The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-05 00:00:00

No. 1,439.] [No. 15, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.]

THE

EXHIBITION
EXPRESS,

FOR TILE WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, APRIL 5.

PROGRESS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The unflinching determination and punctuality
with Whitit the executive committee have hitherto
carried out all the regulations which they have found
it neeesaary to make, have bad a striking effect in
urging all chasms of exhibitors to complete their
arrangement&
It was announced a week ago that on Wednesday
the temponiry entwine into 11w building fur carts,
waggons and carriage% of every deaeiption would
be elemeSto enable the thawing 'of the building to he
completed. The regulation was rigidly enforced,
and on the following day a rather numerous train of
people, who cling to the belief that there is
always " time enough, " found insurmountable ob-
stacle% iut • be worn their oas and the
ver,
that most of rrri hythr n > cr app umeei
sneeteded in effecting a satisfactory removal of their
goods into the building. phis firninesson the part of
the executive committee has already produced
marked change in the asiwet of the hoardings de-
voted to foreign nation+. 'flue arrangements for the
display of goods are now quickly advancing to com-
pletion in must of them. In the American spats
they are "going ahead" in earnest, and in the
French, Belgium, and Austrian compartments con-
tinuous (lints are being made to advance their ats
mootmem& In the Lento al passage a very fine equem
trial group has been erected within the last week. The
subject jail mounted horse attiakedby a t iger.The group
is u copy or one in bronze, while is pined in front
of the lk rliu MIP4 urn, hut the material used is dif-
ferent, being sine, covered with (sipper. It has
been executed by Ikrr Kiss, of Berlin, and the cast-
ing is by (kiwi. A colossal lion in bronze, which
has berm forwarded from Bavaria, is also fixed on its
fedestal in the central avenue. In nearly all the
oreign compartment+ an increasing activity pre-
vail& Greece, however, is an exception. The gomia
already forwarded are insufficient in point of
quantity, and, as regards quality, will fail
to Btu-trate advantageoualy the products and
the customs of that country. Au abundance
of genuine materials to supply the hiatus are, how-
ever, easily obtainable in London, and we have no
doubt, that under the able anperintendance of its
cononksioner, Goerswill exhibit a collection of
products worthy of itself. The executive commit-
tee issued a notice, lust night, to the effect that
pocking VIM'S IMISt be removed from the building
by the exhibitors on or before the 10th of April. lu
certain exeeptional cases, where goods might be in-
jured by premature unpacking, they will be allowed
to remain, but, maternity speaking, if not removed.
they- will be kohl, and the proceeds will
he added to the general fund. On Satur-
day lust, an immense number of agricultural
implements were forwarded to the building. Not-
withstanding the large amount of space allotted to
this class of articles, it has been found necessary to
erect extensive stages at several points in the en-
ehisure, for the porpoise of obtaining un increase of
room for the neyption of the implements. since
Ow 2nd instant the juries have been indelatiguble in
earning out the neiesaary inspection and eompari-
sun in the trial yard. in lirompton-lane, at the rear
of Gore House. The further working trials will
take ewe on Monday, on Mr. Pusaya estate, near
Reading.
On the English side of the building a vast deal of
labour has lien t :piloted dining the week. In the
machinery department, Robinson's sugar-cane crush-
ing Dunhill,• has been crested, with a smaller one by
Collings., for the stone purpose. Collinge has also a
. Sour dressing machine, a double-acting steam-
s..
etinhos, and a printing machine, all of which are
exquisitely benutital pieces of mechanism. A paper-
cutting machine from the Watford iron-works, a
marine engine of ItMn horse-power' by Morley, and
I.OIIIW lace natclinii•ry. by. Malin. of Nottingham, are
Amongst the new ertetions. In the galleries and in
the familial-tint nta allotted to furniture, agricultural
implement.. woollen manufactnres, &c., the work of
eempleting fittings and counter* goes un 141114.
It is again neteasary to revert to the subject of
the payment of juror& By reference to the report
of the meeting hocks held by the Stuffivelahire Pot-
teries: VOll 111 l itttV. wt' find that, after haling nomi-
nated four gentlemen to serve as juror for the Pot-
teries at the Brat Exhibition, the question arum.• us
to the payment or non-payownt of these functionaries.
In store of the manufacturing districts difficulty has
been exiariemed in *electing competent persons for
jurors, the mist practical men being incapacitated.
by their position as exhibitor& from serving. Thin
being the emw, the propriety of reconsidering so im-
portant a port of the M•hCMC ns the constitution of the
body withal is to ass aril prizes to a competing indus-
trial world would %t an obs loin. The qucati tttt
can competent jurymen be found to serve fur the
honour of serving' Against this propodtiou two
paid., have been urged. viz., that those men elm from
their sit-v fortime and great prietiewl know-
ledge might fairly became adjudicators, are
generally incalawitated by having become
competitors,: nod that those nun who have equal
practical knowledge. hut lau'k pecuniary- means. can-
not afford to give their Bow to the matter. If a
auffivient number of eompetent uon-eumpeting menu-
factoring and scientific authorities can le found to
give up their time to the office of industrial jurymen,
without requiring pecuniary remuneration. it is ob-
vious that their gratuitous services should be grate-
fully welcomed ; but the grave point to be solved
without delay, is, ern so much high-class gra-
tuitous labour be enlisted? Exhibitors who are
mainly intereated in this point, are assuredly wait-
hug tlw final conelusions of the executive on it with
some inqaitienee. It' it were possible to secure the
servites of men equal to those gentlemen who are
recommended to serve as jurymen in the metropolitan
sections of fine arts and Crass 27 of manufacture&
the question of the competency of they tribunals
would probably he set ut rest. In the metropolitan
maim of fine arts the persona recommended are—
the chairman. Sir Moses Nlontetiorei the deputy
chairman. Professor Cockerell, ILA.; Lord Aahltmr-
tom. Mr. Alderman Salomons, Mr. Wpm. ILA.. and
Mr. IViekes. In elae. 27, manufactures in mineral
pubstancea used for building or decoration, Mr. W
Tite. Mr. Itu tttt ing. and Mn, George Godwin, have
been named : and in class 7 the jurors recommended
me -for civil engineering contrivances, Mr. W.
Tierney ('lark and Mr. Edwin ('lark: for architectu-
ral and building contrivances, Mr. C. Fowler and
Mr. J. J. Seolisc
Some person of a jocular turn had recourse to that
old uld scheme of creating April fools on the first day
of the current month, in eo ttttt ,xion with the Exhibi-
tion. In this instance fictitious cards of admission
to the building were issued, prier one shilling. and
signed " E. Nixes." These worthless cards were
pies lilted by credulous purchasers at the gate+ of the
Exhibition ion Tuesday lust without as ail. From the
rice which the dupe% appear to have paid for the
joke, it is °talons that the humourid by whom they
were iietimiseil had MUM regard for his pocket than
for his reputation.
Suggestions continue to flow in. Among thew, a
notion set forth by Nlr. Joneph Colefax. of Brig-
house. /war Halifax, is not unworthy of conaide ra-
Bon. It may probably cause a depression in the
anticipitions of the light-fingered society of the
met ropolia ; and by its adoption many a poor tra-
veller to the greet show may save himself from the
nuplussaut predicament of finding his year's sating

abstracted from his pocket in the CIMISC of his
' journey to Ityde-park. The main points of the plan
are there :
That there shall he a deposit bank instituted, either un- 1
der the manatimnent of the executive committee of the
Great Exhibgton, or the immt•diate sanction of govern- ,
went itself. At this bate:, parties on entering the metro- '
polis might leave what rash they did not immediately re-
quire, and draw daily what would serve for their expendi-
ture. Every depositor, on paying his money into this
bank, bhuultl receive a pass book or cheque book with his
country. and town address written therein, and have credit
given him for what he had deposited. Est ry, depositor'
should also sign his name (if able) opposite to his account,
in the book kept at the hank, as a receipt whenever be I
drew anything. If not able to sign his name, he should I
have a ticket givih him with his name written on, by the
hunk clerk who rec. iced his money, which he should be
instimted to keep separaL from the bank book on his per-
son, and produce it wit never he applied at the bank. Hy
• these ttivanr, if a pickpocket or other persons applied at the'
bank with a book which did not belong to lam, he could
• not draw anything , bee note he would either have to imi-
tate very elowly the signature of the real owner (winch it
is not natural to suppose would he a sureessful fraud), or to
• pro .• owe the ticket suppose
to the r• ,I 1 owner, which
woold fie rate- - Ultima to come at if carefully deposited
in at , vacate ooe:tet. . _ _ .
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From France a suggestion for a Parisian exhibi-
tion in the course of the ensuiir, autumn in the
Palace of the Tuileries, of articles from the London
Great Exhibition, is suggcsted; and subscriptions are
already being raised by the manuflieturera of Lille,
Itoubaix, Valenciennes, and Turcoing, to carry this

object into effect.
Fraikaateekhalabsave has reached to the effect
that a ph a-oure excursion from that city to Paris and
London, has just been organised for the beginning of
June, and that 500 persons have taken tickets.
Every day we receive additional prnols of the in-
temst winch foreign governments are taking in the
Exhibition. Already the committee of sixteen ap-
pointed be the Prefect of the Seine (France), to
attend to french interests, halve appointed a deputa-
tion of sixty intelligent workmen to visit the Exhi-
bition and report on it ; and from Paris we learn
that an Indian manufacturer, Naid-Ramayana, who
inhabits the town of Chog, in the Valley of Cash-
mere, has arrived in the French capital with a mag-
nificent set of Cashmere slag Is bur the Great Ex-
hibition.
From Vienna we have news to the effect, that the
Emperor of Austria intends to exhibit a magnificent
carved book-ease (containing a quantity of unpub-
lished national music of the Irsth century), which he
will afterwards present to the Queen.
The exhibition gossip of the week includes "one
of those unkrtuttate accidents that sometimes frus-
trutes labour ut the point of success" which hap-
pened to U sla rinncn of decoration, by Mn.l M.Lachlan,
of St. James's-street. A gust of wind blew the
article in question from a van, upon which it had
been placed, and it was broken to pieces. The labour
of months was lost in a minute; but other gosals
from the Saine hand are to occupy space in the Glass
Palace.

The Data News of this morning has the follow-
ing :
" It is said that the arrival of foreign specimens of
numulacture and art intended for exhibition at the
Crystal Palace proves more tardy than might have
been anticipated. Whether it la• that our continen-
tal neighbours arc less punctual in their ways of
business than we are accustomed to decin it essential
to he, or that in the first eagerness of national com-
petition some of them were led to over-estimate the
space their exhibitors would require, it seems as
though they were not quite prepared to take prompt
occupation of all the accommodation liberally allotted
to them by the impartial administrature of the forth-
coming Exhibition.
"Nor are our transatlantic kinsmen as quick in their
movements as one would have expected them to be.
After vehemently insisting upon a spacious tract of I
unoccupied territory, which was of course to be ex- 1
elusively theirs. we have 'want that the materials
wherewith to till it arc still wanting, We hope
they are not likely long to be so; and that no wag
may be tempted to inscribe " Oregon over again."
above the American gaudier. To the latest hour
that the gates canbe kept open, we trust they will be.
for the reception of foreign produets of all kinds :
but bring "up to time" is an indispensable rule of
all joint enterprises and combined movements, more
especially these whose scale of magnitude transcends
the ordinary sacpsaisese of men. And our worthy
neighbours must not complain if, in so far as they
fail to observe the conditions upon which they have
been ins ited to display their wares. they are unable:
alter the prescribed period of admission shall have
prueed, to Mad room left for them. There is already
no lack of domestic competitors who would be only
too glad to avail themselves of the forfeited
comportments; and after summoning the curious
all nations to behold, the inimagers of the NVorld's
Fair would justly be had inexcusable if tlwy suffered
a single stall to remain empty.
" Another doubt, equally unforeseen. mid of a very
different character, la said to have arisen in the minds
of certain wise, busy pmplts connected with the
management of the undertaking. A well-known
artist, celebrated alike for his versatility of arthi-
Its:tonal design and his taste in the sphere
of what is called ecclesiastical decoration,
early applied for and obtained an appropriate
nook wherein to anunge the gorgeous emblem. and
accessories of the Roman catholic ritual. We for-
bear, for obvious reasons, to enumerate the %Wiliam
forms and shapes of crozier, chalice, alb. and stole,
which the restorer of an dent cloisters and beautifier
of modern clenwls may have wished to set before
the gaze of a believing and unbelieving throng. It
is enough to say, that, in accordance with the usual
arrangements of the building. and of course dcs.
sirons. like his more worldly eo-e shibi t ionists, to protect
the objects of his care front hieing prematurely sullied
by the much-dreaded plague of dust, the gentb man
Aided to availed himself of the boarded screen
which each comixtrtment is permitted to make use of,
under certain 'sanitation.. The story goes that a
well-known member of the governing commission,'
whose zeal is not always according to knowledge,
having caught a furtive glimpse of a gilded candle-
stick, and being persuaded that he perceived at the
same time a very strong smell of brimstone,
deemed it his duty to report the cireumstawo forth-
with to the authoritiee. who thereupon. yens rumoumE
met in condave, and deliberated. with becoming
gravity on the affair. it has not transpired whether
they resolved to open diplomatic relations with the
insidious artist. or whether they decided upon simply
adhering to the indiscriminating rule of perfect free-
dom in all matters regarding an enterprise whose
name alone testifies its universality of suffrage and
of sympathy. We only know that the chinks m the
hoarding have during the last week been more
religiously stopped up: and that the distinguished
individual who peeped in has not been seen within
a quarter of a mule of the suspected cellever since the
discovery he. perhaps inadvertently. maths.
"But. jesting apart. we thinkfwe may congratulate
all true lovers of the useful. the peaceful, and the
good upon the steady progress towards completion
of this noble enterprise. Difficulties of all kinds
there have been front the outset, and the most per-
plexing those which nobody had dreamed of. and
against which it would have hem; wholly impossible
to guard. But they have thawed away as the hour of
proiniv approached ; and now. within stew weeks of
the great remise° long looked fortard to by multitudes
in different parts of the world—the managers of the
gigantic scheme may well feel Justified in the con-
viction that its triamph is secure. Nothing remains
but to reiterate the hoice we have so frequently ex-
pressed, that in the spirit wherein they began they
will continue steadfast to the end, knowing no diS -
tinction of persons. of nations. or of opinions. but
contributing by the most splendid of instrinive dis-
lays to convince the world of the fully of its
long-cherished jealousies, animosities. and ca-
dmium."

Tt-RlO.ll CONTRIAt Ttl/S-.—By the Oriental
.tamer (anki•.:orriccd a! Southampton votterday, t'tpt.
Hamill came to Enoland in chaste of the care► of Turkish
goods for the Exhibition.