The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-14 00:00:00

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The Exhibition is now no doubt making rapid
progress towards completion, but putting it into
order seems a more than Augean labour, for some-
how the more that is done the more there seems to
remain to do. An enormous number of cases have
been added to the mass since our last notice, but
during the same brief interval apparently not 20
additional cases have been unpacked. In fact, pack-
ing cases and how to get them out of the building
are just now becoming most formidable difficulties,
and if exhibitors don't move in the matter the Com-
missioners will have to remove the cases whether
full or empty. It must be remembered that when
Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Monday, and the
Saturday half-holidays are deducted, there will be
found no more than 12 working-days between this
date and the opening on the Ist of May, and if
any exhibitor thinks that the opening can properly
take place without the most strenuous exertions
of all concerned, we would advise him to go and
look at the building in its present state.
An enormous amount of work remains to be done
by the exhibitors themselves. The British are
now confessedlfahead of their foreign competitors,
but, unless they make further exertions, they will
only be ahead, and by no means quite ready. The
executive staff and the contractors have worked
with such unremitting diligence that their portion
of the undertaking is almost complete, and it is due
to their efforts, as well as to the public and our
national reputation, that there should be no
shortcoming on our side on the day of opening.
The orchestra is more than half-finished already
and when quite complete, it will form no inconsi-
derable ornament to the building. In the front
of it, Minton's great fountain is being erected,
one of the finest works of Majolica pottery ever
executed in any country. Many of the side courts,
too, are getting up their partitions draped with
various colours, so that even now the glowing tints
come out strongly, and foreshadow what a
grand effect the whole will have when finished.
The English side of the nave is already half full
of trophies, but in these as in other matters
the foreigners are very backward. Somewhere in
the English part of the nave the Koh-i-noor is to be
fixed. This great jewel is exhibited by her Majesty,
who also sends a fine collection of rough rubies from
Lahore, a silver table-fountain by Garrard, and
some fine silver vases of Vechtes, manufactured by
Hunt and Roskell. Her Majesty has also consented
that her magnificent dessert service, which during

the last two or three years has been in course of
manufacture at the Worcester Porcelain Works,
may be shown by Messrs. Kerr and Binns, the
manufacturers. This work, which it is said has
eclipsed the very finest specimens of the kind that
Sevres, Dresden, or Vienna, has yet produced will
be shown by itself as a trophy in the nave, and in
the porcelain world the liveliest interest is evinced
to learn with what feelings foreigners will regard
the grand service and Minton's fountain, our great
chef d'auvres of ceramic manufacture. Near this
trophy will be another equally fine and important
in its way, that of Messrs. Elkington. This will
also be one of the most beautiful in the building.
The whole form of the substructure is good, and the
bronze figures which are to surmount it are noble
and impressive. In another part of the nave Mr.
Earp is erecting a design for a large drinking foun-
tain in carved stone and coloured marbles, which pro-
mises, when finished, to come out remarkably well.
Near this fountain, but on the opposite side, the
great Norwich gates of Barnard and BiShop'hgve
ban erected, and, though not yet•finished, they are
already exciting general admiration. For the most
elaborate perfection of wrought-iron worinuaneup
nothing finer has been produced in this country.
These gates, with the exquisitely cast gates of the
Falkirk Company, and the Hereford rood screen,
will be, in their classes, the manufacturing chefs
d'ceuvre of the Exhibition.

We continue our notice of the chief objects ex-
pected in the various classes with those under the
superintendence of Mr. J. Leighton, F.S.A. These
are classes 15, 28, and 38 A, and include paper
and paper-making materials, printing in all its
branches, from ordinary types to lithograph, and
chromo-lithography, bookbinding, clocks and
watches, and art designs for manufactures. The
show of paper in this class will not be very exten-
sive from the mere manufacturers, though there will
be a very gook exhibition of what is called " half

stuff,"—that is, paper made from various vegetable
substances, such as straw, esparto fibre, &c. The
capabilities of paper for the most durable articles
will be exemplified by M. Szerelmy's exhibition of
paper water-proof pipes, boards, &c. Mr. Saunders
will show a very curious display of wire and water
marked papers, which are valuable as a security
against the forgery of banknotes, and are interest-
ing also from their highly artistic character, almost
equalling, when held up to the light, the embossed
porcelain pictures we see suspended in windows.
Printing in all its various branches will be shown,
except in that most important one of all which mi-
nisters so much to the instruction and amusement

of all England—that process, by which the thought
and eloquence of the kingdom are embodied in a few

hours and sent forth in the form of a daily news-
paper by hundreds and thousands before daylight,
It would require a very large court indeed—more,
in fact, than ten times the whole space that is given
to this class, to show the various processes which
even a paper of small circulation has to pass through
before its sheets are submitted to the public. In this

class will be exhibited specimens of printing types
from all the chief type founders, Easton, Figgins,
Besley, Miller and Richard, &c. For good clear
cast and very durable type no .country has a higher
reputation than England, but, on the other hand,
all relating to the decorative parts of the !Irt ranks
almost as low in the cultivated judgment o! our
continental neighbours. None of our printers
ornaments will stand comparison with those put
forth in the exquisite pattern books of Paris
or Vienna. Bagster will show specimens of his
fine polyglot Bibles ; and Eyre and Spot-
tiswoode also show various forms as to type and
size of their Bibles, all of which are good. Oxford
and Cambridge, the other possessors of the Bible
printing patent, show no Bibles. It is singular
that this patent, which was once a lucrative mo-
nopoly, has been reduced by competition between
the various holders of the patent till the common
English Bible is now a perfect marvel of cheap
typography—for its low price the largest and best
printed book in the work. In printing surfaces the
Electro-block Company will show their most inge-
nious, if not widely-useful process of enlarging and
reducing blocks. This, with W. J. Linton's hero-
graphic process and Mr. Wallis's new art of auto•
typography, will illustrate one among the very
many attempts to effect that long, long, long-sought
desideratum—an effective metallic relief produced
without engraving. The makers of the banknote
paper and printers of the banknotes for the Bank
of England show some valuable and interesting
specimens of note paper, banknotes, stamps, &c.
Bradbury and Wilkinson exhibit minute engrav-
ings for the prevention of forgeries in notes, and
the exquisite specimens of the nature printed books
produced by the late Henry Bradbury will also be
shown—an honour to any country. In chromo-
lithography, or the very modern art of re-producing
water-colour drawings, with almost the fineness of
tint and delicacy of colouring of the drawings
themselves, England stands unrivalled. As it is
with the original, so with the copies, and in this
important branch of art, literally created since
1851, this country will have no competitors. Messrs.
Hanhart, Day and Sons, Brooks, &c., have all, we
are glad to say, ample spaces, which will be beau-
tifully filled with their best specimens of chromo-
lithography. Stone prints and wood engravings
are now running a close race together, and the steam
press, if not yet quite exceeding the hand litho-
graphic process, is fast approaching it, and such
firms as Leighton Brothers are already accomplish-
ing wonders. In this class of printing the London
publishers will show together in a very large case,
exhibiting the chief works of Longman, Murray,
Bradbury and Evans, Smith and Elder, &c. In the
sub-class of stationary will be shown a formi-
dable collection of ledger and account books
by the first makers, with Letts's diaries, the
pencils of Brookman and Langdon, and Mordan's
pencils and appliances. In this section will
also be exhibited some beautiful specimens of the
seal engraver's art, from the masterpiece of Wyon
down to simple letter punches. Here, among them,
will be the Great Seal of England—if not the finest,
beyond all doubt the,most important of all Wyon's
works. In bookbinding the extra bookbinders will
show a very fine collection, especially in the most
elaborate kinds of hand-tooled works. In publishers'
works in the neat cloth binding which is so pecu-
liarly our own that it is known abroad under the
title of toile Anglais we shall stand unrivalled.
Both for design and rapid execution of this work
Bond, Leighton, Hodge, and Westleys will hold
their own against all comers. HQW everything has
changed since Murray first startled the trade with
his small edition of Byron in this style of binding
with its little gold label on the cover ! Now every
work is expected as a matter of course to come
forth by thousands from the publishers in its gold
and crimson or purple or blue covers. The designs
-of Owen Jones " Luke Limner," and others have
within' a few short years worked a complete revolu-
tion in this branch of art manufacture, and every
Christmas we as regularly look for the exquisitely-
elaborated annuals as we do for the new edition of
the Directory. Not that this kind of decoration has
lately been free from faults as showing a strong ten-
dency to degenerate into the flaunty colours of the
plum-box style of art, but in the main this class of
decorative publication has done an immense amount
of good. Class 15, including horology and horo-
logical instruments, is also under Mr. Leighton's
care, though why her Majesty's Commissioners
should have given this scientific manufacture to
an artist no one knows. Perhaps they are follow-
ing the same rule as in 1851, when Leslie the painter
was appointed a juror in this same class. In this
department, as a matter of course, the English are
very strong indeed, for, to the present hour, a really
well made Clerkenwell watch has no superior in the
world. After Clerkenwell, but at some distance,
come the watches of Coventry, and last of all, the
prettiest and cheapest, but much inferior, watches
of Switzerland, the works of which it has lately
become a habit, we are sorry to say, to mix
up with English works and sell as entire
Clerkenwell or Coventry made watches. In this
class all the great watch and clock manufacturers
of England will show their masterpieces of work-
manship. There will be reversible chronometers,
steam clocks, marine chronometers, astronomical
clocks, geographical clocks, silent clocks, skeleton
clocks, Liliputian alarm clocks, electro-magnetic
clocks, keyless watches, electric clocks, mercurial
timepieces, clocks showing mean time and longitude
at important places, with galvano-magnetic clocks,
and gold and silver watches of every description

Belonging to this class, though shown in another
part of the building, will be a very, beautiful chim-
ing clock by Dent. Benson is also erecting on solid
foundations a very beautiful chiming clock, with a
peal of bells, &c., and Bennett has a large clock,
surmounted with a timeball and figure of Victory.

This last work will be in communication with
Greenwich, so that the timeball will be discharged
at noon to the fraction of a second. Mr. Frodsham
shows a very fine collection of watches and chrono-
meters, and Rotherhams, of Coventry, will exhibit
in a beautiful case manufactured for them by the
Skidmore Company. In Class 38A there will be a
very beautiful collection of arts, designs for manu-
factures—the first great exhibition of its kind that
has been brought together in England. This will
include, among other beautiful works, Wedgwood's

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old pottery forms, designs by Flaxman, Stodhardt,

,Pugin, Owen Jones, Digby Wyatt, kc. One screen
in this department will be reserved entirely for illu-
minations. Messrs. Elkington havo kindly con-

rented to allow each of the artists in their employ
to exhibit, as have also Hancocks, Garrard, Hunt

and .Itoskell, &c., so that the division containing
this class promises to be one of the most beautiful

in the building.

A third attempt is about to be made to introduce
salmon into*Australia. A steamvessel is being constructed
in London, at the expense of the Australian Association,
for the express purpose of taking out salmon ova and young
salmon.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN THE CITY. —EXTRAOR -
DINARY DISCOVERY.—On Friday Mr. Payne, coroner for
the City of London and Southwark, received information of
the discovery of the body of a gentleman named J ohn Rosen-
bohn (who was connected with the sugar refining business),
in the water closet of his residence in Somerset-street,
Aldgate, with his head chopped and hacked about in amost
frightful manner, and covered with blood. The discovery
was made by a person lodging in the house, Who imme-
diately raised an alarm, and upon deceased being removed
his throat was found to be cut from ear to ear, and nearly
severed from his body. The body was given in chargeo
the police, by whom the matter will be thoroughly investi-
gated.

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