The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATUEDA! EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1851.

divided in two parts. The lower part, coming up to the
height of the small writing-desk in the centre, contain dif-
ferent glazed cabinets for albums and other papers. On each
' side of the small writing-desk is another small projecting
cabinet, which contains two small paper baskets for cards,
notes, tee. The general style of this book case might be
called Renaissance, if there was not something original in
the whole conception of it, particularly as regards the cu-
pola. The ornamental part of the book-case has been mo-
delled by the sculptor, M. Schonthaler. In the saloon
there are placed, by way of pattern, an arm chair, and an
cosy chair, of somewhat smaller dimensions. They are at
present covered with a simple stuff, in order to show the
odour of the cloth, which will be replaced by a finer and
more tasteful one. We are informed that, had time per-
aided, six chairs, executed by M. Pressilorfer, after a do-
quite new and original, with beautiful carvings and
rct
t moving lines and flowers, would have been added
la articles of furniture in this saloon. In this apart-
enamt there is also au inlaid table, executed by M. Schneider
with a very rich pedestal. Near the book-case we have
described there is another in the gothic style, the designs
for which have been drawn by Messrs. de Bernardi/ and
Cranner, architects. A connoisseur will eustantly perceive
that it is not yet quite finished. This work has been pre-
sented to her Majesty by the Emperor of Austria. The
parts of which it is composed are only provisionally pat
together for 'mat of time, andis is alhe reason why
the locks are still wanting. The style ofdecoration of thk
beautiful piece of workmanship has already been referred
to. The albums which it contains are very curious and in-
' terestiug—the most celebrated artists of the Austrian empire
having contributed to their execution. It also contains the
works of the most renowned Austrian authors. All these
books were very elegantly and tastefully bound by several
artists at Vienna.— Morning Chronicle.
TIIE AMERICAN INDIA-RUBBER NIANCFACTURES.
—Foremost among the industrial productions exhibited in
the American department may be mentioned the varied and
multifarious uses to which india-rubber may be applied, as
illudrated in the display of Messrs. Goodyear and Co., who
may be said to stand at the end of this branch of manukno
tures. The variety of afticks made from this substance k
certainly most astonishing. Among the most extraordinary
applications of this substance is its use in the manufaemm
of articles of furniture and musical instruments. Irak.
memo( chests of drawers, flutes, and violins, aro shown, 111.
Ilustrutive of its applicability to these purposes. TM bast&
nets required to be imparted to the substance for these el- 1
jects is produced by a mixture of sulphur and maguseiC
, applied to the india-rubber. There are next shown sped. 1
linens of railway springs, formed of the same material, sad
which consist of pierced blocks or thick cyliuders, leaving •i
spiral ring in their centre, and steel rings upou title
outer side. These blocks or cylinders will sustain •
pressure of from ten to fifteen tons, their expansion
taking place between the outer rings. One of them
blocks is shown, which has, since the opening of the
Exhibition, been subjected at frequent intervals to the wi-
thin of Dick's anti-friction press, and to a pressure of from
ten to fifteen tons ; but no alteration whatever has in con-
sequence been made in its original appearance and fora.
There is also shown • large collection of ladies boots, shoes,
slippers, and clogs of all kinds turmoil of india.rubber, the I
shape arid cut of many of which would do credit to any
French house. There are in New York a large number of
persons holding licences under Mr. Goodyear for the manu-
facture of this kind of article, and the average number pro-
duced by each of these licensees is 3,000 pairs per day. the
india-rubber clogs deserve the attention of the fair pedes-
teems of this country. We have next maps and globes,
1 which are exceedingly cheap and light; the latter require
I lint to be inflated witu the breath when required for use, ,
and may be afterwards folded away. The printing upon I
the surface of the maps—some of which are elastic, and
others non-elastic—it exceedingly sharp and clear. It is
also so indelible that the surfaces may he washed, or even
subjected to the action of acids, without danger of removing
the impression. The toys, including dolls, lions, tigers,
eats, and other subjects of juvenile natural history, are
worthy the notice of heals ef families, on account art their
power successfully to resist the destructive diets of the
most pernicious destroyers of this clue of goods. Pae.iiig
from these, there are showa table-covers, carpets, felted
fabrics formed of cotton, flax, and iudia-rublier, pillows,
mattresses, hot-water bags, acoustic pipes, boats, pontoons,
and an immense variety of articles. The total number of I
articles for domestic and other use, manufactured from
india-rubber, by Mors. Goodyear, is, we are informed,
five hundred. The articles in the Exhibition are well
worthy the attention of visitors, and we doubt not that
many a useful hint will be obtained from their inepection,
sod that, when more generally known, they will be is
extensively sought after here as they are in the Transat-
lantic States.
THE PRODUCTIONS OF NATIVE INDIANS fill ono
ewe iu the American department, fronting the nave.
Among these articles a very tastefully worked middle-cloth,
the production of IA Indian girl, aged fifteen, of the names
of Minoan, the daughter of a Sioux Sachem, and presented
by her to her lover. She had no other pattern to guide
her than the wild flowers which bloomed iu her native
forest, a thourud milts west of the falls of St. Anthony,
and the solitudes of which have never yet been known to
have been trodden by the white nun. The flowers are
worked on the saddle with beads of various colours,
pleasingly arranged. The possessor of this tribute of
affection of the Indian maiden, while on a visit to Mino-
sena, most ungallantly allowed it to become the property of
the present exhibitor. Several embroidered cloths arc also
shown in this case, the work of Indiana at the Niagara Falls,
and formed with moose-hair, none of which is more than
two inches in length.
THE " 60010100 D Ortot:r," LATELY WON BY
LORD CLIFDEN, has' ist been added by Mr. Hancock, of Bru-
twa-street, to his collection in the Exhibition, by, permission
of Isis lordhip and the Executive Committee. The group is
from a model by Baron Maroehetti, who has chosen fur his
subject the " Death of Lord Francis Villiers," described in
Aubrey's "Antiquities of Surrey," by Lord Clareudon, and
other historians of the eventful times of Cromwell and his
opponents. A dying horse in the foreground is particularly
worthy of remark; the limbs are partly paralysed, and am.
mation is perceptibly departing. Mr. Hancock had already
earned well-merited laurels by his other maguiticeut con-
tributions, but this chef erceurre is beyond all question the
crowning triumph of his art.
TIIE AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS undermentioned
have been especially recommended to the notice of his coun-
trymen, front among those in the Exhibition, by Hen
Pogge, of Roggon, in Mecklenburg-Schwerin—a gentleman
who has a high reputation fur his judgment in these mat-
ters throughout the north of Germany :—Potato-hoe, with
three knives and Norwegian harrow attached ; a two-
wheeled cart, either for manure or corn, by Bushby, No. 15,
Class IX. ; a plough without fount-board, the coulter placed
sideways, by Alcock, No. 27 ; a light and very manageable
wheel-barrow, by Etta, No. 29; drainage machinery, and a
threshing machine with its steam-engine, by H. Clayton,
No. 47; a threshing machine, to be worked by horses or
steam-power, by Garrett and Sons, No. 142 ; a four-wheeled
waggon, by W. Cresskill, No. 13,3; a seed cleaner and seri-
rater, by J. Gillian, No. 138 ; a double action turnip cutter,
by B. Samuelson, No. 18.5; patent subsoil barrow, by R.
Coleman, No. 21d; subsoil plough, and swine trough, I.
11. Bentall, No. 217; portable steam engine, and patent -
by Hornsby and Son, Na. 233; haymaking machine,
tweehorse harrow, by Smith and Co. No. 231; turnip-cut-
ter, Burgess and Key, No. 237; Whitehead's draining pipe
machine., No. 239; Northumberland, or double-breast
plough, horse rake, and patent iron plough, with Air
coulter, No. 240; threshing machine, Holmes and Son, No.
241; turnip-cutter, by Hay, No. 24 c.; portable steam.
engine, Tuifford and Sons, No. 271; a mowing machine,
Deane, Dray, and Deane, No. 180 ; table-churn, P. It. Dram- 1
mond, No. 88; locomotive dibble, R. 11. Nicholls, No. 20,
Clam IX. ; a corn-crasher, Whitme and Chapman, No. 242,
Class XXII.
FIRE-PROOF SAFES. The group of patent fire-
resisting safes exhibited by MOSUL Milner aM SOU, in the
hardware department, is of interest. The description of
the principle of maintaining low temperatures in the heart
of a strong Are, upon which these safes are seastructed, is
thus given by the exhibitor himself:—" It may la observed
that Trom every pint of fluid discharged foam dlt material.
of the safe, or box, by beat into the /Mork", nearly 2,000
plats of steam aro evolved and mimed la the contents,
roodering the whole mar damp sad lama es a newspaper
from the press. By this MOM SW tboomed doge mof
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half of which temperature would destroy the contents of the
best safe or box that can be put together of dry materials i
whilst the papers are made difficult of ignition, the whole
process being conducive throughout to their preservation.
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en Prilllil oesellehiswidebsterabblogwienebe alkali, forma of 1849, we stated our conviction " that it would afford one
a seebenseeess erase se pyrolignate Wpotale--the worst con- of the most splendid displays of human industry the world
dollar of belt sneers; end Seas while* Able shelter the . ever beheld ; and that it would be the precursor of a long
Men or books dowl7 glee oire flolh doe large volume Of 1 series of similar exhibitions, occurring periodically, trim-
stoma that hes been pew' into amt woodeneed in them, re- - niftily or quin9uennially, as convenience may require,
sating most favourably in keeping awn to their own tem- i but still recumug periodically. We hoped that it would
e that of the box, or elk, mad the surrounding fire. •do more than this, and that it would become the
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boiling at 212 degree, In immediate eon- , parent of a numerous offspring of kindred shows, where
teat with titian Ire, into which a leendful of bank-notes the members of the whole community, and the
or doolowher may be placed with easel, simply and aptly 'representatives of all foreign nations, might meet
illastratne this pnneipft. Another beautiful and forcible I, together to examine the fruits of the skill, labour, and
illustration of its extraordinary preserving capabilities may , ingenuity of their brethren. Such things become at length, '
be shown in a very simple manner, by folding a piece oil like the fairs of former times, conducive to the dissemina- ,
common writing paper into the term of • tea-cup, having a , lion of general good feeling, and to the spread of knowledge',
wire circle inside and another outside, round the top, tied ! and civilisation amongst mankind." As time drew on, and
together with small binding wire, and two half circles of i arrangements took their form from the pressure of the occa-
wire crossing each other under the bottom, merely to keep I sion, our hopes incieased in sanguineness ; fancy could
the form. If this paper boiler be filled with water, and scarcely' picture forth the magnificence of than=
put over a red-hot place on the fire, where there is no smoke, bable reality, and so it has proved. Oar
it will boil away without even discolouring the paper. With will already have seen the enormous amount of space
great care, the boiler may be a bank-note ; and with perfect devoted to it by all tho London papers, and es
safety notes may be doubled up and boiled in the water, naliats in general try to write as people we eappwed
with only pater betwixt them and red heat, and afterwards to fed inclined to read,—the one may be regarded
dried. Or, as the inside of a loaf in an oven is preserved as a very tolerable index of the other, and from this alone
for hours from being more than boiled, under circumstances the all-engrossing nature of the Exhibition may be inferred.
wherein it would be reduced to a blackened, charred mass. Nor is the interest in the matter in any wily confined to
were it not for its own self-contained moisture, materials London : the Parisians seem to view the spectacle from
the most combustible are kept from injury in a similar but afar with about as much anxiety as those who are on the
more perfect manner within these boxes, when surrounded spot to examine for themselves; and, not content with the
with burning coal. The same beat that would servo to accounts the London journals supply, able, minute, and
make an iron safe red hot in twenty minutes will not bring voluminous, as they arc, the newspapers of the French
the interior of Milners' box, of one foot inside measurement capital have despatched commissioners to see and describe
(which dimeasions are necessary for the full advantage of London and the Londoners under their present state of
the resistance and re-action of this principle), to the boiling excitement, as strange and as wonderful as any the world
point, 212 deg., which cools downrepidly.the moment the ever witnessed, ancl-not less delightful to the philathropist
fire subsides around—whereas the red hot iron safe remains than to all men wonderful and strange. I
an immovable burning prison for its dry contents, con- The very Catalogues of the Exhibition are themselves
miming them for hours after the fire has left them. In prodigies of art and paragons of beauty—they almost till
short, the Milners' safe and the iron safe, standing near the place at present of all other popular publications
each other in Messrs. Walkers' fire, may be aptly com- whatever ; and the artists seem to have put forth all
pared to an oven and boiler in vigorous operation ; in their energies to illustrate the wonders of the artisan's
which of the two would you deposit a bundle of deeds, industry and skill. There appears to have been col-
bank notes, or lunpowder, with a view of preserving them lected up to the 6th June the enormous rum of 220,0001.—
from being burnt? Within each of these depositaries a sin- the expenditure is estimated at about 150,000 ; funds, there-
tinel engine, may be supposed always attendant and self- fore, had already been realised to meet all the outlay, with
acting, ready not only to extinguish but to prevent fire, a considerable balance to spare.
with its pipes charged and laid into the most valuable pro- In the midst of this joy and excitement the painful ques-
perty which a public, professional, or mercantile office, or lion obtrudes itself—must the Crystal Palace be pulled
private dwelling contains—property uninsurable, and yet down?—must this source of intellectual excitement and !e-
-aten exceeding in value all that it is deemed needful to creation be made to vanish so soon as the immediate occa-
insure ; the fire itself, in its first approaches, letting loose lion which brought it into existence is over ? There arc
and arousing, in concentrated operation within the box, its supposed to be ten thousand persons in and around London
only efficient antagonist." willing to become regular purchasers of annual tickets at a
charge of It. a year each. It is calculated that Loudon is
every year visited by some five hundred thousand Eng-
lishmen from the provinces, and one hundred thousand fo-
reigners,
to whom the present exhibition would be a source
of the greatest attraction. There are about two hundred
thousand per one in end around London whoare regular sight-
seers and holiday-makers, and it is supposed that at least as
many more would visit the Exhibition at sixpence each within
the year were it permanently maintained : the two items
together would afford an income of 15,000/., and this would,
it is supposed, be much more than sufficient to cover all the
charges of tear and wear and maintenance,—assuming
thm there is a sufficient surplus on the collections of the
=cut year to purchase up the concern without its con-
It is said that an eminent contractor has already offered
to rent the palace for the sum of 20,0001. a-year—from
7,0001. to 8,0001. being supposed sufficient to meet mainte-
nance—a further sum of nearly equal amount being set
aside for police and attendants. Of course the renter even
out of this vast sum contemplates a profit, and deems it pro-
liable that of the thirty thousand who at present hold sea-
son tickets, the great majority would in all likelihood renew
their subscriptions at the close of the year. The idea of re-
taing the present contents of the Crystal Palace for perma-
nent exhibition, is oat of the question, valued as they are
at twelve millions sterling at the least, and it would take
seventeen yearn to raise money. sufficient to meet this were
2,0001. to be continued to be raised daily as at present ; the
very interest on this enormous sum would at five per
cent. be 600,0001. a-year. It is, however, believed that
there are few of the exhibitors who would not willingly
rent compartments permanently as places of exhibition tor
their wares, knowing that it must, while so tilled, continue
a place of unparalleled resort; and it is supposed that it
might be made a place for the general exhibition of all our
wealthiest societies, some of which have incomes almost
equal to the stun required for the maintenance and servants
lit the establishment. It would, of course, under these cir-
cumstances, continue to be what itlias of late been made—
a place of lectures and intellectual improvement—of amuse-
ment as well as of instruction.
It may amuse the reader to trace the precise parallelism
of the course the Great Exhibition of the nations has taken
at home to that traced some years since for a little exhibi-
tion in Bombay, which we trust yet to see established
entongst us; it will be found fully described in the Bombay
Geographical Transavtioas for 1818, and the Annals of
India tor the same year,—the outlines in both cases having
beeu published belure the London show was heard of.
Our Economic Museum was meant to be a place of
general popular resort, and to be large enough
Ito contain as great a multitude of sight-seers as
, were ever likely to resort to it: it was to be tilled with 4011
the productions of the East employed in processes of art or
manufacture, or made subject of sale—animal, mineral, or''
vegetable,—of the manufactures springing out of them, and
I the tools made use of in their transformation. It was meant '
to form a place of instruction by means of lectures, and one
of resort during the wet season ter the lovers of music, when
the band could not be listened to with cemfort out of
doors. The plan of tilling the stalls with the
' wares desired to be exhibited, to tempt purchasers, makes
the parallel complete. The success of the experiment made
in thc Town-hall in January, 1819, gives some idea of the
extent to which such a thing as this was likely to be re-
sorted to; and we trust that before two years are out the
plan in miniature, so similar in all respects to that which
has been already so magnificently carried out at home, will
be put into effect. A few public men with the spirit of the
Prince Consort would give us all that is wanted.

ELECTRIC EREICOMENA.—A rumour having pre-
vailed at Brussels, that M. Quetelet, the director of the ob-
servatory in that city, had been killed by lightning, that
gentleman has written to the journals to contradict the
rumour, and to state what really occurred. Ile was making
some observations in the midst of a violent storm, he says,
with his assistant, when all of a sudden he found himself
enveloped in a blaze of light, and received a violent electric
shock, which threw him down. His assistant wus also
flung to the ground, but neither was seriously hurt. The
electric fluid returned almost immediately after, just as they
had raised themselves up, and with great force threw them
towards the door. They
.then went out on the platform,
where they found the ram falling in torrents, which was
fortunate for them, as their clothes had caught fire. The
freshness of the air soon recovered them completely. 'With
the exception of some burns on the face and hands,
and their hair being scorched, they met with no other
injuries.

THE L MARLEY COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday'y
evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of the Stafford-
shire Collieries was held in the Town-hall, Hanley, in com-
Pliance with a requisition signed by tko jurymen on the
ate inquest at the Saracen's Head Inn, and several rate-
payers of the townships of Hanley and Shelton. and
addressed to the chief bailiff of these townships, calling on
him to convene a meeting to consider the conduct of her
Majesty's government in reference to that inquiry, to adopt
a memorial praying for the enforcement on all future occa-
sions of the 13 and 11 Vic. c. 100, and for the appointment
of a resident inspector of mines for the county of Stafford.
The meeting wee very numerously attended, and the chief
bailiff, J. H. Clementson, Esq., took the chair. The chair-
man, after having briefly stated the circumstances under
which the meeting had been convened, called on Mr.
Homer (a mining agent, and one of the jurymen on the
tibberley inquest), to move the first resolution, which was
as follows : " That this meeting having been informed of the
provisions of the act of parliament, 'Mauled 'Au Act for
the Inspection of Coal Mines in Great Britain,' which re-
ceived the royal assent on the 14th of August, 1850, con-
siders that the spirit of that act cannot be carried
out until a larger number than four inspectors
are appointed, as that number is quite inadequate
to properly discharge the duties required by the act.
Mr. Homer said that it was impossible for any one of the pre-
sent inspectors to properly survey his district in !IX years;
if he was to go down every mine and see that it was in
good order. In his opinion it was necessary also to have
some one capable of looking after the works to ascertain
that they were kept in good order. Mr. Charles Kelsall, a
working collier, seconded the motion. He bad no doubt
that if there was more inspection there would be fewer acci-
dents. A proper inspection would compel the owners of
mines to have good airways and keep them in better fettle
[order]. Me had seen some air holes so small that a
cat could hardly get into them, and he had been compelled
to work in such places. If there was not some care taken
Ito prevent these accidents, as time grew older they would
grow worse and more lives would be sacrificed. (Loud
cheers.) John Ridgway, Esq., proprietor of the Üb-
berley Colliery, supported the resolution, and after
some observations from the chief bailiff, it was put and
carried unanimously. The Reverend S. Fisher (incum-
bent of Trinity Church) proposed the second resolution:
That this meeting having been informed of the circum-
stances attending the fatal catastrophe at Übberley, and of
the inquest upon the unfortunate victims en that aconite,
eannot forbear expressing its disappointment and regret
that no inspector or other scientific person was present to
aid the jury in their deliberations, and this meeting ex-
its hope that any future inquest will be adjourned,
rneiecegesary, for such a purpose." Mr. Heath seconded the
resolution, which was also adopted unanimously. Mr.
James Hudson (a master potter) moved the third resolution:
' " That a memorial from this meeting be signed by the
chairman on its behalf, and afterwards transmitted to the
Earl of Shaftesbury (late Lord Ashley) for presentation to
her Majesty in person, praying that she will appoint • re-
sident inspector for this county." Mr. Henry Hollis (a
Wesleyan local preacher) seconded the motion, which, like
the preceding, passed unanintoual . A vote of thanks to
the chief bailiff closed the proceedings.