The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-04-29 00:00:00

THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION OF 1871.

The Exhibition of 1871, which will lie permanent
buildings, is to open en Monday, May 1, and close on
Saturday, September 39. The undertaking is initiated
and directed by her Majesty's Comodeaioners fir the
Exhibition of 1851, of which body the Pi ince of Wales
is president. The secretary is Lieut. Colonel Henry
Y. D. Scott, ILE., and there are eleven Deputy eon,
miesioners. Each ClllBlof ohjecta in the Exhibition has
ita own reporter and committee, and the rep 'As are to
be prepared immediately after the optuirm, with the
promise of publication by the nil of the month.
The main buildings for the Exhibition are adjoining
the arcades of the It ,yal Horticultural Gardens ; but
a p ,rtion of the display will take place in the gallei ies
of the Albert Hall. France has an extensive annexe
built at her own cost. The Horticultural Society are
putting up temporary structures at the southern ex-
tremity of the gardens for the purposes of a fl
rural diepla ; ond that portion of the Sou% Kensington
Museum which is situated in the same locality will be
open—on the ground fl itar---168 part of the Exhibit
Over the Horticultural Society's arcades, and running
their entire length, will be a splendid terrace, more than
rive hundred feet long and about twenty feet broad,
ft inking the spacious and elegant gardens, and affording
striking view of the locale. The great cooservatory
which runs across the northern end of the gardens is
cennected with the woad,s and galleries by a net of
crescent, extensively glazed, fermirg part of the
Horticultural Society's buildings. Through the con.
servatory access is obtained to the Albert Hall. Thus
he gardens, the Albert Hall, and port of the South
Kensington Museum, are auxiliary to the Exhibition.
the whole constituting a very rgreeable and oath d
programme. With the gardens a c disiderable realm,
of the public are already familiar; but to a large pro-
portion of the visitors to the Exhibition these delight-
ful grounds will be seen for the Id at time during the
fort r coming re aeon.
The Arst division on the official list relates to the
FINE Mild whether applied to works of utility ore ot.
Paintind occupies the two upper galleskiewd and west
of the gardens, each gallery bang 520 feet in length.
ltritish paintings are in the western gallery, anti
foreign paintings in the eastern. The former gallery
Also c. -smite specimens of Oriental art, monies, and
alscellaneous c bjects. In the engem goVery the Ed.
eian painters are powerfully represented. France is
also there, Cmugh to %limit-A-lex:tut, and otlar foreign
ociadrieo. Sculpture, na is rule, ae companies the
; siotiraw of the reve rsl hations. Electrotypes,
models, and reproductions of various kinds are likewise
shown.

A portion of the Fine Art division is to he lined in
the 'delve gallery of the Albert Hall, overhyekiug the
interior of the hall from the topmoet circle. This
aft int., a eplindid iniloar promenade, extremely light.
Ail. 7, ant retreo-Ne. The glAut Interier of the liu.ll is
Isere coimletely vieitle, while the wall which seeecs
round the entire ellipse is hung with engravings, litho-
graphs, photographs, and drawings. Architectural
aid other meders are displayed on o.unt,re at intervals.
The entire display is one of much interest, and this
part ef the Exhitet:tet is I.kely to he popular for inure
than ore ren co, particularly if Idf`a4 are mini led fr
the visitors% for a more plsasant indoor lounge can
ecareely be ceneeiaeil. A powerful "lift" indicates
the poe,ibilit; of reaching this lofty table land without
sales the etaire.
Weile on the finflect rf the Fine Arts, the "fan
canape. Woo th,mid not be forgotten. Her Majesty
the Qmen has been pleased to notify to the C.eemi..
aionere her intention tia offer a prize of £4O for the best
fan exhibited in the Ezhibition of 1871, such fan to be
either a work of painting or carviny, ix a combination
of both, and executed by a female artist or artdits
under twenty-five years of age. Three ladies and a
Vest-end firm offer pr'z for fans of various degrees
of merit next to the best, the fans in all caeca to re•
main the property of the competitors. It is also
distinctly specified that" a phz awarded to a married
woman will be paid to her alone." On this subject the
Commissioners have explained that while they do not
award prise to exhibitors, they will afford every
facility to societies and individuals desirous of offering
prizes for the encouragement of art or industry in
connection with these exhibitions.
The division Of XIANCFACTURIN includes manufac-
tures, inachirery, and raw materials; but the classes
this year are limited to pottery and woollen and worsted
fabric,. Thus all the machinery relate to these
industriee. The pottery machinery will be fund in a
elisd near the Exhibition-road, measuring 100 feet by
30 feet, and at each end ice steam-engine to work the
machinery, including jul Ic and tile making ma i Miles,
clay crusher., pottery wheels, pipe-making machines,
fiiter press-e, ka. The finished products of the potters'
art are displayed in the eastern building, the finer
specimens occupying the ground-floor gallery, and the
heavier descriptions the arced,.
The foreign porcelain includes specimens from the
Royal Berlin Factory, also from Sweden, Portugal,
Japan, China, &c. In some cases the porc.lain is
accompanied by Parian and Mej.,lica, and altogether
the display is one of singular beauty and interest.
Even earthenware and stoneware are made to assume
forms of on artistic chat-aster, and are enamelled or
coloured with pinch skill, showing how possible it is to
establish an alliance between art and utility, as in the
case of the earthenware pitchers and jars of the Italian
Peasantry. Stained gime windows also make their
appemance in some parte of this gallery, and other
specimens of the art are to be found in various portions
of the Exhibition.

'rite machinery connected with the woollen anil
worsted fabrics occupies the grounchtloor gallery on
the opposite or wegtern side of the gardens the pro
polling pawer for which is obtained from eve steam
engines, located each in its own glazed compartment,
outside the main gallery, each division of the
gallery bring thus flanked by an engine, which,
i•self serves as an object of Exhibition. Extra
shafting has just been put tp for the Belgian
exhibitors, who were very much behind in some of
their arrangements. England is eminent for
worsted manufacture, as Belgium is for woollen, but
this is the first time that English machinery has been
di4played with anything like completeness. 'note
who know the jaalowy with which our Yorkshire
mills are guarded will apprehend the practical value
of the forthcoming exhibition. A. striking adjunct to
the machinery will be afforded by a zoological &play
in the adjacent space towards the Albert-road. Some
admirable sheds and enclosures have been erected,
where there will be on view a number of livine alpacas,
llamas, guanocos, muttons, merinos, eace., an
illustrating some of the sources of the raw material
employed in the worsted end woollen manure°.
tore. A wool-washing machine is clove at hand.
Magnificent carpets are exhibited on the walls
of the pottery department and elsewhere, and
woollen cloths are shown in the departments of the
Albert Hall on the level of the internal bshainy. We
may fairly say that the display of machinery in the
dam referred to will be found extremely good, and as
th whole will be seen in operatioa, the information
afforded will be perfect, concentrating in a email apace
that wide', otherwise could only be auen—if a; all—by
travelling over a large hart of &mops.
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Another class in the riVii3O of -enenufacturers in-
cludes education:eel woiks end appliances. A Sweetie h
acholl•honse of fall proportionn a picturesque, gabled,
wooden structure, faces one of the we :tern &ors of the
machinery gallery, wijacent t the geological section.
In the tOOMiI of the Albert Hall are to be found books,
maps, globes, inimical and other instruments, toys,
game., natural history specimens, and a quantity of
school appareling, foreign meson homemanufacturers
being represented.
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SCIENTIFIC homer/01es and new discoveries of all kind.'
are rather Waindant, forming a somewhat heterogeneous
assortment. The Belgians send models of mining
machinery, and one ingenious Eugl shman sends a
whole heap of steepen, rails, and chairs for railways
and tramways. There are also stuffed animals—some
veiy t,ood. An elegant piece of architecture—if it may
be s,odesigue.ted—illustrates the use of a scientific corn-
Bositi nal a substitution for atone. Ashatt connected
with the Warsop rermst-am engine will Ave e if:et t
wood-carving apparatus, and probably a print-
in ei machine, as well AO other matters. When the
vi itor is thoroughly bewildered wi:h the mixed
on .rvels of this composite display, he may take refuge
.e. the adjacent gallery of this South Kensington
Museum, where he will find another class of wonders
in the practice of pisciculture. In this department fish
are carefully reared from infancy to maturity, and
men+lne, e are taken for improving the supply of fish
both at home and abroad.

The fourth division is that of noRTICUTATIIE, and the
eetablished fame of the Royal Horticultural Society
givea nMurano that this part of the exhibition will