The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-18 00:00:00

if well conducted, may be given by merely stasia that
the Manchester "manufacturers alone spend 20,000;.
per annum in French pattern,. Mr. Wissertsu
says : "The French lead the taste, and we follow.
go to Paris three or four times a year for no otue,
purpose than to buy designs and see what theFretto
are doing. (Er. 1016,7.) Mr. COLE states (2%2):
" The best of our meta ornamental desiges are At
giarisms from the French; as respects the Potten,,,,
the beat of the pottery designs are imitations dills
old Dresden and Sevrse designs. The greater pad
ornamental glue is imported from France, nevelt
es
the best patterns for paper hanging (2084). Au the
best designs for calico printing are adaptations from
the French ones."
The true remedy for this is to adopt the Frstea
pattern of schools, in order to supersede the borrow.
mg from their designs ; and in these schools to (eith
English students not to be so tremendously ambit.
our. In gratuitous schools cf d sign of ectt,,,
lower class than the grade of gentlemen ate Ili*.
Those of this class who are Lund not to pos.e„, the
amount of talent required for legitimate ast eau
surely drop, as the French do, to tt.e more impoeutt
though inferior and industrial walk. Nor estt
artists be shocked, as too many professions ale it
this country, at having different grades of society is
their calling. This es necessary and useful. Al 4
our church, our bar, and our army, suffer fs,,,
the foolish struggle to maintain the contrary ?it.
ciple.
It is almost a relief to turn from the steno null;,,
of this report to an article of the Edinburgh Reenr
which sees everything couleur de rose. With tuft
it tells us, we are to overcome all difficulties; se
expect too much from its infancy. When mash,
tuners complain of its not bring practical, they forte
the French school only gives the clue to the stadm
who hss to undergo another two years' tuition etc,
a manufacturer before he is ccnsidered an ablest.
sun. That the said artisan has a spur and hyalite
to invention in the fluctuations cf fashion, whets
fashion here leads to the adoption of that sal
invention.

The reviewer thus argues as to the possibilitT d
removing this dtawhar..k to improvement:
The pattern to which Mr. Wakefield here refers spew
from eubseq•rent answers, to have been a shawl patters, es,
probably exhibited a variety of the Inaisn
seems to leave ccquirci a patent right to tpi,su
under some disguise: or other, upon all diesels, past, put
and to come. Another witness—Mr. Nortinole—tosaa
some farther light upon this point. He is one of the a
spectors of the nrovineial schools, and appears to bare be.
struck, on visiting I'aisl•ey, by the perpetual reesneme d
this fins pattern. On arkiner the reason, he is told that,
getuine Indian ehawls always have the pine, sad thsreires
the pine is &litho fashion; and that the macufacturen yea
not think of sending out shawl, without it. bens.' t,117
would inevitably be rejected. (Er. p. 112) Pinaclig
of the kind occurs in pnpier rnacor Roots. In these th
peacock is supreme, betting., as Hr. H.pe iaturas us, tie
precook is the distinguishing mark of Japan wire.
Northeote observed, in &papier naarU factory at Birearp
ham, that desians, in other respects gracefully elf nattel,wes
spoiled by the introduction of the eternal peacock, often ss
a mils so disproportionate as to the rest of the design u