The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-25 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1851.

by the award of medals or the order of the Red
Eagle, at the Berlin Exhibition of 1844. Ginghams,
and also fringes and trimmings, will be sent in con-
siderable number from Saxony; and the manu-
factory of the so-called forest wool at Breslau, will
furnish carpets and covers of that material. The Ger-
man exhibitors of cotton goods of all kinds number 99
The German wood-o manufacture is more nume-
rously represented than either of the two preceding
branches of industry, and supplies 289 exhibitors.
The principal districts where this manufacture
is carried on are four, those of Westphalia and
the Lower Rhine, of Thuringia and Hesse, of
Saxony, and lastly of Lower Sdrsia. From an
immense number of towns in these groups are pro-
mised tapestry, knitting, and worst-d yarns, coloured
wools (of these one horse in Frankfort will send 1,400
specimens), plain clothe, kerserneres, buckskins,
doeskins of all colours, Orleans, cashmeres, shawls,
tartans, carpets, felts, table covers, flannels, and
tapestry.
In tam silk manufacture, 104 exhibitors are an-
nounced, principally from tae cities and neighbour-
hoods of Berlin, Crefeld, Elberfeld, in, Prussia, Leipsig
and Annaberg in Saxony, and Linda° in Bavaria.. The
silk worm, extensively reared in Germany, will be exhi-
bited, together with its delicate filaments in all stages
of manufacture, from the coon silk to velvet The
articles annonnied for exhibition are taffeties, satins,
ribons, cravats, shawls, kerchiefs, plush velvet, bands,
cord, gimp, stockings, gloves, and a variety a mixed
goods.
The paper manufacture is at present in its infancy
in Germany; the most important establishments where
it is produced are in Wurteniberg ; whether this
kingdom will contribute anything to the Exldbitien,
is not yet known. A number of firms in Ballo,
Pulverkrog, Wart:berg, and Camel, have, however,
asnouncad specimens of glace, satin, embossed, and
other fine paper, as well u the heavier description of
pasteboard.
Germany is the fatherland of letter-press printing,
and stands now inferior to no country in the multitude
of its typ,graphical productions. A dozen of the
more spirited firms of Berlin, Leipsig, and Dresden
propose to t xhibit specimens of their work.
The millers of Munich, Halle, Berlin, Stralsund,
intend to exhibit specimens of various starches (some
of them prepared by potent processes), and also of
various meals. A parcel of shibircuit is coming
from Dresden; of chicory, from Erfurt; cocoa, from
Dresden and Berlin; and dried fruit from Berlin.
Punch and kirchwasaer will be sent from various
places. Drugs, perfumery, dyes, balsams, and a cern-
plots collection of mountain herbs will come from
Hirschberg. The Farinas and a host of rivals will
send fragrant waters.
We stated in our last that Prussia had appointed
no special commissioner to this country to report on
the matters connected with the Exhibition. Tuis ne-
glect has been repaired. The Prussian Mini-ter of
Commerce has appointed Dr. Stain, of Aix.la-Cba-
pelle, who is known to the commercial community of
that country by his official connection with the Berlin
Exhibition of 1844, to be a special commissioner, and
to repair to Loudoo in that capacity, in order to
procure the most favourable conditions for the display
of articles scot from Prussia and the Z Alverein states
, to the Exhibition in Hrde-park. Dr. Stein will leave
, for London in the middle of February, and is em-
, powered to take all necessary measures for
procuring a good presentation of the articles
referred at the expense of the state. It is provided,
6 at the same time, that each money shall
not to be applied to purposes of ornament. Such
, extra expenses must be borne at the exhibitors' own
; I charge, It is intand‘,l
i!teetato woe ur. Stein a
commission of experts, which will sit in London
during the coming summer, with the object partly of
, watching over the interes's of Prussian exhibitors,
and partly to procure materials for making a report
on the results of the Exhibition. The Prussian
minister also intends to open a credit to the commis-
. stoners which will enable them to purchase specimens
of artistic and industrial excellence, in order that they
. may form a permanent collection to be deposited in
, Berlin for the inspection of German manufacturers.

We have stated that as a favour an extension of
time had been granted to French exhibitors whose
goods might be liable to deterioration from too long
exposure before sole to the effects of dsmp or du.t.
M. Bonjean, a few days since appointed minister, and
now occupying the place ad interim, has informed the
minufacturers in this category that the ultimate
delay cannot extend beyond the 20th of March, and
tart under all circumstances the canter show
glum must be put up in their places on the 20th of
February. The Fre,,ch are counting on au immense
rise in the price of their protected corn for the period
of the exhibition.

The prettiest things of costume that we are likely
to see wiil be from the East. The products from
Ginstantinople have arrived, and from Tunis we see
that all sorts of burnous, caps, slippers, veils, and
perfumes are coming. Some of those handsome
guns and swords which look so picturesque will also
be brought, and must sdd to the beauty of tin
Tunisian part of the show.

THE QUESTION OF ADMISSION.

It will be interesting to the public to learn that the
Royal Commissioners have finally determined that
the minimum charge for admission to the Exhibition
shall be one shilling. On this subject Mr. Paxton
has published the following suggratioos :

TO Tal MORT HON. LORD .1011 X RUMIRLL.

MY Loan,—Within a few days, the structure de-
signed to receive the nntributions of the world's industry
will be complete:. The goestion now arises, es to the mode
of admission of the world's people. And it is up= this int-
po t subject that I nose claim the liberty of addressing
'Cu.
Bh be taxed by payment; or @ball it be free?

Each mode has its diliical•.iee; bat, after an anxious con-
sideration of the matter, it is ay conviction that free 'wry
will be at once more simply practicable, and more in har-
mony with the enlarged and enlightened purpose of the
EzbilAtion.

There axe no less than 7,000 exhibitors. Surely no tax
should be levied upon them or their femiiies for the right
of visiting an Exhibition to the staple of which they have
themselves contsibuted. And lam further confirmed in my
belief of the practicability cad wisdom of free entrance—to be
modified as I shell hereafter propose—by the uosnimous end
Issitety opiedem at Toy troy et the most influential members
of the City of Lsodon.
The Royal Commissioners have incurred a lug. debt—s
debt that must be liquidated. And it is to be feared that a
too anxious sense cf this obligation may induce the levying
of a rate of entry that shall, to the miliioo, anima to pro-
bibition.

I have therefore to propose that, for the first fortnight of
the Exhibition, admission liked be, in every oase, by pay-
mint. And further, that one day in the week (and for
many reasons I should relent Wednesday) shall, for the
whole term of exhibition, he reserved for the higher times
of all nations who may prefer to pry for the exclusive pri-
vilege of admission, rather than encounter the inconvenience
of a crowd. With these exoeptions that the entrance shall
be entirety fres.

The sum taken during the first fortnight and on the one
day of each week would, no doubt, be very contiderable ;
nevertheless a large deficit would remain onerou, upon the
It ,yel Commissioners. This Whet I am emboldened to
eolic.t poor lordship to meet by • parliamentary grant. And
thin solicitation I make the more readily from the belief that
fro3i the very fact of the ExhibitiJa • large addition
will accrue to the revenue of the country; an addition—it is
calculated upon trustworthy authority—ot upwards of two
millions. Now of these two millions how ants:l the item re.
quind to throw open the doors of the world'. Exhibition to
the world's ci;iZ no.
When the subject of the Exhibition wee brought before
parliament last year, it was very properly dealt with; tor
as everything was then in • state of uncertainty as to the
tuture, had government interfered, the whole mater must
have pseud into their own hands. The case at present is
entirely altered the building is nesrly finished, and will
ahoy ly be ready fur the reception of the world's wares—
and the great difficulty at this moment is to find space kr
the vat quantity of articles Ide.ly to be sew.
We have invited all the nations of the teeth to • friendly
competition of skill; to this invitation many bare heartily
resporded. We have also invited the whole family of man
to come and participate in the first banyan the world
bat ever dedicated to peaceful industry and intellectual
triumphs. An event to pregnant with high and humaWring
good to all mankind should be informed with the mat
liberal—with a purely cosmopolitan spirit.. If it be other-
wise—it at the very threshold of the building dedicated to
this industrial banquet, a tax he laid upon Ones who would
partake of its beneficial influence—a buoy:wt, moreover, to
which thousand. of the payen hove contributed—the whole
peep.' of the Exhibition will forego a preee which other-
wise wonld endow it with • crowniue lustre.
Several foreign governments have voted considerable sums
to Bid their people in the object of the Exhibition; and I
leceT !het i^ v:aes and Germany the idea of pay-
• ..s
meat (for foreigners are especially accustoMed iss '•eou•
entry into all national buildings) has been caninued in
'pita which, as an Englishman, I feel to be a reproach to
my country. It is this reproach, my lord, that I beg of you,
by the consent of parliament, to put away front us.
But not alone for the stranger do I sel for free admission.
lash it tor the large body of our own working classes; fur those
men whose skill, whose industry, will, I doubt not, be tri
umphantly represented at the forthcoming congress of labour.
Thousands of these men—the sinews of the laud—are at this
hour depriving thews:vet of many little household com-
forts to enable them to visit London; aid the inevitable cost
of auch a visit should not be increased by a further tax.
Therefore, I ask for the workiog.men of England • tree
entry into the structure dedicated to the world's industry—
free as the light that pervades it.
Agein, such will be the magnitude of the Exhibition.
that no one, two, or three visits will suffice to the know-
ledge of ite manifold object,. This will be made sufficiently
obvious, when it is known that to make merely the circuit
of the tables will be to make &journey of no less ttan 20
miles. Hence, with paid admission, the visitor will be
tempted to spend a day when otherwise he would, at earieus
visits, occupy but • few hews. There wool', is the
gestalten' admission, he a flowing vetoers of p if I
may um IV lime; erh, Iwo, with mit:. d psymmit, tisitar.
will became Is:tares from morning till niunt.
I inlets', my lord, dilate upon this subject; but I hope
that I have and tuffici at to obtain of your I,res'ip •
p .:tiotie octet& ratiog of ,he qu:stioi.— Shall the Exhihitic.•
of the World's Industry be free to those whom E..gl,nd
invitee to meet in generous rivalry ; or, shall we send forth
invitations, and then tar our guests ?
I have the honour to remain your lordalsiii's obedient,

humble serint •
JOSEPH
PAXTON.
Exhibition Building% Hyde park. Jan. 22, 15H.
Mr. Sidney ham written the following answer to
Mr. Pszton'e suggestions: