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class will he exhibited specimens of printing types
from all the chief type founders, Easton, Figgins,
Besley, Miller and Richard, &e. For good clear
cast and very durable type no country has a higher
reputation than En;land, but, on the other hand,
all relating to the decorative parts of the art ranks
almost as low in the cultivated judgment of our
continental neighbours. None of our printers'
ornaments will stand comparison with those put
forth in the exquisite pastern books of Paris
or Vienna. Bagster will show specimens of his
fine polyglot Bibles ; and Eyro 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 kero-
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 wprks. 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 corners. How 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 th© 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 eollection 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
old pottery forms, designs by Flaxman, Stodhardt,
Pugin, Owen Jones, Digby Wyatt, &c. One screen
in this department will be reserved entirely for illu-
minations. Messrs. Elkington have kindly con-
sented to allow each of the artists in their employ
to exhibit, as have also Hancocks, Garrard, Hunt
and Roskell, &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-
DTNARY 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 John 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 charge of
the police, by whom the matter will be thoroughly investi-
gated.

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silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated
descriptive of every construe-
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their use. Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of
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