The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-15 00:00:00

No. 1,397.] [No. 8, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.]

THE

EXHIBITION
EXPRESS,

FOR THE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15.

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PROGRESS OF THE EXHIBITION.

Another hwy week has been
.possed by the rulers
of the (:Lae Palace. The pniwipal work accom-
plished within the building during the last six days
has been the arrangement of the interior fittings,
&signed to aid the regulations imposed on those
exhibitors and all others who are to admitted pee-

witiusly to the opening of the Exhibition. In tbu
eastern division of the building. the hnardinga by
which the various fon ign eountnes are to kende:mod
and separated from ereli other are all set up. In the
western half of time structure, considerable progress
has Owen made in the tome work, and the
various avenues and posh-ors throughout the
building are alnutly marked down upon the
floor. 'the position. which We to be occupied by
Engl►sh and colonial products, and by those of foreign
countrit s, on with some trilling exteptions, mapped
out with the great. st tummy. A large portion of
the north-western division or the building will be

occupied by mail • vy. Ilere also on• the cone
partnit tits for (*Mon, bother, furniture, and uphol-
stery, the• slurs• allowed for which is 1:011Sidt sable.
In the southAvestern division, woollen manufactures
will Ile, upy a large sluts. Agricultural implements,
hardware, linen ponds, and raw roduce of a
metallic nature will displayed in the atone
same quarter. In the galleries will be arranged
the lighter descriptions of fancy wares of all
kinds,—producf in ghee, generally, silk, vel-
vet, lace, and tall kinds of haberdashery. Models of
naval arehitecture, specimens of food, and of• animal
and vegetable raw poolucc, have platves assigned to
them also in the galleries. Colonial productions are
to be arranged in a compartment which runs quite
through the building front north to south, and bounds
the transept on the west. Its frontage on the cen-
tral passage is over Joao feet. Much difficulty has
been experienced in presiding the retwired space in
several of the sections. In the spate devoted to agri-
cultural machinery and implements the executive have
found it necessary to culiwee the utmost economy
of room, in order to provide' aceomodat. for the
whole of the articles which are to he contributed.
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Frames will be provided, on which light implements
tine to be arranged, one uhove thy other—and
duplicates of the machines will not be received.
The shafts of implements worked by horses will be
detached.

7•he working capabilities of all agricultural ma-
chinery contributed, will be tried, and in all cases
where efficiency and durability are found to hare
been neglected, for the purpose of attaining mere
elegance and lightnew, of Mimi and material, njection
will ensue. printing of the season tickets has
been commenced, and it is expected trait they will
be ready fur issue on Monday week. In order
to giant against forgery, the design by which they
are embellish, d is of a eomplicuted nature, and each
plrehuser will be itspired to write his name on the
of his ticket, and at the saint time in a hook,
which will be kept at the entraner-door allotted to
the class of visitors a ho will avail themselves of this
mode of admission.

Several heuvy mscs have been received during the
week, containing elliwignments of front Ba-
varia, Prussia, nod France. Scarce any of the
tone cumbrous mc) sry him been forwarded at
present. Contributors to this deportment of the
Exhibition must necessarily be aware of the time
and labour which will be required to complete the
proper disposition of their ruiners in the positions
marked out for them, and it is hoped that they arc
sutficii.ntl3 impressed with the urgent necessity
which exists for their early appearance in die
building.

On Tuesday lust the Council of Appeal met for the
last time, to dispose of the appeals remaining on their
paper, and to refer further upplieations to theExecu-
live Committee. 'Oils mulled, it is antieiputed, vrill
sus able again to appoint reprowntutives of the va-
rious London industries at the various juries by
whom the min* are to be awanksl. How these
juries a ill be constituted is yet a vexed and unde-
cided question. It bus been formally declared that
local committees will have the power of appointing
delegates to represent their accetal branches of in-
duster ; but how this worse will he shaped finally,
in ocher to give a fair preponderance of representa-
tion to important ChAnets, is. we believe, a point
which is still under consideration.
It is obvious that Manchester should be repre-
sented by more jury-votes than a mere manufacturing
village; and it undoubtedly is a difficult matter to
decide the relative numbers to lie sent to the great
central body, but. inasmuch as it is declared that
juries will make their reports previous to the open-
ing of the building on the Ist of May next, the ur-
gency of deriding this most important part of the
great sehemeis obvious.
The Renal Agricultural Society, acting in concert
with the }Loyal COIIIIIIIsNiOIICM. have issued a notice
to the effect that no agricultural implements can be
received after the r.teth dice of March; and that on the
first day. of April they will proceed to adjudicate be-
tween real applicants fur admission to the Exhibi-
tion. The gnat effort which has to be made, in
order to carry out the pledge that the building will
be opened to the public on the Ist of May, is to get
all the heavy raachinery uu the ground as soon as
passible, so that all the flooring (*kWh must remain
to an unfinished state till
.the heavy goods are in
their proper plums) may be finally laid without
delay. The importune of attending strictly to the
rules laid down by the authorities cannot be too
strongly impressed upon exhibitors.
The materials for the construction of the engine-
house arc already on the ground, so that the build-
ing can be proceeded with immediately. It will
stand upon the ninth-western side of the Glass
Falao—and thence give steam (to the extent of one-
hundred horse power) to the models included in the
great exhibition. Its steam will print off copies of a
newspaper, work all kinds of looms, and in fact, do
more at once than steam from any single boiler has
ever accomplished.
A meeting of the Manchester local committee was
held yestenlay (Friday) in the Manchester Town-
ball, to consider the pimprietv of applying for an
extension of time, Mr. fhonuus'Earley, president of
the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, occupying
the chair. A number of gentlemen on the various
Ruh-committees expressed their conviction that
great numbers of exhibitors would be put to
much inconvenience, in order to get the ar-
ticle* which they wished to exhibit ready by the day
which the RovatCommissioners hadfixedasthe latest
time at which they. could be admitted. They be-
lieved if an extension of time were not granted,
many parties would be compelled to withdraw their
appllcations for spate, and thus the object of the
Exhibition would be in a great measure defeated.
Mr. Henhouse then mused—" That this meeting re-
quisite the Executive Committee to extend the period
for the reception of article's in each department, at
the building, to the Ist of April next, the local com-
mittee giving a pledge that the whole of the articles
shall be delivered there on or before that day, and
that our secretary be instructed to confer per,onally
with the Executive Committee upon the subject of
this resolution." Mr. Fairbuira, C.E., having se-
conded the resolution, it was carried unanimously;
Manchester is not the only applicant for .• more time.

The flowing are the more important facts of the
week from abroad :

Oar Paris correspondent says:
" You may remember that in their sitting of the
4th instant, the Central Jury appointed to select the
objects of French contribution discussed a demand
from the Lyons manufacturers that the articles sent
by retail dealers should be excluded, and
decided that such articles should be admitted,
but under the condition of the name of the
original manufacturer being attached, as well as the
name of the contributor. Well. it stems the Lyons
people are greatly dissatisfied with this arrangement,
and the chamber of commerce of Lyons, as we learn
to-dae, immediately declared thin it would have
nothilig to do with the Exhibition. A Lyons journal
adds that the greater part of the manufacturers there
have given up the intention of exhibiting in
London." _ _ .

The Mourfinfr contains a decree of the Minister of
commerce, the tint article of which reaervca to the
French embassy in London all questions of an inSer-
national kind respecting the London Exhibition.
The second article creates a commissariat of the
French government in London, consisting of a com-
minsary-general,! M. Sallandrouse de Lamornaix,
of an active and of an administrative service. The
first is to attend to the transport of objects, &c., and
the second to their reception and classification.
M. Stein. Councillor of the Royal Board of Engi-
neers, has been appointed by the Prussian govern-
ment as principal commissioner to superintend the
delivery and arrangement of the goods which will he
sent by the different :stated belonging to the Zollve-
rein for the Exhibition of Industry. M. Stein is
accompanied by M. Nuollens, jun., acting decretary,
and M. Gneehlin, engineer. Already considerable
transports of articles for the exhibition have arrived
from different states of the Zollvcrein, which comprise
a population of nearly 30 millions of inhabitants.
The Sardinian government have granted to the
exhibitors for the approaching exposition the royal
war steamer Governolo, commanded he Captain
Count di Fermium, for the conveyance of file objects
of Sardinian produce and industry to be exhibited.
The Governolo sailed from Genoa on the fith lust.

ArrAnxrus TO BE EXHIBITED.

SELT-ItEGINTEIVING INSTUUNIENTS.