The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-06 00:00:00

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.

About 40 local committees, out of the 250 com-
mittees requiring space for exhibition, have not com-
pleted their allotments. The following circular was
issued to them on Saturday :
Office for the Executive Committee,
Exhibition Building, Hyde-park, Jan. 4, 1851.

Sir,—l am instructed by the Executive Committee to
inform you that it is imperative that they should pro-
ceed to fix the places in the building for the several
classes of exhibitors on the 10th of January at latest,
and that unless the allotments of your commit•ee due on
the 10th of December are completed and the whole of the
vouchers returned to us by that date, the necessities of
the case will constrain us to make these arrangements
without any reference to those exhibitors whose vouchers
have not been furnished to us.

I have to express a hope that you will make an effort
to send the vouchers immediately, and to avert a result
which the Executive Committee will regret as much as
the exhibitors themselves.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your most obedient servant,
M. DIODY WYATT, Secretary.
Office for the Executive Committee, 1, Old
Palace yard, Westminster, Dec. 12, 1850.
Sir,—l am instructed by the executive committee to
inform you that the increusing magnitude of the execu-
tive details necessitate the division of the work into
several departments, and to say that it would greatly con-
duce to expedition and the convenience of the executive
committee that you should not mix up two subjects on
the same paper in any future correspondence.
It is suggested that each of the fillowing subjects
should be distincly marked at the head of each sheet:-
1. Space and Arrangement.—Raw Produce.
2. Space and Arrangement.—Machinery.
3. Space and Arrangement.—Manufactures.
4. Space and Arrangement. —Fine Arts.
5. Fitting up of Counters.
6. Visits of Working Classes.—Railways.

7. Juries.
8. Catalogue.
9. Other subjects, and general management.
The whole to be addressed, under cover, to me, not at
Old Palace yard, but at the Exhibition, Kensington-
road, Hyde-park, London.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
M. DIGBY W MATT, Secretary.

PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS.
1. Her Majesty's Commissioners having communi-
cated with the several departments of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, are enabled to announce that arrangements
have been made to facilitate the registration of designs
proposed for exhibition, with the view of protecting them
from piracy.
2. Designs applicable to the following classes of articles
of manufacture or substances may be the subjects of pro-
visional registration:-
3. Original designs for ornamenting—
Articles composed wholly or chiefly of metal.
Articles composed wholly or chiefly of wood.
Articles composed wholly or chiefly of glass.
Articles composed wholly or chiefly of earthen-
ware, ivory, bone, papier machi, and other solid
substances.
Paper hangings.
Carpets, floor-cloths, and oil-cloths.
Shawls (patterns printed and hot printed).
Yarn, thread, or warp (printed).
Woven fabrics (patterns printed and patterns not
printed).
Lace and all other articles.
4. New and original designs for the shape or configu-
ration, either of the whole or of part of any article of
manufacture, such new shape or configuration having
reference to some purpose of utility, whether such arti-
cles be made in metal or any other substance.
5. The provisional registration lasts for twelve
months from the date of registration, and may be ex-
tended for a further period of six months; by order of
the Board of Trude.
6. The necessary forms* and conditions having been
observed, the right of the proprietor of the design is
protected from piracy by a penalty of from 51. to 30/.
for each offence, each individual illegal publication or
sale of a design constituting a separate offence. The
penalty may be recovered by the aggrieved party,
either by action in the superior courts, or by a sum-
mary proceeding before two magistrates.
7. Until articles for exhibition can be received in the
building in Hyde-park parties desiring to register a de-
sign applicable to any article as aforesaid must apply at
the Designs-office, No. 4, Somerset-place, Somerset-
house, between the hours of ten and four. Designs are
registered from eleven to three, for a fee of ls. in res-
pect of ornamental designs, and of 10s. in respect of
the designs for articles of utility. When the designs so
registered have been certified as having been deposited
in the building of the exhibition, such fees will be re-
turnee.
8. On and after Ist February, 1851, instead of pro-
ceeding to the Designs-office, in Somerset House, exhi-
bitors will be enabled to effect the registration at the
building of the exhibition in Hyde-park without pay-
ment of any fees whatever.
9. In order to effect the registration, both More and
after the period when articles can be received in the
building, three exactly similar copies or drawings of the
designs or actual specimens of manufacture, as in
woven fabrics, must be prepared according to certain

rules.
10. Copies of these rules may be obtained at the De-
signs-office, 4, Somerset-place, Somerset House, from
ten to four, and at the office of the Executive Committee
for the Exhibition from ten to five. The most important
of these are as follows:-
11. Ornamental designs.
DIRECTIONS FOR REGISTERING.
Persons proposing to register a design for ornament-
ing an article of manufacture, must bring or send to the
Designs-office-
1. Three exactly similar copies, drawings (or tracings)
or prints thereof.
2. The name and address of the proprietor or pro- ,
prietors, or the title of the firm under which he or they
may be trading, together with their place of abode or
place of carrying on business, distinctly written or
printed.
The aforesaid copies may consist of portions of the
manufactured articles (except carpets, oil-cloths, and
e7oollen shawls), when such can conveniently be done
(as in the case of paper-hangings, calico prints, &c.),
which, as well as the drawings or tracings (not in pen-
cil) or prints of the design, furnished when the article
is of such a nature as not to admit of being pasted in a
book, must, whether coloured or not, be fac-similies of
each other.
Should paper-hangings or furniture exceed 42 inches
in length, by 23 inches in breadth, drawings will be re-
quired, but they must not exceed these dimensions.
Note—These copies, drawings (or tracings), or
prints, must consist of the entire design, without any ad-
dition or variation whatever, and no description will be
admitted.
12. Designs for the purposes of utility.
REGISTERING.
Persons proposing to register a design for purposes o
utility, must bri;7; or send to the Designs'-office the fo'
owing particulars:—