. and Moreland Mesdames Henderson. lasvortlay, sad Oadoita Leelercq. IT. maim Tan iTSIMPII. UNDER THE NOSL—TITENDS OR TOM. Marra naiad, Dont, Ilaiaats, Mat•bawa ; Mesdames Herbert sad liattbewa—Aad THE HOLISM° SCHOOL Maar& Ashley sod Dewar; Mu Hata Terry.—Oasmaissoe at n. TUN Inamia, OUR TAT IN LIFL Madames 8. Lane oaf Craubard.- Jbatnytaineasets by Wise L /*arm, lidlia. Celeste =and tdr. liaciagan.—THl 0008 OF IND.—ANd THE GRILL Ulu Z. Clayton.-008 1 = 8881 dt 84. HIGH WATS& AT WOOS BRIM& MVP DLT —Moratan. I. 110 n. .... Afternoon. lb. Ya. To-NolutoW—Marning. Arternees. lb. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 1. Ramsbottom's self-feeding tender, to supply water to express engines without stopping, and several smoke-consuming locomotives. The pile carpet and worsted looms will excite general interest in Class seven (a) • and in Class seven (b) there are many new varieties of steam hammers, variations upon Mr. J. Nasmyth's ori ginal plan. Amongst others is an irtereating "steam smith," or radial hammer, exhibited by Messrs. Neilson and Co., of Glasgow. In Clam eight, amongst the marine engines, parts of Messrs. Penn's large engines !made for the Achilles (a sister ship to the Warrior), with a crank shaft weighing seventeen tons, are worthy of special notice. Several important varieties of traction engines are exhibited, made to run on common roads ; and the washing and mangling machines will surely not be despised, when we know that the annual washing bill of the United Kingdom is now estimated at six millions sterling. Besides making arrangements for showing ma chinery in motion, and illustrating it by processes, her Majesty's commissioners reserved space for the exhibition of manufacturing processes in certain handicrafts which could be carried on without danger to the building. The result is that visitors will see illustrations of the following processes : Needle making, medal striking, gold chain making, type casting, type printing by hand, lithographic printing, copper-plate printing, a potter's wheel, brick and drain-tile making, and wood carving. The display of agricultural implements in Class , hi nine—which placed in the long covered and un covered eastern annexe—is under the management of Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, and is substantially the annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural So ciety. The shows of this society have led to such improvements in the design and manufacture of agricultural implements that a large export trade has been created in this branch of industry, which figures prominently in the government returns. In horticultural exhibitions $ progress even more rapid has been shown. Not only have they led to improvements in the culture of native, and the naturalisation of foreign plants, but they have taken botany out of its abstract existence in books and pictures, and have placed it practically before the eyes of the public, to aid in a useful, beautiful, of and what is gradually becoming a nece ssar y p art education. The annual displays at Chiswick have been the creators of the Botanic Gardens in the Regent's-park and of the Royal Horticultural Society ; and the display of fruits and flowers in the gardens of this society, attached to the inter national building, will doubtless form one of the most attractive features of the Exhibition. In the Agricultural section gardening and fanning are jointly represented ; and the collection of im plements and models includes horticultural build ings, wire netting, fencing, and gardening ap- pa - ratus. During the last twenty years great improvements have been made in the construction of agricultural machinery and implements. Before that period a large proportion of the implements of the farm were the production of the village blacksmith ; regular implement manufacturers were but few, and the want of railway communication prevented the better class of the machines then made being extensively used beyond the immediate neighbour hood in which they were constructed. Of late years, however, vast strides have been made, and the wants of agriculture are now provided with machinery which, for its ingenuity and excellence of workmanship, will bear favourable comparison with any other branches of our national industry. Classes eleven and twelve—military engineering, armour and accoutrements, ordnance and small arms, and naval architecture and ships' tackle — are under the superintendence of Major Moffatt. In the first of these classes—under Sub-Class a— there is a praiseworthy contrivance in the applica tion of the study of the centre of gravity to the suspension of soldiers' belts and ammunition. There are also many specimens of improved cartouch boxes, &c. In Sub-Class c may be studied an extensive range of every engine of destruction which the human mind has yet devised, from swords to great guns, from the old Brown Bess—more praiseworthy for carrying the queen of British weapons at its muzzle than for its accuracy of aim with the projectileof that date--down to our death-dealing, repeating weapons, our breech-loading arms, and our long-range rifles. Amongst the more formidable engines of destruc tion are the Armstrong and Whitworth one-hundred pounders, Blakeley's five-hundred pounders, and the Mersey . Steel Company's six-hundred pounder. As to their respective merits, the visitors must judge for themselves, for the opinions of scientific men on this head are divided. The trophy of great guns by Mr. Anderson, of the Royal Carriage Department, will at once attract the close scrutiny of the scientific, being a development of the process of construction of the great Armstrong gun, with a microscopic lens ar- I. ili sonality is so " pronounced " as ours is a severe trial for their taste and patience. What they know of Englishmen abroad deserves correction from what they may learn of Englishmen at home. This is certainly not one of the least important considerations which the great event of to-day suggests. The ceremonial of to-day, but for one immense and irreparable loss, is richer in interest than that of 1851. The history of eleven years is seen on its bright side. In that brief space of time —a mere moment in the existence of a people, though a period in the lire of a generation—the face of Europe has been changed. Russia won over to peace and liberal ideas ; Austria set free from the trammels of the old alliance ; Prussia conatitntionalised ; Italy reconstituted as a nation. Beyond the Atlantic a mighty nation striving to redeem itself from a wasting curse ; China laid bare to Christian civilization ; the mysterious empire of Japan opened to European intercourse and industry. The Japanese Embassy, which is the cyno• sure of all curious eyes to-day, is a splendid sub stitute for that fantastic sea-faring Chinaman who figured as Celestial Ambassador in Hyde Park. We have royal visitors, too, from Prussia, Spain, and Sweden. And though there is a dark back ground of distress, even in our own islands, to this brilliant picture, we may thank Heaven, with all our hearts, that in no country could the art and industry of all nations be more fitly or splendidly entertained than in this workshop, counting-house, and market of the world. Our guests will here see models of war-ships that are only the guardians of commerce, and of guns that are only the defence of peaceful shores. Cbt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Arm, 30. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia arrived at Windsor Castle at "even o'clock last night, st• tended by Limit naat-Coleasl Baron Obernits and Licata sant-Colouel the Hon. Dudley de Roe. Prince Alfred aooompasied the Crown Prince. The Queen walked oat this morning. Has Majesty left Windsor Castle at a quarter before seven o'clock this evening for Balmoral, accompanied by Prince Alfred, Prinoem Alice, Princess Helena, Prince" Leaks, and Princess Beatrice. ma mite in attendance comprised the Duchess of Athol, Lady Armada Bruce, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey. Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. T. H. Biddulph, Major Cowell, Dr. Jennie, end Mr. Rabaul. The Crown Prince of Prussia left Windsor Castle at seven o'clock for Buckingham Palace, where the remainder of the Prince's suite, consisting of Gomel Hiller von Gartrismea, Count Ptickler. Captain von Loacades, and Captain ma Notes, are awaiting his arrival. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The m inisters present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chanoellor, Earl GranrilleSir George Grey, Ear l Rumen, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Chula Wood, the Chancellor of the Excheguer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Prince Consort Memorial Committee held a nireeng yesterday 'Maroons at the Palace of Westminster. Present the Earl of Darby, Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Charles Fad. lake. The Lard Mayor, having to be present at Commoe Council, was enable to attend. A deputation from Sheffield respecting hop drawbacks had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequa yesterday, at his official residence in Downing•street. Mr. Frady, Chairman of Inland Revenue, wee prment at the interview. A deputation to the Pre4dent and Vice-President of the Baird of Trade against the pilotage clauses in the Merchant Shipping Acts, &c., Amendment Bill, had en interview yev lay* with the Bight Hoo. T. Milner Gibson and the Bight How. W. Hutt, at the office of the Board of Trade. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-4a to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Dr lumhia, Bermuda, Canada, and to the Lord High Comma sinner of the lonian Islands. ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY AT PERTH. A telegram received in London this says :—" Her Majesty reached Perth this (Thais Dirk . day) morning at 8.38, and, after breakfasting, pro. 'seeded for Balmoral at 9.55." The Archbishop of York baa arrived at 43, Uppo Greerseor-sereet, for the SWAM The Earl and Countess Craven and the Ladies Craves come to town to-day from Aandowne Park, Bede for the nano. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon are expected at their residence in Groevenor-cresoeut to-day from te Grove, sear Watford, where they hen been rue** succession of visitors during the holidays. The Earl Anneeley and Colonel the licc. Annealey„ ALP., lave arrived in Norfolketreet, Partlere for the manes. The Countess of Kiunoull entertained a select party at dinner lad evening at her residence, Rudecellawe Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for* sendoliss on Saturdays, the 3rd and 10th inn., et Cambia. Hoses. Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon hos arrived at their residence in G ra ft on - s t r eet from thelr set in Denbighshire. Lord and Lady Foley have arrived at the ba ir rei• dance is Grosvesor•equare from Worksop Meson t& Lord and Lady Vernon an d Hon. Mi.s Vernon Warren have arrived at nuance's Hotel from suite! Hall, Derbyshire. Lord Llanover has arrived in Great Stanhope. street from South Wales. Lord Berries has arrived at Thomass Bout, Berkeleyoquare, from Everiogham Park. Lady Hatherton has left Thomas's Ho Berkeley-scum, for Teddesley Perk. Lady Theresa Lewis comes to Sent Bowe to- day from visiting the Earl and Countess of Clareodos d the Grove, Watford. General Baron Jockntles bas arrived at 32. Chapel' street, Belgravesquare, from Vienna, for the season. Mrs. Meynell Ingram and Miss Georgina Mess& Ingram have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkelerdi ds, from Hoar Cross Hall, near Rugelsy. Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley Sheridan and fiunilybsw arrived at their residence in Grosvenor -place from Odd seat is Donetahire. Mrs. Lane Fox has returned to town from rising Lord sad Lady Comore at Stoner Park, Osoo. Mr. Darby Griffith has given notice that to. morrow he will " ask the ti odor Secretary of State fer Foreign Affairs whether information has been r eceived del the Turkish government was requiring from Atrilkidig the dismissal of his Algerian Guards, who were the ow" under his commend and direction, of saving great duenb il of Christian lives during the late musacres And, whether the Bri ti sh government, who are f _ gi eetim the transactions in Syria, approve of such a r eturn beds made to him for such services." Sir Morton Peto has announce d that he will td " ask the Semistary of State for 'War if he the opportunity of considering the report of the Pefdd Commission, and the evidence on which it b is f 6 its MN 14 allowing the interval of a week to elapse ete in the hands of members and Its discussion." du Colonel Wilson Patten will to-morrow thf attention of the Poorlaw Board to and the re sat AO; the toe manufacturing districts, ask him wlO ll % is the i t n tention of the gov ernment to take any skid i" .,, lotion thereto. or