The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-29 00:00:00

CAN IT BE TRUE?

A report has got about town with regard to the
United Service Club, which we sincerely hope will receive
the earliest possible contradiction. Two foreign men-of-
war have arrived in our part, freighted with articles for the
(heat Exhibition—the one is the St. Lawrence, from the
United States, the other the Sarlinian ship, the Governolo.
Now, it is customary, we understand, with the United Ser-
vice Club to admit foreign naval officers of a certain
rank upon service to the temporary use and enjoyment
of their club. A distinction, however, so it is said, is to be
made in this instance. The officers of these two ships are
to be excluded from the club 101.4104., regard being had to
the service on which they are employed, they can oily be
considered as merchantmen. We will not, of course, un-
dertake to guarantee the correctness of the report, and most
happy shall we be to open our columns to any authorised
contradiction of it. WI. will not, until further assurance,
believe that a body of English gentlemen email he guilty
of such an act of fatuous uhsurtlity—not to say of dis-
courtesy and ill brissling. Our own navy captains arc
right glad to get hold of a freight of treasure on
the South American station. It is matter of notoriety
that they spare no ext rtims to obtain so lucrative a pre-
rogatise, and yet they are to turn round mum the officers of
, foreign scrvicte, who are employed in carrying out a rem-
mission from their respective governments—a commission

to the full as respectable as tiring broadsides, or testing the
eumpamtive rates of ...tiling between the ships of an experi.
mental squadron !If this report he true—as we hope most
earnestly that it is nut—there will be ,nly one thing left to
wish fur, which will be that the members of the United
Service Chili may be ostracised in every gentleman's house
o London.—Tines.

ADDITIONAL LIST OF BRITISH EX.

HIBITORS.

Allen and Moore, Great Hampton-row, Birmingham. A
medal commemorative of, and intended to be shown at,
the Great Exhibitrun in London. The obverse displays a
head of Prince Albert, as the prime mover in the Exhi-
bition, and the reverse is divided between a view of the
building itself and an emblematical group of Britannia,
sceompunied by the representatives of the four quarters
of the globe, who arc uttering her the productions of their
various cornices, and revels ing laurel a reaths 111 return.
The group is completed by the introduction of the inven-
tions must significant of the istlvauced state of the arts and
sciences at the present day.
Cheek, William, Saffron V. olden. A central cabinet. This
article of furniture, hexagonal in form, and showing a
frontage from any point, is formed by an intersect' of
treats both t OtIVelL and el/U.11.. It to of a temple-like
appearance, surmounted by a dome, and the divisions of
the six fronts are formed by columns and pilasters.
Three of these faces or divisions are with open drawers
sad three enclosed with inlaid decors; the outsides of
these doors have a sunk panel, and an inlaid ivory raised
panel. It has 27 drawers of walnut tree, with antique
pendant solid silver handles, and the exterior is of ebony
and ivory. The outlay in its manufacture will he from
401. to 501, in the cornice there will be :4000 separate
pieces of wood, and about 20,000 pieces in the whole.
Carrick, Canterbury. Inlaid 100 tables. Upwards of one
hundred different kinds of wood, together with pieces of
ivory and tortoiseshell, &e., are here formed into a com-
pact and perfect whole. Mr. Carrick is, it stems, entirely
a self-taught mechanic, and the tools which he has used
for this wonderful work arc of the most primitive cha-
racter—a common pocket-knife, a brad awl, a watch-
spring saw, and a couple of jagged-edged table-knives,
comprise his whole stock of implements.
Clark, liolsert, Bunker's Bill. Fence houses. Model of
an improved coal drop. The improvement and increased
efficiency consists in the application of two large wheels,
and double breakers acting on them, attached to the up-
right shafting or suspension levers, gaining thereby in-
creased strength and steadiness, and also greater power
or control over this piece of mechanism.
Dickinson, James, Limehouse. Model of York Cathedral.
Dunn, Joseph, Ballston Durham. Model of a
railway for reversing locomotive engines, ike., to obviate
the use of turntables. A train of any length may be
turned by this iuvention, without disengaging the car-
riages, and with very little trouble.
Danuatt, James, Sunderland. A patent mangle. A pilot's
or seaman's life-preserving jacket. Inside the jacket are
bladder., which, on being filled with air, keep the body
from sinking in the water.
Ewan, T. and J.. Monkwearmoutli. A briektnaking
machine. One of these machines is capable of making
40 bricks per minute.
Edwards, James, Stourbridge. Two transparent orna-
mental table clocks. The works are a combination of
glass and brass. One of these time-pieces ra worked by
Mr. Edwards's newly-invented propeller (by which a
time-piece Call be kept in motion for the period of fifteen
months), and is constructed to act fur the space of three
months. The tither is a skeleton spring cluck, the largest
probably ever manufactured, and coustructed to go for
eight days.
Ettrick, Anthony, High Barnes, Sunderland. Improved
Travelling-bag, or Purtmanteau.—llogie, or Timber-lift-
ing Apparatus—The application of the screw is new. The
advantage gained by this machine is, a considerable
saving of time and labour in hoisting timber, without the
possibility of danger to the lives of any of the workmen,
requiring only two men to manage the largest sized bogie,
where sit or seven men were employed with the old
bogie. In descending a hill, it require. only a minute or
two to shift the chaiu to give greater weight before or
behind, so as to act as a drag.—Portable Punching,
Slotting, and Stamping Apparatus—The construction of
this is new. The screw, being all in one piece, does not
revolve, but is worked; it is fitted with five punching
and two cutting tools, one up and down be the collar to
which the handle is attached, with edges for cutting out
worth..• holes, the other tnr shaping or cutting devices in
iron, OT other metals. The advantage gained by this
apparatus is portability; the handle not rising or falling.
but always being the same height, no possibility of the
punches or cutters getting out of the perpendicular, so
that work can be done with great facility and correct-
ness. The cutters are made to revolve, and are fixed
by a set screw, AO that work can be cut at any
angle ; also requiring less power to work the apparatus.—
New Method of Launching a Long Boat from a Mer-
chant or other Vestal, without the assistance of the masts,
and by one man, or even a boy. Principally adapted for
Mil vessels- In eases of ships on fire, or foundering at
sea, where they have but few hands, and those men
nearly worn out by pumping or drawing water, they have
nut sufficient strength to launch the boat by the novel
method. Frequently the men are washed overboard, and
sometimes the masts are blown away, which renders it
perfectly impossible for them to launch the boat. The
boat can by this method be easily launched by ens tt a.
or even a boy, without the masts. It can easily be /e-
-moted by one person to the side of the vessel clear of the
hatchway. Transverse wheels are shipped, so that the
boat can be run fore or aft the vessel as required. The
bar over the hatchway of the vessel is easily removed, so
that only the two stanchions remain. The winch for
winding the rope is readily packed away in the boat when
not in use.
fewer, James, Woodbridge-road, Ipswich.—Specimen of
carving in stone on a chimney-piece.—The jambs repre-
sent Science and Wisdam, the former instructing Youth
how to conquer difficulties : the latter leading a young
girl to the contemplation of the beauties of civilised life;
these rest upon two semi-globes, upon which are
repre-
sented War and Discord cruised upon the earth.
exterior represent, the cereal sail Ikea prxhiets el the