The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-15 00:00:00

break [torn change of temperature, to which glam gauges,
• at present used, are aluay •
Oahe, Sherborne, iutprov.tuent in the telescope dining
table.

Grainger, Messrs., Worcester, amongst other specimens
them are an ewer and basin of very elegant design,
painted turquoise ground, with rush-leaf handle and
base, chased gold and burnished edges; tureens, with
moron.' ground, handles desizned front tote leek, chased
and burithhed gu:d; ditto, with matt blue ground mid
Dresden flowers in medallion; a dejeuner service and
tray (china) of egg-shape design, imitation hon. yeomb,
traced in turquob.e. withears and leaves of wheat; a sin;,
intended for Messrs. Lea and Perrins' sauce, to which
the design is highly appropriate, in rlirexenting the
sauce as applicable to dais, game, and fowl--the fish izeing
painted on the fiat, the game hanging in relief from the
sides; and the fowl appearing on the stopper--a clever
design. A small model of a font at Brook, Norwich.
Thin is an octagonal font, having in its upper compart-
ments h, ores in high relief, illustrating the seven ',arra-
zueuts and the crucifixion, and in the lower four saints
and tour evangelists.
Hall, Exeter, bouquet of flowers in Berlin wool work.
liatchwell, Newton Abbot, a table.
Ilullowsy, J., Salisbury, samples of various kinds of twine
and small cord, from the smallest size to about one inch
circumference, the whole of which has been mabulae-
tured by hand, front flax grow a near Yeovil, Somerset,
and prepared by what is b•nued the " dew ripening "
promm. The samples are iu u bleached and unbleached
state. _ _

Hold, Amos, Bannley, a carved frame for a looking-glass.
The glass, which is 74 inches by 50, is surrounded by
carving in pine of exquisite workmanship. Birds, fruits,
moths, caterpillars, and butterflies, are here represented
with happy accuracy.
'loran' 11., Islington, specimens of prepared whalebone.
Ball, tiering-crescent, Exeter. Cheral screen in Berlin
wool. _ _ .

11c;;;Ier, J. N., Plymouth. A powerful and peculiarly
constructed magnet.
Leith, S., Edinburgh. Specimens of his invention in imi-
tation of India tinting.
Marracott, Me•ers., Stonehouse. Tubs nod vats to be used
in the fitting up ot a model brewery in the Crystal Palace,
by Mr. W. L. Tinted, engineer, London.
Murphy, I). J., Cork. Au Archimedean agricultural ma
chine. This model is prepared on a scale of one and a
lialinch to the foot, and represents the machine, which
is entirely constructed of cast and wrought iron, with
one of its cylinders in working order, and a clod bruiser,
and an ordin try harrow attached. Each cylinder can he
raised or lowered by the regulating screws to enable the
cutters, &c., to enter and turn up the earth, at any depth
of from one D ten inches, which it is presumed wall be us
deep us need be required in any ordinary ease, and ex-
cept where a great depth of the is to be
dislodged, and even this if necessary can be aceonsplished
by a second working of the machine. This machine may
be reversed, and worked from either of its ends, to which
the miming power will be applied, so that the workings
can be crossed and intersected if necessary. But the
chief superiority of this machine is exhibited in the cir-
cumstance, tkat with the assistance of a cheap locomotive
steam engine of four or five horse power, and one or two
nun to work and guide it, the machine will equal and
etketually curate, in the one progressive toperation, the
performance of four ur five ploughs if capable of being
worked abreast, and with the superintendence of ten men
to lead and handle them ; whilst the clod bruiser and a
common harrow, fur pulverising the sods of mirth that
will be turned up, may he attached to it, which cannothe
employed whim using the plough; therefore it can be
made more powerful than any other agricultural instru-
ment, and will prove of immense utility in extending cul-
tivation and prodiutiveness among the extensive prairies
of Western America, mid the vast plains and undulating
surfaces of Australia, where labour is scarce and ex-
pensive.
M'Callum, Manchester School of Design. A piece of artistic
work. Upon a fiat gold frame work, 4 ft. G in. by tilt. Gin.,
and one foot of surfisee, are arabesque tracings in oil
colour, surrounding eight vignettes, painted upon panels.
The lower centre one, two feet wide by six-and-a-half
inches deep, represents Manchester in 0.10; the upper
centre, Manchester in 1851. The left lower corner, and
the correspunting upper one, contain views on the river
Irwell at the wine periods. Each of these show distinct
marks of the progress of smoke and stetum—the advance
of population and industry upon solitude and sunlit
foliage. In the corresponding corners of the right we
find the birth-place of Sir Robert Peel, Chamfer
Hall, one of the first Lancashire printworkr, in its
past and prment appearance. The centre of the
side portion of the frame work, contains (Mtagollal
panels, with views of Fennel-street and Mosley-street
iu 1750 and 1851. The arabesque figures before alluded
to are emblematic, representing Genii gathering cotton
from the pods, and in the graceful arrangement of which
the ornament ispartly composed. In another portion we
Wet a,louy end girl engaged in operations connected
e proem of calico pnating. Through the frame-
work is seen a revolving surface four or five hundred feet
in length, upon which arc placed a vast quantity of de-
signs, upwardsof 12,000 in number, specimens of the
various styles of prints produced during the last hundred
years. These patterns are from 31 to 21 inches, to 8
inches by 4, according to the character of the design, and
are arranged to show its gradual progress, as well as in
reference to the derivation of the ornament. On the
left, for instance, we have those derived from pure geo-
metric forms; in the centre those derived from the ima-
gination of the artist, or from the effects of natural phe-
nomena, fossil remains, and other miscellaneous objects •
whilst the right exhibits such as are taken front floral
forms.
M'Gregor, Perth. A ram's head and horns, fitted up as a
anufbmoll and cigar-ease, the lids of both compartments
consisting of cairngorms set iu gold. The horns are
double twined. The mountings are silver. In Glasgow,
Mr. Baird has turned a ram's head to similar account.
In his specimen, the horns are full grown, and tipped
with the thistle cut in frosted silver, and surmounted with
amethysts. The snuff "mull" in the front is inlaid with
a cairngorm. The ornamenting is principally laid in
gold ; 36 ounces of silver have been used in the construc-
tion of the ornaments ; 120 stones are imbedded in the
gold and silver; and so minutely has the artist gone to
work, that 940 bits are found in the mounting.
Olner, Lydia, Liskeard. Lace collar, chemisette, pair of
sleeves. The exhibitor worked these specimens with one

Oilaria, R., Plymouth. Three cases. The first case con-
tains a series of samples of tin ores, in the various stages
of the dressing operations, for the purpose of illustrating
the process invented by him for dressing tin ores contain-
ing wolfram, or the tungstate of iron. In this process,
by a chemical operation, the tungstate of iron is converted
into tungstate of soda, which is soluble in water, from
which it is obtained in the form of a salt, by crystalliza-
tion. The second case contains a set of samples of Dart-
moor peat, and the products of its destructive
consisting of the top and under cuts of peat, charcoal,
acetate of lime, sulphate of ammonia, pyrosylic spirit,
chloroform made from it, peatine, a solution of caoutchoue
in peatine, heavy oil, paruffine, and tar. The third case
contains samples of the sugar oduced by the improved
process of refining invented by Messrs. It. and J. Orland,
in which the acetate of alumina is used, as a substitute
for the blood and animal charcoal usually employed.
Platt's Hill Mine, Wincham—Specimen of rock salt. It is
octagonal in shape, weighs above two tuns, and is fik
feet high by 2 feet 4 inches in diamatcr.
Redgrave, John, Worcester. Specimens of lamb-skin
gloves. Amongst the specimens is a new description of
ladies' gloves for riding or driving, with gauntlets at-
tached, stamped round the edge in a ruffle pattern.
Royce, George, Fletland. A smut machine, on a new prin-
li the chief feature is exhausting the air from the'
centre of a cylinder armed with iron beaters, revolving
1.200 times per minute. This cylinder is enclosed in an-
other, with peculiar perforations, through which all the
dust and dirt in the corn are driven. Every smut-ball
and all the clods of dirt are broken up by the iron beaters,
and at the same time they scour the fibrous end of the
corn clean and bright.—A machine for Teeing corn and
weds. The novelty in this machine is the combined
motion given to a sieve, whereby the corn is made to turn
over and revolve round. By the centrifugal power, the
good corn is carried to the outside; the sprouted and
mouldy corn and rubbish is, on the contrary, worked to
the centre of the sieve, when it is taken up by an ex-
hausting apparatus, the small seeds and dust going through
the wire bottom of the sit ye.
Smith, J. 8., and Co., 33, Busingholl-strect,London. Spe-
cimens of woollen cloth, rendered waterproof without
being airproof, the texture and appearance as usual.
This is accomplished by a non-absorbent property being
impart(' to the fibres, while the interstices of the cloth

remain open as before.
Steevens, Taunton, a cabinet made of fine walnut wood,
grown in the neighbourhood of Taunton, elaborately
carved, representing youth, manhood, maturity, and old
age; also the seasons of the year, in carving and needle-
work, the passions, &c., crowned with a figure Peace
extending over the globe. The figure of a youth, at 20
years of age, whose countenance bespeaks tfie innocency
and candour of his heart, wears in his hair the emblems
of the season—the violet, primrose, cowslip, &e.—hold-
Ma in hi, right hand a portion of a festoon of flowers
which connects the whole four figures, and extending his
left hand to the figure of manh.,od, at the age of 40 years,
and wearing in his hair the emblems of summer; carna-
tions, strawberries, gooseberries, &e„ surround his brow;
his right hand is receiving the festoon of flowers from
youth, and with his left he is supporting the frame of
cabinet, the festoon of flowers continuing and extending
to the figure of Maturity—a figure of 60 years of age—
whose right hand supports the frame of cabinet, and his
left hand extends to old age. Then follows the figure of
Old Age—the winter of life at 86 years—who is receiving
from the hand of Autumn the festoon of fruit and flowers
and with his right hand supports the remaining part of
the festoon. Aroma' his brow are tho emblems of winter,