The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-23 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

The stimulative clfeet anticipated front the recent
notice announcing the approaching close of the Exhibition
has not yet become perceptible iu the attendance at the
building. On the contrary the numbers who visited the
Crystal Palace yesterday exhibit a great decrease front
those of preceding weeks, as to had a Friday on which but
17,978 persons catered the structure, we must go back to
the first week in May, when the charge was one sovereign.
The jury of Class IX., Agricultural Implements, have
issued a supplementary award in which they rece,nmend
Mr. Cyrus Hall M'Curinick's reaping machine for the
council medal. The award has been confirmed by the Con-
sent of the chairman.

Among the visitors yesterday were: M. ilarc:lie, the
French Minister of Justice; M. Ferdinand Ittrrot ; and
Madame Walowski, the wife of the French minister in this
country. Atter inspecting the department of En,;lish ma-
chinery, they proceeded, accompanied by M. Sallaudrouze,
to catmintr the various articles of interest in the French
department.
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A very• beautiful specimen of embroidered work is shown
in the south-wet gallery, ilesianed and exhibited by Messrs.
liolbeck and Co., of Vigo-street, along with a number
of other costly article, manufactured for Prince Mukha,
by Messrs. Hancock and Co., of Bruton-street. It is a
craratte tie einspeou made fur the Archduke Francis Charles
of Austria. It is the second article of the kind which has
been manufactured in this country—the flied having been
made a kw years since, by command of her Majesty, to be
presented to his highness the Prince of Leiningen. That
now in the Exhibition is intended as a present by Prins*
Dernidotf to his relative, the Archduke. It is elaborately'
wrought on a ground of rich pompadour velvet, in dead and
burnished gold, with ekaiu edges of the same costly
material—the designs being oak and laurel leaves, which
extend along the hands in every part that is not coverts'
with armorial bearinr or inscriptions. Ls extreme It ngth
is four feet six inches, and in width it is eight inches and a
quarter. The shortest end of the band is three feet seven
inches in length, and in width it is the same as the longest
one. It is edged with massive dead and burnished gold
bullion fringes, and is encircled at the bow of the eravat
by a heavy gold tassel, in the centre of which is 1.4 very
elaborately executed coronet. At the end of the longest
band the arms of the Imperial House of Hapsburg are care-
fully wrought in gold, silver, on a large scale, and with
an effect equal to that of the herald painter; fur we have
seldom seen anything of the same description SU perfectly
portrayed on canvass or panels. The arms of the Coun-
tess of Trapani arc executed in the same style of com-
pleteness at the extreme end of the short band. On the
reverse of the long bond the arms of Pt ince Aunatoli De-
midulf arc richly embroidered, beneath which, on a scroll of
blue velvet, which extends the whole length of the baud,
in Gothic characters of dead silver, the following inscrip-
tion appears:—" Marie Isabelle Erzherzogin von Oyster-
reich, Grafin von Trapani, IS August, 15,31." The re-
Ten.; of the short band is ornamented with a shield, which
contains the words " Burch den Fiirsten Annatulin DemidoW
iiberrcieht," together with an inscription—on a scroll of
blue velvet, which runs along the band—in Human cha-
racters, which is admirably executed. An exceedingly use-
ful register map of Great Britain, indicating the conditions
of the atmosphere on the same day in various parts of the
country, from observations collected at the Exhibition by
the Electric Telegraph Company, is now published daily at
the building, and sold fur a penny. At the name of each
of the towns with which the Electric Telegraph Company
has communication an arrow is placed, pointing to the way

in which the wind is blowing, with letters denoting the
direction of the wind. The barometric 'measure is also
given. These daily publications cannot fail to be of 'meat
service in helping forward meteorological science, while
they strikingly illustrate the advance of the present age in
scientific and mechanical knowledge.
The following is the

Cash account, Aug. 22.
Beason tickets
At the doors 1,957 12 6
Total receipts £1,970 12 8