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

and and 'this charming model of rural agricultural, the eye is for Amblairtale la dig
asensibly attracted to certain azure combinations, Mart--"rst;re• Iles& the illiighlr' sto the "Ismail:Wes
tessera and encaustic tiles; at once the men- vil""R`rb CaaPan-Y. • IsTiolt°f " kis thal telarts•
yer cent. has been effected In fuel by its use. A
tal vision wanders from the precincts of Tiptrce Hall purpose to which this rany meal material la
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to the Mall of the Lateran. f..isg applied is that of tensing a basis upon *hi* piper
The lithographic ventures, as might hare been Rhea, mei an injury tan
may he
emigrant's.vial y-se 's eaMel""lples:
expected, an: highly creditable to us in the sere:al
feet vinare, oneewantneorpatent felt, sr' u which m talty
branches of landscape, architecture, and their corn- as weatherproof and as warm a' a brick-building, fa ski
patients. But it is himntable to reflect that not the calibi:ed. There is no doubt that oonsiderable ad
slightest hope is held out influxgasgatin pictorial wi':, malt from the extended employment of this
ntusance. he vast annual of fore tudies of ' LEHTLI3I.6' IkUSTII.I.IN FCIVSITVRE.--SANGIN rali
heads and figures. Admirable as arc productions of ! • Laos's LlBlAll%—the flooring in this miss& k If
llullmandel and Walton, whose prints from Cotter- oak-hwoodree aiittindawsoithrub:fia beautiful ,dclniebisani elall%
mole are only next best to origioals: alai the works ,'''
at the same time simple. The lower part of the bookcase,
of Haghe and 1). Roberta, panted by Day and which is 16 feet long, is made of Hungarian ash, whilst the
bon, ex., these eitlitr cannot or Will not ripper ornamental part is of Austrian ash; in its centre is a
compete with Lemercier, Jullien, and Corn- small projecting writing-desk, dividini the whole case in
pany. The fact is, that peculiar branch to which i torthei‘slut rritiyiic‘tissilLl4los;:plaulliretidbt; tthweobrii.na
attention is more particularly directed on the coati- 11 breeze and china chandelier', executed by M. Irma% , a
nent is with us entirely left to ticket embellishers. Kul?tor of great eminence at Vienna ; the designs are
- whose agency the I original, and were drawn by M. B. de Bernardi'. This
' • - • ' -' with a rich badalehin
_of a form

To dr man through .._
world la wade acquainted with certain incomparable
pickles and pomade, soap and salad oil, &c. (samples
of which illuminated proclamations are to be found
in the Fine Arts Court) to him, we submit, is left the
care ol producing the most refined subjects. The con-
sequence is obviously to deter the skilful artist from
encountering his rough treatment. The seals eat-
cuted by Wynn need no recommendation of ours.
That proposed as a prize medal for the Great Exhi-
bition promises to be a handsome reward, as well as
a token of superiority.

wars Part is decorated
almost round, terminating in • cupola of very elegant out-
lines; and the whole is sustained by wreathed carvings.
The cupola is supported by small pillars with an elegant
and light brim, which, on the side, is encircled by festoons
of flowers. Between each pillar is a sustainer, upon which
young children, beautifully carved, are placed in a dancing
position around the goddess of Wisdom, to whom they
are doing honour, and who stand upon an elegant orna-
ment. At present this statue is missing, it having been
damaged in transmission to England ; but a similar one is
being executed, which will shortly, we understand, be placed
on the above-named ornament, and then the allegory will
easily be understood. At the two ends of the bookcase, and in
the lower part, are semi-circular cabinets glazed with plate-
glass. The general di visions are decorated with small columns,
and an elegant cornice encircles the whole case, which is
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CARPET'.—The carpets contributed by the Messrs.
Watson, Bell, and Co., of Bond-street, are deserving of
espezial mention from the fact of one of them having been
commissioned by royalty fur Wind or Castle, and the supe-
:jeer de sign and workmanship of each and all of them. The
(lacer's carpet is of an irregular rum, 62 feet by 38 feet,
the pattern of which is designed ley Mr. Gruner, the cele-
brated decorative artist. The fabric is of the first charac-
ter, and even in the least important portions is brught
together u close as it is possible. 'The way in which this
carpet, and indeed most of those contributed by Messrs.
Watson, Bell, and Co., have been hung, is deserving of
mention. Instead of being placed upon the flow, or epos
a slight incline as are those in the French department, they
are hung horizontally, with the light. coming from the sides
or upon the edger, instead of the extreme points of the
wool. 'The consequence i. that each individual hbre of the
fabric throw. a shadow upon its neighbour, and a
cloud is thus cast over the whole which would
he otherwise most brilliant if not gorgeous in
colour. Moreover, the eatreme distnnee of one of the
courts is the very nearest point from which they can he
seen, and closer inspectiun is out of the question. To add
to this, they are placed over the plate and jewellery of Store
and Mortimer, and others, the attractions of which natu-
rally draw the eye downwards, and the spectator passes on
without even a passing glance upwards where these carpets
are hung. A Prussian pattern Brussels carpet is worthy of
remark from its embodying an ingenious plan for rendering
the centre and es allure subservient to any size. By this LT-
Isinuenit-nt it is obvious that great cheapness and economy
are mum!, inasmuch an a room of any dimensions may be
readily fitted with exactitude without waste. There is an-
other—a blue carpet, must exquisite in pattern and harmony
of colour : indeed, it is equal, if not superior, to any other
Link of a similar nature in the Exhibition. It has been very
"Woo, rly remarked by a mute enportery that there exists much
in the Indian department which might with profit be
imitated by our English designers, and one of the groups
pointed out as worthy of such a course of artistic study and
manufiu•turing enterprise was the carpets of Masulipatam.
It is, however, questionable, although se.i have great ability
in imitation, whether the fabric itself, being of a distinct
character, would admit profitably of this pewees. The
wool in the first place is not procurable at all in this country,
and even if it were the process of its preparation is scarcely
known to us ; and in the next, these carpets, in their
genuine state, are now imported through the firm of Messrs.
Watson, Ikll, and Co., who, it would appear, hearing of
the distressed state of the native manufactures in the dis-
trict where they arc made, have tried the experiment of re-
mitting money out there with commissions entrusted to
native .uperintenelence. The e xperiment having succeeded,
the Menem. Watnin have established the manufacture upon a
firm footing,and the cansequeure is the period nal arrival direct
to England el parrshe of the reeherelo. fabric+, instead of, as
was e.ustmaary, hasicg them shipped round by the Gulf of
Mexico, awl thus pawing several hands, each of which iu
turn added to their not.
Helm-set-1c It.sfis.—ln the north transept, and
in the area for niachinery at rest, there are perpendicular
tubes, reaching to a height of fifteen feet, from which in-
temnttinn streams of water are constantly flowing, accom-
panied by a noise like a sudden blow. 'I hese instruments
which attract wondering notice as to their object, are
hydraulic rano, used for raising water by the force of run-
ning .treano. When water flowing through a pipe is sud-
denly clucked, by quickly turning the stop-cock, a noise is
heard in the pipe, occasioned by the concussion of the fluid,
which is thrown backwards by the re-action. If a small
perpendicular tube were intro...need in the pipe, near the
atop-cock, the impulse of the flowing water when suddenly
stopped would lee directed through it, and if a salve were
placed at the bottom to present the water from running out
again, the tube would 'Jr tilled, and overthaw at the top by
a suecession of such coucussions. It is on this principle
that the action of the hydraulic ram depends. «hen the
water in the pipe has acquired its momentum, the clewing
of a valve, thrown it back at regular iutervals, anti
fortes an intenuitting stream up the small tube. In
this mann. r a brook or current of water, when directed
through pipes, may be made available for supplying
cistern., at consideralele elevations. The arrangement
is of the simplest kind, and is altogether self-acting. It is
not, however, to he regard, d as an efficient application of
water pewee, but merely as an adaption for rendering of
use the peeve r that is running to waste. The action of the
hydraulic ram depends print:ll.llly on the accumulated
velocity which is acquired by water when tlowiag through
perpendicular or elauting pines. This peculiarity in the fluty
of fluids i. not generally known. It might be supposed
that when W.Ltuir is conducted. from a cistern ley mean,
• of a descending pipe, the friction against the sides would
retard its isruAllqu, and that the quantity delivered would not
be ems great as would issue from an orifice of the same sise.
It would he found, however, that the cistern would be much
more quickly emptied through the pipe than through the
unties., unit that the rapnlity sit the flow would be increased
with the depth to which the pipe was carried, and for thin
• rseeeon . 'the water as it falls, acquires accelerated velocity
by the attraction of gravitation in the same proportion as a
falling stone, and at the bottom it would he running much
faster than at the top, if the bore of the pipe were larger
than its opening into the cistern, so as to admit air.
But when the air in excluded by the pipe being tilled with
a column of water, the lower portion cannot be sepa-
rated from the upper without causing a vacuum, conse
queenly the velocity of the lower portion of the falling
water is communivated to the upper, and the water issues
from the bottom of the pipe with a medium velocity com-
pounded of that of the column at different points in its de-
scent, The sudden check given to this accumulated velo-
city of the water by the valve in the hydraulic ram operates
like the coneusnon of a hammer, when its accumulated TV,
locity is arrested by striking against a solid resisting body.
The 'blow that is thus struck, by the descending fluid columnl
occaaions a recoil, which is directed, by the application of
valves, up the small perpendicular tube. This method of
raising water to a high level, by mean, of an inconsiderable
fall, is not so elfsetise as, though more simple, than the
machine exhibited among the machinery in motion. By
that, the stream is employed to turn an under shot water-
wheel which works two or more small force-pumps that will
ranee the water to any height required.
l'ekAUOX.—ln the area appropriated
to manufactures in mineral substances (class 27) there is a
small fountain under a glass shade, exhibited by Mr. Lips-
combe, which attracts much attention from the manner in
which it supports a ball on the jet. That a light ball would
remain balanced on it. centre on the top of a perpendicular
bt of water, if properly adjusteel,is what might be expected,
ut the ball in question is supported on one side, and not on
its veer re, and there seems nothing to support it. A cup round
the orifice of the jet, in which the ball mots before the fountain
begins to play, is placed eccentrically, so that the orifice is a
little on one side of the ball. The first effect of the action
of the perpendicular jet is to commuteicate a rapid rotary
motion to the ball, which is evident by the water that ad-
heres to it being thrown off at tangents to the circumference.
The reaction of the water thus thrown off forces the ball
back aeainst the jet, and the upward impulse carries it to
the top, where it is sustained apparently against the force of
gravity, and against the direct action of the jet tending to
force it outwards. Similar arrangements for dancing balls
are oecasimmliy made in one of the fountains in the tran-
rept, which being higher, and the balls larger, produce a
more extraordinary effect ; but in consequence of currents
of air disturbing the action the balls are not sustained so
well as by the smaller fountain under the glass shade. Why
the ball should thus be supported not only without any ap-
parent means of support but in opposition to the force tend-
ing directly to throw it off, greatly puzzles most of those
who see it disporting about on all lades of the jet. The
cause, as we have stated, is to be found in the reaction of
the water as it is thrown off the eiraunkrence of the ball
by " centrifugal force," which keeps it adhering to the im-
pulsive power, and that at the NM line sustains it in the
air, and communicates the rotary =Won by which it is
kept in its lateral position. This founds, with its ball, is
&scientific instrument from which weal instruction may, be
gained on the reaction of forces, as wsU as au entertaining
ornament —Morning l'aper.
PATENT FELT. Cseful fip=ations of animal
fibres made tato felted fabrics an in Class VII., by
Yam& Cluwduar., Co. in the Aye ef waterials adapted
foe mai sheLthipg used% ad
carious other
MisukThe plod raphahe Alt &ewe by the exhibitors
be shwas* af b. peas* impervious to rain,
and, formed wit is eta bath et bait, it Is also a non-con-
ductor of beat rewarbig time qualities, and having the
additional advantage of Ilebtawa. eeentany, and durability,
the wheaten is well shined he the parpose of roofing.
Ass, mode will attack tilt felt, it is also weU
salad fre lbs bang Of ani dues of all kinds.
Mfrs dreiftaf of Welds it has been found
anaree Idniey well en di elbstaany, resisting the
aas maw. Waif ohistag• of its non-con-
gusgarliss, it has bus mast enteasively employed