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LONDON. SATURDAY. AUGUST 19.

Tres promoters of the North-East London Exhi-
bition of Arts and Manufactures may tarty be
congratulated on the vigour and promptitude they
have displayed in carrying into effect a racily
useful suggestion. The idea of having such an
Exhibition was, we believe, originated lees
than six months ago, and on Wednesday the
Exhibition itself—complete in all its parts, and
filling the vast spaces of the Agricultural-hall,
blington--was opened by the LORD CHANCULOR
and the Marquis of SALIM:TRY, in the presence of
a crowded assembly. That such an undertaking
should be inaugurated with success in the middle
of August vividly marks the difference of latitude
between the new Arts Exhibition and most pre-
viotts exhibitions of a similar kind, and brings into
alsiostatartling relief the broad difference in man-
ners, customs, and way of life that separates
the London of the north-east from the Landon of
the south-west. The locality indicates the class
for whose benefit the Exhibition is mainly
intended, and the special nature of its claims
to publis attention. It is intended chiefly
for the large industrial and manufactur-
ing population who live in the north-
eastern district, and the promoters have endea-
voured to make it inch an exhibition of arts and
manufactures as would be generally interesting
and locally usefoL But whilst thus principally in-
tendel for the artisan and manufacturing classes,
it is nit an Industrial Exhibition such as we
have recently had some examples of in London.
Had P. been an undertaking of this nature our
welcome might have been leas decided, for there
has been rather a tendency, perhaps, of late to
stimulate artificially, and multiply by acts of patron.
age rather than by spontaneous growth, these
competitive displays of industrial energy and
perseverance. The Exhibition just opened at Is-
lington is easeotially on a smaller scale what the
Great Exhibitions in Hyde-park and Kensington
were--illustrative displays of arts and manu-
factures, chiefly, of course, though not ex-
clusively, of British arts and manufactures.
The fire and ornamental, as well as
the useful arts, are largely represented in the
collection, and, as was to be expected, it is enriched
with numerous specimens of the skilled manufac-
tures of the locality. Such a collection cannot fail
to be of great interest to the intelligent artisans and
enterprising manufacturers of the north-eastern
district, as well as to the general public.
But while thus good in itself, it must at the
same time be remembered that the Exhibition is
• means to a very important end, and that its most
interesting aspect as well as its chief claim to
public attention is in connexion with this end. The
main object in view is to establish • North-Eas-
tern Museum, or permanent Exhibition of Arts
and Manufactures of the same kind and for the
same purpose as the South Kensington Museum.
The proceeds of the Exhibition jest opened are
to be devoted to this object, and it is in all respects
a most laudable and useful one. It has long been
matter of complaint that the South Kensington
Museum is so far away from the chief seats of
skilled metropolitan industry and manufactures
that the very classes who would derive most prac-
tical benefit from such • collection are rarely
able to avail themselves of the special advan-
tages it affords. The LORD CHANCIILLON in his
opening address, put this difficulty in the most
practical shape, by stating that if a working man
from the North-Eastern district were to pay only
four short visits to the Kensington Museum dur-
ing the year he would be obliged to lose at
least two and a half working days, and this is a
sacrifice which comparatively few can afford to
make. The result is that the art treasures
collected at Kensington are not half as
useful for educational purposes as they would be
if more equally distributed in local museums. On
this ground representations have at different times
been made to the Government, to the effect that
permanent local museums should be established in
other quarters of the metropolis, and especially in
the quarters which axe the seats of skilled in-
dustry and manufactures. The Government has
very reasonably replied that the initiative in such
a movement should be taken by the localities
themselves ; and that the enterprise once fairly
started, it would be willing to help, by giving
models of works of art and specimens of work-
manship, such as are now furnished to the Kee-
sington Museum. The North-Eastern districts
have been the first to move in the matter, and
the promising exhibition just opened is the
result. A fitter locality for such an ex-
hibition could hardly have been chosen, the
district being an extremely populous one, and
proverbially rich in skilled industries. The popula-
tion numbers upwards of 300,000 ; and amour*
the skilled industries of which the district is the
seat is included the watchmaking trade, the or
!inflicters of philosophical instruments of all kW.,
of photographic apparatus and preparations, of