The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-27 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld.,Addit!otaL)

THE .ridairscoriird. Exntßrrrop

The history of the ten. years which have elapsed
Rime the whole world was making its way tewardi
Hyde-park, to see the wonders of the, then, Great
Exhibition, and annoy the Lord Chancellor and '
some of lis immediate neighbours by the amount
of dust and noise they perpetually kept up, would
make a book quite as interesting as M. Louis
Blanc's celebrated Chronicle. We mu not, how-
, ever, going to write such a history here, but
merely to remark that when we now see Lord
Granville, aed Mr. Cole, and Mr. Wentworth
Dilke gathered, as of old, in council round the
Prince Consort, and 'arranging the preliminaries
of another "Great" Exhibition, we feel inclines],
I like Rip van Winkle, to rub oar eyes, mid ask
whether all this time has passed away, or whether
it has been only a dream, and that it was really
on some day of, last week we paid our euid visit
to the glories of Hyde-park—the Indian Coutt,
the Koh-i-noor, the great' elms under glass, the
diamonds, the malachites, the crystal 'fountains,
and the famous Ittiol,- more wonderful thou that of
Ware, which made it a duty as well as a pleasure
to the most sleepy 8f housemaids to turn out and
work et 5 o'clock every Illufbiukg.,
We fear that if 'we were to ask top many ques-
tions our delueion might 'be somewhat ttidely dis-
pelled, and that we should find many Whits in the
fiat of names, which brought stielom, and energy,
and taste_,. and bright conception to the rescue in
.1851. Witu ,some the 'newer has beet at work,
ethers are resting on their laurels, and others still,
perhaps, hare not as yet been asked to oome in.
But the affair ii still in its infancy, the organise-
lion in the throes of its first drill, and half the
letters which the council have scattered btoadeast
(Won the civilised world are still whiting for their
answers. A good deal has, however, already been
done ; the building has been designed, and the deo
sign put in process of execution. As would
spat assuredly have been the case had
Michael Angelo or Palladio been the architect,
the critics have already opened fire against it, and
the terms "dead wall," "screen," `• wen," dm.,
ho., are being knocked about rapidly in conver-
sation in reference W. the sketches of the elevation
and the domes with which the public have been
favoured. We shall reserve our own opinion
Eutil we have seen the ,caridel drawing which
now being prepared by Mr, Day, and which will
o doubt give 1 much alemer Ma of what the
architect intended than the mere ground plans
Which have up to this thee appeared. Michael
lenflo said, " He'd take the dome of the Pantheon
Vhang it in the air," and the wags assert that
aptsun* Fowlkes has made ri similar vow with re-
ference to the Brampton boilers, the enormous
domes with which the new building is to be stir-'
mounted being considered by seine a superfluity,
by others an excrescence, and by a eery few either
In ornament era utility. But the captions should.'
wait, the unpratised eye is seldom be
to realise,
What such an euormous building would be from a mere
ground plan, and when Captain Fowlket is heard he '
inay give very good reasons both for his art add• his
utility, his domes and his facades. One thing we
must say here for his design, and that is tlrat it
must not be prejudged from the cut given in the
plustrated News, as that, although executed with
great accuracy, gives the impression that the domes
rise bluff from the roadside front, whereas, in fact,
they spring from the centres of two other sides of
the quadrangle, and therefore will not be seen at
all until the spectator has fairly entered the
' building. '
Without troubling the public with long rows of
jfigures, which we are perfectly well Mem' they
Fiver read, we may state that the new building u
be a quadrangle, the road front of which will
touch and run parallel to the Kensington 51usetini.
!The back will be formed of the arcades of the Her-
tieultural Society, and the aides will be the same as
' !the front. Parallel with the latter, and cutting the
'quadrangle in two, will be the transept, at each
end of which will spring up the crystal domes, which
are the grand idea of the design. They will serve as
'lanterns to light the interior, and their areas be-
'neath will be appropriate for grand ceremonials,
such as the opening of the building by the Sovereign,
or the more conspicuous display of articles of pen-
, liar attraction and rarity. From the transept will
, branch out naves on either side reaching to the
outer boundaries ; and when we have stated so
much, we believe we have said all that will be ne-
eessary to give the reader a clear first idea of what
the building is likely to be when complete.
With respect to the internal arrangements there
is little to add to what has already been published.
The whole length of Cromwell-road front is to be
devoted to pictures, this being a feature entirely
distinct from, and in addition to, the plan of the
Exhibition of 1861. Missives have been seat to'
France, to Germany, to Belgium, to Italy,
to every place, in short, where palette
and pencil are supposed to be known ; and although
no official answers have as yet been received,
the most encouraging symptouus of co-operation are
coming in from all quarters. Singularly enough,
the greatest anxiety to exhibit in this department
has as yet been evinced in America and Australia,
and there is no doubt but that if the artists of those
distant lands paint from the nature which is around
them, their pictures will be not the least attractive
in the gallery. Our own artists are to be restricted
to a century by the definition "Modern Art ;" and
other nations are to be their own interpreters.
The hanging room for pictures will be enormous,
and persons, when criticising the whole design,
must remember that in preparing a building for
pictures many things were to be taken into consi-
deration which had not entered into the design of
1851. What is now wanted is length, not
loftiness of wall, and plenty of down light,
in addition to which the visitors will be better pre-
wed for the enjoyment of such a glorious assem-
blage of form and colour as this collection will
assuredly be, by having primed to it through an
unpretending vestibule. We believe the pictures
alone would ensure the success of the exhibition,
and that without them, after the experience of
Dublin and Manchester, it would have been a com-
parative failure. Having come to see them, the
public will stop to look and learn from everything
else, bat had they not been there, the visitors
would assuredly be far less numerous. It is a good
idea putting all the machinery in motion into an
"annexe," according to the French plan, as by
these means nobody will be annoyed by the smell
of oil or the whirl of wheels, except those who have
a liking for that sort of amusement. This, then,
will be the general arrangement ; the pictures in the
front, and if they overflow, running partly down
the sides, the more attractive articles in the great
transept or on estrades under the dome, and the
useful ones, such as textiles, ironwork and
furniture, or inventions of various kinds, will be
arranged in the cross-courts or naves. At the back
and on the first floor is to be the commissariat,
which, according to all accounts, is to be a sort of
culinary Cosmos. It is, we believe, intended that
the "one good dish" which Careme tells us every
Nation possesses, is to have a place on the tables.
In 1851 there were only the puffs and the ices of
Mr. Younghuaband, and the beef, eternal elatterinq
of plates, and general confusion of Mr. Masters
ordinary • but in 1862 we are to have, in addition
to our insular purveyors, Neapolitan "glaciers,"
French "traitenrs," and German purveyors of
saurkrawk A bold attempt will be made to intro-
duce the institution of the " Kabob " from Con-'
stantinople, and in the very hot weather to domes-
ticate the sherbet of Teheran. The Arab will
ham a stall for his dates and his figs, but
whether be will be permitted to offer the latter '
" in the name of the prophet," will of course de- '
peed tepee what may be the state of our eastern
rolidoss Aires opening. There are to be foun-
tallesionteedecene design, running with fair sparkling
WS* ITSl7l6Olte, so that those who may consider

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ewe 'mended gin privilege a bane MUM admit that
the antidote also hat place, and that temperance
will get every fair chance against its old enemy.
By tile time the exhibition is ready to open it is
expected that two new railway.. will' have com-
menced running, one from the North WiliffetlrV
and the other from the Great Wester*, right deWni e
to the Albert-road, so that it is probable the calcu-
lations of the council as to the means of transit
will not be much over the mark, after all. • .q..
The last, because the least pleasant, circumstance,' a
connected with the forthcoming Bithibitivii npoit . '1
which we shall touch is the strike, which so early
in the affair has shown symptoms of obstruction.
We were happy to learn yesterday thlitit has nor''
extended beyond the 400 men who had already pro- a „
;bounced, and that the contractors have every hope ' •
of its being over in a week. Should, however, their
hope. prove fallacious, thee are quite prepared foe
eventualities, having alreidy incertained that Thar
can have as many as they want of the finest masons'. '.
in the world from Italy and Belgium. No othei
contractors will in the meantime employ the
strikers, and we would also remind the latter that
if these Belgians and Italians are once allowed to
become accustomed to English wages and English
beer, not only they will not be in any hurry to re-
titre to the continent, but (Abets- are pretty suns
to follow in their wake. W. West, however, that
tra these extratuitiee . Jae rt•obed,,,,lpt, (bat
by Mondiy Wait we : Yearn the raga Ws all
attuned good-b Zto their work- ' ' '

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Yestinley the first public eipieriMent calculated
t• test on ea exteadds seeks the capabilities of locomotive i
.eirgines to mum heavy leads over the main roads of the ,
metropolis took place over the Hampstead, Euston, sad' `
New.ronde, and attracted, it maybe battened, considerable
treads. There were on the train at its starting the Mar- ..
min of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Donegal, ant several
weentific visitors. As the bill known as " The Locomotive
Bill," introduced into the Holm bf Commons by Mr. Gar- • '
DOA, Mr. liesiliun, and Mr. Bagley, for regulatiug the nee ..
el locomotives on common reads, and the tolls to be levied
on carriages and waggons, is now before the legislature, the
pragress an malt of the enterprising trip will be
of interest. Preliminarily it should be stated that the occa-
don on which the new mode of traction was 'brought into play
was in cosneximi with the removal of that immense mound
df earth known as the New River Reservoir, situated
am to the junction of Tottenliamoourt and Hampstead
toads, and which was one of the earliest equeducts, if it
may be so said, Rimed by the blew fiver Company for the
sepply of water to the north-west of London. Being now
altogether snpisreeded by their superior system of water
supply, the New River Company have determined on its
removal, in order that'll, area it occupies, of between three -
end four acres May be • let out on building leases, and for
She feernation'of a new street in the neighbourhood. The
peat difficulty, however, presented itself —how to effect
the clearance of so vast a mass •of earth, amotietiag
to some 170,000 cable reds, by 111111119 of the tonal
millinery of costrectoce par* the earth, it is said. •
Mincingly sioegb, consisting, bi a Illy Urge proportion, of ,
the IClll3'OOllO mass of rubtish. brides, and .debris"
removed out lsse after the great fire of London, a rheum- ;
Ream seasnistinfineed by the blue strata of fire elay, ,
tog=
hewn mid articles that turn up in it in the way of
e Eudora Baths and We-abbesses' at the
top of Druinnasedelrest, which were supplied from this nr
terror, have proved A tailor., have been pulled down, and
the old well, 40 feet deep, which supplied the reservoir by •
seene power, will be filled in. The appearance of the re-
servoir, from which all the water dos been let out, suggests,
from its circularity-awl extent, xeminisoeucte
;of the reins:"
of an old Roman amphitheatre.
In order to effect the removal of the immerse mass of ;
earth, the contractor for the New River Company,
Mr. Reddish, of Bankeide, determined on trying the •
transporting powers of the steam locomotive, end so r
have it waggoned away in two or three months, to form
embankments and other works in connexion with the'
Metropolitan and North London Railways, and as ballast,
fee the reeds on the estates of the Marquis of Camden the
New River Company, sad detections, the experiment jester-
day being undertaken by a company called-the English and
Continental Traction Engine Company, the truism being •
under the inenagemeet of Mews. Longstaff and Pullen, the ,
inventors, and of Mr. Cresawell, C.E., the manufacturer,
who, at half-put three o'clock, got up the steam of one of
their locomotives on the Hampstmti-road, and then had ,
hitched on to it two large waggons, each containing ten tons
of the debris, and which the locomotive, at first starting, •
and notwitlisaading it had to describe a sharp curve, in
order to melee good Re neaten to the road, drew behind it
with the ease of an elephant. The load, at a mode-
rate calculation of a ton per load per horse, would •
have required some twenty out-horses. The engine was
then steered at only a walking pace up to the junction of
the Hampstead and Tottenbam.eourt-roads, owing to the •
accumulation of trail% at those points, which had to be
regulated by the police who accompanied the excursionists,
but after rounding the corner that leads into the New-read,
just opposite the establishment of 'Mosey and Son, the en-
gine, having left the Macadam and. • got on to the block.
stone road, with a clear way, rattled over it at the rate of,
five or six miles an hour with its loan. After passing St.
Name Church, the trait, on arrivieg at Judd-street, bad'
to tare up there in consequenoe of the remainder of the.
New-road being closed nearly up to King's-croes by the
works of the Metropolitan Underground Railway ; and at;
this point of the pelmet the train, some forty
feet long, had to enconeter considerable dif-
ficulty, and which required all the skill of Mr.
,bee swell, the conductor, to steer it, in the form of.
fear sharp curves in succession, the first out of the New-
reed a few yards up Judd-street, the mania out of Judd-
street into Claremont-place, then down another narrow
street, and again into the New-road, which, after ire/queue,
pauses. however, and with the general public traffic of the
road diverted into the mine track, it effected, together with
the next stage to the Great Northern Railway at King's-.
cross, where a large crowd collected to look en. Here there,
was another pause to adjust t lie working xesr, and get up
the steam for the severe test of ascending the well-known'
Pentonville.hill, which rum from this point nearly to the
Angel at lslington—a good mile run, and at a gradient in
some parts of from 1 in 70 to 1 in 100, one of the'
longest and steepest bills in the neighbourhood
of London. It was a few minutes to 4 when the
train commenced scaling the bill, and the scene on the road.
was remarkably animated and amusing, popular pasquined-
leg being every now sod then indulged in at the expense
of the spasmodic speed of the poor engine. Pentenville-
Mll is paved with blocks of granite stone, but it has e
siding of softer Macadam, and this was selected for the
loteetotiee all along the route,. the fiat flanges of thq sleighs'
and waggons being found to have no grip or hold upon the
former, and it was with difficulty that it held on to the
latter, without the road being strewn with the rubble in
the waggons to enable the wheels to work on. Arrived
at the chapel on Pentonvillebill, half way up, and the
steepest pert of the ascent, the train came to a dead
stop, and in spite of putting on the strongest steam
power, it was found impossible to proceed with-
out detaching one of the mimeos, and thus diminishing
the load one-half. The train then proceeded at a smart
pace for a short distance until it reached the Crown Tavern,
where, just as it was about "topping" the Lill, a loud crack,
like the sound-of a rids, was heard, and es investigation it
was found that the cog wheel, or traction wheel, of the lo-
comotive had broken short off in a portion of the periphery',
and the whole affair awe to a stand still. It is perhaps
only tair to slats that a similar load had been carried on a
previous occludes to the toilet the hill, andfor the remainder
of the distance to the North London Railway, by the New
Cattle-market, without any such mishap ; and no doubt the
accident of yesterday is attributable to the extensive strain
to which the driving wheel and machinery were subjected
in overcoming the steepness and inequality of the real

• The anniversary festival of the Royal Hospital
for Incurables took plow at the Loudon Tavern yesterday
meeting. About a Misdeed gentlemen eat down to table,
and the chair vas to have been occupied by his Grace the
Duke of Wella, ILO., but in the absence of his ems,
who sent arra at the latest hour, the Commie Sm.
jeant, Hr. T. hers, was asked to preside. Amongst
the company were Mr. Sheriff Lusk, the Rev. Dr. Reed,
Dr. Cooolly, sad Dr. Werra. A list of donation and
subscriptions wee read, minding gifts of • hundred
each from the Earl of Csrlisle, Rev. Dr. Reed,
Igir. D. Dams, Mr. N. Powell, and Mr. H. Huth, tire
Wad being nearly 1,4001.
LONDON ORDINATION.—The Bishop of Londoit
him given notloe that be will hold a general ordination do
'Trinity Sunday at St. Paul's Cathedral, and that tile 41.12.1111.
=MOD of candidates who may present themselves will
abbey tarn on • knowledge of the holy scriptures—that kr
to my, a knowledge of the contents and objects of the wend
' leeks both of the Old and New Ter/amen/a will be regain&
aseale:of the meaning and coolest of im=t pebefee
and history of important vas& mg P idnata
to refer' for theft ii WeiWom to gbe °Aiwa
Urea of the NewTeelanteal. to Watt tele Novi Tata.
Breckee Concordant/a Novi and Rep-
imerLaishoomoo. ID istemstioo respect i
t hie reoesimiwide Oelsoptatist fag
of the Hil4e, Kitto!e Whoa gyelopodia, or simile: worb.
It is added that /he study of the elements of Hebrew
though Doi Mound. utrostly moommemied, and that fou;
thfoundis papas the Osamir sag Lisbon of Gilliable will be
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