The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1851.

ance of attempting to communicate to them a character of I PRESIDENTS OF THE JURIES, APPOINTED
scientific accuracy; demanded the adoption of general prin-
BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS,
ciples of correction awl reconstruction. But the varied I
APRIL 28, 1851.
nature of the content+ of the exhibition, and of the dewrip. I.
Lions supplied, rendered this a duty difficult to be antlers Class 1. Sir H. De La Beehe, C. 8., F.R.S., 28,
taken by any single individual. A number of scientific jermyn-greet, pimadipj..
Director-General of the Geo-
gentlionen accordingly united to undertake tha correction logical Survey of the United Kingdom.
of proofs belonging to reran,' departments, princip.illyia 2. Dumas, Pais, form, rly Minister of Agriculture and
regard to the scientific in w %,. ni euracies they might c ,a, Commerce, Member of the Institut.i.
their labours being folloved by a final, geoeral, scienti.ie 3. Rusaia—numination oat yet made.
sad literary revision. Thu descriptions of cabibitors 4. Professor R. Owen, F.lt.s., College of Surgeons, Lea-
ver* therefore submitted to this process, and subse- ' don, Curator to the College of Sunreons.
quaintly prepared for press after receiving the official' 6. Rev. It. 'Howley, MA. F.R.S., Education Office,
sanction for their publication. In the Descriptive and Dula I - . privy Council, Inspector of 'Schools, and formerly l'ro-
tutted Catalogue a number of eluddlturY note's were sup' feaster tar Mechanics at King's College,
plied, which are intended toconvey a variety of iutercating . 6, General ptinceirt, !t.:: Me.aber of the Iftrat.....,
sad valuable information upon articles exhibited. ,
formerly Director of the Polytechnic School.
In this manner th., large catalogue was prepared. The 17. J. R Brunch, F.R.S., Duke-street, Westminster, civil
very condensed abstract of that work. c neer R.
tri,..„...t..vtoslourilt,e.eisaat.ithe„,,;.:.ie materials as the former, ng. Rim. Charles Dupin, Paris. President of the French
ca,;ilogue. having 'semi prepared by a;,. tr....'. W. Ita?,P front Commission, Member of the Institute, President of the
' the cot:acted and annotated slips, and it has there '
one lb°, Central Jury.
advantage of the care bestowed upon the faxincr work. I 9. P. Pusey, M.P., F.R.S., Posey, near Farringdon.
Three or four Loeb "it the average, being, for econsolle of 10. Sir David Brewster, 1, D.oset-street, Manchester-
space, the netesaary limit of the descriptions in this (ate. equare, Priucipal of the University of St. Andrews.
!nue, it, wmtents are einfined, in tile ease of each exhibi- I 11. Sir James Anderson, Lord l'rovost of Glasgow, Glas-
tor, merely to a brief indication of the name. residence, reef, cotton manufacturer.
nature of the article, and position in the building. '1 he ."
-12. Professor Hamann, Munich, ministerial councillor.
fuller details, accompanied with the illustrations, are to 13. Geo. F. Kemp, 31, Spital-amare, silk manufacturer.
b.. found in the large catalogue. 14. John Wilkinson, .Ll'„ Leeilii, flax spinner.
The motto, on the title-pages of the large catalogue, and I.i. Van lineger ten, Brusscl4. manufacturer, and mem-
of the pnacut volume, were sleeted by his Royal Iligtinci,s per of the Chamber of Commerce.
Prince Albert. 16. Hon. Colonel Anson, 2:4 Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
Tile articles exhibited by the Queen Prince Albert, and 17. Van de Weyer, London, Envoy Extraordinary and
the aim,. cc of Wales are thus describeri: Minister Plenipotentiary of Lis Mandy the King of the
SILK MAJLiTt till %I:EVIL Belgians.
Jewel ea 'e in the cinque cent° style, designed by L. 16. J. Hargraves Accrington, Lancashire, calico printer.
Gruner Esq.; and exectivol at the manufactory of Mr. 19. Professor Bailey, of Switzerland, London, Head Com-
Genr, jp.u.inei in, at Birmingham. Thematerial is bronze, m;ssioner of Switzerland, in London.
gilt aryls Si! by cluctm-type prince's; upon this case are 20. William Fclkin, Mayor of Notting:tam, The Park,
pussr.,its OP china of her Mai aty, 11.1111. Prince Albert, Norio /than', hosiery manufacturer.
and 11.11.11. th,, Pr.'ncc of {Vales, copied from miniatures 21. Lord Wharncliffe, 2S, Lower Brook-street.
by It. Thort,u,m Esq.. A.M.A. The small medallion., re- 22. American. Nomination nut yet appointed.
piesentina proh le sof their 11.11.'s the Prince. and I'rin- 23. Due de Luynes, Paris, Member of the Institute.
awes, were ,non ..11.1 from life by Leonard Wyon, Ks% 24. Count Von Barracks, Prague, Chamberlain of the
Table of gold had silver eleetro-plate, manufactured by Emi,c--ror of Austria, l'naident of the Society of Arts and
Messrs. Ell:insane. The top of the table is an electrotype
Manufactures at Prague.
r..producti.n oft i,i ite of fine workmanship, obtained and 25. Duke of Argyll, Stafford !louse, St. James's.
copied for Mr. IL Elltirazton und. r the direction .if the 26, Adam Chevalier lie Burg, Vienna, Director of the
Chevalier de &Wick • Tile eight subicets in bas-relief Imperial Polytechnic Institution, Vice. President of the
represent Minerva, As trologia, Geometnes, Arithmetic*, Society of Arts and Manufactures, and Member of the Im-
Muaica, Rh. tone'. Th.• centre figure represents Temper-
ance surrounded by the Ant • elements. At the bottom of perial Academy of Sciences at Vieuua.
, 27. Pietro Podruccia, Rome, artist.
this plate is .4 inscription poi 'sting to the artist. The tah'e 2S. Senior Don Joaquin Alfonso, Madrid, Director of the
is designed be thorns. Stanton, a young artist in the employ Conservatory of Arts ut Madrid.
of Mr. 11. Elkington, and a a tudent in the: Dinniughaui 29. Lord Canning, le, Grosvenor-square.
School of Design. 30. Herr von Verbutio. Berlin, l'reaideat of the Zoll-
Poetrisit of her Majesty on Sens.. china, size of life, half verein, Commissioner for the Exhibiting of 181 L
length, by A. Unclose:in, after a portrait by F. Wiuter-
halter. l'ainted in 1816.

Portrait t of ll.l6l.lcinee Albert, on Svres china. sire
of life half length, peStitid by A. lie. tanget, after a portrait
by F. Winterhalter. These portraits are exhibited jointly
by her Majesty and ILIt.H. Prince A.'bert.
A entitle, carved in Turkey boxwood by W. G. Bogert,
and designed by his WM, symboli-ing the union of the Royal
House of England with that of Saxe t loburg and Gotha.
One end exhibit. in the centre the arnami.%l bearing, of her
Majesty the Queen, surrounded by masses I of foliage, natu-
ral flower. and bird,; on the rocker, bent. sth, is seen the
head of " Noz," n presented a, a beautiful bleeping female,
crowned with a garland of poppies, sum, rted upon bat.'
wing., and surrounded by the seven planet+.
The other end, or the ha.•k of the head ref the cradle, is
devoted to the arms of 11.1t.11. Prince Allse.et ; the shield
*teepees the centre, and mend it, among the arabesque
j foliage, the six crests of the Prince are seatteted, with the
1 motto " True and fest" Below, on the rocker, is dis-
covered a head of " Somalis" with elute.' eyes, and over
As chin a wimple, which, on each side, ternunates in pop-
lin-
In the interior of the head of the cradle, guru than angels
i are introduced ; and above, the royal crown ie found clu-
b( doled in foliage. The friezes, formingth t mos:: important
part of the Aid, of the body of the cradle,.are conspeeed of
raves, winks, conventional foliage, butterdies, and birds,
while h,-naath them rise a variety of pinks, studied from
eaten.. The edges and the insides of the mcken are
I euriehed with the insignia of royalty and emblems of
rer.''' '•
i wu rut-glass candelabra, manufacture dby Messrs. Geier
of Birmin ,bani.
Axminster tarpet, designed by L. Gnu ivy, Esq., and ma-
selfartunel by 31essrs. Blackmon: Brian ten, at Wiltun, for
Meters. Watson, Bell, and Co.
Axminster carpet, designed by L. Grolier, Esq., and ma-
nufactured at Glasgow, for Mr. Dowbiperen.
A Berlin-wool carpet, executed by o V: hundred and fifty
ladies of Great Britain. The diminish., ets of this carpet are
thirty feet us length, and twenty in Iseeadth. 'if he carpet
has beim produced in the following sr armee :—The pattern,
originally dmigtsed and insinted by th e artist, has been sub-
divided into detached weals's, which I have been worked by
different ladies., and on their comp'. (Alien the squares have
been,reunited, so as to complete the design.
In the pattern,
whir n co ttttt ts tartly of geometric al, and partly of floral
fowl., heraldic i Wifely, are also introduced. The initials
of the tzeruhuits arc urnamentally arranged, so as to form
tl.e external border. The whose design is connected by
s (math. or bands of 'wane and foliage, the centre group m-
irerug the store from whence they have been thstri-
The carpet has been Prode.ecil under the management of
• committee. 'the design •ny Mr. J. W. letliworth ; the
patterns were tainted and ',he work executed under the so-
persn' tendenee of Mr. W. ii Simpson.
1114 RUTAI. III'AIINT.,, PRINCL ALBEIT.
Three wimples of g rain grown on the royal farm, at
Windsor, eou.isting ter wheat, oat., and bean+, our bushel
of each.
I Two slabs for tabjes, designed by L. Gruner, Esq., in the
rimiest teuto style, executed by Mr. Thomas Woutlrete, at
Ilakewell, in Dt.rbyshire stones., in imitation of the ?bout-
tine mosaie.
A bleak of Ferret coal fmtn West Wensyse. colliery,
lisirks'aly, Fifeshine partly polished.
Geaelen seat, designed by L. Bruner, Esq., and executed
in 'Fifeshire byThousal Williams Waun, of tweet or c.uutel
told, from the estate of Rear Admiral Weinyse
Candelabrum in the recline canto style, designed by
L. (ironer, F.N., modelled by Ant. Trentanove, and car-
amel in wagliola in iraitatiou of giallo auticu, by L.
dornoli. .

MAY-DAY ODE, 18.51.
But yesterday a naked sod
The dandies sawn d from Rotten-row,
And cantered o'er it to and fro;
And 'et 'Cs done!
As though 'twere by a wizard's rod,
A blazing arch of lucid glass
Leaps a fountain from the grace,
To meet the sun!
A quiet green but few days since,
With cattle browsing in the shade,
And lo ! long lines of bright arcade
In order raised ;
A palace OA fur fairy Prince,
.A rare pavilion, such as man
Saw never since mankind bt•gan—
And huiit and glazed!
A peaceful place it was but now,
And In! within it. shining .treCLA
A multitude of nations meets:
A countless throng,
I see beneath the crydal l ow
And Gaul and German, 'twig and Turk,
Each with his native handiwork
And busy tongue.
I felt a thrill of love and awe
To mark the dilf rent garb of each,
The changing tongue, the various speech,
Tuglther blent.
A thrill, methinks, like Him who saw
o All pcsiple dwelling upon earth
" l'risuang our God with solemn mirth

And tea. eun.eut..;
High Sovereign in your royal state!
Captains and Chiets and Councillors,
Before the lofty palace doors
Are open set,
Ends! ere you pass the shining gate,
Hsuh ! ere the heaving curtain draws,
And let the Royal pageant pause
A moment yet.
People and Prince a silt nee keep!
Bow coronet and kingly crown,
Helmet and plume liow lowly down;
The while the priest
Before the splendid portal step,
While still the wondrous banquet stays,
From Heaven supreme a Alessi% prays
I:pun the feast t
Then onward, let the triumph march ;
Then let the loud artillery te
And trumpets ring, and Joy bells toll,
And pass the gate :
Pa underneath the shini•ag arth,
'Neath which the leafs,. otas are green—
Ascend unto your throne, 0 Queen,
Am'. take your State!
Behold her in her T,eyst place
A gentle lady— -and the hand
That sway. VIC ectlitre of this land,
Iluw frail and weak!
Soft is the voice, and fair the face;
She bree.thes amen ti prayer and hymn
No wo mkr that her eyes are dim
And pale her chock.
This moment round her empire's shores
he winds of Austral winter sweep,
And thousands lie iu midnight sleep
At rest to-day.
0! awful is that crown of yours,
Queen of innumerable realms,
Sitting beneath the budding elms
Of English fay!
A wondrous sceptre Ills to bear,
Strange mystery of God which set
Upon her brow yon coronet—
The foremost crown
Of all the world—on one so fair!
That chose her to it from her birth,
And bade the sons of all the earth
To her tow clown.
The representatives of man
Here front the far Antipodes
And from the subject Indian seas
In Congress meet;
From Afric and from Ilindostan,
From western continent and isle,
The envoys of her empire pile
Gifts at her feet.
Our brethren cross the Atlantic titles,
Loading the gallant decks which once
Roared a defiance to our guns
With peaceful store ;
Symbol of peace, their vessel rides !•
O'er English waves float star and stripe,
And firm their friendly anchors gripe
The father shore !
From Rhine and Danube, Rhone and Seine,
As rivers from their sources gush,
The swelling floods of nations rush,
And seaward pour:
From coast to coast in friendly chain,
With counties ships we bridge the straits ;
And angry Ocean separates
Europe no more.
From Mississippi and from Nile—
From Baltic, Ganges, Bosphorus,
In England's Ark assembled thus,
Are friend and guest.
Look down the mighty sunlit aisle,
And see the sumptuotui banquet set,
The brotherhood of nations met,
Around the feast !
Along the dazzling colonnade,
Far as the straining eye can gaze,
Gleam cross and fountain bell and vase,
In vistas bright.
And statues fair of nymph and maid,
And steeds and pads and Amazons,
Writhing and grappling in the bronze,
In vntlless tight.
To deck the glorious roof and dome,
To make the Queen a canopy,
The peaceful hosts of industry
Their standards bear.
Ton are the works of Brahmin loom;
On such s web of Persian thread
The desert Arab bows his head,
And tries his prayer.
Look yonder, where the engines toil;
These England's arms of conquest are,
The tropnies of her bloodless war:
Brave weapons these.
Victorious over wave and soil,
With these she sails, she weaves, she tills,
Pierces the everlasting hills,
And spans the seas.
The engine roars upon its race,
The shuttle whirrs along the woof,
The people hum from floor to roof,
With Babel tongue.
The fountain in the basin plays,
The chanting organ echoes clear,—
An awful chorus 'tis to hear,
A wondrous song!
Swell organ, swell your trumpet blast,
Marsh, Queen and Royalrilicant, march,
By splendid aisle and springing arch
Of this fair all :
And sae! above the fabric vast,
God's boundless Heaven is bending blue,
God's peaceful Sun is beaming through
And abininver all.
APB 74. W. TIACILIOIAT.
• The at Limns.

Clroup In marble, " Theseus and Amazons," executed at
home by Engel, Esq., from Hungary, pupil of the Royal
Academy.
LUIS(•I
Shield presented by his Majesty the King of Prussia to
his Royal Highness the l'rine of Wales, in commemora-
tion ul ..he baptism of the infant Prince, for whom his Ala•
jeety aced as. sponsor.
Ihe pictorial embellishments of the shield, the general
plan fur which was OTCLI by the King :::..'welf,.cre :esigned
by Dr. l'et, r Von lornelius, and the architectural orna-
ments by Counsellor Staler. The execution of the remain-
ing portions--goldsmiths' work, enamel, &c., was performed
by M. U. Ho-issuer ; the modelling by X. A. Fischer; the
chasing by M. A. Mertens; and the lapidary work by M.
In the centre of the shield is a head of our Saviour.
The middle compartment, surrounded by a double line of
ornamental work, is divided by a cross into boa smaller
comportments, which contain emblematic representations of
the two Sacraments, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper, with
their Old Testament typ,v—the opening of the fountain in
the rick by Moses, and the fall of m mita. At the extre-
mities of the arms of the cross are reprivented the Evange-
lists, noting down what they have seen and heard in the
Gospels, which are to communicate to all futurity the plan
of man's salvation, and prove inexhaustible sources of divine
revelation and doctrine.
On the extreme points of the arabesque's that rise above
the Evangelists, ate represented the Christian virtues of
Faith, Hope, and Charity, and of Christian Righteous-
ness. Around the entire centre stand in a circle the twelve
Apostles. Peter is seen under Faith represented in the
arabesque ; on the right and left of him are l'hilip and
Andrew ; under Hope is James; on either side arc Bartho-
lomew and Simon; John is placed beneath the figure of
Charity; on either side aro James the younger and Thomas ;
under Itighteousnew is Paul ; on the right and left are
Matthew and Judas Thaddeus, going forth into the world
to teach and to baptise, and to propagate the kingdom of
the Redeemer.
The ri-lieso which runs round the edge of the shield re-
presents the betrayal, the redeeming atonement of Christ,
and his resurrection. Another portion represents our Lord's
triumphant entry into Jerusalem; a third portion the de-
scent of the Holy Ghost, the preaching of the Gospel, and
the formation of the Church. The fourth and principal
compartment contains an allegorical representation of the
birth of the l'rinee of Wales and of the visit of the King of
Prussia, accompanied by Baron Humboldt, General von
Natztuer, and the Count von Stolberg, and welcomed by his
Royal Ilightures Prince Albert and the Duke of Wellington,
a knight of M. George being represented on the beach
standing upon a dragnet.
The shield has been denominated the Buckler of Faith.
The inscription on the shield runs thus :
Fridericas Oulielmus Rex Boruseorum,
Alberto Eduardo, Prineipi
In Memoriam Diet. Rapt. XXV. Jan. A. MI/CCCXLII."
A " trifle from Oermany " is next introduced—
" Coot BILNIAT Cinstrao--Ourna.—Fruit stones of
various sizes, carved with a penknife."
But everybody will buy this " largest shilling volume
ever published," and as it is now in circulation any further
description or extract is at present unnecessary.

THE FRENCH POLICL—A brigade of the dote°.
five police, tinder the orders of an °Meer de pais, left Paris
on Wednesday to attend tho Exhibition of London. They
are all picked men, and are intimately acquainted with the
persons and manner of operation of all classes of thieves.
ROYAL. BOTANIC GARDENS.—In order to provide
for the admission of foreigners to the Royal Botanic
Gardens. Regent's Park. idle council have, during the
penal of the Great Exhibition, authorised their fellows to
admit four persons daily instead of two, which is a great
erasion, as the gardens an maintained u a select proms-
made, and no wariney being taken for admission, there is a
realm &Amity in procuring seems. They have likewise
&IS adlielse to foreigners in obtaining fiches for the
NAM shrirs. This is isisperlastly or the prieilegas
Ilemini Wsaltradea, Imago NM of dire, otoatato
Obi a aelaisse. sad of tho osavonmasato to lot
is the guidon tat taldbasa oat seismal* vista's.

FRANCE.

PARK FRIDAY EVENING.
To-day was seized, at the itatiguolles, the clan-
destine 'wee, from which the 10th bulletinissuedjust
as an eleventh bulletin was in the act of being printed.
The r.port that the: repre.entatisec Gvvpp. and
Miot were compromised in this discovery is un-
founded.

To-day the Assembly continued the discussion of
the cahier d.s rhargra of the Western Railway, and
finished it, with the exception of some articles ar-
ferret! to the committee. The only matters of in-
terest in the de:nite turned upon whether the section
to Caen shout! pass by „:.rrux or .Alengon. This
question will be decided to-inorroW. !'"asst no-
manded the adjournment of the question. M. Bother
defended the Aleneon line.
M. Loon Faucher presented this afternoon a bill
demanding a credit of 202,00/ Orr. for the publication
of an archaeological work. entitled "Rome Souter-
raine." The liberality of Freneli parliaments in re-
gard to the patronage of works of art is proverbial.
Still, in the present humour of the Assembly, it
seems likely that an application for upwards of eight
thousand pounds for the publication of a dilettante
book, when so many useful projects are obliged to
be postponed from the penury of the treasury, will
be looked at twice before passing muster. I may
take this occasion of mentioning that the publication
of the superb collection of Arab and Persian works,
edited on so magnificent ,a scale, under the superin-
tendence of the celebrated Orientalist, Professor
Mold, has, after suspension since the revolution from
want of funds, been 11.11CW01. A eonsidenible grant
of money will have to be proposed fur this under-
taking also.
To-day the Assembly renewed its bureaux. As
these occasions are always more or less a test of the
Maumee of parties, it is as well to give you the fol-
lowing list of the new presidents and secretaries:
Bureaux. Presidents. Secretaries.
1. Gen. Reginald do
St. J ean d'Augely Delcesert
2. .. Demonte .. De la Grange (Gen).
3. .. Leaelletierd'Aituay De Bryar
4. .. Gea. Changarnier .. De Seze.
6. .. Benoit eC.Ary Deladevere.
6. Fortier Roysset
7. .. Do Montebello .. Bayous
8. .. Crean .. Chan Ulna.
9. .. Dupin (Ch.) lie Dampierre
10. .. Derblay .. nerve du St. Getman.
11. Manuel .. Ch. Abatueei.
12. .. 0. Barret De Coislia
13. .. Leon de Malleville Favrvan.
It. De Panac .. Ancel
15. De Broglie Vaiatuie.
A meeting of the Bonapartist committee for the
revision of the constitution is held this evening, for
the purpose of devisinel means for procuring signa-
tures for the petition, which 1 have alresuly sent. Tne
Bulletin de Paris of this evening publishes a circular
of this committee, which repeats the substance of the
petition, and is signed by MM. Guyard
de Rene!, member of the Assembly, de Beaumont
Yams*, member of the council general of the Indic- '
et-LOire, and author of an ultra-Bonapartist pamphlet,
Marbcan, founder of the Cri'clirs, and de 'faselter.
The committee on the municipal bill decided to-
day that the cantonal councils should regulate the
amount of direct taxes to be attributed to each com-
mune of the canton.

I;lieiCti;;;;Kid; I announced to you yesterday
that M Persigny would publish with regard to
his interview with General Changaraier appeared in
the Po trie of last night, and is as follows:
P.tuis, MAY I.—l declare that the viait which I had the
honour to make to General Chan:miller wa. only cauwil by
communications which I had reason to believe intimated
from the General hinetelf I add, that, fir front hating re-
ceived any ini,ion from the l'rehident of the Republic, I
' dial nut till him of thiei step. Finally, I maintain to be
completely fake the veraion which haa appeared in the
(mire, hultpetirlencv Be/ye, and other journal..—F. DE