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

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Several pieces of maelunery, for the manufacture of
which it has long stood tutrivalled. The proprietors of
Brookhouse Mills are cotupletina a lwautiful miniature
power loom, with all the most improved breaks, &c., a mi-
niature dressing machine, and a warping mill of their owa
patent, called •• Jcany Lind."

FROM EXETEIt.
Amongst the novelties sent from this district, Henry
Matthews, Esq., of Bradnineh, near Cuilmapton, has for-
warded a pair of carved Tudor bed pooots, made front a
walnut tree that grew near the ow aer's bowie, at Bradninch,
part of the Duchy of Cornwall, by John Sirs (on the
owner's premises), who was brought up a thatcher, and
followed that business :titer he was married. The columns
arc nine feet hi.th and It inches square at the base, renting
on lion's claws; in front is the date, 1831; on the various
Bands are the Prince of Wales's plume and motto, the
crown of Henry VIII. and his Queen, Catherine, with
the letters 11. taken from a crown gold piece f that
date; the arms of the corporation of Broalninch and motto
the Queen's crown with V. It.; the exact likeness of at
lamb with six legs that was dropped last spring ou the
sums property and i. now in good health, with the motto
'• Peace sod Plenty," (the lamb figuring the former, the
six legs the latter), and the Tudor rose and motto. Above
the vases are several basses, carved in foliage of oak, ivy,
tte.,. the whole being carved out of solid wood.—ureter
riga" Port.

FROM DRS*DEN.
The principal objects iu process of manufacture at the
works in Dresden for the Exhibition are an enormous look-
ing-glass frame, decorated with birds, flowers, and fancy
ornaments; two vases, four or five feet high, one of them in
the rococo style, gracefully adorned with the entwined
foliage of the eonvolcutus and nasturtium ; the other imi-
tating the Greek, and evidentiug a taste more chaste and
seven•. It is decorated chiefly with enamelled paintings, in
the forms ot• medallions, round the base and round the lid.
'f•he fourth article is a camellia tree, more remarkable for its
few-simile resemblance to nature than for any originality of
conception or gracefulness of design, and, unless the illusion
be dispelled by touch, every leaf to the observer is a real
leaf, more or less developed and coloured, and every blossom
marks likewise a distinct and successive stage, from the
closed bud to the full-grown and colorant(' flower.

FRO? INDIA.—FOURTH CON.IONMENT.
Specimens of Ilindoostmee shoes of many various shapes
and style. Oriental musical instruments, comprising ciMrs
and suorungees, of dith•nvt 1,11/.01 and shapes, together with
all the differeat descriptions of tubliahs, tom-toms, cymbals,
&c., in use among the natives of Bengal mid the upper pro-
vinces. Models of native boats, manufactories, &c. A
modal of a Mofussil cutcherry, with figures of the session
judge and the omlab. Specimeus of gold and silver em-
bruidery on velvet, models of royal musnuds, and other
articles of gaudy display appertaining to the palaces, divans,
and processions of eastern princes. The led samples of
native workmanship, however, were some wrought silver
ornaments and jewellery, contributed by the goldsmiths of
Cattail, as also a collection of ivory toys, puzzles, models,
and chessmen forwarded from Moorshealabad. These latter
comprised a set of " Layard's Nineveh" chessmen carved
in solid pieces of ivory.
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