The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1851.

Satan vanquished by St. Michael. Crossing the main topics he dilates upon. His volume dawn% and
avenue at once to the northern compartment of the trim- will doubtless obtain, general public attention.
Sept, and keeping in the western avenue, the visitor will be
first struck by 11,11's calossal statue of Falkland. Down The It of Dough: .h.rrokl. Collected Edition.
the central line of this part of the transept are. first, a limn- Vobinie I.—St. Giles and St. James. London: Bradbury
tain, timiked on the west by Wyatt's Equ-strian statue of and Evans.
the Queen, and on the cast by an Equestrian Statue of The appearance of the first number of this compact
Prince Albert by the same sculptor, and a large model of and cheap re-issue of the works of Douglas Jerrold
a vessel. Grouted amid flowers of exquisite variety, stands
Bell's meek Andromeda. Behind, again, a fountain ; then was hailed in these columns as an event in the there-
then ture of the ear. following the central line another fountain; We have now to announce the corn-
flowers, grouped amid stuffed birds; then, behind all, the pletion of the first volume, and to promise those who
Northern Refreshment Court, redolent of living vegetable have not hitherto read it—a feast to store. A drama-
perfumes. tically an-unwed story; abundant and ready wit; a
Keeping in the western avenue, however, the visitor o clear sparkling style—now dealing in irony, now
should remark the groups which flank this avenue on the
full of nial humour, and always with a strop un-
right ; among theta Abel and Thirza, Adam, Samson. ,
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will then arrive at some fine ornamental gatesonanufac- aereurrent of sound philanthropy—are here woven
hired by the Coalbrooke Dale Iron Company. Passing together and make a book full of amusement, excite-
these, he should proceed across the Refreshment Court, ment, and instruction. Portions of the tale have
and oc the right of tho northern, or Queen's entrance, he
may inspect an elegant little apartment fitted up for the been re-written since its first hasty appearance in a
magazine, and to the volume there is attached a pre-
am of her Majesty. Oa returning to the eastern avenue of
the northern transept, he will find in a line on his right face in which the author gives just an explanatory
groups of statuary ,• among them Sin Triumphant, Earll's word or two about the story and its moral, and
model of Jacob and Rachel, Youthful Athlete: ; and at the allows us just a glimpse of the beginning of his lite-
noith-western corner of the foreign main avenue, Foley's
model fur a statue of Hampden, to be placed in the new pa- I Careen
LYN of Westminster.
Having arrived at this point, the visitor may well pause
to notice the four colossal pieces of statuary which mark the
four central corners of the main avenues. He may also no-
tice from this point the huge glass chandelier in the gallery
immediately above the statue of Falkland , the organ and the
oleetro-inignetic clock in the gallery above o.e southern en-
trance, and the general perspective effect of the galleries,
with the huge draperies of all kinds and colours hanging
from them AU every direction. From this point he may
boar faintly the gigantic organs which are in the foreign and
Britiihdepartmeuts, bells of huge proportion tolling lowly
in the vast space and the faint tinkling of grand 'pianos So
gigantic is the scale of the building, that the loudest shout
Lablache could raise from the transept would not be heard
at either extremity. The great elm in the northern divi-
sion of the transept gives, more than any other pro-
portion to be noted in the palace, an idea of the
colossal size of the building which contains it. At
this point the visitor will generally find crowds of be-
wildered spectators looking about theta, and endeavour-
ing to imbibe from the splendid confusion a gene-
ral idea of the great whole. To master an exhibition of
dimensions and variety so unparalleled is no easy task to the
visitor who is introduced to it, without some straightfor-
ward and comprehensive guide; and endeavouring to
place ourselves in this position of guide, we have grouped
the varied eonteutu into two great division!, the Foreign and
the British; and these divisions respectively into three
distinct parts, consisting of the main avenue, the southern
section, and the northern section. By adopting this divi-
sion the details, so far as the general visitor is concerned, are
coolly and eff..ctually comprehended and enjoyed.

THE GENERAL EFFECT 11F THE roicriox NAVE.
That half of the building devoted to the contributions of
Englishmen having already been examined, the business of
the visitor on entering the building for the third time is to
turn to its eastern half, in which he will find collected spe-
cimens of the industrial skill of about forty foreign nations.
As he turns his back upon the great glass fountain, and
face•e the east, the gay foreign nave opens before hint,
bright and lively with the Wigs of France, Spain. Belgium,
and the United State.* suspended from the galleries. At
once he can truce the relative commercial importance of the
foreign countries represented. Long rows of the tri-colour
of the French Republic mark the great extent of room
tilled with the art manufactures of our nearest neighbours ;
the few Hags of Spain call to mind the palsied industries
Or Madrid mind Barcelona; the black, yetlow, and red, of
Belgium, stretching over considerable apace, su•gest the
vigour of an enfranchised people, while Holland, the old
tyrant of the Belgian, owes but an iasignitleant urea to the
east; then daunt the commercial colours of the Great Zoll-
verciii, the black and yellow of Austria, the dark standard
of lticssia, and the stars and stripes of Yankee hind.
The rich blending of culour produced by the arrangement
of thew: national flags in perspective line, against the dark
red draperies with which nearly all the nave stills are deco•
rated, and the picturesque confusion of objects in every va-
riety of form and colour, breaking up the hard lines with•
out taking from the impressive extent of the nave, at the
eastern point of which colour is gradually 10,t in tile aerial
blue of the distance, present a picture that must impress it-
self upon the mind, even though viewed by the dullest eye
that ever looked abroad upon the beauties of the world.

THE AUSTRIAN TOY COVEN.
On returning to the Court whence the visitor issued to
examine these specimens of Austrian mineral wealth, he
should turn west, and proceed down the short southern pas-
sage of the court. Here are ranged the must carious and
amusing assortmeuts of Austnan toys. Upon the great
stand on his right the spectator will find the strangest play-
-1 things. Dolls are here of all sixes, and of the most curious
shapes, but distantly resembling the human lotus divine.
Poor bandaged babies are suspended after the fashion of tow
country, and store you in the face with most unabashed ex-
pression ; a fierce troop of Austrian euvalry, in their white
tomatoes, are charging a donkey of the meekest aspect; a
young lady in the frailest gauze is continually turning on
one toe, for the amusement of various shuttitcocks ; u com-
plete dinner set, with delicacies securely glued to the
dishes, and a most unc .nscious tumbler; while from the
opposite side, u very red face (with a tine green pear tbr a
MAY), surveys the positions and movements of the little toy
world mmusite with an cspression a little too supercilious
for our liking. Why, too, dues the Sapper, whose mien
tackles reach nearly to his knees, exinniue the proportions of
a Pre-Raphaelite mouse with that ttrrible expression of
anger ?—and what earthly reason can that very wouly dog
have for sitting continually upon a ltrabtr apparatus,which,
on the least movement, gives forth the shrillest and most
unpleasant notes?
Ott tile southern counter the assortment of fruit is most
inviting—a little soiled, perhaps, by extra varnishing, but
still of an emerald greenness. But in the south-western
corner of the court the visitor will find the most amusing
curiosities. Hero are some ingenious automata. The at-
tool:tut will be first observed to take a gaily-dressed young
lady and a Chinaman, who are appareutly locked in one
' anuttier's arms, and insert a key In the back of one of the
couple. Alter this operation, the Chinamen s bashfulness
adpears to forsake hint, and forthwith, on being released
and placed upon the counter, he begins the Scotto/clic in a
vigorous and graceful style, with all the variations—now
sidling down the board, now converting himself and lady
into u metotum. But the dance is wearisome without the
music. Till* of is soon removed by the attendant,
whose Ilettlxlingnagian hand is placed upon a piano with a
young lady sitting before it. Again the mysterious key is
applied, whereupon the performer turns her head—u little
atfectedly, we thought—and having flourished her fingers
about the keys, plays for the benefit of the dancers. This
.eeue is one of breathless excitement to children ; but the
visitor, who has yet much to inspect before he closes his
third visit, most move forward rapidly.

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THE 11.C.iSIAN MALACHITE.
The way lies still to the north down the eastern avenue of
the court. Here the general effect of the great contribution.
of Malachite manufactures from Priam Demidoll may be
sect.. On the nave counter is a small candelabra, the de-
sign of which represents the playfulness of three bears ex-
hibited at the root of a leafless and gnarled tree. The
life and activity thrown into the rough play of the shaggy
beats show great mastery of the art of modelling. Here,
too, are some excellent specimens of embossed silver work
un a gold surface. Advancing still to the north, the visitor
1 should notice the rough masses of Malachite, front which
the tich slabs are cut that he sees finely polished and shaped
into all kinds of ornamental works. This Malachite, or
mountain green, is not, as people generally suppose, a richly
veined marble. It is a carbonate of copier, mostly of a
bright green colour, with variegated radiations and zones,
which may be reduced to copper by the action of acids.
Some pour deposits have been found in Wales and Corn-
wall,unil some better specimens in the celebrated Burrs Burnt
mines of South Australia, but up to this time, that front the
Siberi,in mines is the onl y Malachite that has be en successfully
worked under the tool of the lapillarv. The visitor will
see that the largest lump of malachite exhibited does not
exceed the size of a cannon ball, and it is from these small
masses that the workman cuts the thin plates of ore, such as
those which are so skilfully veneered as to present the effect
of the mast delicate surface of polished marble. Passing
the parquet-work exhibited against the eastan wall, and
turning to the west from the north-eastern point of the
court, the visitor arrives in front of the two great malachite
gates or doors which occupy the central apace of the north-
ern wall. The palatial splendour of these speeim •ms, gene-
rally viewed, is heightened to the mind, when on minute
insp.:cliet the visitor has followed the lx.mtatal devices of
gold tracery which have enabled the workmen to build this
large surface, and to give to some hundred distinct pieces of
ore the effect of one solid piece of polished marble. Opposite
these doors the space is occupied with other malachite ma-
nufactures, including a splendid mantel-piece, some vases,
a Lula, and other smaller articles. 'these objects arc deci-
dedly the most remarkable contribution. from Russia.
The fact that the brilliant malachite comes from the Sibe-
i nail mines saddens the contemplations of t:te least Sandmen-
. tal visitor. To the ears of the inhabitants of Western
1 Europe the words " Sib2rian Mines '• present a picture
hardly h•ss horrible and less repulsiae than the Black Hole
of Calcutta. What hands have brought this copper ore to
light ? is a question not seldom asked. The pale fare
lof the l'ole—the sad, heroic countenance of the
d, graded and chained patriot—come to mind with
all the wealth that rises to the light of chit,
from the dead darkness of the Ural Mountains.
i These thoughts, then, are almost inseparable from the I
M al white ; and it is possible even for the least sympathetic
of m inkMd to turn with a heavy heart from the stories'
that these glittering lumps, invested with human utterance,
might tell to the careless passer-by.
1 The thousands who visit the Glass Palace should
take this book as their guide. It will teach them ,
what to look for whilst in the building, and will'
serve afterwards as a memento of what each saw
amongst the wonders of the World's Fair. I

The Teeth, and their Preservation is Manhood and Old II
Age. By ALIMED CANTON, m.n.c.s.L. London :1

Sonic Recollections of Mrs. Anderson's School. London :

Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co.
An amusing series of descriptions, likely to in-
terest the young folks, for whom they are intended.

Sir John Minklin and the Arctic Regions. By P. L. SDI-
XONDS. G. Routledge and Co.
A compact volume, containing a summary of tho
history of the efforts made by Englishmen to dis-
cover the North-West Passage, with notices of the
recent expeditions in search of the missing vessels
under Sir John Franklin. Without boasting any
originality, this volume has nevertheless claims
upon the attention of all those who wish to know
what has been done in the Arctic Regions, and who are
not inclined to wade through the many cumbrous
and costly octavos and quartos before published on
the subject.

ANN HICKS.--CONIPENSATION FOR LOSS OF
PRIVILEGES.

A clear and business-like treatise by a scientific
and practical man upon a subject of great interest to
all who study either health or personal appearance.,
Mr. Alfred Canton is aental surgeon to one of the
London hospitals, and brings to his task of author
the enlarged views of a man experienced in the