The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-07 00:00:00

OaNTEN'TS OF THE WAS PALACE.

The daguerreotype in its different branded b re-
invented in the upper gallery of the wedunddebion
of the Great ExkliMes. Then are to labia the
dabbed plates, and the nieldielem kil=t
robs and sad elsseeleal teal whet every day boil to
facilitate its idles. edged Ile ernma, aid redo* the
abh ef Mari be sees beemene, we hawsbeem
; b that be one his eseiedy been
illitin furthering the sr% chili it embed
at tlestined to be a eatable andliary. When
Mr. Arego first announced SIN indiest discovery,
tiereganiell it with the us that its ova.
wall extend as far as delbesting the ad.
ailed henbane of Thebes, Mearghiso and Lady
Ala . ay, dpwards of deem years
Arsebleroglyphice have net mods *dr
I=e. The tact being, that in a ids-
mini& as to the relative sweet
still sml weelhus henries for alb et
Ace egesereotnet It wee soon dissevers& the
iheese-il Incouse skies of the must ameba nest
ed Ike light, which is more abundantly
In our cloed and less favoured climes. ;Mt
eq, after this, that in this respect England is
budaned by far the most favourable spot
hl which the peculiar excellencies of the
*digraphic processes can be demonstrated.,
To have done at once with remonstrance, it is u
well line to lament that the opportunity now offered
time of filly rooogaisag the daises of
2W°rNiepce to a large share in the discovery'
usot have been seized. No one will grudge
Mr. Daguerre the distinction of having the inscrip-
tion, " inventor of the art," labelled to his portrait ;
though the name would, perhaps, more correctly
apply to him, who, by wearisome experiments,
brought the art to the verge of discovery by which
another profited.
Twenty years after Niepce but without the least
intimation, of course, of his discovery, Mr. Fox Tal-
bot found the means of fixing by mechanical means
the pictures reflected in the camera. It has been
said that Talbotypes, Calotypes, photographs--xll
different designations of the same thing—were de-
stined finally to supersede the Daguerreotypes:
there is, however, little reason now afforded to be-
lieve this the cane ; on the contrary, they seem
marked for different purposes the ono for
faithful and trustworthy delineations of the coun-
tenance; the other seems destined more particularly
for architectural and botanical purposes...wherever,
in fact, minute intricacies of form are to be rendered,
the power of the paper photograph is unapproach-
able, and with its aid obstacles are surmounted with
comparative ease which formerly would have defied
the utmost patience and skill. As an instance may
be cited the intention of the spirited proprietors of
the Illustrated London News to publish a monster
panorama of the interior of the Exhibition; far which
purpose Mr. Beard may be seen at work everymorn-
ing from an early hour, when silence and quiet as
yet reign in the interior of the Crystal Palace.
There was a time when people described sit-
ting for their portraits as almost an act of heroism—
when
they surrendered themselves to the mercy of
the Daguerreotype operator; when it was necessary
to face the sun's glare without blinking ; when it
was considered a high misdemeanour to move a
single hair-breadth, for an unlimited amount of time,
with the contingencies awaiting his complaisant en-
durance, of finding the delineator utterly dejected at
his partial success. All these are mere reminiscences
of the past, and mainly owing to the successful exer
tions of Mr. Claudet in discovering the accelerating
processes. His plates proclaim the superiority of the
appliances he is so justly proud of. Here the appa-
ratus is adapted for all sorts of object glasses, whe-
ther with short or long focus, simple or combined;
and are thus rendered capable of adaptation to the
increasing facilities of operating, and especially
the improved lenses continually introduced.
By this means, Mr. Claudet seems to vary his
sizes either at the caprice or according to the capa-
cities of the sitter; thus we have a striking likeness
of M. Guizot in small dimensions, whilst the noble ARTICLES IN PAPIER MACHE.
countenance and figure of Alboni are enlarged in pro-
portion. As we look at the array of these portraits, It has often been said to our tourists who rush
we fancy they are not so much spmking as listening annually across the channel, and up the Rhine, and down
likenesses; whether caused by the anxious desire to all sorts of out-of-the-way places, that if they would only
hear the great organ close by, which never will begin by exploring the natural branches of their own
gig, or to the pleasant tunes of fifty pianos which island, they would there find quite as much gratification,
*e:hiving to make up together the deficiency, it at one-fourth the expense, and one-twentieth part the labou
would be rash to determine. and fatigue. A remark somewhat similar will apply to
In close conuexion with the works of Mr. Claudet, the visitors at the Great Exhibition. They all rush simul-
are exposed in neat order the chemical taneously down the foreign end of the nave in search of the
combinations, which are principally used on pho- beautiful, forgetting, or, perhaps, not expecting, that there
togmphic plates : they are exhibited by G. Knight are in the British department objects of the most varied de-
and Sons, of Foster-lane. First is noticed, because scription, and quite as worthy of inspection as the contri-
the latest introduced, that which is labelled " collo- Wiens of our continental neighbours. Among there
dims," a solution of gun-cotton and ether, when this the various articles in papier mdche hold a deservedly high
fluid is used, the plate seems to contain two different plane. This beautiful and plastic substance is, ants name
images, and when reversed, the lights are changed imports, formed from the humblest possible materials
as is the case in damask cloths. Next is the chloride of Until of late years, soups of paper, the refuse of the count-
gold, first invented by Fizeau, for which Mr. Beard big-house and the shop, were alone used, and being beaten
wishes to substitute the enamelling process, thereby into a pulp, were formed into those pretty little tabalieres
enabling the plate to be washed without risk, which the French, the original discoverers of the art, sent
Bromine, iodine, and cyanide-potassium, and other over as the only fruits of their invention. Some years
chemical mixtures are exhibited. since, however, England adopted the manufacture, and, as
Mr. Kilburn, Mr. Mayall, and Mr. Beard, have all in the case of many of the useful and ornamental arts which
given their sanction to the fashion of colouring the we have borrowed from our neighbours, has so far *nip d
Daguerreotype, against which heresy all remon-
u n her teachers as to make the article applicable improve
:trancehas hitherto failed, from the pardonable de. sc
. . .
almost infinite variety of purposes, and sueptible of an
sire to enliven that which must ever remain sombre.
amount of ornament, both in form and superficial decor
Mr. Mayall also exhibits a group of "Bacchus bon, which the al abr. ans never contemplated. Rear-
and Ariadne," said to be the largest photograph .
great improvemaerignt,tandf the 'Le of which she alone under-
ever executed; it is remarkable, perhaps less
hands the management, is a total change in the preparation
for the purity of its lines than for the novel darken-
of the raw material. Instead of scraps of paper collected in-
ing of the ground.work, which is subsequently added
discriminately and beatenlinto a pulp, to be subsequently
by a process which remains a secret. In some groug
of children, Mr. Mayall has made such success moulded into the desired form, a peculiar paper is now
arrangement* of composition as to entitle him to the manufactured for the purpose, and being laid sheet over
honours of the true artist. Messrs. Henneman and sheet to the desired thickness is then stamped into shape, to
Malone, of Regent-street, exhibit Talbot}' be subsequently varnished and painted. This is the
pes tinted method practised at Birmingham, now the head-
by means of caustic potash and a lead salt; also
specimens of Sir J. Herschelrs cyanotype and chry- quarters of the art. The number of specimens at
sotype, Hunt's chromatype, &c. the Exhibition is not very great, but quite sat
Cwe are to judge by the numerous examples of dent to show the elegant capabilities of the ma-
-1
teriaL and the native power of competing with fo-
the art sent over from America, it seems that the
feigner' in beauty of design and artistic decoration. Mew*
" pencil of nature" is just as popular across the At-
lantic RS it is with us. It can scarcely be said, how- Jennens and Betbridge, of London and Birmingham, have
ever, that the average amount of character they ex-
the largest display, and show great taste in the adaptation
hibit is not precisely of that kind one would wish of some of the most graceful of nature's forms to the per-
perpetuated, and our Exhibition walls are plainly poses of practical utility. The shell of the nautilus forms
distanced. Mr. Brady, whose lithographic portraits the body of the Victoria Begin Cot, a perfect temptation to
are favourably known, has brought over the originals " pawns about to marry." Nothing can be more beautiful
from which they were taken in the first instance; in form, or more chaste in decoration. We hold that i
Calhoun, Taylor, and Case, Jenny Lind, and Tom would be quite impossible for even the most obdurate baby
Thentb, show the wide-spread demand for celebri- (and there arc some Turks) to squall in such a little oscil-
*A There are some pleasant family pictures, ems. lating paradise. The oriental reposing chair is a gorgeous
het la their was, k is " Ostade transported from adaptation of the form popularly known ea the American
lamb be le Broadway." By the Hyalotype pro. rocking chair, but without the rocking power which is
see ohm hr the magic lantern or dissolving so essential to Brother Jonathan's notions of repose. The
elem. whin have hitherto been clumsily done by beck turns over at the top in the form of a canopy, upon
hisg, coos be executed faithfully in all their details which the capabilities of papier macho for ornament are
as the idistograph from which they are taken. displayed in elaborate gilding and colouring. The seat and
It h a remarkable circumstance, that whilst back are lined with crimson velvet, matting it altogether
we show a decided preference for the daguerreotype, the very beau ideal of oriental repose and luxury. " The
far the invention of which we are indebted Day Dreamer's" chair is of the same family, and quite as
ale Ole Preach, they in their turn seem to leave it worthy of commendation. There is also a Sheireptanis chair,
1119 he fate and to choose the Talbotype in its stead. quite as authentic and much more bewail than meat of
2111 admirable qualities of tone, texture, and exqui- the Stratford-upon Avon relics; but judisseseipsh es to
dile finish are admirably brought to the test in the observe that the portrait of the bard is dr back h net
to be found in the Fine Arts Court, exhi- quit a facsimile of the amides. A beeelltal
11017Nr. D. 0. Hill, of Edinburgh, the views of cottage piano, inlaid with mother-o'-peari,
whisk se well as the fisher-women and men of New- Sees the more important portion of News. hamar,
haves. ire s instances of the truth of the contributions, the remainder consisting of work-tablese
The Council of Chairmen of Juries or the Royal &wok miss, d•
g, with its broad manes of chess-tables, secretaires, and other articles, with which the
Camirlis seer the Promotion of die Exhibition of the
ash for rich browns. The pro- public are already familiar in papier /Mehl, the only
Wolin et Jadlostry of All Nanam, lad a sainting at en
imam= Desibig mood". ?most :—ciag. Kr. OMB et thet4elegraphie art are sod= well novelty being the adoption of a sew rooms milled gem-
Iffilleril DAL 6 (a% Earl Jersey. I. General Peenelet. known that scarce need being here. enamelling in the decorations, by which the lids, etc., are
h iesurvit Breiii. 8. Baron DaPid• 81r David Sulam it to say that the negative,m which the lights made to appear as if inlaid with pearls, emeralds, and
. 10 (111). ar 11. B. BiamT: 11. Mr. Phillip and shadows are precisely the reverse of what they rabies. This has a mbar brilliant ellhst, hat we babe
Fib" for air sus Andrews 12. awe von Henuaaa.
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is placed directly on the side of another whether an adherence to the pm* el dhesullee */sat
lft 18. Mx G. T. 14. Gaud van Barrack . 15. M. J.
may, hrire To, nospergen. 16. Hes. Coy sheet of paper, which has been brushed over would not MOM advance the bib if sets were 111 bar-
Anna. le. Mr. Hilary Tether. 19. Professor Bailey. with a solution of nitrate, receive the positive. monised mess teantindly with de =We of islslmltL
IL Ilse. Name On*. 23. Dec b Lvesse- 25 Dl** Plates of glass are interposed to remedy extreme Clay and Co., Hiarizeet, Caveat Garden, embilbees
it 1111 Bower. a. Pistrucei shades. While some laud the important point of thus toilette table in the Loafs Quince style, ef ilia tie
11. Viessia ambig. SO. Harr van Viscount .
Omni. essiona "bar. Dr. Lyon nays* ma Lent. ouvinttng tae expense of the metallic plate, others principal beauty lies is the ins, the iseends•
Wel meg usallase. Biagio oat merits ot ea artistic order. To all they beteg fez hen debate*. Sew reseal hutoestioss

FOR THE WEEK ENDING
SATURDAY, JUNE 7.

THE VISITORS TO THE GLASS PALACE.
Visitors have been directed to examine the Exhi-
bition with various objects. On the one hand, they
halm beet told that the great bazaar is simply to be
illitsilin a picturesque light; on the other hand,
lmen maintained that a fund of knowledge
awl& In sabered within Mr. Paxtoe's glass house.
Cis an& hum the industrial history of the world,
mid= the enthusiastic advocate of education: go,
MIN yourselves and gratify the eye, exclaim those
imilviduals who regard the matter merely as an
wenn for holiday mabieg. And the constant
/*hoc will soot rem* that these two direc-
tions me fully .'cried oat—that the visitors to the
Reibibition divide thesamares into two distinct close's,
gir..--thoes who go to learn and those who go
is MOPS 6sesegvas or, in other words, to
*dr sudaity. Oa tin Wiling days, when the
warm I • meet Waal. Oleo two dams an par,
tozre broadly meritad than on the "select" co-
And ink 4 **serious classes, who endes-
wow to beam somethp in the brain.
These are of all es of society. Mark them
well. They linger or half-an-hour over the cotton
machinery, ppeeeeriring into its mysteries with anxious
eyes—rcgardkas of the crowds about them—wholly
wrapped up in the complication of iron moving har-
moniously and with a purpose before them. Of these
the smart mechanic is a prominent specimen. Ile
notes every point—talks excitedly to his comrades,
and begins, as he discovers new improvements for the
economy of handicraft, to speculate upon the ulti-
mate effect machinery will have upon him and his.
Poor man, he does not see the end of it. He is lost
in doubt. Sadly ho dreams of a time when patent
engines will do all—when the labour of human
hands will be worthless, andeteam will have the lordly
rule everywhere. Not yet can ho comprehend the
great blessing that is to further free mankind from
the bondage of the animal, and give to all more lei-
sure for the practice of that intellectual labour which
is beyond the creations of Brunel and Jacquard. Ile
panes on. His eye glows before the varnished
looms of Ilarrison and others. His keen sense of
the ingenious is quickened before the working
models of collieries—the quarrying machinery
—the printing machinery. He posses from
one wonder to another, heedless of his neigh-
bours— bent only upon seeing all the won-
ders of which he has read for months past, that
he may explain them to friends at home. You hear
him telling to a friend he has just met the prodi-
gious labour be has performed--how he has been in-
cessantly on his legs since the morning—how he was
at the doors before they were open—and how he has
planned the rest of the day.
Idlers lounge about the transept--and feast at the
refreshment stalls, but the mechanic hi a a determina-
tion to see and understand everything. He examines
the fabrics with a knowing look—he stands proudly
by while the skilled weaver, surrounded by, a dense
throng of visitors, works at his loom—he asks shrewd I
questions of the attendants, and at intervals, when he '
is particularly pleased, makes notes of his impressions. '
Hi will assuredly carry away with him a lesson that
will bearita fruit of good to him for life. He will hence-
forth have an enlarged view of the industrial scheme.
His class prejudices may suffer abatement. Near
him stands another student, often; one whom ho '
hes been ignorantly and mischievously taught to
regard as his enemy—the manufacturer. This visitor
pursues his labours quietly, and without any ebulli-
tions of excitement. He is severely critical. 'Anxious
to find anything superior to things within his expe-
rience, that he may shape his course according to
their promise, he is yet loth to acknowledge supe-
riority in strange quarters. He moves about very
seriously. At times he sits down to pore over the
catalogue. Then he starts up to find some novelty.
The Exhibition is to him truly a great study.
In his vicinity strange foreigners arc grouped,
engaged in earnest conversation. They are
fiery, restless running here and there to take in
everything at a glance. They contrast oddly enough
with the sedate Englishman. Yet they are on a
grave mission. It is their business to report to their
country the condition of foreign industries as re-
vealed in the Great Exhibition. How lightly is the
responsibility borne ! It is a mere jest, to be done
with cheerfulness Yet it will be intelligently per-
formed—couched in familiar phrases, but conveying
shrewd conjectures and much artistic culture.
Nut far off stands the grave professor—his finger
pressed to his lips, his eye netted, his expression ab
stracted. Not a crank of the engine escapes him.
Every cog-wheel is understood; every bend, every
movement has, to him, its evident use. It is given
to him to analyse the web of cranks and
wheels—to reject the clumsy' and :detect improve-
ments. lie carriesa substantial note-book with him,
and the merely curious crowd about him look at him
with wonder. They are at a loss to understand his
mission, or what he finds to write about in the me-
chanism before him.
These serious visitors, however, do not comprehend
the majority of those who pay their money at the
doors; comparatively few go
.with the pre-determi-
nation to take lessons in the industry of the world.
They are attracted thither as they are allured to
other exhibitions which have awakened their curio-
sity. They are told that it is something of which
they can form no conception—a page from the
Arabian Nights—a fairy dream—something to re-
member to their dying day—and so on. Yet it
would he bold to assert that even the lightest sad
most frivolous of the visitors—of those who go
laughing through the gorgeous avenues, elbowing
their neighbours and feasting in every court—it
would be bold to assert that even these will not re-
tain general impressions of beauty, more potent
perhaps for good purposes, than the superficial are
willing to allow.
It is further to be remarked that vast numbers of
quaker. (their formal costume contrasting strangely
with the gay colours of the general visitors) have
visited the Exhibition. They are to be seen daily
in large bands making their way through the narrow
punages, and going through the labour of examina-
tion with dauntless pertinacity. They &peer
to excite great curiosity among the femignere,
who are at a loss how to class them, or to
account for dresses so at variance with the ge-
neral fashions of the English people. Not less no-
ticeable than the studious and other visitors, are the
dandies who congregate daily in the vicinity of the
great glass fountain, having for the time deserted
ent-street for the larger public to be found in the
World's Bazaar. Of the ladies it is particularly.to
be remarked that they study the artificial Bowers in-
tensely, cluster thickly about the cases of shawls
and dolls, and have a prodigious estimate of the gal-
lantry of the exhibitors who have set Eau de Co-
logne and other scented fountains at .work for their

However great the reputation of our continental
atiukbean is eanamental art generally, in the application
et that art to the manufacture of metallic geode England
holds by no means an unimportant position, so far as
the exposition in Hyde-park affords the opportunity of
judging. These wbo have visited the great aides of 005•
tinental Europe, and bare observed bow is gamest all arti-
cles of domestic use beauty of design is made to blend with
utility of purpose—and in none more so than in chandeliers
and other media for the distribution of artificial light—
might bare expected that in this breach of ituinetry we
should lays bees left far behbidhand ; Ittt so ter Mathis
being the caw England bolds the first place is the
great competition. Of our lamp makers those of Bir-
mingham decidedly stand first, and their contributions
afford a pleasing evidence of the rapid progress which

our manufacturers have made of late peers, com-
paratively, in the art of designing.—Winfield, et
Birmingham, exhibits several ♦ery beautiful chandeliers,
for gas, in metal, glass, and porcelain, in which figures,
animals, and flowers, are harmoniously grouped. Them
are some pretty standard lights by the same maker imitat-
ing poppies, lilies, and other flowers, the cups being of glass
or porcelain appropriately coloured, the leaves of meW.
The Dorothea, in Parian marble, supported on leaves
of the trumpet lily, the blossoms drooping over
the head of the figure, forms a group for •
tasteful three-light branch lamp. By a notification
attached it appears that her Majesty has patronised this
design. Potts, of Birmingham, have several handsome
Grecian hanging lamps, one in the arabesque style, which
is peculiarly light and elegant, and in which cranes in full
Right, arranged in a novel and effective manner, form the
branches., together with several pedestal candelabra in
bronze and ormolu, all meritorious. Amongst the other ex-
hibitors in this branch of art are Messengers, of Birmingham,
Salt and Lloyd, also of Birmingham, the latter of whom have a
hanging lamp for six gas or oil lights, the body and stem of
porcelain, enamelled in gold, ornamented with bronze and
ormolu foliage and medallions, with figures in high relief.
There is another chandelier by the same makers, the bronze
branches of which form vine stems, as natural and fantastic
in their growth as though moulded from the tree itself.
These stems are clothed in foliage, and relieved by golden
fruit, the body and upper part being composed of
transparent ruby-eolonred glass. The general eff,ci
of this design is original and quaint, and, at the
tame time, pleasing. These articles were designed and ma-
nufactured by Messrs. Gray, Martin, and Gray, of 14, Gough
Square, and of Birmingham. Gray, of Birmingham, and
Deane, of London-bridge, likewise show some creditable spe-
cimens : the latter exhibits a small gas chandelier, which has
been selected by the Prince of Prussia. Messrs. Sousse
(Brothers), Marchont, Laguire, and several other Pari-
sian makers, display a number of metal candelabra and
lamps of various descriptions, in which gorgeousness of
gilding and colour are the chief characteristics. In front of
the Russian compartment arc a pair of rich and massive
candelabra in gold, supported on tripod pedestals, the body
of the columns being composed of China jars and other
ornaments, mounted with gilt figures carrying the branches,
which are either for candles or lamps. Corneille and Co.,
of Philadelphia, have a pair of richly-ornamented chande-
liers, and a number of table lamps; the latter remarkable
rather for their utility than their beauty.