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

No. 1,421.] [No. 12, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.]

: to make inquiries, and possibly to take evidence, upon the
subject ; still they do nut consider it expedient to attic a
note of the pprice to the articles displayed. When the ez-
HlBlTlONbibitoreonsiden
the merit
cheapness, end founds a claim on this ground, be must state
the price in the invoice sent to the commis...loners. Should
any exhibitor desire to employ • servant of his own to pre-
serve or keep in order the articles he exhibits, or to explain
them to visiton., he may du so idler obtaining permission
from the commissioners. Such persons, howeser, will in all
wares be forbidden to incite visitors to purchase the goods of
their employers, the exhibition being intended for the put-'
poses of display only, and not for those of sale; sny violation
of this or any other rule must lead t their exclusion from
!the building.
There is nothing, however, in these rules to pre-
. vent exhibitors from furnishing visitors with cards,
containing the prices of their goods. Indeed, it is
pretty generall7 known that, with that view, some
of the large firms engaged in the manufacture of
agricultural implements have voluminous catalogues
in preparation, intended for circulation amongst
the visitors, containing. amongst other information,
the prices of the articles exhibited.
The sale of the season tickets is progressing in the
I most satisfactory manner ; a sum nearly approaching
room. has been already received for them.
Luring the week the pewees of testing the gal-
leries by means of a great moving weight, composed
of 881 b. balls in frames, has been carried on ut inter-
vals. Not the slightest indications of any Haw or
weakness have been detected. The total weight cm-
&podia 7 tons.

THE

EX

EXPRESS,

FOR THE WEEK ENDLNO

SATURDAY, MARCH 15.

PROGRESS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The two great orations into which the building in
Hyde Perk is divided offer at the present moment,
even e, the must unobservant visitor, a very remark-
able coutree. 'flu foreign or eastern division is
charautelie '1 by on arattot unbroken quiet. Hue-
Ands or painters pur:ue their noiseless avocation,
on ecalfoltlinga erected beneath the roof. A
few Gentian carpenters are languidly occupied in ;
tacking tegether flimsy-looking partitions in the
Austrian compartment, and oecaelonally a party
of red•coated Koppers and minens, with true
military nonchalunce and indifference, drag on
trucks, to their appointed hoardings, such pack-
ages of foreign goods as have undergone the
ordeal of examination by the Cusegsa-house
officers. Leaving this unattractive scene behind, the
'visitor crosses the transept, and entering the British
half of tee building, feels at once, from intimation"
of the newt unmistakeable nature, that he is in an-
other region—a little world of bustling life, energy,
and pr....Tres% upon which, if imaginative, he may
fancy the Genius of Industry to be smiling with
complacent ;admiration. The clangour of hundreds of
hummers, wielded by sinewy arms, meads his ears—
large gangs of workmen are employed ill lifting
piers or heavy machinery by. the aid of powerful
tackling and purchases--peripatetic machines of
bone and muscle, and familiarly known as "navvies,"
fling front their shoulders to the ground with
seeming carelessness huge planks, which, as they
fall, make an astounding crash. Excavators
are oinking foundations, nuesons are buildin u,t
walls, and quick-eyed and thoughtful-looking
artisans are everywhere superintending the arrange-
ment of their darling productions. Nearly the whole
of the heavy machinery which is to be exhibited is
now in the building. Yesterday the lifts of the
heaviest !portions of the Great Britannia Hydraulic
Press acre successfully effected, and the entire
apparatus will be fixed in a few days. Nearly all
the beautiful cotton machinery sent in by Messrs.
Ilibbert and Platt, 4 Oldham, is arranged in working
order. Two.,huge penile upon a novel principle,
and described by their inventors as "centrifugal
pumps.; are in course of erection. A brewing appa-
ratus, by means of which malt liquor can be manu-
factured with extraordinary rapidity, is approaching
completion. In the west-end of *the galleries, and
directly theing the great central avenue, workmen
are busily engaged in rearing an organ, of ex-
traordinary dimensitres and great alleged
power. it has leen constructed by Mr.
Willis, of Manchester-street, Battle-bridge, and
will weigh mole than :et tons. It rests upon the
ordinary supports of the gallery, extending over
little more than one of the 24 feet bays, and when
finished, will offer an unanswerable refutation
of the groundleasa doubts and fears in which teme
persons leave indulged respecting the stability of
them• portions of the building. In the western vesti-
huh., two large bells, from the foundry of Mr. Mur-
phy, of Iralille, have a place assigned to them ; but
If their tones be no purer than the poesy with which
they are illscrilit.d, the seldunter they are sounded,
the better it will be for musical eters. The following
distiels in gilt lettering. appears upon the larger bell:
At length hear joy resound from Erin's voice ;
Allan coninuunb, and Ireland's bells njoice.
In the central passage the foundation is being laid
for a monster telescope, which will be erected by
Mr. Roes, the optician, who has constructed the
glasses for it ; one of w hith will be 12 inches in
diameter. 'the iron-work conies frdni the establish-
ment of Mews. Hansom and May, of Ipswich. Im-
mediately adjoining will be placed a large and ele-
gantly erna ttttt•atted cast-iron dome from the Coal-
brook Yale Foundry. A number of elegant castings
front the' NUM: establishment will be enclosed in it.
It is. in fart. intended to render this dome an illus-
trated epitome of the artistic ability of the employes
of those celebrated works. The permanent railway
fur the display of machinery, the construction of
whirls has been undertaken by the Great Northern
ltailwav l'onipany, has also been commenced.
lis all the eompartments devoted to raw materials
the I,m tenet possible energy is being directed to the
accoutplistiment of the arduous task of arrange-
ment. 'The vast mass of light and fancy
artichoo—comprieing glass, elks, jewellery, fur-
niture. cloths, We., must remain untouched until the
tainting of the interior shall have been completed.
Inuit this portion of the works all the hands which
it is la...bible to procure at the present season of uni-
versal repair and renovation are employed, and it
will he completed in all probability before the close
of the month. In the western galleries also the note
of preparation begins to be pounded. The rows of
taunters, table*. and glass MOM are enlarging from
day to due, and there now remains no room for
doubting that in every part of the western division of
the building the netereary arrangements will be
completed previous to the Ist of May.
The principal foreign arrivals during the week
have lain front Tunis, the Fast Indies. and Malta.
From the East Indies, 83 packages hare been re-
ceie ed ; and front Malta, 49. Some pieces of sculpture
have been transmitted from Home, one of the groups
being the private property of Prince Albert. The
Zollvervin and Belgium continue steadily to send in
their goods. A few packages have been received
from Ilesac and Frankfurt. Hanover and I.ubeck
base contributed as set only one ease of goods each.
The hoardings for Greece, Turkey, 'turbid, Norway, Tee PROTECTION OP VISITORS, provincial and
and Sweden, are still almost entirely empty. foreign, is a subject already occupying the thoughts of those
The United State; frigate St. Lawrence having intrusted with the administration of the law. Sergeant
arrived at Southampton, conveying the TT's"- l Adams, the assistant judge of the Middlesex sessions, stated
atlantic contributions. the Anwrm compartment i trom the bench, on Tuesday last, that the court had deter-
mill doubtlChn noon display a go-a-head liet"itT. I mined to pass, in every proved case of pocket-picking at the
which will serve as a useful example to its 'tuna- f'Eihibition. or in the park during its continuance, • sett-
still neighbours. We were informed that several I fir, of nine months' hard labour; and, where it was found
consignments front France reached the building that I 1 such offenders hadbeen previously covicted, the punish.
during the week, but none of them were extensive. 1 meat would be transportation. The leaned judge added
'The e unitniesioners of t lee countries which arelagging : • . .
that the period of the Exhibition would be long enough to
behead should bear in mind that the Executive Cunt-
, allow him to judge of the effect of this policy, and, if it
mittee have arrived at the decisions which they
have I should prove ineffectual, there would be more than one op-
prontulguted only after the most careful considers-
tion. and they are. therefore, entitled to demand W
police have increased the efficiency of their other arrange.
rigid adherence to rules upon the strict obeervance
meats by the completion of a commodious station-houses
of which, they have convinced themselves, the success
c capable of Y modsting thirty -tire constable's, in Walton-
of the great undertaking depends. Amongst these
rubs is one which they are inflexibly bent upon
'tree, B ton. A second
temporary station is to be
earrving out, namely-, that all intending exhibitors , bulk n. ear PL. ee'"gate. for the purpose of taking e
will be excluded from the building where ' THE GREAT ETRIBITION.—FORETEN Goons.—
are nut on the ground before the Ist of Strs On the arrival of the contributions to the Great Exhibition
Such persons, if any such there shall be. will suffer ltitladinngee.froonmpert.,..igen. acts,pure it hasonhevi.nrgoumndathin several
a
the ntortification or i,seing the space which, had anrt' eel,. tiave:Prommthwe insec mnode DLL which thety weree
they st iselr "taken time by the forelock," might placed in the packages previously to shipment, became
hate been illustrated by their productions, surrounded damaged to some rattan an their way here more especially
instead by a blank hocirding. I with reference to marble figures and ;mule; kinds of mans-
A statement which was made iu the columns of,,re'tsuees, Vein,. tr,heir es mil have felt desirous of
1 'rert!cith the concerned
practicable delay, it
La Presse newspaper on Tuesday last, respecting th .."
I, .troe"cie suggested for consideration by the proper authori-
the pricing of goods to be exhibited, might, if un- , ets whether Some arrangement could not he efreeted be
contradicted, lead to serious misunderstandings, which in such instances the owners shownl--rs twe prlci.
be tete!' the Executive of the Exhibition and' lege of removingmtle articulesafrom.the,..6:,oti,;(l'ioir,,afii,r,ntle
exhibitors. La Pres4e asserts that the royal emu-
I '''",rin'sonfaibeavAting eteclldweto for their reeost within&
allami"n has authorised exhibitors to affix tickets °f ' guinssn'rlimitidgperiod, and security fur their due nturn in
prices to their produt ta. Now no such authority 1 thvt time. and we have reason to believe that this prnilege
has been given the Itoyal Cominisaioners and Exe• ' t,i2 be allowed as desired.
relive Committee., on the contrary, are determined to n
stET:T rONARE.S CONTIIIRCTION TO TOII l'..ket-
maintain the rules which they have laid down in re- BITIoN.—A contribution from Queen Pritthe to the great
fen nee to this subject, and which are as follows: exhibition has recently arrived at the n eat India Docks,
l'rii es are not to he affixed to the articles exhibited, in the ship Pearl, consigned to the building in Hyde-park.
altnowh the articles may be marked as ',flown for economy The nature of this contribution has not transpired, nor,
of production. But as the cost at which articles can be indeed, has space for it been demanded or allotted ; but A
postured will. in some eases, enter into the question of the i, proh.thie that the 'Rosa) Commsooners will endea sour to
thstrili,.tion of rewards, the commissioners, or the persons find room for an object arriiing from so distant a platy 43
Intrusted with the adjudication of the rewards, may have, Tahiti.

PARIS, 7.4!mum 14.
The differences between the French commis'

in London and the French exhibitors arc terminated.
The Royal Commission has yielded to the remon-
strances made to it. It is true that all the space
curtailed hsui not been restored, but 2,300 square
metres have been given back, where the French
machinery is' to be placed. The Royal Commission
has also attended to the demands made on it with
regard to the free circulation of the exhibitors
throughout the whole extent of the Crystal Palace.
Cards will be distributed, by means of which exhibi-
tors will be able to move up and down,without being
obliged to remain all day by their special posts.
It has been also decided that the jury of rewards
should be formed half of Englishmen and half of
foreigners, each branch having its special jury. Tho
total numlwrs of the jurors is to be 270, that of each
country being settled proportionally to the number
of exhibitors. France is expected to have thirty
jurymen. Hence the French exhibitors have every
reason to be amply satisfied; and it is to be hoped
that no more susceptibility will be evinced un their
part after having been treated with so much libera-
lity.

ROME, Fzo. 28.

I find that the Chevalier Girometti, the comple-
tion of whose unique cameo of Berenice and Ptolemy
Philadelphus I mentioned in a preceding letter, lets
decided not to forward his remarkable gem to the
London Exhibition, on account of the risk he
considers it would incur of getting misplaced
or injured amongst so many larger objects, espeei-
all• as no kind of insurance is offered to exhibitor*.
Narrow-minded as this feeling may at first appear, it
may be excused in a man of advanced years who has
dedicated several years to the production of so pre-
cious a work of art ; nor will he he alone in his de-
termination, sine• his holiness himself; when applied
to fur permission to send the twelve cameos
purchased a few wars ago from the saute artist by
Pope Gregory XVI., replied that the Chevalier Gi-
rometti's works had obtained the highest possible
praise by being deemed worthy of a place in the Va-
tican museum, and that it was therefore useless for
them to aim at the secondary approbation which
might be awarded to them by the commissioners of
the Great Exhibition !

LISBON, MARCH 8.

The exhibition of objects about to be ;co to the
Great Exposition in London has taken place here.
If they do not bear the paint in competition, at least
geniusi speuk well for the infant nuinufacturing
ge of the country ban whence they go.

THE I'OST-OFFICE AND VISITORS TO THE

EXHIBITION.

The following regulations, just issued from the
General Post-office, doubtless have reference mainly to the
expected influx of visitors during the Exhibition
•• Letters addressed ' l'ostsoftiee, London,' or ' Post Res-
tante, London,' are &Livered only at the window of
the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand. The
hours of delivery from the Post-office window are from
10 a.m. to i p.m. When the person applying for letters is
a foreigner, he must produce his passport. When a
feigner does not apply in person, but by a messenger des-
pati lied for that purpose, the messenger must produce the
passport of the person to whom the letters are addressed, as
well 33 ■ written order signed and dated by such person.
In the case of a messenger being:sent for the letters of more
persons than one, he must produce the passports and orders
from each person. lithe applicant for the letters is a subject
of the United Kingdom, he must be able to state from what
place or district he expects letters before he can receive,
them. Subjects of states not issuing passports arc treated as
subjects of the United Kingdom. If letters are directed to
individuals simply addressed ' London' (and not ' Poet-
office,' or 'Poste Restante, London') they will not be deli-
erred from the window at all, but will be sent out by letter
carrier for delivery at the address furnished by the appli-
cant. Foreign letters addressed Post-office, or Poste
Ittstante, London,' are retained for two months at the Post-
' office window. Inland letters similarly addressed are re-
tained one month at the window ; after the expiration of
these periods both classes of letters are respectively sent to
the dead-letter office, to be disposed of in the usual manner.
All persons applying for letters at the Post-office window
must be prepared to give the necessary explanations to the
clerk at the window, in order to prevent mistakes, and to
insure the delivery of the letters to the persons to whom
they properly belong. It will much facilitate the business
of the Pust-uthee, if the words "to he called for" are
added to the address of letters which are directed Post-
! office, Loudon.—General Post-office, February, 1851."