The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-08 00:00:00

No. 1,391.] [No. 7, EXHIBITION EXPRESS.]

THE

EXHIBITION
EXPRESS,

FOR ME WEEK ENDING

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8.

PROGRESS OF THE EXRIBITIO:i.

The building in Ily-de-pork now awaits the first
portion of it emu. t and on Monday thew) are ex-
pected to arrive. Tlw approach of this day, impor-
tant alike to Exhibition and exhibitors, has, during
the past In eke bee., ct cy sensibly felt by the Execu-
tive Curnmitt.c. The letters they have received
hove been counted by thousands, and only by syste-
matic fluidness tut s. and by steady industry, could
the I ingenue- •Imvc been sat isfuctorily dealt with. Such
labours. ale, let heavier one.., await the committee
before the hi:evie t':ey has e built eau he furnished
with the nviltilacious things in preparation for it.
They need a hundred heads and a hundred hands to
meet the wants of each succeeding hour. Es cry ex-
hibitor asks explanations, advice, and andatence, and
unless each has all the attention his expec-
tations sag„ cut, a grievance is at once established.
The attempts made by exhibitors to obtain various
adnuitages forbidden by the ruler laid down for their
control, are constant and energetic. Even during
the last few days numerous upplications for allot-
ments of spate have been made by permits« who
seemed to he quite ignorant of the fact that every
inch of room at mesent 'nutlet& has been long since
disposed 111. •
On Nl' lay the building was closed against the
visits of the general public, and invitations were
berued by the I:xi-entice Committee to peels and
members of the llouse of Commons, who, on
Tuesday, Wednesday and 'Thursday, visited the
structure in considerable numbers. On Monday and
Saturday last the number of visitors amounted to
nearly ten thousand, and the stability of the struc-
ture wan put to as severe a test as. in till probability.
it will he at any period of the Exhibition. When it
is recollected that during the Exhibition the larger
portion of the gallery space will be occupied by
wooden counters, for the display of articles of light
material. but little importance ran be attached to the
opinions of those who speak of the insufficient secu-
rity of the wend tiers of the building. Next week
the nth% which have been prepared by the Execu-
tive Committee respecting admission of exhibi-
tors to the building will come into operation. It
has been determined that no one—excepting, of
course. the labourers who will be required to execute
the various works—Atoll be admitted within the
building who dot-4 nut establish a claim to the pri-
vilege. All claims for admission must be forwarded
to the secretary, atm will decide on their validity.
Exhibitors ona others obtaining the right to admis-
sion must in-critic their names in a book which will
be kept for the purpose, and opposite to each
name a number is to be affixed, the counterpart
of which a ill tonstitute a ticket of admission to
a tcrtain definite part of the building. Exhibitors
leaving the particular section which they will have
obtained pennission to enter, and entering any other
buarding or division, will forfeit altogether their
"pow" to the building. Those who obtain these
admission numbers will he required to sign a devia-
tion to the effeet that they will obey the rules laid
down by the committee, and each class and section
will be. deed under the surveillance of an officer,
whose chief duty mill be to enforce a strict observance
et the egalations, and to detect and expose offenders
against them. Regulations have also been framed
fur the purpnac of preventing any confusion in the
delivery of the articles for exhibition.
Resqweting the proposition of gratuitous admission
to the Exhibition. the following letter, from an ex-
tensive manufacturer, bats been received by the
Executive Committee:
01 obseree that Mr. Paxton has written to Lord
John Russell, recommending that the Exhibition
should be open to tine public free of charge, exeept
an certain days. I hope Lord John will not enter-
tain such a preposition. AM I think it would com-
pletely spoil the Exhibition: on the free days there
would be .4uele a crowd that no respectable people
could gun and on the pay days there would be too
many to see the thing with any comfort. If there
were nothing to pay, the plate would be tilled from
day to tiny with the same class of • idlers' and
inkpoekets,' and the emmtry visitors, whether they
were willing to pay or lint, would have little chatter
of seeing. And, moreover, I think many exhibitors
would withhold their goods, if Mr. Paxton s plan were
adopted. I hope, therefore it will not be adopted.
"It stems to me that the best course is to charge
a high price for admission at first, so that the nobi-
lity and all who liked to pay the price may be able
to get a quiet, careful inspection and to reduce the
price gradually till it came to a shilling.
"If afterwards it was thought desirable to admit
the public free, it, could be dune without ineou-
lenience.-
Another correspondent, writing to the Daily News,
suggests that the Queen and Prince Albert should
formally open the Exhibition, and that the charge
for admission on that state occasion should be five
pintas. There is a great probability, should such a
hint be taken, that a very large sum would be thus
obtained towards the liqUidation of the expenses of
the building.
The work executed during the week consisted
chiefly of the painting of the roof and galleries in
various parts,—the erection of the iron staircases for
the galleries,—the construction of the temporary
hoardings, by which the various sections and countries
are to be separated one from the other, and the re-
moval of unnecessary scaffolding.

duce,--this which assumes that, if France is repre-
sented at all, the result must be an eclipse of the
products of others,—but, such king the ease, we are
not astonished to find statements being spread about
to the effect that English capitalists are making
every sacrifice to surpass France; that they have
bodily carried off scores of the best French workmen,
to whom they give a high pay, and that they have
besides bought up vast quantities of half-manufaa-
tured merchandise, which they get finished in Eng-
land. and will figure in Ilyde-park as the prmi..ee of
England. Such a course as this, were it really par-
sued, would be most disgraceful to the English cha-
racter; we only signalise it for the attention of our
readers that a distinct knowledge may be obtained
of the preliminary mode employed to run down Eng-
lish goods in France.
The question was discussed on Tuesday. by the
Paris examining jury, whether sellers who ale not
manufacturers should be admitted to the Exhibition.
This question had been raised by certain silk-factors
of Lyons, and a strong opinion in the negative at
first prevailed; but afterwards it was decided that
the capitalists, as well as manufacturers, should
be admitted, on condition that each exhibitor
should declare whether he be fabricator, commis-
sioner, merchant, or merely proprietor of the article
he sends. This decision was taken because it was
said that, were none bat UN =reoadinitted,
France would be pistol a as posi-
tion in comparison with other nations.
manufacturers of Igulhausen asked whether
the committee in London might nut be induced to
grant authorization for articles to be scut during the
course of the Exhibition, to complete the samples of
certain exhibitors, inasmuch as, with regard to some
spring patterns, they would not he ready until late
in the season. This request was 'refused.
The French government has written to the Eng-
lish committer of the London Exhibition, to cause
the French contributions to the Exhibition to be in-
sured fur the sum of 800,0001.

GERMANY.
The new announcements from Germany are this
week on a large scale, and include machinery of va-
rious kinds; glass, both useful and ornamental;
weaponsof aggression and defence, and a vast num-
ber of model, and illustrations of the plastic arts.
Among the machines for exhibition are carding-
engines. mules, and looms, from several places in the
neighbourhood of Dusseldorf; jacquard looms fr.nn
Berlin, and block-printing machines for cotton from
S' burg. Machinery for the manufacture of paper
will be sent from Augsburg and Obersell, and an
apparatus for giving the satin finish to writing
papers from Rubeland. Machinery and apparatus
employed in rolling, beating, cutting, and carbonising
iron will be sent by a number of makers in Berlin,
Aix-la-Chapelle, Munich, and Darmstadt.
Among machinery not directly employed in manu-
factures are announced several stationary steam-
engines,from Berlin, Stettin, and Isselburg; and uni-
versal joints from Eich and Hermannshutte; weighing,
measuring, and registering machines, from Dussel-
dorf, Berlin, and Arnstadt. Instruments. mathe-
matical, optical, surgical, and domestic, will accom-
puny the more complex implements. Barometers,
thermometers, micrometers, telescopes, and chrono-
meters. are promised in great variety. A complete
telegraphic apparatus is in course of construction at
Berlin. Organs are announced from Thuringia;
pianos, from Berlin, Dusseldorf, Breslau, and at least
a dozen other towns. Accordions and harmonicons
will be sent from Gem; church-hells, from Carlsfeld;
guitars and violins, from Frankfort; and brass musical
instruments from towns innumerable.

Among the military and sporting weapons an-
nounced are specimens of the new and terrible
Prussian muskets fired by what is called the " zund-
nadel, and capable of tiring a succession of halls
without reloaing, with rifles, pistols, double-bar-
relled guns, revolvers, swords, daggers, tte.
Articles of gold and silver and jewellery will be
less abundant than was expected. Several manu-
facturers and gold-workers of Berlin, Henan, and
ltonnels.rg will, however send specimens of their
work. Heavy copper goods are announced from
Berlin, and brumses and bronzes from many districts of
the Zollverein. Fine iron castings will 'be exhibited
by several Berlin. Elberfeld, .Augsburg, and Offen-
bach houses. Iron stoves, cooking apparatus, and
ovens are conspicuous among the heavier articles of
the iron manufacture. The steel trade will be repre-
sented by numerous specimens of pens, knives, swis-
',ors, and other cutting instruments.
The glass, porecluin, and terracotta manufacture
will furnish mirror-plates, lenses for spectacles,
lorgnettes, &c., which will be sent from Baruth,
Sehreiberan, Furth. and Munich; vases and enamelled
goods from the royal porcelain manufactory at Berlin,
and a number of private establishments.
Cabinet goods, us tables, chairs, sofas; veneered
and inlaid furniture, and various minor articles con-
stituted of wood, are to come from all quarters of

the Zollverein.
A great variety of miscellaneous goods are pro-
mised, as umbrellas, whips, sticks, artiflcal flowers,
confectionarv, pipes, lights, and waxen goods.
Under the head of models and specimens of
plastic art. an immense variety of objects are
included, amongst which are models of the ca-
thedrals of Magdeburg, the Moritzburg at
Halle, the cathedral of Bamberg, bronzes, zinc
castings (several by the galvanic process), statuary,
carving, tte. The court medalist, Pfeuffer, of
Berlin, will contribute a splendid collection of
bronze medals. Architectural ornaments, carved
stone, marble chimney-pieces, will be sent from seve-
ral houses in Cologne. and Berlin. A number of
specimens of artistic printing, copper-plate, and litho-
graphic engraving, and daguerrotypes, are also set
down for exhibition. Several papier macho models
of the earth and its regions are to come from Berlin
and Nuremberg. and anatomical models from Hei-
delberg and Darmstadt.
From Sonnenberg, near Coburg, a large plastic
tableau, with about 400 figures. partly moveable. re-
presenting a national fete of the Germans, in all its
original details is to come. For the scene of this, the
chateau of Rosman (the birth-place of Prince Albert)
and environs, situated in the immediate neighbourhood,
have been chosen. The size of the tableau is fifteen
feet by ten (English measure). and, on account of
the machinery which moves the figures, jet d'eau, &e.,
and the music which is contained inside, it rests on a
pedestal specially provided for it, so that nothing is
required to put it up but space of the above di-
mensions.
The particulars of a grant proposed by the Belgian
ministry to be voted, will be found elsewhere.
The Austrian government have appointed as their
agent here M. Major.
Amongst the articles from Spain is a bomb, of
161b5., so light in its make as to be capable of carriage
on the train of a 4-pounder. This gun was founded
in 1837, by the Carlota, at Osate, and formed part of
the artillery given up to F.spartero by.Mocato, after
the convention of Vergara.