The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

Troyon'e flee picture of "Oxen going to the Plough,"
from the Luxembourg ; "Fortune and the Little
Child," a picture painted in emulation and almost
in imitation of Titian's "Sacred and Profane Love ;"
and a very interesting picture of " St. John ;"
"Charles V. and Louis 11V." by Robert Fleury ;
" Good News—Magenta," by lAngee ; " Arab
Scouts," a good example of the distinguished
I painter Boulanger; the monkey " Alchymist"
by Rousseau ; a " Nymph carried away by a Satyr"
by Cabanel, prurient in subject and treatment,
but exquisite technically. There are two portraits
by Horace Vernet, of Marshals Booquet and
Macidahon, Duc de Magenta, but " The Battle of
the Alma" in the catalogue has, we believe, not yet
arrived ; there are three of the minute and marvel-
lously perfect pictures of Meissonier ; and charming
examples of Trayer, Lambinet,Ziem, Marilhet, and
Edouard Frbre. When we say that there are six
pictures by Delaroche, it need scarcely be added
that these are the most noteworthy in the wholh
French collection. The first is a rait of M.
Pdreire, wonderfully individu • , instinct with
life ; " A Martyr" in the reign of Diooletiaa, is
founded on an ancient Christian legend, that a
nimbus floated over the head of a drowned female
martyr, as is just now popular in the form
of engraving The "Marie Antoinette "is not one
of the painter's beat works, but three
small dark pictures under the others, which might
easily be overlooked, are among the most extra-
ordinary productions of human genius, altogether
unparalleled, on the same diminutive scale, for the
intensity of their pathetic expression and mar-
vellous subtlety of tone ; these are "The Virgin in
Contemplation before the Crown of Thorns ;" " Good
Friday," celebrated in the midst of persecution by_
early Christians ; and the "Return from Calvary.
We see the distinguished names of Delacroix and
Decamps in the catalogue, but their works are not
yet placed.

well represented by more than 20 places in this part
of India.
The tea districts of India—euch as Assam, Syl-
bet, and Kangra--eend numerous samples of their
prodooe; their oils, gums, and medicinal substances,
with many specimens never before exhibited.
Madras is well represented iu raw produce—parti-
cularly in timber and dyes. Indigo and coffee
have their places ; also spices, distillations, fruits,
oil, and sugar.
The fine arts of this collection are represented by
• variety of carvings, pictures, and photographs.
The paintings on ivory from Delhishow how
much that branch of native talent has improved
during the last ten years, and a landscape and the
interior of a temple will particularly attract atten-
tion. Many of the paintings are faithful copies of
photographs taken at Lucknow. Of sculpture there
is a large variety in atone, ivory, marble, and
various kinds of woods ; and • group of ivory
carvings from Berhampore are remarkable examples
of laborious finish. Silver filagree work, as usual,
shows the same minuteness and accuracy of design
and execution. Elaborate carvings in black wood,
sandal wood, and in a material termed "ratangln,"
from Malabar, add to the richness of the collection;
and also the articles in inlaid ivory, and in
enamelling in the precious metals. Their Highnesses
Meer Ali Morad, of Kbyrpoor, and the Rao of
Kutch, are leading exhibitors of arms and armour
under this latter hesd, the last-named presenting
costly specimens of sidllinthegold and silversmith's
art. The Kuftgori" work. or steel inlaid with
gold, from the Punjanb, will certainly be an object
of interest to general visitors ; and the ladies will
look with longing eyes on a piece of muslin from
the same quarter, which is so fine that when laid
on a piece of grass and watered it almost disappears,
or melts into • musty bloom.
Nearly all branches of manufactures show an ad-
vance upon 1851—especially carpets, turnery, laoe-
work, straw manufactures, and paper.
Amongst the models of useful appliances are a
portable kitchen ; and amongst the works of art
and skill, au exquisite temple from Bormah, a
curious pith model, and some copper and clay
figures.

suitable present for transmission to those who are
denied that satisfaction. In a postscript Mr.
Hollingshead has well expressed a thought which
was in many a mind yesterday :
The opening of this Temple of Industry will teach many
al us, if we need tucking, that the great scheme of creation
never stands still. Many youths will have risen into man-
hood since 1851, many ripe men will have shrank into old
age, and many honoured and once familiar faces will have
vanished from the crowd. We shall look in vain for one
kingly presence—the keystone of the ceremony—end shall
be reminded with much sorrow, but with 11/0f• hope, that
we are raiding • monument to his memory. When the
muter dies the ship is not left • spectral hulk upon the
stocks; she is launched to carry his name into the remotest
occurs of the earth.
We cannot easily overrate the courage and istellecturi
originality of • Prima who has taught thousands that there
is no wisdom in despising the followers of trade. He did
nothing to soil his royal dignity when he shook bends with
conernerai, and pointed out to art-industry the road it should ,
take. He guided his private conduct by the highest moral
principles, and his public acts by that suggestive raying of
his own great countryman, Goethe :—" We should do our
utmost to encourage the benatital, for the usefalenecriniges
itself." We mourn his loss, bat only in a selfish spirit, and
eery him his end, dying is the lap of his peaceful victories,
in the full glory of a spothes and consistent life.

ROY AL ENTERTAINMENTS AT STAITORD-
HOUSE.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland gave a
magnificent banquet and evening numbly to an inns-
trious and distinguished circle, comprising many of
the foreigners gathered together by the opening of
the Exhibition, yesterday evening at Stafford-house,
St. James's. The Duchess, through the Earl Gran-
ville, Chairman of Her Maiesty's COUIT110001)000 for
the International Exhibition, invited the whole of the
foreign acting ammnissioners to participate in the
hospitalities of the ducal nimsiou. The banquet, at which
coven were laid for fifty person., was served up in a princely
style in the noble banquatting room. His Royal Highness
the Crown Prince of Primal& arrived shortly before 8 o'clock,
attended be Count Puctkr. Their Royal Henhouse the
Dunbar of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-
134relitz, end the Princem Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine
Eloen.set Lady Caroline Cast, and Colonelor IL Purvis came
Highness the Duke before the boor appointed
Cambridgel and his Royal
Highness Prince Oscar of Sweden armed at 8 o'clock.
The distineishsd circle invited to meet the royal Tinton
included his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the
Baroness Brunnow his Excellency the Austrian Amino-
solar sod the Couniens d'Apponyi, the Duke and Duchess
of Wellington, the Duchess of Manchester, the Marquis of
Hertington, the Marchionem of Ely. the Earl Granville,
the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Lady Con-
stance Grosvenor, the FAA 01 Mum, Count Pahlen, Count
Brechenyi, Count Brandenburg (the Prussian Charge
d'Affaires), Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount
and Viscountess Clifdea, Viscount Canterbury, Loyd
, Duffsrin, Lady Blanche Egerton, Imell Dullerim Dr- 41=
' the ladies in attendance on the Duchess of Canibridge,
the noblemen and gentlemen in waiting on the Crown Prince
of prmaia, Prince Oscar of Sweden, and the Duke of

THE COLONAL DISPLAY AT THE INTER-
NATIONAL IMBIBITION.

About 13,000 square impedicial feet of space have
been given to the British colonies, the East Indian
group getting about 300 feet.
Most of the industrial divisions in the Exhibi-
tion are well filled by nearly all the colonies exhi-
bit;ng ; and the collection of raw produce is parti-
cularly rich and interesting.
The Eastern colonies begin with Hong Kong,
which shows a small but interesting collection of
Chinese produceand manufactures, and takes under
its wing a number of British merchants, officers,
and some exhibitors who show choice and very
attractive specimens of Chinese industry and silk,
rich velvets, silk and gold embroidered carpets,
porcelain, china, enamels, and articles of raw pro-
duce.
Ceylon has forwarded a very large and interesting
collection of colonial products—coffee and cinna-
mon, woods and fibres, pearls, kc. Mauritius sends
beautiful specimens of sugar, fruits, and vegetable
substances.
The Australian colonies exhibit one of the meet
lextensive and finest collections of the whole group,
and ou the collecting, arranging, and despatching of
these a very large amount of money has been ex-
pended.
New South Wales a beautifully arranged collec-
tion of its gold products from all the principal
fields in the several shapes of nuggets, quartz, grain
gold, washing stuff, coin from the Sydney mint, kc.
It sends an excellent assortment of Australian
wines, the best of its wools and fleeces, and cloth
made from it, and stuffed alpacas and the shorn
fleeces of the flocks now in the colony • coal,
minerals, native woods, and various agricultural
produce and manufactures.
Queensland, which appears for the first time in
Europe, hail come forward most creditably with its
ornamental and useful woods, wool, cotton, and
tropical products.
South Australia is principally strong in its rich
mineral products of copper and lead, and malachite
manufactures, and its wheat and flour, for which
it has always been' noted.
Western Australia also sends specimens of woods,
lin which it is especially rich, some of the spars and
planks being very fine. Its other products asaimi-
tate to those already mentioned.
Victoria has gone to great expense to forward an
enormous collection • the only difficulty being to
find room for one-half the goods sent. One of the
most striking objects is a gilded obelisk represent- THE HAND-BOOKS OF THE EXHIBITION.
rug the actual amount of gold found in the colony
since 1851—about 800 tons, or 103 millions star l- As every visitor to the Exhibition will, it may
ing. lta manufactures and general industry are be presumed, provide himself with a baud-book, a
well represented, and a more extensive and varied brief notice of the three leading publications which
collection has never before been sent from any will be offered for sale in the buildinf)epzity
British colony to Europe. be useful The Industrial and Fine Arta
Tasmania sends, besides its wool, manufactures ments have each their separate shilling catalogues,
and agricultural produce, a noble trophy, rising go and to each is prefixed a ground and gallery plan,
or 100 feet, made of its native woods, with a cir- which gives a fair idea of the arrangement. An
cular staircase in the interior. Two whale boats, account of the various facilities offered in the
with all their gear, are slung from it, and a fine building, as well as the ions which will be
native spar, surmounted with a flag, rises from the enforced, accompanies ther;tlua The Industrial
centre. Catalogue, compiled by Mr. Sidney Whiting, con-
New Zealand sends from several of its provinces tains also a list and plan of the main trophies
wool, wood, coal, gold, and agricultural produce. in the building, and then follow 380 pages of cats-
The African settlements which exhibit are logue proper' in which every object in the Exhibi-
.
Natal, which, though a comparatively young colony, tion finds its place
has taken great pains to get together a fitting re- The " editing" of this volume has not only in-
wesentation of its indigenous wealth and native in- volved the severest drudgery, but ban required the
auxtry. Tropical industry, agriculture, and the faculty fora rrangement, and a large store of mis-
rriducts of the chase are chiefly represented, and a cellaneous knowledge. Wonderful specimens of
counter or carved sideboard of native wood, French and German English were constantly
with glazed panels, covering charts, photographs, dropping in, and the names and addresses of ex-
am' water-oolour drawings of natives and scenery bibitors, with the briefest possible description of
forms a striking object. The Cape colony is mire- articles to be exhibited On confined, by official
presented, except by a few individual exhibitor, command, to sixteen words) were not always very
St. Helena and one or two of the other West easy to read. Of the difficulty of deciphering the
African settlements have sent small contributions, handwriting of several of these correspondents
The Mediterranean possessions which exbibit are many instances might be given more or leas curious.
Malta and the lonian slauds. The former shows The guaranteed edition of this catalogue is to reach
stone, lace, silver work, and other products of 250,000 copies ; its ordinary advertising pages are
industry, with some agricultural specimens. The let at 601. each ; the page next to the type has been
lonian Islands haves tine collection, not only of let for 3001. ; and we see it stated that Mr. Ben-
agricultural, but of manufacturing industry, sent nett, of Cheapside, has paid the enormous sum of
by about 170 exhibitors. The embroidery and 1,000 guineas for the last page in each of the two
silver filigree work, the silks, and other articles, publications, for the purpose of advertising his
are very elegant. clocks and watches.
The North American colonies generally have sent The Shilling Fine Art Catalogue displays the
a large collection, and are all well represented. contributions to the British fine arts department,
Canada has been rather tardy, but the Lower Pro- under the classes Architecture, Painting, Art De-
vinces have taken great pains to send such collet- signs, Sculpture, and Engraving. We are uot in-
tious as may give a fair idea of their chief product& formed of the name of the compiler, but the hiato-
Timber, minerals, the products of the fisheries, rival and critical chapters introductory to the five
agricultural and other implements, hardware, and classes just named, and the general chapter which
homespuns, form their main products. preceded' the foreign collection, bear the initials of
The West Indian possessions exhibit, if not much Mr. Francis T. Palgrave, of Exeter College. These
variety, still many interesting articles. Their full and perspicuous chapters are of themselves
staples of coffee, sugar, rum, arrowroot, and cocoa worth five times the price of the volume, and will
possess, it is true, little novelty ; but their be in the hands of all who feel that in visiting a
woods and fibres are interesting, and their gums, picture gallery the assistance of a rich and dia-
oils, drugs, and other raw materials will be exa- criminating mind is not superfluous.
mined with industry by many manufacturers. " A concise History of the International Exhibi-
We next come to India pamper, which has 10,000 tiou of 1862," by Mr. John Hollingshead, is a
superficial feet of space allotted to it, a deduction volume on which her Majesty's commissioners have
from the British half of the building. The manage- not grudged expense. It is a small quarto, printed
meut of this large and important part of the Exhi- by Messrs. Clowes and Sons, on finepaper, with forty e, ML
A.AISING OF OMNIBUS FAR —Yesterday, p ur-
bitiou has been given to Dr. J. Forbes Watson the illustrations. It is here that we must look for the
reporter on India products, who has devoted so most elaborate and detailed plans and designs of piny raised the omnibus fares on newly the whole of their
swot to public notice, the London General Omnibus Corn-
much attention to a due development of the staples the Exhibition building ; and here, also, will be in some mass the rise beizararly to double the
of India, and has lately been so closely occupied in found en ravings and historical illustrations of the
tur Jot of
ae the old faresi.o.Thiweeniteg
ba. thhithertt
re-arranging the valuable East India Museum at intermediate exhibitions of Dublin,
Munich, been 3d., t yestlay was the lowest charge. The
Fife House, Whitehall-yard. Florence, Paris, Manchester, and New York. Mr. popular twopenny 'burrs on the south side of the Thames
Any one who remembers the Indian display in Hollin. gshead has investigated some of the earliest running between the Elephant and (hatle end 'Copland
the old Exhibition, or who saw it at Paris in 1855, and least-known exhibitions, international as to and Harlow have also raised their fares, in some Mee up to
or who hail visited the Indian Museum, will ac- their object, if not in respect of their design ed. I_l2,_urth"^":
7.2Ztioemn aimed thone tan lad hartbell thus
knowledge that this part of the Exhibition is most and of the exhibition, notices one held at . ."
raisea° experienced a sensible diminution in the number of
encouraging. The richest dreams of eastern mug- Leyden in 1699, when there were "a pair of Lap- pa meng,
nificence are almost realised in the jewels, armour, lan's breeches and a pair of Polonian boots, with ROYAL INSTITUTION 07 GRIAT BILITAIN.—At the
silks, and muslin' exhibited, while the raw pro- the chair of a midwife, and a model of a murdering annual meeting of this institution esetenw, the peke d
'duos shows the capabilities of the country, and. knife found in England, whereon was written, Northumberland, K.G., tioe-Presideet, is the
the general manufacturers the industry of the Kil the males, root the females, and burn the chair, the annualreportof kiti7entaittes visitors al
natives. whelps.' There were a Roman lamp, ' which Yw
membiZiandwumianaluaan4is 1 1 amountea°"totn3,oltril:,
The long gallery north of the nave contains this burner alwayee under ground; the stomach of
.s. the receipts for subeeriptkea to leceuses were 7401.115. &I. ;
valuable and interesting collection. man ; a mushroom said to be a hundred years OM; the total income for the year amounted to 46931. 9a. On
The chief exhibitors on this occasion are a num- a pot of China beer ; the snout of a sawfish ; the December, 31, 1861, the funded property wee 22,6661.
Mr of eminent importing firms, and the India skin of a woman, prepared like leather ; and the Ile- ; the Wenn et the beans; 8681. 18s. &1.,
useum. ears and tongue of a thief who bad been hanged." _wdted"l..comEgtheariesßal 4221; f_hoeke
Bombay stands out with many samples of native Three fourths of the work, however, are strictly t;",,,ty,,,. evening 71,;„„..r.,—were Sixty-three
cotton—raw and manufactured—the towelling, illustrative of the Exhibition which opens to-day, year 1861. Thanks were weed to the president, treasurer,
duck, and canvas from Broach, being varied and and describe its beginning, its organisation, and its and secretary, to the committees of manager' and visitors,
Ind to Professor Faraday, fora their services to the institution
remarkable. The plain arid embroidered muslin. features. The broad and oomprepensive &scrip-
from Kutch, Surat, and other places, as well as the I time, and the numerous engravings which show
wen uringthene pit year. The ra for the year
Northumberlasel, tae treasurer, William
the president being the of
embroideries generally on velvet, silk, leather, and the exhibition under variety of aspic* make this
cloth, show a high degree of excellence both in de- volume a good preparatiou for a visit, a souvenir role, Esq., N.A., FAA; sad the Seceetery, Beery Bence
sign and execution. Woollen and silk fabrics are for those who lace seen the euldkatien, and a Jews, IL IL, N.D.,14.11

After dinner M'Allister, the Duke's p, played •
variety of marches and national airs in en adjoining apart-

me"
At ten o'clock the duchess throw open her saloons for the
reception. Amon_g the numerous visitors.were his Royal
Highness Prince Frederick of Holstein, his Excellency the
Turkish Ambassador and Madame Munroe, his Focellency
the Belgian Minister, his Excellency the Bavarian Minister,
his Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the
Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Danish Minister, the
Greek Charge d'Affaires, his Excellency the Hanoverian
Minister, his Excellency the United States Minister, Mr.
; Count Corti, Count Appon Countess filaboult
sad Hon- Mir E. Flinn% M. sod Madams de Novibny,
Count Cronstedt, Mr. C. F. Warn, Baron Billing, Brea
Brinkman, Count Muffle, M. de Sommeran, Geo.
M. Ludanian, M. Wenner, M. L. Tidemark
Enna, M. E. Westerholts, M. Schwarz. Col. Morse Pm
the Duke of Newcastle, the Duchess of
Duchess of Somerset and Lady Helen St. Maw, the
of St. Alban sad Lady Dina Bencesdr, the Mentednand
Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marehionsref
yWnster sod lady T. Grosvenor the Mushiness
aestmiris) of Allegory, the &rind Countess of Mum s%
the Countess of Dysart, the Earl and Countess Gm the
Countess of Rowney and lady Louisa Primrose, lass
Prison" the Earl and Countess of Windham' sail Lady I
Flames Paget, the Earl sod Conning Stanhope and Lady
Mary Stank the Countess of Galloway and Lairs
Stewart (two),ope hie Earl of Annealey, the Earl of &Rath-
man, the Cassia. of Newburgh, the Earl sod °counter
d Westmorelena, the Earl of Cork, the Earl and Countess
at ffeaffinasr2 sod Lady Victoria Ashley, the Earl and
Cessims el Sys. the Fort and Counten of Bestirs,
the Counts= Ashburnivina sod lady M. Ashburn*" the
Countess Vinson and Bon. Miss G. Flabault, the Earl
Cowper, the Countess Craven and Ladies Craven, the
Courtin Cowper and Ladies Cowper, the Countess
(Dowager) of Lichfield and Lady G. Anson, Vis-
count Sidney, Viscount sod Viscounts= Fafield, Vis-
count and ViscountessCestlerosse, Viscouot nod Vis-
count
Bury, Viscountess Comberniers, Viscount Chelsea,
Viscountess Forbes and Hon. Mires Forbes, Viscountess
Stratford de Radcliffe and Hoc. MiesseCauning, Viscountess
Folkestone arid Mies Bonne, Viscount Mahon, Vaaam-
tar Dungannon sod His Irvin, Viscount Dupplin, Lord
and Lady Cremona*, Lord and Lady Begot, lord and Lady
Charles Unice, Lord and Lady Meaner*, Lord Alfred Pa.,
Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, Lord sod Led?,.11022,
Lard and lady Cecilia Bingham, lady Charlotte
Lord and Lady Keay" Lord and Lady 1,1., Lo7I'M
Lady Harry 'Vans, Lord Edward St. Maur, Lord and lady
C. Russell sad Miss Russell, Lord and Lady
Taros sad Hon. Moses Tattoo (two). Lady
Rumen, Lord and lady Wenlock, lady Side. sad
Miser Milks (two), Lard Llanover, lord Alexander Gar-
don Lennox, lady Arthur Lennox, said Mimes Lennox (two),
Lady Ron Fane, Lord De Tinley and Hoe. Miss Warr"
Lord and Lady .1 oho Thynne and Miss Thynne,
Georgina Codringtou, lady Howard, lady Lyndhoralt
Hon, Miss Copley, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Lon Ravens.
worth and ;Hon. Miss Liddell. Lord and Lady Wahine/a"
lady Rivers, Hon. Mires Pitt (two), Lady ern Ramey,
Colonel the Right Hon. C. W. Forger*, the ladled Loftus
(two), the Right Hon. Sir Ohas. and lady Mary Wood sad
Miss Wood, the Right Hon. W. R. and Mrs. Obidstone
and Mir Gladstone, Sir J. Patton, Sir Chas. W. Duks%
Sir
Sir D. Cooper,Roderick Murchison, Su P. De
Lady Egerton and His. Egerton, Sir Richard and
e
12
Mayo" sod Miss Mayne, Sir Jas. W. and Lady Hogg
fillitelsollas
S(to), Sir Jas. and Lad Matheson Wa A.
Sires J. V. B. and Lady Johnstone ind Miss
Johnstone, Sir Edward and Lady C. Kennon, Sir A. and
Lady Rothschild, Sir Edward and lady T• 1111100. lady
Churchill, lady Des Vceux, Lady Katherine Ri-
cardo, and Lady A. Duff, Lord and Lady Taunton,
and Hon. Misses Labounere (two), Conn and Countess
Waletein, Hon. Mr. P. sod Miss °althorn, Colonel the
Hon. E. Coke. Colonel the Hon. and Ma. Jocelyn, Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Maude, Hon. Mr. Anion, Hoe. L. Ellis,
Hon. Hy. Eliot, Hon. F. Byeg, Hon. Evelyn Miley. Ma.
Hon. Captain Ceet4 captain and Lady Jane love= and
Ladies ridding. Colooel sod Lady Jane Dundee, °okra
and Hoc. Mrs. Tomlinand Hoe. Mir Gage, Mr. and Lady
Balfour and Miss Balfour, Mr. and lady Cecilia
iiien?otran, Mr. George Drumnioogl, Mr. and Ma loch and I
Miss Loch, Mr. and Mrs. Bateso Rev. Dr. Canadair,
Mr. Bidwell, Hon. Mr. Egerton. Mrs. D. O. Ma=rnasca,
Mr. and Miss Campbell (of Islay), Mr. Lase Hr.
and Mn. D. Bromley, Mrs. and Mir S. and L. Glys, Mr.
Punier, Hon. F. L. erns, Mr. Mason (of tbsOosfe- irate
States), Mires Williams (2), Colossi and Mrs. Caulfield, Mr.
Fairborn and Mrs. T. Fairburn, Coat and Miss Led
cella. Mr. J. Mr. Mills, Mr. Mr. Bank Mr.
Sandford. Mr. and Mrs. Wollaston Blake, Mr. Graham, Mr.
and Mrs. lineage, Yes. Hy, Baring, Mr. Wood, Baron
Nathaniel Rothschild, the Right Hon. Hy. A. and Mrs.
Herbert, Miss Herber, Mr. and Mrs. B. Cochrane, Mr.
and Mies Soon Russell. Hon. Riad. Cavendish and Miss
Mary Cavendish, Miss S. Stanley. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt" ice.
The Duke of Oimbridge retired early.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
her daughters did not leave until close upon one o'clock.
The Crown Prince of Prussia and the Prince Oscar of
Sweden did not retire until the separation of the company.
The full band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend-
ance, and performed during the night a choice selection
from the favourite operas.
j It was very late when the company broke up.
ited I