The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1851.

Pierre-Joseph Dogny, carpenter, aged 64. le married,
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has five children, and lives in Flicrnalle-Haute. He has . VARIOUS FACTS.
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worked.. the SeatdaKE.porteles &ding eillrtryeate. lits -CATALOGUE.—Messn. Spicer. and Chaves; . • -•• • "Aro vitoorrnirtowsm.v.
He heisfu ied minhidar tools., .•
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are prepack* tour. distinct catalogues of the* Exhibition I .. Greenwich Hospital, free on Monday and Friday ; Society
Fiores& hvelmansi draughtsman, aged 32. liitaninnagt —two in Littlish, ewe in French, and one in German.. The of. Art 4 Mu-rum, Wedw- day • British Museum, Great .
Rua-wit-street, Monday, Ni'ediitaday, and Friday ; Saull's
and lives ateath. This vedroeimen, hilio extend the establish- English "Official Catalogue" is to be sold in the banding Museumof Geology, Aklersitate-strect, Thursday; East
,Iment avrii. uftcy.,h4thms, as an aelnentice, has salaried for la, end will contain the name and• address•of each India Company's Miamian, Saturday •, Museum a Econo-
temarkible talents, by the use of whichhe supports lib exhibitor, as well as a short description of his productions, mic Geology ; Gresham Lectures, %Vedneaday, Thursday,
family, and has contrived, out of his savings, to set his in the precise order in which they will appear in the build-
day, Thursday, and Saturday• National Gallery, Monday,
and Friday ; Hampton Court.Manday, Tuesday, Wednes-
brother up in. business. . sag, and with a system of reference by letters and numbers Tuesday', Wednesday,
to
Francois Bertulot, brass-founder, aged 49. is married, that will enable visitors find any exhibitor's position, with- Marlborough House ; K and Ithursday ,• Vernon Gallery I
Kew Gardens, daily; London Min- I
' has five-children, and lives at Besinn He is a skilful Gut difficulty. The "Official Illustsated Catalogue" will be a sionary Museum, Bloomfield-street, Finsbury: Pantheon,'
' workman, and has worked in one foundry for ten yeses. Ha work of considerable extent, arranged precisely in the same Oxford-street ; St. Katherine's Docks, London Docks, West
his rfected the bras. boiler exhibited li toe employers, manner as the former, but containing much more detailed India Ducks, and Custom House.
y notice of the articles exhibited, and the various classes of GRATUITOUS.
Bauchan-Maurisseus. articles will be annotated by gentlemen of scientific cha-
Paul (knot, foreman, aged &. Is married, bas no racter. In this work exhibitors may have illustrations of
I By tickets to be obtained front retpeci hie stationers, or members of
the several ineriattos". '
their productions inserted, provided immediate application . Antiquarian Museum, Guildhall, daily; Ashburton Col-
children, and lives at Chi-née. Ilea worked in one estab- be made to the contractors. The French and German cam- lection Piccadilly, daily; Asiatic Museum, New Burlington-
lishment during forty years. Ile has adopted and provided tortes will be similar to the English " Official Catalogue," street, 'Monday, Wednesday, and Friday ; Botanic Gardens,
for a lost child. and will be sold at 2s. 6d. The name and address of each Chelsea, daily ; Botanic Gardens, Regent's-park ; College of
exhibitor, es well as the description of the articles which he Surgeons, Museum, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and
inserted These instances will suffice to show the general grounds exhibits, will be in all the four catalogues, without Thursday ; Dulwich Gallery, Monday, Tuesday,Wedneaday,
on which these decorations fur working men were distributed. any charge whatever to the exhibitor, who is only required Thursday, and Saturday; Entomological Museum, Bona-
Such examples of honourable feeling on the part of to furnish the description of his article in duplicate. The street,Tuesday; Grosvenor Gallery, Upper Grosvenor-street,
masters may now be made public with effect. The honesty great majority of these descriptions have been received, and daily ; Horticultural Gardens, Chiswick, daily ; liunterian
i;iiivane yof them are already in type. Those exhibitors who Museum, College of Surgeons, daily ; lannuean Collections,
which led Belgian manufacturers to share their laurels not already complied with this should, for their own Soho-square, daily; Royal Institution Museum, Albemarle-
cheerfully with the skilful workmen by whom their articles interest, not lose a day in sending in their lists, in as concise etreet, daily • United Service Museum, Scotland-yard, daily
for exhibition were fashioned, is that of enlightened and terms as possible. Those exhibitors who decide upon having Sir John &nine's Museum, Tuesday and Friday; Flatinan's
far-seeing men. Whether the working men who have been engraving. of their productions in the " Illustrated Cate- i Hall and the Museum, University College; Museum of
logue will defray the expense of such engravings themselves, : King's College ; Royal Veterinary College, Museum ; Anti-
engaged upon the articles to be exhibited in the Great Hyde
easnitillneceaddoittionpriocef I,7ytiethwerotTilananyr
coulLhqauveentiliym:cfrn„'atlelyd . Eiciiri,;n Stoicoilecty'ts
ILl:Leum, Somerset Douse ; Geological
Park building will be so far cared for and acknowledged, are
points upon which it would be premature to pronounce an the purchasers. This catalogue will extend to upwards of Y' citanor. TOR AGISISSION.
opinion. 1,000 pages large octavo, The whole of the catalogues arc Botanical Gardens, Gravesend, daily ; Chelsea Military
to appear on the Ist of May. . Academy, Friday; British Institution, Pall Mall, daily;
AT KNART.OI3OROUGH, on Saturday last, the local man- Chelsea Hospital, daily; Cosm ' orama, Colosseum Diorama,
bntions to the Exhibition were exhibited in the National " and Society of Arts, Acli.lphi • Monday' Tuesday, Thursday,
School Room. It may be remembered that J. P. West- I Friday and Saturday; adane Tussau d and Sons', Baker-
bead, M.P., offered to distribute among the most deserving street;
Paso-
local contributors the sum of 601., in several prizes, and I rama of Burford's Panorama.,bl
Polytechnic Institution, Pane-
the Nile, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Thames Tunnel,
that a jury was appointed to decidebetween the rival claims I ltotherhithe, daily' the Tower, daily; Westminster Abbey,
of competitors. This local competition appears to have !daily daily; Woolwich Arsenal, daily; Zoological Gardens, Re-
created great interest. On Saturday the prizes were gent's-park, daily ; Surrey Zoological Gardens, daily; Dank
awarded as follows—To Messrs. Walton, for duck sheeting, of Eugland ; Guildhall Council ltlaltl.
best ticking, linen sheeting, and htickaback ; to George
Henshall, for the best fine shirting, and for the manufacture
of a shirt woven in tie without a scam ; to Jas. Leeming, fur
fine shirting, second best ticking, and for a chemise without
• seam ; to Thomas Hibbert, for diaper, tint and second
prize; to James Robinson, Ist prize for hearth rug, 2nd
carriage rug, a prize for carriage slippers, and extra Fria,'
for muff and boa; Mrs. Elizabeth Hartley, 2nd prize for
hearth rug, 2nd for muff and boa, 2nd car victorine, and
Ist foe jacket and bonnet; to Gen. Hill, Ist prize for car-
riage rug, Ist for table mat or urn stand, and 'lnd for bon-
net ; to John Clapham, lot prize for muff, Ist for victorine,
and 2nd for table mat or urn stand. Extra prizes were
also awarded to Mr. William Pearson, for stalactite table
mate from Dropping Well stone ; to Mr. James Young, for
a time-piece upon an improved principle; and to Mr.
Richard Ellis, for a carved mahogany ornamental case,
containing the various Ilarrogate mineral waters.
AT OLIGIA3I a travelling club has been successfully
formed.

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SYRIA.

The following interesting account of the articles
intended to be forwarded from Syria, comes in a letter
dated Damascus, Jan. 20, 18,51 :
' Yesterday. morning the articles intended for the Great
Exhibition in London were despatched to licyrout for ship-
ment to Constantinople, in conformity with the orders only
recently issued by the Sublime Porte to the governors of all
her provinces. The tardy reception of these instructions
rendered unavoidable hasty and incomplete preparations
on the part of the local authorities charged with their
execution; the result has consequently been a hew-
regent ous collection of articles procured on the emergency,
which clearly proves how little interest has been taken
in the forthcoming show by the natives of this country,
altliou4h the Exhibition was announced, and its objects
made known, to all the industrial classes, through the proper
hamlets, in due time. It thus seems that the l'orte,
on finding that her subjects in general declined entering the
lists now open to all nations (no doubt from a consciousness
of their own incompetency) has, at the eleventh hour, re-
solved that its large and fertile empire should not remain
unrepresented at the world's show, and has, at a great e swine,
purchased various articles of manufacture from every part
of her dominions, out of which, on reaching Constantinople,
a judicious selection will be made and forwarded to Eng-
land. Samples of agricultural produee have, very properly,
likewise been sent. A good opportunity. was afforded me
for inspecting the contribution made by. this pachalick, and,
although I fear greatly that it will arrive too late for ad-
mittance, yet knowing the interest you take in such affairs,
I give you a cursory account of such things as are must
deserving of notice.
These were all the varieties of native woven stuffs—
some of silk, others of silk and cotton interwoven, the silk
appearing on the surface, whilst the cotton serves sa a
foundation, and other stuffs composed entirely of cotton.
The dyer's art is but imperfectly known here, which ac-
counts fur the little variety of colours employed, as well as
for the want of brilliancy of most of those in use. The designs
are uniformly striped, as much to suit the taste of the Turks
and Egyptians, who are the principle buyers, as the limited '
scope of the loom in which the stuffs arc wrought. The silk
used is produced in the villages, and a specimen of it in its
raw state was added to the collection ; one glance is sufficient
to indicate the roughness of the method by which it is wound
off fmm the ceeisins. The cotton thread worked up in these
fabrics is English,and our spinner* in England will themselves
perceive the use to which the produce of their mills, an im-
portant article in the Syrian trade, is applied. The general
c&ct of these Damascus stuffs is novel and striking, and 1
have seen them very pleasingly adapted to covering furni-
ture. The coarseness of the execution may be criticised by
those who have at command the assistance of machinery,
either for delicacy of arrangement or for rapidity of worky
and who enjoy the incomparably great adranto&e of an en- :
couraging government, and the endless adaptation of the j
results of the highest and most studied arts and sciences ;
but when I consider the very primitive looms of the Da-
mascus weavers, the depressed and oppressed condition of
the workmen, the scanty capital of their employers' the
heavy taxes and duties laid urn their raw material and ,
upon the fruits of their labour in all its stages of progress, j
and above all—thanks to a tariff forced upon their go-
vernment by the powers pledged to befriend it—the in- j
ereaseing competition of the cheap European goods, it is
rather a wonder how, under such circumstances, they ;
manage to produce anything at all, and a matter for'
surprise that they are still able to reap any al-'
vantage from the sale of what is made. These stuffs ;
Are all that remain of the famous damask, to which
this city first gave birth; whilst Europe adopted the manu- I
facture, and by degree,* brought it to perfection, it has
so deelinced here as to be entirely forgotten, except in the'
shape in which it will be submitted to the gam of the world.
The renowned Damascus blades have for a similar reason
lweoine a fable, the art of making them having been trans-
(erred to Khorassuis, whither 'I anisirlane carried all the
workmen. No stuffs are manufactured anywhere clue in the
pachalick but at Damascus, which is the emporium of the ,
inland trade of Central Syria. A variety of men's cloaks
or outer garments, made of silk, wool, or cotton, differ-
ently (and indifferently) interwoven with gold thread, or
else embroidered, cannot fail to attract the attention of
the sightseers, and the Europeans who go about in dingy-
coloured clothing, will be forcibly struck with the showy ap-
pearance of these articles, part of which are worn by the
better class of village chiefs, and the less expensive, but not
lass gay ones, by the peasants themselves. 'Else assortment
of saver ornaments will draw a smile from the exquisitely
expert silversmiths and jewellers of Europe; but what will
our farmers and their labourers say when they are told that
these massive articles are made coarsely on purpose to suit
the present women, who, being the sole purchasers, cannot
afford to pay. fur elaborate workmanship? They have a
double ^L-' ' in view : the one, innate in the sex, the deco-

Faux WORIINCTON a curious model of a ship, 10 feet
in length by 6 feet 2 inches in depth, was forwardssl to the
building in Hyde Park on Wednesday last.
AT BAKZWELL, Mr. Thomas Woudruffc has been en-
gaged for some time past executing as design of Prince
Albert's, in the form of a Derbyshire black marble sidu
table, inlaid with foreign anal British stones.
FoasioN Gooos.—Return of the number of packages
received and placed in tho hoardings of the countries to
which they belong, tip to Saturday, the Ist of March,
1831 :—Belgium, 289 ; China, 33 ; France, 18 ; Austria,
1 ; Zollverein—llavaria, 43, Prussia, 6.59, Saxony, 135 ;
Holland, 19.3 ; Sardinia, 70 ; Mexico, 4 ; Sweden and
Norway, 19; Peru, 1 ; Russia, 215 ; Spain and her passim-
sions, 39 ; Switzerland, 118 ; United States, 19: South
Australia, 15 ; Canada, 314 ; Cape of Good Hope, 32 ;
Nova Scotia, 23 ; Bahamas (Nassau N.P.), 2 ; Guernsey,
10 ; Hong-Kong, 19. Total, 2,277.
Foreign
Colonial
General total . 7277

Total 2277

ItUDDERSFIELD CONTRIBUTIONS.—A Mail Corre-
spondent says : " There will be a total of 97 exhibitors from
Huddersfield, 60 of whom exhibit in plain and fancy wool-
len goods, the staple of the district ; several exhibitors in
shawls, ladies dresses, fancy vestings, table covers, merinos,
mohair, alpaca, &c., tie. There will lie several models, one
in particular, cue out of wood and pasteboard, by a cloth-
dresser, representing a purely Gothic cathedral ; British
grain and flour, imitation of woods, vegetable substance.
(dyed and undyed), a portable metcrmane, roadway and
mechanical improvements, model of a bridge, life preserver
ladder, hydraulic presses, railway carriage and rail, new
method for propelling ditto, rotatory steam-engines, cad-
bear and archill, and many other ingenious prisluetions.
The feeling is very strong at Huddersfield against the pa-
tent laws, and the committee there have adopted a resolu-
tion regretting that the Protection of Copyright Designs
Act bus not been extended to mechanical and other impor-
tant inventions."
INCREASED STEAM-BOAT TRAFFIC WITH TILE CON-
TIN EN T.—A joint-etock association is now in course of for-
mation in Belgium to meet the expected demand fur in-
creased steam-boat accommodation between England and
that country on the occasion of the approaching Exhibition.
It is intended to purchase a line of steamers capable of car-
rying 250 passengers each, and run them so us to make
three trips a week. The property will be formed of 50-
franc share*, each shareholder being entitled to make one
double journey.
Exit [MB rc Or LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS AT HAMBURG.
—Hamburg, Feb. 26.—Fart of the articles which will be
sent to London in a few days, were exhibited here on Friday
last, and such was the interest the public took in it, that
three days were not sufficient to satisfy the curiosity of
spectators: a fourth and a fifth were added, with their
evenings. Un to nino o'clock last night, when the doors of
the hall were closed, the place was crowded to an excess.
The admittance money was only fourpenee a head, which
was paid by upwards of 5,000 persons ; besides these, me-
chanics to whom even that trifle is a consideration, had
tickets given to them gratis by the members of the
committee. The money thus collected will be spent
to decorate the locality allotted to this city by
the - commission. An ur' possessing a
--,hibitor,