The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-24 00:00:00

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--TE .UrXHIBITION OF 1851.

A meeting of the Commissioners for the metropolis
'as held in the New Palace of Westminster, Earl
Mlle being in the chair.

An alphabetical list of all articles intended to be
exhibited, both in the country and the metropolis,
was placed in the hands of the Commissioners. By this
list, it appears that there are still some serious defi-
ciences in the returns made. Among them may be men-
tioned army caps, accoutrements, artificial feathers,
artificial stone, beads, bedsteads, bits and stirrups.
blankets, bombazins, bonnets (straw), &c., cambrics,
carnlets, cane-workers, canvass, cards, carvers' and
gliders' work, chains, anchors, &c., cisterns,
clay goods, coaches, manufactures in coal, coffee pots,
collar makers, combs, copper nails, crape, china, &c.,
cricket bats and stumps, desks, door plate end springs,
drapery, ebony, fans, feathers or feather ornaments,
files, fish hooks, fishing rods, flqgs, flannel and baize,
floorcloth, ornamental flooring, founding metals, fur-
riers, fustians, gauzes, gauze wire cloth, gildings, gilt
jewellery, gingham, gold and silver thread, hosiery,
India rubber manufactures, inkstands, iron bedsteads,
japanning furniture, japanning leather, japanning lace
braid, coach lace, gold and silver lace, Leghorn hats,
macintoshes, maps and charts, marquees and tents, wool
mats, morocco, morocco cases, paper, parasols, parch-
ment, pasteboard, ornamental pavement, pearl setting
and works, pencil cases, steel pens, pins and needles,
rocking horses, rope making, woollen rugs (not
hearth),hirtssohse rc
sailcloth,
,satin, sealing wax, sewing silks,
shirts, spurs,
straw hats, table covers,
table knives, tea trays, tea urns, tents and marquees,
terracotta, thread, tin wares, toys, transparent blinds,
travelling cases, trusses, brass and metal turnery,
ivory turnery, wood turnery, vapour baths, wadding,
walking sticks, waterproof cloths, wearing apparel,
whips, writing desks.

The Commissioners were strongly impressed with
the necessity of supplying these deficiencies before
the 31st of October, after which the returns for space
cease to be received. Each Commissioner in the de-
partment which he represents was requested to visit
and induce the eminent producers of the various arti-
cles named in the list of deficiencies to prepare articles
for exhibition.

It was stated that machinery is adequately repre-
sented in all its branches, the deficiencies being very
few in number.

As it was the last meeting of the Commissioners
previous to the final closing of the lists, a very strong
opinion was manifested that there .was a necessity for
immediate and energetic action to insure the efficient
representation of the manufactures of this country.
The accounts as to the progress of the Exhibition
throughout the country were stated to be very gra-
tifying.

(From the Court Circular.) •
A meeting of Metropolitan Local Commissioners,
&c., had an interview yesterday with the Royal Com-
missioners and the Executive Committee of the Exhi-
bition of 1851 in the new Palace of Westminster.
The Royal Commissioners present were Earl Gran-
ville (in the chair), Sir Charles Lyell, and Mr. Cubitt.
Mr. Scott Russell, secretary to the Royal Commis-
sion, attended; Mr. Edgar Bowring was also present.
Of the Executive Committee there were present—
Colonel Reid (chairman), Mr. Cole, Mr. Dike, and
Mr. Fuller. Colonel Lloyd, %Reis' Commissioner ;
Dr. Lyon Playfair, Special Ccommissioner ; Captain
Boscawen Ibbetson, Dr. Royle, Mr. R. Hunt, and
Mr. Hensman were also present. Mr. Digbv Wyatt,
Secretary of the Executive Committee, attended.
There were present at the meeting :
Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing the
Fine Arts—Mr. S. A. Hart, Russell-place; Mr. D.
Roberts, Fitzroy-street; Mr. W. Tite, St. Helen's-
place; Mr. H. H. Burnell, Cheyne-walk; Mr. G. God-
win, F.R.S., commissioner for Kensington and West-
minster; Mr. W. Hickson,'Smithfield; Mr. T. Saunders,
Charing-cross ; Mr. F. W. Woodington, Charlotte-
place; Mr. T. K. Wyatt; Mr. J. R. Gooch, commis-
sioner for Finsbury; Mr. C. Fowler, Mr. J. C. Evans' of
the Finsbury committee; Mr. W. G. Rogers, Carlisle-
street; Mr. H. Bohn, York-street; Mr. T. Creswick,
Kensington. _ _

•
Metr-opolitan Local Commissioners representing Ma-
chinery—Mr. C. Redpath, Poplar; Mr. G. H. Graham,
Woolwich; Mr. R. Bisley, Aldersgate-street; Mr. C.
Frodsham, Strand; Mr. J. H. Mann, Kentish-town; Mr.
E. Richards, New Park-street; Mr. D. Keith, Wood-
street; Mr. C. Swatland, Crayford; Mr. C. Warwick,
Cheapside; Mr. H. Mandalay, Lambeth; Mr. J. Chubb,
St. Paul's Churchyard; Air. V. Figgins, West-street;
Mr. C. Reed, F.S.A., Paternoster-row; Mr. J. Bar-
low, Berkeley-street; Mr. E. Coleman, Poplar; Mr.
D. Hulett, High Holborn; Mr. J. Glaisher, Dart-
mouth-terrace; Mr. R. L. Vulliamy, Pall-mall; Mr.
Erasmus Wilson, Henrietta-street; Mr. J. Evans, King
William-street; Mr. J. Jain, s, Broadwall; Mr. J. M.
Napier, Lambeth; Mr. R. Taylor, secretary of the South
London Committee; Mr. H. li. Fulton, Putney; Mr. H.
Wilkinson, Pall-mall; Mr. A. Wilson, Queenhithe; Mr.
G. Cottam, Winsley-street; Mr. W. B. Thornthwaite,
Newgate-street; Mr. W. S. Bennett, Russell-place; Mr.
H. C. Lunn, Bloomsbury-square; Mr. G. Knight, Foster-
lane • Mr. F. S. Haden, Sloane-street.

Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing Ma-
nufactvres—Mr..l. G. Craee, Wigmore-street; Sir H.
R. Bishop, Cambridge-street; Mr. T. R. White, Syc
ham-park ; Mi. C. Cowper, Southampton-huibiings;
Mr. IL Teckey, Gresham-street; Mr. H. J. Lincoln,
Barlow-street; Mr. W. B. Simpson, West Strand; Mr.
W. Sandland, Hatton-garden; Mr. J. Mechi, Leadeu-
hall-street; Mr. S. Lewis, Regent-street; Mrrll. Spur-
gin, M.D., Guildford-street; Mr. J. Brown, It4•gent-
street; Mr. White, Cheapside; Mr. H. Gregory, Alder-
manbury ; Mr. %V. Bird, St. Martin's- lane • Mr. H.
Vyse, Wood-street; Mr. R. Friend, Lev--Line; Mr.
Kemp, Spital•Equare; Mr. J. Casey, Spital-square;
Mr. G. Houghton, High floloorn Mr. R. Obbard,
New Bridge-street.; Mr. E. Poutifex, Shoe-lane; Mr.
E. Burd, Oxford-street; Mr. S. Hubert, Marylebone-
lane; Mr. C. May, Westminster; Mr. S. Green, Lam-
beth; Mr. E. Snell, Albemarle-street; Mr. J. Bellridge,
Halkin-street; Mr. A. Lapworth, Old Bond-street; Mr.
A. Salomons, Old Change; Mr. J. R. Lavansley, New
Burlington-street; Mr. W. Leaf, Old Change; Mr. E.
Phillips, Newgate-street ; Mr. J. Denne, London-
bridge; Mr. T. de la Rue, Bunhill-row; Mr. W. Sinee,
Finsbury; Mr. J. Gray, 1311 liter-square; Mr. J. Willis,
%Vatling.street; Mr. D. Dewar, Wood-street; Mr. D.
Nicoll, Cornhill; Mr. W. Barber, St. Paul's; Mr. J.
Goodwin, Lawrence-lane; Mr. W. Hasleden, White-
lands; Mr. J. R. Foster, Wood-street; Mr. R. Porter,
Wood-street; Mr. J. R. Bevington, NeekinKer-mills;
Mr. W. Beddoe, Honey-lane; Mr. G. F. Ruutledge,
Lawrence-lane; Mr. J. C. Wakefield, Friday-street;
Mr. S. R. Block, Paternoster-row; Mr. J. Crocker,
Wading-street; Mr. J. Annable, Watling-street; Mr.
C. Cullird, Cheapside; Mr. S. Oram, Castle-street; Mr.
J. Scott, St. Paul's Churchyard; Mr. T. Sboolbridge,
Wood-street; Mr. G. Hairs, Milk-street; Mr. S. H.
Henry, Brick-lane; Mr. F. Clark, Stoke Newington;
Edward Sayer, 9, Clifford's-street, Bond-street; John
Ball, 35, Old Isond-street; John Baggallay, Lore-lane,
Wood-street; Henry Brett, 74, Wood-street; Thomas
But bery, 26, Wood-street; John Hunt, 156, New Bond-
street; J. 11. Downing, Knightsbridge; Henry Spicer,
New Bridge-street, Bliielifriar; Peter Graham, 37 and
38, Oxford-street; J. A. Nichuluy, 82, ditto; William
Baker, Battersea; John 5) lvuster, 11. Soper, 32, Spital-
square; Samuel Ridley, jun., Newgate•street; Bryan
Dunkin, jun., Southwark; S. Morley, Wood-street; W.
Nevill, 11, Greshatn-street %Vest; W. Pearce, Poplar;
W. E. Newton, Finsbury.

Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing the
Mineral litrigdom—William Tite, 17, St. Helen's-place;
John Buzley White, Charles L. Francis, Nine-elms; J.
Arthur Phillips, Greenwich; Professor Graham, or-
dou-square; William Freeman, Milbank-street; Pro-
fessor Tennant, Strand.

Metropolitan Local Commissioners representing the
Animal Kingdom—John Gould, John Edw. Gray, Bri-
tish Museum; Theopholus Redwood, 19, Montagu-
street; Robert Lee, 4, Saville-row.

Metropolitan Local Commissioners rerreienting the
Vegetable Kingdom—John Edward Gray, British Mu-
seum; Dr. Pereira, Edward Scilly, Francis Bostey,
M.D., Woolwicb; Jacob Bell. Edwin Lankester, M.D.,
Professor Edward Forbes, John Hunt, surgeon, Tech-
brook. street.

Secretaries to Metropolitan Local Committees—Ed.
ward W. James, Honorary Secretary, Finsbury; C. H.
Hopwood, Honorary Secretary, Finsbury; J. George
Appold, Wilson-street; George Clarke, Brentford ; Her-
bert Lluemy, Honorary Secretary, Southwark; W. E.
Greenwell, Marylebone; William Faxon, Hampstead;
John Jennings, Assistant Secretary for the city of
London; G. H. Dew, Secretary to the Westminster
Committee.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
Messrs. HARDING and Co., 81, Pall-mall, beg to
intimate to the public that, in consequence of the rebuilding
of their premises, it has become imperative on them to
dispose of the whole of their valuable Stock, which they
have determined to offer for immediate Sale, at a very .oa•
siderable reduction of price. Messrs. H. and Co. offer to the
Public the assurance that the Sale thus announced is bona
fide. Their entire Stock, consisting of Silks, Ribbons, Lace,
Embroidery, Shawls, Scarves, Cloaks, Mantles, Gloves, and
the recherché Selection of Millinery, for all of which their
establishment is so eminently distinguished, will be unre-
servedly subjected to the reduction. The Sale will be con-
tinued for a limited period.

ANCIENT LORD MAYORS' Snows.—The pageant of
1617 set forth" The Tryumphs of Honor and Industry," and
might be taken for a foreshadowing of what is to happen in
1851. In the course of it, Industry declared the joy she
diffuses to the world, and introduced the "pageant of several
nations" to honour the mayor, wherein tiuured an English-
man, Frenchman, Irishman, Spaniard, Turk, Jew, Dane,
Polander, Barbarian, and Russian. Several years afterwards,
too, amongst otter curious devices, a figure was set up at
Foster-lane, habited in the manner and fashion of several
nations which trade with Europe, and was made to say,—
" Although my shape may seem ridiculous,
Unsuitable, rude, and incongruous,
Contemne me not; there's nothing that I wear
About me but some relation bear
To the customes of those countreys with whom
You traffique in all parts of Christendonae."
This was the Industrial Exhibition of 1661. The majority of
the pageants were fanciful rather than instructive, but still
had thought and skill in them, an skilful inech an ist
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Jones," appears in varied words on the title-plge of several
Pageants. "In these things," says Samuel Daniel, who wrote
the words for one in 1610, as Ben Jonson had done before,
wherein the only life consists in show, the art and invention
of the architect gives the greatest grace, and is of most import-
ance."—.Buikkr.