The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-16 00:00:00

SMEARING MATERIALS.

Some contracts were made for grease butter at 34s to
37s per cwt. Tar, 14s.
Severe domestic distress occasioned the absence of an
old friend and visitor, Mr. Anderson of Leith, but we
understand that he transacted business by letter with
many of his friends at current prices.

AMERICAN EXHIBITION OF THE

WORKS OF ALL NATIONS, 1852.
Proposals fur the transfer to America of selections
from our own forthcoming great exhibition of next
year have just been submitted to the Commissioners at
the City office, in Cheapside. The project is con-
sidered a bold one, but not less practicable than
bold. The American gentlemen who have engaged
in it profess to be actuated by motives equally
honourable, and almost equally disinterested, with
those of the distinguished originators of the London
exhibition. The improvement in connexion with
manufactures is their first object, and the profits of
the exposition are to be given to that American city
which will make the most liberal arrangement for its
reception. In other relations the undertaking is in•
tended to be thoroughly commercial, and strong in-
ducement is held out to all the European nations by
proposing the vast and increasing market of the Trans-
atlantic continent for the display and competition of
their productions. The occasion will, it is calculated,
be earnestly embraced by our own manufacturers for
impressing their American customers with an increas-
ing sense of the immense variety and excellence of
the prOdnctions of the looms and the lathes, the
moulds and the anvils, the chisels and the gravers,
and all the other apparatus and implements of the
mighty industry of England.
'1 he following are extracts from the transmitted
documents upon the interesting subject :
" In the precis of information that has been received
from abroad, published by the Royal Commission, ap-
peared a short time since the annexes information:-
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"UNITED STATES, APRIL

" THE AMERICAN MINISTER TO COLONEL REID.
" The American Institute of New York is taking steps to
promote the objects of the exhibition, and is considered by
the British Consul at New York, and by the Governor of
that State, as a proper medium of intercourse with the
American people. The Governor has suggested to the
Legi,lature that all objects intended for the exhibition
should pass the canals and railroads free of the usual
tolls collected by the State. Mr. John Jay Smith, a
virleman of standing and character at Philadelphia,
has, with the sanction of the American Government,
made a proposal for transferring to the United
States, for exhibition there, such portions of the
London exhibition as it may be possible to carry over after
the termination of the exposition here. He presumes that
the Royal Commissioners will consider this plan as an
addition to their programme, as the manufacturer would
thus have additional inducements to exhibit his skill in
two markets, the American being a growing and very
important one, where the most expensive goods are now
sure of a sale.
"THE ADVANTAGES TO THE EUROPEAN MANUFACTURER.
"It is for the advantage of the maker that his goods
should be seen in a very extensive and growing market,
where expensive articles are in demand and of ready sale;
it is also the interest of the American consumer to see the
goods in his own country, where, if they are superior to
the growth and manufacture of that country, a paramount
and extensive patronage is sure to follow. To this end
the earnest endeavours of the eminent American mer-
chants who will receive the goods will be em-
ployed to procure orders from the samples sent, and
they will look for repayment of their outlay to this
source, and to the usual charge of commission merchants
or auctioneers at the close of the sale. A market will
thus be opened to a thousand productions a the loom
and the anvil, &c., which have not yet penetrated to
the lands of the West, or if they have, may not have
been universally seen. The goods will be shipped from
London by Baring, Brothers, and Co., and to them and
other houses reference will be male for the standing of
the American merchants into whose hands the mer-
ch inch: e Rill ge.

"C )ICDITIONS.

"1. Every article deemed suitable for the American ex-
potition must bo named or partially described to the
American Commissioner, 5, Bank-chambers, Lothbury,
London, at as early a day as practicable. This expo-
sition will take place at one of the principal cities of th.
United Statee, as early in the year 1852 as arrangements
can b 3 made compatible with the movement. Con-
signments will be received at any time in 1851.
"2. The articles will be exhibited to pay the expenses
of the building in which they are exposed, and for the
profits of the city which erects it.
" 3. The prices of each invoice, where it is so specified,
shall be a limit below which the goods shall not be sold,
ancl in all cases when it is so expressed the goods shall
be returned to Europe in as good condition as tbey are
received, without any cost whatever to the owner or
agent. .

—"4. The charges to the owner will be as small as
possible, being the usual ones in case of sale of a com-
mission-mercbant, with guarantee and immediate cash
returns through means of undoubted bills of exchange,
and successive cash remittances will be made for all du-
plicates that may be ordered in America.
" 5. Nothing can be received except such results of
human industry as are capable of transportation without
too great cost, and of being preserved during many
months; and, in general, all those articles excluded from
the London exposition will not be admitted to the
American. There may, however, be others entirely
suitable and unintroduced abroad which would be un-
suitable for Loudon, while they are adapted to a Trans-
atlantic market. On this subject the American Corn-
mi-aiener will be qualified to decide."