The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

eharaeten of subjects, and not se int, second, and third in
degree for the same class of subjects.*
22, The council of chairmen must see that the awards of
the individual juries are in accordant* with the rules before
they are ronsidereil tins/.
23. Although the commissioners may be disposed, under
peculiar circumstances, as set forth in the wuler-mentioned
decisions, to consider the propriety of pecuniary grants to
individual exhibitors, they will only take such applications
into consideration ou the recommendation of the several
jurim, sanctioned by the council of chairmen.
21. As seine of the most important duties of the council
if chainurn are preliminary to the 'Micro of the juries,-
It
is si-isfr•tissy Amick asct sasslissik pePiou
the asses st-tbov Niel.", • The t 66044 the council
will therefore eammeesecia Mesday, the beet of May.
2.5. In order to represent the wishes of the COTIUTILIiCe.
'and to explain its rules, a nominee of the COlittla%lol2 will
attend the meetings of the council, and *id it in the trans-
action of business; but be will not possess a vote, or act as
a member of the council.
MOOS or Arent:erten ¶Ol Jrllolo.
• 26. Those towns which exhibit to considerable extent in
say of the classes will he invited to send a list of namei of
persons who would eMejently represent the knowledge of
the elan MA a jury.
27. It will he necessary to state, according to the demi-
led jury list, the sulxlivivions of the class with which the
person recommended is specially acquainted ; and all no-
asinations must he made in classes, awl not in the aggregate.
PI As it is necessary to reduce the lists to the standard
somber for each jury, the commission charges itself with

this duty.
'P. Thole persons who have been recommended as jurors,
' but who, from the small uumbers of the jury, are not placed
en it, may, on the application of a jury, be called in on spe-
cial occasions to give aid, under the title of associates, but
Without a vote.
moue OF seems-iris:a TORT.ION JURORS.
Note.—The derision, regarding foreign jurors ore delayed
• leatil the opinions of the agents of foreign commissions are
obtained on this subject. A meeting art these agents will
take place, and they will be request. 4 to give their opini-
OM Soto the proportions in whieh each nation ehnnld be
represented in the respective classes, and generally indicate
the principles of nomination must agreeable to the countries
which they represent.
118111:40 or JVRITII.
• 31. The jurors, on being appointed, will reef ive imme-
diate notice of appointment, and their names will be pub-
-32. The chairmen will he required to meet on Monday,
the litla May, at 10 o'clock.
33. The juries will meet for the transaction of business,
on Monday, the 13th May, at 10 o'clock.
34. Although it is imporaible to set apart special days in
which the jerk* alone can examine the article. exhibited,
• to the exclusion of the public, arrangements will he made
. to carry en these examinations with as little inconvenience
ea possible.
36. Jurors, immediately on their arrival in London, are
• requested to report themselves at the jury office, in the Ea-
hibition Building, where they will obtain their juror's
ticket, and receive all necessary information.
'the following decisions relative to prizes and
juries, already published, are repented for the pur-
pose of more detailed information :
IleaMojesty sCommitainncnhavehubundertheirconsider
Minn the subject et the prizes to be awarded to exh ibi tors,and
bus resolved to take immediate,: steps for having (3) medals
struck of various sizes and different designs, it being their
' opinion that this is the form in which it will, generally
speaking, be neat desirable that the rewards should be
trihuted. They have derided to select bronze for the ma-
teriel in which the medals are to he executed, considering
that mi tab to be better calculated than any other for the
drvrlopment of superior 'kill and ingenuity in the medallic
art, and at the MOW time the mutt likely to constitute a
lading memorial of the Exhibition.
With "gaol to the mode in which the prizes are to be
swayable, the Contmieeinners think it inexpedient to estab-
lish beforehand rules so precis as to fetter the discretiun at
the juries upon which the task will ultimately devolve. It
will Is' Sufficient for the present to indicate the general
principles to which it will probably be advisable to conform
la the award of prizes fur successful competition in the
several departments of the Exhibition.
In the department of raw materials and produce, far
instance. prizes will be awarded upon a consideration of the
value and importance of the article, and the superior ex-
celleure of the particular speeimeas exhibited: and is the
. ease of prepared materials, enming under this head at the
Exhibition, the juries will take into account the novelty
aad importance of the prepared product, and the superior
shill end ingenuity manifested in the process of preparation
In the department of Machinery, the prizes will be given
with reference to novelty in the invention, superiority in the
executim, increased efficiency, or increased economy, in
the use of the article exhibited. The importance, ion maid
or other point of view, of the purposes to which the article
is to he applied, will also he taken into consideration, as,
will also the amount of the diffieultiesurercume in bringing
She invention to perfective.
In the department nf Manufactures, those articles will
be re wailed which fulfil inthe highest degree the conditions
specified in the eectiiinal list, via.; Increased usefulitem,
each as permanency in dyes, improved forms and arrange-
ments in articles of utility, &c. Superior quality, or superior
skill in workmanehip. New use of known materials. Vse
of new materials. New cemiliinations of materiala, se in
metals and pottery. Beauty of design in form, or colour, or
truth, with reference to utility. Chi:amuse, relatively to ex-
oelknee of production.
In the department of sculpture, model_ and the plastic
art, the rewards will have reference to the beauty and ori-
ginality of the specimens exhibited, to improvements in the
protegees of production, to the application of art tu
and, in the rase of models, to the interest attaching
to the subject they represent.
These general indiestiong are in/Beirut to show that it is
the wash of the Commissioner., as far as puible, to reward
all articles in any department of the Exhibition which may
" appear to e•amipetent Judie-, to pose's any decided supe-
rowdy. of whatever nature that superiority may be. It is
the mention nf the Commissioners to reward ezeellesee
in whatever faired it is pre...sited, and not to give iuduce-
went* to the dedinetions of a merely individual competition.
Although the Commiseioners have determined on having
three a...lab of diffe•rent sizes and designs, they do not pro-
mo, to instruct the juries to award them as first, woad,
and third in degree fur the same clam of subjects. They do
tot wish to trammel theuries by any previa: limitation;
but the consider that the juries will rather view the three
kinds of medals as a means "(appreciating and distiuguish-
Mg the respective characters of the subjects to be rewarded,
and not of making distinctive marks in the same class of
articles exhibited. 'they fully recognise that excellence is
production is not only to he looked fur in high-priced goods,
an which much twit of labour and skill hue been employed,
but they encourage the exhibitien of low-priced (aline;
when combining quality with townies of price, or with
novelty of production. They ran readily conceive that
juries will he justified in Riving the maw clam medal to the
cheapest calico print, made fur the Brazilian or other South
Asuman market, as they would to the finest piece of
sainureliur de elle or mousseline de laine, if each puserosed
ezeellence of it+ own kind.

• Lastly, the Commis-Wooers in announcing their intim-
' Sea of giving medal prizes, do not propose altogether to ex-
doily pecuniary grime. either as prizes for suiressful cum-
. petition, or as awards under special circumstances, &Toni-
..pinying, and in addition to the honorary distinction of the
pnallwl. There mat he Cacti in which, on account of the
iiimilaion of life or the successful competitor (ae, for in-
M•wee, in the case of workmen), the grant of a sum of
nwiney may hr the must appropriate reward of superior ex-'
• 'eelleoce ; and there may be other cases of a special and'
exceptional a dun,. in which, from a consideration of the
expense incurred in the preparation or transmission of a
particular article eutitled to a prise, combined with a due
regard to the condition and pecuniary circumstances of the
party exhibiting, a special grant may with propriety be
lidded to the houorary distinction. The Coestuiwaoners are
app prepared, for the present at least, to establish any repro-
lotions on these herds. They consider it probable that a
wide discretion roust br left to the juries to be hereafter ap-
pointed in mapsM to the award of money prizes, or the
grant of money in aid of honorary distinctions; it being
nisdendood that such di-enlion is to be exercised coder the
maperintendence and control of the Commission.

Tnr LADIES CoNTRIBUTION TO TIIE INDUSTRIAL I
EiltilwrirM or THRlViiittm.—Some time since, se we have
already explained, • few ladies thought proper to execute a
carpet in needlework, so a specimen of the profitable em-
ployment of their leisure hours. They hare been assisted
in their labours by a snail committee of gentlemen, who,
with Mr. Papworth, the architect, produced • most beauti- I,
ful design. The carpet wax exhibited last week at the
i
rooms of the Society of Arts, when the ladles who had
as* ridded to inspect the work unanimously pronounced it
to be worthy of presentation to her Majesty. Mr. Francis
Fuller, the chairman of the committee, was therefore de-
pined to leant her Majesty's pleasure on the subject, and
the molt was that on Wednesday he had the honour of
iatroducing the Mi... Lawrence, Marshall, Cubitt, !
son, Witten, and Fuller, being a deputation films 1
the Lady esecutante to her Majesty, to whom the carpet ;
was presented, and the following address read by Miss
Lee react., who was eeteeted by ths deputation to till this
office May it please your Majesty—°n the part of the
ladies of °teat Britain, we humbly present for your gra-
cious acceptance a specimen of the work that employs the
leisure of our countrywomen. It was commenced with •
• wish that their skill should hare been represented at the
Industrial Exhibition of all natious, but the opinions el
pressed of their work have so far exceeded their expecta-
tions that they are led to trust it is not unworthy
of your Majesty's favourable notice. It is hoped
that it illustrates an elegant branch of British
industry and taste, and that it develops • source
of menet...lure which may shoed employment to
!twiny, especially to those on whom the hand of adversity
has bees laid. The names of the ladies who have taken •
part in the work will be found in the accompanying list,
and their initials form the border of the carpet. With
deep awl loyal feelings of gratitude for the noble patronage
bestowed on British industry, particularly in the present
Tear, we offer this specimen of a work of art fit for your Ma-
prays gracious acceptanoe." Here followed the list of the
subscribers and viecutanta. Her Majesty was graeiosily
pleased to express her acceptance of the carpet, and else
her satisfaction at the can ful meaner in which the lake
had executed the work. The carpet, we understand, will
now be exhibited under the following title .—"Exhibitai by
her Majesty the Queen, the work of ISO ladies of Oilet
"Britain."