The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL CONTRIBUTIONS.

The Liverpool Albion of Monday says : "We have,
from time to time, noted the progress made by the
Liverpool committee with regard to their contributions
to the great Exhibition of 1851. The model of the
port will perhaps prove the most interesting, as an
illustration of our maritime greatness, the extent of
our docks. and the unparalleled enterprise of our mer-
chants. Nor will the cans of imports prove unattractive,
or be without their useful lessons to those unacquainted with
the varied branches of commerce and the multifarious nature
of the products by the interchange of which England has
become a nation of merchant princes. When we call tomind
the vast number of ships which fill our docks and daily spread
their Pails in our noble river, and reflect that they come from
all quark n of the glob., we can form bat an imperfect idea of
the variety of the imports which will be presented. Already
between 1,600 and 2,000 different articles have been contri-
buted, and these are all in the raw or unmanafactured state.
They will be classified, and their commerci►l and scientific
names indicated, also the country wheaca they are derived,
and the quantity imported. The article cotton will be
so arranged ea to illustrate the circumstances under which
it is grown and the course of preparation for the markt t,
and other materials will, where practicable, be displayed in
like manner. We append a list of those articles which the
committee require to complete their collection; and we
may state that the quantity required of each is merely a
sample sufficiently large to show the quality of the article :
—Whalebone, alabaster, aloe fibre, botanic aeid, pozzolsno,
American w►ite beans, Spanish moss, myrtle wax, black or
spruce b. or, Archangel bast mat, bone size, fish glue, bris-
tles, codillaof hemp, Dutch crystals, cork wood, caravaaces,
palmetto thatch, natron, china earth, guinea corn, otto of
roux felspar, gypsum, gum dammar, opium, hominy, cow
horns, horn shavings, musk, manna croup, pickled mangoes,
millet (bur, smiths ; hickory, wean, pistachio, coker,
Suranwe, or Suwarow, and Cashew nuts; olives, porcupine
quills, nee paper, Turkey stone, earthman, seed, si.k kaubs,
silkworm gut, sassafras nuts, sweepwasbers' mid, American
spermaceti, maple sugar, ben oats, tidings, Australian
tanners' bark, South American ditto, American cider, Ame-
rican leather, Stockholm tar, American dl•to, bamboo cases,
r ed ditto, Malacca dittoXhinese sugar, Louisiana ditto, eke
or nicer. Italian chick pea; quicksilver, had, or galena,
sliver, lad with silver, Barilla copper, zinc, and American
iron ores; South American copper, gold dust, spelter,:seeel,
and American scrap steel metals; more, yucaro, sapodilla,
lignunivite, and box woods.
" The model, to which we have frequently alluded, rapidly
progresses towards completion, twenty four hands being en.
gaged on it, including tome young semen, who are employed
to execute the lighter work in connexion with the shipping.
The size of the model has been extended some twenty square
het, so as to take in more of the town, the principal parts
of which will be depicted. Aithouph the model is by no
means complete, we are now enabled to form some notion of
the effect which will be produced ; and it is no small praise to
say that, so far, it exceeds our most sanguine emanations.
The credit of the design and general management is due to
Mr. Grantham, the secretary, who has spared no 'rouble, as
the local representative of the royal commissioners. Mr.
RaMes Brown, as the architect and contractor, has also dis-
played considerable perseverance; ar should we omit to
mention the name of Mr. David Graham, naval and archi-
teetural modeller, who had We saperiamdcace al the pair