The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-27 00:00:00

TIIE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The even and, hitherto, prosperous current of
events at the Crystal Palms was yesterday disturbed by a
melancholy and fatal accident. One of the country visitors,
an elderly and respectable-looking man, had just stepped
up to Masters's counter to procure some refreshment when
he dropped down suddenly and immediately expired. A 7
medical man who happened to be prevent was immediately
in attendance, but Wen found that the case wee one unfor-
tunately beyond human skill. A stretcher was procured'
from the police elation, and the body was removed to the
nearest workhouse where an inquest will of course be held
en toe deceased. Thu only clue to his identity was the
word " Leanaington" written in the inside of his bat. Such
an emit was calculated to cast a damp on the day's pro-
ceedings, but melancholy incidents seldom lease befits.: ins.
pr -sions on largo crowds, and accordingly the tide of
public curiosity was soon turned into a more cheerful
current by the arrival of a young lady clad iu full Bloomer
costame, and escorted by a geaticman of nearly her own
me. The apparition threw the ladies into a c .mplete fer-
mot, and the new visitor was constantly followed by eager
aged% although there was nothing in her appearance to
attract particular notice, had it not been for the previous
agitation of the " Bloomer " question by the press in this
dull semen. The " Cynosure of neighbouring eyes " of yes-
terday was clad in a crimson silk tunic drawn in at the
waist, and coming considerably below the knees, white
Turkish troweers, drawn tight at the melt's, and brown
boots. The bead deem was a planter's straw bat, with a
moderate supply of ribbons. We missed the cigar with
which the J'esocA artist has completed the costume, but
probably the stringent regulation of the commis-
sioners as regards smoking caused the defieieney. An
overgrown school girl in frock and trowsers would
give a very good notion of • Bloomerite in full
uniform. It must be admitted that the costume would
be anything but picturesque on a lady with much ensinna-
po:rst, but on a setlte and youthful figure it is not unbe-
coming, and bee the recommendation of obvious conve-
nience and comfort to the wearer, in enabling her to get
rid of the whalebone abomination so ...estructive to health
and comeliness. A novelty was circulated through the
Palace yesterday in the shape of a black candle, made from
the bitumen that oozes through the fissures of the rock in
the Binney Quarries, near Edinburgh. There was also a
table ornament of the same material, both being exhibited
by Mr. Dalton, of 19, Arundel-street, Strand. In the
Italian court, Signor Trebbe, the superintendent of the de-
partment, exhibited some choice Mosaics from his own
studio at Rome, one of which, • paper presser, inlaid
in black marble, is a wonderful specimen of the
minute del racy and elegance of the art. Tim
other, • cabinet picture of an owl, fixing its
talons in a hapless kid, is full of life and vigour.
But all these choice specimens of Italian art prove ices
attractive to the general run of visitors than a wonderful
cherry stone in the same section, with St. George and the
Dragon carved on the one side and twecty-five heads on
the other. ilia our vision the twenty-live heads look ex-
ceedingly like so many pimple., and on the obverse it is by
no nitaha easy to ascertain which is St. George and which
is the Dragon. But it is • "wonder," and the wonder-
seekers accordingly prefer it to all the mosaics and scag-
liulas. As the name of this clams of visitors is legion, and
their time is short, we wouldpoint out to them aperfeet mine
of their favourite objects in the Chinese section, contributed
by Capt. Shea, of the H. C's. own ship Buckinghamshire.
They may commence by reading (if they eau) the " Ito,
bin, yen," the poetical effusion of a literary Chinese in med.('
of his prime "chip" of tea, and then turn to the specimens
of Chinese art in various materials. Among them is a large
muff-hoe of English cannel coal, upon which that artist of
celestial celebrity " Beaching " has carved a whole host of
Chinese subjects with the utmost delicacy of minute mani-
pulation. It appears that the first attempt was ;given up
in despair, from the great brittleness of the material, but
the thirst of fame and the hope of earning 21. sterling car-
ried the illustrious Winching triumphantly through a m-
ound. There arc also iu this collection two beautiful
mother-of-pearl shells, splendidly carved, and some 'peel-
Mlll4 of papier melee, which our English artiste in that
material might examine with considerable benefit. Some
of them are inlaid with • minuteness and beauty which
Floreneeor noose could hardly equal. Another wonder in
this collection is some cloth made of paper, and painted
imitate mosaic work, with tins further wonder attached ft
it, that among the 3:1:1 millions of 'work in the flowery
land, there is only ono family at Amoy who ponces the
went of its maeufacture. There are several other rarities
in the collection, but we shall mention only one awe,
and that u the genuine Chinese lantern, " the hem
of a hundred feast,," with its whole exterior
rim covered with grotesque figures, which are kept
continually in motion by the rarifieation of air caused
by the presence of light within. If made on a large scale
and lighted with • strung gas burner, these lanterns weld
form a cheap and attractive addition to some of our alfresco
=eminent,. Such are scene of the hi'herto " unconsidered
trifles" of the Great Exhibition, but to a large class of
visitors they will prove more interesting than the catoptric
lenses, or even the beautiful " l'hryno " in the French
sculpture room, to which rumour gives the great medal in
that department of art. The company yesterday was a good
mot:, as regarded numbers, and had a general air of
which was hardly to be expected at this advanced
period of the year. Thu police numbers were 23,691, and
the rive ipte, 2,415/. 15s.
The following shows Use temperature yesterday, as
fireflies' by Mr. Bennett's thermometers, being the mean
result of 100 readings ;-10 o'clock, 60; 12 o'clock, 51;
2 o'clock, 56 4 o'clock, 57 ; 6 o'clock, A. Mesa tempe-
rature, 54.4.

A correspondent has furnished us with the following list
of exhibitors to whom prise medals have been awarded by
the Royal Commission. The list embraces the three dc-
partiumts of pottery, paper, and cottoa
Porrear.-11. Minton and Co., Stoke-upon-Trent—Great
royal medal for excelling in Fayence, rich English porcelain,
stone china, and Pierian biscuit porcelain. The great
medal has been awarded to them more especially for their
magnificent Y 11143 and beautiful Perim statuettes.
W. J. Copeland, Stoke-upon-Trent ; Wedgwood and
Sons, Etruria, near Burslem, Staffordshire, have had the
second prize medal decreed to them—the former as excel-
ling iu the finer sorts of porcelain wares, the latter for good
quality and cheapness in the coarser and more generally
useful stone ware articles.
Row and Co., Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire ; J. Ridg-
way and Co., Cauldon-plaec, Staffordshire ; Alcock and Co.,
Runlem, Staffordshire, are to have the third prise medals.
. To the royal porcelain manufacture of Berlin has been
adjudged the great medal for excelling in porcelain vases,
statuettes, &c., and for the spotless purity and whiteness of
is products, and its excellent paintings on porcelain.
The imperial manufacture of Vienna has also been thought
worthy of a prise for its rich flower paintings and gilding.
Prises have also been adjudged to the royal manufacture of
Meissen, and of Nympheinburg, near Munich; and to
Villeroy and Bach, Frankfurt-on-the Oder; Otto Steak',
of the same place; J. 0. Altmann, Bunzlau; I. and C.
Hardmuth, Budwcir, in Bohemia ; Merits Fischer, Horend,
in Hungary.
rAPEß.—Venables ; Wilton and Taylor, London.—Great
medal for excelling in nearly every branch of their manu-
factures, and more especially for the superior smoothness
and polish of their papers, which is imparted to them by
rolling between polished brass plates.
Prizes have also been awarded in this department to A.
Cowan and Sons, Edinburgh, principally for their laid
Papers; Delazue, London, for fine post papers and most
shout envelopes ; J. Lamb, Newcastle-under. Lyne, for
lithographic and copper engraving papers made of hemp;
J. H. Saunders, Dartford, for bank-note paper of remark-
able firmness ; Lariroix Brother', Angoulime, for superior
whiteness and purity.
Inferior prises have been awarded to Hoesch and Sons,
Duren, for fine writing paper ; Ranch Brothers, of Heil-
bruun, for remarkably solid cartoon paper ; Fr. Karcher,
Carlsruhe, for transparent vegetable papers ; Godin and
Sons La Haye, for floe writing and splendid coloured
papers; Ilcinlein, Sihl, near Zurich, solid writing paper;
Thurntisen, Basel, for copper engraving papers ; Ebert,
Brother, Berlin; C. E. Each, Gladhach ; L. Piette, 'Dil-
nape ; C. F. A. Fischer, Bautzen ; G. Schaenffelen, Heil-
bronn ; Durouglan, Smyrna, Turkey, for floe white and
coloured machine paper ; end to Drewson and Sons, Silke-
bore, Denmark, for a new method of smoothing the sadism
sheet.

In the department of Corson Goovv, prises have been
a.bulg(d to liouldsworth and Co, Manchester, for tine
rotten yarn-1,800,000 yards to the pound; fansa and

Uauschild, Chemnitz, for knitting yams ; Willimeatie
duck manufactory ; Rhodesland, for mil cloth ; Jourdain,
Altkirch in Mattis, for fine cambric', &c., woven on the
power loom ; Romsauer, Aeble, Herisan, Switzerland. for
fine cambric", &e., dm.; Alphonse Dandeville, St. Quentin
fur portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ; Syming-
ton and Co., Glasgow, for a curtain with tropical landscape ;
Tanner and Rollers, Iferisan,Switzerland,forslmwls and dres-

ees with fri nces, closely imitating embroidery ; A. Lambertsy,
Gladbach (for cotton beaver) ; Career and Vogel, Gera
(for cotton Levantine); Charles Cross and Co. (for woven
trouser. without seams); Fontaine Felix, Lyons (for woven
cox, is without seams) ; F.Weigel, Ludwigsburg (for trouser
I stuff.) ' • Thinner and T.ipfer, Chemnitz (for table cloths) ;
G
Stephen and Co., Berlin; W. and E. Law and J. L. Wil-
tson, England (for sarsinets) ; Melledew, Manchester (for
new method of manufacturing cotton velvet) ; Steiner and
Co., Accrington, near Manchester (for Turki.h red coloured
calicoes, and Turkish red machine printed velvets) ; and
to Staines Printing Co. (for eight coloured machine
printed velvets).
Under the head of Printed Cottons prices have been
awarded to Schwarz and Huguenin, Mahlhousel; Cha-
mai.; et Fits, Clayc, near Paris ; Bleob, Steinbach,
Hartmann and Son; Dolfur, Mieg, and Co. ; Gros Odier,
Roman and Co., Freres Koeohlin, and the following Eng-
lish houses : Edmund Potter, Salisj Schwabe, Thomas
Hoyle and Sons, Hargreaves, Brothers, Black and Co.,Nieh.
Sale (late Cobden), Bannerman and Sous, Nelson Knowles,
Mercer, Accrington, near Manchester ; V. du Pasquiler,
Neufchatel, Switzerland; Brosinauhl, Schlieger, and
Hooker ; Elberfeld (rose and line coloured cottons), Donne
berg and Co., Enlenherg ; Rause, Louve, and Co., Berlin.