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TO OUR READERS.

!SPORTING INTELLIGENCF..

A !ate editiun of the R.rpreas is published every
Abaiae duris4 the racing sessuu, cuutaiubig the
moults of the day's meek

As we wish to keep before the snits/ of the
politic, not only the general fact of the progreas
which is making towards the realisation .4 the idea
at eh., Gram' Exhibition, hut to render them as
familiar as we can with tit...64311s of that progress";
we may perhaps be jesitinel in giving some notion
of the living, thinking, suggeoing, and acting
machinery by which the purpose in view
is tieing brought about, with a stalely per-
SUTCrAII{V, and a skilful adaptation of means
to the end, which augurs well for future
succroi. Ti.. or4anization is extensive, and the
agency comprises some of the test known and best
appreciated in the country. Every one is
aware that the chief authority is vested w " Her
Majesty's Commissioner'," who with their efficient
secretary, are the ruling as well as the first motive
power. At this time these Commissioners meet
two or three tines' a week, and very soon will have
to come together oftener than that. They are as-
sisted by a staff which includes a geiwral manager
and superioteedent, Lieut.-Colonel bhiwlwell ; an
engineer and architect, Captain Fowkc, R.E. ; a
inancial officer, Mr. J. J. Mayo ; an assistant !sc-
rewy, Mr. Louis Lindon : while tiie " mere-
spondence" is conducted by Mr. C. W. Franks,
the Hon. Edwin H. Portman, and Mr. A. N.
Sbereon.

The Colonial department baa fur it oinperinten-
dent Dr. Lindley, &assisted by Mr. It. L. Sim-
mond* ; awl the Indian department is confided to
the charge of Dr. J. Forbes Watson. The superin-
tendents of Clamss are Meson. R. Hunt, F.R.S. ;
C. W. Quin, D. H. Clark, T. A. Wright, C. R.
Weld, O. Wallis, J. ft Waring, awl Edmund GU-
AM. Tbere is a board clerk, a short-hand
writer, a registrar, an assistant fur allotment of
space, a storeimpw, a Post-office clerk, and a
body of clerks in general. This central
staff is amines' by " Committees of Advice."
These are itivele.l; and first, there is the " Building
Committee," consisting of the Earl of Shelburne,
Mr. William Baker, and Mr. William Fairbairu,
LLD., F. R.B. ; the " Finance Committee" has
for its members the Right Hon. Robert Lowe,
)LP., Sir A. Spearman, Bart., Messrs. Edgar A.
Bowring, T. F. Gibson, and Henry Thring. In
the Industrial Department them is a general COW-
=lace on organisation which contains, among other
members, Lord Stanley, the Lord Mayor of Loudon,
Mr. Mauer Gilson, Mr. Baxley, Dr. Lyon Play-
fair, Mr. Henry Cole, and Mr. Darwin. Another de-
partment oof the staff is composed of Clew Commit-
tees. Anion% these Class Committee% are to be
fonud a "Mining Counuitto.c," with Sir Roderick
Murchison at its head, assisted by a ber of
able and experionierl coadjutors ; and a "Chemi-
cal Committee," which of course contains the
names of W. T. Brande, Faraday, De la Rue,
and so on. Among the professienal mem-
bers, so to speak, as distiognishol from
the ornamental, of the " Machinery Com-
mittee," are Messrs. Maudolay, Penn, and Scott
Russell, while the Earl of Caithness, as a well-
kuown amateur mechanician, has a place there. lu
the suh-onistuitteu for "Sanitary Appliances," be.
sides others, there are of practical members, Mr.
Edwin Chadwick, Dr. Letheby, Mr. Rawlins on,
Mr. 8 111111 l , awl Dr. Sutherland. The superin-
Winless.— of "Agricultural and Horticultural
Machines and Implements " is entrusted to
a ounsiaittee, in which, among others, Lord
Partisan, Mr. Easton, Mr. Itraialreth Gibbs,
Mr. Stirling, C.Z., and Professor Wilson, have
agreed to act. We Ile riot remember whether at
the Exhibition of l 8 of there was such a depart-
meat as a " Military Committee." That exposi-
tam was bawd on such a pure awl abstract idea of
promotion of universal peace and good will, that
no particular prominence was given to any seetiow
which may have existed which bad reference to
war awl its concomitants. As, however, since
that period all nations, whoa not actually
engageol in proving practically that they
are "the mildest men that ever cut a thrust,"
have he, u devoting themselves to the or,iarlisatiou
of their armee, and encouraging in every way Cue
ingenuity of inventors of warlike instrumento', it is
not surprising that in the es ' g Exhibitiou there
will b, banal a class for "Military Engineering,
Armour, and Accoutrements, Ordnance and Small
Arms," which will 110 doubt very fully represent
the ideas of those gentlemen of all ranks and profes-
sions, inclusliiig,aa we have heard, country clergymen,
who are doing their best to render war impassible
by the creation of such destructive engines, projec-
tiles, and missiles., as will some day prevent any
two hostile bodies of Melt from facing inch other
for more than a few minutes. The " Military
Committee," therefore, stands out au the list, and
hiclucloil in it we find the names of Colonel Shafts,
Adair, Mr. J. Andersen, Lieutenant-Colunal
Baynes, Mr. W. Fairbairn, Captain Fowke,
Captain Lane Fox, Colette' Lefroy, fte. ;
but we miss those of Sir Williams Arm-
strong and Mr. Whitworth. Why is this I
In the department of "Naval Architecture and
Ships' Tackle" Captain Frederick Arrow, Admiral
Bethune, Mr. John Laird, Captain Sir Frederic
Rico-Aston, R.N., Captain Washington, kc., will
give their services. The " Philosophical Com-
mittee," which will look after philosophical instru-
ments and processes depending upon their one, is
particularly strong, for it consists, with others, of
Sir David Brewster, Professor B.C. Brodie, Dr. Car-
penter, Mr. thosiot, Professors Tyndall and Wheat-
done, Colonel Sir Henry James, Mr. Ghrisher,
tke. In the " Surgicel Committee," which will