The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

FROM PLYMOUTH,

Sir William Snow Harrisailighting 'operetta•. Mr.
Ilearder—Electric sporratue. Mr. °Eland—lmproved mode
of rectifying swear. Mr Stuart—Model of the Plymouth
Breakwater. Wilhelm Moors—A trawl slog), &c. A lain
of illustrations of 1,5 dressing. A seri-t of productions o'
Dar,azoor peat. Improvement' in the manufacture of
alkali. Specimens of the limestones and madrepores of the
neighbourhood.
box SOUTH ViPTON.

The Mayor—A speet--7tuen of '''''''''''''''' A net►
surgical apparatus for setting fractures. A pigment for pre-
ve,.tinst fouling on ships, &c. Three inventions in naval
mechanism. A specimen of graining, varnishing, and
painting. A group of figures in marble.

FROM YARMOUTH.

The following article- may be expected from this town:-
1 ARrapnel shot for assisting life boats through serf. 2.
Model of improv I life boat and carriage. 3 Model of aa
improved coffer dem. 4. Model of improved paddle wheel,
for steamers. 5. Model of machirery for working ship's
rigging. 6 Improved net for keepinT fish alive. 7. Is.
proves, nt in sun pictures. 8. Specimen of en improved
filter. 0. Model of a condensing beam engine nn a small
seal*. 10 A frame sed cord for saving life from shipwreck.
11. Model of a life boat and carriage (from Captain Manby)
12. An improved truss for hernia. 13. A masticeting knife
toe thou who have loet their teeth. 14. An Improved fire
hearth for ships. 15 An improved knock-, and Utter plate
fnr doors. 16. A pair of summer skates for turapike roads.
17. An impnvei door futuer.

FROM WARIXAM.

Joseph Weld, EA.—Model of a 12-gea brig. Speci mons
of stone, marble, clay, straw, and barons.

WHAT IS COMING FROM GERMANY.

COLOGNE. JAN. b.
The approaching exhibition of the industry of all
ratios, has excited feelings of national emulation among the
German states to • much greater extent than could, under
existing circumstances, have been well expected. A late
visit to E,berfeld and Barmen—Maachester on a small
Kale—has convinced me of this. In the Rhine provinces
and Westphalia, of which these overgrown f story villages
are among the principal manufacturing marts, there are no
less at present than 439 exhibitors, and a considerable
addition may be yet made to this number. Yet, from what
I can learn, litt!ii or no pri.fli is expec,ed to result, from the
great expense of sending specimens of industrial skill from
this country to England. The fear, indeed, of incurring
loss thereby prevents many houses who might well run the
risk from taking any part in the enterprise. Very many
more, however, Sr. prevented from doing so by another
cause, viz., the regulation laid down by the London commis-
sioners, that prices shell not be affixed to the lintel(' exel
hihited. This regulation is almost universally very bitterly
complained of in this country. It is attributed to jealousy
on the part of English vendors, and has here • very bid
effect, not only with reference to the exhibition, but more I
generally being regarded es a proof that England dreads fair
competition. I will offer no opinion with respect to the jus-
ticeof this conclusion, but will at once proceed to communi•
cats to you from various authorised sources—chiefly from
the German commissioner at Dusseldorf, Dr. Mul-
man the principal articles which from the E
ill-
vereie states of Germany will figure in our exhibition.
A depot for their reception has been formed at Dusseldorf,
whence in due time they will be forwarded to London.

Within the boundaries of the ZAlverein, the state

authorities, societies of arts and indostry, and especially
commissioners appointed for the purpose, have adopted
means to encourage and facilitate t►e participation of Ger
many en our great enterprise. According to the 70th
resolution of the London committee, objects of foreign menu
facture and industry can only be exhibited with the consent
of the chief authority of the country of which
they are the products. In accordance with this re-
gulation, commissioners have been appointed in Berlin,
in Munich, in Stutgart, in Dresden, in Bruns-
wick, Wisbacien, and Frankfort, for the collection
collocation and classification of such objects so individuals
may wish to exhibit. In the other Zoilverein states the
chambers of commerce or government authorities have un-
dertaken this preliminary work. These commissioners and
officials have received from artists, industrials, and other
producers up to the present time 1,572 accepted applications
to exhibit various articles. From the eastern provinces of
the Prussian states there are 455 applications, from the west
provinces of the same 439, and from the South German con-
federate states—Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Baden-197 ;
from the atatn of Central Germany—Saxony, B.unewick,
and the Thuringian and Anhalt provinces-330 ; and from
the states of West Germany—the two litters, Frankfort,
Luxembourg, Nassau, Berkenfeld, and the Principality of
Lippe-157.
I■ the following enumeration of these applications, the
same classification is generally followed as that which the
London committee have fixed on—that is, objects are c'eased
under the heads of raw meterirl, machinery, manufactures,
and work, of art.

The German Zollverein territory is one of the first coun-
tries la the world for the production of zinc. The most
coesiderable quantity of this important metal comes from
upper Silesia, and there n a good deal peculiar in the way
in which it is melted, cleaned, and prepared in that country.
The director of the works at Koeingshutte, in the district of
Benthen, will exhibit various specimens of red and white sine
under many different preparations. M. Brett and Cow•
psay, of Btolberg, will exhibit specimens of the Rhine
sine productions-, and those of Westphalia will be exhibited
by Mr. Joseph Cotack, of Arenberg. Of iron chiefly ex-
[ratted from the mountain districts of the Rhine, there will',
be many prepared specimens sent to londoo, especially by
the celebrated mineralogist Stablberge. Raw iron, iron in
bars, polished iron, and iron of every denominati.e, will be
abundantly exhibited from Bonn and Westphalia, In well ea
from the mere immediate iron districts. From the royal
foundries of Oleiwitz and blidepaue, from Freidstadt in
Saxony, and from the factory of Denturg, there will
also come numerous specimens of iron and bro.= work in
full completion, ouch as carriage axles, water tubes and
domestic utensils highly enamelled. From several other
Zollverein estates, especially from the duchy of Nassau, the
commissiosien have also respired promises of epeeist= on
which they think they can rely.
Lead ore, sheet lead, red lead, and ans'sony, the Anhalt
Duchy, and the Saxon-Pnanian province will supply,
through the mining company at Harturrode ; and articles
of the same denominatioa will also be exhibited from the
Rhine Provinces, and from Westphalia, by Count L'ppe
and Co., of Comern ; Brett and Co., of Stslberg;
Cossack, of Ramtbeck ; and Lambioen and Utrick of Bred.

Nem to iron, copper is the most imp srtaat metal of
Prussia, and of the Z,Alverein. Of this motel the United
Manifold Societies will send a sories of red plater, of send
ore, ands( all the intermediate productions tip to polished
coppor and German silver.

There will be a great display from tks Rhino province, I
awl from Westphalia, of chemical and miceral productions

and preparations, and el mineral colours: salmiatt, resat of
load, natroo, vitriol. ammoniac, chali, chloroform, saffron,
antickler, NOW salt., oxygen of tin arid of copper, Glaaber
salts, alum, magnesia, and other stsensioal preparaticms.
Germany is rich in earthen and glass wares: not to be
oompsred, as to porcelain, with France, but bearing a com-
parison with that and moat other countries in eartheaware
articles, from a tile to a vase of fine tranapariney. This
'artistic talent of Germans in this branch of industry is also
much vaunted. Ia Constantinople they ere employed both
as directors and oparatives by the Sultan in his raw porce-
lain manufactory. In our Exhibition their ornamental china
' will chiefly appear. Count Frankenberg, of Tillowila, in
Upper Silesia, will exhibit specimens of vues, figures, and
ornaments of various kinds in this ware ; also tables of the
same, inlaid with mosaic work, which it is said will much
ram the reputation of Germany in this department of
industrial ari,

Thai most important branch, however, of this manufac-
ture, consists in the household utensils end vessels it fur-
nishes for the commcn use of the people; and very cheap
and handsome specimens of these will he aunt to London
from the house of Altmann, in Brun:len, which city hu an
angina moors for the fabrication of articles of this son.
Pam Pros Wart, alma, artsies of the was description will be
seat ; and from Bavaria, from the factory of Anthony Girls,
at Oberback, will be exhibited various specimens of jugs—
that bring the speciality for which Baroria, in this line, is
celebrated. Another speciality—the saucepan—composed of
the finest clay and stone, wil: be furnished by Mil:mann, of
Cologne.
In the glass manufacture Germany is somewhat behind,
yet specimens will be sent of this article to London by no list
than 8 exhibitors Irons Writ Prussia, from the Rhine Pro-
Timms, and from Brunswick ; and two of the exhibitors will
be counts—Count Schaffgotz:h and Count Solms of Bunth.
In Germany porcelain was first manufactured. It baslost in
this manulactare much of its ancient renown; yet, from the
factory of Meissen, in Thuringia, from the royal factory of
Berlin, and from the house of Humbug. at Gotha, will I e
exhibited articles of this ware, which the manufacturers
smut they shall not be ashamed to see by the side of thaw
of Sims at sun exhibition.

There will be no inconviderable display there from this
country of stone and stone work, (rum marbles to agates.
Block marble, polished marble, marble in mosaics for floors
slabs, sculptors devices in marble, marble chimney-pieces,,
&c, will be sent chiefly from Frankfor, Cologne, and
Coblentz. Granite basins, millstones, precious stones, agates,
&e., will be exhibited from various houses in tdrlin, Ander.
neck, Hirschberg, and Berkenfeld. Meerschaum and articles
wrought therefrom will be sent from Thuringia and Lippe,-
chen ; and Pomerania and D will supply specimens of
amber, wrought and unwrougbt.
Wish respect to vegetable articles and articles of food,
Munich and Berlin will furnish many kinds of grain, meal,
'rid vermicelli. Ries will be sent from Little Schwerin in
Lower Sile,ie ; potato flour and starch. prepared in various
ways, from Bonn, Bingen, and Lubeck, in Westphalia; ship
biscuits, chicory. chocrlate, c..ffee, and coos, from Dann.
stedi, Dresden, Brunswiri, and Berlin; sugar and syrup,
from Magdeburg; mustard, from Erfurth and Dusseldorf ;
dried fruity, preserves, and sweetmeats, from Berlin and
Brunswick ; specimen., of wine in bottles, especially foaming
and sparkling wine, frem Wart zhurg and C ablest, ; and the
essence of punch end kirchwasser, from Mayence.
Drues, perfumery, ant colours, will be abundantly nx•
hibited. All sorts of water", with eau de Cologne at their
head, will come chiefly from C,..l9gne and Dusseldorf.
But the chief product sent forth from this country will
und..ubtediy be wool. Che 'avereth territory is many
localities is me of the first in the world for fine sheep's wool.
Since the middle of the last century it has been celebrated
ha this production, and of late years great efforts have been
successfully made to improve the breed and education of the
sheep with a view to the improvement of their fleeces. Of
this article there will be many eabibi!ors from Silesia,
four; from the Grand Booby of Bann, four; from Prussia
and Pomerania, three; from Brandenburg, five; and from
S exony, one. The principal exhibit,re, it is thought, will
be, Baron von Ziegler, of Danbrau, Silesia; and Preiheer
von Rothschild, of Oderberg.
My infcrmation on the subject of this communication is
not complete, but I send you all I have been able to obtain.